Chapter 328: The Mongols and the Jurchens

Tai Qin asked, "Lord Dushi, what kind of tribe is this Mongolian tribe in the north you are talking about?" ”

"It is a branch of the current Murowei tribe, called 'Mughal Murwei', who now wanders in the land of Mobei, and two hundred years later, a tribe of Mughul Murowei named 'Qiyan' gave birth to a baby, and his father named him 'Temujin'.

When Temujin was nine years old, his father was killed by his enemies. When he grew up, he first took the position of the leader of the Qiyan tribe. Later, after several years of fighting, the Mongolian tribes were unified.

After more than ten years of hard work, he led the Mongols to unify the steppes in the north. When he was in his forties, the Mongol nobles held a general meeting at the source of the river (present-day Onen), and the kings and ministers gave Temujin the title of 'Genghis Khan'. ”

Tai Qin asked puzzledly, "Cheng, what kind of sweat?" What does this mean? ”

Du Dalei said with a smile: "It's 'Genghis Khan', in Mongolian, it means the Great Khan who has the four directions of the sea. It is similar to Tang Taizong Li Shimin's 'Heavenly Khan'.

When he was in his fifties, Khal Khan of Khorezm, a great power in the Western Regions, killed hundreds of peaceful merchants of the Mongol Khanate, and its king, Mahamat, arbitrarily killed Genghis Khan's envoy to negotiate.

This became the fuse for Genghis Khan's expedition to the west. The Mongols are a people of horses, they are born on horseback, grow up on horseback, and even die on horseback. Genghis Khan was an immediate emperor, he crossed his horse and wielded a sword to unify the Mongolian steppes, and regarded the horse's hooves as his own territory, plundering people and goods, and managing an ideal territory for his descendants, which was indeed the real purpose of Genghis Khan's westward expedition. ”

Tai Qin asked again: "The big country of the Western Regions, where is Farra or something?" ”

"It's Khorezm, it should be in the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions Protectorate, thousands of miles to the west."

Tai Qin opened his mouth and stammered: "It's so far! Tell me about the Sprinkle family, what happened later? ”

"Monk, Genghis Khan's attack on Khorezm adopted the strategy of 'clearing the border and breaking through in the middle'.

Samarkand, the new capital of Khorezm, is east of Bukhara, and the old capital of Yulong Jiechi is northwest of Bukhara. The king is stationed in the new capital, and the queen mother is rarely stationed in the old capital.

The goal of Genghis Khan's first battle was to capture border cities such as Khwarazm, and at the same time personally led the Chinese army to attack Bu Huara, the purpose was to avoid the real and attack the weak, break through from the middle, and cut off the connection between the old and new capitals of Khorezm, so that they could not take care of each other. The fiercest part of the war was the city of Tatara, where Khairkhan was captured alive. Genghis Khan, in order to avenge the slain caravan and envoys, melted silver and poured it into his eyes.

Death of King Mahamat Khorezm was quite powerful at the time, and King Sultan Mahamat was known as the conqueror of the world. He was feared in the Middle East and in the neighboring European states, and many of the principalities of Khorath were often harassed by them, so that the Goras were often auctioned off in the bazaars of Khorezm. ”

"The Middle East? European countries? Zaros? Where are all these? ”

"All thousands to the west, the Middle East is Persia and the land of great food; The countries of Europe are some of the small countries in the far west; Boris is a country in northeastern Europe, and Boris is a descendant of the Euras. ”

Tai Qin was happy: "Haha, it turns out that Lord Bao Shi is a person from Luosi!" He also said that he was of some kind of 'Russian' ethnicity, and he must have the same meaning as Ross, right? ”

"That's right, 'Russia' and 'Zaras' mean the same thing, and in ancient times it was called 'Zaras', which was later translated as 'Russia'. Boris is a descendant of the Zaras. ”

Tai Chin asked again, "How far is the land of Zaras, from here?" ”

Du Dalei thought about it and said, "It's almost ten thousand miles." ”

Tai Qin couldn't help but smack his tongue: "It's so far away!" Then Boris came to the Central Plains and had to go for several years? ”

Du Dalei smiled: "Monk, have you forgotten, I told you that there will be airplanes in the future life." Boris flew from his hometown to the Central Plains in just a few hours, not a day at all. ”

Tai Qin shook his head: "It's really incredible, there is such a device in the world, it is similar to the magic weapon of the immortal family, it can fly thousands of miles in a while, and it can hold hundreds of people inside." Lord Dushi, don't laugh at the Sprinkle family, let's continue to tell the story of Genghis Khan. ”

Du Dalei continued: "In the face of the attack of the Mongol army, King Mahamat rejected the proposal to concentrate his forces for a decisive battle, and divided his troops to control the gates, and the cities fought on their own, resulting in passive beatings.

And when the Mongol army approached, he abandoned the capital and the danger, and fled with his people, never organizing a decent resistance. According to the orders of Genghis Khan, the famous Mongol generals Jebe and Subutai led an army to pursue Mahamat. Genghis Khan demanded that they bite their prey like hounds, and that even if they hide in the mountains and islands, they must chase after them like a lightning storm. Queen Baldhan, who had taken refuge in the mountains and forests, was forced to surrender, and Mahamat, who had fled to the island, died tragically.

After the death of Mahamat, Jebe and Subutai marched north, entering the Kipchak steppe and the Aras region. Due to the disagreement between Genghis Khan's eldest son Jochi and his second son Chagatai, Yulongjie Chi could not attack it for a long time.

Genghis Khan ordered his third son, Wokotai, to be the commander of the front, and finally captured Yulongjie Chicheng. The invincible Khorezm was wiped out, the Kipchak cavalry and the Principalities of Zaras were defeated, and the area around the ancient Indus and Volga rivers became fiercely contested. Zalandin, the prince of Khorezm, led the remnants to resist, and in one fell swoop wiped out nearly 30,000 Mongol soldiers in the Battle of Baluwan. But Khorezm was gone, and Zalandin was besieged by Genghis Khan on the banks of the Shen River, and finally broke through and fled to India. That is, the current Tianzhu. ”

Taichen asked again: "Then did Genghis Khan occupy so many places later?" ”

"He died within a few years," replied, "but his four sons, who had established the four khanates, occupied these places. Later, Genghis Khan's descendants continued to expand to the west, and the four great khanates of Mongolia became a great power spanning thousands of miles across the Eurasian continent. ”

Tai Qin sighed: "Hey, I really didn't expect that these barbarians in the north could achieve such great feats. This Genghis Khan is indeed an amazing figure. I think he is much more powerful than Li Shimin. ”

Du Dalei said: "Monk, where is your compassion? You only see the exploits of the Mongols, but not their bloody slaughter.

According to the research of later scholars, Genghis Khan and his descendants should have killed tens of millions of people on several expeditions to the west. ”

"Ahh So many people were killed by the Mongols? ”

"No, the Mongols are cruel by nature, they are an army like wild beasts. Wherever they passed, wherever they dared to resist, they took it, leaving only artisans and children below the wheels, and young women, and all others, men, women, and old men. ”

The muscles on Taiqin's face twitched a few times, and he sighed: "Hey, killing people is like mustard, these Mongolians you are talking about are really like beasts." ”

Du Dalei shrugged his shoulders and said: "Monk, the barbarians in the north have always been like this, if our brothers don't come here, in one hundred and sixty years, the Great Song Dynasty will suffer a catastrophe, the two emperors will be captured by the Jurchen tribes in the north, and the prosperous Bianliang City will be reduced to a scorched earth." The Great Song Dynasty, like the Western Jin Dynasty, fled south of the Great River and rebuilt the imperial court in Hangzhou, and the entire northern region was reduced to a bloody land and fell into the hands of Hu Lu. ”

"Ahh Is there such a thing? Is this true? ”

Du Dalei nodded slowly: "It's true, one hundred and sixty years later, the Jurchen tribe in the north established the Jin State and wiped out the invincible Great Liao. They then moved south and occupied Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

The two emperors of the Zhao family were captured by the Jin soldiers, along with their queens, concubines, princesses, and clan women, all of whom were captured by the Jin soldiers and taken to the extreme north, which is now the Huanglong Mansion of the Liao State. Most of these women were ravaged to death by the Jin, and only a few survived. Both emperors of the Zhao family later died in the north and suffered humiliation. ”

Tai Chin asked, "How are there two emperors?" ”

"Monk, these two emperors are father and son, the old emperor Huizong Zhao Ji, because he was afraid that Jin Bing would catch him, passed the throne to his son Qinzong Zhao Heng, and then ran away by himself. Later, Jin Guo withdrew from the army, and Zhao Ji returned to Bianliang.

The next year, the Jin soldiers attacked again, and the father and son surrendered and became prisoners of the Jin Kingdom. These two brave people packed their wives, sisters, concubines, daughters, and nieces and sent them to the Jin army camp for the Jin soldiers' lewd pleasures. Do you think they're bastards? ”

Tai Qin was rarely angry: "Lord Du, if what you said is true, the Great Song Dynasty should indeed perish!" The Sprinkler family is a monk, and it is reasonable that they should not care about things in the world. But such a tragic thing in the world, the Sprinkle family really can't see it.

I think that the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, is also a generation of heroes, but how did he give birth to such unscrupulous descendants? It's puzzling. ”

Du Dalei said: "There is nothing strange about this, don't you know, Zhao Kuangyin did not pass the throne to his son, but his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi inherited the throne." You said that the children and grandchildren of the little white-faced Zhao Kuangyi are not all bad seeds? ”

"Why didn't Zhao Kuangyin pass the throne to his son? What does little white face mean? ”

"Haha, don't you know, more than ten years later, Zhao Kuangyin was killed by his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, so the throne fell into the hands of his younger brother's descendants. The little white face is the meaning of the bad seed, anyway, the descendants of the Zhao family are not as good as the next generation, and they are all very cowardly. Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty has existed for more than 100 years, and it has been bullied enough by the barbarians in the north. ”