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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Towards Afghanistan 1


aammar
26-02-2013, 08:34 AM
By ruining both territories of Khuraasaan and Khwarezm, the Tatars took control of the North and middle regions of the vast state of Khwarezm, and advanced westward to the end of theKhwarezmidStateand its borders with Iraq.

However, they had not yet approached its Southern part, which was under the control of Jalaal Ad-Deen ibn Muhammad Khawarizm Shaah, the son of the great Khwarezmid leader Muhammad Khawarizm Shaah, who had fled a few months earlier, from the Tatars to an island in theCaspian Sea, where he died. The Southern part of theKhwarezmidStateincluded the middle and South of Afghanistan andPakistan, with the IndusRiverseparating it fromIndia. Jalaal Ad-Deen, the leader of the South, took from Ghaznah his headquarters, which lies now inAfghanistan, about 150 kilometers to the South of Kabul. It was a fortified city amidst theAfghaniMountainsof Paropa Mizus.

When Genghis Khan was finished with the Khwarezmid main leader Muhammad ibn Khawarizm Shaah and his state, he started to think about invading the middle and South of Afghanistan, and fighting his son Jalaal Ad-Deen. He dispatched a great army towards Ghaznah.

Of course, Jalaal Ad-Deen had previously received the news about how the Tatars horribly invaded the North and middle parts of theKhwarezmidState, and how his father died on an island in the middle of theCaspian Sea. As he became the legitimate leader of the state, his responsibility was greater. He began to prepare to fight the Tatars.

He mobilized a great army from his state, which was joined by a Muslim Turkish king, Sayf Ad-Deen Bughraaq, leading 30,000 fighters, and he was a brave audacious leader, of sound opinion and good plans in wars; and further 60,000 Khwarezmid soldiers who fled from different cities in the North and middle of the Khwarezmid State after their collapse; and Maalik Khaan, the governor of Herat, whose city had previously been overthrown by Genghis Khan, along with a brigade of his soldiers. In this way, the army of Jalaal Ad-Deen had a great number of soldiers. Jalaal Ad-Deen set out with his army to a region near Ghaznah called Balq, a harsh place amidst high mountains, where he lay in wait of the Tatarian army until it came.

One of the fiercest battles broke up between the united forces of Jalaal Ad-Deen and the Tatars, in which the Muslims fought desperately in defense of the ends of theKhwarezmidStatewhich in case of defeat, there would be nothing more to possess. The fanaticism of the Muslim fighters, the hard nature of the rocky and mountainous region, the great multitudes of Muslims, the bravery of the Turkish brigade led by Sayf Ad-Deen Bughraaq, and the good field leadership of Jalaal Ad-Deen, had a strong impact on the steadfastness of the Muslims in front of the legions of the Tatars.

This terrible battle lasted three days, and in the end Allaah The Almighty Sent down His victory upon the Muslims, and the Tatars were defeated for the first time in the Muslim territories, and suffered massive casualties, and the rest fled away to their king, Genghis Khan, who was centered in Taloqan, North-East of Afghanistan.

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