Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 625: Where did the bandits come from?

[Sixty thousand versus twenty thousand, there is no advantage in me.

But the result was a huge defeat in Khwarezm, which did not even receive the first wave of Mongolia's impact.

If Mahamo's eldest son Zalandin hadn't rescued him in time, Mahamo himself would have been almost captured.

Shuchi, the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army, was worried that there were reinforcements in Khwarezm, and because the Western Liao Dynasty had not yet been completely destroyed at that time, he chose to set fire to the camp and retreat to Temujin's headquarters after breaking the Khwarizm army formation.

As a result, the Xiliao Kingdom was destroyed two years later. Maha Mo couldn't hold back the fat meat in front of him, so he took a bite without any courtesy and occupied a lot of the original territory of Xiliao, which caused a dispute over interests between the two parties. .

As a hero who can unite the grasslands, Temujin himself has always been proud of being ruthless and ruthless. He is a master who can bite dogs without suffering any loss. How could he let you, Khwarazmo, act like this?
After destroying Xiliao, Temujin wrote a sincere letter to Mahamo:

I know that you are powerful and that you have a large territory, so I am willing to talk to you. After all, "I regard you as my son."

I personally guess that Temujin may have been reading about the Three Kingdoms before writing this letter, and his understanding of having a son as if he were Sun Zhongmou came to a realistic version of having a son as if he were Mahamo.

No one knows whether Mahamo himself was right or not. After all, Khwarezm was swept into the garbage heap of history by Mongolia.

Shortly after writing the letter, Temujin entered Khwarezm under the pretext of avenging the caravan envoys.

Were there any spies in the Mongolian caravan that was killed at that time? Most likely, because the timing of Mongolia's entry into Khwarezm was extremely good.

The huge territory that Mahamo expanded in just five years brought equally huge management difficulties. In addition, Mahamo's mother, Queen Mother Tu'erhan, was very fond of intervening in government affairs. She even forced her son to dethrone his crown prince because she disliked her eldest grandson Zalandin. , and appointed her beloved grandson, who was very good at pleasing her, as the crown prince.

If Mahamo was given another five years, he might be able to sort out the annexed territories and find a balance among the conflicts within the family, but the Mongols would not give him this time.

In 1219, Mongolia officially started war with Khwarezm. Mahamo chose to set up defenses on the Syr Darya River, but they were quickly penetrated by the Mongolian army. Generals died one after another and were unable to recover. Mahamo chose to flee westward, and finally escaped. He died of illness on an unknown island in the Caspian Sea.

At this point, the Mongol army was divided into two parts. Mahamo's eldest son, Zalandin, resolutely resisted and retreated southward, causing Temujin to personally lead the army in pursuit, and finally entered India.

Subotai and Jebe were ordered to pursue Mahamo, but no trace of him was found along the way. They finally crossed the Caucasus Mountains and entered the land of Kipchak. They defeated the coalition forces of the Russian princes in Kiev, and finally the garrison turned back.

In 1225, Genghis Khan, who returned to Mobei after his first western expedition, believed that the time had come to destroy the gold.

After the Mongols had already broken through the city of Yanjing and entered Hebei, Temujin once again launched a war to exterminate the Jin in the name of Jin Xuanzong's failure to keep his promise and to flee south privately. 】

"Why is this... area so vast?"

Zhu Yuanzhang watched helplessly as the rather detailed map continued to shrink. Even the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers were only vaguely visible. Now the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty had become two palm-sized places on the easternmost side of the map.

Then a few strokes of Liao Liao extending out on the map, as well as simple color changes, outlined Hu Yuan's Western Expedition for him.

Extending all the way from Mobei to the west, it first entered the Xiliao Kingdom, and then the words Xiliao disappeared, and the huge land turned into the same color as Mongolia.

Then several more lines branched out and pointed directly at Khwarezm. After a fierce collision around the place called Samarkand, this line representing Mongolia was once again divided into two.

One group went south, chasing the name Zalandin.

One part headed west, crossed the sea and the big lake there, then went to conquer the distant places, and finally circled back.

Queen Ma seemed a bit unfazed, and even had a hint of surprise in her eyes:

"Then Hu Yuan's record is actually true, and how far does his trace end?"

Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't hide the surprise on his face:
"That record didn't say that the land in the four directions was so vast." "At the beginning, I had to study for eighty-eight years. Although I wanted to restore China, after all, Hu Yuan had been in power for a hundred years, so it could be used as a reference for governing the country. of."

Queen Ma said with a serious face:
"But you always look at the secretary of Meng Yuan carelessly, otherwise he wouldn't be like this now."

When he mentioned this, Tomorrow immediately begged for mercy:
"It's not that we can't read it, it's because it's really hard to remember Hu Yuan's name, and he said that there is a country of brothers in the far west... So why didn't he come to save his country after it was destroyed? It may not be true..."

Seeing his wife's half-smiling expression, he had no choice but to wave his hand again:
"Well, if it's true, it also shows that Hu Yuan can't manage this land of thousands of miles, and it's useless for us to think about it."

Queen Ma suddenly felt helpless:
She was proud of her beloved man who came from a humble background to dominate the world. She felt proud every time she thought about it.

But perhaps because he endured too much hardship in his early years, on the one hand, he did not hesitate to abolish the post of prime minister this year and took charge of all national affairs, regardless of his own life.

On the other hand, he is very stubborn and insists on things that are of no immediate benefit.

"Aren't you worried that in a hundred years there will be barbarians like this Mongolian coming from the west and causing trouble in the Central Plains?"

"Then we have to go through the Peking and Guanzhong passes first."

Zhu Yuanzhang was very confident when he said this:

"Didn't this young man just say that even if Genghis Khan came to surround the three armies in person, he would still be unable to reach the fortified city of Beiping."

"Then what this man said is that there is still gunpowder?"

Queen Ma remembered clearly:
"Gunpowder...I remember that the military also called the substance used in firearms as gunpowder. Since ancient times, there has also been talk of powdered medicine. It is impossible to say that it refers to this thing."

"Think about it, if the general was ten times more powerful, would the city of Beiping still be safe?"

Firearms were not uncommon among the Ming army. Empress Ma knew that her husband was also very fond of the power of these weapons. According to their style and power, the army was divided into generals, generals, generals, generals, etc.

But... "Can the general be more powerful ten times? But the military craftsman told us that the general is extremely difficult to control now. Casting ten may not make one, so how can it be more profitable?"

Zhu Yuanzhang cautiously remained skeptical.

Queen Ma was not worried and spoke in an orderly manner:

"When King Wu defeated Zhou in Muye and used his chariots to break the formation, did he ever think that the Han and Tang Dynasties would have elite cavalry covered with armor and rush into the formation?"

"When Li Weigong made a surprise attack on a snowy night, did he ever think that today there are fire blunderbuss and sharp weapons, and the soldiers can use them for ten months to defeat the elite soldiers?"

"Such changes in ordnance are all what you told me about before."

"Why do you think at this moment that there won't be anything more useful than a firecracker in the future?"

Hearing that the queen replied with his previous exclamation, Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately speechless.

"What's more..."

Queen Ma couldn't believe it either. She looked at the map carefully and asked:

"There are dangerous passes in Guanzhong and Hebei, but what if the invaders arrive from the sea?"

(End of this chapter)