Eagle Byzantium

The reason Assassin has always been able to intimidate his surroundings is, firstly, the fear created by assassinations, and secondly, the isolation and steepness of Alamut Peak.

When neither of these poses a threat to a character like Gawain, the old man of the mountain finally sadly realizes that he has no cards to play with.

So he went back on his word and sent an emissary down the mountain to see Gawain, "I am willing to demolish all five castles of Maimondis, but I hope to keep the Eagle Castle."

As a result, Gawain beat Nami with a stick and asked him to come back and report, "My purpose before was to hope that you would take the initiative to come out of the nest, but now I just want to pull you out."

Hassan used a delaying strategy and sent a second secret envoy to see Gawain the next day, "It is okay to destroy the Eagle Castle, but please give me half a year."

"After half a year, your tombstone will be weathered to the point where the handwriting is unclear." Gawain cut off the nose and left ear of the emissary and sent them back.

The third time, Hassan ordered a young boy, falsely claiming to be his youngest son, to go to see Gawain and beg, "Send him to Tarsus as a hostage to show his sincerity for peace, and he is willing to destroy all castles as soon as possible, including Eagle Castle is included, but please forgive the lives of all believers.”

This time Gawain simply said to the young boy, "I feel sorry for you. If I let you go, you will be destroyed with the whole castle immediately; but if I keep you here, you can already speak, write, and understand things, and you are deeply affected by it." Hassan has been fooled and abused, and he may take revenge on me with a knife in the future." After saying this, Gawain ordered that the child be sent to Baghdad as a gift to the Caliph.

Hassan finally despaired, and at this time the allied forces of Gawain, Seljuk, and Shirfan also began their fierce attack on Maimondis Fort!

The big plani cannon and the big ballista shot rows of stone balls, like the devil's ferocious head and sharp teeth, falling from the sky and biting the stone walls guarded by the believers in the mountains; flying copper clams, fire barrel carts Shoot out raindrops of gunfire, gather square clusters of arrows and nail them on the city gate, letting them burn continuously; The sharpshooters of the Oghuz, Cuman, Alan, Turkmen, and Kurd tribes bent their bows like the full moon, and then shot out arrows as thick as women's hair, like hail in November in winter. The cumulus clouds on the mountain peaks were riddled with holes, and they roared towards the enemies at the top of the city.

Then, like dark clouds, warriors of all races stood on the hills and rocks wearing fine armor. When Gawain immediately stood in front of Dar Ushan's scarlet tent and drew out the sword of phosphorous fire, all the soldiers shouted in cheers. , trembling throughout the sky and the universe. When they pulled out the swords from their sheaths and raised them high, the reflected light illuminated all the surrounding peaks, making the sun in the sky feel gloomy.

Soon the fire bear cannons and siege guns also began to roar, and the stones on the walls of Maimondis Castle rolled down like dead leaves in the cold and fell apart; in the smoke, Assassin believers scurried like frightened lizards. They were looking for cracks and escaping everywhere like insects - the warehouses and houses in the city were burning with flames, and the wails were shaking the earth.

In order to save the situation, Hassan, like a rat in a burrow, walked out of the closed room of the retreat for the first time in his life. He stood on the constantly swaying Kapara Rock and faced the densely packed rocks lying underneath. The injured believers there cheered with hoarse voices, but his original eloquence could no longer be used - his long-term secluded life of pretending to be mysterious had weakened his courage and skills. He barely said a few words before he was attacked by his entourage. Go and re-enter.

"The eyes of heaven have been opened, and the great Imam will reappear in the world to preach his way. The believers will gain victory and eternal victory." This is probably the core of Hassan's speech, which is weak.

On the third day of the siege, the besieging army, including the originally worried Seljuk soldiers, became more courageous and wiser. Commando teams charged from all directions along the rugged mountain roads, digging and scratching holes all over Fort Maimondi. weak link. At this time, the weakness of the believers in the mountains who were not familiar with war was fully exposed. They could no longer defend the city walls and towers. Fallings occurred everywhere. After nightfall, the besieging troops broke into Fort Maimondi from all directions and successfully destroyed the city. Door.

The believers who were guarding inside sent their children and women into the inner wall of the Eagle Castle. Then, under the instigation and bewitchment, they all drank the hashish resin and fought back desperately with the stimulation and numbness of the hallucinations. The soldiers of the siege army carried light horses and blocked the entry and exit roads. Then they drew their bows and fired blunderbuss at the crowd of believers. At night, the fire from the blunderbuss was constantly burning, and from time to time a piece of canister was swept out. Under the corridor of Fort Maimondi The corpses of the Assassins who were killed were piled high, and the aura of sadness before death pervaded everywhere.

Hassan, who was hiding in the room and listening to the cries of murder outside, cried bitterly while hugging the bookshelf, grabbed the ground with his head, and plucked up the courage to raise the poison and prepared to commit suicide. But after a while, he felt afraid and took a chance, so he Repeat the previous process again.

He longed for time to stand still, but how could this be possible? Hassan finally understood at this time, what's the use of having more and stronger fortresses? When fate breaks you down, your millions of tricks are just one more trick.

I thought back then that I was actually a little intellectual who was enthusiastic about studying but a little fanatical. Thanks to luck and recklessness, I finally managed to occupy these mountains for so many years. But I didn't expect that today I finally came to an end.

The sun rose as usual. Gawain rode Quicksilver and waded through thick blood into McMondisburg. The stone walls and streets were full of mutilated corpses, most of which were Assassins. Quicksilver's beautiful white hair was stained with spots. In front of a temple on the mountain road leading to Eagle Castle, Gawain looked up and saw several soldiers from the Gimges Brigade carrying ladders and climbing up to the roof. They killed a group of believers who were still resisting on it one by one, and threw the corpses down, splashing blood on the ground.

"That dome palace is where Hassan is hiding." Muzafi Adin said to his master with a bow and arrow on his back.

"I hope he can die tragically." Gawain laughed.

The Assassins in reality are actually so vulnerable.

At noon, the siege army broke open the gate of Eagle Castle and rushed in to continue killing, not even sparing the babies in swaddling clothes to eliminate future troubles.

"This is the will of the Lord (or Allah), to be carried out by its apostles." Soldiers at that time did not have much psychological burden when doing such things.

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Finally, Gawain saw an old man in a gorgeous dress standing on the high roof of the dome temple, walking up the Kapara Rock, then drinking some medicine, screaming and falling down seventy or eighty feet, like a moth spreading its wings to fly towards the flame, falling on the square in front of the temple.

Others told him that it might be Hassan.

This appearance reminded Gawain of the financial brokers who jumped off the building in his own era. Most of them died of heart rupture due to fear of falling from the high building, so there was no pain of falling to death. But poor Hassan actually thought of taking drugs, which would stimulate his nerve center, and he would enjoy the pain of smashing his body on the stone slab...