Hülegü, a name that once made countless Arabs tremble, and his "Whip of God" almost reached Egypt, and under his forceful conquest, the Muslim world suffered an unprecedented catastrophe. If it weren't for the civil strife in Mongolia, he would have created more possibilities, he would have been Genghis Khan's grandson - Hülegü!
Hulegu was the third son of the "Mother of the Four Emperors", the instigating Khuteni, who inherited the bravery and arrogance of his father Torre and carried out the conquest to the end.
Hulegu was 8 years younger than his eldest brother Meng Ge and 2 years younger than his second brother Kublai Khan. At this time, Mongolia has risen and dared to challenge the Jin country, which is many times stronger than itself, and Mongolia has become an uncontrollable fierce horse, which will eventually run to its heart's content on the vast land.
Due to their young age, the Hulegü brothers did not participate in the first Mongolian expedition to the west, but they did not forget to ride horses and shoot arrows, and they were gearing up for the grand appearance in the future. In the Mongolian steppe, people receive daily reports of war from all over the country, where their brothers and sisters have won great victories, and how much land and wealth they will gain, their khans preach to them every day: the outside world is very big, as long as you are willing to go out, what you see will probably become your own!
Therefore, the Mongols have never lacked soldiers, as long as they can ride their horses and wield scimitars, they will participate in the conquest almost fanatically.
Hülegü was one of those children. When he was just 18 years old, Ogedai ordered Jochi's child, Batu, to command the eldest son of the four tribes (Jochi, Chagatai, Ögedei, and Torre) for the second expedition to the west. The Torre family sent their eldest son, Möngke, but Hülegü also asked to follow Möngke on the expedition. It was the farthest Mongol expedition to the west. They crossed the Taihe Mountains (present-day Caucasus Mountains), crossed the Kipchak steppe of their first conquest, and headed westward to the Magyars (present-day Hungary), where the only veteran of the trip was the "Mongolian Four Mastiffs" Subutai. Subutai participated in the first expedition to the west, and this time he was full of confidence and was bound to fight farther. However, when they reached the city of Buste (present-day Budapest), the capital of Hungary, on the Vluna River (present-day Danube), news of Ögedei's death reached the Western Expeditionary Army (in fact, Ögedei had been dead for several months, and they only received the news at this time because the battle line was too long).
The Great Khan of the Mongols was elected, so all the royal clansmen had to go to the election of the new Khan to vote (i.e., the Kuritai Assembly), and the eldest son of Ögedei, Guiyu, was in the western expedition, so Batu and the princes immediately returned to the Mongolian steppe. With the help of Naima Zhenkedun, Kiyu eventually succeeded to the throne.
In this battle, Hulegu learned the experience of fighting against the Westerners, which laid a solid foundation for the third Mongolian expedition to the west.
After Guiyu's death, Hulegu and Batu firmly supported Möngke as the Great Khan of the Mongols, and eventually defeated the Ögedei family, making Möngke the fourth Great Khan of the Mongols.
After Meng Ge took office, on the one hand, he appointed his second brother Kublai Khan to be in charge of the affairs of the Han people in the north, on the second hand, he led the army to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty, and on the third side, he appointed the third brother Hulegu as the commander of the Western Expedition, which opened the third and last Western Expedition of Mongolia!
Hülegü's target was the vast Muslim area south of the Kwantian Jishai (present-day Caspian Sea). This is a place rich in Assassins (and now terrorist attacks in the Middle East also have historical roots), and during the Second Expedition to the West, Möngke was assassinated by Islamic Assassins here, but the Assassins did not succeed, but the hatred between the two families was sent. Coupled with the fact that Hülegü's mother and wife both embraced Nestorianism (a sect of Christianity), war against Muslims was inevitable.
Hulegü first destroyed the religious state of the Muslim Ismarne, and then the second dynasty of the Arab Empire, the Abbasids, and Hulegu's next target was the Ayyubids in Egypt. Hulagu conquered Aleppo and Damascus, which were important cities under the control of the Ayyubids, and the Muslim world was greatly devastated, and the Muslim world was thrown into panic. Just as Hulegu was preparing to continue his march into Cairo, Egypt, another piece of bad news came: Möngke Khan was dead.
Like the second western expedition, Hülegü was forcibly blocked back when the momentum was strong. If Möngke had lived a few more years, would Hülegü have made even more crazy moves? Perhaps the end of the Mongol expedition to the west would have extended indefinitely to the west.
After Hulegu's second brother Kublai Khan established the "Great Yuan" dynasty, according to the rules of the Mongols, the land that Hulegu defeated was officially canonized to him, which was one of the "four great khanates of Mongolia" - Ilkhanate!