Chapter 17: The Entrance of the Demon Hero
At the outermost part of the entrance to the Demon Hero, the circle of light waves wandered and flickered.
Armed Augustus, like a general, stood upright, beside him a gentle and elegant Augustine.
Not far away, a wanderer-like Mr. Beipiao was sitting in the starry sky, and Nietzsche was also lying, looking at the layers of waves with proud eyes.
Another Nanfeng Bujing, who was full of loneliness and arrogance, just stopped silently, and a calm middle-aged man was playing with a bamboo cane, it was Zhuangzi.
The kind-hearted Lao Tzu is smiling at the other two who are coming.
When the Dark Lord arrived, Augustus blurted out, "It's been a long time. Isn't it time for everyone to go?"
Augustine replied, "The first person in the universe has not yet arrived, so she is waiting for her. "Is there no one in the big universe? Hmph! A female streamer turned out to be the strongest person, laughing to death. Augustus said contemptuously.
Beipiao opened his mouth and said, "Then you go and die!" Augustus said contemptuously.
In the realm of thought, Beyond the main Ou Meiyi was riding the autumn leaf boat with Mu Long, wandering in the world of water towns, and suddenly Ou Meiyi said: "Oh! The days are so beautiful, Mu Long, I actually forgot the Demon Catalogue. After finishing speaking, a doppelganger like a female god of war appeared from Ou Meiyi's beautiful hair, and then broke through the air.
Mu Long said personally: "Hehehe! come, I'll show off and hug me." Ou Meiyi snuggled delicately in Mu Long's arms. Affectionately looking into the endless void.
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The Music Emperor is in the second layer of the Block Staircase Mountain, and a giant man "Genghis Khan" stands in front of him.
Genghis Khan (Чингисхаан. Mongolian means Great Khan of the Four Seas)
In Chinese history, there has been such a powerful figure: Rong Ma Xuan, who fought all his life, not only unified the Mongolian tribes on horseback, established the first unified Mongolian Khanate, but also ransacked the Eurasian countries like a demon.
Some people say that he is the god of war in the East, some people say that he is the first person in a thousand years, some people compare him with Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon in European history, and those who worship him in the West praise him as "the emperor of all mankind" and those who curse him call him a "yellow peril"!
Mao Zedong called him "the pride of a generation"; in 1995, the Washington Post of the United States ranked first in the "Best of the Millennium"; his story has been told in many countries for 800 years, and the joint archaeological team of Mongolia and Japan is still searching for his mysterious underground tomb.
This figure has attracted the attention of Chinese and foreign people, and has attracted countless heroes from ancient and modern times. It is Genghis Khan, who is respected as Yuan Taizu in Chinese historical books.
Meaning of "Genghis". There are sayings such as "the voice of steel", "outstanding intelligence, strong character", "the sea", etc., and Mongolian history books such as the Golden History, the Mongolian Origins, and the Green History all say that Temujin called "Genghis, Genghis" when a bird flew when he was called Khan, and everyone thought it was the will of heaven, and took it as a honorific name. on this. There is no unanimous opinion in the academic community.
Genghis Khan was strictly self-proclaimed by Temujin when he unified the Mongol tribes. but claimed that it had been given to him by heaven. This is a far cry from the Tang Dynasty's Northwest Monarch's respect for the Tang Dynasty emperor as the "Heavenly Khan".
Genghis Khan and his descendants conquered areas across Europe and Asia, and there is no second empire of this kind in the history of the world.
This was partly due to the lack of a powerful military-political organization between Europe and Asia in the 13th century that could call for a major Mongol offensive from the steppes, and partly because of Temujin's organizational genius.
Mongol population at that time. Less than two million, but divided into countless tribes, often fighting each other. Temujin, who had incorporated them into a vast nation-state military apparatus by means of alliances and conquests, was recognized by the chiefs in 1206 with the title of Genghis Khan, more than 700 years before Hitler was the "leader" of the Germanic nations.
Under the leadership of Genghis Khan, the whole of Mongolia was armed. His military system was composed of hundreds or thousands in units of ten, and he was not paid. As long as the leaders of the units are capable, they are promoted very quickly, regardless of seniority.
The soldiers were very hardworking, and Marco Polo said: "They can accept hardships like no other in the world." They were able to live for months without food, relying on the milk of their horses and the animals they hunted with bows and arrows. ”
He also said: "If they are under special circumstances, they can gallop for ten days at a time without eating fireworks in the world." If we think that this text is exaggerated, then the story of another chief is recorded in the "Taizu Benji" in the "History of the Yuan Dynasty", and there is also a narrative of "the middle way is exhausted, the sheep's milk is used for drinking, and the blood of the camel is stabbed for food".
Under normal circumstances, the Mongol troops did not have large or small luggage, and the soldiers only carried skin bags to hold water, which was also used as a floating bag to cross the river. They were able to sleep on horseback, march day and night if necessary, and change horses to move on if circumstances permitted.
With such a troop of soldiers, horsemanship as part of their daily lives, and strict military discipline, and because the technology of the day had not yet produced countermeasures to deal with cavalry charging in dense formations, it is no wonder that Genghis Khan's troops were so powerful that they were invincible.
They are accustomed to marching at high speeds, and surround the enemy with the tactics of several columns and coordination. If the enemy resists strongly, they will begin to feint and counterattack when the enemy's vigilance is negligent.
Genghis Khan did not blindly carry out brutal policies, but he did not hesitate to burn and kill after the siege to serve as a warning to the enemy who would later resist through the walls, and was sometimes extremely cruel.
He also used the "Fifth Column" to spread rumors behind enemy lines and to drive refugees to enemy territory, causing them to create an atmosphere of terror first. But as soon as normalcy returned, all brutal methods ceased immediately, and soldiers were sentenced to death if they were convicted.
The 13th-century conqueror was not interested in luxuries or luxury, so he was able to spend his life on conquest.
Genghis Khan's motives make it difficult for posterity to guess. Western books say that he once said: "The greatest pleasure in life is to overcome, to overcome enemies, to chase them, to take their possessions, to make their loved ones weep, to ride their horses, to embrace their wives and daughters." ”
However, this arbitrary attitude could hardly coexist with his strict discipline and the imperial method of restriction, and it was also contrary to his purpose of establishing four khanates, which is not recorded in Chinese sources.
After Genghis Khan's first expedition to capture Yanjing, he moved west to destroy the Western Liao, and then marched into Huazim (a Turkic kingdom in present-day Central Asia under the Soviet Union), and he himself went to the upper reaches of the Indus River.
His princes and generals had moved in and out of the Caspian Sea and north of the Caucasus Mountains, bringing war to Europe. However, Genghis Khan swept Hebei, Shandong, and northern Shanxi, and did not destroy Jin, who had moved his capital to Bianjing (Kaifeng). "Yuan History" says that when he was dying, his last words were falsely told to the Song Dynasty to destroy gold. He died in 1227 during another attack on Western Xia.
After his death, his descendants marched on the Volga River, destroyed the city of Moscow, captured Kiev (the capital of Ukraine), and invaded Poland, eastern Germany, and Hungary.
Just as it was about to expand into Western Europe, at the end of 1241, the Great Khan Ögedei died in Mongolia, and according to Genghis Khan's family law, his grandsons had to return east to elect a successor to the Great Khan. Western Europe then breathed a sigh of relief.
The Mongol invasion reached its climax in 1241 and never returned, which was considered a miracle at the time. Now, from all indications, it seems that the Mongols have developed too fast, occupied too much land, Genghis Khan's descendants have multiplied too much, their great empire cannot be fixed and unified, and the khanates are also affected by local customs, political and economic forces. The princes and officers had lost interest in the aimless conquest. (To be continued......)