Chapter 33 213 Genghis Khan unified Mongolia

When Han Tuozhou made the Northern Expedition, the Jin Dynasty was already very corrupt.The Mongols in the north took advantage of this opportunity to become stronger. In 1206 A.D., the leaders of various Mongolian tribes held a grand gathering on the banks of the Onon River (now the Onon River, wo sound wo). He was given the title of Genghis Khan. Temujin was originally the son of Yasugai, chief of the Borjijin tribe of the Mongolian nationality.When he was young, the rulers of the Jin Dynasty practiced cruel rule over the Mongolian people, and the tribes also fought against each other. The life of the Mongolian people was very miserable.Temujin's ancestor, Anbahai, was killed by the emperor of the Jin Dynasty.

When Temujin was nine years old, Yesugei took Temujin to a friend's house for an engagement.He left Temujin at a friend's house and went home alone. After a long journey, he was so hungry that he wanted to find something to eat, when he happened to see a group of Tatar tribes holding a banquet on the grassland.He got off his horse and walked into the crowd, and according to the local custom, he participated in the Tatar banquet. Tatar and Boer have all fought enemies.Yesugai didn't expect this level, but someone from the Tataer Department recognized Ye Sugai, and secretly put poison in the food that Yesugai ate.On the way home from the banquet, Yesugei's stomach ached so badly that he realized that he had been poisoned at the banquet just now, but it was too late to regret.He rushed home through the pain, and then swallowed his breath.

He deserved to die soon, all of Bor lost his leader and broke up.The Taiyichi tribe who belonged to Yesuge also broke away from them, and took away many slaves and livestock of Yesuge.Qin Muzhen's family situation is getting worse day by day. The leader of the Taiyichi tribe was afraid that Temujin would grow up to avenge them, so he led his troops to capture Temujin and wanted to kill him. Temujin got the news and fled to a forest. Temujin hid in the forest for nine days and nine nights, without food or drink, and could not bear the hunger, so he came out.As soon as he came out of the forest, he was caught by the Tayichi people.The Taiyichi people put a wooden shackle on him and took him to various camps to show the public.One day, the leaders and common people of the Taiyichi Tribe held a banquet by the Onan River, leaving only a young guard to watch over him.Taking advantage of the guard's unpreparedness, Temujin raised the wooden shackle and knocked the guard unconscious, and escaped.

Afterwards, Temujin, his mother, younger brothers and sisters hid in the deep mountains and lived on catching marmots and voles for food, making life even more difficult. In order to restore his father's career, the young Temujin tried his best to gradually gather the separated relatives and people of their tribe.He won the battle with other tribes, and his strength gradually grew. Temujin was friends with Jamuka, the leader of another tribe.They used to hold parties under the shade of the trees during the day and sleep together at night, as close as brothers.However, when Temujin became more powerful, some of Jamuka's subordinates defected to Temujin, and Jamuka was very unhappy.Once, Jamuka's younger brother robbed Temujin's horses and was killed by Temujin's subordinates, and a conflict broke out between the two sides.Jamuka gathered the thirteen tribes he ruled, a total of 30,000 horses, to attack Temujin.

Temujin also refused to show weakness, and divided his 30,000 men into thirteen teams to resist Jamuka's attack.The two sides fought a great battle on the grassland beside the Onan River, but Temujin couldn't resist and retreated.Jamuhe killed the captured prisoners in batches.This incident aroused dissatisfaction among Jamuka's subordinates, and they all left Jamuka and went to Temujin. Although Temujin was defeated, his strength became stronger. Temujin did not forget Miguzhen, the leader of the Tatar tribe who killed his father.Not long after, Mie Guzhen offended the Jin Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty sent its prime minister Wanyan Xiang to ask Temujin to cooperate in attacking the Tataer tribe.Temujin thought that this was a good opportunity for revenge, so he flanked the Tatar tribe with the Jin soldiers, annihilated the Tatar tribe, and captured a large number of people, livestock, and luggage.

The Jin Dynasty believed that Temujin had made a contribution and appointed him as the commander of the vanguard. After that, Temujin went through several battles and wiped out several tribes on the Mongolian Plateau one after another, and finally unified the whole Mongolia. He was elected as the Great Khan by the leaders of various Mongolian tribes. This is the world-famous Genghis Khan. After Genghis Khan ascended the throne, he established a military and political system and used Mongolian characters, making Mongolia a powerful khanate.But the Jin Dynasty also regarded Mongolia as its vassal state and asked Genghis Khan to pay tribute to them.Genghis Khan was determined to change this humiliating position.

After the death of Jin Zhangzong, Prince Wanyan Yongji came to the throne and sent envoys to Mongolia to issue an edict, asking Genghis Khan to bow down and accept it.Genghis Khan asked the envoy who the new emperor was, and the envoy told him it was Yongji.Genghis Khan spat contemptuously and said: "I originally thought that the master of the Central Plains was made by a heavenly man, and such a mediocre and incompetent person is also worthy of being an emperor?" gone. After that, Genghis Khan broke with the Jin Dynasty. In 1211 AD, Genghis Khan decided to attack the Jin Dynasty on a large scale.He climbed up the mountain and prayed to the sky, saying: "The emperor of the Jin Dynasty killed my ancestor, my baby, please allow me to avenge this!" Then, he selected 3,000 elite cavalry to go south.Jin general Hu Shaohu led 300,000 Jin soldiers to resist, but was defeated by the Mongolian army.Two years later, Mongolian soldiers entered Juyongguan and besieged Zhongjing (now Beijing) of the Jin Dynasty.Genghis Khan and his four sons divided their troops into several groups, rampaging on the vast plains of Hebei, invincible.

At this time, the Jin Dynasty was very chaotic, and the gold master Wanyan Yongji was killed. The newly ascended Jin Xuanzong had to ask Genghis Khan for peace, donated a large amount of gold and silk, and married the princess to Genghis Khan.Genghis Khan withdrew his troops back. Genghis Khan defeated the Jin Dynasty and his army became stronger.In 1219 A.D., a Mongolian caravan sent by Genghis Khan to the west passed through Khwarazmo (in the east of today’s Lihai, west of the Aral Sea) and was killed by the local guards.Genghis Khan personally led an army of 200,000 Mongolians to attack Khwarazm, and then attacked westward, occupying the countries in what is now Central Asia.

When Genghis Khan led troops to the west, he once asked Xixia to send troops to help, but Xixia not only refused to send troops, but also formed an alliance with the Jin Dynasty.After Genghis Khan came back, he was determined to destroy Xixia.At the last moment of besieging Xixia's capital, he himself fell seriously ill.Knowing that he couldn't get better, he said to his generals on the hospital bed: "We are attacking the Jin Dynasty, and we have to borrow the way from the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty have a deep hatred, and they will definitely agree to us."

After Genghis Khan died, his son Wo Kuotai succeeded him as the Great Khan.According to Genghis Khan's will, Wo Kuotai borrowed a way from the Southern Song Dynasty and surrounded Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin Dynasty.In 1233 AD, the Mongolian army broke through Kaifeng, and Jin Aizong fled to Caizhou (now Runan, Henan). Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty besieged Caizhou. Jin Aizong sent envoys to seek peace with Song Lizong (the stepson of Song Ningzong, named Zhao Yun), saying: "If the Jin Dynasty is destroyed, the next step will be the Song State; if we unite with us, it will be beneficial to both Jin and Song. "

Song Lizong ignored him, and Jin Aizong had no choice but to commit suicide.In 1234 AD, the Jin Dynasty fell under the attack of the Mongolian and Song armies.