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Seeing this, Knight Martin Ewing did not hesitate. He shot two arrows in a row, knocking the two cavalrymen off their horses and immediately left the battlefield.

Moser's team stood where they were, watching the two "fleeing" knights as quiet as the dead. A few minutes later, the two cavalrymen who were shot off their horses by Knight Ewing slowly stood up with arrows hanging on their bodies, slowly walked towards the warhorses guarding not far away, and with stiff movements, they climbed onto their horses again and returned to their own ranks.

"Lord Moser, why did you let them go back?" A knight rode up to Moser and asked in a low voice.

"Why are you in such a hurry? You can't run away. Why don't you just wait and see?"

Update later

I got stuck on another book tonight, so I'll delay it here. I'll definitely update it, but the time will be postponed. I'll start with 3,000 words. By the way, I feel that the game "Starry Sky" is worth every penny spent on 415. If you are a loyal fan of the Fallout series and the Elder Scrolls, it's a no-brainer.

Chapter 247: The Traitor

Haishar did not completely believe what Moser said. The believers of the Four Wind Gods were full of nonsense, and sowing discord had become a kind of routine. It seemed that every believer of the Four Wind Gods was on a mission to spread cholera on the earth, and they made no secret of their desire for the world to be as chaotic as possible.

As a knight of the Eagle of Order, Haishar has dealt with the followers of the Four Winds God countless times in his life. Among them, there are dull, cunning, elegant and beautiful, and ugly and unsightly. There are all kinds of them, but there is no honest and loyal one.

Among them, the Blue Wind and the Corrupt Green Wind are the best at long-term planning and misleading people's hearts.

According to the documented information of the Eagle of Order, there may be a great plague driven by the Green Wind, which can be traced back to the Plague of the Acropolis in Athens two thousand years ago.

The war between the Athenians and the Spartans caused the plague to spread at an incredible speed. The Greek historian Thucydides recorded in the History of the Peloponnesian War:

Healthy people suddenly developed severe fevers in their heads, their eyes glowed an ominous red, and soft parts of their bodies, such as their throats and tongues, began to swell, as if they had swallowed a frog. They emitted an unnatural stench and attacked everyone around them, regardless of friend or foe. We were forced to burn both the living and the dead...

Compared to the emergence of the Green Wind, which was inevitably accompanied by a large-scale plague, the impact brought by the other three Outer Gods was more obscure, at least in the early stages.

No one knows how many wars and conflicts the Scarlet Wind has secretly interfered with among humanity, nor how many conspiracies and schemes the Azure Wind has secretly instigated, leading to the downfall of dynasties. Even less does anyone know how many men and women the Dark Pink Wind has seduced into extravagance and debauchery...

However, some scholars within the Eagle of Order have always believed that some myths recorded in the Quran and the Bible can also serve as nodes for them to verify the spread of the belief in the Four Wind Gods in this world.

For example, in the famous ancient city of Sodom, when the angels of the Lord arrived in Sodom and prepared to destroy this lewd city according to the Lord's request, all the men, women, and children in the city surrounded them and asked the angels to let them do what they wanted, just because they were new faces.

If we strip away the hyperbole of religious records, this is undoubtedly what a city must have looked like when it was enveloped by the drab wind. In the end, the Lord rained sulfur and fire from heaven on Sodom and destroyed those cities and the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and everything that grew on the ground.

Suddenly, smoke rose from the entire plain like that of a furnace. The wife of Lot, the only survivor, turned into a pillar of salt just because she looked back.

The Eagle of Order is undeniable. Throughout history, the traces of the Four Wind Gods seem to be everywhere, but they are always intermittent and cannot be connected together.

When Christianity flourished, the belief in the Four Wind Gods nearly died out. Seven hundred years later, it revived, and then the Prophet Muhammad promoted Islam. Another seven hundred years later, it's the present day...

The glory of Christ is gone, the Islamic world is in constant conflict, and the faith in the God of the Four Winds has revived.

Haishar was not a scholar. He didn't know much about these things, nor did he want to know. As a competent knight, he adhered to his creed and tried his best to keep his thoughts and soul flawless and not be seduced by the power of the Four Winds.

In this regard, the Knights of the Eagle of Order always do better than the scholars. Haishar himself killed two scholars who had crossed the line too far, and often until they saw Haishar appear, they still didn't realize their mistakes...

Hayshar did not want the blood of a third scholar on his hands, but... he first had to check Ahmed's purity.

As a regional organization that has been working to eliminate the Four Wind Gods, the Eagle of Order naturally has relatively complete screening procedures, such as the Kaaba Black Stone Powder.

Haishaer once used it to screen Li Rufeng, and he passed.

As a scholar of the Eagle of Order, Ahmed had naturally participated in such a screening ceremony, but this ceremony could only determine the status at a moment's notice, so every time a knight

After returning to the fortress of the Eagle of Order from a long journey, the knights and scholars will undergo another identification ceremony.

Of course, in order to save the consumption of Kaaba Black Stone powder, when several people return together, the ritual inside the Eagle of Order will often wait for a while in a humane manner, so as to identify more people in one ceremony to prevent waste.

Thinking of this, Haishar's face became gloomy, because the night the riot broke out was the night when he, Master Ahmed, and another knight were supposed to attend a ceremony together.

If it was to evade scrutiny, Ahmed would be suspect, but if he was truly corrupt, why would he risk returning to the fortress?

Every year, knights and scholars meet with accidents while traveling. Some of them die, some go missing, and some simply try to evade their responsibilities.

The Eagle of Order is not a terrorist organization or an extremist organization. At least under the same belief, it has always adhered to a relatively enlightened internal policy. It never requires anyone to focus on their own career from beginning to end.

Of course, this does not mean that the Eagle of Order is like a public bath where you can go and leave as you please. It's just that under such high pressure in the industry itself, if someone wants to retire, after taking some confidentiality oaths, he can retire decently with the blessings of others, instead of dying from a sniper's back the day after applying.

In fact, Haishar knew the secluded addresses of four retired knights, and it was an unspoken rule for these retired old guys to tell him their secluded addresses.

They all swore that they would do anything, even their own lives, to keep the world alive in the sunshine. Although they have retired, they are still willing to carry out one last mission when needed.

But this task must be notified to them by Haishar.

Haishaer originally thought that if he was lucky enough and lived to the age where he could no longer ride a horse or wield a sword, he might leave someone a secluded address and find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to spend his remaining years.

But now, he didn't know if he still had that blessing. At this time, the gate of Aleppo was already within reach.

...

"Master Ahmed, how come you have time to come here today?" Li Rufeng, who was busy and overwhelmed, heard his personal guard report that Master Ahmed was coming to visit, and he had to take time out to meet him.

There was a trace of visible fatigue on Li Rufeng's face. He had not slept since he received the news last night that an army was approaching Aleppo.

It was already dusk outside the window. Although Li Rufeng had fought a war with the Mongols from beginning to end, he was led by Qing Gelinayan and assisted by the veteran Habashibuhua. Li Rufeng was only responsible for giving orders.

Things are different now. When Li Rufeng builds a city, he not only has to consider the war itself, but also the impact of the war.

Moreover, Li Rufeng did not want Qinggelinayan to get involved in this potential conflict unless it was absolutely necessary. On the one hand, it was not certain that the army was coming towards him. On the other hand, as a rising star among the Mongols, Li Rufeng was constantly expanding his influence.

On the other hand, Qinggeli Nayan's tuberculosis, which was exposed during the night of the attack on Mardin City, reminded people of the old Nayan who coughed and couldn't even ride a horse. This greatly undermined Qinggeli Nayan's dignity.

The most direct example is that recently more and more clan leaders have come to Aleppo City to have tea with Li Rufeng, and these people used to be frequent visitors to Qinggelinayan's tent.

Li Rufeng didn't want Qinggelinayan to get more cards at this critical juncture.

Of course, this was also because Aleppo's high-level III city defense building and historical records gave Li Rufeng great confidence. Back then, Timur also needed tens of thousands of troops to besiege the city, forcing the defenders of Aleppo to be distracted before they could attack the city. Now, wouldn't a mere team of a thousand people be just the right thing to use to establish his authority?

No matter whether this group of people were sent by the Sultan to spy on him or by the Lord of Damascus to find out his details, once they die under the city wall, they will all be bandits who are dissatisfied with his policy of suppressing bandits. At that time, he will not only go to Damascus to extort money from them, but also let Ais Baker write a letter to the Sultan to ask for credit!

Before Master Ahmed came, Li Rufeng was taking Batez and Bell to calculate how much money they would spend and how much money they would lose during the war if the war lasted for two weeks.

The latter is a number several times larger than the former. Li Rufeng could only sigh that it was no wonder that many cities would rather spend money to avoid war than strengthen their city defenses. The losses were too great.

Li Rufeng, who had a small fortune, realized that if he calculated his spending at this rate, his less than two tons of gold would only be enough to last him until this time next year...

"I heard that an army is approaching Aleppo." Ahmed sat opposite Li Rufeng and asked very seriously.

Compared to the last time he was exempted, Master Ahmed looked better this time and seemed to have fully recovered from his injuries.

"That's true, Master. You can see that the situation here is chaotic and it's not a good time to chat." For some reason, Li Rufeng felt that the scholar of the Eagle of Order in front of him seemed to have some opinions about him.

As a time traveler, Li Rufeng tends to trust his own intuition, so after the last conversation, he stopped using his tricks.

I had intended to please the other party, but I didn't expect that he would come to me again this time.

"I hope to be of assistance to the best of my ability. Besides being a scholar, I'm also a good doctor." Ahmed smiled confidently. "I guess the Panacea Elixir is proof of my ability."

"In that case, please choose a location in the city to establish a hospital to treat these patients. If you need anything, just go to Saduddinna and we'll settle the bill."

Chapter 248 Come on, no matter who you are!

For Li Rufeng, it is important to figure out who the enemy is and what their purpose is, because this will determine how much he will devote to this war.

If the warlords in the Syrian region of the Mamluk Sultanate wanted to attack him, Li Rufeng would naturally resist to the end and beat anyone who dared to attack him; if the person who attacked him was Sultan Nasir, Li Rufeng would have to fight a tacit battle with the other party, showing his strength without making the other party lose face.

But Li Rufeng never expected that the first test and the first war he faced since occupying Aleppo would be to be implicated...

"Are you sure they are followers of the Green Wind?" Li Rufeng's face looked a little ugly. As a half-informed person, Li Rufeng was naturally in a very bad mood at this time. If possible, he would rather face the attacks of the followers of the other three evil gods.

That's the wind of corruption... Even before Li Rufeng traveled through time, this was a big problem.

Haishar was silent. As a member of the Eagle of Order, according to those ancient oaths, he had the right to ask Li Rufeng to cooperate with them to annihilate these followers of the Corrupt Green Wind. They had cooperation with Timur of the Timurid Khanate and an agreement with the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid. Of course, the old Mamluk Sultan Bayergug was also indispensable.

But who could have imagined that the thriving Muslim world ten years ago would suddenly suffer such a drastic change. Three sultans who were worthy of being recorded in history all died within ten years, each leaving behind a huge mess.

The first Sultan of Bairküg to die left the throne to the young Nasir. Those warlords could bully the young master and control the government, but the Eagle of Order could not. They originally wanted to wait for Nasir to come of age before signing a new agreement with the other party, but Nasir was briefly ousted from power in the conflict with Timur.

The complex situation in the Mamluk Sultanate caused the Eagle of Order, which adhered to the principle of non-interference in secular power, to remain silent in the chaos, which may have eventually led to the subsequent chaos.

The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid died in humiliation after being captured, leaving the throne of the Ottoman region vacant for six or seven years. The princes continued to fight against each other, which was far beyond the expectations of the Eagle of Order.

Because the Ottomans were secretly supported by another secret organization, there were no large Eagle of Order strongholds within the Ottoman sphere of influence. The Eagle of Order originally thought that the chaos would end soon.

As for the Timurid Khanate... The disintegration of the Timurid Khanate was something that the Eagle of Order had anticipated, but they just watched it happen. The Conqueror Timur's attitude towards the belief in the Four Wind Gods was ambiguous, which was not welcomed by the Eagle of Order.

So in principle, no matter whether Li Rufeng now considers himself a vassal of the Timurid Khanate or the lord of the Mamluks, Hayshar, who represents the Eagle of Order organization, has the right to ask him to fight for this world.

But Haishar could only remain silent, because it was the Eagle of Order that brought the disaster, and the person who created the disaster was a former member of the Eagle of Order. Li Rufeng was more like a passerby who had not provoked anyone, but had to watch the two groups fighting in his newly bought house.

"Looks like I have to make good epidemic prevention preparations." Li Rufeng noticed Haishaer's embarrassment, reached out and patted Brother Mengjiang on the shoulder, and said righteously, "Facing the threat of the Four Wind Gods, the fate of mankind is a community. No one can stay out of it. Your business is my business."

Li Rufeng said this, but in fact he had already started to think about how to recover the losses from the Eagle of Order Organization...

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken ship still has three pounds of nails. An organization like the Eagle of Order, which has been passed down for thousands of years, will always have some money to be squeezed out. Even if there are no material benefits, don't they still have people?

You eat my food, drink my water, and use my land every day. In the future, you will use my weapons and ride my horse. This time, you borrowed my power to go to war with the believers of the Green Wind. If I have something to do in the future, will you have the nerve to say that we do not interfere with the changes in secular power?

Then don't blame me for killing you with a mouthful of salt soda...

Li Rufeng comforted Haishar, who then asked about Master Ahmed's mission and left.

Master Li began to think about how to deal with the impending threat. As a fairly qualified lord and a keyboard artist accustomed to giving orders online, Li Rufeng would not completely separate the secular world and the otherworldly world like the Eagle of Order.

Even if that group of people were followers of the Green Wind, they couldn't fly all the way from Cairo. Moreover, before this, these people had openly attacked the fortress of the Eagle of Order in Mecca.

What is Mecca? It's the holy place of the Islamic world... Such a big thing happened, and the secular world and the religious world didn't make any move at all? Impossible,

Someone must have distributed the benefits behind the scenes, and the night when the Eagle of Order was eradicated was just the final step in the plan.

And now, don't even think that you are a believer of the Green Wind. Even if you are the royal guard of the Mamluk Sultan, a team of a thousand men can't expect to come all the way here smoothly. Do you believe that the Mamluk warlords along the way will wipe out the entire team of a thousand men because of poor governance and rampant bandits?

The followers of the Green Wind must have offered enough benefits to satisfy the entire Mamluk upper echelons before they would allow such a thing to happen.

From this perspective, Li Rufeng was indeed more reassured about the Eagle of Order. Such a pure organization desperately needed the protection of a secular government. Didn't you see that in the neighboring Christian world, the Dominican Order had already raised the banner of the Inquisition and begun to amass wealth and kill people...

Comparing the two, the Eagle of Order is simply a rare treasure.

Of course, the most important thing is that Mr. Li himself is also a person in the religious community. Although it is a small religion, his teacher, the late old shaman once said that the shamans of Changshengtian have the responsibility to prevent the belief in the Four Evil Gods of the Wind from spreading in this world.

The old shaman once protected this land well, and now it is Li Rufeng's turn.

Orientals believe in repaying even a drop of kindness with a spring, not to mention that the old shaman not only saved his life, but also taught him and left him a legacy. This kindness should not only be paid back to the old shaman, but should naturally be paid back to the creatures and land he had protected.

Li Rufeng stretched and walked up to the rooftop of the lord's mansion with a wide view. He looked into the distance and smiled contemptuously. "No matter who you are, if you dare to stretch out your hand, I will chop off your claws!"

The author says:

Author's Note: I have one chapter left to write during the day. I'll sleep halfway through and post it when I'm done. I was obsessed with the stars on the 1st and 2nd, which disrupted my writing schedule and my sleep schedule. Now I'm paying the price for a moment of pleasure...

Chapter 249 You Have a Chance Today

"Ali, where is your teacher?" Haishar did not come to see Ahmed alone. He was accompanied by Knight Martin Ewing, Knight Abdul Aziz, and his attendant Sultan Rubio.

Considering that the Eagle of Order currently has only four official members in Aleppo, it can be said that they have come out in full force this time.

But Haishar really hoped that Ahmed could give him a reasonable explanation, because if there was something wrong with him, there would only be three knights and four apprentices left in the Order Eagle branch here.

The Eagle of Order organization is incomplete without scholars in charge. They can only rely on their own piety and bravery to fight the enemy.

Ali was a very smart child. He saw the hidden murderous auras of the knights and swallowed hard, but still mustered the courage to defend his teacher. "What do you want from Master Ahmed? He's currently planning to build a hospital. I can pass on any information you have."

"I'm afraid not, kid. We need to talk to Master Ahmed face to face." Haishar did not make things difficult for Ali. He just asked Rubio to take care of Ali on time.

"Haishaer, are you sure the information Moser gave us can be used as evidence to accuse Ahmed?" Knight Ewing asked seriously, "Ahmed is the last scholar around us. If this is an invalid accusation, it will have a huge impact on our future cooperation."

Although Abdul didn't say anything, he also had the same question.

Although emotionally they prefer to believe Haishar, who is also a knight, only Haishar knows about the power of the Corrupted Green Wind hidden in the panacea, Moser himself, and Moser's accusations. If this is Moser's way of sowing discord, the consequences will be disastrous.

Haishar did not answer, because he had the same question himself, so he urgently needed Ahmed to give him a clear response.

The knights walked fully armed into the courtyard temporarily occupied by Ahmed. This place originally belonged to a merchant... but now, he has taken the note from the lord's mansion to exchange for money.

Such a person would appear almost every few days, and the officials in charge of taxation and finance would get a headache every time they saw Li Rufeng's handwritten note.

Fortunately, no trouble has occurred so far, after all, Mr. Li is rich.

But now the news of the war in Aleppo has spread. Hayshar and his friends can see residents loading things onto horse-drawn carriages everywhere on the street. They all plan to leave temporarily to seek refuge.

Neither the merchants nor the native residents of Aleppo wanted to go through another siege. The last time they encountered such a thing, nine out of ten houses were empty.

On the contrary, the new immigrants are more indifferent because they have nowhere to go.

Haishar and his friends saw several women who were hired to do cleaning work in the yard. Abdul took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and divided them among them, allowing them to finish their work for the day.

"Gentlemen, there's no need to be so confrontational. Come in." Ahmed opened the window on the second floor and glanced at the knights below. "Whatever your reasons are, come up and talk. Don't let others laugh at you."

Haishar winked at Abdul and walked into the room with Knight Martin Ewing.

However, the expected accident did not happen. The room was still filled with the aroma of strong liquor. Although Master Ahmed had not directly consulted Li Rufeng about medical skills, he had also

He learned a lot of unique tips from others, such as the fact that strong liquor can be used for disinfection, and he learned it very well.

Haishar stepped on the old wooden stairs, which made a creaking sound, obviously dissatisfied with the warrior who weighed more than 130 kilograms when fully armed.

The sound also alerted Ahmed, who was on the second floor. He stood at the foot of the stairs with a broom in his hand. He looked at the two knights below and asked calmly, "What happened that made you drive away my hired servants and come to me with swords?"