Balkh war and Bahram Chubin's use of a type of missile against the Balkh Khaghan

On November 28, 588 AD, the Iranian army used a new weapon in which crude oil was used in the war with Shabeh Khaqan in Balkh.. In this war, the commander of the Iranian army was General Bahram Mehran known as Bahram Chubin, who has been mentioned as a military genius in the military history of the world..
"Hormoz", the king of Sassanid dynasty, when he heard that the Khaqan of Northwestern China entered Iran's lands in Northeastern Khorasan. (Current Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan) has made Balkh his center and is going to capture Kabul and Badghis, Iranian generals to hold a meeting in the city of Tisfon (near Baghdad) He called the capital of Iran at that time and informed them of his decision to expel him from Iran and asked them to arrange the work. Hormuz said that according to the latest information that the commander of the army (The first general of the Iranian army ) Reached, "Khagan Shaba" has 300,000 armed men and several units of war elephants.
After exchanging opinions, the generals chose Bahram Chubin to do this important task and he accepted. Bahram, among the 500,000 Iranian army, 12,000 war veterans aged 30 to 40 (Middle-aged) He chose them because they were not overweight and their patriotism had already been proven and they were able to endure hardship more than others and had experience in mounted and infantry warfare. From the soil of the homeland.
Instead of choosing the usual route, Bahram went from Tisfon to Ahvaz and then reached Khorasan via Yazd and the desert without the Khaqan noticing.. Bahram, who believed in the spirit of the soldier more than any other tool in the war, gathered the soldiers every two days and spoke to them about the importance of patriotism and the mission that each person has in this field, and called them the hope of Iranians. – People who want to live comfortably and in peace with their culture.
Khaqan became aware of this campaign when Bahram was four days away from Balkh, and when he heard that Bahram had come with less than 13 thousand men, he did not worry much, and with all the men capable of carrying their weapons, historians reported 100 to 300 thousand people. End rushed to confront Bahram.
Bahram to fire units (Oilers) He recommended that they start the attack by throwing flaming arrows and continue until the formation of the Khaqan's troops is disrupted and they are not able to adjust it. (the horsemen) He said to target the elephants with arrows at the same time as the oil tankers attack, and then he himself attacked Khaqan's camp with two thousand elite horsemen.. Khaqan, who did not expect a direct attack on his headquarters, tried to escape and was killed, his huge army was disintegrated, and his son was later captured, and the war lasted only one day, which is one of the wonders of history..
Bahram Chubin Dar” Re ” He was born and belonged to the Mehran family. During the Sasanian era, the best officers of the Iranian imperial army came from the Mehran family..
Bahram, because of his height and muscular body, is like a stick( like wood) It became famous at the time when the Shah of Iran was the ruler of the northwestern quarter (From Ray to the northern border of present-day Georgia and Dagestan, including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kurdistan – A quarter of the whole of Iran . At that time, Iran was divided into four super provinces, each of which is called Charak) While visiting the crude oil eruption site in Badkob area (Baku) On the south-west coast of Mazandaran Sea and knowing the flammability of this material, it was decided to make a type of offensive weapon from it, and this task was entrusted to the army engineers. . In less than a year, an arrow was made that was not unlike today's rockets, and this arrow carried a spindle-shaped ball dipped in crude oil, which was thrown from a board that was placed on the back of a mule.. Its throwing style was not unlike a bow. The device of a string (intestine) and nettle (A type of tree of dry areas) It was made so that it was mounted on a board and it had a bailer and five men formed its crew, two of whom were archers, the third person aimed and was the commander of this fire, the fourth man was in charge of making the flame of the part. impregnated with crude oil (the arrow) and provided ammunition, and the fifth person took care of the mule, and each artillery unit was defended by eight spearmen..
When Bahram was engaged in driving back the Khaqans to the other side of the Pamir mountains and present-day Xinjiang, he heard that in the capital, the son of the king (Khosrow Parviz) He has staged a coup against his father who sent his thunderbolt to Tisphon on the banks of the Tigris. Khosrow Parvez fled and became a refugee to the Roman emperor, and Bahram took charge of affairs until the appointment of the next king, when the fugitive Parvez came to fight him with help from the Roman emperor.. A part of the Iranian army also joined Parvez, and after a few brief skirmishes, Bahram preferred to leave the political scene rather than continuing the fratricide and murder of Iranians by the hands of Iranians, which was an unacceptable thing, and returned to Khorasan and remained there until the end of his life.. According to the writings of many historians, the Samanids, who revived the Persian language and Iranian culture, are descendants of Bahram Chobin