After the issuance of Sheikh Umid's edict in the kingdom of Murayi, merchants passing through the country became persona non grata and had to take a detour to avoid its borders. But the ban also caused discontent among the people of Murayi, whose transit tax was an important source of income for merchants, thus cutting off their financial resources. The output of the land was not enough to sustain their increasingly luxurious life, so they could only increase the oppression of the people at the bottom and collect more offerings from the 'financiers', which further deepened the contradictions between the local and the central government.

While the conflict continued to ferment, Umid received reports from various castles for several days that the men they sent to collect tribute were attacked, their belongings were looted, and their personnel were killed. The attackers did not hide their identities, and explicitly informed the survivors that they were from the Great Song Dynasty, in retaliation for the assassins sent by the Sheikh of Murayi to assassinate his emperor, making them pay for his insane actions, thus shattering his previous lie that the Assassins had been exterminated.

Although Umid had been mentally prepared for today's ending, he still felt that his face was feverish and very embarrassed. But things have to be solved, and the best thing to do is to catch these people as soon as possible to save face, of course, he also understands that it is difficult to catch these attackers who have come and gone without a trace, but it is also a good result to retreat and drive them out of Murayi. So he ordered the castles to take strict precautions, and when collecting tribute, they must be escorted by a large number of people, and it is best to have several castles act together, so that they can retreat in the face of difficulties.

The idea is good, but the result is very humiliating. In response to the Sheikh's call, the missionaries stationed at Fort Gildu sent more than 400 men from their headquarters and the nearby castle to collect the tribute. And near the door of the house, it is enough to scare off the attackers. However, they were ambushed as they passed through a section of the canyon. The battle lasted short but fierce, and more than 400 people were killed in the canyon for half an hour. Not even the horses they rode survived.

The attack shook the entire country of Murayi, and Umid sent people to investigate the scene and reconstruct the battle. The attackers were supposed to have been informed of the departure of the fort of Gildu, and set up an ambush on their way, and launched a surprise attack after they had all entered the canyon. Because many of the people of Gildu Fort were killed without unsheathing their weapons, some of the dead remained on horseback.

The large number of corpses piled up at one end of the canyon indicates that the men of Gildu's cowardly fort tried to break out of the canyon after being attacked, and the fact that these well-trained Fidai'i gave up their resistance and wanted to flee can only be explained by the fact that they realized that the enemy they were facing was too strong, and they were forced to flee. After analysis, the group of people of the Murayi Kingdom thought that they could annihilate more than 400 people in a short period of time, and they could only do it if they were several times more than them.

Later, another cultist who was grazing cattle nearby witnessed the battle. He claimed that the attackers were dressed in uniform uniforms, different in style and color from the armies of the surrounding countries and the private armies of the lords, and different from the legendary black uniforms of the attackers, and the words on the military flags he had never seen before. And because of the distance and the fact that his view was blocked by the mountains, he couldn't tell how many people there were, but he could hear the continuous explosion in the valley, and it should be that many people were shooting at the same time. In particular, the investigation team judged that the rumors that the Song people had sent a large army to fight were not groundless.

And the matter has not been fully investigated, and there is another accident on the side of Aslan Castle. The incident was even more serious than that of Gildu, which was actually broken by the Song people. Umid was a little panicked, although Aslan Fort was not as strong as Alamut Fort where he lived, and not as steep as Mammendisburg. But it was also one of the few large fortresses, which was captured by the Song people overnight, and the new castle owner and his family were all martyred. By the time the nearby fort arrived, the fortified castle had burned to the ground. The garrison was almost completely wiped out, which is so bizarre!

Two important fortresses were attacked one after the other. The losses were heavy, and according to the accounts of those who escaped, the Song people used very powerful weapons, and with a loud bang, they could blow up the built strong pass into the sky, and they could not defend it at all. What Umid feared the most had happened, the Song had already sent troops into the country again, and they had launched an attack on themselves by uprooting them one by one, otherwise such a strong fortress would not have been able to be breached by a small army even equipped with firearms, but a large army carrying the legendary artillery.

In the face of the invasion of the enemy, Umid could not think of any effective way, but to scruple and fill the forts, in addition to strictly ordering the fortresses to be strictly guarded, he sent elite assassins to infiltrate the enemy camp to assassinate them, so that they would withdraw in fear, and at the same time issued an edict again to order the followers to defend the religion and kill the invading infidels. He himself lived in the strongest and most secret place of the castle and prayed that Allah would punish the evil Satan of the East.

For a time, the whole country of Murayi entered a state of combat readiness, and all the fortresses withdrew their personnel into the fort, waiting for day and night patrols, preparing to meet the invasion of heresy. The Assassins sent out searched for the Song army without a trace, and stabbed its leader.

But they ignore an important issue, which makes the fortresses appear to be in full swing, when in fact they are fighting on their own, but are full of weaknesses. Another problem is that the forts concentrate their forces on their own defenses, waiting for the enemy to come to the door, and there is no armed force on the main road except for the wandering Fidais, so that their chests and abdomen are open, and it is convenient for the 'enemy' to use the road to maneuver and go, without worrying about being questioned and blocked......

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The Erbs Mountains block out the humid air from the Caspian Sea, and even in the depths of winter, it is difficult to see snowflakes falling, and the dry and cold weather is the main tone of the weather in this highland. Thirty miles from the Alamut Castle, it was already inaccessible, and the wind blew up bursts of yellow smoke. Several deep earthen kilns have been dug out of a sunny earthen slope, and the entrance of the cave is so well camouflaged that it is impossible to find it if you don't get close, and there is a bonfire burning in the cave, and the smoke is scattered along the dug flue to the outside of the cave.

"This Sheikh of Murayi is really obedient, he will do whatever he asks him to do!" It was bitterly cold outside, but the cave was very warm under the roasting of the bonfire, Zhang Kui shook the big dan aside and said with a smile.

"It's not good enough for the sheep to plan, he calculated exactly what Umid thought, and led him into the ditch step by step!" Ba Zhouquan rubbed his hands together and said.

"If it weren't for the clean and clean ambush at all, Umid wouldn't have thought that we had sent a large army to fight against us!" Qing Yang waved his hand and said modestly.

"Where did Zhang Kui dare to compare with me in that small victory, he was stunned to lead the entire team to open a passage between the cliffs for our task force, so that he was able to infiltrate Aslan Castle, and took the castle by surprise from top to bottom, so that the enemy mistakenly thought that we were coming with a large army!" Ba Zhouquan scratched his head and said.

"Cut, if it weren't for the big disturbances I made, who would have believed that you were all fools when you were Murayi!" Li Tian is shameless and stinky!

"Hmph, you still have the face to say, you have to wait for us to take it down? You detonated it early and blew up the passes, so much so that we almost couldn't get off the mountain! Shadui glanced at Li Tian disdainfully and said, he led the sniper team to serve as cover at a commanding height, but the retreat was buried by the landslide caused by the explosion, and he almost couldn't retreat.

"Gotcha, yes, it's my fault, but at that time I saw a large number of enemies running down the mountain, if I didn't blow up the pass, they would all flee, otherwise where did I get such a big record, at least the merit outweighed the fault, you can't wipe me out with a word, I have to rely on this merit to be promoted to lieutenant colonel!" Li Tian said with a hippie smile and hugged the neck of the sand.

"Don't blow it, you detonate it in advance not because you're afraid that the enemy will escape, but because you're afraid that the enemy will rush down and you won't be able to stop it!" The sand pile shrugged his shoulders and arched Li Tian away, mocking him.

"Absolutely not, if I have this intention, my son will not be able to marry a daughter-in-law!" Li Tian was still not annoyed, but swore to the sky.

"Go ahead, wait until you have a son! Look at your virtue, I'm so scared that I don't dare to give birth to it. Li Tian also had three wives and concubines, but they all gave birth to daughters, which also made him swear by this curse, Zhang Kui also joked with him.

"Everyone, don't make trouble, the captain asked us to discuss how to capture Fort Alamut and kill Umid, but you are still talking nonsense, and you will be scolded later!" Quan Wu threw a dry firewood at the tinder and said leisurely.

"Qingyang has a lot of ideas, let him think, let's just go and fight!" Li Tian patted Qingyang's shoulder as he looked at the fire and said.

"Hehe, Fort Alamut is the residence of the Sheikh of the Murayi Kingdom, which is equivalent to our capital, its fortification must be tight, the terrain is complex and steep, and it is known as the eagle's nest, and it is too difficult to sneak in without being discovered!" While the crowd was playing, he did not participate, but secretly analyzed the information they had gathered about Fort Alamut, and found that there were almost no loopholes to exploit.

"Well, it's impossible to storm by force, makeup penetrates our people's mouths, and the most important thing is that they will be subject to strict interrogation, and weapons are difficult to bring up the mountain!" Ba Zhou said nothing.

"Fort Alamut has a special terrain, and it is an independent peak, and long-range sniping is not easy to use, and legend has it that their sheikh lives in stone chambers carved out of the mountain wall, and rarely shows up!" The sand pile has looked at the terrain and there are no sniper positions around that can be used.

"Don't look at me, the peaks where the fortress is located are all stony, smooth as a mirror and there are no plants growing, and there is no place to borrow strength, you can't climb it at all!" Zhang Kui also hurriedly explained that he was really powerless.

"Then we'll fly up...... Don't look at me like that, I'm just talking! Li Tian said suddenly, but found that the people in the cave were all looking at him with strange eyes, which startled Li Tian...... (To be continued......)