Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

【60,000 vs. 20,000, I won’t say that I have the advantage.

But in the end, Khwarezm was defeated and couldn’t even withstand the first wave of Mongolian attack.

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If it weren’t for the timely rescue by Muhammad’s eldest son, Jalaluddin, Muhammad himself would have been almost captured.

The Mongolian commander-in-chief, Jochi, was worried that Khwarezm still had reinforcements, and the Western Liao Dynasty had not been completely destroyed at that time, so after breaking the Khwarezmian army, he chose to set fire to the camp and retreat to Temujin’s headquarters.

As a result, two years later, the Western Liao Dynasty was destroyed. Muhammad couldn’t help but take a bite of the fat meat in front of him, and occupied a lot of the original territory of the Western Liao Dynasty, which caused the two sides to have disputes over interests.

As a powerful ruler who could unify the grassland, Temujin himself was always proud of his ruthlessness. He was a man who would not suffer any loss even if he fought with a dog. How could he allow Khwarezm to jump around like this?

After destroying the Western Liao Dynasty, Temujin wrote a letter to Muhammad with sincerity:

I know you are powerful and know that you have many territories, so I am willing to talk to you nicely. After all, "I regard you as my beloved son."

Personally, I guess Temujin may have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms before writing this letter, and misunderstood the idea of ​​having a son like Sun Zhongmou, and came up with a real version of having a son like Muhammad.

No one knows whether Muhammad himself was disgusted or not, after all, Khwarezm was swept into the garbage dump of history by Mongolia.

Shortly after writing the letter, Temujin entered Khwarezm under the banner of revenge for the caravan envoys.

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

The huge territory that Muhammad expanded in just five years brought equally huge management difficulties. In addition, Muhammad's mother, Queen Mother Tuerhan, was extremely fond of interfering in government affairs. She even forced her son to abolish the position of crown prince because she did not like her eldest grandson Jalaluddin, and replaced him with her beloved grandson who was very pleasing to her.

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

In 1219, Mongolia officially went to war with Khwarezm. Muhammad chose to deploy defenses on the Syr Darya River, but was soon penetrated by the Mongolian army. The generals died in battle one after another and were unable to save the situation. Muhammad chose to flee westward and eventually died of illness on an unknown island in the Caspian Sea.

At this point, the Mongolian army was divided into two parts. Muhammad's eldest son Jalaluddin resolutely resisted and retreated southward, which led Temujin to personally lead the army to pursue and eventually enter India.

Subutai and Jebe were ordered to pursue Muhammad, but they did not see any trace of him along the way. They eventually crossed the Caucasus Mountains, entered the land of the Kipchaks, and defeated the coalition of the Russian princes in Kiev, and finally the garrison returned.

In 1225, Genghis Khan, who ended his first westward expedition and returned to Mobei, believed that the time had come to destroy the Jin Dynasty.

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

"This... How can the area be so vast?"

Zhu Yuanzhang watched the very detailed map shrinking, and even the Yangtze River and the Yellow River could only be vaguely seen. Now the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty has become two palm-sized places at the easternmost part of the map.

And then the few strokes extending from the map and the simple color changes outlined the westward expedition of the Hu Yuan Dynasty for him.

Extending all the way from Mobei to the west, first entering the Western Liao Kingdom, and then the words of Western Liao disappeared, and the vast land became the same color as Mongolia.

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

One part went south, chasing the name of Zhalantin.

One part went west, passed the Great Lake of the Nari Sea and went to the distant Tatars, and finally circled back.

Empress Ma seemed a little unsurprised, and even had a look of sudden realization in her eyes:

"The records of the Hu Yuan Dynasty are actually true, how can their traces be more than ten thousand miles away?"

Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't hide the surprise on his face:

"The records didn't say that the land in all directions is so vast."

"At the beginning, I should have read more. Although I am determined to restore China, the Hu Yuan Dynasty will last for a hundred years after all, and it can also be used as a reference for governing the country."

As Empress Ma said this, her face became serious:

"But you always read the books of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty hastily, otherwise you wouldn't be like this now."

Speaking of this, the emperor begged for mercy immediately:

"It's not that I can't read it, it's just that the name of Hu Yuan is too difficult to remember, and what's more, there are brother countries in the far west... Why didn't they come to rescue their country when it was destroyed? It may not be true..."

Seeing his wife's half-smile, he could only wave his hand helplessly again:

"Well, if it's true, it also shows that Hu Yuan can't govern this vast territory, and it's useless for us to think about it."

Empress Ma was also helpless immediately:

She was born in a humble family and ruled the world, and she was proud every time she thought of it.

But perhaps because she suffered too much in her early years, on the one hand, she didn't hesitate to abolish the position of prime minister this year in governing the country, and took charge of all state affairs, big and small, without any care for herself.

On the other hand, she was very stubborn and insisted on her own opinions on those things that she couldn't see the benefits at the moment.

"Then Baba, don't you worry that there will be Hu people like Mongolia coming from the west a hundred years later 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 personally came to surround the three armies, 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 and so on.

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 fine cavalry and armored troops charging 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 responded 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?"