Chapter 58: The War between the Hittites and Egypt

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Mitanni's army was defeated, and King Tushrata saw that the situation was not good, and fled from Vashukani, fleeing with only part of his army, and even the members of the royal family did not care to take it with him. The generals who remained behind could only keep the city intact and watched as the Hittites plundered the periphery of the capital.

Supiruliuma I claimed to have plundered the region and brought back the Hittites, booty, captives, cattle, sheep, and horses. He also claimed that the Mitanni king, Tushrata, had fled from Vashukani, but apparently he had failed to capture the capital. However, the war significantly weakened Mitanni's national power, but it did not cause Mitanni to have an existential crisis.

Mitanni was the most powerful country in Mesopotamia at that time, so it was impossible to be captured by the Hittites at one time, and there were still many forces supporting the king Tushratha, and the Hittites had to withdraw from the Washukani region under the influence of resistance, but in order to weaken Mitanni, the Hittites supported Tushrata's younger brother Artatama II in the city of Washukani as the new king, so that Mitanni was divided, and Mitanni began to decline from then on.

Artatama II, the younger brother of Tushrata who remained in Vashukani, signed a treaty with Supiluluma I recognizing the Hittites' legitimate possession of the occupied western part of Syria in exchange for the Hittite's withdrawal from Washukani and support Artatama II as the new Mitanni king.

Unable to return to Vashukani, Tushrata began to establish power in Taitu, and in order to win hearts and minds, he threatened the Hittites not to cross the Euphrates and damage every tree of Mitanni.

In fact, the Hittites had no idea of establishing a permanent rule on the east bank of the Euphrates. So there was no direct conflict with Tushrata. However, it continued to support Artatama II in his war with Tushrata.

As a result, Artatama II, who remained in Vashukani, and Tushrata, who fled from Vashukani, began a civil war for the dominance of the Mitanni Kingdom.

After Mitanni's threat was lifted, Supiruliuma I resumed the campaign in the Syrian direction.

As a result of the Ehatun reforms, Egypt did not pay attention to foreign wars, and as a result, some of the Western Asian dependencies of Syria and Canaan (Palestine) became independent and turned to the Hittites. The Hittites, under the leadership of King Supiluluma I, actively advanced into southern Syria, gradually controlling most of Syria as far south as Damascus, and even the Hittite forces entered Canaan. It dealt a heavy blow to Egypt's vested interests in the region.

Supiruliuma I claimed to have conquered a vast territory stretching from Mount Lebanon to the banks of the Euphrates.

And Babylon remained in the hands of the Hittites, traditional allies of the Kassites, which used Supiruuma I as the largest arbiter of power in the known world (with the exception of Egypt and Assyria).

By this time, Supiruliuuma I had reached his heyday, after which the Hittites were gradually locked in a two-front battle on the southern (Egyptian) and eastern (Assyrian) fronts.

During the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egypt began to try to regain control of the neglected Syrian region during the Eheatun period, when Egypt invented a Tutankhamun chariot, a chariot used during the Tutankhamun period that could gallop at high speed on the sand dunes, it was a super chariot of the time, and the professional theoretical basis involved in the design between the wheels, wheel hubs, bearings, and the body and ox yoke, marking the engineering skills of the Egyptian charioteers in Tutankhamun's time had reached an astonishing level. This is a type of chariot that can be compared to the Mitanni and Hittite chariots.

Tutankhamun was a military commander who led the wars with the Hittites in Canaan and Syria, under the command of the general Horen Haib. Tutankhamun had launched an offensive against the Hittites in Syria and had won several battles.

The widow of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Anhosenamun, secretly wrote to the Hittite king Shupiruliuuma I because of Tutankhamun's sudden death, asking the Hittites to send a prince to marry her, and she could take the Egyptian throne as a dowry.

The Hittites were at war with Egypt, but due to Egypt's strength, they have not made much progress in Syria. After receiving the secret letter, he was overjoyed, believing that this was the most effective way to get Egypt, and immediately sent a prince to Thebes, the capital of Egypt, without stopping.

When the Manchu patriarchs saw the Hittite prince coming, they understood Anhosenammon's thoughts and were indignant. The Hittite state was powerful, and once its prince became the pharaoh of Egypt, he would definitely oust the old ministers from power with the support of the Hittite, and even Egypt would become the Hittite sphere of influence, which was unacceptable in the eyes of the proud Egyptians.

The senators of Thebes elected Ayi as pharaoh and forcibly married Anhosenamun. And the main obstacle to marrying her was the Hittite prince, so one night, the Hittite prince was assassinated.

Seeing this, Anho Sennamon knew that the general trend had gone, so he had no choice but to marry Ayi. Itnut Ayi gained legal status and became the pharaoh of Egypt.

When the Hittite king saw that stealing chickens and rice had not been lost, and that he had also lost his favorite young son, he was angry and immediately mobilized the whole country to invade Syria. The great general Horenhaib faced great pressure from the front, and in order to obtain logistical support from Egypt, he had to recognize Ayi's status as a pharaoh, and at the same time, Ayi married his second daughter to Horenhaib in order to appease Horenhaib. Then a steady stream of material and military supplies entered the army of Khorenheib.

The two sides waged a four-year war in Syria that left the region starving, leaving many bodies unburied, and eventually plague. The armies of both sides were also unable to fight again due to the plague.

This was followed by a coup d'état by Horenhayb who became the pharaoh of Egypt.

After his accession to the throne, Khorenhayb re-led the army in an expedition to Syria and strengthened Egypt's border forces threatened by the Hittites.

As the Hittites fought with Egypt over Syria, Mitanni began to be ignored by the Hittites, and Assyria's influence grew.

As the Mitanni Civil War continued, Mitanni's influence in Assyria waned.

Tushratan was increasingly disadvantaged in the fight against Artama II, and turned to Egypt, a traditional ally, for help.

In order to win Egypt's support, Tushrata sent his daughter Tatu Hopa (or Tatukipa as Tatukippa) to Egypt to marry Ehatun.

However, at that time, the rule of Ekhatun of Egypt was coming to an end, and he was only focused on the Reformation, and he was unable or unwilling to send troops to interfere in Mitanni's internal affairs.