Eagle Byzantium

Mountains of corpses, wood and gravel covered the square in front of the Great Dome Temple of Eagle Castle. Hassan, who had fallen down, lay among them. He looked like a small white dot in Gawain's eyes. When Gawain followed the guard of the guards, After riding a horse, Hassan gradually became larger and clearer in his field of vision.

A very ordinary old man with a big white beard and a gold thread wrapped around his head. He looked not much different from an ordinary imam. His body dug into the stone slab below, and even cracked, and the bones in his body should be completely shattered. He fell, his body and limbs twisted in strange postures, the blood did not flow out, and had probably been mixed into the broken and tumbling internal organs. His head was turned sideways, and his still conscious eyes looked at Gawain on the horse, and the corners of his mouth wriggled, not knowing what to think. What to say.

He should have been in extreme pain during the short period from near death to final death.

He originally took the poison in the hope of relieving the pain, but it backfired as the excitement delayed his death.

"You are not a qualified pharmacist. What a bad review." Gawain stared at Hassan who was paralyzed on the stone slab and in front of the horse's hooves, and actually said this.

This was also the last sentence Hassan heard in the human world, but he was satisfied that he finally saw the enemy who destroyed him and could finish the curse before dying.

The Turkic army servant jumped off the horse, squatted down with the scimitar, pulled it along the stone slab, and neatly cut off the dead Hassan's head, then picked it up in his hand and tied it to the red-hand war flag spear pole.

At this time, all parts of the Eagle Castle had completely turned into a slaughterhouse. Many believers climbed onto the high rocks and were thrown to pieces. Some were howling in vain and running around on the top of the round temple. They were surrounded by allied soldiers with fire. Guns and bows and arrows kill one by one... This waste The United Castle of Maimondis Alamut, which Hassan and his followers have worked hard for more than ten years, was built with mortar and gravel and occupied all the water and supplies on the mountain. In a short period of time, it was destroyed by powerful stone-shooting equipment. , artillery and the soldiers' determined fighting spirit were broken.

The confidential officer Philaktos led his men into Hassan's retreat palace and snatched away the most valuable thing - Hassan's lifelong collection of books. All the boring astrology or religious classics were piled there and burned as a reminder. , and some items related to machinery, construction, farming, medical anatomy, etc. were loaded into mule carriages by Philactus and transported down the mountain one by one.

Gawain, riding on a silver warhorse, stood on the top of the Eagle Castle in an attitude of both victor and destroyer. Several Seljuk scribes described him in their manuscripts:

"Like a true king, riding a horse into his golden and elegant palace.

In his eyes, the Mountain Sect was nothing more than a group of ants, and Hassan was just the biggest among them. When King Solomon's anger swept through the ant colony, how could they resist and survive?

At this point, all the princes in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Isfahan, the Franks, Greeks, and Seljuk tribes can take a long breath and disperse the cumulus clouds that have been oppressed in their hearts for a long time. Death from the Eagle Castle The threat will cease to exist. "

After the bloodbath of the Eagle Castle was captured, the allied forces of Gawain, Seljuk, and Shirvan searched for all the believers of the sect within a hundred miles around, and then executed them in separate camps, regardless of men, women, old or young, just as Gawain had previously said. What everyone said: When all the enemies who threaten you are dead, how can they threaten you again? When the enemy who threatens you ends up like this, how can others dare to follow suit and threaten you?

Gawain slowly began to like this world.

Because although it is wild and bloody, in this era the king can create and formulate rules, but not everyone succumbs to the rules to demonstrate the so-called "fairness and justice", and the resistance to doing things is actually much smaller.

A month later, the Alamut area, which was originally densely populated with Alpine sect strongholds and villages, had completely turned into a no-man's land. Almost 70,000 believers, including Hassan's deputy Gabzuk, were all slaughtered and their bodies were slaughtered. Deliberately dumped between Eagle's Bastion and Fort Maimondi In the wilderness of the mountains, there are layers upon layers, and no one has gathered them and buried them, until the natural wind, rain, and countless vultures in the sky turn them into white mountains of bones, and they are also destroyed by all future generations with evil intentions. The heresy of order provides an intuitive and tragic warning.

The body of the leader Hassan was hung upside down on the main wall of the broken dome temple. In front of it was erected a huge eye-catching stone tablet made of temple marble with inscriptions in Greek and Latin on it. This warning was engraved in English, Persian and Saracen:

"This time there will no longer be an Assassin wandering in the dark corners, doing despicable and cowardly deeds.

Because this group of stupid ants and heretics have been swept away like dust by the broom of destruction.

This was once their house, but it is now in ruins.

The peak was once a fortress that they could boast about. The corners of the roof could rub against the corners of Taurus. The rocks could touch the waist of Orion. Its magnificence was comparable to the Palace of Saturn. The rugged mountain road was like a beautiful woman's hair coiled around it. The dark cave was like a tunnel. Go to the gatehouse of Hell, but my Stephen Gawain's cannons and catapults broke down the beams supporting the sky and the mountains here, killing everyone here.

Just as the Lord said, where there is a beginning, there must be an end; where there is destruction, there must be establishment.

May the Lord protect me and make my enemies as lowly as dogs. I have sown the greatest horrors of death here, but I have also given the greatest peace to all the surrounding nations. "

After the destruction of the Assassins and many small Turkic separatist forces, the trade routes between the Khazars and Persia were indeed quickly restored. The Persianized Isfahan court, the Tarsus Kingdom, which absorbed a large number of Armenian, Greek and Italian merchants, and the newly established Jerusalem Kingdom, it was simply unimaginable that they would not quickly do business with each other.

After slaughtering Alamut, Gawain and his army returned to the city of Ardabil.

There, the saintly sister Cabeamia was waiting for him.

Ardabil is the holy place of ancient Persian Zoroastrianism, and a towering altar hall still stands here.

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The most sacred "warrior fire altar" is enshrined inside.

Gawain, the "canonized saint" appointed by the Roman city, actually came here to worship the fire altar to pray for his military exploits to last forever.

In the center of the colonnade in front of the temple, there stands a colorful sculpture, which is the statue of the sacred Ahura Mazda. The Saint Sister, wearing a fine and beautiful beige wool cloak, walked into the temple and looked at the blazing flames on the marble column platform in the center of the hall. She was not repulsive in her heart - because the Paulicians were originally a mixture of Zoroastrianism (and the Manichaeism developed on its basis), Christianity, and Crescentism.

In front of the fire altar, Gawain turned around and looked at him with a smile.

"Congratulations on your great victory on the Persian Plateau."

"Don't talk about other things. You are very tired from the journey. I called you from the inner city of Melite, in fact, the first thing is to discuss a very important matter with you."

Hearing this, the Saint Sister's black pupils couldn't help but widen a little, expressing her confusion.