Mongolia | Chingis Khan Rides West | March from Mongolia to the Realm of the Khwarezmshah
I posted earlier about the Death Of The Naiman Adventurer Khüchüleg . With Khüchüleg no longer in the picture, Chingis Khan was free to invade Khwarezmia and avenge the Deaths of His Envoys to Otrar . According to the Secret History of the Mongols, he announced: I shall set out against the Sarta ’ ul people [Khwarezmians], To take revenge To requite the wrong for the slaying of my hundred envoys with Ukhuna at their head . . .” His anger over the murder of his envoys to the Khwarezmshah may have cooled, but his resolution to exact retribution had stiffened. His intelligence networks would have informed him that while the Khwarezmshah was inflicted by infighting among his family and court and by rising discontent among the populace of his empire, he was still capable of putting half as million or so soldiers into the field. It would not do to ride off half-cocked against such an enemy. Chingis organized the invasion of Khwarezmia in the same step-by-step methodical way he had atta...