Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1689 The Secret Word of the Goddess (34)

The ease of occupying Jaffa made many people feel a little ecstatic, thinking that the occupation of Saint Jean Acre would be as simple as that. However, the situation in these two cities is very different. In Jaffa, the French had sufficient ammunition and only needed to deal with the local defenders. Jean Ake not only lacks ammunition and food, but also deals with local residents, British warships and European science.

Eugene and the others killed Turkish captives on the banks of the Nile. One or two people escaped by swimming in the blood-stained water. They spread the news, which allowed all the Turkish villagers near the city of Saint-Jean-Ac to escape. In a city with solid walls.

  Women's cries will arouse the desperate resistance of male residents, and those originally "peaceful residents" will become soldiers, even if their original rulers are brutal.

Generally speaking, poisoning a well in the desert basically means using the "scorched earth warfare". Not only soldiers can drink the water from the well, but also the civilians and livestock living with the well as the center of the circle. After the well water is poisoned It's not just that soldiers can't drink, but local civilians and livestock can't drink, and that area can't live in.

  St. Jean-Jacques is next to the coastline, overlooking the blue ocean, but the salt water is not drunk.

  When the expeditionary army entered Syria on February 28th, it seemed that there was greenery everywhere, but the wheat seedlings were not mature yet, so they could not be eaten.

Napoleon could choose to seek food from the locals, but because the water-drinking soldiers were already complaining, letting them contact civilians would only cause conflicts. The middle and high-level officers still had food to eat, while the soldiers at the bottom could only rely on hunting dogs and other animals to eat. Up.

  The fact that the search team found rye and vegetables in the ruins is a military secret, and only a few people know that these few people have also been assigned the food, and they are tight-lipped.

  Napoleon was very good to his stepson Eugene. He always gave food to Eugene that the literati and scholars he always treated preferentially did not get.

  Doctors believe that these people may have eaten food contaminated by the plague. Many people, such as Eugene, will be fine after eating those foods.

  Josephine is very superstitious. In the living room, she used to tell her friends about the bad omens that happened when Marie Antoinette married to France.

  In Compiègne, the temporary residence of the Austrian-French border handover ceremony, the bride wanted to change her clothes here, but the officials put the wrong tapestry here. It was supposed to be the statue of the Virgin, but it was hung with content about Medea.

  At the temporary stop in Strasbourg, the priest who gave the welcome speech happened to be Cardinal Rohan of the “necklace incident” afterwards.

  Napoleon didn’t believe this. He would scare Ottens by telling ghost stories, but he was tired of Eugene talking about it. He hoped Eugene could look at the problem in a rational and scientific way.

  Eu Jen thinks so under the influence of his stepfather, but deep down in his heart, he still has a sense of anxiety and anxiety. Many people sang hymns during the march to Jerusalem. Esdoud was not far from the city of Ascalo, which was besieged during the Crusades and was a battlefield for many battles.

  The insider was given a forbidden word to avoid shaking the military's mind. The unsuspecting soldiers continued to fight according to orders, or carried those dead and worthless "old stones" in their eyes.

  Eu Ren thought of these things many years later. At that time, a veteran who was struggling in life approached Eu Ren, hoping that he could help. He may be the first group of soldiers to follow Napoleon Bonaparte. Not everyone can be a marshal like Murat, not everyone can save money, and of course not everyone can live to his age. .

Jean François Chamblyan became famous overseas after the death of Napoleon in 1821. He cracked the contents of the Rosetta Stone and edited a complete comparison table of Egyptian and Greek letters, which became the new favorite of the world. The era of genius, military genius seems to have passed.

  This veteran once received an invitation as a guide to take a group of people to the place where Napoleon was stationed during the siege of Jaffa.

  At first, the veterans thought these people were admirers of Napoleon, and they were well paid, and they were short of money, so they agreed with joy.

  However, after arriving in the desert, he discovered that those people had gone to the ancient ruins that were inaccessible, especially the places where he had moved the "old stones" before.

After the outbreak of the Jaffa plague, the battlefield hospital was quickly filled with soldiers with mental breakdown. The bubonic plague is not as deadly as the pneumonic plague. Many soldiers are not seriously ill, but they are frightened as soon as they hear that they have contracted the plague. Up. In order to boost morale, Napoleon not only visited the wounded in the hospital, but also touched the place where a soldier had pus and blood with his hands, so that everyone did not feel that they had an incurable disease and regained their confidence.

  Napoleon fought by force. Some people who were in poor health or injured could not keep up with the team in front of them and were quickly left behind. Later people saw that they did not come forward to help. They were afraid that those people were infected with the plague. Some people who were wounded by the war tore off their uniforms and let them see their wounds. It was not the plague, but those who were really sick used daggers. Make wounds, pretend to be wounded, and wailing hoping for help.

  At that time, what good Samaritans could be hell, the healthy people behind were all busy on the road, turning a blind eye to the wounded and sick.

The veteran had seen that scene. He loved money but he was more desperate. He had a dispute with the captain of the expedition. It was not until the rich but unhappy "jazz" promised to double the reward for him, and the veteran took them to the scorpion infestation. The place.

  The ruins of the ancient city are located by the sea. Half of them have sunk to the bottom of the sea. Some of the ground has been removed by scholars who followed Napoleon’s expedition. In the eyes of the veterans, they are ruined, but explorers see nothing new.

The veteran remembered that the commander-in-chief listened to people reading the Bible in the tent at night, so he told them that he had to leave before the sun set. Those people agreed very well. They followed the veteran when the sun just started to set. Camp in the place where it was once stationed.

  After going there twice, they estimated that they had remembered the route from the camp to the ruins, and would no longer let the veterans lead the way. The veteran got half of the pay, which was actually the good pay he originally said. He didn't bother to go to the ghost place with those people again, either staying in the camp and sleeping, or going to a nearby village to relax.

  It was so safe and sound for half a month. One day in the middle of the night, the veteran came back half drunk and found that the camp was empty. His mind was sobered by the night wind.

  Actually, he is not surprised. He knows that these people will go to the ruins at night for "exploration and discovery". What he cares about is the remaining half of his reward.

  He waited for them in the camp, just like Kleber’s avant-garde was waiting for Napoleon. When the people came back at noon, he packed his luggage and rode away on a dromedary.

  Many people have disappeared and died in the war throughout the ages. Before Zaya Shuijing joined the division, five people died of heatstroke and lost their way. However, even if one person is very adventurous through the desert, the veteran will not continue to wait in that place.

On the way, he ran into an Arab caravan. The veteran joined them. When they were camping in the oasis at night, they chatted around the campfire. The Bedouin asked him why he was alone in the desert. The veteran did not tell him the truth, but said that he was lost. Afterwards, this Bedouin chatted about a legend.

  The Cyrus the Great of the ancient Persian Empire conquered Babylon, and his successor Cambyses II wanted to conquer Egypt. At that time, Egypt was ruled by Yahemos II.

  Yahmos I was the founder of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He was the younger brother of Pharaoh Kamos and the son of the Moon God. Yahmos II was a pharaoh from the 26th dynasty of Egypt. He was originally an army commander. However, he joined the ranks of the insurgents due to the outbreak of the uprising in Egypt, and was later adopted as a pharaoh by the army and the pharaoh.

  At that time, Egypt increasingly relied on incompetent Greek mercenaries. Military expenditures were often corrupted by overpowered monks and monks. The pharaoh’s army was no longer comparable to the glorious period of ancient times.

  It takes an excuse to send troops. Cambyses II sent an envoy to ask Egypt for one of the best ophthalmologists, so Yahmose II chose a doctor from Egypt and sent it to Persia by force.

The dissatisfied ophthalmologist instigated Cambyses II to propose to the daughter of Yahemos II. Yahemos II did not want to marry his daughter and did not want to be an enemy of the mighty Persia, so he let the former pharaoh His daughter was married in place of her own daughter.

After the Egyptian princess married to Persia, he told Cambyses II what had happened. Cambyses II "flew into a rage." After falling out and being hunted down, the Persian emperor decided to take this opportunity to send troops.

  After taking down Egypt, Cambyses heard that there was a small country called Amon in the desert next to Egypt when he returned to the court. He had the idea of ​​annexing it and sent 50,000 troops to attack.

  However, these 50,000 people disappeared after six days of marching in the desert. Cambyses sent many small teams to search but failed to find the army.

  After Cambyses II returned to Persia, he was afraid that the disappearance of this army was controlled by someone, such as his "lovely brother" Baldia, but this army did not appear until the death of Cambyses II.

  No one knows where the small country called Amon is. The Bedouins have heard the news that Napoleon and Kleber’s armies had been separated in the desert. They were lucky enough to meet up again after the separation.

In the face of the eastern powers, the French army of 20,000 is not as good as the missing Persian Empire army. What really shocked the Egyptians was the French science, astronomy and other technologies. They could predict the rise of the Nile more accurately than the Egyptians. , And those "banging" muskets.

Although the veterans did not know what the explorers were going to do, he still knew who Amon was. It was the creation **** of Egypt. His worship center was located in Thebes. There were many small statues dug up by tomb robbers for sale. .

The veteran intends to use the money he earned to buy some ancient Egyptian cultural relics and sell them back to Europe. Unfortunately, he encountered a counterfeiter and no one took his "cultural relics." , And finally fell to where it is now.

  Among those who entered the pyramid in 1799 was Denon, who was the first curator of the Louvre, and he was also the designer of Place Vendôme.

When Napoleon married Princess Marie Louis of Austria and returned to Paris, the obelisk on the Place de la Concorde had not been shipped to Paris. Although the obelisk belonged to Ramses II, it was incomplete. The spire was stolen, France People had to use pure gold instead.

In 1810, when the Tuileries celebrated the emperor’s wedding, the Austrian prince also celebrated at the Austrian Embassy in France. However, when the banquet was in full swing, a fire broke out, which killed more than a dozen people. The diplomatic dispute was finally resolved properly, but the "bad omen" still loomed in the hearts of some people.

  Josephine loves to dress and dress up. It takes more than an hour to dress up at a time. Malmaison is full of mirrors. But since she had lived in the Tuileries for a while, she had asked all Malmaison's mirrors to be covered with black veil.

  Later, France had a new queen. To celebrate the citizens of Paris, she gave Mary Louis a new dressing table. She did not see anything strange like Josephine.

She didn’t go to Malmaison, but Josephine wanted to see the Little Roman King. At first Mary Louise was unwilling, but then she couldn’t help the people around her to say yes. She agreed. Josephine saw the child and cried in his arms. .

  It was a child who was noticed at birth, surrounded by glory of this and that. Eugene was not hostile to that child. After marrying the Bavarian princess, he occasionally cared about the life of the little Roman king at the Austrian court. This child was very rebellious, especially after hearing about Napoleon’s death, all the teachers couldn’t help him. , Including the teachers previously selected by Napoleon for him.

Eugene wanted to remind him, but did not expect that he himself would die suddenly. When he "woke up", he returned to Paris, returned to the Louvre, and became a teenager who had just left his mother and went out with his stepfather. Time. At the Louvre, he met Shang Boliang, who had also died unclearly, but that Shang Boliang was more like a "shadow", and he himself was much more alert than the one who stayed at the Louvre.

   "You still haven't told me where he is." Severus said.

"Pillars played a very important role in ancient civilization. The story of Solomon's 72 Pillars had been spread before the Revolution. These "heroic spirits" and "demons" were kept in containers, and the Babylonians saw them as treasures. So I opened the container that sealed them." Eugene whispered, "There are nine pillar gods in Egypt, and among these nine pillar gods there is Osiris."

   "Vendome's Column?" Severus asked.

  “There is another place, the beach square. My father was very anxious about repairing the square, and even paid extra, saying that he was welcoming distinguished guests from Austria, but we entered the Tuileries from the Place de la Concorde.”

   "Where is that place now?"

  "Across from the Paris City Hall, next to the Tower of St. James, but it is no longer a square."

   "Do you know what has been fixed?"

  "Hospital." Eugene said, "I think you might as well go there to investigate if you waste time here, and destroying his coffin will cause diplomatic disputes."

   "Do you think I am afraid of this?" Severus asked.

   "No." Eugene said, "but it will add unnecessary trouble to you."

  Severus looked at him.

  "Soldiers are also human beings. Although our identity as humans was weakened by ‘soldiers’ when we put on our uniforms, we were also afraid of injury and death," said Eugene.

  "When you slaughtered the unarmed..."

"Others would kill us like that." Eugene said. "I heard soldiers say that they often see headless corpses when bathing in the sea. If we are captured, we will end up with those headless corpses. I once felt that siege was the only option when the goal could not be achieved through any lobbying and diplomatic means."

   "Do you have other choices?"

   "Of course, retreat, surrender, but that is not my father's character." Eugene said, "You still have a choice now."

   "Me too." Severus said calmly, and then stepped out of the catacombs.

  After Severus left, Eugene looked at the golden cup with the ashes of the King of Rome not far away, and stood motionless for a long time.

  (End of this chapter)