Mountains of corpses, sassaches, and rubble covered the square in front of the Eagle Fort's Dome Temple, and the fallen Hassan was in the middle of it, like a small white dot in Gawain's eyes, and as Gawain rode over with the pace of the guards, Hassan slowly grew in his field of vision. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A very ordinary image of an old man, with a white beard and a golden silk wrapped around his head, looks not much different from an ordinary imam, his body is cut into the stone slab below, and even smashed out cracks, the bones of his body should be completely shattered, his body and limbs are twisted in a strange posture, the blood does not flow out, he has probably already mixed into the broken and tumbling internal organs, his head is sideways, and his eyes are a little conscious looking at Gawain on horseback, the corners of his mouth are squirming, and he doesn't know what to say.

He must have been in excruciating pain during this short period of time between near-death and eventual death.

Originally, he took the poison in the hope of alleviating the pain, but it backfired, and the excitement delayed his death.

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

This was the last sentence Hassan had ever heard in the world, but he was satisfied that he had finally seen the opponent who had destroyed him, and he could finish cursing before dying.

The Turkic servant jumped off his horse, crouched down with his scimitar in his hand, pulled it down the stone slab, and neatly cut off the dead Hassan's head, then carried it in his hand and tied it to the spear shaft of the Red Hand Battle Flag.

By this time, the entire Vulture Fort had been completely reduced to a slaughterhouse, and many of the faithful climbed the high rock and fell to pieces, while others howled in vain and ran around the roof of the circular temple, being shot one by one by the allied soldiers who surrounded them with firearms and bows and arrows...... This Mamantis, which took Hassan and his followers more than ten years of hard work. The Alammut Union Castle, the "iron wall" built of stucco and gravel that occupied all the water and supplies on the mountain, was broken in a short time by powerful stone-shooting equipment, artillery and the unwavering fighting spirit of the soldiers.

The confidential officer Firactos rushed into Hassan's retreat palace with his men, and snatched the most valuable things—Hassan's lifelong collection of books, all of which were piled up and burned there as a sign of oblivion, while some machinery, buildings, farms, medical dissections, etc., were loaded into mule carts and transported down the mountain one by one.

Gawain, riding on a silver horse, stands on the pinnacle of the Eagle Castle as a victor and a destroyer. Several Seljuk scribes described him in their manuscripts:

Like a true king, he rode into his golden and elegant temple.

The Mountain Cult was nothing more than a swarm of ants in his eyes, and Hassan was only the largest of them, and when King Solomon's wrath swept through the ant hill, how could they resist and survive?

At this point, all the princes of Baghdad, Jerusalem, Isfahan, the Franks, Greece, and the Seljuks can breathe a long sigh and disperse the cumulus cloud that has been holding down in their hearts for a long time, and the threat of death from the Vulture will no longer exist. ”

After the capture of the Vulture Fortress, the combined forces of Gawain, Seljuk, and Sylvan searched for all the cultists within a hundred ancient miles of the surrounding area, and then executed them in separate camps, regardless of men, women, and children, as Gawain said to everyone before: 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 dare others follow suit and threaten you?

Gawain slowly began to like the world.

Because although it is barbaric and bloody, in this era, the king can create and formulate rules, but not everyone submits 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 packed with alpine strongholds and villages, had completely turned into a no-man's land, and nearly 70,000 believers, including Hassan's deputy Gabuzuk, were almost all slaughtered, and their bodies were deliberately thrown in the mountain wilderness between the eagle fort and the Maimondis fort, layer upon layer, and no one was restrained and buried, until the wind, rain, and countless vultures in the sky turned into a white mountain of bones. It is also an intuitive and tragic warning to all heretics who have evil intentions to disrupt the order in the future.

The body of the head of the church, Hassan, was hung upside down on the main wall of the shattered domed temple, and in front of it was erected a large and striking stone tablet, made of temple marble, with this warning inscribed in Greek, Latin, Persian, and Saracen:

"There will never be another Assasin roaming in a dark corner, doing despicable and cowardly deeds.

For these foolish ants and heretics have been swept away like dust by the broom of destruction.

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

The pinnacle was once a fortress for them to boast about, the horns of the roof could rub against the horns of the Taurus Palace, the rocks could touch the waist of Orion, the magnificence of the palace of Saturn, the rugged mountain roads like the hair of beautiful women coiled, the dark caves like the gatehouses to the hell, but I, Stephen. Gawain's cannons and catapults shattered the pillars that stood between the heavens and the mountains, killing everyone here.

Just as the Lord said, there is a beginning and an end, and there is a break and a stand.

and the Lord has blessed me with the debity of my enemies like dogs. I have sown the greatest horror of death here, but I have also bestowed the best peace on all the nations around us. ”

After the destruction of the Assasin sect and many small Turkic separatist powers, the trade routes of the Khazars and Persia were quickly restored—the Persianized Isfahan court, the large number of Armenian, Greek, and Italian merchants into the Tarsus state, and the newly established state of Jerusalem, between which it was simply inconceivable not to trade quickly,

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

There, the Holy Sister Kabeamia was waiting for him.

Ardabil, the sacred place of ancient Persian Zoroastrianism, still stands here with a majestic altar hall.

Inside is enshrined the most sacred "samurai fire altar".

Gawain, the "saint of the Roman city", actually came here to worship the altar of fire again, to pray for the longevity of his martial arts.

In the center of the corridor in front of the hall, there is a colorful sculpture, that is, the statue of the sacred Ahuramazda, and the holy sister in a delicate and beautiful beige wool cloak walks into this hall, looking at the blazing flame on the marble pillar in the center of the hall, and her heart is not rejected—because the Paulicians are a mixture of Zoroastrianism (and Manichaeism developed on its basis) and Christianity and Crescentism.

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

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

"Don't talk about anything else, you've had a hard time. I have summoned you from the inner city of Meritae, and in fact I have first and foremost consulted with you on matters of great importance. ”

Hearing this, the holy sister's black pupils couldn't help but widen slightly, indicating her confusion.