Genghis Khan's iron horse ravaged Eurasia and conquered everywhere he went, and the legend of the golden family became a witness to the memory of snow and fire in history. However, in the history of the Mongol Empire, there are records of three expeditions that have ended up in vain. What country was able to break God's whip here, what factors brought the road of invincibility to an end, and what kind of legend are they performing a thousand years later?
If we explore the Southeast Asian region near today's southwestern Guangxi in China, we can still see the remnants of war everywhere in the tropical jungle, and from time to time we can see the lonely figure after finding the shell of the shell and losing the barrel. These are the traces of the Vietnam War.
Today, we can still imagine the heroic scene of the Vietnamese military and civilians fighting against the American army. However, as early as nearly 800 years ago, Vietnam left behind the heroic deeds of 800,000 elites in the world. What's going on here?
Vietnam was for a long time under the jurisdiction of the Chinese dynasty, such as the Eastern Han Dynasty when the Fubo general Ma Yuan quelled the rebellion here and established Jiaozhou, with the division of ethnic groups and the separation of languages. Vietnam gradually became independent. In 939, the local Vietnamese nobleman Wu Quan occupied Jiaozhou, established himself as an envoy of Jiedu, and subsequently established the Wu Dynasty regime in Vietnamese history. After that, despite many dynastic changes, Vietnam's independence was still very stable.
In 1257, the Mongol army returning from the victory in Dali first marched into Vietnam, which was ruled by the Chen Dynasty and the capital was occupied within four months. However, the Mongol army with limited troops took the initiative to withdraw from Vietnam, and the lost territory made Chen Taizong overjoyed and sweaty at the same time, and the enemy was once as strong as a bamboo, and it was not difficult to do it again. Fortunately, there is also a behemoth-like Song Dynasty in its own north, which can still be a temporary peace.
In 1276, Lu Xiufu carried the little emperor on his back and jumped off the rough sea on the cliff mountain, and the Southern Song Dynasty was declared dead. In 1284, countless armies appeared on the border of the Chen Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty sent people and border generals to attack other countries in the south. As soon as this statement came out, I naturally knew what this idea was.
So Chen Chao, who had been waiting for many years, was also relieved at this time, whether it was time to come or come.
After Vietnam refused, it immediately went into combat. King Chen Renzong personally trained troops and sent generals to various parts of the country to select personnel. At present, the great enemy is naturally brave, and the Chen Dynasty army that has been expanded for a time can reach 200,000 people. The Yuan army was not an enemy who could solve the problem with all their might, and after months of fighting, Vietnam collapsed and the whole territory was occupied.
However, the brutal style of the Yuan army and the killing of prisoners aroused strong resentment among the Vietnamese, and resistance and resistance were carried out in various places. Although the Yuan army was strong, it was also tired of running for its life, and it was overwhelmed. The continuation of the war also caused the Yuan army to suffer from the problems suffered by the US army hundreds of years later, and the disease and climate caused the Yuan army from the north to be greatly reduced. In desperation, he had to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield in order to fight again.
In 1286, the Yuan army again invaded the Vietnamese Chen Dynasty. The Chen Dynasty army, an old rival, already had more experience, and as long as it could drag the war into the rainy season, the Yuan army would have to retreat. So the chen dynasty army, which had made up its mind, used the familiar terrain to negotiate with the Yuan dynasty army. The Yuan army that fought continuously lost the vast grassland, lost its cavalry advantage, and coupled with the intrusion of the rainforest climate, the Yuan Dynasty army at this time had lost its vigor. The Vietnamese army continued to harass the enemy, and morale rose. The so-called end of the strong crossbow, the force can not penetrate the Lu Miao.
Under the Vietnamese counter-offensive, kublai khan who could afford to put down Kublai Khan was also a hero, spit out this bitter fruit himself, and ordered the withdrawal of the army. According to historical records, the number of Military personnel in the three Mongol sorties exceeded 800,000. The pace of the Mongol Empire's aggression also stopped, and the centuries-long conquest, the army that slaughtered countless famous cities began its own decline history, and the source was that it underestimated its opponents, but was defeated by itself. After Emperor Chengzong ascended the throne in 1294, in order to ease relations between the two sides, he issued an order to "never go to war".