Many of my fellow males have played an impressive game, Assassin's Creed. One can play as an Assassin cornice to assassinate enemies in the game, and Assassin's Creed was inspired by the Shia Assasin sect. This sect controlled the surrounding countries by assassination, protecting its followers with strong fortresses. Their leader is also known as the "Old Man of the Mountains". But the once-mighty Assasin sect eventually perished, and it was the Mongol Western Expedition armies carrying artillery that destroyed them.
Castle in the mountains
The Assasin sect is not based on assassination at all, but on the castle where they live. Assassinations, which cannot be carried out on the table, cannot be fundamental to the establishment of a state. The Murayi state established by the Assasin sect pursued the strategy of left-handed scriptures and right-handed long swords at the beginning of its founding. More important than the long knife is the Qur'an, which draws people together under the attraction of the Quran, and only in this way can we achieve something on the Iranian plateau.
As important as the faith of nothingness is the castle. The Iranian plateau is mostly mountainous, which is the most unfavorable to the mobility of large-scale troops, and it is also the most likely to form dangerous passes. So under the convergence of faith, the Assasinites built castles all over the Iranian plateau to form control over the country. Among these castles, the Main Castle, the Alamut Fort where the Patriarch is stationed, is the most rugged. The castle is carved into the mountains, the city has many reserves, there are rivers under the castle, and the roads around the castle are also fortified as defense.
The choice of the Assasin sect was undoubtedly correct, the mountainous and dangerous terrain was not conducive to the enemy's mobility, so building a fortress to control the key points and dragging the battle was the best way to win the victory. However, Mu laiyi encountered his nemesis, the Mongols, and although the Mongol army was a nomadic people, it attached great importance to the siege of the city. Siege equipment in the Mongol army was the most advanced weapon at that time, and it can be said that the most cutting-edge technology at that time was applied to the Mongol siege equipment, including gunpowder that changed the appearance of war.
The castles on which Murayi depended would soon be tested with gunpowder, and the question now was how long would they last?
Hulagu's Expedition to the West
In 1251, the Great Khan Möngke succeeded to the throne, and in order to reward his brother Hulagu for his meritorious service, he gave him the honor of competing for the Western Arab world.
In 1252, Hulagu sent the vanguard timid Buhua to lead 10,000 people to set out first, and he himself led a large army to join him later.
Timid buhua fell into a quagmire at the beginning of entering Mulayi, and the army besieged Mulaiyi Castle for a long time. The Mongol army had to build a long siege to defend the enemy army, and timidly led the army to continue to sweep the surroundings. The Mongol besieging army was inadvertently attacked by the defending enemy, and the army suffered heavy losses, and timidly had to abandon the policy of continuing to sweep. However, even such a cowardly non-flower also annihilated 50,000 horses and horses of Mu Laiyi, greatly weakening the military potential of Mu Laiyi.
The cowardly results of the battle caused turmoil within the Assasin Sect, and Rucredin, the son of the Sect Leader, had already had a conflict with his father, and taking advantage of the internal and external centrifugal opportunity, he assassinated his father and ascended to the throne of the Sect Leader, becoming a new generation of mountain elders. At the same time as mullay internally fought for power and profit, Hulagu had led his main army to meet the cowardly Buhua, and with Hulagu came the feared Han craftsmen in the Mongol army, and in the hands of these craftsmen was gunpowder that changed the battlefield.
As soon as Hulagu arrived on the battlefield, he took down the long-attacked castle, and the news reached Rucredin's ears, and he decided to surrender. Hulagu's offer was simple: first, to destroy all the castles, and second, Toukrydin himself to surrender. But Rukreddin had no intention of surrendering, he just wanted to delay time and let the Mongols run out of food and retreat without a fight.
The destruction of the old man in the mountains
So when the Mongol army arrived at Alamut Castle, it was not welcomed but bows and arrows. Hulagu again demanded that Rucredin fulfill the surrender agreement, but Rucredin asked for more time to prepare and wanted to keep several castles as his residence. By this time Hulagu understood that Rucredin had no intention of negotiating peace and was only delaying time, Hulagu was ready to educate the unruly leader with the swords of the Mongol army.
Under the leadership of Hulagu, the Mongol army crossed other castles and headed straight for the city of Alamut, where Rukreddin lived, and more than 100,000 Mongol troops surrounded Almaty, and a fierce siege battle was about to begin. Before the battle began, there was a debate within the Mongolian army about whether to fight or not, and the Mongolian generals mostly believed that they should agree to peace, mainly because the weather had reached winter, the grain and grass of the large army were about to run out, and once the siege was unfavorable, hundreds of thousands of troops would collapse without a fight. In the end, Hulagu listened to the opinions of a few people and was determined to carry out a siege of Alamut, and the first attack of the army was The Fort of Maimenti, where Rucredin lived.
The next day the Mongol army ascended to the top of the mountain around the castle, and a series of trebuchets were erected, and when the ignited gunpowder iron bullets were thrown on the heads of the Mulaiyi soldiers, the Murai soldiers, who had never spoken of such artifacts, collapsed, and Rukridin collapsed. He fled the city and surrendered to Hulagu, who was kind to the spiritual leader of Mulayi.
Under Rukreddin's letters, the remnants of the Assasin sect surrendered, and the castles built by countless predecessors were occupied by the Mongol army, and these fortresses were immediately destroyed by the Mongol army, and the Mongols gained a foothold in the homeland of Murayi.
As for Rucredin, the key man who helped the Mongol army destroy the castle, he died of illness on the way to meet the Mongol Khan, and the end was good. The rest of the Assasin sect was not so lucky, and Hulagu forgot his promise in the blink of an eye, slaughtered the Assasin sect, young and old, and the sect declined.
However, in a sense, the slaughter of the city can not all be blamed on Hulegu, Hulegu's western expedition rarely happened, only the Assasin sect was slaughtered, the reason is that the Mongols hate the treacherous.