How did the Mongools conquer China? They must've been outnumbered like crazy.
>>18703586Courageous and experienced steppe warriors vs untrained peasants led by effeminate scholar-bureaucrats.
>>18703586The Jin and Song dynasties had been at war for years leading up to the Mongol conquests which weakened both of them and even after the Mongols took over Jin with the help of Song, it still took many, many more years for the Mongols to defeat the Song. The Mongols had conquered the Middle East well before they could conquer the Song, a task that took over 40 years to complete. And they certainly didn't defeat the Song through horseback archery like people generally assume. They defeated them through lengthy sieges and naval battles.
>>18703655>Mongol army>Look inside>Persian sappers, Chinese navy and infantry, Jin bureaucratsHistory is fake and gay this isnt mongol at all
>>18703655Chinks like to say this but southern china had a more hostile climate and geography for the mongols compared to Russia or the muslim world as well as a larger pop than both combined probably
>>18703723Yes which is why it took mongols 4 decades to conquer them. Were you paying attention?
They conscripted half the planet to conquer China. Literal horde after horde of 200k pressganged motherfuckers plus all the accumulated knowledge of warfare from their various peoples and all their elite educated motherfuckers. It was basically one of those how many waves can you survive type games for the Song Chinese. Even half of this effort pointed at Europe would have buckbroken it brutally. They just didn't because China was right there, full to the brim with riches, while Europe was viewed as a backwater nowhere shithole that was way on the edge of the empire. By the time they conquered China, the mongol empire had begun falling apart because retard Khan split his empire into fiefdoms for his sons who all hated each other so there could be no big united push to take Europe.>>18703715Yep
>>18703802Didn't the Arabs do something like this when they conquered Byzantine lands and Persia too?
>conquer an entirely separate kingdom by bypassing inhospitable terrain and losing probably half your force to disease alone just to flank the SongWild stuff. Song dynasty didnt stand a chance.
>>18703803Reminder Byzantine and Song dynasty have to fight them at same time>>18703960
>>18703803Absolutely false, the mujahideen (not """Arabs""") were outnumbered 10 to 1 and they themselves were armed with nothing but rags, stone weaponry and their faith in Allah
>>18703987>nothing but rags and stonesLmao
>>18703976>Byzantine and Song dynasty have to fight them at same timeNice ESL disgusting JEET, I note you included a link to your seething about Pakistan (JEETS too btw) thread. An actual response to your unintelligible street shitting bobble head garbage: 90% of the mongol war effort was devoted to China at that time while Byzantium faced a rump element that it paid off with extortionate tributes and whoring out it's princesses to steppe barbarians.
By consuming meat and dairy. They also used dried dung as fuel which makes very little smoke so they could move around the countryside and camp at night undetected. During the daytime they had at least three screens of riders all around to conceal the main army's movement. They were also 3-5 times faster than any pedestrian army (except for the Heruli but that's another topic). Basically nobody saw the Mongols coming until they came.
