However, before officially supporting Baldwin to march into the Holy City, Gawain still had to lead a team north to Melitene to "supervise" the local canal project, that is, the excavation and connection between the Comachers and Sanus rivers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The team's deputy is undoubtedly a little sunfish.

Anna, who was resting on the couch, took her husband's hand affectionately and coquettishly, "I completely agree with what you thought before, there are two main things to go this time, one is to liberate the slaves of the Crescent Armed Regiment, and speed up the correction and completion of the canal; The second is to supervise the construction of 'small towns' in the Paulianist Republic. I asked the girl from the Orson family to stamp my seal on both papers. You have to come back in two or three months, and be careful when you go to the border, I heard that some terrible 'mountain sects' have recently infiltrated and threatened to assassinate some of our dignitaries, even the chief of Danishmund. ”

The "cult of the mountains" that Anna refers to is actually the Assasin sect that originated in the Persian plateau.

At this time, this sect was still a nascent Shia sect, and it had only been a little more than ten years since its establishment, but it was very famous because of its "ancient terrorism". The leader of the sect, the suzerain, is Hassan. Root. Al-Sabah was originally a religious lecturer of the Ismaili sect, but no one knows his exact age, only that he was born in the city of Qom in the Persian desert, and as a young man traveled to Cairo and Tunisia, and later in Baghdad and the Levant, spreading ideas that were more radical than the orthodox Crescent, either expelled by imams or wanted by the army, and then Hassan simply returned to his homeland and spent 3,000 dinars to buy a castle on the southern shore of the Khazar Sea (Caspian Sea), which he named "Vulture Fort". "And become a stronghold of their own secret activities.

Legend has it that when Hassan bought the vulture castle, the original owner thought that he had given him little money, but Hassan replied, "You only need to give me a piece of cowhide to occupy the place." The greedy lord agreed, and Hassan cut the hides with a knife into strips, enclosed a huge place, and built a majestic vulture fort.

But anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that Hassan's story is nothing more than a blatant plagiarism of the legend of Dido, the ancient Carthaginian queen. Considering that Hassan had traveled around Tunisia and had adhered to the "copycat skills" that his religion had always excelled at, he applied the legend of Dido to himself and deified himself in front of his followers - anyway, most of the people who believed in Assasin were ignorant mountain people in the Persian wasteland and desert, and in their eyes there were no prophets or other imams, and Hassan was the only truth, the only wisdom, and the only god.

Later, the suzerainmaster Hassan, who was proficient in architecture, medicine, religion, mechanics, and psychology, lived in the vault of the eagle castle (it is said that he appeared once in ten years), and used the psychedelic drug "Hashish resin" (this drug can now be made by the Pauline pie, and the Holy Sister used it to show her power in front of Gawain), and sent them to expand small secret strongholds around the eagle fortress of Alamut, not only robbing passing caravans and civilians, but also carrying out assassination activities everywhere, Anyone who was sent out to assassinate was called "Assasin Martyr".

The Assasins, on the orders of the suzerain, could assassinate anyone, and with their fanaticism and skill, they spread terror everywhere around the vulture: Sunni leaders, doctrinal heretics, hired targets, and civilians who did not pay attention to the Shari'a (e.g., slaughtering animals without washing the blood on the ground).

Although it has only been established for ten years, Persia, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Armenia, Shirvan and other places have spread their terrible legends, and the "old man of the mountains, Hassan" is the number one hero who can stop children crying at night.

It is said that Gawain is now at the top of the list of "assassination targets", especially after his defeat of the Muhammad Jihadist Army on the Sebastian Plateau, Hassan who stayed in the gloomy vulture fort issued a "death notice" to Gawain.

That's what worries Anna.

Who would have thought that Gawain laughed nonchalantly, he knew in his heart: it was all bluffing. Hassan and Assasin are nothing more than terrorists who are kings of the mountain, they are all thieves, they have no modern equipment, and with the poor means of communication and planning in this era, the great guardians of Tarsus and Seleucia, who have a strong guard, will not take them to heart.

"Rest assured, Anna, if I occupy Greater Armenia and Sylvan in the future, I will be able to directly eradicate all the wild monkeys in this group of mountains. I don't have any reason to be afraid of gutter rats. ”

"Well, don't forget to protect the little sunfish." Anna's mood calmed down.

A moment later, when Agnes entered the dormitory, Gawain was already out.

Anna on the couch beckoned to Agnes to be by her side, "Don't keep thinking about revenge on the sleeping officer...... If I want to betray you, I am the mastermind. ”

"I just hate that I was betrayed by such a lowly Adigai slave girl." Agnes turned her head stubbornly.

"What kind of betrayal is she, it's just a tool in my plan - okay, even if you retaliate, don't go too far, the cost of cultivating a sleeping officer who can speak, write, and understand etiquette is not low. If you play badly, but even if it is the loss of the court of Tarsus, the barbarian will not spare you. So you still keep an eye on Gawain for me, there may be a big war in Cyprus, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Marash in the coming year, and he can't be asked to go to the north, and even his heels will float when he comes back. Also, don't let his blood flow into the belly of other girls, especially the female fox (Anna the cow is helpless), and then take the thin intestines with him. ”

So the little sunfish received Caesar's secret instructions.

After leaving the city of Tarsus, Gawain, who was riding on horseback and walking in front, saw that the little sunfish had used a full team of caravans, and he didn't know what was inside......

When the news reached the castle of Mélitane, the sleeping officer, Wen Ruomina, stood up in despair, and all the pen and paper in her hand fell to the ground inadvertently, and jumped with a sound.

Damn, who would have thought that "Master Plani" would still come. When she learned that Agnes had returned home, she was scared to death, but what could she do, she was also desperate! A mere Adigai girl slave, leaving this court is not only a shattered ideal, but also unable to live on her own.

"What should I do? Pleasing the Grand Guarantor and obtaining asylum...... The Great Patron is a just and kind master, but if I please him, if I please him, before Master Plani takes revenge on me, Caesar will definitely cut me into pieces......" Wen Ruomina hugged her head and thought hard, "For the sake of now, I ask the Lord Guarantor to marry me off as soon as possible. ”