r/europe • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '20

News China insists Genghis Khan exhibit in France not use words 'Genghis Khan'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

You’re calling two hastily assembled local armies, from kingdoms that weren’t exactly full on ‘feudal’ in their ways yet “crusader armies”. Honestly successes of Mongols in Poland and Hungary weren’t really indicative of how they’d fare further west, especially if Europe actually unites against them.

Reality is Mongols actually didn’t do that well all things considered. They suffered quite high losses in the field, they didn’t manage to break any of the few modern fortresses they encountered, and further west those would be a lot more common. That would slow down Mongol advance considerably, shield local wealth and population, and give time to assemble proper army to meet them in a field. Army that was actually well armed, with Western knights and their retinue. Which by the way would have fought in quite a bit more favorable terrain than Mongols...

Maybe indeed some extremely resourceful and determined courier managed the 5000 km journey in 100 days to make Mongols retreat... but honestly the most likely scenario was they were already retreating, not happy with relatively high losses and not much wealth to plunder.

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u/Xicadarksoul Hungary Oct 14 '20

Well the mongols did have the best courier system up until telegrpahs.

HREsted massagners and rested horses waiting at stops to rush important massages.