Chapter 79 The fourth quarter Xixia perish

In 1226 A.D., Genghis Khan personally commanded the army to conquer Xia for the sixth time, and this time the goal of the Mongolian army was to destroy Xixia.So, in the face of a dangerous situation, what would Xixia Xianzong do, who had just ascended the throne?Can he still have the art of returning to heaven? This time Genghis Khan's strategy is very clear, to pull out all the cities and strongholds of Xixia, and turn the capital of Xixia into an isolated city.The Mongolian army roamed everywhere, and basically all the cities of Xixia were occupied.Xia Xianzong's last main force of 100,000 troops, led by the famous general Wei Mingling of the Xia Kingdom, fought a decisive battle with the Mongolian army in Lingzhou. As a result, the 100,000 Xia army was almost wiped out.

The Mongols have a tradition in war. On the battlefield, if you kill a thousand people, you will hang one corpse upside down. After this battle, you can see upside down corpses everywhere on the battlefield.Wei Mingling was captured and surrendered to Mongolia. At this time, Xixia was completely out of play, leaving only the capital city alone.Genghis Khan's army surrounded Zhongxing Mansion. After the Zhongxing Mansion was besieged, Genghis Khan felt that Xixia was in the end, and there was no need to besiege such an isolated city with soldiers from all over the country, so he left his generals to surround the Zhongxing Mansion and led his own army to cut gold.As soon as Genghis Khan left, Xia Xianzong was frightened to death. It may also be that he was too relaxed, and the great sense of joy could easily make people suddenly fall ill.

A few months earlier than Xia Xianzong, his father, Emperor Shenzong, died of illness.Xia Shenzong was the root seed that caused trouble, but he ended up well.When Xia Xianzong died, the officials supported his nephew to succeed him.At this time, there is only one city left in the country, and there is no difference between the emperor and the mayor.Xianzong's nephew succeeded him as Emperor Xia Mo, and of course the last emperor no longer had a temple name.The Xixia people held the enthronement ceremony hastily in the city, and the rest was thinking about how to surrender and how to preserve the royal line.

Genghis Khan had returned to the front line at this time and personally directed Mie Xia.He spent the summer in Liupan Mountain, preparing to launch a fatal blow to Xixia.But Genghis Khan didn't need to bother, Zhongxing Mansion suffered an earthquake again.There was an earthquake in Zhongxing Mansion, and the fortifications of the city were completely destroyed.The last emperor looked at it, and I am dead. Originally, what I took over from my uncle was a mess, but now even the mess has been smashed, and I can't keep it anymore.The last emperor sent envoys out of the city to meet Genghis Khan and said that we intend to surrender.

Genghis Khan is now terminally ill, and he seems to be breathing out but not breathing in.He told his successor, Wo Kuotai, that after I die, I will not mourn in secret. If Xixia sends envoys to surrender, I will accept it immediately and enter the city quickly. future trouble.It is said that Genghis Khan died with his back against a big tree in Liupan Mountain.As soon as Genghis Khan died, the big tree he was leaning on was immediately sawed down, split in half, hollowed out in the middle, and made into a coffin. Go inside the coffin and wrap it with three gold hoops.Then the army set off to transport the coffin back to the Chariot Valley.Where this place is, no one knows, and it may never be found.Qiren Valley should be in today's Mongolia. The Chengling Mausoleum in Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia is just the tomb of Genghis Khan, and his body is not there.

When the Mongols retreated, they took a small path that no one knew about. As long as there were shepherds or lost people along the way, they bumped into the Mongol army and saw the mourning team for the Great Khan, and they were all killed.When Genghis Khan was buried, he could not afford to seal the earth, and there was no grave bag. The Mongols are very environmentally friendly. They came from the grassland and returned to the grassland.The land on the prairie is barren, and if the whole base is filled with graves, the grass will no longer grow. What will the cattle, horses, camels, and future generations eat?After burying his body in the pit, the soil was backfilled, and then thousands of horses trampled it into flat ground, sowing grass.In front of a female camel, he killed the young camel, and when he wanted to sacrifice to Genghis Khan in the coming year, he drove the old camel away, and the former friends of Genghis Khan who participated in the sacrifice followed behind.As long as the camel kneels down and howls, this place is the mausoleum of Genghis Khan.Because camels know this place, the child was killed here.Once the old camel died, there would be no way of knowing where Genghis Khan was buried. After the 1990s, American archaeologists partnered with Mongolia to find the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, but there is no news of finding it until now.Later, all the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were buried in the Chariot Valley, and all the emperors of the previous dynasties had their mausoleums. Where is the mausoleum of the Yuan Dynasty?I don't know, because they were all buried in this way.

After Genghis Khan died, the last emperor of Xixia descended.According to Genghis Khan's will, the Mongolian soldiers rushed into Zhongxing Mansion and massacred the city.Emperor Xia Mo was killed, and the Xixia royal family was completely wiped out.So far, Xixia perished.If counting from Yuan Hao's proclaiming emperor, Xixia has experienced ten emperors, 190 years.