3 tumen (30,000 men) of the Golden Horde invaded Shirvan, which was under the control of the Ilkhanate, who responded with a counter attack, pushing the Golden Horde out of Shirvan, through the Darial Gorge, further to the Terek River, until eventually reaching the settlement Braguny, Chechnya. In january of 1263, a brutal battle, in which 300,000 men participated on both sides. It ended in a defeat for the Hulagud and their culminating retreat through Derbent, Dagestan and the consolidation of the Darial Gorge by the Golden Horde. This war also ended in the devastation of today's Chechnya and Ingushetia. Uprising of the North Caucasians Prelude In 1277, as a result of tax oppression, armed conflicts between the lowlanders of the North Caucasus and the Mongol Empire broke out (See "Other minor uprisings and clashes" section). This eventually led to a new large scale confrontation between the Golden Horde and the North Caucasians. Another reason why these movements were caused was the fact that the Mongols “not only swarmed, corrupted and withered the soul of the people who fell under it", as well as the establishment of a regime of systematic terror whose weapons were robberies and massacres. The dominance of the Golden Horde in the steppe zone of the North Caucasus was a time of severe trials for the native people. Chakh 26 years after the death of his father Khour I, Chakh, father of Khasi II, organized a large rebellion against the Mongols, the uprising of the North Caucasians, commonly known as the Dedyakov rebellion. The uprising The territory of the uprising covered large parts of the North Caucasus, with its center in the Alan city Taodag, which is called Dedyakov in Russian chronicles, according to which, the uprising was so large that Mengu-Timur asked help from Russian princes, doubting that his army was large enough. He also had to personally put it down. The "Glorious city Yassky Dedyakov" was besieged in the beginning of 1278, until it fell to the troops of Mengu-Timur in february of the same year. Chakh managed to escape, however, despite the devastating defeat, refused to surrender. Aftermath and the fate of Chakh The city was destroyed by Mongol troops following it's fall. After this defeat, Chakh, along with his companions, fled into the mountains of Chechnya, aiming to reach the mountains north of the lake Kazenoy-Am, Southeastern Chechnya, on the border to