Chapter 69 toughest fight

The most difficult battle of the Mongol Empire's frontal attack took place in the third column of Arahei.The third column had only 5,000 people. According to Genghis Khan's thinking at the time, 5,000 people would be enough for a frontal attack along the way, because there were no solid cities along the way, but Alahei was very unlucky. Khwarazmo, a national hero who is both wise and brave, Timur Mieli, whose copper and iron walls are several times harder to crack. In fact, Alahei's luck was not good at the beginning.When his corps advanced to the city of Benakte (in the south of Tashkent, Uzbekistan today), the envoys sent to the city to persuade them to surrender were happily executed by the guards, and their heads were shot into a sieve and thrown to Arahei.Alahei was so angry that he screamed strangely. When he was about to attack the city, something unexpected happened to him: the opponent actually opened the city gate and rushed out to fight the Mongolian army, which is famous for its field battles.Although Alahei repelled the opponent's sudden attack, he retreated more than ten miles.Only then did he ask the intelligence department to provide information, and the intelligence quickly told him that the defenders of the city were an elite force of the Khwarazmo Empire, and the guard was a famous general of the Khwarazmo Empire.Alahei reminded himself that he had to be careful.

Alahei seemed to worry too much. On the fourth day of the fortified battle, the guard of Beenakte City found that his hundreds of men could not defend the city in all directions. , died on the spot.His soldiers opened the city gate amidst the uproar of the people.Arahei divided the soldiers and the residents into two rows. The soldiers were all slaughtered, the craftsmen among the residents were forced into the artillery force, and the young people were used as cannon fodder "Hashar". "Hasha'er" is a military system devoid of human nature of Genghis Khan's Mongolian army. It is composed of people from the defeated country. People are organized into teams of thousands, teams of hundreds, and teams of ten. To put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder.After Alahei sacked the city of Benakte, he immediately marched to the northwest of Kuzen City (now Khujand, Tajikistan), where his powerful enemy Timur Mieli had been waiting for a long time.

Timur Mieli is a typical representative of the young and strong faction in the Khwarazm military circle. He is handsome, patriotic, conscientious, and clear-headed. He can make correct judgments in complex battlefield situations and win the greatest victory at the lowest cost. .Timur Mieli has been searching for information since the three columns of the Mongolian Empire started their offensive. The information made him exclaim: "The Mongols are really brave and good at fighting! It is my honor to be able to fight against such an army." His The commanders were deeply moved, and all were filled with righteous indignation. Even if they fought to the death, they would swear to defend Huzhi City to the death.

Timur Mieli began to prepare for the war. First, he moved the whole city to the inner city. He continued to build a large-scale construction day and night, and built a tall and strong castle in the middle of the Syr Darya River in the north of the city.This is a very clever method. Since the castle is at a high place, the crossbows and catapults attacking by the river cannot cause damage to the castle, but the crossbows and catapults in the castle can easily hit the enemies by the river. Arahei's forward troops were shot by random arrows by the river, causing heavy casualties.Arahei found that he couldn't organize an attack immediately because he had too few people and he didn't have many cannon fodder Hashal, so he asked Genghis Khan for reinforcements.

After Genghis Khan received this depressing information, he had no other choice but to transfer the troops of Okudei and Chagatai, who had ended the battle in Oedara City, to Huzhi City.Now, Alahei has received a huge reinforcement of 20,000 people, and at the same time, there are also 10,000 Hashars from the city of Odara.He gave the prelude to the siege with confidence, and it was naturally the cannon fodder "Hashar" who performed this unlucky task.At least 10,000 "Hasha'er" were driven by Mongolian military weapons to carry stones to fill up the shoals by the Syr Darya River. As long as they entered the range of crossbows and catapults, they could launch an attack that shook the ground.

Timur Mieli did not attack "Hashal" because those people were his compatriots, and besides, attacking them was not very useful and would consume ammunition.He took the initiative to attack and ordered twelve warships to be covered with wet felt and then smeared with wax-soaked clay, leaving only a few windows for peeping and shooting arrows. When the sun rose, he sent warships to approach the Mongols on the shore and shoot arrows at the Mongols.The Mongol fought back, of course, but the Feathered Arrows were useless against his armored warships.Timur Mieli not only shot arrows at the Mongols, but also removed the stones that had been filled into the river.So there is the following scene: at night, the Mongolian "Hasha'er" desperately moved stones into the river, and the next morning, Timur Mieli's warship cleared away the stones again. What made him even more angry was that Timur Mieli took advantage of the messy scene of "Hasha'er" carrying stones and launched several night raids. The Mongolian army was always nervous and exhausted.

Although Timur's tactics of destroying Li caused the Mongols a big headache, but his number was too small and the ships were few. The Mongols moved ten stones a day, and he could only remove one in the early morning. As time went by, the number of stones gradually increased. , filling up the banks of the Syr Darya, is continuing to stretch forward.Tamerlane knew that it was only a matter of time before the Mongols approached his fortress.He decided to retreat, put the wounded and luggage on board, and he himself led a group of soldiers aboard a super battleship, took advantage of the dark and windy night of the month, lit a torch soaring to the sky, and went down the river like lightning.

Alahei ordered to pursue, but since they had no boats, they could only pursue along the river.And whenever a large number of Mongolian soldiers appeared on the shore, Timur Mieli quickly brought the boat close to the shore and shot them with bows and arrows, just like shooting wild ducks, the arrows were worthwhile. For the first time since the Mongolian army was born, it was in such a state of embarrassment. Timur Mieli actually advanced all the way to the city of Beinakhte while being watched by more than 20,000 Mongolian troops along the coast.Here, in order to stop Timur Mieli's battleship, the Mongolian army blocked the river with iron chains in advance. Probably because the quality of the iron was not good enough, Timur Mieli miraculously cut off the iron chain and rushed to kill it. After rushing to felt's city, the Mongolian army had nothing to do with him.

This is a ridiculous picture. The Timur Mieli fleet with only a few hundred people was besieged by the Mongolian army as many as sand. At that time, Jochi was admiring his achievements in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River. When he heard that Timur Mieli was coming straight to him, he immediately set up a pontoon bridge in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River, prepared ballistas, and set up heavy troops to stand by and wait for rabbits.Timur Mieli was better than him, so he disembarked from the boat at a place before the Mongolian army set up an ambush, turned to the wilderness and continued walking.He let the troops go first, and he stayed behind. After the Mongolian army learned that he had landed, they were elated, thinking that the shore was their Mongolian territory.A small team pursued closely, and Timur Mieli turned his horse's head to actively fight. As soon as the two sides came into contact, the Mongolian army knew that they were wrong. This is an amphibian, and its combat power on land is no worse than their Mongolian army. , After many small-scale battles, because Timur Mieli had too few soldiers, in the continuous attrition war, he was left with only himself and three arrows, one of which was said to be a broken arrow.Just when he looked up to the sky and sighed, "Heaven is my death", three Mongols approached him quietly. He first pulled out the broken arrow and shot one person blind, and then said to the other two: "I have only one person left." Two arrows are just enough for the two of you to endure. If you strongly demand, I will fulfill you, but I am reluctant to use them, you better run for your lives!"

The two Mongols walked around him a few times, but they didn't dare to go forward because they were afraid of his arrow skills. In the end, they could only watch Timur flee away. His heroic story will continue, but that is for the future.The escape of Timur Mieli marked that Alahei successfully completed the task of frontal attack. The Mongol Empire army has now completely broken through the Syr Darya River and officially entered the river. The work of besieging the capital of the Khwarazm Empire is just around the corner.