How did the Mongols Conquer Strongholds and Cities?
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The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Mongol History continues with a video on the siegecraft of the Mongol army, where we will learn how Genghis Khan and his successors were able to conquer so many strongholds and cities.
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How do we Mongols siege cities? Same way you do idiot. 1. we grab some siege equitment 2. we threaten them with death *we divert a river into our on troops* 4. we conquer the city.
Song name 9:32- 11:54?
Great Video as always
how did mongol take Almut because it was on a mountain
Will you ever cover the condottieri mercenary companies of 15th century Italy?
15 year siege. cant even imagine how devastating that is for everyone involved
they become vegan.
@@mustipunyaemail Wrong, they become cannibals.
They probably felt like the citizens of Afghanistan
Must be like a 30 day siege in Mount & Blade Warband.
Yea, imagine from you're born till you're 15 having to live in a besieged city...
Because Genghis Khan hired a hero from the local tavern at Tulga with party Engineering skill of 10
Shame he kept bickering with tge medic
What game is this
Hady Mohamed bannerlord
Warband buddy eyy, hrrg mi lord.
@@huge9944 I can see Mohamed Bannerlord being a mod.
Since Chinese' defenses against Mongol sieges lasted so long, I am surprised documentaries never took interest in the Chinese defensive fortifications and castles like they did with Japanese and Medieval European castles. I know China never really build castles, but their fortified cities are equally amazing at what they accomplished.
actually Song's later emperor was so incompetent. they had a general who fought Mongols and won the battle. but the emperor killed the general. the emperor have many loyal and competent officials but he trusted the crafty ones. the Yangtze River is the last defense Song had. And the Mongols didn't have ships don't know how to manage ships at first. when Song have a Ship troop then.But the emperor will just have fun all day. Song's doom was long sealed beforehand. It's just a matter of time that Yuan got the last of it.
@@ChevyChase301 dude the Song Wars was the biggest of all Mongol Conquest campaigns.
@@ChevyChase301 the Song Dynasty was one of the most powerful kingdoms in this age. They had a massive population and could rely on a total military manpower of around 700,000 men. Far more than any kingdom in feudal Europe could ever hope to muster. Not to mention that the Song dynasty was immensely wealthy. Their focus on defense from their wars against the Jin and the mongols allowed them to build great and incredible fortifications. They were an exceedingly difficult conquest for the Mongols. Far more difficult than any of their conquests in Europe, Persia or the Levant.
@@codybell6882 It’s more complicated than Mongol vs China. There are so few mongols. Kublai Khan conquered Song mostly with ethnic Chinese troops with Mongolian commanders few and far between. So it’s more like China conquered China. The common people are sick of the corrupt Song elite.
@@ChevyChase301dude Mongol's main target are China, europe is just a side objective, it took them over 60 years to conquer China while only 4 years is enough for them to destroy all of russia and eastern europe, had it not for the untimely death of the Great Khan and the busy and hard campaign in China, western europe would have fall quickly.
You guys never disappoint
Thanks for supporting us for 18 months!
Well Hel O’Deer thats is quiet confusing!
TurkzZZ 23 People who supports the channel gets to see the video earlier
Patreons get early access to video content!?
Well Hel O’Deer if you pay for a higher price u get it sent to u before anyone else
The Mongols really knows how to adapt accordingly to their surroundings.
There best tactic was no mercy for the weak,
Yet, they parished and now Mongolia is a joke and noone wanna go there to see something. This is what happens when you loot, sack and destroy and build almost nothing.
Yet, everyone wanna visit Rome etc.
Their own life style in the harsh plains of Mongolia taught them to adapt or die.
@@CptSlow89 So..?
The adapted so much that they virtually got assimilated into the nations they conquered!
Mongol Siege tactics as I understand:
Step 1: Raid a country and capture engineers
Step 2:Tell those guys you caught to build some siege engines
Step 3:Attack said country
Step 4:Capture people from villages and use them as human meat shields
Step 5:Breach the walls
Step 6:Massacre the population
Step 7:Rinse and Repeat
Step 8:Have the biggest continuous land empire in the world
Main component: Talk about it! So that the cities who had heard of this will capitulate without a fight.
12. Promise religious freedom. That's how the Mongols conquered Kara-Khitai kingdom without lifting a finger.
@@eduardogutierrez4698 It is different culture from which you believe proper. I suppose your ancestors was dirty barbarians during roman rule.
@@eduardogutierrez4698 Did any other empires brought peace to call pax mongolica? Of course the Mongols raped, enslaved, plundered but it was only for whom that shown some action against Mongols. There was not hardly any discrimination based on belief or ethnic. Religious groups used to debate with each others instead of waging war and killing each other. It is true that after Kublai khaan the Mongols lost its unified power. However there is no way that vast empire would fall in instant. Fall of Mongols continued hundreds of years(almost 500 600 years). On the other hand name of Mongols did not reach to Europe because of Moscow centred new Rus(on the golden horde heritage) and new Ming dynasty (rose up on Yuan dynasty) got too strong. Eventhough Mongols were one of the superpowers in the region.
@David Gwin First of all I am not very about tartassians. What I mean is settled civilisation is the only one. Settled ones did not have a knowledge about nomadic lifestyles so they referred nomad(homeless poor). If I recall what did great discoveries brought to which discovered(America and others). They brought ruin to them. However under the Mongol rule some of conquered ones(without resisting) reached its peak. Of course Mongols conquered, ruled mostly over fear. But that is one of the strategies that they used. Mongols were always had a low population. They could not afford lose its precious man power in every battles or siege.
Siege warfare is my favourite subject. The mongols sieged almost the whole known world. Thanks K&G for this great delight😍
Yes!We are coming...🏇🏇🏇🏴🏴🏴
Y’all already came
@@flyingfish5686 We will come in Xingxiang against China to liberate Uyghurs.🏴🏴🏴
@ Saad Bin Anwar , Tibet ?
@@thekhans2823 No.We Muslims are one nation.Know which nation destroyed Mongols.And Which religion was Mongol converted?
"How did the Mongols Conquer Strongholds and Cities?"
By hiring the Chinese.
this pretty much
An early form of subcontracting
meanwhile in song dynasty : 4 year old emperor sit in the throne
@@superspies32 lol are you on high or something. Invading vietname for the financial trouble is like saying, America invade hawaii for their financial trouble.
America(song dynasty) is 1st economy in the world. The Song were the first to use paper money because their economy grow too big for metal currency. Lol rip history
I have seen this a lot southeast asian trying to pass fake histories because now they fell behind east asian economy and gdp
So outsourcing work to China is not modern as I once thought lol
"Nooooo you can't use advanced siege engines you're a bunch of primitive nomads!"
"Ha ha, enslaved engineers go brrrr"
@@franknuzzo2576 Slaves don't make efficient armies.
Subutai. Won over 70 pitched battles. Fought battles on multiple continents at the same time. Master of all parts of warfare.
How possibly could anyone be in two places at the same time
He used terror on civilians. The worst of the lot.
@@mts4759 On the contrary, the intelligent commanders use everything they can, feelings doesn't determine worth.
@Watcher okok, I get it now, thanks for the reply!
Subutai was the greatest general in human history. Yes, surpassing even Alexander, Napoleon and Caesar.
They had Magellan TV to help them with the sieges.
They had nord vpn to surprise attack chinese from where they least expected
And everyone knows nothing helps Chinese scholars pass their exams like Great Courses Plus!
They conquered the raid shadow legends clan with brutal violence.
Their engineers acquired the knowledge of building siege weapons from SkillShare
We need more Mongol, Timur and Attila videos.
Throw Nader Shah in there.
The Battle of Kalka River was an absolute masterpiece by subutai
Man feels like ages since I actually had time to sit down and watch a Kings and generals video. Too much going on!
@@ruskyalmond1977 When im not pumping out videos I certainly try to! Just released a 30 min documentary on Tiberius Gracchus, that's taken the best bit of two months to complete!
@@ruskyalmond1977 thankyou!
Genghis Khan: I built a unified Empire by uniting all the Mongol tribes.
Grandsons: We don't care.
Thanks to that none of us is speaking mongolian right now.
The Mongols only destroyed they never created.
@@Harrier_DuBois Never is a strong word. I mean they *did* create the Mongol identity. So by the words of the great prophet Justin Bieber "Never say never"
@@Harrier_DuBois Russia was born through the Golden Horn after the empire fell. So . . . . .
@@tryomama Yeah they massacred the Rus people and then subjugated them. Not exactly anything to be proud of.
Brilliant video as always!, Nothing sounds more horrifying then being used as a human shield!
Yep, not epic
very uncool
To date Persian speakers figuratively and/or sarcastically use the expression "hashar keshidan" to denote swarming with sheer numbers. Crashing a wedding with uninvited guests would be one example!
There is a new conspiracy around, started by russians, that mongol empire never exisited. Mongolia was create in the 1700s or something. That gengis was white and not asian looking. It is about tataria history, and that all modern history before 1500s is a lie, and that the whole mongol horde was actually a christian crusade horde fighting againist the catholic horde..
So my point is, how sound are the supporting evidence for these videos
@@ShabrangBehzad Zerg rush
By the Heavens! I'm from Székesfehérvár, Hungary, and while I know about the city's defense against the Turks, I have never heard that it was one of the very few cities that was able to repel a Mongolian siege
It's another proof that you can learn so much outside the formal education system, thanks Kings and Generals!
Imagine staying inside the city walls for 15 years, damn that is a hard time
Probably surrendered when the toilet paper ran out.
Some people are already having trouble after 6 months.
Nah sieges that long weren't continuous... They make treaties n break them over and over
To think that one army fought against both Knights and Samurai is astonishing
0:20 only true gamers recognize that catapult/mangonel sound
age of empires 2
True conqueror moment .
Stronghold 2
Amen brother!!! 🤩🤩
In spite of the horrificness of many of these tactics, you have to appreciate the genius of them
As a Korean, thx for mentioning Park Seo and his men, a real hero
대한민국 만세
Lets just say, Geneva would probably not be happy.
Please post videos about
-Tengrism beliefs and worldview
-Ottoman empire ideology and social hierarchy
-Portuguese empire and age of discovery
-Mughal empire and Islam
-Islam empires in Africa
-Islam golden age discoveries
-Alexander the great personality
Hashar slaves: A way to make the army appears bigger than it really is.
Soviet Union: "Write that down! Write that down!"
Hashar actually means barricade or fence in Mongolian. So the naming was really fucking brutal and inhumane.
@@jawharz9759 yes they did lol just like the Mongol empire but war is creul
@@ICCraider yeah war is cruel and that was an tactic that the enemy surrenders or atleast demoralize them
@@KristofKarwinskithegreat-se5pu We'd need a source for that claim of yours.
@@LuisAldamiz Okay, tankie.
"They dug holes through their own walls to pour molten iron on mobile shelters protecting the sappers"
*BRUTAL*
Hunter D
And iron melts at 1538 C instead of solder at about 300C
PS: bodies mélted by molten iron cannot be identified by DNA as the DNA structure would have been destroyed at the high temps. There is an accident in a iron factory and 2 dozens of workers are melted more than 10 years ago
Imagine you left your village to join the army at very young age, after rigorous and long training, you become the Captain or something
And suddenly the mongols bring your family in the village as meatshield to face you.
Oof
Yikes
They might not kill by force but they can kill psychologically
Thank you, Kings and generals. You post very well studied histories of Mongolia. Deep respect to you.
The fact that Mongols were successful in hot and cold weather is insane. The cold weather stopped modern armies in WWII
I think their strongest weapon was spreading fear to their enemies before they arrive.
Your videos and podcasts on the mongols have been very enlightening. Thanks to your videos and podcast I gained a bigger understanding of that part of history while enjoying the whole process thoroughly.
There were occasions where a city or stronghold would break out into a civil war due to the divide between those who did and did not want to surrender. The mongols would just let them tear themselves apart then finish the job once it was opportune.
Massive respect to you guys for committing to this awesome series. Knowingly making thorough videos on more niche topics. I salute you!
I'm Mongolian and I would like to say thank you so much for teaching us real history about Mongolia.
Your guys videos are awesome, I just started listening to your podcast and I'm all the up to the mongols and the videos you guys have been doing allows you to have a deeper appreciation of the history your listening to as well as contextualize it more.
You guys are just going deeper and deeper and it keeps getting better too keep it up. We are with you ❤❤
This was one awesome video. I loved the video's on the Mongols. I hope you come out with the next video in the Imjin War soon. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
It would have been interesting to see Mongols trying to capture Constantinople
It wold mean another tens of thousands of deaths. I guess it would be interesting, but I'd rather not
Mongolians were stopped by turkic tribes under Ertugrul descendant of Oguz Khan
It would be devistated as same as siege of Baghdad or siege of Kaifebg
@@sergelengerelmaa2450 And the stone citadels that defied the Mongols in Eastern Europe, as stated in the video?
Constantinople survived being surrounded by the Ottoman empire, and being reduced to essentially a city state. It took cannons to breach the walls.
@@superspies32 my thoughts exactly. So Constantinople could get food supplies from sea and they have plenty of water stored in their cisterns.
This is very high quality stuff, I really like the animations. You put a lot of effort into this. I subscribed the moment I watched the very 1st video!
Thanks For the Useful Information Keep up rhe Good Work👍
As a Mongolian, i learnt more from Kings & Generals 😂 the small details are, simply enormous! The research must have been overwhelming. Needless to say, another great video about our forefathers. Thank you Kings & Generals.
@ 悪魔AKUMA , yes
Your Grandfather committed a lot of atrocities, hope you are praying for forgiveness
@ @@Exemption88 , God sent them to do his bidding there, and besides it was complete fine and normal for the mangold to do such things.... since you know the medieval era
@@thekhans2823 I’m sorry I don’t know that the Khan still exist , please Khan don’t come and Annihilate my people
@ @@Exemption88 , thats right
Mongols conquered because they had the military genius; "Genghis".
R C Who talks about lineage? There is no doubt about his genius.
Don't forget subotai. That dude was king in land fights, never lost a single battle
As always
Great work by King's and General.
Very clear and thorough explanation - thanks.
Greetings from Esztergom, Hungary :) Great to see my hometown mentioned on the channel.
Kings and Generals one of my favourite channels on CZcams🌹
As usual,never disappointing and excellent,keep it up general
Wonderful animation big respect and thx for the great video
Shoutout to my Nizari Assassin ancestors. Gone but never forgotten ❤
Ameen ❤
You guys were evil and traitors... Death and hell to assasins
You do know that a lot of Nizari ismailis are decendents from gengis khan. Ask your Afghan ismailis.
21 minutes of relaxation and history epicness
Thanx for liking my comment really make me feel good
Amazing as always
Amazing as always KnG!
You know what would be epic? Having a Dan Carlin narrated mongol episode on this channel. Mind would be blown.
A small mountain fortress (Diaoyu) endured 36 years of besieging and surrendered only after learning the death of the last Song emperor in 1279. That's also the fortress where Mongke Khan met his final fate. Nowadays we see many people in certain countries who can't even cope with a couple weeks of staying at home and need to get their hair cut, or score at a night club.
This Channel is Amazing thanks alot 👍🏼
Kings and Generals with much needed history content❤️
When will the next part for early Islamic conquests series come out?
Waiting desperately for it!
Yeah
Same
Most important series in my opinion
@@user-xs1ef4bv4y to us
the mongol empire is like a child that got famous too early and was overcome by it
hi im from Mongolia, and yeah i agree with your point, Mongols didn't know their history, which means Mongol empire was a young child while China was 3000 years old
Yeah, they forgot their own culture and started to dive into other cultures and move in to big castles in China which made them basically weaker, just like the China was. Also many of the princes sought after the Throne to be Khan and went full civil war on each other.
@@rockstar450 This is a comedically ignorant. The Mongols were not generally thrown off by rebellion. Similarly to Normans and Vikings, they assimilated into local cultures and simply stopped being Mongolian. The Mongols ruled China for a long time as Emperors, not overlords. Your perspective is informed by outdated stereotypes and wishful thinking.
@@mycaleb8 Well, he IS right in that the Mongols completely failed to generate long term loyalty among the people they conquered. The fact they assimilated so well into other cultures, instead of other cultures assimilating into theirs (the other way around), is proof for that. Other empires have profoundly shaped the world to this day, such as the Roman Empire with its culture and legal system. How much of the Mongol empire still remains today, that wasn’t part of another power structure like the Chinese’s dynasties they integrated into ? Nothing.
@@TheAtmosfear7 Well there's all the nomadic people that identify as Mongols, Mongolia the country, the Mughal Empire of India which profoundly changes India, etc...
Awsome vid as always
Really good. This is the kind of nagging question and answer video you guys are really good at.
The Trebuchet truly was the god of sieging
I played age of empires 2, I can confirm.
Narrow ETT not to be rude but u gotta work on them grammar
Excellent one
I love how you had the total war Atilla music playing in the back
I’m a proud Mongolian and tnx for posting lots of contents about our history. Can’t wait Hollywood make film or tv series about our history...
19:30 Seeing a 90kg projectile launched over 300m was just too much for the Song
Thank you , K&G .
Amazing. More mongol army videos❤❤❤
Q: How did the Mongols Conquer Strongholds and Cities?
A: They horsed around.
Boom, easy, done.
James Richmond ba dum tish
U sir are funny
😂😂😂😂😂
I have a battle suggestion. Battle of karnal. In my opinion it's one of the most instrumental battles in early modern South Asian history. Look it up please
Those AoE2 Onager sound effects are very pleasing to the ear.
Great detailed describing, i always wondered about why some were more successful than others against the Mongols.
Hi. From mongolia🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳
If you wanna revive the Mongol Empire I will volunteer 😊
@@GeorgeEstregan828 thank you
I wouldn’t want to be enemies with a revived Mongol Empire. I’d like to join, lol
Иймэрхүү сэтгэгдэл битгий бичиж бай, гуйя. Үнэхээр ичмээр харагддаг юм ш дээ 🙏
dfdsf sdadad Cringe
2:33 I'm pretty sure the Tangut wasn't a vassal of the Jin, they are they own independence kingdom.
They were. They recognized Jin overlordship since the Jurchen conquest of the Khitan. However, they were basically totally autonomous other than tribute payments and recognition of the Jin Emperor, so the relationship is easily overlooked. The failure of the Jin to provide assistance when the Mongols attacked in 1209 was a noted betrayal and is part of why many see the contemporary Jin Emperor, Wei Shao Wang, as so inept he basically facilitated the Mongol invasion.
This so interesting!
Delaying my sleep again for K&G... thank you !
Mongolian videos triggers my throat singing instincts, even though I'm not Mongol or tried throat singing before.
Imagine if the Mongols had guns...
They'd be called Timurids
They invented guns
@@JonatasAdoM Timurids were Turkic not Mongol
Tareltonlives no the Chinese did
Never heard of Dzungar Khanate ??
Total War Attila musics and effects, pretty good choice!
nice job. excellent video
Qutuz: So anyway I started slashin'..
he almost lost the battle against small Mongol garrison that was left in mid east. Arabs and muslims overexaggerate it to the level that is unimaginable and unbearable, damn.
@@abold8070 AGREED. in fact the muslim army greatly outnumbered the mongol one. which wasnt even a main army. and the mongol empire at the time was in great eternal instability. in their prime the mongol's would've easily annihilate egypt (mamluks)
@@abold8070 the mongol garrison was left as hulaku took the actual main army back into mongolia for the election of the new khan
How did the Mongols Conquer Strongholds and Cities?
Mongols has been brave and unit people.
Awesome video. I like. Great video
Good video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well done
The Mongols are always the exception.
How did the Mongol get the siege weapon?!
Mongol: Well...It wasn't me. But it was the Chinese, they did that!
So was it chinese small peasants ? chinese small peasants couldn't ride a horse.
@@purevjargalpuujee4845 yes Chinese couldn't do everything. They fabricated all the stories including their modern day prosperity. Hehe
Mongol: Oh, and those crusaders too...
@@purevjargalpuujee4845 Mongolian average height 168cm 🤣😂
@@purevjargalpuujee4845 loll nothern chinese couldn't ride horse 😭👍👍👍 good one
Love the Mongol theme music from Civ 5.
I can't decide which narrator is better, either History Marche or Kings and Generals.
I will say, great video as always.
I always wonder how mongol supply route works
There will be a video about that!
@@KingsandGenerals thanks that would be interesting.
Even the mongol cant beat rooftop Koreans, or in this case wall-top Koreans
Mongols didn't beat Vietnamese, but they did beat Koreans.
@@lilithshopping7904 Viets have +100 buff while defending, it seems.
@@lilithshopping7904 Eh they didn’t really beat them. Korea just accepted to become a vassal after years of fending off the mongols, which was just as well for them
Amazing video
What's worse than a Mongol horde? A Mongol horde with seige weapons
I am a simple man. I see a new K&Gs video, I hit like
So nice to see Kings and Generals explore some of the Lore of the Khuzaits of Bannerlord
They had siegerams and trebuchets. It was easy for them to make trebuchets because they had castles already due to necessity of mangudhai production. Which makes the bulk of their army.
They also had hussars in the front lines to take out siege weapons and back of the enemy base for raidings.
imagine being quarantined for 15 years as the mongols siege your city
Imagine Hassassin/Order of Nizari folks on which Assassins Creed game series is based on sailing out and wreaking havoc on Mongols
They were not Nobles ones as mentioned in game and in reality they believe in concept of enemy army as supplies, which in simple words they will murder anyone for anything even woman for milk
@@UsmanSiddiq1 Am sorry wut? Do elaborate further on this videogame info.
@@adebisischibetta2940 You can google Assassin creed and read it yourself or play it byee......
@@UsmanSiddiq1 Ok vague asf
@@adebisischibetta2940 " even woman for milk" What?
Name a more iconic duo: Mongols & King and Generals.
Peanut butter and Jelly
Sounds like the next video will be about early usage of gunpowder. Can't wait!
Every time I see mongol video on kings and generals I slam the like button
Koreans are badasses. The very fact that they still exist, although literally sandwiched between perhaps the ancient world's greatest hegemonic super power in China and a very respectable and powerful regional super power in Japan, shows just how tenacious and powerful this nation was. The more I look into Korean history, the more I realize how rich and amazing their culture and history is, to me, the story of Korea definitely has parity with its two neighbors.
This is defintetly written by a Korean lol.
@@TheAfghan72 You know what happens when you assume, right? You're just a hater, if that's all you've got to say lol. You make it sound like its strange if a non-Korean is interested in Korean history and culture? If I said the same thing about Afghan culture I guess you'd assume I was Afghan too hahaha. Great logic.
@@dr.j5642 Korea is boring, bland with no history and they were conquered by Mongols easily. Nothing "brave" about them. And many nations were sandwiched by much bigger nations but still survived, like Armenia for example so that's not exclusive to Korea.