The Mongols destroyed Dali and Tubo, the biggest bugs in the history of ancient warfare.
In the era of cold weapons, the cavalry is like today's tanks, the cavalry uses the inertial impact brought by high speed, and has a natural crushing advantage over the infantry, the cavalry comes and goes without a trace, and the infantry is difficult to gain an advantage in the face of the cavalry.
Before the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Central Plains regime could still use scientific and technological advantages to make up for the shortcomings in the military, but in the Song Dynasty and the northern nomadic peoples, the development of science and technology was no longer lagging behind the Central Plains regime, and the Song Dynasty had lost its scientific and technological advantages in the face of cavalry.
The heavy chariots of the Jin Dynasty combined with the heavy cavalry, whether it was a sneak attack, a siege, a head-on duel, or a siege, all of which crushed the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty could not defeat the Jin cavalry no matter how much it did, so the Northern Song Dynasty perished under the iron hooves of the Jin army.
The Jin people pursued the Song army all the way, but soon found that the invincible cavalry on the plains had no cavalry superiority in the face of the great rivers and high hills in the south, and the reason why the Southern Song Dynasty could survive for more than a hundred years was actually a large factor in geographical advantages.
But the rise of the Mongols completely broke through the shortcomings of the cavalry, the Mongol cavalry not only had heavy cavalry, but also light cavalry, assault cavalry, siege troops, the Mongols not only had the natural advantages of cavalry but also completely overcame the inherent defects of cavalry, that is, the Mongols were also good at water warfare, mountain warfare, and offensive warfare.
The Battle of Wild Fox Ridge the Mongols annihilated 200,000 regular Jin troops between only 20,000 people in the mountains, and mountain warfare became a myth for Mongolian cavalry to break the myth that cavalry was not good at climbing mountains and mountains.
The Mongols destroyed Dali, provided that Mongolia and Dali did not have a land border, so how did the Mongol cavalry reach Dali directly from the Mongolian steppe? Could it be that the Mongols would fall from the sky? Of course not.
When the Mongols destroyed Dali, each person rode two horses, one with grain, one with combat materials, hungry to eat mutton, thirsty to drink horse milk, the Mongols marched along the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where grasslands are everywhere, and horses will not lack food.
When encountering a large river, the animal skin bag is filled with air, and a simple raft is formed, which can be safely passed by people and horses.
The Mongols used this method to successfully break through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and enter Dali from the Mongolian steppe for thousands of miles, eliminating Dali in one fell swoop, and then using the same method to eliminate Tubo.
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the roof of the world, the average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, ordinary people are not strong enough to enter the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, even if they enter will lose combat effectiveness due to altitude sickness, the powerful Tang Dynasty is helpless in the face of Tubo, because the Han army simply can not enter the plateau to fight, but the Mongols did it.
The combat ability of the Mongols can be called the peak of the cold weapon era, not only has the advantage of cavalry mobility, but also is good at plateau combat, mountain hill combat, water warfare, siege warfare, which the Han army is really incomparable.
Most importantly, in the era of cold weapons, there was almost no story of a country being able to cross mountains and mountains to attack another country, and it was successful.
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