The torture of the East is no less than the torture of the West, and it seems to be superior in terms of tricks, although the few 'Fidai' who were captured alive have received professional training and are not afraid of death, but there are many things in the world that are more terrible than death, and after continuous interrogation, Lu Xiaoyao's suspicion was confirmed from the mouth of the captives, and they were the assassins from Murayi.

The captives confessed that they were sent by the sect master to divide into two teams to infiltrate the Great Song Dynasty in the name of business to assassinate the 'Khan of the East', and through public information, they learned that he was driving in Luoyang, and after some reconnaissance, they discovered Zhao Ta's whereabouts, and planned to ambush him in the hunting ground. However, due to the tight defense around the hunting ground, they were unable to infiltrate, and Zhao Ta only took two deer and returned to the camp to frustrate their plans.

The Assassins who failed in the ambush hid in the forest, preparing to evacuate after dark, but Zhao Ta unexpectedly appeared and discovered their hiding place, and suddenly a battle broke out. What is ironic is that they do not know what the 'Khan of the East' looks like, and they do not know that among the people they fight against is a target to assassinate. There are not many people who have seen the emperor in this era, and the portrait of the 'Khan of the East' in their hands that they bought with a lot of money is too far from Zhao Ta's appearance.

After learning the news of the emperor's assassination, Li Gang and Chen Yu hurriedly went to the Eastern Capital Garden to greet him, and were relieved to see that the emperor was safe and sound. The reason for the Emperor's assassination could not be ascertained for a while, but the immediate priority was to eliminate all the Assassins who had infiltrated the city. Li Gang, together with the officials in Luoyang, immediately set up a temporary headquarters. He will preside over the overall situation and carry out a comprehensive search and arrest. Demand that the Assassins be found at all costs in order to ensure the absolute safety of the Emperor.

So the gates of the city, which had not been closed for many years, were locked. The state army was dispatched overnight to block the wharf and traffic arteries and set up checks, and then all the officials of Luoyang Prefecture went out to search the whole city door to door, focusing on those merchants from the Western Regions. And everywhere has also received a notice from the government, and anyone who finds people from the Western Regions who are hiding must report it immediately, and there must be no mistakes.

After dawn, Luoyang City, which was already noisy on weekdays, was slaughtered, the city gates were closed, merchants were closed, and the people were ordered to stay at home. Barricades were set up on the streets, and cavalry patrolled back and forth as if they were facing a great enemy. At this time, the leopard generals in the Eastern Capital Garden also began to enter the garden, squeezing in a horizontal line from the middle of the four sides, combing the entire Eastern Capital Garden like a grate, searching for the assassins who had slipped through the net, and Zhao Ta returned to the imperial city under the escort of the guards.

Zhao Ta was very helpless at this time, just because he was assassinated for unknown reasons, and the entire Luoyang City was in trouble. And he was locked in the imperial city as if he was under house arrest, and the dormitory where he was located was surrounded by the internal guards on three floors inside and three layers outside, and even the top of the main hall was arranged with gunmen, and Lei Zhenshan, the commander of the guards, was on duty in person outside the door. Beside him, he was guarded by two imperial concubines dressed in military uniforms, and no one was allowed to enter the palace without their permission.

Everyone was busy. Zhao Ta has become the most leisurely person, and he also has time to sort out what he knows about the Murayi Kingdom in his previous life......

The use of religion to rebel against the brutal exploitation of rulers is not uncommon throughout history. The Zhang Jiao brothers of the Eastern Han Dynasty founded Taiping Dao, and Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty devoted himself to Mingjiao. Hong Xiuquan's worship of God in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the Great Song Dynasty Fangla's use of Maitreya to cause trouble, all used their own followers to rebel.

Similarly, the founding of the state of Murayi was initiated by a group of Shia Ismaili priests in Islam to resist the brutal rule of the Seljuks. They gained the support of the general public in northwestern Iran, where they established theocratic semi-independent state organizations. The Seljuks, of course, could not tolerate the existence of their own domestic organization, so they sent troops to encircle and suppress them. However, the terrain in the northwestern part of Iran was rugged, and several attacks by the Seljuks were defeated.

As a result, the Ismailis gained a foothold in the area around the Caspian Sea in northern Iran, becoming a powerful separatist force in Iran, fighting against the Seljuks. The territory occupied by the Murayi was quite large, five or six hundred li wide, mainly concentrated in the mountains on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, and the forts they captured and established were concentrated in the Alborz Mountains, where the mountains were steep and the peaks were continuous, and these precipitous places could effectively resist the enemy's attack. The rugged mountainous terrain was the stronghold of the separatist forces, and today al-Qaeda is hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan to confront the Americans, just like the Murayi.

There are hundreds of large castles in the Murayi, according to historical records, "there are three hundred and fifty mountain towns", the most famous is the "Eagle's Nest" of Alamut Fort, which became the base camp and core fortress of the Murayi people's activities after being occupied. They are based on the mountain as a village, drilling rock as a room, the terrain is dangerous, there is a husband as a pass, ten thousand people do not open the posture. In addition to the dangerous terrain, this castle is also prosperous and rich, "a lot of grain storage, wine and honey", and the castle also has countless books, classics, cultural relics and archives.

However, although these Murayi people started by rebelling against the Serjuk people, their resistance was not a legitimate way, and they specialized in terrorist activities like today's al-Qaeda, engaged in robbery and assassination activities, and their assassination behavior made everyone in the surrounding area live in terror, for fear that they would accidentally become the ghost of the Murjayi assassins, which can be said to be a typical ancient base terrorist......

Zhao Ta knew that this organization might be like most people in his previous life, and he knew that Huo Shan, the leader of the Persian Ming Sect, the leader of the assassination faction, Huo Shan, was the leader of the Persian Ming Sect through Xie Xun's novel "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" in Jin Dada's novel "Heaven and Dragon Slayer". But after Zhao Ta joined the special forces, through study, he learned that this episode was adapted by Jin Dada, which is still different from the real people in history.

Is the prototype of Huoshan Hassan? Root? Saba, who created the Ismailis. Although the sect was born out of Islam, it was considered a heretical sect by the Orthodox sect, which opposed both the mainstream Sunni sect and the other Shia sects to which it belonged, and was therefore largely in a state of secrecy. He did not start his career by assassination and looting, but rather by a scholar. In the early days, the scope of activity was mainly in Egypt, rather than robbing merchants in the Persian desert. The initial assassinations were also aimed at political purposes, not money.

After the founding of the Empire, Hassan fanatically pursued divine revelation in obscure scriptures, enacting draconian laws and ascetic doctrines. Although he controls a dense network of terror throughout the country, he is a man who does not leave his home, concentrates on writing, and still has a variety of works in Persian, strictly speaking, he is not a martial arts master, but a religious scholar, the first sheikh and the earliest thinker of the Almaty Sheikh dynasty in the country of Murayi.

On the one hand, the kingdom of Murayi relied on the dangerous terrain of the fortress to defend itself, and on the other hand, it was also carrying out horrific assassinations, so the sect created by Hassan is also called the assassination faction. And because Hassan has always been based in the mountains, people also call them "mountain elders" or "mountain elders". Whoever succeeded him as the head of the Order used this name and imitated his posture, so Old Man of the Mountain was not a man's name.

Since the territory of the Murayi was too fragmented to recruit a regular army, they had to rely on the words of the missionaries to expand and the daggers of the martyrs to defend themselves. Successive sheikhs have cultivated fanatics from certain sects as 'fidayis', meaning people who have given their lives, and have them used as instruments of political revenge, murder, intimidation, and blackmail to carry out terrorist activities against the city-states under their rule and surrounding neighbors.

It can be said that the 'Fidai' have opened the 'Pandora's box' of the terrorist world, and their operational purposes and methods have been poisoned for thousands of years, so that they are regarded as the 'Bible' by later generations of terrorist organizations.

The Fidai'i elite, who are responsible for defending the faithful with daggers, usually undergo rigorous training beforehand, including not only the use of various daggers and disguises, but also various trainings in language, trade, customs, and science, in order to successfully integrate into a hostile society and approach the target of surveillance. If a tyrannical prince threatens his followers, the lurker will warn the prince: for example, when he wakes up in the morning, he will find a dagger stuck in his pillow. If the warnings are still ineffective, the decapitation operation is carried out.

When acting in a manner that does so, the Assassins will do everything possible to avoid unnecessary casualties on their own side, while causing the worst possible social impact. If possible, they would carry out the assassination in the crowded mosque at noon on the day of Juji, and although the Assassins themselves would be torn to pieces by the angry guards, they would have a great deterrent effect and spread the terror on a large scale, making it as stressful and frightening as possible.

The sacrifices of the predecessors of the 'Fidai' also enabled the Assassins of the Murayi Kingdom to 'live for generations', and were admired and emulated by later generations of their fellow followers. Of course, it will inevitably become an important part of the study of anti-terrorist organizations in various countries around the world today, hoping to find ways to eliminate terrorism and countermeasures. These studies of his past life also made Zhao Ta understand what kind of opponent he was facing.

"In my previous life, Lao Tzu fought with these calves in the dark, but I didn't expect to run to this era and still couldn't get rid of fate, is this his mother's cycle of heavenly principles, retribution for injustice!" Zhao Ta scratched his head and slandered the old man...... (To be continued......)