In the winter of 1254, the third Western Expedition of the Mongols, which were feared by the countries of the Middle East and West Asia, set out, in fact, the marching operations of the Mongol army were very methodical, and the vanguard troops, the timid and the accompanying emissaries were focusing on protecting all the pastures and meadows that the subsequent troops would pass, probing the grasslands and water sources all the way and issuing orders, from the area between Hara and Lin to the eight miles of The Lost, within a depth of fifty miles, no matter who or any livestock could not enter, the cowardly did not spend traveling to Turkistan. In Khorasan and other places, this provision has also been implemented.
The 100,000-strong army of the Western Expedition marched in three corps in turn, each with 10,000 mounted archers, heavy knights accounting for 40% of the total number, and other subordinate arms, and the vast army advanced towards West Asia, passing through Alimari (i.e., Athanok, northwest of the present-day city of Huocheng, Xinjiang, China) to Turkestan (present-day Turkmenistan). However, many people say that Hulagu led a luxury tour group, because from October 1254, the army had been walking for nearly 3 years, and in the spring of 1256, the Western Expedition army marched to the state of Mulayi (that is, in present-day northern Iran), which was indeed a bit slow. Below, we will turn our attention back to the first stop of this western expedition, "Mu Lai Yi Guo", which is also translated as Mu Nai Xi, and we will introduce this country where the technology tree and skills are a little crooked.
On the shores of the Caspian Sea in the Middle Ages, in today's northern Iran, an Assasinite faction that used cottages as forts and practiced assassination skills. It is the common name of the Nizariya school, a branch of the Ismaili school of Islam, called "Mulayi" in Chinese Chinese historical records, which means "false Taoism" or "heretic" or "lost", and during the Crusades, they were called Assassins for assassinating Muslims in the Crusaders. The leader of the sect is known as the "Old Man of the Mountain" and is headquartered on the top of the peak, called the "Vulture's Nest". We often say that we are afraid of hooligans and culture, and now that a country's military strength is full of assassins, we will ask you if you are afraid or not. Because this country studies the skills of assassins such as kidnapping, assassination, intimidation, etc., it has a group of assassins who regard death as homecoming, and if the kings of neighboring countries do not pay tribute to them, the "old man in the mountains" will send assassins to assassinate them, and this assassination is often suicidal, and the assassins are extremely brave and crazy, so the monarchs of various countries are afraid. We are not afraid of frontal army battles, but who is not afraid of this kind of fierce and death-defying, highly skilled Mu laiyi assassins. So at the peak of the Assasin faction, all the forces in the Middle East have paid protection fees to the old man in the mountains on a regular basis, and everyone certainly does not believe that the king and emperor of a regime can be afraid of them, there is no doubt that they really sent people to assassinate, Saladin, Genghis Khan, etc., it is said that they also sent an elite team of 400 people to assassinate Möngke, so it caused Möngke's anger, resulting in the first target of the third western expedition is Mulayi.
So how did the "Muraiyi" cultivate a fanatical army of Assassins? The following fragments may feel very familiar with this routine after listening to it, and it is very similar to the brainwashing of a certain force, Mu Laiyi built a very luxurious and beautiful garden in the deserted valley, in which the pavilions and pavilions, golden and brilliant, decorated with countless gold and silver treasures, everywhere there are pipes circulating wine, honey, and cow's milk. The garden is full of beautiful girls of all ethnic groups, who can sing and dance, as if they were the paradise recorded in the classics. Then they adopted a group of young children from the poor and low-level people, and from an early age they carried out various martial arts training, while repeatedly brainwashing, saying that to die for the "old man in the mountains" was to die for the sake of teaching, and could rise to heaven. When these young people reached the age of twenty, they put a drug in their drinks, carried them into the garden when they were unconscious, and let them do everything in the garden, enjoying themselves, believing that they had indeed reached the paradise of heaven mentioned in the classics. After a while, they were drugged and carried out of the garden. When these reserve Murai Assassins woke up, the old man in the mountain would tell them that they would do their best for the sect and enter heaven after death. If they do not die, they can also go to heaven to live for a few days after returning from the mission and then come out to receive the mission, but these Murai assassins can not stay in heaven forever until they die in battle.
These brainwashed back-up forces. In order to return to heaven for pleasure, he did not hesitate to die when carrying out his mission, and the monarchs and nobles of all forces were very afraid of the old man in the mountains and fully agreed to his requests. As a result, the "Mulayi" once ran rampant in the Middle East for 160 years, until it was destroyed by the Hulagu army of the Western Expedition. Okay, now that we've introduced Murai, let's see where our Hulagu has gone? Why hasn't it been there yet?
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