Usurpation of Mongolia: My father-in-law is Genghis Khan

Chapter 14 Wang Han dies and the Kerait tribe surrenders
"Wang Han, you can't leave!"

Whoosh!
Zhao Shuo took the saber in the general's hand and threw it forward with all his might!
"Protect the Khan!"

A personal guard beside Wang Han turned around and took Zhao Shuo's blow with his body, being cut in half!

The other four personal guards turned around and rushed towards Zhao Shuo with their weapons in hand, trying to buy the last bit of time for Wang Han!
"go to hell!"

Zhao Shuo gritted his teeth and squeezed out every last bit of strength in his body!
He drew the sword from his waist and leaped from his horse! The sword flashed brightly, and in the blink of an eye, four heads flew up almost simultaneously!
"Khan! Quick! Quick!"

At this time, Wang Han was less than ten steps away from the army formation. Daheiba Atuer leaped forward and grabbed Wang Han's right hand! With just one strong pull, Wang Han was in the army formation! Who would win was still unknown!
However, he didn't have the chance to pull it!
"die!"

Zhao Shuo kicked the ground fiercely, like an eagle catching a rabbit, or a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, and swung his ring knife!
puff!
Wang Han’s great head soared into the sky!

"Oh no!"

Daheiba Atuer let out a heart-wrenching howl!

"Great Khan!"

I don’t know how many of the Kerait soldiers on the hillside were in tears!
"Wang Han is dead! Wang Han is dead!"

Just now, seeing Wang Han about to flee into the enemy camp, Temujin's mood had sunk to the bottom. But now, he felt as happy as if he had drunk the icy spring water from Mount Burhan in the dog days of summer!
He urged his horse on and shouted, "Wang Han has been killed by my son-in-law Zhao Shuo! If you don't surrender now, when will you surrender? If you don't surrender now, when will you surrender?"

"Wang Han has been killed by his son-in-law Zhao Shuo! If you don't surrender now, when will you surrender?"

"Wang Han has been killed by his son-in-law Zhao Shuo! If you don't surrender now, when will you surrender?"

The Mongolian army shouted in unison, you are here to help Temujin's prestige!

……

Bang!

Bang!

Clang clang clang
As Temujin and others urged them to surrender, the sound of swords and guns falling to the ground could be heard.

"The Kerait tribe has been defeated. We are willing to obey the orders of Temujin Khan. Now, if the Khan wants us to die, we will die. If the Khan wants us to live, we will live. If the Khan is willing to pardon us, we are willing to serve Temujin Khan!"

Led by Hedaheba Atur, the most powerful general of the Kerait tribe, countless Kerait warriors knelt on the ground and surrendered to Temujin.

Wang Han was dead, and his son and grandson were also dead.

The Khan of the Kerait tribe no longer had a legitimate successor, so it was meaningless for them to refuse to surrender and continue to fight to the death.

The moment they knelt down, Hedaheibaatur and other people from the Kerait tribe felt humiliated, but also felt a sense of relief.

Yes, a huge relief!
it's over!
It’s time to end it!
After two hundred years of a dark age of survival of the fittest, almost all grassland residents were tired of it and longed for a peerless hero to emerge and bring a new order to the grasslands.

It’s a very simple truth. On this grassland, what does it matter even if you are an unrivaled warrior?
Take Temujin's father, Yesugei, for example. As the leader of the Qiyan tribe of Mongolia, Wang Khan needed his help to restore the Kerait Khanate. How powerful was he? However, once Yesugei died, his family was abandoned by their own people. They struggled to survive, nearly starving to death. Temujin was even enslaved.

Take Wang Han, for example. Once he ascended the throne, he killed almost all of his brothers. Afterwards, he was driven from the throne twice and became a wanderer.

Even Temujin's good friend Jamuka didn't experience his first blight after being defeated by Temujin. In fact, before helping Temujin win back his wife, Jamuka had been ambushed by Toghto of the Merkit tribe, lost all his people, and only after going through hardships did he make a comeback.

…It’s safe to say that for the past two hundred years, even the most powerful people on this grassland have struggled to sleep peacefully. Even the most sagacious and powerful heroes have struggled to leave behind any real legacy for future generations.

If they are like this, let alone the ordinary people.

Men could be killed in battle at any time, and even if they didn't, they could be taken as slaves at any time. Women could be murdered at any time, leaving them to serve their husbands' murderers. Children, from the moment they were born, had to get used to the constant upheaval of displacement.

Who really wants to live like this?
It is better to be a dog in peace than a man in chaos! Although the people on the grassland have never heard of this saying, I wonder how many people have had similar thoughts in their hearts.

Now that Wang Han is dead, Temujin is the natural ruler of the eastern steppes. Wouldn't it be a good thing for everyone to let him usher in a new era and establish a new order?

Therefore, the vast majority of the Kerait tribe were indeed relieved and sincerely asked to surrender!

Of course, Temujin's treatment of the Kerait tribe was also very gentle.

For example, Wang Han’s younger brother Zhahe Ganbu.

When Wang Han ascended the throne, he killed almost all of his brothers. The reason I say "almost" is because Zhahe Ganbu was captured and enslaved by the Tanguts and was not with the Kereyids. He was living in exile, and thus, a blessing in disguise, he escaped death.

Now, after Temujin destroyed the Kerait tribe, he did not make things difficult for Zhahe Ganbu, the highest-ranking official in the Kerait tribe. He took Zhahe Ganbu's eldest daughter Yibahe as his concubine, and let his fourth son Tolui marry Zhahe Ganbu's second daughter Sorghaghtani Beki as his concubine.

By the way, the Mongolian Khan Mongke who was killed in Diaoyucheng, Kublai Khan, the founder of the Ilkhanate, Hulagu Khan, and Ariq Böke who fought with Kublai Khan for four years for the Khan throne, who are familiar to later generations, are all sons of Sorghaghtani Beki.

Therefore, this Sorghaghtani Beki is also known as the "Mother of the Four Khans".

Zhahe Gan must have received such treatment, let alone others.

According to the rules of the grassland, they, their cattle, sheep, women, and property were all Temujin's spoils of war.

Men became slaves, women became wives, concubines and servants of the victors, and cattle, sheep and property would naturally belong to the new owners.

However, Temujin had been a slave himself. He knew full well the deep hatred slaves harbored for their owners. Under such a law of the jungle, how could Mongolia maintain internal stability? How could Temujin truly unify the steppes with only four or five thousand men under his command?

Therefore, Temujin generously stated that although these Kerait people would be distributed to meritorious soldiers, they would not be treated as slaves, but as subjects.

Of course, some of the Kerait tribe's property would be rewarded to meritorious soldiers. After all, meritorious Mongolian soldiers needed adequate rewards. Furthermore, much of the Kerait tribe's property was looted from the Mongols, so why not return it to the Mongols? However, Temujin would leave the Kerait tribe with supplies to ensure their basic living needs, and the personal rights of the Kerait tribe would also be guaranteed to a certain extent.

And the most important thing is that Temujin would not assign married women of the Kerait tribe to meritorious soldiers, but only to unmarried women.

It has to be said that although many people in later generations thought of Temujin as the greatest tyrant in history who killed people everywhere, that was Temujin's influence on places outside the grassland.

In fact, on the grasslands, Temujin had always had a reputation for kindness and generosity since his rise to power. Compared to the law of the jungle that had formed during the two hundred years of chaos on the grasslands, his reputation was like a ray of sunshine piercing the darkness.

Otherwise, why did countless heroes on the grassland follow Temujin until death?

Otherwise, why on the grassland, Temujin's reputation was far greater than that of Wang Han, Jamukha, Sangkun and other grassland heroes, so that Sangkun was jealous to the point of madness?

Even the Kerait tribe's quick surrender was one of the reasons.

Now that Temujin had officially announced his decision on the Kerait tribe, the people of the Kerait tribe were completely relieved and even cheered loudly.

Of course, the specific distribution of these Kerait people, as well as their cattle, sheep, and women, requires long-term consideration.

(End of this chapter)