Chapter Forty-Nine: Attack
Unlike Xiang Hui thought, no one attacked Monteriggioni in the next few days, but it was surprisingly calm, Xiang Hui certainly didn't think that these guys had changed to vegetarianism, it was obvious that Nicolai and the Templars must be gathering strength to prepare for a big trip. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Passive defense is better than active attack, since it is not clear what these guys are thinking, then take the initiative to attack and play their purpose, Xiang Hui asked Altaïr to send a message to the Assassin bureaus around the world in his name, the content of the message is simple, attack.
War broke out in this context, with millions of elite Assassins attacking Templar strongholds from Italy and Rome to Germany, France, England, Russia, China, and the now-undiscovered Americas.
The Assassins' attack obviously caught the Templars off guard, and although the two sides were evenly matched, the Templars had always taken the initiative to attack, and the Assassins had reacted passively, but now the Assassins suddenly launched a counterattack, and the Templars were unable to react immediately.
During the years of the struggle between the two sides, due to the fact that the Templars were in the open and the Assassins were in the shadows, the Templars in many places fought the Assassins, but with little success, and thanks to the Assassins' extremely powerful intelligence capabilities, coupled with the assistance of mercenaries, thieves and other forces, the pediatrician was very familiar with the situation of the Templars, including some of their leaders.
As a result, on the first day of the war, fourteen Master Templars were assassinated by the Assassins, and many more Templar members, including some local officials and the rich.
Then, according to the plan, as soon as they succeeded, all the assassins went underground again, which is what Xiang Hui meant, secrecy is the most important survival rule of the assassins, no matter how powerful the assassin is, if he does not know how to secret, he will not become a qualified assassin, and he will always fail one day.
Therefore, Xiang Hui asked the assassin bureaus in various places to immediately end the battle and go underground after three days of operation, no matter what the outcome was.
It turned out that Xiang Hui's reaction was quite correct, and it was exactly three days before the Templars reacted and immediately began to fight back, but by this time, the Assassin stronghold they could control had already been emptied.
This was arguably the first full-scale Assassin attack on the Templars, and the results were surprisingly good, and when the results of the battle were reported, Xiang Hui laughed at the sight of Altaïr, who had never been expressionless, but it was soon gone.
Xiang Hui picked up the scroll that Altaïr had placed on the conference table and looked at it, in the past three days, a total of twenty-four Templar masters had been killed, a total of 157,000 officials and merchants, and millions of soldiers had been killed with their hands.
The killing of twenty-four Master Templars paralyzed the Templars' operations in many countries, and the slain officials and businessmen, who were the main source of income for the Templars, made matters worse.
Most of their financial resources were cut off at once, leaving the Templars in many places completely leaderless, and the subsequent counterattack caused very little damage to the Assassins.
On this occasion, Xiang Hui summoned the Assassin leaders from many places to Monteriggioni, with the aim of getting them to know Altaïr again.
In fact, the news of Altaïr's return was no secret to the upper echelons of the Assassins, but for many reasons no one had made the pilgrimage.
However, the momentum of the Templars was now very restrained, so there was time to pass, and as Xiang Hui thought, even after hundreds of years, the Assassins' worship of Altaïr still did not change in the slightest, and after confirming Altaïr's identity, they immediately bowed to him.
Altaïr said that this was dispensable, but Altaïr's return gave the Assassins a backbone in their hearts, as the Assassins had previously acted on their own based on their strongholds, mainly because they did not have a leader who could convince them.
However, the success of the Assassins' first counterattack this time gave them a taste of sweetness, especially now that Altaïr had returned, giving the Assassins a leader that everyone could agree on.
In addition, Altaïr's strength was undoubted, and the Assassin leaders saw Altaïr compete with Altaïr without being sure of Altaïr's identity, but this was only to convince the public, because although Altaïr never took off his hood, his appearance was familiar to all Assassins.
In this era, there were no complicated plastic surgeries in later generations, so when Altaïr took off his hood, everyone took a breath of cool air after hundreds of years of mental preparation.
However, he quickly reacted, because after all, there are still Eden Hallows in this world, and it is understandable that there are a few things that make people immortal in the various Eden Hallows.
Later, everyone willingly expressed their willingness to obey Altaïr's orders, and Xiang Hui expressed jealousy of this, looking at the countless little brothers who worshipped just by showing their faces, and then looked at themselves, it was obvious that Altaïr was the protagonist.
However, Xiang Hui couldn't envy this, because almost all of his younger brothers were his disciples and grandchildren, or his own descendants, and almost all the assassins regarded him as the ancestor of the assassins, and his statue had always been the object of worship of the assassins.
For example, the statue of Altaïr in Monteriggioni's basement.
With Altaïr under his command, the Assassins finally relied on the individual strength of their leader.
However, this is not Xiang Hui's concern, what Xiang Hui cares about is that the Templar who was slapped in the face this time uncharacteristically shrank up and licked his wounds quietly.
It is very unusual to prepare a little, according to the character of the Templars, even if they are beaten a little harder this time, they will not be so honest, because the activities of the Templars are not safe, depending on whether the leaders of various countries cooperate, and those who do not cooperate will be killed.
But now that they have been slapped in the face, they have not said anything, which has greatly affected the prestige of the Templars, and now according to Xiang Hui's information, there are already many countries that have clashed with the Templars.
Xiang Hui felt that either they had really changed their sex, or there was a greater conspiracy to shrink their power, and no matter how Xiang Hui looked at it, the latter was more likely.
However, Xiang Hui really couldn't understand through the analysis of the little information he had at hand, so he could only ask the Assassins to be careful, not to be bold enough to feel invincible because of a victory, but to wait until the Templars made a move and suffered heavy losses.