<h1>01, the situation after Mungo's death</h1>
Möngke's stubbornness led to his early death, sowing the seeds of civil war that would forever divide the mighty Mongol Empire. At that time, there were two groups that could be the heirs of Möngke, on the one hand, the mother and brother Kublai Khan (44 years old), Hulagu (42 years old), and Ali Bu Brother (40 years old), and on the other hand, the sons Ban Bald, Asok, Xi Li Ji and Yu Long.
Perhaps Möngke once hinted that his younger brother Ali Bu Brother had priority, and when he went south, he also gave the heavy responsibility of staying in the mainland to the younger brother, so in the absence of a clear will, Ali Bu Brother had the greatest advantage. Hulagu was leading the Western Expeditionary Army to Syria; Kublai Khan, who had previously been suspected by Möngke, was reactivated and returned to the Southern Expeditionary Army and marched to Runan.
Of the three brothers, Kublai Khan, the weakest of the three brothers, was the first to learn of Möngke's death, and he first learned of the news at the outpost of the captured Song army, believing it to be a rumor.
Immediately, he received a secret envoy sent by mu ge, a half-brother who was very close to him and accompanied by the kings of Möngke,mu ge's mother, who was kublai khan's nursing mother,, and learned the exact news of Möngke's death, and it was Mu Ge who controlled the command of Möngke's army to withdraw north.
In the face of the Khan's throne, Kublai Khan was of course also foolish, but if he returned to the north at this time to seize the throne, there was no name, no merit, and the possibility of being elected by the kings at the Kuriletai Conference was too small.
<h1>02, Kublai Khan's attitude</h1>
Kublai Khan and Batulu and others consulted and decided to continue south to Ezhou in accordance with Möngke's plan for the southern expedition, showing the attitude of faithfully inheriting the legacy of the previous Great Khan, and at the same time, Kublai Khan's southward march made his legion a defender of the Mongolian army scattered throughout the Central Plains at that time, showing the spirit of self-sacrifice and greatly improving his image.
Yes! We lost the battle, the Great Khan died on the front line, even if the enemy bears did not dare to come after us, but as a defeated retreat, the heart of the retreating people also made a muttering! Prince Kublai Khan actually went on to advance, in our rear to deter the enemy army, so that we can retreat with peace of mind, Prince Kublai Khan is really a hero!
The Wuliang Hetai army, which had traveled from guangxi to the north, wandered between the cities of Hunan and Jiangxi, constantly changing courses and moving north, in an attempt to join Kublai Khan's army. At the same time, seeing that Kublai Khan had moved, the Scattered Mongol Army also took action to respond to it, and King Kurinchi of the Muhuali King's family led his Zarayil army across the Yangtze River to Kublai Khan's camp where his uncle Batulu was located.
The two most powerful hongji clans and the zarai clan in the Five Casts were on Kublai Khan's side, his wife Chabi was from the Hongji Labu, and Batulu's wife was Chabi's sister.
The eastern left-wing brothers, represented by Tatzal, also showed that they had the intention of joining Kublai Khan, because Tatzal did not behave well during the southern expedition and was repeatedly reprimanded by Möngke, so Tachar had a natural resistance to the Möngke government.
<h1>03, two sweats side by side</h1>
Möngke's close confidant Alan Da'er took advantage of the opportunity to mobilize troops and came to a place only more than a hundred miles away from Kaiping, Kublai Khan's fiefdom, which seriously threatened the safety of Kaiping. Kublai Khan's wife, Chabi, while righteously questioning Alan Da'er: Sending troops is a big deal, Genghis Khan's great-grandson Zhenjin is here, why don't you let him know? On the one hand, he sent a farewell letter to Kublai Khan and asked him to return it quickly.
After consultation, Kublai Khan sent Hao Jing to negotiate peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, and he led his army to quickly return north. On November 20, Kublai Khan returned to Yanjing, took the pre-emptive advice of the strategists, and with the support of the host kings and his own relatives, held a meeting of Kuriletai in March of the following year (1260) and ascended to the Khan's throne.
In the following month of Kublai Khan's succession, Ali Buge was in the capital helin, and he convened Kuriletai to become the new Great Khan, and for the first time in the Mongol Empire, two Great Khans coexisted.
<h1>04, both sides supporters</h1>
Although the Belgo Khan of the Shuchi Ulluth did not participate in the Kuriletai of Helin, the two brothers would be in such a hurry that no one could catch up! But he made it clear that he supported Ali Bu Ge and issued coins with Ali Bu Ge's name on it.
The mother of the actual ruler of chagatai Uluth, Muba Lasha Khan (Chagatai - Motugan - Hela Hulegu - MuBa Lasha), the power of the two women was given by Möngke Khan, naturally and unconditionally supported the decision of the Möngke government.
Hulagu of the Western Expedition heard of the death of his eldest brother and also led his army back to the east, trying to encroach on the khan's power, and when he returned to Tabriz, the emissary brought the news of Kublai Khan and Ali Bugo's ascension to the throne, and he gave up the struggle for the Khan's throne, staying in the land of Iran to build a sphere of influence in West Asia and the Middle East, and the new Hulagu Ulugh Ruth was formed.
Hulagu remained in the fiefdom and did not follow his father's concubine Mu Mu Ku'er on his father's western expedition to join Lin in the Kuriletai who supported Ali's brother, at least from the time when Mu Mu'er sided with Ali Bu Brother on behalf of his father, until later when the great war began, Hulagu heard that Kublai Khan had the upper hand, so he gave Mu Mu Ku'er an urgent order to leave the mainland and rush to Iran, which was considered to be withdrawn from the civil war.
Hulagu's desire to monopolize Iran had just emerged, and Brother Beier, who was eyeing the fruits of the Western Expedition, naturally could not tolerate Hulagu's behavior and personally led a large army south. In this way, because of territorial disputes and various other reasons, Belgo and Hulagu were in a state of preparation for confrontation, and naturally had no time to take care of the battle for the Khan position in the East.
The kings Hedan followed Möngke on his southern expedition, and in this civil war he sided with Kublai Khan, and Kuoduan's son Timur, like the sixth uncle Hedan, supported Kublai Khan and played a huge role in the subsequent Battle of Shaanxi, defeating Alamdar and Hunduhai and calming the situation in the northwest. Guiyu Khan's son Heku remained neutral in his fiefdom, Yemili, and did not favor either side. Heku's cousin Haidu supported Ali Bu brother.
The empresses and sons of Möngke Khan supported Ali Bu brother, and the host brothers, Uluth, apparently supported Kublai Khan.
The two sides seem to be evenly matched, and Ali Bu brother is slightly superior, but a careful analysis will find that there are not many forces belonging to Kublai Khan and Ali Bu Ge personally, and so many supporters belong to the kind of wait-and-see group that is easy to disintegrate, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a wall grass.
On closer examination, the core camp of the rebel Kublai Khan's side is more determined to fight to the death, because they are rebels! If the civil war is lost, their entire family will be unlucky, so the rebel side will go to the battlefield with the determination to die.
On the contrary, the supporters and followers of Ali Buge's side are the original Möngke government, they do not have that sense of urgency, even if they lose, they are just a change of government, if they fight hard to win, they will lose miserably, and they will definitely be liquidated by the new government, so why should everyone take risks? It is better to maintain the status quo and mess around.
Therefore, the two sides have already won or lost in terms of momentum mentality, Ali Brother really relies only on his wife and clan, Hu Yibu, and other forces are unreliable, and the facts will prove it later.
<h1>05, from armed warfare to economic warfare</h1>
In the winter of the first year of Ali Buge and the first year of the Central Unification (1260, the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty), the Battle of Shaanxi and Sichuan broke out. The main force of Möngke's army, led by Ha Labuhua and Hun Duhai, retreated to Liupan Mountain.
Ali Bu Ge sent Alan Da'er south to take over the elite of Liupan Mountain and other places, and Kublai Khan did not want to show weakness, and sent Bachun, Lian Xixian, Zhao Liangbi, Shang Ting and others to Shaanxi, and war broke out between the two sides.
Kublai Khan joined forces with the kings of the Wokoutai clan in Hexi to defeat the pro-Ali Bu brother faction of Hun Du Hai, kill Alan Da'er, and win the war, except for a small number of Möngke's southern expeditionary army that followed the unwilling Ha La buhua to return to the west, most of the rest belonged to Kublai Khan.
After the victory on the western front, Kublai Khan led a large army to attack Helin and defeated Ali Bu Brother's army again, because the grain needed by Helin and Mobei was supplied by Han Transportation, and Lin did not eat or drink, Ali Bu Brother had to withdraw from Helin Ju Shou Qian Prefecture and surrendered to Kublai Khan, Kublai Khan accepted his peace, leaving the kings to move to Helin and return to Kaiping.
Kublai Khan hurriedly dispatched Tatzal and other host kings to meet the battle, and once again fought Ali Bu Brother back to Helin, and the battle situation returned to the original point, Kublai Khan continued to ban the grain road, so that Ali Bu Brother's army fell into famine.
Lack of food, defeat, all made Ali Bu brother's prestige plummet, he could only turn to the West, the south of the Yin Mountains and the old land of Sogdia is an agricultural land, with a large population and abundant products, if you can get food from there, you can fight Kublai Khan for a long time.
At this time, chagatai Ulusi Khan was the mother and son of Mubalasha who supported Ali Bu brother, but Ali Bu brother hoped to have a caring person to be Chagatai Khan and collect food and wealth for himself, so he sent his confidant Aru to return to Chagatai Ulusi to replace Muba Lasha mother and son.
<h1>06, Arukhu who betrayed the Great Khan</h1>
Aruku, the grandson of Chagatai and the son of Baidari, returned to Uluth and proclaimed Ali's will to ascend to the throne of Chagatai Khan. Ali Bugo asked Arukhu to go north of the Amu River and to the Turkestan region to collect food and grass for him, and also asked him to deploy along the Amu River to prevent Hulagu from aiding Kublai Khan.
In this way, the power gained by Aruku was much greater than that handed down by his grandfather Chagatai, and the actual control of a large number of agricultural lands north of the Amu River and turkestan that belonged to the Great Khan fell into the hands of Arukhu, who wanted to raise grain for the Great Khan Ali Buge!
Aruku felt that Ali could not defeat Kublai Khan anyway, so why didn't I take possession of these riches and take over control of Central Asia and Turkistan and carry forward the Chagatai Khanate?
Therefore, in the face of Ali's envoys, Aru took a procrastinating measure, suddenly changed his face after the envoys had completed their collection tasks, arrested these envoys who were collecting military supplies, and handed an olive branch to Kublai Khan.
<h1>07, ali who is frequently unconscious</h1>
Brother Ali of the East once again attacked Kublai Khan, and the two sides fought fiercely in Ximu Tu'er, and Brother Ali once again lost to the north. Hearing of Arukhu's betrayal, Ali Bu brother almost died of anger, led the remnants of his army to the Ili River Valley, defeated Arukhu, and stayed here in winter.
Mongols seizing the throne are generally cannibalism, never involve others, the killing is only a party, rarely involves descendants, when Möngke killed the relatives and nobles who supported the Guiyu clan, they have caused dissatisfaction among the kings, and now Ali Brother is actually more violent than his brother, even ordinary soldiers are indiscriminately killed, and now you are still at a disadvantage, shouldn't you buy people's hearts?
Ali Bugo's stupidity caused the kings of Central Asia to completely abandon him, and the various factions of the Wokoutai clan also transferred their resentment towards Möngke on Ali Bugo, and almost no one reached out to the deteriorating Ali Bugo.
Everyone made overtures to Kublai Khan, Guiyu's son Heku expressed friendship to Kublai Khan, and Aruku sent emissaries to meet Kublai Khan, hoping to gain dominion of Turkestan and the area north of the Amu River. Aruku's wishful thinking was good, and he got everything in Central Asia by the holy will of Ali Buge, and now he wanted Kublai Khan to make it clear that the rule of Central Asia belonged to him.
Subsequently, the Ili Valley suffered a severe famine, the people died one after another, the scene was very miserable, Ali Buge's army could not withstand the double blows of internal and external, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and finally, Ali Buge's regime disintegrated, and the isolated Ali Buge Khan surrendered to Kublai Khan with a small number of former senior officials of the Möngke government, and the rebel Kublai Khan replaced the orthodox Great Khan.
<h1>08, Monkey Grid said </h1>
The defeat of the king is an eternal law, when Möngke supported the army to coerce the kings to ascend to the Khan's throne, and now Kublai Khan has forced the current Khan to abdicate, as a loser Ali Bu brother, in the Chinese historical records, naturally became the pig's foot of Ali Buge's rebellion, but in fact, in this civil war, the accurate statement should be Kublai Khan's rebellion.
First, Kublai Khan's side held the heart of a decisive battle that must die, while Ali Buge did not have that sense of urgency, and could refer to Xiang Yu's backwater battle, so there was such a big gap between the mongolian warriors of the same level in the difference in combat mentality.
Second, the problem of supply is also the most fatal for Ali Buge, he lives in Helin to rely on the distant Han land to obtain material supplies, the longer the front line is pulled, the more significant his disadvantage, many times, war is not an economic war? No money, no food, no supplies, and a ghost!
After the end of the civil war, the entire Mongol Empire was completely divided into four major forces, Kublai Khan, Belgo, Hulagu, and Arukhu, at this time, Kublai Khan still tried to be the Great Khan of the entire empire, and wanted to regain the rule of the areas north of the Amu River in Central Asia, so he invited the three giants to convene the Kuriletai, and the three giants also agreed.
However, a very evil accident occurred, and in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1265, the first year of the Song Dynasty), Hulegu died, and subsequently, Belgo, who had planned to attack while the Hulegu Khanate was in chaos, also died on the march the following year (1266), and in the same year, Aruku also fell ill and died. By the way, Brother Ali also died in this year.
With the death of the Three Giants, kublai Khan's assembly plans were completely disrupted, and the Three Uluths also had various chaos over the issue of heirs, allowing Central Asia to slide into chaos again.
At this time, the good man of the Wokoutai family will rise to dominate Central Asia!
That's it.
The image comes from the internet intrusion and deletion.
References: History of the Dosan Mongols, Historical Collections, The Conquerors of the Steppe, History of the Chagatai Khanate, Cambridge History of the Liaoxia Jinyuan, etc
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