Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Really, his elder brother actually learned to joke and played such a joke on him. We were captured and the army of the Golden Horde was annihilated, so how are you still alive? How am I still alive? There are servants coming to serve me and treat me to good food and drink every day!

"I'm not kidding you, we were indeed wiped out, and now we are all prisoners. Batu, you must be mentally prepared." Handar sighed deeply and looked at his brother with a complicated expression.

My second younger brother has been the best child since childhood. When he was a teenager, his talents and abilities far surpassed mine. Whether it was horse riding and archery, close combat, or strategy, I was far inferior to this younger brother.

When his father Jochi was still alive, he was extremely fond of Batu and often brought him up by his side.

He even asked him to follow Ogedei and Zhang Yong to the Delhi Sultanate to train in war. The war of the Delhi Sultanate was very perfect, which made Genghis Khan very satisfied.

This great military achievement was also crucial for Batu's future ascension to the throne after his father's accidental death.

In accordance with his father's will, he led many brothers and recommended Batu as his father's successor. All the land in Jochi's territory belonged to Batu.

After inheriting his father's position, his younger brother had been doing a good job, even close to perfect, until the last Western Expedition.

Military advisor Zhang Yong showed goodwill to his family in advance, and Batu also had a good conversation with Zhang Yong.

But all this changed completely after the arrival of Mongke. Mongke kept saying bad things about Zhang Yong and constantly instigated Batu and Zhang Yong to oppose each other.

It even indirectly killed Genghis Khan's youngest son, Kulezhen, Zhang Yong's brother-in-law. As a result, everyone understood that the culprit must be from Tolui's family.

But his younger brother just didn't understand the situation and wanted to protect Mengge no matter what, which resulted in him offending Zhang Yong. If you offend Zhang Yong, then don't beg for his forgiveness, because you will end up needing to marry him.

But afterwards, various outrageous actions caused the relationship between the two to become increasingly worse, even to the point of being on the verge of a fight.

Until the end, Zhang Yong took Guiyou away and did not even participate in the last war of the Western Expedition, leaving Batu's army alone to deal with the attack of the Holy Roman Empire.

But his brother won beautifully, defeating the Holy Roman Empire and gaining the surrender of Poland, Prussia and other countries, but the good times did not last long!

These countries only submitted for a few years before rebelling one after another.

When did the two first have a conflict? It seems to be because of the fight between the Ogedei family and the Tolui family.

The Ogedei family was the orthodox Mongolian family and was the successor appointed by Genghis Khan himself. Genghis Khan also required all the princes to swear an oath.

Even if the future Khan of the Ogedei family is a straw bag or a piece of rotten meat, you still have to respect him as the Khan.

Zhang Yong supported the family of Ogedei and supported Ogedei to become the Great Khan of Mongolia. Before his death, their father Jochi also ordered them to support Ogedei and not allow rebellion.

They did so, and he followed his father's instructions and persuaded Batu to support him, and Opotai became the new Khan.

But they just don't like each other, and the two sides can never see eye to eye. The relationship between the Ogedei family and the Chagatai family is the best, while the relationship between their Jochi family and the Tolui family is the best.

Zhang Yong was a staunch supporter of Ogedei, but his brother Batu wanted to support Mongke!
This is the most fundamental and direct reason for the conflict between the two sides, because of the difference in ideas and supporters. Mongke made promises to his brothers and even other princes of the Golden Horde.

He believed that he could become the Great Khan of Mongolia in the future and would give the best rewards to the Golden Horde.

Their brothers believed each other's words and began to support Mongke, but in the end, both Mongke and Kublai were finished.

After the trade routes between the East and the West were cut off again, the Golden Horde began to decline in just a few years, and it got worse and worse.

Until today, until now, the entire Golden Horde was destroyed by Zhang Yong's son, and even Zhang Yong himself did not participate in this Western Expedition.

He just sent out his generals and his son and defeated them easily.

It's really hard to predict what's going on in the world! In just ten years, the Golden Horde was established, prospered, and then declined.

In the last war, Batu performed very bravely and demonstrated the top strategy of a Khan and a military genius.

He even risked his own life to lure the enemy into an ambush. This wonderful final battle successfully annihilated more than 10,000 troops of the Ogedei family.

But when Zhang Yong's main force of the Western Expedition arrived and surrounded their hiding place, there was no suspense in this war.

They failed, and the entire Golden Horde failed!

And there was no chance of turning things around. Ordinary soldiers of the Golden Horde were either killed or injured, and the elderly were directly sent home to become new herdsmen.

The younger ones were incorporated into the army of the Ogedei family or the Mongolian army brought by Zhang Dingguan.

"My good brother Batu, you are no longer the Khan of the Golden Horde. Our Golden Horde is gone. You have been in a coma for more than half a month, plus the time you have been conscious. Twenty days ago, the Golden Horde was gone." Handar finally told Batu all the truth, this extremely cruel answer.

"Impossible, how can this be possible? Don't lie to me, brother, don't lie to me. Everything you said is false, right? We won.

Or, other brothers are fighting against Zhang Yong's army on the front line.

"Beerge! Where is Berge? Didn't I hand over the command to him before I left? Why didn't he come to see me?" Batu stood up suddenly and shouted.

Before leaving, he handed over the command of the army to his younger brother, Belgo, instead of his older brother.

Although the eldest brother is more stable, he is rather mediocre in everything, and it can even be said that he does not have much talent.

So he really wanted to know where Berge was. His elder brother was talking nonsense. Berge, whom he had always trusted, couldn't be talking nonsense, right?

"Beerge, he has gone crazy! Completely crazy, his inner faith has collapsed.

You know, he was brought up by his mother, who was a devout believer, and he followed his mother in believing in religion since he was a child." Handal sighed helplessly and spoke.

What Zhang Yong said back then was right. You can use religion, but you must never let it enter the top echelons of a country. Especially the rulers of a country must never eat religious people.

Otherwise, there would definitely be a big mess, and the fact is just as Zhang Yong said, Berge has been following his mother since he was a child.

He lived with the princess of Khwarezm and believed in Allah since childhood, and was even baptized at a very young age.

His devout belief in Allah allowed him to lead the entire Golden Horde onto the path of greening, and even allowed Batu to lead the entire Golden Horde to convert to Allah.

This approach did win the hearts of the local Turks and Kipchaks, but it also put the entire country in the hands of religion. (Even during the Berke period, he did not call himself Khan, but Sultan.)
So, after Zhang Yong's army of the Western Expedition displayed its flying magic weapon and demonstrated unimaginable overwhelming power, this devout believer, one of his youngest brothers, split up.

When the Western Expedition army attacked the mountain, he did not command the army at all. Instead, he took out a blanket, knelt on the ground, and began to pray to the true God he believed in.

They prayed over and over again, maintaining their faith, but the end result of doing so was their crushing defeat, with all the princes being captured.

During this period, I also wanted to persuade Belgo to cheer up, at least they are still alive.

But Belge's condition was very poor. He only ate some porridge and some crackers every day and he even stopped drinking kumis.

Kumiss is the favorite drink of the Mongolians! Berke's reason was that he wanted to become a devout believer, give up all worldly distractions, practice wholeheartedly, pray for the forgiveness of the true God, and pray for the response of the true God.

Berke, his brother who was highly regarded by Batu, became an ascetic monk and practiced there all day long.

So in the eyes of other brothers and even him, Berge was crazy and a complete useless person. "He is crazy, how did he divide it? Brother, I beg you, take me to see him and tell me what is going on. Don't scare me." Batu said.

At this moment, Batu's heart was beating wildly, even jumping to his throat, and countless beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

“I didn’t lie to you. The Mongolian servant who served you was arranged by Zhang Dingguan, and the doctor who treated you these days was not a Persian doctor.

But it was a Han doctor. The old hen soup you drink was stewed for you by them, the Han doctors.

It contains various herbs from the East, which are said to be good for the body when consumed.

Invigorating Qi, activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis, maintaining health, etc., I don’t really understand anyway.” Handal sighed deeply and said.

He didn't want to tell his brother the cruel truth, but sometimes you have to know, and Batu was in his forties this year.

At this age, you are already considered an old man on the grassland, and not a young boy anymore. Sometimes you need to face reality.

"Hahaha! Impossible, this is impossible!!

If we were captured, how could you move freely? How could I be alive?
Zhang Yong hates me so much, and his son hates me so much too, they should tie me up with a piece of cowhide and trample me to death with horses. "Batu said.

To be fair, if he had captured Zhang Yong or his son, Batu would have tortured them in the most brutal way and then executed them, because this was how the Mongols treated their enemies.

And now I am being served and treated by someone, and my elder brother can move freely. How can this be called a prisoner?

In other words, he immediately thought of something very outrageous, that is, his eldest brother led all the brothers to surrender to Zhang Dingguan. Not only did their Golden Horde fail, but they also surrendered to the enemy.

“I was also very surprised by this incident. When we were first captured, my brothers and I were ready to die, but Zhang Dingguan did not kill us. He even prepared good food and wine for us to enjoy.

I even got a piece of news that after the Kublai Khanate was destroyed, Kublai Khan himself was not killed.

He was sent back to Zhang Yong's capital, and now he was named a Marquis of the East, which you can understand as a Wanhu!

So it is not so incomprehensible that we were not killed." Handal said.

Handar told them about what he and others had experienced in the past few days, and also told them about Kublai Khan's situation.

Since the demise of Kublai Khanate, the Golden Horde had not received any news from the other side. Everyone thought that Kublai Khan was dead.

But unexpectedly, Kublai Khan was still alive, and it seemed that he was living a good life.

Batu wanted to ask something else, but at this time the curtain of the tent was pulled open, and a young man in his twenties appeared in front of Batu. He was an extremely tall and looked very strong.

"Lord Batu! Strictly speaking, this is our first meeting! I have heard of your great name for a long time." Zhang Dingguan smiled, walked into the tent, and sat next to Handar and Batu.

He had long heard of Batu, the Khan of the Golden Horde. Since he could remember, his father had praised Batu many times.

Even before the Western Expedition, he expressed his desire to establish good relations with the Batu family and to help the Batu family better rule the western lands in the future.

But all this changed after he returned from the Western Expedition, or even halfway through the expedition, because he received the news of his uncle's death, and his mother had to bear everything alone.

I was so young at that time that I didn’t even know about this matter. After my father returned from the Western Expedition, the relationship between the two families completely broke down.

The person Uncle Guyuk hated the most was Batu, and he even wanted to kill him. Uncle Guyuk also died of illness on the way to the west to march against Batu.

More than five years later, many years after his uncle Guyuk's death, he finally brought his army to this land and destroyed the arrogant Golden Horde.

Life is so unpredictable!
"You, who are you?" asked the handsome young man in front of me.

"I am the eldest son of the Mongolian Khan Zhang Yong and the Emperor Zhang Yong of the Daqian Empire. My name is Zhang Dingguan. It's our first meeting, Lord Batu." Zhang Dingguan said with a smile.

"??? You! You! We really lost, you really defeated the Golden Horde, and you defeated my army of more than one hundred thousand?" Batu widened his eyes and shouted at Zhang Dingguan.

At this moment, he finally accepted and believed what his elder brother said: the Golden Horde was defeated, and he was defeated!
And all of them were taken captive.

How could this happen? How could this happen? I was just unconscious and took a nap, but when I woke up, the whole world had changed. I went from a Khan to a prisoner.

"Don't worry, I will not harm you or any other prince of the Golden Horde.

I will send someone to escort you to the east. Since my father was able to spare Kublai Khan, I think he can also spare you." Zhang Dingguan said.

"Hahaha! I don't want you to forgive me, I don't want you to forgive me, Zhang Yong, are you feeling sorry for me?
Is Zhang Yong pitying me? I don’t need his pity! I don’t need it! "Batu stood up angrily and roared loudly.

Enough, he's had enough!
I don't need others' pity! I am the Khan of the Golden Horde. Even if I die, I will still be the Khan of the Golden Horde, and I will not become a prisoner.

Why did you save me? Why did you save me? It would be better if I died, if I died on the battlefield as a Khan, the Khan of the Golden Horde.

At least I don’t have to face all this, I don’t have to admit my country’s defeat, and I don’t have to be the founding monarch and the last monarch.

In other words, strictly speaking, his father Jochi was the founding monarch, and he himself died as the second emperor.

What is this? What is this?
"Batu! Stop making trouble. You are the smartest and bravest among all the brothers. Can't you even accept your own failure?" Handal said.

He was really worried and afraid that his brother would offend the other party.

"Haha! Hahaha! Stop talking, stop talking. I lost, I lost.

Zhang Dingguan, you are Zhang Yong’s eldest son. You did a good job this time. I lost to you!
I have nothing much to say, but your goal has been achieved and now you have successfully humiliated me.

Can you give me a quick death? Can you send me to see my father?" Batu said.

In Batu's view, the other party saved him and even sent someone to serve him and called him Batu Khan.

It was all because Zhang Dingguan wanted to humiliate him, and even Zhang Yong wanted to humiliate him, so he took him back to the East and humiliated him.

Apart from that, he really couldn't think of any reason to keep the enemy alive!

Since your goal has been achieved, just kill me quickly. In any case, he will not go to the East to meet Zhang Yong.

For some reason, deep down in his heart he was very afraid to see Zhang Yong, the man whom he once admired so much.

He did admire Tolui, but in fact he also admired Zhang Yong very much. In previous battles, he even deliberately imitated Zhang Yong's tactics and the battles of the Delhi Sultanate.

Even during the Western Expedition, he actively learned from Zhang Yong.

But now, the enemy is the enemy! (End of this chapter)