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Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

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"A generation of heavenly pride, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the big eagle." The great man commented on Genghis Khan in this way, making us think that Genghis Khan is a mangy man who only knows how to bend the bow and shoot large eagles, but this is not the case, Genghis Khan not only can fight, he also ordered his subordinates to create Mongolian scripts, promulgated a series of laws, it can be said that he is a monarch with both civil and military weapons, relative to Wenzhi, Genghis Khan's most powerful is martial arts, how did he achieve invincibility? Let me reveal the secrets to you:

Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

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He was honored with the honorific title of "Genghis Khan". In 1206 AD, he unified the northern tribes and established the Great Mongol State, and sixty-five years later, on the basis of this, his grandson Kublai Khan expanded his territory and unified the Central Plains to establish the Yuan Dynasty. It can be seen from this that Genghis Khan's civil rule martial arts are indeed extraordinary.

Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

How did Genghis Khan grow step by step and finally become the best conductor in the world at that time? The obvious answer is to go through the trials of war after war. In the Battle of the Thirteen Wings, although Genghis Khan was defeated and won, he gathered a lot of new strength, and then after the Battle of the Chulizha River, he gradually enriched his wings, and finally fought a decisive battle with the Zamu Combined Army, known in history as the "Battle of Kuo Yitian", and the result was naturally a great victory for Genghis Khan.

In the years since, Genghis Khan led an army that conquered the Tatar, Kreeb, and Naiman tribes, swept away other forces in the steppe, and then began to establish a state. After the founding of the country, Genghis Khan annihilated the Western Xia, swept through the Jin Dynasty, and also destroyed the power of the Liao State to the west, and by the time of Genghis Khan's last years, the Great Mongolia Was already the largest empire in Asia with the largest land area and the strongest military strength.

Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

Genghis Khan fought countless battles in his lifetime, more than a hundred and ten battles of all sizes, in addition to his popularity, the external factors of the time, Genghis Khan's tactics are also extremely terrible, every country that has fought with Genghis Khan will feel as if it is fighting against the devil, and the countries that have been destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty have reached as many as thirty-five. At that time, Genghis Khan's Mongolian iron horse dominated the world, and those medieval knights in Europe could be said to be frightened.

Speaking of Genghis Khan's tactics, it is actually very simple and unpretentious, first using heavy weapons such as artillery to bombard, and then using Mongolian iron horses to divide the enemy's formation, roundabout encirclement, back and forth interspersed attack, of course, the most important thing is to respond flexibly and adapt to changes. In fact, in addition to the Mongolian iron horse of the three armies, Genghis Khan also had a secret force, that is, the "bird army" in his army that was responsible for the palace.

Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

The so-called bird army, that is, flocks of vultures, adult vultures are up to one hundred and twenty centimeters long, the force is incomparable, coupled with the inertia of flying, it can be said that a powerful adult is not a fierce vulture opponent, as for why it is called a vulture, it is because it has black-brown feathers around it, only the head is bald, no feathers only some fluff, so it is called vulture.

Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

Due to the years of conquest and killing, for Genghis Khan's army, the corpse can be said to be everywhere, and the vultures happen to be birds of prey that feed on carrion, so Genghis Khan's army is always followed by groups of vultures, it can be said that using them to come to the back of the temple is really a lot of things. They feed on corpses and are the best scavengers on the battlefield.

Genghis Khan's expedition, why can it win, there is a "vulture army" behind the team

It is conceivable that once the war is launched, it is destined to flow into a river of blood, the existence of the vulture army, they can not only quickly dispose of the body, avoid the epidemic of terror, the existence of the vulture, the greatest saving of the soldiers, after the war to bury the body of the tired, to give the army plenty of post-war rest space, it can be said that the significance is huge.

The bird army composed of vultures has contributed a lot of strength to Genghis Khan's victory in every battle, and after the great war, there will be a great epidemic, but because the vultures deal with the rotting corpses in time, there are few outbreaks of epidemics on the grassland, so it can be seen that the bird army is also a force that Genghis Khan has achieved a great cause and cannot be taken lightly.

Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou

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