No matter what they say, but the Genghisids are a great dynasty, because its founder Genghis Khan managed to turn an amorphous something from a bunch of Mongolian tribes into a single state, and his successors were able to extend his power to half of the known world and even the collapse of the Mongol Empire did not change anything, Genghisids were respected in the Mongolian steppe and not only for the nobility of their breed, which was clearly demonstrated by Batu-Munke Dayan-khan, honored by modern Mongols as well as his great ancestor.
Batu-Munke Dayan-khan (1464-1543).
Dayan-khan’s turbulent life was ensured even at birth, because his father Bayan-Munke, the failed great Mongol khan, spent his life in battles for the reunification of Mongolia, most actively fighting with the Oirats led by Esen-taishi, Although he managed to make peace with his uncle Manduul-khan, he soon afterwards quarreled with him as well, which caused his death, and left his son a round orphan, who was brought up by Manduul-khan as his legitimate heir.
The shrine in which Batu-Munke was proclaimed Khan of all Mongols in 1479.
In 1479 Manduul-khan’s widow Mandukhtai-khatun raised Batu-Munke to the khan’s throne and immediately jumped out to marry him. Soon the newly minted khan proved by deed that the throne was not earned for the pretty eyes, in 19 years reuniting Khalkha-Mongolia under his rule, further defeating the Oirats and knocking them out of the previously conquered territories of Eastern Mongolia, and by 1495 subordinating to his power the “Three Guards” — Mongolian principalities, vassals of the Ming Empire, completing the reunification of the Mongolian lands under his rule.
Dayan Khan’s state and the territories under his control.
Having finished the reunification of the Mongolian lands, Dayan-khan went to war with China, though, at first, he tried to establish peaceful relations with it, but the failure of negotiations forced him to continue the raids he had started earlier, which he made as destructive as possible. All attempts of the Chinese to defeat Dayan-khan were unsuccessful, the raids stopped only in 1507 and that only because Dayan-khan went to war against the Tumets, Khorchins and Ordos, after the victorious completion of which he carried out an administrative reform, dividing the Eastern Mongols into 2 wings of 3 Tumen each, at the head of which he put his sons. Such a system, although it led to a complete decentralization of the state Dayan-khan, but provided Mongolia 100 years of quiet life, until the Manchus came.
Mongol raid on China under Dayan-khan.
A fortress in Datong (Shanxi Province, China), built on Dayan Khan’s orders as a base for a decisive campaign against Beijing.
In 1513 Dayan Khan resumed hostilities against China, but this time it was no longer raids, but the most real conquest campaigns. Now the Mongolian army, the number of which reached 70,000 people, quietly reached the south of China, destroying everything in its path, in addition, Dayan Khan built a fortress in Datong, holding directly in China garrison numbering 15000 soldiers. The most difficult for China in the confrontation with Dayan-khan was 1517, when the Mongols almost took Beijing and the Chinese perceived their victory in this battle as a miracle, but this did not prevent Dayan-khan to continue to destroy China until 1543, when he, having ruled for 64 years (the longest in the history of Mongolia), quietly and peacefully died in his native steppes, taking a place in the memory of his people next to his formidable ancestor Genghis Khan.