Ye-lui Akhai (ca. 1150 - ca. 1222) was a member of a noble Khitan type Ye-lii who served the Jurchen Jin dynasty . During the reign of the Jin Emperor Zhanzong ( 1189-1208 ), he was sent as ambassador to the Kereitian Wang Khan , at whose headquarters he met Temujin (later - Genghis Khan ). Ye-lu Akhay decided to enter his service and promised to leave the hostage. The following year, Ye-lii Ahai brought Temujin as a hostage to his younger brother Ye-lii Tuhua . The brothers went to the service of the founder of the Mongolian empire before 1203 , since it is known that they took part in the oath of allegiance by relatives and comrades of Temujin on the eve of the defeat of Van Khan.
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Ye-lu Akhai led the Mongolian troops, who raided the Tangut kingdom in 1205 and took two Tangut cities, Heicheng and Dingzhou [1] (from Rashid al-Din , Ligili and Losa [2] ). The brothers Ye-lii participated in the Mongol campaign against Jin in 1211 . They seized the imperial herds in Suiyuan province and drove them away to the Mongols. In 1214, the brothers were guides to the army of Samokhe, advancing on Zhunda . Ye-lu Akhay accompanied Chinggis Khan in the Central Asian campaign and was appointed commandant of the garrison in captured Samarkand . In 1222, he was made chief of the Drugachi over the cities of Central Asia , but he soon died in Samarkand.
In the cinema
- Ye-lu Akhai, as a warlord of Genghis Khan, is featured in the Chinese-Mongolian 30-episode serial "Genghis Khan" (episodes 25, 26).
Notes
- ↑ Khrapachevsky P.P. The military power of Genghis Khan. - M .: AST, 2005. - p. 216. - 557 p. - (Military history library). - ISBN 5170279167 .
- ↑ Rashid ad-Din. Collection of Chronicles / Trans. from Persian OI Smirnova, edited by prof. A. A. Semenov. - M., L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1952. - T. 1, Vol. 2. - p. 252. (inaccessible link)
Source
- Men-da Bay-lu ("A complete description of the Mongol-Tatars") / Trans. N. Ts. Munkueva. - M .: Science, 1975.