Chapter 63 Jebe took Xiliao lightly

In March 1217, Genghis Khan held an important military meeting to discuss the issue of the Western Liao Kingdom.The Xiliao Kingdom had no problems before 1212, it was just a seemingly powerful empire in the west.But in 1212, the problem came, which was directly related to Genghis Khan.The problem is that the Western Liao Kingdom has changed its emperor, and this emperor is an outsider named Qu Chulu, who is the son of the Nannaiman Taiyang Khan who was wiped out by Genghis Khan. After Nannaiman was wiped out by Genghis Khan, Qu Chulu went into exile to the west.He has been reduced from the crown prince of a country to a blind man, and it is conceivable that his mood is gloomy. In 1208, he took dozens of ragged guards and fled westward into the border of Xiliao, and the god of fate exaggeratedly favored him.

Qu Chulu was very shrewd. When he was allowed to meet Zhilugu, the emperor of Xiliao, he asked a guard to enter the palace disguised as himself, while he stood outside the palace gate, in case something changed and he could escape quickly. Although Qu Chulu was in trouble, the prince's bearing remained unabated. When he was waiting for the guards to reply outside the palace, he attracted the attention of many people. Among them was the queen of Zhilugu.The queen twirled the Buddhist beads and called Qu Chulu to the sedan chair, examined him like a future mother-in-law seeing her son-in-law, then nodded with satisfaction, and brought Qu Chulu into the harem.

She asked Qu Chulu: "I think you have an extraordinary appearance and a magnificent bearing. You must be an extraordinary person. May I ask who are you?" Qu Chulu Weiyu shed tears first, and told his background with a soft trill.Empress Xiliao was very surprised. She didn't expect that the handsome man in front of her was actually the prince of a big country. At the same time, she was also moved by Qu Chulu's confession, so she introduced Qu Chulu to her husband Zhilugu. Zhi Lugu expressed deep sympathy for Qu Chulu's experience, and when he saw Qu Chulu's vague appearance as a young master, he asked excitedly, "What will you play?"

Qu Chulu was not interested in having fun, so he was very disappointed with Zhilugu, because he came to Xiliao to restore the motherland with the help of Xiliao.But he immediately realized with joy that Zhilugu's fun-loving character was an opportunity for him to show off his grand ambitions, and this grand ambition was to own the Xiliao Kingdom. Zhilugu seemed to be helping him secretly. A few days later, he recognized Qu Chulu as his godson, and at the same time married his daughter to his godson.Kuchuri began to implement his plan quietly. First of all, he tried his best to make friends with dignitaries in the government, and won the praise of many people in power with the method of respecting the virtuous and corporal; secondly, he asked Zhilugu to allow him to gather the Naiman tribe in exile near the Yili River and organize them into a group. In the end, he got in touch with Khwarazmo, the powerful enemy of Xiliao, and made an appointment to jointly map Xiliao. After that, he ceded several western states of Xiliao to Khwarazmo.

At that time, everyone knew that Qu Chulu was recruiting troops and plotting against the law. Only the dumb Zhi Lugu didn't believe that Qu Chulu would be so ungrateful, but soon, he had to believe it. In 1209, Siman, king of Samarkand in the Western Liao Dynasty, rebelled.Zhilugu was furious and assembled an army to attack Siman.Qu Chulu believed that the time had come, so he raised his troops to rebel, and headed straight from his residence to Husi Ordu, the capital (now Husi Ordu, Kyrgyzstan).Zhilugu was so angry that he finally believed that there was such a thing as a white-eyed wolf in the world. He hurriedly recalled the expeditionary force that attacked Siman to deal with Qu Chulu.Just under the capital city, Qu Chulu and his benefactor's army had a tragic fight, and in the end he was beaten and fled in embarrassment.

Although Qu Chulu was defeated, his vitality was still intact, and he still stared at Husi Ordu City; although Zhilugu was victorious, his doom was fast approaching him.Siman did not meet Zhilugu's expeditionary force, so he joined the Khwarazim army to easily cross the Syr Darya and attack Taluosi, an important border town in the West Liao Kingdom. flight.For unknown reasons, the allied forces of Siman and Khwarazmo did not pursue the remnants of Xiliao, but when Zhilugu saw the remnants crying for their fathers and mothers coming to the city, he was flustered.Qu Chulu seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and personally led a mobile force to bypass the town and approach the capital.After three days and nights of onslaught, the capital fell, and Qu Chulu entered the city as the supreme leader of the West Liao Kingdom. He became emperor, and Zhilu Gu was regarded as the Supreme Emperor by him.Now, Qu Chulu has reached the pinnacle of his life, rising from an exiled prince to the emperor of an empire.

However, Qu Chulu quickly proved that he was an undoubted fool.The Liao clan has always believed in Buddhism, but most of the people in the Western Liao Kingdom believe in Islam.Yelu Dashi and his successors advocated freedom of religion, so the people in the conquered territories of Xiliao could still tolerate these outsiders.After Qu Chulu ascended the throne, he ordered the people of the empire to only believe in Buddhism, and Muslims must unconditionally convert to Buddhism. Only an idiot would interfere with someone else's freedom of belief, and soon Qu Chulu was caught up in the stormy waves of Islamist resistance, and he used high-handed tactics to escort his policies.When he captured the city loyal to Zhilugu, he immediately summoned the Islamic priests in the city and ordered them to convert to Buddhism.Those Islamic priests who disagreed with the belief in Buddhism were quickly crucified on the door of the Islamic church.

Wise people have seen that Qu Chulu is sitting on the powder magazine, and it only takes a spark to send him to the arms of the Buddha of the Western Paradise.But Qu Chulu didn't realize it. When he found that most of Xiliao had become independent, and he only controlled a small amount of territory, the god of misfortune had come to him. One day, Qu Chulu sat on the dragon chair and looked towards the east. He suddenly remembered his homeland, Naiman, and Genghis Khan, who destroyed his homeland. He immediately jumped up from the dragon chair and issued a general mobilization order. The Eastern Expedition eliminated Genghis Khan and restored the Naiman Kingdom.

That is to say, when he was preparing to show his ambitions, Huodu's guerrillas and his border guards joined forces. Both of them had great ambitions, but their strength was about the same.However, they all believed in the motto "Unity is strength", and began to make continuous reconnaissance attacks on the border of the giant Mongolian kingdom. At that time, Genghis Khan was in full-scale war with Jin. After he surrendered to Jin, he first faced the issue of Mierbeg people, then the Korean Peninsula issue, and then the taiga forest issue. Xiliao who came out of the law. The war plan was quickly drawn up, and Jebe was responsible for attacking Xiliao.There is nothing difficult about this matter.Genghis Khan may have a deeper understanding of Xiliao than Qu Chulu himself. Uighur and Xiliao are neighbors. Since leaving Xiliao, he has become Genghis Khan's loyal minions and intelligence agents.Every move of Xiliao was conveyed to the Mongolian Kingdom verbatim by the Uighurs, so Genghis Khan knew that the people of Xiliao were not stable at this time, and the city was not strong. What is difficult is not the war, but the geographical environment.

From the Kerelun River to the West Liao Kingdom, the journey is 26,000 kilometers.First you have to cross the Mongolian grassland, then you have to climb the Altai Mountains at an altitude of 3,000 meters, and then you have to pass through the high and low mountains of the Tianshan Mountains, where most of the peaks are as high as 5,000 meters above sea level.Finally, they will come to Issyk-Kul Lake, 80 kilometers east of the capital of Xiliao.Difficult roads and altitude sickness are major problems that Mongolians must overcome. Genghis Khan only gave Jebe 20,000 horses, and at the same time asked the Uighurs to send 20,000 troops. Genghis Khan said to Jebe: "These 40,000 horses are enough to destroy Xiliao." Jebe replied cautiously: "It should be." Genghis Khan reminded He: "Fly the banner of religious freedom, and your soldiers don't even have to draw their swords, and Xiliao will be destroyed by his own people."

Jebe never had any doubts about Genghis Khan's words. He led the corps to enter from the western Liaodong border, and it really took most of the cities in the Western Liao Kingdom without any effort. The people in many cities shouted welcome slogans to welcome Jebe. City, this is the power of religious belief. At this time, Qu Chulu finally paid a heavy price for his interference with other people's freedom of belief. Originally, the Xiliao army was no match for the Mongolian Corps. Coupled with Jebe's "freedom of belief" political propaganda, Qu Chulu was besieged on all sides. With the help of the enemy, the Jebel Corps quickly advanced to the capital of the Western Liao Kingdom, and Qu Chulu's usual prestige disappeared.He began to get nervous, and first made up his mind to defend tenaciously. When he was still loyal to his capital garrison and strengthened the defenses, he ordered the capital to be abandoned and prepared to flee west.Just when he was in chaos, the Jebe Expeditionary Army found a weak point in the defense of the capital of Xiliao and launched a fierce attack.As expected, the capital fell, and Qu Chulu fled the city with several hundred guards before the fall. The Mongolian mopping up troops pursued him closely. When he ran to the foot of a mountain at the west end of Pamir, he was caught by a local Islamic hunter. , cut off his head and dedicated it to Jebe. Looking at this dead head, Zhebie was filled with emotion.After a person is knocked down by a powerful opponent, if he does not stand up, some people call him weak, but it will be even worse when he stands up, because the powerful opponent will knock him down again until he is killed. The second half of Qu Chulu's life was a tragedy. On the surface, he became the emperor of Xiliao. In fact, he attracted Genghis Khan's attention since he sat on the dragon chair.With Genghis Khan's strength at that time, even though Qu Chulu had the talent of a god, he could not fight against his powerful enemy. He died, and Xiliao was destroyed.Although Genghis Khan was happy, he was not elated, because he would face his next opponent, a legendary super giant, a big country regarded as the center of the world in the western world - Khwarazm. Once the Western Liao Dynasty was destroyed, the Great Mongol Kingdom bordered the Khwarazmo Kingdom, and the two powerful countries were neighbors. This has never happened in the world. Therefore, the life-and-death struggle between the Mongol Empire and Khwarazmo is destined.