Genghis Khan never praised or admired anyone easily when he undertook his first western campaign. He did, however, admire Zalandin and told his men, "In the future, when you have sons, you will all have warriors like Zalandin!" Why did Genghis Khan think so highly of Zalandin?
Studying Zalandin's life, we will find that Genghis Khan admired Zalandin because he fought an important battle, made a tragic gesture, and carried out an important action.
I. Zalandin fought an important battle. Although Khorezm was known as the strong emerging empire of the West at the time, the Khorezm Empire was still unbeatable under the powerful firepower of Genghis Khan's Mongol army. Genghis Khan's army, like a sharp sword, first took one of the largest cities of Khwarizm, Bu Huarat, and cut off the link between the old capital Yulong Jeche and the new capital Samarkand, then he sent his three sons Juchi, Chaghatai, and Wukatai to lay siege to Yulong Jeche, and he personally led his youngest son Tuo Lei to attack and take Samarkand.
In this way, living in Samarkand, the king of Huarazimo king Mahomet, had to take the family, hiding, and finally fled to a small island in the Caspian Sea, where he died. Before his death, Mahomet passed the throne to Zalandin. Zalandin was the eldest son of Mahomet, but Mahomet made his youngest son, Goodsprite Black, his successor. However, before his death, he knew that only Zalandin could help him realize his dream of restoration. Because at that time, Zalandin had made a good strategic suggestion to him, he did not accept it, may think of some regret at that moment.
Plus the fact that Zalandin was brave and strong-willed. So, in the end, he gave the throne to Zalandin. After Zalandin became king, he returned to his old capital, Yulong Jiechi. At that time, Yulong Jeche had not yet been taken by Genghis Khan's three sons. Zalandin could have organized the whole city and started a defense war. However, the general who was defending Yulongjiechi was afraid that Zalandin would take away his power and tried to kill him. Zalandin had to flee and return to Kokkiening, his residence as a prince. Here he organized 100,000 men to fight against the Mongol army.
The man in charge of the attack on G?ktürin was Mukhturk, Genghis Khan's chief magistrate and his adopted son. The Mongols had 30,000 men. Originally, 30,000 Mongols was quite a large number, but Khutul Khutul was not very good at fighting. He divided his 30,000 men into three parts to fight with Zalandin, and at the same time, in order to scare Zalandin, he put up a lot of straw men, which was recognized by Zalandin. In addition, the weather was so muddy that the Mongol cavalry could not charge up, and finally, Lostji Khudu was defeated by Zalandin. This was the first defeat of the Mongol army in the history of the First Western Expedition, and also the biggest one.
After Zalandin's defeat of the Mongols, the people of Kohinoor and even Khorasan were inspired to rise up against the Mongols. Genghis Khan had to personally lead an army to quell the rebellion. However, Genghis Khan's journey wasn't smooth. On his way to Khorasan, he encountered a strong resistance from the people of Fanyan City, and one of Genghis Khan's favorite grandsons, Mu'a Duggan, was killed in battle under the city. In the end, Genghis Khan took Fanyan, defeated Zalandin, and pacified Khorasan. However, it left a painful memory for Genghis Khan, which made Genghis Khan impressed with Zalandin.
Two, Zalandin made a sad move. After Zalandin was defeated by Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan chased Zalandin to a cliff on the banks of the Indus River. At that time, Zalandin had no way to go in front of him, and there were pursuers behind him, so it can be said that he was in a desperate situation. Genghis Khan ordered him to surrender. However, Zalandin not only did not surrender, but also made an amazing action, riding a war horse, sadly jumped off the cliff, jumped into the Indus River.
Though the Mongol army saw this, they desperately shot arrows into the river from the riverbank. But, eventually that warhorse took Zalandin and miraculously crossed the Indus River and escaped into India. It was at this time that Genghis Khan said those words of admiration for Zalandin to his men. Later, Genghis Khan was ready to raise an army to attack India, but because of the plague, and Yelu Chu Cai persuasion. So Genghis Khan finally let Zalandin a way out.
Three, Zalandin carried out an important action. The important action that Zalandin carried out was the restoration of the country. Genghis Khan withdrew his troops back to Mongolia, and launched a war against the Western Xia after the time, Zalandin ran back from India, in the Kirman, Isfahan, these places activities, these places were not under the control of the Mongols, coupled with the return of Mongolia's main army, the control of the Khorasan region of Khorasan and the weakening of the control of the Khorasan region. As a result, Zarandin struck another territory. A large area west of the Amu Darya River came under his ownership.
However, at this time, Zalandin was actually just a flash in the pan, because he did not pay attention to the construction of the country, and was militaristic and conquered all over the place, and indulged in wine and sex himself. Originally, he was a country built up entirely by the support of the people, because he was so messed up, the result was that he soon lost the hearts of the people, and no one was willing to help him to fight again. In the end, pursued by the Mongol army in the west, Zalandin fled into the Kurdistan mountains and was killed by the locals. (
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