'If there is heaven on earth, Damascus will be in it, and if heaven is in the sky, Damascus will be as famous as it', a city known as the city of paradise and gardens, was once the starting point of the Silk Road in the West and the end point of the East. But today, the once-famous city has declined with the decline of the dynasty, and the wars between Damascus and other cities in the surrounding region have become increasingly chaotic, and the businesses that have supported the city's prosperity have declined.

The evening heat had receded, but the spacious streets were sparsely populated with pedestrians, and the air was filled with the stench of garbage and sloppy sewage. In this time of chaos, the city was unmanaged, and for safety and maintenance people lived according to ethnicity, religion or occupation, with Muslims in the center, Christians in the northeast, and Jews in the southeast, and behind each retaining wall each residential area was a city, with its own chieftain, its own urban facilities, monasteries, water sources, and markets.

......The crisp sound of hooves striking the ground was heard on the heavy stone-paved road, and a team of more than forty horses entered the city before nightfall, and the heavy packs on their backs immediately attracted the greedy eyes of countless people behind the retaining wall, hoping that they would enter their own market, because it would bring a lot of taxes to their economically troubled town.

But the caravan had no intention of dying, and the riders on horseback inquired about a place where it was, and the people who had come forward to solicit the caravan stopped at once, their faces full of fear, and seemed to be in awe of the place, and they did not dare to answer, or even mention it. It seems that a group of demons live there. Eventually, the knights in the horse team had to pay a gold dinar to buy a child on the street to find a guide.

But the child who led the way refused to lead the way at a distance from his destination, and ran away as if he were pointing to the approximate location. The knight cursed helplessly, and no one understood the swear words, and followed the route indicated by the child. And he suddenly found that it was extremely quiet, and there were not even cats or dogs around. The shadow-shrouded town exuded a nameless terror that made the horses under the crotches of these knights restless, their ears turning from side to side, and their noses kept snorting.

When he walked to the city, the leading knight muttered to the doorman on duty for a long time, and then took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to him, who seemed to believe him, but did not open the door and let him in. After waiting for a while, a group of people rushed out, and after a few words to the leader of the horse team. With a wave of his hand, the men who came out of the city unloaded all the packs from their horses and carried them into the city, and the door closed again with a bang.

The leader of the caravan did not stop and left at once, but walked around the city a few times, and made sure that there were no followers before entering a courtyard in the old city, which was a typical dwelling, built around a spring, with trees, flowers, and a white wall without any decoration facing the street, and there were not many such houses in the city. If you don't know it, it's easy to go to the wrong door.

"Brother Kui, do they believe it?" Walking into the courtyard, someone led the horse away, and a person ripped off the headscarf covering his face and asked impatiently, it was indeed Li Tian of the Special Operations Brigade.

"Hmm. They believe that we are the Lords of Pittsburgh, but they moved things in, and I've always been worried that you won't have time to open the mechanism! The leader took off his turban. After washing his face by the spring, he said, but this person is Zhang Kui.

"Who am I? Seeing that they still had doubts, I opened the mechanism in advance. Just wait and hear! Li Tian said with a smile.

"There's no problem with the disguise, I'm afraid they'll open the box and check it!" Zhang Kui still said with some relief.

"Don't worry, I can't fool them, I ate all the gunpowder, where have they ever seen these good things!" Li Tian said with a big grin.

"If you can't hear the sound, you don't need to eat gunpowder, you just rush in and slaughter them all!" Zhang Kui threw the water in his hand into Li Tian's face, turned his head and entered the house.

"No problem, I can't kill them, I'll tie gunpowder to my body and rush in to blow up their kennels!" Li Tian shouted behind Zhang Kui, he was still very confident in his craft. Sure enough, as soon as his words fell, there was a loud bang in the silent night, and even they felt the ground tremble across the streets.

"Brother Kui, it's done!" Hearing the movement, the people in the room poured out, and Li Tian shouted excitedly to Zhang Kui.

"Well, it's ringing, but I don't know how it works!" After so many years of tempering, Zhang Kui has changed from the earlier chaos to a calm commander, "Liu San, you send someone to secretly see how the effect is, the caravan and the action team are ready to evacuate in case of change!" ”

"Zhang Tongzhi, I'll go and see it myself!" Liu San gave a salute and hurried out to the explosion point.

"Boss Kui, don't look at it, it's a thousand catties of gunpowder, if they all move into that small castle, Zhun Bao will blow it up, and those who can come out of it alive will be immortals!" Li Tian was very dissatisfied with Zhang Kuiduo's move, and pouted and said.

"If you dare to tell me to beat your teeth, there is only one boss in our army, and that is the emperor!" Zhang Kui grabbed Li Tian's shirt and said viciously.

"Urgent...... I'm still in a hurry, I'm going to pack up my things, and everything is up to Brother Kui'er! Li Tian waved his hand again and again......

Liu San, who was investigating the situation, soon returned, and the situation at the scene was even more serious than Li Tian expected. According to him, the castle in the city not only collapsed, but literally blew up, leaving a large pit with a diameter of five or six zhang in its place, and other buildings were also damaged. The people in the fort did not escape, and it is estimated that there are not many people around who are still alive, and someone can faintly hear a terrible howl in the ruins, and the scene is like hell.

However, the popularity of the people in this city does not seem to be very good, and there are many people who come to see the excitement, but no one comes forward to help. As for why Zhang Kui and others traveled thousands of miles to Damascus to create the world's first bombing terrorist attack, the reason is very simple, just because it is related to the country of Murayi.

As large as a country or as small as an individual, it is difficult to sustain itself without economic income. These people in the country are not good at production and do not know how to develop the economy, but so many people under their command always have to eat, and it is impossible for them to starve to death because of their faith, so they must also have financial resources. And they are very good at giving full play to their strengths, using intimidation of political opponents to collect offerings, theft, roadblocks and robberies are also common methods.

Of course, they can also be employed for a variety of political or religious purposes. In order to facilitate liaison business and expand financial resources, the Murayi Kingdom set up liaison offices in Damascus and other places to receive business, receive tribute, train and install Assassins, start a business, and set up a murder company. Their blatant behavior, of course, could not escape the intelligence network of the Great Song Dynasty. Cutting off people's financial routes is tantamount to killing their parents, so the task force made it one of the targets: first, it could cut off the important financial resources of the Murayi country; Second, it can have a huge impact.

The task of eradicating the Damascus stronghold was handed over to the task force Zhang Kui. Through preliminary reconnaissance, the intelligence agents found out the situation of the contact point of the Murai Kingdom in Damascus City, which was presided over by a sheikh sent by Sheikh and supported more than 100 Assassins. They don't go out on weekdays, but hide in fortified castles to train, waiting for business to come to them. In the case of a strong attack, the task force is equipped with only light weapons, and it is difficult to breach the city. Even if you break through the perimeter, the castle door is a lump of stones, and there is no way to take it, and it is easy to expose the target and reveal the whereabouts of the attack.

The task force also thought of sneaking into the castle and launching a surprise attack under the pretext of 'talking about business', but the killers were also afraid of being killed, and the assassins were very vigilant, and never allowed more than two people to enter the castle, and they had to go through strict checks before entering, and it was strictly forbidden to bring in any weapons, even a needle. The unarmed Task Force members of the Great Song were not superior to the Assassins who had also been trained in harsh combat, and they were suicide attackers when they entered.

After a period of observation, the intelligence officers found that the only ones who could enter the city without being inspected were the 'protection money' paid by those lords, and it is estimated that they believed that these lords had already been frightened and did not dare to do anything at all, but this small loophole became their talisman. So Zhang Kui, with the assistance of the intelligence system, devised a blasting method to send explosives into the Murayi Assassin stronghold, and used them as 'earth planes' to meet Allah.

The informant soon learned that the lord of Pittsburgh would go to Damascus to pay tribute to the Murayi kingdom, and Zhang Kui decided to use this opportunity to implement the plan. He led a group of men to loot Pittsburg's goods, and then impersonated the remodeled tribute to the castle. The best player in the task force of explosives is Li Tian, who claims to have obtained the true inheritance of the emperor and has a good set of design and manufacturing of various explosive devices, so this task naturally fell to him.

Li Tian was ruthless enough, he used all the nearly 1,000 catties of gunpowder transported to Damascus, packed them in twenty horse packs, and then carefully camouflaged them and set up a time-delay explosive device. And the delivery time they deliberately chose in the evening, this time is the time when the assassins in the stronghold are eating, and it is dusk, even if they check it, it is so-so, it is difficult to find out that there is fraud.

The task force's plan proved to be successful, and the Assassins had no doubt that they had moved all the added tribute into the castle, and all of them except those who were on night duty had gathered in it to avoid reprisals, never expecting that the contents of the packs would be enough to destroy the entire castle, blow them to pieces, and send them to a dark hell instead of a paradise of dreams...... (To be continued......)