There is a poem of the Mongols that reads: "The hero is twelve thousand, and five years to destroy Persia." The fast horse galloped, and the soldiers buckled Yasi. Scared to kill the Persian guts, I sweated. Zhen Zhen martial arts, but the general did not return. Ainzalut, blood stained clothes. The "Ain Zarut" in the poem refers to the "Battle of Ayin Zarut", in which the originally unstoppable Mongol army ushered in their first fiasco, thus ending the road to the Western Expedition.
The leader of the war was Ked-Buqa, a famous Mongol general who was undoubtedly a heroic general and had unusual confidence in the Mongol army, but all this suffered a terrible Waterloo in front of the Egyptians.
From 1252 AD, Hulagu, the grandson of Cowardly Buhua and Genghis Khan, led the Mongol army to the pace of the Western Expedition, they spent 5 years to conquer Persia, and then conquered Baghdad and Aleppo all the way, so that Nasir, who ruled Syria at the time, had to abandon Damascus and flee to Egypt for help.
The Mongol army was at this time in full swing, ready to continue the conquest of Syria while the iron was hot, and the biggest change in the war occurred: Genghis Khan's grandson Möngke died of illness, and the battle for the position of Great Khan began between the brothers, and Kublai Khan was in urgent need of help, so he could only let Hulagu, who was leading the army, return to Persia first. Timid Buhua lost the greatest help, but he did not feel any fear, but instead believed that "the former Genghis Khan army was invincible" and chose to continue the struggle.
At that time, in addition to conquering Syria, the cowardly Buhua also gradually fought with the crusader states, resulting in the loss of the support of the armies of these countries, and the Egyptian Sudanese army marched into Palestine at this time, which can be described as a belly and back. And the cowardly Buhua not only did not panic, but also directly sent emissaries to persuade Ku vultures, who believed that the results of the war were placed there, and the Egyptians would be afraid of the Mongol Iron Horse.
But in fact, Kubhusi did not care at all about the previous brilliant achievements of the Mongol army, and without saying a word, he directly beheaded the emissaries who had been persuaded to surrender, which was somewhat similar to the cowardly Buhua in this regard. The Arab scholar Ibn Assir once analyzed: "The Mamluks from Central Asia never joke ... They did not like to negotiate as much as the Arabs and Persians, and they did not understand the meaning of the two armies fighting without fighting, they simply worshipped force to the extreme. ”
It turned out that Kubrush was right, the Mongol army that was good at riding and shooting was not really without weaknesses, they were very bad at close combat, and it just so happened that the Mamluk soldiers' combat ability was very comprehensive, especially good at single-soldier combat, and at that time, the cowardly and unwinding combat strength was only 20,000 people, and finally the Mongol army was scattered and defeated by the Egyptian army.
In fact, when the army was in a state of collapse, the Mongol soldiers had advised them not to spend their lives to escape, after all, "staying in the green mountains without fear of no firewood", but the general fiercely refused. Rasht's Collected Histories records that Timid Buhua rushed into the enemy army alone under the obvious decline of the war, and before his sacrifice, he laughed at Kubrush: "I have been a servant of Hulagu Khan all my life, unlike you who are the murderers of the monarch!" (The Malumuk military clique usually murdered its predecessors to seize the throne) was eventually cowardly beheaded in a heroic revolt, while ending the myth of the invincibility of the Mongol Iron Horse.