Ghazi Baraj Tarihi

Ghazi Baraj Tarihi. Chapter 24

ToWhen the news came about the attack of the Tatars by the son of Jochi Khan Batu on the State and the delighted Dzhurgi ordered me to lead a 10,000-strong army to capture Kazan, I found myself at the height of despair. We went out in winter - 2 thousand horsemen and 8 thousand infantry, armed one worse than the other. On the way, we were joined by another 10 thousand Kan and Kisan horsemen who decided to profit in the region of my son. We had almost reached the Lachyk-Uba balik along the most vile Kan-Mardan route, when a defector appeared from there. He, as I learned later, was purposely sent by Hisam. We learned from him that Altynbek, with the Baityubins and Bashkorts, stopped and then destroyed 25 thousand Tatars and Kipchaks of Batu. The balik, near which the battle took place, was named "Bugulma" in memory of the heroism of the bakhadirs. Khan barely left, having received a wound in the lower back. Only Mergen was with him, for the great Khan Ugyatai did not give him Subyatai. It was rumored that he, having sent Batu, miserable in military affairs, to the State, wanted to complete the destruction of the Jochi clan, dangerous for the throne of Menkhol, with the swords of the Bulgars. The Kursybaevs returned to Bulyar with spears, on which several heads of enemies were impaled. The defector also said that the Kan with the entire victorious army was moving from Deber to Jun-Kala, towards us. Urman's grandson Ar-Aslap immediately offered to turn off the dangerous road and rob Burtas, hated by the Kisans and Kanians, promising an easy victory. My boyars supported him, and I, having sent Djurgi news of the rebellion of the troops, went to Burtas. Having reached the Saran balik, which was on the border of Mishar and Mardan and surrendered to me without resistance, I declared that I would remain here to await Dzhurgi's response to my report. But only 1,500 of my June infantrymen remained with me, and all the rest rushed to Burtas, for they knew that no one from the State would help Ablas-Khin. Imagine my amazement when, during a detour of the surroundings, I met Badri himself. It turns out that Altynbek immediately after the defeat of Batu moved his army against him, and he barely jumped out of the city before the arrival of Gazan and Boyan. Quickly realizing that a sad fate awaited my army and that Djurgi would not forgive me for this, I decided to run away. I could only run in one direction - to Manhol. Ordering my 300 djuras to either return or join Badri, I went with the emir to Sarychin. Here Ablas-Khin, beloved by the locals, remained, and I, with a hundred of his desperate jurors, moved to the East.

The fate of my army, as I later learned, was more than sad. It found Boyan in the city of the Arbugins, but with criminal frivolity decided nevertheless to besiege Burtas. Meanwhile, Gazan, who was scouring around in search of Badri, found out about the arrival of the Uruses and immediately attacked their camps right in broad daylight. Seeing the Kan banners behind enemy lines, the Arbuginians left the city with a terrible growl and also attacked the frightened enemies. A terrible massacre took place, for the kursybays and Arbugins, invulnerable to most Uruses, were intoxicated by the recent victory and fought with a vengeance, taking no prisoners. This time, the Kisan and Kan cavalry could not leave because of deep snows and, having got stuck in them during a stampede, was shot by the kursybays and Mardans, captured by the passion of hunting. There is nothing to say about the Balyn infantry - it quickly laid out the road for the Bulgar cavalry. Boyan then told me that 15 Kisan and Kan beks were killed, and from 2 thousand boyars, not counting the rest. Of my entire army, two hundred people with Ar-Aslap left alive, and Khisam captured the Balyns who remained in Saran. Kisan and Kan were left without cavalry - the best part of their army ...

Batu was no better than Ar-Aslap, and he was thinking about suicide, which he happily expected at the headquarters of the great khan. When I arrived at his headquarters and announced who I was, he did not believe me, put me in a separate yurt and called old man Mergen ... Finally Mergen appeared and confirmed my identity. Batu was mad with joy and ordered to release my djurs, who were tortured, trying to catch me in a lie. Several djuras died from unbearable torment. Batu, trying to get my forgiveness, offered me money for this, but I replied: “Money cannot replace the jur.” Batu then asked: "What do you want from me?" I said: “Are you the ruler of all Tatars?” The Khan was embarrassed and, looking around, said: "No, I'm just the governor of the great Khan Ugyatai in Kypchak." To this I remarked: "Then I will answer your question Ugyatai." Together we went to the great khan, who already knew about me and about my answers to Batu ...
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Ugyatay met us at the headquarters on a horse. Batu hurried to dismount and approached the Great Khan like a delinquent boy. He said something sharply to him, and Batu fell prostrate at the feet of his horse. I also dismounted and bowed in greeting ... The Great Khan, having finished his short reception of Batu, made a sign to me, and I rode after him. We drove up to a beautiful pavilion on a picturesque hill and entered it, and the great khan's dzhurs formed a ring around the hill at a respectful distance from us. We had only an interpreter with us, who knew the Kypchak and Khorasan languages, but it turned out that Ugyatay spoke Kashan quite well, and we often managed without an intermediary. The Great Khan expressed his admiration for my response to Batu's proposal to take money for the dead djurs. “You are a great kan if you said so! Ugyatai noted. “If it wasn’t for you, I would immediately put an end to Batu for the death of 15 thousand of our soldiers!” “I am only an emir,” I replied, realizing who I was sitting in front of. “And I must say that the praise in the mouth of a real great khan becomes even greater.” "Do you want to sit on your father's throne?" – asked Ugyatay, who again liked my answer and finally won me over. “Yes—but only when it pleases you to form an alliance with me,” I replied.

I didn't lie. In Jun-Kal, I had a dream that I was left alone in the ashes of a devastated city, and, waking up, I realized that the Creator himself had directed me to save the country from a devastating collision with Menkhol. During the trip, seeing the power of the Tatars, I was even more strengthened in my decision. "Where does your family come from?" Ugyatai asked. “From the Kans of the Khons,” I answered. “My clan also comes from the Kans of the Khons,” the great khan remarked. “Therefore, it would be unfair if you were subjected to humiliation in our empire.” His eyes sparkled, he became more and more inspired ... Finally, he stood up and said: “From now on you will be the ally of Manhol. I recognize you as the emir of Bulgar and, besides this, the common ambassador of our powers in the West.”

With this, the great khan equalized me with the rest of the Genghisides, for the ambassador of the sovereign Menkhol is above the khans and is not subject to them. I was the only non-Chingizid who received the title of ambassador and was thus accepted into the ruling house of Menkhol. True, I met a friendly disposition only at Mankai and Subyatai, while the rest did not hide their anger towards me or recognized me only out of fear of the great khan ... And he, as I was told, was very reminiscent of Chingiz - especially in moments of his enthusiasm, when he received my most successful decisions ... But such a situation was not painful for me, because it reminded me of my usual position in the State ... I rejoiced at the decision of Ugyatay not because it was beneficial for me personally, but because it protected the State from senseless death in a collision with Tatars...

Arriving at the headquarters of Mergen, who trembled at the meeting with me, as before the great khan, I immediately sent letters to all parts of the State. My uncle Ishtyak, after some hesitation, recognized me as the emir of the State, and I moved from Kyzyl Yar to him in Ufa. Khisam and Yaldau also recognized me and promised not to help Altynbek. Kan sent me a daughter - Altynchach, who, in response to my question about the reason for this, mockingly stated: "Father said that you are a woman, because you betrayed the Power, and therefore he ordered me to pass his decree on declaring you a rebel." Ishtyak grinned, but I restrained myself and said: “Tell your father that only those regions will be saved that will obey me, recognized by the Tatars. The rest will be invaded by the Tatars, and I won’t be able to help them with anything ... "...

Dzhelaletdin was left alone with his son and Bachman and could not do anything, because Gazan refused to fight with his own ...

To prevent the devastation of populous areas, I ordered the Tatars to prepare for a campaign against Bulyar through Bashkort. Before the attack, Yulai came to me - the ambassador of the supreme head of the Christians of Frangistan "Baba". It turns out that one of Bele-bey's letters reached Avaria thanks to the Sadum merchant Kender, and the Modjar papazas, on the orders of the "Bab", went to the State immediately after the raid by Subyatai to confirm the rumors about the Christianity of the Tatars. Badri helped them get from the Saklan Mountains to Bandja, who reconciled with him at the request of Suvar Yorta. From there they were taken to Bulyar by seid Gali, who traveled around the country in order to achieve the unity of the State. Altynbek did not want to let Yulai through to me, but thanks to Fatima, he was able to get to Ufa. I spoke with Yulai in Alman and in the language of my mother, a Baigul Seberyachka, and he understood me quite well, for he was a modjar. And I told him that the Tatars would subjugate everything that was located between the State and the border of Almania, and that this was a settled matter. And I promised him, as an ambassador, that if the francs did not oppose this, then the Tatars would not cross the borders of Almania ... And I had the seal of the great khan, and I sent a letter with Yulai to the bek of Avaria with a call to submit peacefully to Menkhol. And As-Azim also spoke with Yulai and urged him to help me, as an emir kind to Christians ... And Ishtyak was so excited by Yulai's story about the life of the Modjars that he began to think about moving there after conquering hostile Rus' ...
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Finally, losing his patience, Ugyatai decided to subjugate Bulyar to me by force. When I saw that 80 thousand Tatars and 170 thousand Kipchaks, Turkmens and Kashans rushed to Chishma, I wept, for I knew how this invasion would end. After all, the son of the good Ugyatay Guyuk told me harshly that he would fight according to the Tatar laws, that is, turn the resisting cities into nothing. After two weeks of fighting, the Tatars from three directions were able to break through only in one - the central one, losing 15 thousand fighters. Everyone fought fiercely with them, right down to the subashes, and I was only able to get my Bashkort Bulgars not to participate in this. The Sarmanians fell to the last in the defense of Tabyl-Katau, where they went with my arrival in Ufa. Mankai, amazed by their courage, ordered their bodies to be burned, which was considered the highest military honor. Gazan, taking advantage of the steadfastness of the Baraj fortress in the lower reaches of the Chishma, went to Dzhuketau and stood there, waiting in the wings ...

After our breakthrough, the Ak-Chirmysh left eight ramparts and withdrew to Bulyar, so that Subyatai was finally able to pass from that side as well. The capital, which gathered at least 200 thousand people, of which 25 thousand were armed, was surrounded. The Tatars besieged it for 45 days. When Khinuba fell, Gazan broke through Mergen's ring of Oimeks and struck at the rear of Guyuk, Baydar and Ord. They were thoroughly defeated, and Batu, standing nearby, retreated from the city in horror. Emir Bachman, who was the sardar of the besieged, took advantage of this. Together with Altynchach and 15 thousand fighters, he broke through the formed passage and went to Bandzha, to Boyan. Here they did not get along, and Boyan went to Burtas. Badri, expelled from Sarychin by Mankai Buchek's brother, occupied Razi-Suba...

Subyatai was barely able to restore order and recapture Ghazan. The seriously wounded sardar retreated to Dzhuketau, but, seeing the complete exhaustion of the kursybay, he retreated to Kashan and died there. Delighted, Mergen rushed to the settlement of Tukhchi and slaughtered many merchants there. This outraged everyone, and the khans ordered Batu to cut the tarkhan into pieces. He did this with extreme reluctance, for he valued Mergen, who was personally loyal to him. After that, the Tatars began to fill up the ditches and walls of Men Bulyar with earth and logs. The inhabitants tried to prevent this by firing at the enemy with sherejirs and iron arrows, but when these funds were exhausted, the Tatars made several approaches to the walls. And I drove up to the city and tried to persuade the inhabitants to surrender, but I was wounded by an arrow in the shoulder and carried to the yurt ...

The besieged fought to the last opportunity, but under the pressure of the Tatars rushing to storm, they set fire to Men Bulyar and retreated to the echke-kalga. During the crossing Gali's grandson got lost and Saulia fell behind trying to find him. The grandson survived, but the unfortunate woman who raised him as her son was killed by a Tatar stone ...

Echke-kalga held on for another five days. It was taken by the youngest son of Genghis, the ambitious Kulkhan. But when he inadvertently burst forward at the Baraj mosque, Karabash's son Minnebay Yamat shot him from the minaret of Suleiman and killed him on the spot. Fatima threw herself from the same minaret with her son Altynchach and crashed to death with him ...

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