Chapter 27 Perish Tatar

Since the Tatars lost peace with their backer, the Jin Kingdom, they have had bad luck and ended in defeat in many battles with Temujin.However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. Although it has suffered many traumas, the strength of the four ministries is still intact.Temujin was determined to use World War I to solve these four tribes and avenge his ancestors. Of course, the more significant significance was to eliminate the Tatars, and the eastern part of the Mongolian Plateau would be his. This was a very important battle for Temujin, but instead of asking for Wang Khan's assistance, he decided to do it himself.Before the war, he made two rules.First, no booty is allowed until victory has been won.In former campaigns each tribe dismounted after defeating his enemies and took the spoils, all for himself except what was due to the Khan.Temujin's rule was to take the right to distribute the spoils into his own hands.Second, if the first attack is repelled by the enemy, you must go back to the front of the formation and make a second charge at all costs, otherwise you will be cut.

After the preparations for the war were completed, Temujin led the army westward and came to Namuleg, the eastern province of Mongolia. The four Tatars waited for a long time, and the two sides fought fiercely. Round after round, the Tatars were forced to retreat to the south. Temujin pursued them all the way to the north bank of the Ulagai Gol River. Here, he fought with Temujin to the death. After Temujin arrived, he observed calmly and found that the defensive formation adopted by the Tatars was spear-shaped.Two parts are the spear point, at the central protrusion, and the other two are at the left and right ridges of the spear point.Because there is a river behind them, which is a natural defense, they can concentrate their strength to defend the three wings without worrying about being completely surrounded; and because there is a river behind them, the Tatars all have the color of "put to death and live later" on their faces.

Temujin adopted a three-sided encirclement tactic. He divided his troops into three groups. The middle group had the least force and attacked the spear points of the Tatar formation; the other two groups had strong forces and attacked the spear ridges of the Tatar formation.This is actually a condensed version of the roundabout siege tactics. The middle path is used to attract the enemy's attention, and the two wings are the real attack force. With an order, the center began to attack, and the Tatar's protruding part easily withstood Temujin's three rounds of attacks. , the other two drifted out to both sides, and then launched a fierce attack on the two flanks of the Tatars.

At the same time, all the attacking troops in the center were thrown into the battlefield, suppressing the impact of the Tatar salient. The two flanks of the Tatars gradually shrank under the attack of Temujin's two routes. The flanks squeezed and scattered.The defensive formation of the Tatars was like a deflated ball, getting smaller and smaller. In the end, Temujin's three-way army was closely connected together, and the circle was completed. The next thing was the slaughter, the screams and neighing of the horses shook the river, the sky turned scarlet, dark clouds rolled in and covered the scarlet, and it rained red.The Tatars huddled in the encirclement, dropped their weapons, and surrendered to Temujin.The Tatar people, who have been all-powerful for nearly half a century, have since become Yunyan.

The dramatic story happened after the war.Temujin received news that someone violated his pre-war regulations and seized spoils on the battlefield privately.No one dared to take Temujin's words as a fart, except for the three princes Altan, Kuchar and Talitai. Temujin ordered people to confiscate the spoils of the three without hesitation. The three were so angry that they came to Temujin and said, "We have already given you your share, why do you want to confiscate what we deserve?" Temujin's face was livid, and he said: "I have regulations before the war. You have violated my regulations and set a bad example. If you are a prince, you will not be punished. But this time, you don't have a leg of lamb!"

The three of them wanted to make a fuss, but seeing the guards holding the handles of knives standing beside Temujin, they could only swallow their anger.The tragedy was doomed, and they thought their dignity was insulted. After a while, they hated Temujin's dictatorship, fled to King Khan, and fought against Temujin to the end. Temujin had just finished dealing with this troublesome matter, and another matter was placed on the table.The Tatars took many captives, how to deal with them? Temujin called a meeting and said: "The Tatars are our vengeance. We avenge our ancestors and kill all of them who can fight."

In fact, this is not a good idea, because there are many Tatars in his tribe, and there are many cases of intermarriage between his tribe and the Tatar tribe. The wife of his brother Gaisar is a Tatar. The mother family of the mother and younger brother Biligutai is in Tataer.Even he himself has several Tatar concubines, so this is a decision that cannot be kept secret. It was his younger brother Biligutai who deliberately leaked this decision.After the meeting was over, Biligutai returned to his tent with his head down and a solemn face. On the way, he met a prisoner of Tatar. The prisoner saw the strangeness from Beligutai's face and asked about the content of the meeting.Beligutai whispered, "Khan wants to kill all the young men in Tatar."

The prisoner opened his mouth wide and said, "Don't be so cruel!" Looking around at Bili Gutai, he whispered again: "It's absolutely true." After speaking, he left the stunned captive and walked away. It is easy for us to speculate that Bili Gutai intentionally leaked the secret. He just didn't want too many people from his mother clan to be killed or injured, so he asked them to flee as soon as possible.But the development of the matter was completely beyond his expectation. After the captive informed the clansmen of the news, the clansmen were furious.This is genocide, and there has never been such a thing on the steppe.Since he, Temujin, was so cruel, they would not be polite.

The Tatar captives suddenly launched a riot, killed the guards, ran into the valley of Xing'an Mountains, and built a stockade with the dense forest to resist Temujin. Temujin was terrified when he got the news of the prisoner riot. The first thing he thought of was that someone had leaked the news to the Tatars, and Beligutai voluntarily admitted it.Temujin was so angry that his eyes burst into flames, and he announced that the big-mouthed Biligutai would never be allowed to participate in important meetings in the future. At the same time, he ordered to attack the Tatars in the valley of Xing'an Mountains.

The mountains are densely forested and weeds are overgrown, which is not conducive to cavalry. Temujin's people can only dismount and search forward.The Tatars fought on their own, adhering to the belief that "killing one is enough, and killing two is profitable", and they fought with Temujin's people with their lives.At the cost of heavy casualties, Temujin finally quelled the riot. When beheading them, they killed the executioner with the knife hidden in their bodies.But in the end, the massacre was over.Temujin has been aggrieved for a long time because he suffered unnecessary losses, and Biligutai has been a man with his tail between his legs for a long time.

The demise of the Tatar tribe was of great significance to Temujin. A few years later, after he turned against Wang Khan and was defeated, he fled into the camp of the Tatar people. If the Tatar tribe was still there at that time, he must have become Got buns. In addition to the disobedience of the three princes who displeased Temujin and the leak of Beligutai, there were also happy events. This is the generous view of love of the Tatar sisters.