Rambo's guide in the movie First Blood 3 says something impressive: This is Afghanistan, where countless people have come, but no one has been able to conquer it. The prince of the Khwarazm empire, Zaladin, will be on this land to fend off the feared Mongol army, where it will suffer its first crushing defeat.
Why is Afghanistan so hard to fight?
Why is Afghanistan so hard to fight? Even the most powerful empire in the world will suffer losses here, as can be seen by looking at several protagonists in modern times. In the 19th and 20th centuries, when the British Empire was in full swing, it attacked Afghanistan in 1839-1842, 1879-1880 and 1919, respectively, and ended in disastrous defeats. In 1979, the Soviet Union, with its strongest war machine, invaded Afghanistan and fled a decade later. In 2003, the United States invaded Afghanistan, and 16 years later, the US military is still mired in the quagmire of war. The U.S.-backed Afghan government has also been derided by the Western media as the Kabul government, meaning that it has no dominance over other regions except the capital, Kabul.
Why are these powerful countries behind afghanistan? This is also important for Afghanistan's geopolitical situation. Afghanistan is located in the center of Asia and Europe, at the intersection of East Asia, South Asia, West Asia and Central Asia, and has been a place of contention since ancient times. To the east, it is possible to enter the East Asian continent, south to enter the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean, to the west through the Iranian plateau to enter West Asia, and to the north to enter Central Asia. In a word: it is the land of four wars. Moreover, Afghanistan, despite being a land of four wars, is extremely defensive, with mountainous territory, plateaus and mountains accounting for 4/5 of the country's area, and is notoriously barren, occupying it and only by investing resources in it to maintain its rule.
The prince zalandin of Khwarazm chose the battlefield of his revenge in Afghanistan, the graveyard of the empire, is it possible for Genghis Khan to occupy Afghanistan and become the conqueror of Afghanistan?
The great defeat of The Mongols
When Genghis Khan learned that Zalandin had raised an army to resist, he immediately ordered his soldiers and horses to enter Afghanistan to annihilate Zalandin and eliminate the remnants of this Khwarazm.
Genghis Khan led a large army directly to the city of Van Yen in northern Kabul, threatening Zalandin's northern defense line, intending to annihilate Zalandin's army. Zalandin's army waited for a long time. As early as a year ago, during the siege of the city of Nishapur, Zalandin began to flee to Afghanistan, where he gathered his old troops in the name of the king and began his rebellion. At that time, his army consisted of three sides, on the one hand, the native Afghans, who were weak and small and were not the main force of Zalandin's army; on the other hand, the Zalandin army, led by the royal Amin, about 20,000 or so; on the other hand, the main Turks of Zalandin's army were about 30,000 people, and this army was led by Akalahei.
Zalandin's army was really weak to the powerful Mongol army, which added up to only 70,000 people, and was not as elite and united as the Mongol army. However, God gave Zalandin a chance, the Mongol army was trapped under the city of Fanyan, Genghis Khan's favorite grandson was also killed by the loss, and the Mongol army launched a crazy attack on Fanyan in the anger of the Great Khan.
Here Zalandin saw the possibility of combining with Fan Yan's defenders to encircle the Mongol army, but the angry Genghis Khan did not lose his mind, and he immediately ordered the general Fu Ji Ku Ku Ku to lead 30,000 Mongol cavalry south to the Kabul mountains, intending to rely on the Kabul mountains to threaten Zalandin's flank and block Zalandin's military intentions to go north to support Fan Yan.
The Mongol armies met Zalandin's army on the Baruan Plains, where a fierce battle would be fought. Zalandin divided the army into three parts, with himself leading the middle army, Amin on the right flank and Akala black on the left flank. Zalandin ordered his soldiers to dismount and fight, intending to use the formation and numerical superiority to resist the first few Mongol attacks, and then take advantage of the fatigue of the Mongol army to surround and annihilate the Mongol army.
As soon as the two armies fought, the Mongols sent a force of 10,000 people to directly attack Amin's right flank, Amin's military strength was not strong enough to defeat the strong Mongolian iron horse, Zalandin immediately ordered the whole army to support the right wing, the battle for a day the two sides had to win or lose each other, after night, the two armies had to return to the camp to rest and wait for tomorrow to fight again.
The next day, Misfortune ordered the creation of puppet soldiers to demoralize Zalandin's army. Unmoved, Zalandin ordered the army to continue fighting as it had done yesterday, and as soon as the two sides engaged, the Mongols aimed their offensive at the most courageous left wing of Akarahei yesterday, Akalahei first gathered to block the Mongol army, and the Mongol army's offensive was frustrated and then launched another offensive. When Zalandin saw this, he immediately ordered the whole army to press down, and Zalandin's army quickly surrounded the Mongol army. Although he intended to break through, there was no way to escape from the mongol army that had become a mongol army, and 30,000 Mongol iron horses were lost in the mountains of Afghanistan.
The victorious Zalandin army was full of pride, but a conflict arose between the two main generals Amin and Akalahei over a BMW, and Akalahei was humiliated and led his army to retreat east, and Zalandin's army lost half of its strength. A few days later, Genghis Khan personally led a large army to surround Zalandin's troops, and Zalandin was unable to return to heaven and fled to India with remorse