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On this day (November 28) in the year 588 AD, for the first time in the history of warfare, Iranians used crude oil balls launched with a special launcher in a war with yellow-skinned people for northwestern China.
These people invaded the northeastern part of Iran Present Tajikistan and north of Afghanistan) and occupied the city of Balk and Badghis. The commander of the Iranian army at this time was General Bahram Mehran (Choobeen) who was born in the city of Rey (six kms south of Tehran). Like a piece of wood (wooden-choobeen), he was tall and lanky along with being wise and a well-experienced officer. Bahram belonged to the Mehran family, which produced the best Iranian army officers from the second to the seventh centuries. He was the governor of “Azarbadgan and Armenia". After a visit to the gushers of crude oil eruptions on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, he saw the burning power of crude oil and ordered the military engineers to make crude oil (naft) more sticky to make a kind of ball similar to those made with cotton and mixed with crude oil. Then they developed a launcher that was able to throw a bunch of these flaming balls to the lines of enemies and disrupt their order on the battlefield. This new weapon was ready for a test within a few months and was secretly mass-produced.
Meanwhile, Hormoz, the Sassanid shah of Iran, decided to punish the yellow-skinned invaders and push them back to their own territories. However, they had three hundred thousand men with weapons. Hormoz assigned General Bahram (Choobeen) to wage this very dangerous war.
According to the Tabari’s writings and other historians, Bahram selected 12,000 men between the ages of 30 and 40 who were battle tested and among the best Iranian army of 500,000 soldiers. He did not march directly toward the city of Balkh, but chose another way from Ahwaz to Yazd (Yezd) and then across the desert to the outskirts of Balkh (not too far from Mazar-e-Shariff).
“Shabehâ€, the head of the yellows, known as “khaghanâ€, was informed too late of the approaching Iranian army. At that time, Bahram was only four days away for Balkh. The war lasted only one day (November 27). Bahram’s forces of 12,000 saw themselves face-to-face with 100,000 to 300,000 yellows on elephants.
Bahram ordered his soldiers to bombard Shabeh’s men with flamed crude oil balls and archers blinded the elephants with their arrows.
Meanwhile, Bahram himself, with 2000 men attacked the headquarters, killed Shabeh and captured his son. Bahram forced the yellows to retreat beyond the “Pamir†mountains.
These people invaded the northeastern part of Iran Present Tajikistan and north of Afghanistan) and occupied the city of Balk and Badghis. The commander of the Iranian army at this time was General Bahram Mehran (Choobeen) who was born in the city of Rey (six kms south of Tehran). Like a piece of wood (wooden-choobeen), he was tall and lanky along with being wise and a well-experienced officer. Bahram belonged to the Mehran family, which produced the best Iranian army officers from the second to the seventh centuries. He was the governor of “Azarbadgan and Armenia". After a visit to the gushers of crude oil eruptions on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, he saw the burning power of crude oil and ordered the military engineers to make crude oil (naft) more sticky to make a kind of ball similar to those made with cotton and mixed with crude oil. Then they developed a launcher that was able to throw a bunch of these flaming balls to the lines of enemies and disrupt their order on the battlefield. This new weapon was ready for a test within a few months and was secretly mass-produced.
Meanwhile, Hormoz, the Sassanid shah of Iran, decided to punish the yellow-skinned invaders and push them back to their own territories. However, they had three hundred thousand men with weapons. Hormoz assigned General Bahram (Choobeen) to wage this very dangerous war.
According to the Tabari’s writings and other historians, Bahram selected 12,000 men between the ages of 30 and 40 who were battle tested and among the best Iranian army of 500,000 soldiers. He did not march directly toward the city of Balkh, but chose another way from Ahwaz to Yazd (Yezd) and then across the desert to the outskirts of Balkh (not too far from Mazar-e-Shariff).
“Shabehâ€, the head of the yellows, known as “khaghanâ€, was informed too late of the approaching Iranian army. At that time, Bahram was only four days away for Balkh. The war lasted only one day (November 27). Bahram’s forces of 12,000 saw themselves face-to-face with 100,000 to 300,000 yellows on elephants.
Bahram ordered his soldiers to bombard Shabeh’s men with flamed crude oil balls and archers blinded the elephants with their arrows.
Meanwhile, Bahram himself, with 2000 men attacked the headquarters, killed Shabeh and captured his son. Bahram forced the yellows to retreat beyond the “Pamir†mountains.
