"A generation of heavenly pride, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the big eagle." Genghis Khan here is Temujin. Temujin made great achievements in battle in his life and destroyed countless countries, laying a solid foundation for the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in the future.
In 1225, at the age of 63, Genghis Khan led a large army to attack Western Xia.
Western Xia is an ancient country whose ancestors, the Dangxiang people, lived on the Songpan Plateau during the Tang Dynasty, and later gradually moved to northern Shaanxi, Lanzhou and the Hexi Corridor region. In 1038, Li Yuanhao was proclaimed emperor, and Western Xia officially established the state.
Genghis Khan had always been unaccustomed to Western Xia. More than 10 years ago, Genghis Khan led his troops to attack The Western Xia three times, but at that time, Genghis Khan was not strong enough to swallow the Western Xia in one bite, and the resistance of the Western Xia was relatively gentle, and Genghis Khan just snatched some money and grain and retreated.
However, in 1225, Genghis Khan attacked Western Xia this time, which was fundamentally different. This time, Genghis Khan's aim was to strike a devastating blow to Western Xia. On the one hand, Genghis Khan was already strong enough to swallow a country of any size; on the other hand, on the other hand, the Western Xia was not small in strength, and backed by the Golden State, because of desperate resistance. Enraged, Genghis Khan carried out a brutal slaughter of the conquered city.
For example, in 1226, Genghis Khan attacked The Western Xia Suzhou, which was resisted by the Western Xia soldiers and civilians. After the city was destroyed, Genghis Khan ordered the slaughter of the city, and all the residents of the city, regardless of men, women and children, were brutally killed. In the end, only 106 households were lucky enough to avoid death.
Curiously, on August 25, 1227, After conquering several cities in Western Xia, Genghis Khan suddenly died in Qingshui County (present-day Gansu) near Liupan Mountain, and was buried in the Valley of mount Kent in Mongolia.
Although Genghis Khan was 63 years old at the time, he was in very good health and had no signs or records of serious illness. Why did Genghis Khan die suddenly? Accounts differ and opinions vary. Among them, the book "Mongolian Origins", which was written in the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, records this in detail.
The Origins of Mongolia is one of the three major works of Mongolian historiography, and its time spans from the founding of the world to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. It has extremely important historical and literary value. In 1766, Chenggun Zabu, prince of the Mongolian Khalkha Tribe, presented the manuscript of the book as a precious gift to the Qianlong Emperor. Qianlong received a treasure and gave Cheng Gunzabu a lot of gold and silver jewelry.
The Origins of Mongolia records the cause of Genghis Khan's death. The book points out that during the conquest of Western Xia, Genghis Khan's army captured the Western Xia princesses. The Princess of Western Xia was sent to Genghis Khan's tent. Genghis Khan saw that the princess was young and beautiful, and the dragon was very happy, and he asked her to sleep with her that night.
This Princess of Western Xia was also a stubborn person. When she borrowed the intercourse, Genghis Khan was taking the opportunity to bite off his lower body, and the blood flowed like a flood. Knowing that Genghis Khan would not let her go, the princess jumped off the Yellow River and committed suicide. Genghis Khan died of excessive blood loss.
The claim that Genghis Khan was bitten to death by the Princess of Western Xia was once recognized by the Qianlong Emperor.
Before Genghis Khan died, he was full of shame and hatred. It is a great ugly thing for a man who has conquered countless women to be bitten off his lower body by a captive. To this end, Genghis Khan stressed in his suicide note that the successor would destroy the Western Xia Kingdom.
Western Xia was inevitably destroyed by Genghis Khan's successors.
In 1227, the emperor surrendered to the Mongols after being besieged in Zhongxing Province for half a year, and the Western Xia was declared extinct. However, the belated surrender did not save ZTE Province. Genghis Khan's successor, TuoLei, killed the late Summer Emperor Li Wei in accordance with Genghis Khan's will, and also slaughtered zhongxing Province: the palace and cemetery were burned to the ground, and the whole city was dug three feet into the ground.
It is said that this time the slaughter of the city, the Mongol army destroyed all the books in the Western Xia. So much so that the later history of the Yuan Dynasty and the history of the Ming Dynasty did not write about the Xia Dynasty. Only Song Shi wrote a little clue. This is a postscript.
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