The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1019: Mongolian Tactics
Genghis Khan, the lord of Mongolia, led the Mongolian cavalry all the way south with his favorite son Tuo Lei, 'Three Dogs', 'Four Heroes', and 'Four Adopted Sons'.

Like Jurchen and Liao, the Mongolian cavalry is divided into heavy cavalry and light cavalry with a ratio of [-] to [-]. They are equipped with Mongolian horses and five horses per person.

The tactics of the Mongolian cavalry are famous all over the world, although the Khitans and Jurchens also have super high archery skills.

However, the Khitan and Liao people all use charging as their main method, supplemented by bows and arrows, and even nomadic peoples except Mongolia use this method of warfare.

Mongolia is different!
The Mongolian cavalry mainly uses bows and arrows to the point of pointing fingers and rogues!
If the Mongols could not fight in close combat, they would shoot within the range of the bow and arrow. The enemy's charge would also use the small and flexible characteristics of the Mongolian horse to make sharp turns and continue shooting at a distance.

The Mongolian cavalry can do this by relying on horses and bows. It is said in history that he "takes the world with the benefit of bows and horses".

Horses are Mongolian horses. Some people say that Mongolian horses are ugly, short and ugly. Compared with European and Asian tall horses, their appearance is too big.

Before Mongolia, Mongolian horses were so ugly that even horse merchants would not buy them.

However, although the Mongolian horse is short, it has unparalleled endurance. It is short and more flexible, and its speed is not slow. It can make sharp turns, run longer and have more endurance.

The tall horse, which is much larger than the Mongolian horse, can't catch up with the Mongolian horse at a short-distance explosive speed, but is slowly dragged to death by endurance.

In the process of chasing, the constant shooting and consumption, just don't fight head-on, and when the opponent's horses are tired, they will stick to it even more.

In the eyes of the Mongols, there is no concept of an upright battle, only the devious kite-flying tactic consumes the opponent to death by endurance.

In order to make the Mongolian cavalry tactics so successful, it is also very important to have a sharp weapon besides the Mongolian horse!

Mongolian compound recurve bow.

The recurve in the bow and arrow refers to the reverse bending of the end of the bow, which is more labor-saving and can provide greater force to the arrow than the straight-drawn bow originally made by humans.

The traditional straight-draw bow becomes more and more difficult to apply force as the bow is opened wider, while the recurve bow weakens this defect.

Compound bows are made of wood with good elasticity and are wrapped with materials such as horns, tendons, and tendons.

Although Mongolia is in the bitter cold of Mobei, it has an advantage over most grassland nomads.

There is no shortage of wood. The territory of Maoxiong Kingdom in later generations is mostly forests. You must know that bows need wood to build, and the better the bow, the better the wood!

Looking at the nomads, the larger the high-quality deep forest is, the stronger it is.

For example, in Mongolia, the Jurchens who occupy the Greater Khingan Mountains, and the Liao in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun!
How strong are Mongolian compound recurve bows?
There have been experiments in later generations, with only 150 catties of pulling force, it can easily shoot a distance of [-] meters and [-] steps, and it still maintains terrifying power.

However, the Mongols' tactics are circuitous and entangled, with an average distance of about fifty steps, which is only a pulling force of 20 catties for later generations!

This pulling force was not even considered as a light bow in ancient times. In the Han Dynasty, thirty catties was a jun, and four jun was a stone.

It can be said that the Mongols have upgraded their archery technology, manufacturing technology and tactics to the top!

The Mongolian cavalry is top-notch in long-range, but weak in close combat?
No, this is covered up by the too bright long-range technology, and the Mongolian cavalry is also very strong in close combat, at least in the forefront of the nomads.

The main weapons of the Mongols in close combat are scimitars and spears.

"Black Tartar Stories" is the record of Peng Daya's envoy to Mongolia in the original history. The Mongols "in terms of their skills, the bow and arrow are the first, followed by the ring knife."

Unlike Jurchen and Khitan, who are good at using heavy weapons, the main weapon of the Mongols in close combat is the scimitar.

A sharp weapon that can cut through an opponent's armor just by using a horse to charge. Of course, this refers to light cavalry!
To deal with the heavy cavalry Mongols use spears, "Black Tartar Stories" also records that Mongolia "has long and short spears, and the blade is like a chisel, so it is not slippery, and can be worn with heavy bonds."

The heavy letter here means heavy armor, even if it is a stepman armor, it is actually a kind of armor, but the craftsmanship is more advanced!
The Mongols' spears also have a characteristic, with a hook at the iron neck, which can hook the enemy off the horse.Moreover, the Mongolian army also used a spear with spears on both ends, which was also very different from the Central Plains.

Are you familiar with it? That's right, Lu Heng Dasong's Golden Spear Rides with a Sickle and Hook Spear!

They are all hooking things, the golden spear hooks the horse's leg, and the Mongols hook people!

But Xu Ning is a character in the Water Margin, and there is no such person in history. Yue Fei smashed the Iron Buddha with a sickle and hook gun, which is also a description of Yue Quanzhuan.

In history, Yue Fei used Mazha knife to break the iron pagoda, and used the tactic of cutting horse legs to hide in ravines. There is no real record of sickle hook gun.

"Water Margin" and "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan" are both products of Ming and Qing Dynasties, after a hundred years!
After talking about the field battle, let's talk about the siege.

As mentioned above, the Mongols have many forest resources, and the Mongols are not as bad at attacking cities as other grassland peoples!

The Jurchens did not encounter any decent resistance when they went south. Zhao and Song either abandoned the city and fled, or surrendered. The only siege of Bingzhou was defeated by Wang Zhen with less than [-] soldiers and civilians for a year before they ran out of ammunition and food.

As for the Liao, it was even more unbearable. Before the Tanyuan Alliance, the Liao army went deep alone. After encountering a strong city and failing to break through the siege, they continued to move south. Many generals, including Yang Si, Yang Yanzhao, Wang Chao, and Li Jilong, stood behind the Liao.

Only in this way did the Khitan people go deep alone, forcing the Khitan to sign the century-old peace treaty "Chanyuan Alliance".

After Xiao Talin's death, someone suggested to hold on to the city and completely destroy the Liao army with the pocket array, but Zhao Heng didn't adopt it at that time.

With the disadvantages of the Liao people going deep alone and the morale of the marshal being killed at that time, Zhao Heng had some backbone to let Wang Chao, Li Jilong, Yang Si and others cut off the Liao people's retreat. That history is another chapter.

Pulling away, say it again!
Jurchen and Khitan are not good at siege, and the well-known Huns, Xianbei, Rouran, etc. are even less good at siege, but look back at Mongolia.

From the very beginning, it was troublesome to fight against Naiman to attack the stronghold. It gradually developed to the city of Khwarazmo, Nishapuran City, the capital city of Yulong Jiechi, and Samarkand. More than 700 fortresses in Europe.

Let’s not talk about the legendary return cannon. Before the return cannon, the Mongols learned siege equipment such as trebuchets and ballistas. In addition to equipment, bacterial warfare, captive warfare and other methods were used to the extreme.

In this way, the Mongols with advanced technology and tactics are invincible?Then what else?
In a way, it is true!
Mongolia conquered more than 30 countries all the way to the west, and the mighty Crusades were all defeated, and Eastern Europe was wiped out!
If it wasn't for Meng Ge's death that made all the armies return to Mongolia to end the Western Expedition, I really don't know where they could go.

Of course, this refers to the West to a certain extent. In the East, the Mongols still encountered a lot of nails...

(End of this chapter)