readx;? To this end, the Hittites gathered more than 20,000 troops, including 3,500 two-wheeled chariots (each chariot was equipped with one driver and two soldiers), and deployed them in and around Kadeshi Castle in concealment, intending to lure the enemy into an ambush circle and annihilate them in one fell swoop. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After staying overnight on the heights near Kadesh, Ramses II commanded the main force to attack Kadesh early the next morning, intending to capture the fort before dusk. Ramses II led the Amun legion to the front, the La-legion and the Pta legion followed behind, and the Seth legion was still stranded in the Amuru region due to its slow movement, and it was difficult to reach the battlefield for a while.

When the Amun army reached the crossing of Sabu Tuna, 8 miles south of Kadesh, they intercepted two "fugitives" from the Hittite army, who were actually Hittite "dead" Bedouin nomads who lied that the main Hittite force was still far away in Harpa, a hundred miles north of Kadesh, and pretended that the Kadeshi defenders were demoralized and weak, and feared the Egyptian army, especially the Syrian princes, who had long intended to submit to Egypt.

Ramses II believed this and immediately commanded the armies of Amun to cross the Oronte River from the crossing of Sabu Tuna and march alone to the city of Kadesh.

Upon hearing the news, Muwatar II secretly transferred the main Hittite forces to the east bank of the Oronte River, forming an encirclement and encircling the Egyptian legions. Ramses II knew from the Hittite captives he had just captured, and immediately sent messengers urging the Legions of Ra and Ptah to come to their aids.

When the Hittites reached the jungle south of Kadesh, the Hittite chariots that had been ambushed here attacked its flank unexpectedly, and the Lattic legions suffered heavy losses, and then, the Hittite army launched a fierce attack on the Egyptian army Amun Legion with 2,500 chariots, and the Egyptian soldiers were crushed at the touch of a button, scattered and fled for their lives, and Ramses II, who was in a heavy siege, under the cover of the guards, broke left and right, resisted hard, and prayed for the protection of the god Amun, and also released the protective war lion to "protect".

At this critical moment, the Seth Legion, which had remained in the southern Amuru during the Egyptian expedition north, arrived. This support army was arranged in three lines, the first line was dominated by chariots and covered by light infantry, the second line was infantry, and the third line of infantry and chariots were half each, and suddenly appeared behind the Hittite army, attacked the Hittite army, and rescued Ramses II from the crisis.

Tsimino recounts: "It was thanks to two unexpected events that allowed Ramses II to retreat: first, the Hittite soldiers were so busy plundering the Egyptian army that they forgot about the victorious pursuit of the enemy, and secondly, the follow-up troops of the pharaoh caught up in time to rescue Ramses II and his soldiers." ”

The Egyptian army launched 6 charges in a row, driving a large number of Heckish chariots into the river. At this point, the tide of the battle was turned around: the Hittites, who should have won easily, were in a difficult situation.

The Hittite king also sent additional chariots into the battlefield to charge the Egyptian army, and ordered the 8,000 defenders of the fortress to make a short attack and cooperate, and the battle was fierce.

At dusk, the vanguard of the Egyptian Ptah Regiment arrived and joined the battle. At night, the Hittite army retreated to the fortress, and the battle ended, and the two sides were evenly matched, and the victory was not scored. The result of the war was a draw, and both sides suffered heavy losses and could not afford to fight again. This forced Ramses II to abandon his plans to capture Kadesh.

"The truth may not be entirely true," Zimino said. Although Muattari II lost many of his heavy chariots (more numerous but more difficult to maneuver than the Egyptians), his soldiers were almost unscathed. But for Ramses II, the Hittite raid cost him at least one detachment. ”

There were other problems on both sides: the Assyrian threat to the Hittites, the Libyan and maritime peoples to Egypt, and the difficulties within the two countries. Thus, the Battle of Kadesh actually marked the end of the war for hegemony between Egypt and the Hittites.

After the Battle of Kadesh, Egypt's offensive was thwarted, and the Syrian and Canaanite (Palestinian) princes rebelled against Egypt.

In the 16 years that followed, the wars dragged on, but on a relatively small scale. Ramses II learned the lesson of the Battle of Kadesh and adopted a strategy of steady advance, returning to the Oronte River, but the Hittites adopted the strategy of holding on to the castle and avoiding the battle, and neither side could achieve a decisive victory. The long-term attrition of the war has made the two sides unable to fight again.

While Muwatari II was busy with the war with Egypt, the new Assyrian king, Salmanesel I, seized the opportunity to form an alliance with Egypt and invade Mitanni again, forcibly seizing part of the land and entering the Anatolian periphery along the source of the Euphrates River.

Moorhilli III, reign: years. Also known as Urshi Tshub>, Mu'hatari II's son Murshili III succeeded to the Hittite throne and was the ninth king of the new Hittite kingdom.

Hatushili III, reigned: years.

In the same year, Murshili II's son and uncle of Murshili III, Hatuhili III, rebelled, and after a short civil war, usurped the throne of his nephew Urshi Teshup and exiled him, becoming the tenth king of the new Hittite kingdom.

In the same year, King Vasashatta of Mitanni turned to the Hittites for help.

However, the Hittite kingdom was in the midst of a change of dynasty, and Hattuhili III was unable to send troops because the domestic situation was not yet calm, so he only gave Vasashatta a sum of money, but this did not help Mitanni at all.

Assyria had become powerful and posed a serious threat to the Hittites, who were still at war with Egypt.

Ramses II was the last powerful pharaoh of the ancient Egyptian military empire, when the Hittites were also in their heyday. The decades-long military rivalry between the two sides has seriously weakened the strength of both sides.

Egypt did not achieve its goal of restoring its Asian dependencies, and Ramses II's successors increasingly faced internal and external difficulties. The migration of the "sea peoples" from Asia Minor in the Aegean Sea, echoing the invasion of the Libyan tribes, increasingly shook the rule of the pharaohs, and the once-powerful new kingdom gradually fell into disintegration.

Although the Hittites occupied most of Syria, they once dominated Western Asia. However, after the war with Egypt, the already shaky economic foundation was further shaken, and it soon began to decline.