Chapter 70 God's Whip

When the three-way column of the Mongolian Corps launched an attack on the front of the Syr Darya River and attracted Mahamo's attention, Genghis Khan led the main force across the "Red Desert" without a sound, and suddenly appeared behind Mahamo in early March 1220.Genghis Khan's regiment first arrived at the city of Saernuk on the left bank of the Syr Darya River (now north of Samarkand, Uzbekistan). Block out the sun.At the same time, all 50,000 horses were ordered to gather in front of Selnuk City, forming an extremely congested scene.The defenders of Selnuk City had never seen such a formation in their life, and they were so frightened that they went limp and hurriedly supported the city wall.

According to his usual practice, Genghis Khan sent an Islamic cleric into the city to persuade him to surrender.As soon as the Islamic cleric entered the city, he said domineeringly: "Drop your weapons and avoid a terrible disaster, do you understand?" There is a hardliner in the city, and he will be disembowelled if he draws out the Arabian machete.He hastily shouted: "Who am I? I am a Muslim, and I am the son of a Muslim. I have come as an envoy by the order of Genghis Khan to save you from the abyss of destruction. Genghis Khan is just outside the city, and the war is imminent." If you dare to resist, even if you spit at the Mongolian army, your city will be razed to the ground in an instant, you will become dead bodies, and your wives and children will become slaves. If you follow my advice, Obediently obey Genghis Khan's orders, and your lives and properties will be protected."

The defenders of Sernuk City and the respected Muslim elders had been frightened by the Mongols who were like sand outside the city, so they had to agree to surrender.Genghis Khan sent people into the city, exempted everyone from the death penalty, and then ordered everyone in the city to go outside the city. He destroyed those annoying walls and stuffed a group of young and middle-aged men into the Khashaer team. These people must be There is no return.It is ridiculous that someone actually changed the city to "Kudulu Bali", which means "City of Happiness". The vanguard of Genghis Khan's army, led by countless enthusiastic leaders in Khwarazmo, took a shortcut and quickly came to Neer City (now Nurata, Uzbekistan).When approaching the city of Naer, there were several gardens. In order to confuse the defenders, the vanguard officer ordered the soldiers to cut wood for ladders, and marched slowly in front of the horse team holding the ladders.The defenders of Ne'er City thought it was a group of businessmen selling ladders, so they didn't care.When the group of businessmen came to the city and threw away their ladders, the entire city of Ne'er was completely besieged.

Genghis Khan's vanguard officials sent people into the city to persuade them to surrender. As expected, the city was divided into two factions, one said that they should surrender, and the other said that they should not be sorry for Mahamo.Finally, the former faction gained the upper hand, opened the city gate and surrendered.The condition they put forward was that the Mongolian army could not enter the city, and they contributed food and grass to show their obedience. Genghis Khan's vanguard agreed to their terms of surrender and marched around the city.Soon, Genghis Khan also came to the city, and the residents of Ne'er City rushed out to greet him. Genghis Khan asked, "My vanguard has passed, why haven't you been burned?"

The residents of Ne'er City replied: "Because we know the current affairs and have an agreement with your vanguard officials not to enter the city, we will use our resources to please the Great Khan." Genghis Khan was very happy, and he also bypassed the city and headed for Bukhara. At the end of March 1220, Genghis Khan's army appeared under the city of Bukhara in Khwarazmo like a heavenly soldier. "Bukhara" means the academic center, and it is one of the holy places in the Islamic world. At the same time, it is in the middle of Samarkand, the new capital of Khwarizm, and Yulongjiechi, the old capital, with a very important strategic position.The city wall is solid, and the city has twelve gates, which are divided into inner and outer cities, and the moat is one person deep.A 20,000-strong Khwarazim elite Kangli regiment guarded it intently.

When the news of Genghis Khan's appearance under the city of Bukhara reached Samarkand, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue, and Mahamo almost fell off his chair.How could the king of a country, and a big country, act in such a panic? The reason is very simple. Samarkand had no troops at that time.So, where did all the troops in Samarkand go?This matter started half a month ago. Half a month ago, news of the defeat of the defense lines on the Syr Darya came one after another, and Mahamo immediately sent half of the troops in Samarkand to support the defense line of the Syr Darya.But a few days later, a reliable report came that a Mongolian corps appeared 300 kilometers southeast of Samarkand. As you know, this is the Jebe corps that implemented a big detour.Mahathir sent the other half of Samarkand's forces to meet this new threat.So when Genghis Khan came to Bukhara, Samarkand had less than 30,000 troops.

The danger was clear, and Genghis Khan and Jebe used a pincer offensive against Samarkand, slowly encircling it.He had only one way to go, to break out of the encirclement, go outside the circle to gather troops, and Xu Tu recovered.He still insisted on the original view that nomads could not last long, and they would inevitably retreat after being plundered.The cities of Bukhara and Samarkand are extremely strong and will surely last for a long time.So he took only a thousand guards, went south from Samarkand, and retreated to Balk in northern Afghanistan today.Here, after he breathed and stabilized, he recruited troops while paying attention to the development of the situation.

The development of the situation was extremely unfavorable to him and his empire. As soon as Genghis Khan arrived at the city of Bukhara, he launched a violent attack, day and night, for seven consecutive days.All the advanced siege equipment went to the battlefield, and the people in Bukhara were terrified. The guard in Bukhara is Kuok Khan. It is said that he is a Mongolian. He once participated in the war against Genghis Khan in the grassland hegemony.After gritting his teeth and resisting for three days and nights, Kuok Khan was physically and mentally exhausted, but he did not think about surrendering, because Mahamo treated him well, gave him high officials and rich salary, and let him defend such an important city. He has the Mongols " The noble sentiment of dying for the confidant, so he decided to fight to the end.

Strangely, the Mongols suddenly stopped attacking and withdrew an army at one gate.The generals of Kuok Khan came to ask for escape, and the route of escape was the city gate where the Mongols withdrew their troops. Kuok Khan shook his head desperately and said, "This is a trick. Genghis Khan is best at using this trick." A general said dejectedly: "Even if it is a trick, it is better than being besieged and dying in the city. Do you have any other good way?" Kuok Khan didn't, and he didn't have the power to gather people's hearts, so he watched the main force open the city gate and escape under the cover of night.Seeing that the general situation was over, he and 400 guards abandoned the outer city and entered the inner city for defense.

The greatest misfortune in life is that, seeing a problem, there is no way to solve it. Kuok Khan is right, this is exactly Genghis Khan's "surrounding three and missing one" tactic.Give a person in the dark a little light, and that person will rush towards the light excitedly, and it is inevitable to fall into the trap.When he learned that the strategy was successful, Genghis Khan ordered Tuo Lei to lead the main force to chase down the Bukhara deserters.When Tuo Lei hurriedly marched to the Amu Darya River, the deserters in Bukhara were preparing to cross the river. Tuo Lei launched a full-scale attack. More than 10,000 Khwarazmi soldiers were massacred on the Amu Darya River, and the Amu Darya River was stained red with blood.

When Tuo Lei massacred the enemy, Genghis Khan was welcomed into the holy city by the Muslim elders in Bukhara with flowers and applause.When he heard that there were still people in the inner city who were stubbornly resisting, he immediately set up trebuchets and crossbows, and blasted the inner city to pieces in front of the residents of Bukhara. Kok Khan and his 400-man guard died in the collapsed Under the earthen walls, the city of Bukhara fell completely. After confirming his safety, Genghis Khan inspected the inner city on horseback, and then came to the gate of the Great Mosque. He asked the Muslim elders, "Is this the palace of Mahmood?" An elder with a gray beard answered him: "This is the temple of Allah!" Genghis Khan sneered, and rode into the mosque along the expensive felt.Next to a two-meter-high hidden stone platform, he jumped off his horse, and then quickly walked up to the altar where the elders preached. The guards surrounded him tightly, and the Islamic elders tightly surrounded the altar , They don't know what the barbarian's intentions and what he wants to do when he ascends the altar. Genghis Khan glanced at the elders in the audience, raised a finger, and pointed to an elder's turban: "Why do you wrap so much cloth around your head?" Under the questioning of the translator, the Muslim elder replied: "I have been to Mecca on a pilgrimage and paid homage to Muhammad's tomb, so I am qualified to wear such a large headscarf." Genghis Khan laughed and pointed his horse whip at his head: "You guys, you still go to such a distant place. If you have the heart, you can worship Allah everywhere." The Muslim elders opened their mouths in surprise and remained silent.Genghis Khan put on a straight face, with a murderous look, and said the ancient Genghis Khan's instruction: "Your king Mahamo has sinned like a mountain, and I am the punishment and whip of heaven to punish him severely. The same is true for you. Seriously, if you are innocent, why did God send me to punish you?" The mouths of the Muslim elders began to expand, and they were out of their wits, for fear that their heads would fall to the ground if the barbarian flicked his horsewhip lightly.But Genghis Khan didn't do this, he ordered these elders to feed his soldiers' horses, and when he was told that there was no manger, he ordered the elders to empty the boxes containing Islamic books and use them as mangers. An hour later, Genghis Khan left the city. Before leaving, he ordered the rich to hand over their treasures, and then drove 30,000 people from the city to slaughter outside the city.At the same time, they set fire to the city, leaving only the mosque for posterity. It may be to humiliate the group of Muslim elders on purpose. He asked the Mongolian soldiers to invite the singing girls in the city to the mosque to dance to clarify the shadows.A Muslim elder couldn't believe what was happening before him and said, "Am I dreaming?" The Mongolian soldier whipped him and said, "Pour the wine quickly!" Genghis Khan's cruelty to the city of Bukhara aroused fiery echoes in Khwarazm.A citizen of Bukhara escaped from the disaster and was asked about the fate of the city of Bukhara. He replied in concise language: "They come, they destroy, they burn, they kill, they rob, and they leave. .” He should have added: "Genghis Khan said that we are sinners and he is the whip." People call Genghis Khan and his great Mongolian country "the whip of God", and this is the source.