He led the Mongol army to destroy the Abbasid and Ayyubid dynasties, and conquered Baghdad and Damascus, the capitals of the two Arab kingdoms.
The entire Islamic world fell into a great panic, and the Mamluk king of Egypt, Kudus, was also disturbed by the panic brought by the Mongols.
If he surrendered to the Mongols, Khuddus feared that he would be tortured to death like the Abbasid Caliph Mustasin, and if he fought the Mongols to the death, he was worried that the whole country would be crushed by the Mongols, and while he was thinking about how to deal with the Mongols, a major event occurred in the far east, enough to change the pattern of the entire world.
The Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Meng Ge, died on the front line of the conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty, and under the fishing city of Hechuan, Chongqing, China, a flying stone without long eyes hit Meng Ge Khan, who was supervising the battle at the front, and Meng Ge died of serious injuries a few days later. Soon, news of Meng Ge's death was transmitted as quickly as possible to the Mongol kings through the post station system built by the Mongol Empire, as well as Kublai Khan who conquered the Southern Song Dynasty and Xu Liehu on the Syrian front.
The Great Khan of the Mongol Empire died, and all the Mongol princes, nobles and important generals had to return to the steppe of the source of the Mongol Three Rivers to participate in the Kuritai Congress to elect the next Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
Just as Batu showed endless regret twenty years ago on the Adriatic Sea in Croatia, Xuregu gazed in the direction of southwestern Egypt on Syrian soil, also mixed with unwillingness and mixed emotions to choose the army to return east. Twenty years ago, it was the wokuotai who drank and drank to death, so that the trembling Western European countries were lucky to avoid the iron horse of the Mongols, and twenty years later, today, it was Meng Ge Khan who ate an inexplicable flying stone, giving the Egyptians a respite.
In June 1260, Kudus received important information that the Mongol Great Khan Meng Ge had died, and Xu Lieqiu led the main army to return east, and only a small number of Mongol troops remained in Syria. In July of the same year, the Egyptians organized a standing army of 20,000 people, mobilized 100,000 troops from West Asia and North Africa, a total of 120,000 troops, and marched to the Syrian region to fight the Mongols in Cairo Square.
Kuddus led the Egyptian army across the Sinai Peninsula and advanced towards the Gaza Strip. Previously, European crusaders had repeatedly conquered the holy city of Jerusalem, occupying many fortresses in the Mediterranean coast of West Asia to today's Israel, and the Franks who believed in Christianity and the Arabs who believed in Islam fought for many years, forming feuds and deep grievances.
The Egyptians had to pass through Frankish territory to advance into Syria, and it is strange that when the Egyptians reached the Gaza Strip, the Franks generously gave way to the Egyptians to pass, and provided supplies and rest. The reason is that the Mongols destroyed the Syrian Ayyubid dynasty, and the Xurian columnists, who originally felt close to Christianity, plundered the Franks' property and castles in Syria, giving a lot of benefits to the Armenian and Georgian allies who also believed in Christianity, and the Franks did not get the slightest benefit and suffered losses, and the Franks were afraid that the Mongols would destroy themselves next, and in horror, the Franks decided to ally with the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt.
In early August 1260, the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry, which had been adequately supplied in the Gaza Strip, began to advance towards Syria, and in mid-August of the same year, it passed through Jerusalem and reached the area of Nablus, about 100 kilometers north of Jerusalem, where the Egyptians met the Mongol army, where the two sides would fight a bloody battle.
The battle of Ayinzarut is destined to go down in history. The approximate location was near Megiddo and Nazareth in present-day Israel, the home of Jesus.
Kuddus and Baibars gathered an Egyptian army of 120,000 people, and on the side of the Mongol army were 20,000 Mongolian elite cavalry, 5,000 Armenian cavalry and 3,000 Syrian cavalry commanded by the timidly general Buhua.
This battle general cowardly does not spend obviously a little underestimated the enemy, the western expedition in recent years the Mongols are invincible, invincible, invincible, even in the face of the opponent's hundreds of thousands of people, the Mongols still choose to take the initiative to attack, but cowardly did not expect that their opponent Mamluk cavalry has long known the Mongol tactics well, the Mongols dressed to defeat and lure the enemy deep tactics completely stolen over, because many of the Mamluk cavalry were sold to Egypt from the Golden Horde through the slave trade, The Mongols tossed these people miserably enough in the southern Russian steppe, so the Mamluk cavalry knew the Mongols' tactics too well.
On September 3, 1260, the bloody battle between the two sides began, Baibars led 10,000 Mamluk cavalry to take the initiative to attack the Mongols, the two sides fought for a while, the Egyptian general Baibars pretended to be invincible, began to lead the army to retreat, the Mongols sacrificed their lives to pursue, in the process of pursuit, the Mongols came to a round of intensive crossbow and arrow riding, causing great casualties to the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry, which caused great psychological pressure and panic to the Egyptians, the Egyptians scrambled for their lives, originally a planned defeat, turned into a disorderly rout, In the end, the pocket array of the encirclement was almost rushed, and at the moment of crisis, King Kudus cut many people in a row to stabilize the collapsed formation.
Next, the Egyptians began to command the army that had been ambushed in advance, from the left, center, and right, like a fan to the Mongols to encircle and outflank the past, the Mongols found that they had fallen into the trap set by the enemy, and began to panic, and the newly annexed Syrian army was frightened and directly withdrew from the battlefield, and fled with a puff of smoke.
At the critical moment, the Mongol general timidly did not take the opportunity to make a decision, immediately changed the method of warfare, divided the 20,000 Mongolian elite cavalry into 20,000 teams, launched an attack on the left and right flanks of the Egyptian formation, and the two 10,000 troops each with several thousand men of Armenian iron cavalry heavy cavalry as the vanguard, cowardly did not spend 10,000 troops to storm the left flank of the Egyptian army, and another 10,000 troops to the right flank of the Egyptians. The Mongols caught in the siege were attacked by the Egyptians' rain of arrows, suffering heavy casualties, the Mongol cavalry at this moment reflected their superb battlefield tactical discipline, fearless to the death to the two wings of the Egyptian army, many Mongol cavalry still whistling forward with many arrows, Egyptian left and right wing armies saw the Mongols so fierce, many people were frightened.
Soon the Mongol cavalry charged in front of the Egyptian army, the Armenian ironclad cavalry broke into the Egyptian wings like a wedge, the Mongols followed closely and kept firing arrows, and then the Mongols brandished their sabers on the left and right wings of the Egyptians rushed forward, left and right chopping, soon the Egyptian left and right wing armies could not support, and soon showed the momentum of a great rout. The right wing army led by the Egyptian general Baibars has almost reached the limit, and the Egyptian left wing army, which has been attacked by cowardice, has begun to rout, and the Egyptian army on both wings has begun to waver, and the entire Egyptian army has begun to retreat, seeing that the great rout of the Egyptians is coming.
At this moment of extreme collapse, the Egyptian king Kudus, the Mamluk king, dropped his helmet, took out the courage to fight to the death, brandished the Damascus scimitar, and charged towards the Mongols without fear of death, at this moment the absolute bloodiness of the Egyptians under the horror was completely stimulated, and followed his king to charge the Mongols regardless of life and death, which may be the power of absolute example, in this moment of life and death, defeating fear is the hope of life.
The battle lasted a day of battle in which the Egyptians and Mongols were killed in the dark, rivers of blood, and lasted a day until dusk, when the Egyptian army won the war by virtue of its absolute numerical superiority.
As a result of the battle, almost all of the 20,000 Mongol cavalry and 5,000 Armenian cavalry were killed, only a few were wounded and captured, the Mongol general was cowardly and captured by Buhua, Kudus failed to persuade him, and the cowardly Buhua was executed. The Egyptian Mamluk cavalry killed more than 40,000 people, wounded countless and almost crippled the 120,000 troops.
The Mongols' dreams of an invasion of Egypt were shattered, and the southwestern frontier of the Mongol Empire was at its most extreme in Israel's Ayinzarut.