On the way to the rise of the Mongols, accompanied by countless successive conquests, both the elite generals of the Song Dynasty and the East Slavs of Kievan Rus were trampled under the feet of the Mongol Iron Horse. At the same time as the rise of the Mongol Empire, the Khwarazm people also established their own empire. Although Khwarazm was eventually destroyed by the Mongols, the country taught Genghis Khan a lesson.
The price of Genghis Khan's "education" was that the Mongol iron horse of 30,000 elite soldiers was almost completely destroyed. So why, the Invincible Mongol Iron Horse, is in the land of Afghanistan?
In fact, this also starts from the Khwarazm Empire, if it were not for the death of the emperor Mahmud at that time, this battle that caused heavy losses to the Mongol Iron Horse would probably not have happened. In the process of his escape, Mahabharata was still wondering why his empire was defenseless against the Mongols. In Mahamad's view, the Mongols were a bunch of steppe men who didn't know any tactics at all.
However, the subsequent Khwarazm Emperor Zalandin did not think so, believing that victory could only be achieved by gathering all the forces of the empire and forcing the Mongols to fight to the death. Although Zalandin had made his own proposal to Mahmad, he did not hesitate to refuse, and Mahamma's light enemy also cost him his life.
The strategic thinking put forward by Zalandin is also the place where Genghis Khan is most worried, because he clearly knows that the iron horse of the Mongol Western Expedition is less than 100,000, and it is impossible to collide with Hua Lazi.
Although Khwarazm had suffered heavy losses under the erroneous guidance of Mahamad at this time, it had to be said that Zalandin was a figure, and he decisively ordered the abandonment of a large number of cities and pools, and the mobilization of remnants of soldiers and civilians to join the resistance army to defend against the Mongol Iron Horse near Kabul, Afghanistan.
However, Genghis Khan thought that the remaining Khwarazm army was no longer enough to worry about, and if it was the Khwarazm army of the late Maha Period, there were still some concerns. In the spirit of cutting the grass and removing the roots, Genghis Khan asked the lost ji kuo to lead a 30,000-strong army to attack the Zalandin troops.
Don't think that 30,000 iron horses are very few, at that time, even the strength of a country was generally hundreds of thousands of troops who could fight a good war. In addition, Genghis Khan's troops in the western expedition were less than 100,000 people in total, and the rest of the soldiers were in the conquest, and it was enough to be able to send 30,000 iron horses.
Although Zalandin's army was 70,000 people, the 30,000 Mongol army led by The Lost Luck Andy Kuo was still fighting with Zalandin, and no one could repel the opponent in a short period of time.
However, in the end, because of the lack of luck and baldness, he stepped into the ambush place carefully selected by Zalandin. When the Mongol Iron Horse stepped into the uneven basin, it no longer had the advantage of cavalry. Although He tried to delay the fighter through the "paper man tactics", he was defeated by Zalandin, who would rather die than fight. Although the eventual loss of luck saved his life, only a few hundred people survived the 30,000 Iron Horsemen.
Later, Genghis Khan summed up the reasons for the heavy losses, one was because he was too light on the enemy, thinking that defeating Mahama would sweep through Khwarazm. Second, the Mongol Iron Horse was trapped in extremely unfavorable terrain. Third, the Mongol troops were too dispersed, and once there was a crisis, other troops simply did not have time to rescue them.