Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Arafat quickly prepared two fast horses for the two messengers, and then asked one of the servants to take off their clothes.

After that, he secretly released the two men and found a scapegoat in the dungeon of the Assassins. He dressed him in the clothes of a Mongolian envoy and slashed his face, then disguised him as a Mongolian envoy who had been killed.

The assassins in Asa's new organization have a very big advantage, that is, the assassin apprentices and ordinary assassins never dare to question any orders from the master assassin, and they don't even dare to ask what kind of orders the master assassin has received.

Therefore, unless these assassin apprentices go and report to the old man in the mountain, no one will take the initiative to tell others what Arafat did. These assassin apprentices are absolutely loyal.

Soon, Arafat brought the body to the old man in the mountain.

"Great Old Man of the Mountain, I have completed your order. This is the body of one of the messengers." Arafat pointed to the body in front of him, and a trace of cold sweat ran down his forehead. At this moment, his body was shaking, for fear that the Old Man of the Mountain would sit up from the bed and come over to check the body.

But the old man in the mountain just smoked his opium, looked intoxicated, and then lay in the arms of the plump maid beside him.

"How was it? Did they struggle before they died? Did they regret offending me?" asked the old man in the mountain.

"Great Old Man of the Mountain, after the two messengers learned of your order, they immediately picked up daggers and began to kill each other. They did just as you expected." Arafat gave an answer that made the Old Man of the Mountain very satisfied.

"Hahaha! This is great, great. This is the consequence of offending me. No one can go against my will. In this land, what I say is the will of Allah." The old man in the mountains spoke with a gleam in his eyes.

Years of smoking this harmful opium have caused serious mental problems for the old man in the mountains, and now he has become extremely self-righteous.

He even has hallucinations when looking at things. No one knows how long this old man in the mountains can live.

"Great Old Man of the Mountains! Your will is above everything else, and your orders are supreme." Arafati immediately knelt on the ground and spoke.

"Ahem! Find a few people to chop this filthy body into pieces with an axe, and then throw it into the forest to be eaten by the wild beasts.

I want everyone to know that no one can go against my will, no one can contradict me, absolutely no one, hahahaha!" said the old man in the mountain with a crazy laugh.

Arafati, kneeling on the ground, nodded and took the body out. After leaving the old man's palace in the mountains, Arafati breathed a sigh of relief and felt as if he had fainted. At this time, his clothes on the back were soaked with cold sweat.

However, he still completed his final mission, which was to destroy the body. He chopped the broken body into pieces and threw it into the mountains to be taken away by wild beasts.

After doing all this, no one would notice that he had secretly let go a Mongolian envoy and a deputy envoy of the Han army.

After the two messengers left the Assassins' territory, they immediately joined up with the assassin troops outside and headed towards the Mongolian camp.

At the same time when the two were released, the Mongolian envoy who returned from Rukledin also met Zhang Dingxia himself, and he was accompanied by a master assassin.

The master assassin was left outside the tent, and Zhang Dingxia summoned his own messenger first.

"How is it? Did you complete your mission during this visit to the enemy camp?" Zhang Dingxia asked.

He was very happy that his envoy was able to come back alive and safely. The fact that he was not killed meant that the enemy had most likely accepted his proposal.

After all, given the personality of the Mongolian envoys, if the other party does not want to surrender, the Mongolian envoys will use all kinds of words to humiliate the enemy. This is common sense for the Mongolian envoys.

"Greetings, Second Prince. I have successfully sent an envoy to Prince Ruledin, and he is willing to surrender to us, but he has put forward a special condition. He has also sent a master assassin to negotiate with you." The envoy knelt on the ground and spoke to Zhang Dingxia.

"Well! What conditions did he put forward?" Zhang Dingxia asked.

"The thing is, Second Prince, after I arrived at their military camp, I was warmly received by them, and Prince Rukreddin and the assassin masters in charge also agreed to surrender.
Rukreddin said that these assassin apprentices, as well as the ordinary assassin troops, were all fanatics of the Old Man in the Mountain, and he could not change their minds at all.

They fanatically and firmly believe that the Old Man in the Mountain is the representative of Allah.

So I hope you can help him get rid of these assassin troops, so that he can surrender to you with the remaining troops and all the assassin masters, and secretly return to the Eagle's Nest to lead the way for you." The Mongolian envoy told Zhang Dingxia everything in detail, not daring to hide anything.

“Hmm! This is strange, that the officers are unable to command their own troops. However, these Assassins are indeed fanatics.

My father told me this. Bamxin, do you think what Prince Rukreddin said is true? "Zhang Dingxia nodded and asked.

He had heard of some things. There were several Assassin assassin masters in his family.

So he planned to ask for the opinion of his aide Bamsin, after all, the latter was once the master assassin of the Assassins.

“Reporting to the Second Prince, I can confirm that this matter is true. These ordinary assassins and their apprentices are all very fanatical.

They will execute the orders of the old man in the mountain at all costs. Even if the assassin master in charge of commanding them violates the orders of the old man in the mountain, they will choose to betray him without hesitation. "Bamxin nodded and said.

"So you mean we should accept his advice and destroy his assassin army?" Zhang Dingxia nodded and asked.

"Second Prince, although this matter is indeed true, I cannot guarantee whether Prince Rukreddin will help you capture the Eagle's Nest if you let him go." Bamsin said.

These assassin apprentices and ordinary assassins are indeed very fanatical, which can be proved, but what about Prince Rukreddin after he returns to his lair?

It cannot guarantee whether they will really surrender. After all, you can't expect any integrity from the people of Asahin. They are no different from bandits.

"In that case, let's meet this master assassin first and hear what he has to say." Zhang Dingxia nodded and immediately waved his hand to greet the master assassin who came from afar.

Soon, the master assassin sent by Rukledin was brought in front of Zhang Dingxia. He was a middle-aged man with a big beard who looked to be in his forties or fifties.

"Are you the man sent by Rukledin? I already know what happened. Your Wang Zhi wants to surrender to me, but he wants me to help him eliminate those assassin troops?" Zhang Dingxia asked.

"The great ruler of the East, the Sultan of Khwarezm, the son of the great Eastern monarch! I extend my most sincere greetings to you." The Master Assassin knelt on the ground and said respectfully.

"Alright! My messenger has already told me what you wanted to say. I can help you eliminate those disobedient assassin armies.

But how can you guarantee me that after I let you go safely, you can really help my army capture the Eagle's Nest?" Zhang Dingxia waved his hand and asked directly.

There was no intention of being polite to this master assassin at all.

"We can send half of our assassin masters to be hostages here and tell the old man in the mountain that we have all died in the battle." The assassin master said.

Prince Rukreddin also understood that it was not easy to gain the trust of the enemy, so he had already thought of a countermeasure.

That is to let half of the assassin masters stay in the Mongolian camp as hostages. If he really betrays, then all these people will die.

"It's not enough! Even so, I still can't believe you." Zhang Dingxia said.

"Great Eastern Commander, if you can't believe this, then we really have no other choice. Or all of us will stay in the barracks and become your prisoners." The Master Assassin waved his hand and spoke.

Anyway, the barefoot are not afraid of the ones wearing shoes. We surrender now. If you don't believe us, then we can lock us up! Then go and attack the eagle's nest yourself.

If there is no internal support in Eagle's Nest, even with the terrifying combat power of the Mongolian army, it will not be able to capture this place in a short time.

"I can give you a chance to lead part of your army back to your city, but the rest of your army must stay in my camp as prisoners, and half of the assassin masters must also stay.

Tell Rukreddin for me that if he breaks his promise to me, I will kill him." Zhang Dingxia thought for a moment and decided to agree with the master assassin's opinion.

"Honorable Eastern Commander, you will never regret your decision today. Our prince and us, the Master Assassins, surrender to you sincerely." The Master Assassin said with great joy.

"I hope so! You can rest in my military camp for one night. Tomorrow morning I will send someone to escort you back to your own military camp. We agreed to have a head-on confrontation on the battlefield in three days.

We will only annihilate your assassins and their apprentices. After we annihilate them, the rest of your troops must surrender immediately." Zhang Dingxia said.

On the other side, two messengers had just escaped.

"If you don't take revenge, you are not a gentleman. This old man in the mountains must pay the price." The Han deputy envoy said.

This was his first time to serve as an envoy abroad, and he almost got himself killed. It turned out that the job of an envoy was not easy.

"You'll get used to it. Our Mongolian envoys to these hostile countries were often humiliated, killed, had their ears cut off, their beards shaved, and even had their eyes gouged out, and then sent back.

There is no etiquette in the wars between the countries here. There is no war between two armies. There is a saying that envoys should not be killed. In fact, envoys are often killed to boost morale. "The Mongolian envoy on the side said with a smile.

If this Han deputy envoy had not been here today, he would probably have died here. Fortunately, this old man in the mountains was rather arrogant and did not regard his own people as human beings.

"In the future, it would be better to send some Khwarezmians or find some local people to serve as envoys! I don't want to do this job anymore." The prisoner said with a sigh.

He was originally from a Jiangnan noble family, and the reason he joined the Western Expedition was to gain credit.

I thought I would go further in my career in the future, but I didn't expect that I almost lost my life when I first came to this western land.

"Just get used to it. Let's go! We will return alive this time and bring back important news. The commander will definitely reward us, and there will be no more dangerous missions assigned to us in the future." The Mongolian envoy smiled and comforted the Han envoy beside him.

Because of the extremely high mortality rate among Mongolian envoys, there is also an unwritten rule.

Every time an army sets out, a group of envoys will be selected to carry out the mission.

If the envoy is killed, then you are out of luck, but if you are not killed, you will never serve as an envoy again until the end of this war.

The Han deputy envoy nodded. He had really escaped death this time. Fortunately, these Westerners were not very smart and had successfully deceived the master assassin.

"Deputy Envoy! Do you think the other team of envoys can really make Prince Rukleddin surrender?" asked the Mongolian envoy.

"This is not something we should worry about. We just need to go back and report carefully. This is just a temporary measure. I believe the second prince will definitely forgive us." said the Han envoy.

Hearing this, the Mongolian envoy nodded. The two of them did not dare to delay and rode at full speed towards the Mongolian camp.

After running all night, they finally returned to the Western Expedition Army's camp in the early hours of the morning.

And on the morning of the next day, I met Zhang Dingxia himself.

"Second Prince, this is what happened. After we arrived, these western barbarians actually had someone jump off a high platform and smashed him to pieces. They used this to threaten you." The Mongolian envoy and the Han envoy knelt on the ground together and told each other what they had seen and heard.

"Hahaha! You mean this old man in the mountains? He actually, he actually ordered his men to jump down from a building several dozen meters high, and then smashed to pieces, in order to scare you. He said that he has tens of thousands of such fearless warriors." Zhang Dingxia's mouth twitched and he spoke.

The world is so big, there are so many strange things! How could someone dare to do this in this world?

"Has the old man in the mountain gone mad? He thinks he can scare us away by asking his men to commit suicide. This is absolutely ridiculous." Guo Kan also sneered and spoke.

"Hahaha! I think the old man in the mountains is really as his son Rukleddin said, he has gone insane." A Mongolian general said with a laugh.

"I think this old man in the mountains is nothing special! Even if he doesn't have any help from inside, we can still capture this fortress with our mountain artillery." A Han army general said.

"General, no, you can't do that. We have already conducted a thorough exploration when we went up the mountain. The road up the mountain is very narrow and it is definitely easy to defend but difficult to attack. In addition, there are some ponds and wells on the top of the mountain, where some grains and crops are planted, and some livestock are raised. Neither a strong attack nor a siege is realistic." The Han envoy standing aside immediately spoke up.

Although the old man in the mountain is a complete idiot, it must be said that his fortress, Asaxin headquarters, is indeed very dangerous. If one wants to send a large army to capture it by force, the only way is to lay siege.

"Second Prince! In addition, we have also persuaded a master assassin named Arafati to surrender for you, but we told him that Rukleddin will discuss this with him in the future." said the Mongolian envoy.

"I understand. Thank you for your hard work. You have completed the initial mission this time." Zhang Dingxia waved his hand, signaling several servants to take the two envoys away and let them have a good rest.

He could naturally see that the two messengers deceived the master assassin named Arafati in order to save their lives, but Rukreddin surrendered to them in earnest, so the two were not lying.

"It seems now that this old man in the mountains is not very popular even among the Assassins. We will definitely win this battle." Guo Kan said.

"Well, let's get ready. Three days later, we will lead the army to annihilate his assassin army first." Zhang Dingxia said.

That night, Zhang Dingxia received a report from Rukledin, who expressed his willingness to leave all his servant troops and mercenary troops as hostages.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed. Three days later, Asshin's army and the Mongolian army were deployed.

More than 10,000 extremely fanatical assassins were at the front. Some of them were holding scimitars, some were holding daggers, some were holding bows and arrows, and some were holding spears. Their weapons were varied.

These people didn't even have a decent piece of armor. They were all wearing white coarse cloth and looked like farmers.

Behind them were some miscellaneous troops, some bandits and ordinary civilians, with a total armed force of more than 20,000 people.

"What a mob! Second Prince, we can annihilate them with just one charge." Guo Kan rode over and spoke.

The fighting power of these Western countries was beyond his imagination. They were extremely weak. No wonder the Mongolian army liked to march westward at every turn. It turned out that these Western countries were so weak.

"Get ready for battle. Remember, only kill the assassins in front of you. Don't worry about the miscellaneous troops behind you." Zhang Dingxia said. (End of this chapter)