"Gather a team of elite soldiers and act according to the truth!" Zhang Beichen ordered.
"Yes! Sir!" A team of elite soldiers was immediately mobilized on the ship, and they followed Zhang Beichen and rushed to the location to intercept Cleopatra.
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Cleopatra had to disguise her identity because Crotis was wanted. She wanted to ask to see Caesar but had no way.
After Caesar killed Pompey, his power in Rome had almost reached its peak. There was an endless stream of people coming to join him, and ordinary people could not see him at all.
Cleopatra had to ask her cronies to disguise themselves as businessmen and claim to have a treasure to offer to Caesar.
"Peerless treasure?" Caesar was still moved and allowed the businessman to meet.
In Caesar's temporary palace, a businessman came to see him.
"Where is your treasure? Let me see it. If it is not as valuable as you describe it, I will hang you!" Caesar said.
"Dear Archon, please rest assured that its preciousness is absolutely rare in the world, no, it should be unique in the world!" the businessman said respectfully.
The merchant asked his servants to carry the treasure up. Caesar saw two servants carrying a large rolled blanket into the room.
He immediately frowned and asked, "The peerless treasure you are talking about is just a blanket?"
Caesar was so angry that he alerted the Roman consul for a blanket. This businessman didn't want to live anymore!
"Sir, don't be anxious, please take a look!" the businessman said quickly.
The servant put the blanket on the ground and slowly opened it.
Caesar stared at the blanket and saw that as the blanket unfolded, a young girl was slowly revealed in front of him.
With a face as perfect as the goddess Venus, a sculpture-like figure, a white robe, and an exquisite crown on her head, it is as if Venus has really come to the world!
Caesar, who had seen countless beauties, was stunned to see that there were such beautiful women in the world!
He had forgotten to scold the merchant, and both the merchant and the servants left in good spirits.
Caesar stood up and couldn't help asking: "Are you a goddess?"
Cleopatra was a little afraid of Caesar, but she still had the courage to say: "Dear Consul, I am Cleopatra, the daughter of Ptolemy XII."
"So you are the most beautiful woman in the Ptolemaic Dynasty!" Caesar heard the rumors about her, and he exclaimed: "You are indeed well-deserved!"
"Then why did you come to me?" Caesar had calmed down at this time. Cleopatra must have something important to ask to see him in this way.
In this case, he has a way to manipulate the other party.
Cleopatra immediately said: "Lord Consul, I want to ask you to administer justice! My father, Pharaoh Olet, passed the throne to me and my brother, Clotis."
"But Crotis violated my father's will, took away my throne, and even ordered me to be hunted down!"
"You want me to help you become Ptolemy's Pharaoh?" Caesar shook his head and said: "Clotius helped me a lot and killed my enemy Pompey, I will not harm him!"
"My lord, you just need to let him carry out my father's will and let me share the throne with him!" Cleopatra said.
Caesar smiled slightly and said: "This is not difficult for me. However, there is no free throne in this world. You must show equivalent sincerity!"
After speaking, he did not hide his greed at all and looked at Cleopatra up and down.
What's the point of such a human goddess if she can't become his wife and concubine?
"I am willing to offer half of the gold and treasures of the Ptolemaic Dynasty!" Cleopatra said quickly.
"Do you think I, Caesar, am in need of gold and treasure?" Caesar asked rhetorically.
Cleopatra was silent. She actually knew what Caesar wanted, but she was unwilling to give in.
Here, everyone worships Caesar, and countless girls hope that they can be favored by Caesar and become his princess!
Cleopatra had also heard of Caesar's name before and thought he was an omnipotent hero.
But when she came into contact with Zhang Beichen, she found that the man full of wisdom and mystery seemed to attract her more.
"It seems that you are not fully prepared." Caesar is not in a hurry. The more beautiful the thing, the more patient you have to be. If it is an ordinary woman, he will not care about this at all.
But Cleopatra was so beautiful that he was willing to wait.
"My army will stay here for three days, and I hope you can figure it out within these three days." Caesar ordered the servant, "arrange a place for this beautiful lady."
"yes!"
Cleopatra returned to her tent and asked Caesar for his opinion.
After learning what happened, the cronies all understood what Caesar meant.
They immediately persuaded: "If you can become Caesar's princess, Crotis will never dare to offend you! You will become the real queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty!"
"Caesar is the most powerful man in Rome. You and him are a match made in heaven!"
"Queen, please strengthen our confidence in following you!"
"You guys go down first, I'm tired and need to rest." Cleopatra dismissed them.
The cronies had no choice but to retreat.
Cleopatra knew very well that if she could not get help from Caesar, these cronies would turn around and betray her!
The reason why they still follow her is because they hope that she can become a female pharaoh and let them gain glory and wealth! If all these are not available, who will be loyal to her?
As for Caesar, Cleopatra also understood that although he seemed to let her make a choice, she actually had no right to choose.
Caesar wanted her just to look good in name.
Cleopatra tossed and turned and could not sleep at night.
It was already late at night, and Cleopatra couldn't sleep, so she left her tent and relaxed by the small lake.
The bright moonlight shines on the lake, creating sparkling waves.
Cleopatra looked at the moon and sang a ballad, her singing voice was melodious but somewhat sad.
"If I can only abandon the people I love and become a puppet queen in this life, then I would rather leave this world!" Cleopatra walked slowly towards the lake with bare feet.
She didn't care at all that the cold lake water submerged her feet, then her legs, waist, and up to her neck.
Her hair is scattered on the lake and is about to sink to the bottom of the lake!
At this moment, a voice sounded in her ear, "Patra, are you planning to learn how to swim?"
Cleopatra opened her eyes wide, and she saw, under the moonlight, above the lake, a man standing on the waves, looking at her with a smile.
"Zhang Beichen?" Cleopatra couldn't believe her eyes, "Is this my hallucination? It is said that hallucinations occur when you die..."
"Is this an illusion?" Zhang Beichen stepped forward and stretched out his hand, and Cleopatra was pulled by spiritual power and flew out of the water.
"It's really you!" Cleopatra was so surprised that for a moment, she burst into tears!
At this time, she was only wearing a white Luo shirt. After it was soaked by the lake water, it was looming, as if she was hiding the most beautiful things in the world!
Her long hair is shawl, and the water droplets lie down along the hair, flowing through the crystal earlobes, the swan-like neck, and entering the deep mountains and ravines. She is so beautiful!
"Zhang Beichen!" Cleopatra ran directly to Zhang Beichen and kissed him passionately!
Zhang Beichen didn't refuse, he held her slender waist tightly with both hands and kissed her until she almost couldn't breathe!
Zhang Beichen used spiritual power to form a barrier so that people around him could not detect everything here.
Cleopatra was a little crazy, almost desperate.
【You have completed an ancient and sacred ritual in the lake.】
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"Zhang Beichen, what should we do now?" Cleopatra snuggled into Zhang Beichen's arms and asked.
"go back!"
"Where to go?" Cleopatra looked at him with bright eyes.
"Go back to the palace, the position of Pharaoh should belong to you!" Zhang Beichen said.
"But the Roman soldiers are guarding me..." Cleopatra hesitated. In the eyes of the Ptolemaics, the Roman army was an invincible and invincible existence!
"Look at me!" Zhang Beichen signaled.
Soon, there was a commotion in the Roman army. It seemed that there was a fire somewhere. The soldiers hurried over to put out the fire.
"Let's go!" Zhang Beichen hugged Cleopatra and wanted to leave here.
"My cronies...if I want to return to the palace, I still need them to help me," Cleopatra said.
"Let them run away, life and death are determined by fate, wealth is in the sky." Zhang Beichen said, and he asked his men to notify those people to escape.
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"What's going on?" Caesar was sleeping soundly, with several girls beside him. After meeting Cleopatra, he felt itchy and couldn't help but calm down his anger at night.
"Sir, there's a fire in the military camp! It caused some commotion!" reported the report.
"There's a fire?" Caesar frowned slightly and said, "How is the situation now?"
"The soldiers have all gone to put it out. It's close to the lake, so we should be able to put it out soon!"
"Go and see Cleopatra, don't let anything happen to her!" Caesar ordered.
"Yes!" The subordinate hurriedly ran out.
After a while, he hurried back and reported: "Sir, Cleopatra is missing!"
"What? You can't even see a big living person?" Caesar said angrily.
"The soldiers guarding her were all knocked unconscious or killed!"
"Quickly, go find her and get her back!" Caesar shouted.
This woman must be his! He is the Roman consul, the most powerful man in this land! He must get the woman he likes!
The Roman soldiers searched all night but failed to find Cleopatra, but they captured several of her close associates.
Caesar interrogates his confidants, "Where is Cleopatra?"
"Sir, we don't know either! She didn't inform us!" The confidant begged for mercy.
"Hit me!" Caesar rewarded them with a whip, then drew his sword and put it on one of them's neck, asking: "If your answer does not satisfy me, your head will fall to the ground!"
The man quickly replied: "My lord, although I don't know where she fled to. But Cleopatra had a mysterious Eastern friend. Maybe he took Cleopatra away!"
"Mysterious Eastern friend? Who?" Caesar asked.
The confidant explained the matter roughly, and Caesar became even more unconvinced, "You said he came from an eastern country called Daqi. This country is as powerful as Rome? Can it build ships as majestic as castles? Do you want to fool me?"
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"No, no, no, sir, what I said is true! Their ship is parked at the seaside. In order to get his ship, Crotis even tried to kill him, but he failed."
Caesar did not kill him because he saw that these people all spoke the same words and looked frightened, which did not look like they were lying.
"If there is such a fleet, it can only belong to me, Caesar!"
"If an Easterner dares to steal my woman, let him have a taste of the power of the Roman cavalry!"
Caesar immediately ordered to find Daqi's fleet.
…
After Zhang Beichen took Cleopatra away, he returned directly to the ship.
"Sir, everything is ready!" The scout sent to scout for intelligence has returned to the ship.
"Okay, send the order, let's go!" Zhang Beichen ordered.
"Zhang Beichen, what are we going to do now?" Cleopatra asked.
"Of course I'm going to attack Crotis and help you regain the throne!" Zhang Beichen said matter-of-factly.
"But you are only thirty thousand people, and Crotis has an army of hundreds of thousands!" Cleopatra quickly advised, "Don't be impulsive now!"
"Don't worry, our thirty thousand people are enough to destroy his army!" Zhang Beichen said.
According to the information from the scouts, at this time, the Ptolemaic dynasty's army recruited soldiers from the nobles, not civilians, but slaves!
These slaves don't even have enough to eat, let alone combat training!
The soldiers of Daqi, on the other hand, are not only well-fed but also have meat every meal. Each of them can practice cultivation, understand the art of war, have advanced weapons, and their combat effectiveness is not the same!
Cleopatra was still worried. In her opinion, the difference in the number of armies between the two sides was too big!
[The fleet arrived at the port of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, where Crotis deployed tens of thousands of troops to guard it.]
At sea, Ptolemy's small warships were no match for the large Qi treasure ships, and were directly sunk and sunk!
"Fire!" The fleet arrived at the port. Zhang Beichen asked all the ships to fire together. He quickly defeated the port's defenses and then launched a landing operation.
Cleopatra was watching the battle on the ship. He saw Daqi's soldiers rushing into the port. Crotis's soldiers were slaughtered like chickens and sheep in front of them, without any strength to fight back!
There were even some powerful Daqi soldiers who chased and fought dozens of people by themselves!
"Oh my god, how come they are so powerful?" Cleopatra was amazed.
[Your soldiers successfully captured the port, and Cleopatra took her cronies to collect the surrendered soldiers and nobles. 】
[You lead the soldiers and continue to fight towards the Ptolemaic capital. 】
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"Cleopatra really got involved with those Easterners! I should have killed her at the beginning!" Crotis was furious when he heard the news of the Qi soldiers' attack, and immediately began to mobilize his army.
"If they are at sea, I really have nothing to do with them. Since they take the initiative to go ashore to die, then I will kill them all and seize their treasure ship!"