The Mongolian Navy once shook the world.
In people's minds, the Mongols who swept through Europe and Asia by iron horses could only claim the king on land, but this was not the case, in fact, in the passing scene of the Mongols ruling Eurasia, they had established a powerful sea power that was not inferior to the Ming Dynasty's Zheng He fleet, and became the "dragon on the sea" that threatened the world.
According to historical records, the formed Mongol water army was formed between the Mongol and Song Wars. Before 1237 AD, the Han general Zhang Rongshi was enfeoffed by Wokoutai Khan as "Conscripting a Thousand Households of the Water Army", and the water army gradually separated from the infantry and became an independent army.
In the tenth year of Emperor Taizong of Yuan (1238), the Mongol general Xie Cheng captured more than a thousand Song ships in battle with the Song army, and xie cheng was subsequently awarded the title of water army and water supervisor, which was the first large-scale and established formal water army in the Mongol Empire.
When Kublai Khan ascended to the throne in 1260 and made up his mind to destroy the Song Dynasty, the Mongol water army entered the fast lane. In 1270, the Southern Song Dynasty general Liu Zhen was ordered by Kublai Khan to build 5,000 warships and train 70,000 sailors; In 1273, it built 2,000 ships in the Han River Basin and Other Places, and trained more than 50,000 sailors; The following year, 800 new warships were built.
A series of measures led to the rapid growth of the Mongol water army. According to statistics, at that time, the water army on the Xiangyang front alone reached 160,000 people, with more than 10,000 warships. The powerful water division made the Mongols more powerful than tigers, and they were like a bamboo in the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty.
Subsequently, the eyes of the Mongols turned to Japan, Annam, Champa, Java and other overseas countries; In order to conquer these countries, the Mongol naval army began to transform from an inland water army to an "ocean-going navy" to create a cross-sea combat capability.
At that time, the Yuan Dynasty had the most powerful naval power in the world, able to dispatch thousands of sea ships at a time and carry more than 100,000 people across the sea, which was an unprecedented naval strength that marked the establishment of the Mongols' maritime supremacy in East Asia.
However, with the death of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty navy gradually faded out of the historical stage. #Micro Headline Day Sign ##Navy# #我要上头条 #
