How Vietnam Defended Against the Mongols - Animated Medieval History

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  • Опубліковано 13 лис 2023
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    The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Mongol History continues with a video explaining how Vietnam defended against the Mongols. In our previous episode we discussed the European defence against the Mongol invasions ( • How the Europeans foug... ) and how the Mamluks ( • How the Mamluks Defend... ), Ruthenians ( • How the Ruthenians def... ), Indians ( • How India Defended Aga... ) and Chinese defended against them ( • How the Chinese Defend... ).
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  6 місяців тому +84

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    • @user-hp5bc5cy2l
      @user-hp5bc5cy2l 6 місяців тому +1

      If anyones gonna defeat Genghis its gonna be Vietnam
      maybe Afghanistan too
      How to defend against the neo-mongols?

    • @alfrancisbuada2591
      @alfrancisbuada2591 6 місяців тому +2

      You guys even brought the old style back

    • @davidgibson3631
      @davidgibson3631 6 місяців тому +1

      If King and Generals talk about history of Vietnam during 3000 years . They need a lot video to tell that story

    • @user-cc9jf2xg9h
      @user-cc9jf2xg9h 6 місяців тому +2

      Could you tell about korea mongol war

    • @frankieseward8667
      @frankieseward8667 6 місяців тому +1

      You have to do Korea. One of the generals was an exiled Vietnamese leader. Please K&G do Korea

  • @gamingwithbest_xy5051
    @gamingwithbest_xy5051 6 місяців тому +2142

    Its insane how many times Vietnam defended itself against Invaders
    It never ends well

    • @axelnovati
      @axelnovati 6 місяців тому +418

      Mongols, Chinese, Japanese, Americans. Even the French army didn't have an easy campaign.

    • @1peidu
      @1peidu 6 місяців тому +190

      When you have to exfoliate an entire rainforest just to have any sort of visibility on the enemy its gonna be a rough campaign

    • @user-hp5bc5cy2l
      @user-hp5bc5cy2l 6 місяців тому +107

      the weirdest part to me is they are ethnically linguistically and culturally not much different from the Chinese. Yet have never been seen as a part of China, at most a vassal, but usually an independant country. We could say something similar for Myanmar, but Myanmar has not had lots of wars with China and has also been less frequently and more indirectly dominated by China (I blame mountains and jungles in Myanmars case).

    • @zzz7315
      @zzz7315 6 місяців тому +223

      ​@@user-hp5bc5cy2lIt's not that weird. China has been the superpower of East Asia for centuries, that's why part of Chinese culture also spread to other East Asian natians like Japan and Korea. Vietnam is basically also under the influence of the sinosphere.
      As for linguistically there's actually not much similarities to Mandarin. Maybe to Southern Chinese dialects like Cantonese there are but not Northern Chinese. The sentence structure and grammar is just completely different, the similarities are probably only some loan words as it was under Chinese influence for centuries. Because you need to understand that China is a country that conquered many native tribes and have assimilated over the millenia, Vietnamese were just ones that were never fully subjugated.

    • @teovu5557
      @teovu5557 6 місяців тому +234

      ​@@user-hp5bc5cy2l Vietnamese genetics are not the same as Han Chinese other than a peroid of mixing in the North. As for language Vietnamese is a Austroasiatic language while Chinese is Sino-Tibetan language family they dont even belong to the same language group. Many Chinese words entered vietnamese but that does not make it the same. Example English is a Germanic language but over 60% is from Latin and norman french but that doesnt make English a Latin or Romance language. lol

  • @FrankSanchez-id7yx
    @FrankSanchez-id7yx Місяць тому +64

    I've been to Vietnam, Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh (Siagon)in the south and I can respectfully say that the vietnamese people are the most beautiful people I've encountered on this planet and I've been all around this planet.

    • @Kang.775
      @Kang.775 Місяць тому +1

      Cảm ơn bạn rất nhiều vì lời nhận xét này 😊😊😊

    • @HaiNguyen-jq4tz
      @HaiNguyen-jq4tz 12 днів тому

      😊 cảm ơn bạn chân thành

    • @mrgin6544
      @mrgin6544 8 днів тому +2

      many thanks

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq 6 місяців тому +689

    So the people of Vietnam defeated the Mongols, Chinese dynasty’s, The French Japanese and the Americans, suffered through it all and come out today with a growing thriving economy and high standard of living for its people. Vietnam you have my eternal respect and love. ❤ 🇻🇳

    • @CalvinK-the_old_fogey
      @CalvinK-the_old_fogey 6 місяців тому

      And they are a Communist country, not a democracy. 😂

    • @HuyPham-km9kn
      @HuyPham-km9kn 6 місяців тому +25

      Come my friend, we feed you bia hơi, bánh mì, phở, bún.

    • @nguyenhuytuquan
      @nguyenhuytuquan 6 місяців тому +36

      We never won Japanese. They surrendered after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    • @kanggrey344
      @kanggrey344 6 місяців тому +49

      @@nguyenhuytuquanngu thi phat bieu it di

    • @nguyenhuytuquan
      @nguyenhuytuquan 6 місяців тому

      @@kanggrey344 vô học, comment không có lập luận, không có bằng chứng, chỉ biết chửi.

  • @nikkirosenbek5471
    @nikkirosenbek5471 2 місяці тому +136

    Personally, I think Vietnam's history is probably the most intriguing in the world because it's unique and unusual. The Mongols according to historians are still regarded as the mightiest, deadliest and most feared military force of all time even though they existed more than 8 centuries ago. The Mongol army of roughly 200,000 troops was able to wipe out all the powerful Chinese dynasties and finally successfully conquered the entire China with a population of over 180 million people in the 13th century! With its unbeatable army, the mighty Mongol Empire peaked its power under the command of the legendary Mongol general and statesman Kublai Khan controlling roughly 28 million sq. km of territory from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, which is 3 times as large as the land area of the present day China and almost double that of Great Russia. However, even the mighty Mongol Empire had been unable to conquer the teeny tiny Southeast Asian country known as Dai Viet! It's said looks can be deceiving. In the bloody Bach Dang River battle in 1288, the Vietnamese army led by the Vietnamese Prince Hung Dao triumphantly defeated the unbeatable Mongol army, twice its size and completely sank the entire fleet of Mongol giant warships. The Bach Dang River battle has been the outstanding and incomparable naval battle ultimately destroying the last Mongol invasion of Dai Viet. The fact that the Vietnamese prince had fully understood the natural scientific phenomenon of the rising and falling tides of the Bach Dang river and placed the wooden stakes along the river bed to impale and destroy the Yuan China's naval fleet, has been a mystery challenging and intriguing modern historians' understanding. How could the Vietnamese ancestors known as the one and only people in human history more than 1,000 years ago, come up with such an ingenious and unique strategy to totally crush their powerful invaders including the mightiest and deadliest Mongol army? In fact, the unbeatable Mongol army being bitterly defeated 3 times by the Vietnamese people in the 13th century, eventually ended Genghis Khan's dream of conquering the entire world and forever changed the course of the world history. Again in the 20th century, emulating his ancestor's battle on the Bach Dang River against the invading armies of the Mongol Empire and the Han Chinese dynasties over 600 years ago, the legendary Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap's Dien Bien Phu Battle on land against the French in 1954, in fact brought an end to a 120 year domination of the French colonialism in Indochina, which eternally changed the course of human history leading to one of the bloodiest wars of the 20th century-the Vietnam War. In the Vietnam War known to the Vietnamese people as the Great Patriotic War to unify North and South Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail system is considered "one of the great achievements of 20th century military technology", according to the US National Security Agency. Military experts added, The legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail running from North to South Vietnam, has been considered a strategic feat, and a unique phenomenon in contemporary world military history. The trail with the length of more than 20,000km (over 12,500 miles) cutting through forests and mountains, is a magnificent construction project in human military history. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is the symbol of the indomitable will of the Vietnamese people to determine to overcome all the brutality of war and all the deadly obstacles of harsh nature on the vast mountains and in the dense forests despite the fact that more than 20,000 Vietnamese soldiers had lost their lives, 6,000 are still missing in action, and more than 30,000 were seriously wounded to keep the vital trail open under the overwhelming pressure of more than 4 million tons of the carpet bombing by the B-52 aircraft. The Ho Chi Minh Trail represents the Vietnamese people's desire for independence, freedom and the national unification. Things change and the world changes, but their iron will to unify their war-torn country as one nation, is forever engraved in stone. In the past, even after a 1,000-year domination, all the powerful Chinese Han dynasties had utterly bitterly failed to assimilate the Vietnamese into the Han Chinese. And big and populous China with over 4.000 years, is still unable to conquer Vietnam. Vietnam is still Vietnam standing tall today. In his book Ending the Vietnam War in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger (RIP) - former US secretary of state and national security adviser wrote: "Since Vietnam, the concept of power has radically changed." "Vietnam represented a unique situation, geographically, ethnically, politically, militarily and diplomatically," he wrote in the memorandum, which was declassified in 1998.

    • @huyquang6308
      @huyquang6308 Місяць тому +3

    • @ETSUNAN2024
      @ETSUNAN2024 Місяць тому +8

      Bạn có kiến thức rất tuyệt 😊

    • @ngocnguyen0009
      @ngocnguyen0009 25 днів тому +3

      Bạn có kiến thức chính xác về người VN chúng tôi quá 🎉😊

    • @trannhanITSinhVien
      @trannhanITSinhVien 24 дні тому +6

      In Tran Dynasty, Tran Hung Dao use 2 unique strategies. One of those is "Vườn không nhà trống" that may translate to English is "Empty ground, empty house", this strategy is so effective to defend against Mongol army, because Mongol army usually pillaged food in the country where they invaded. Thanks to the successes in the invasion at a lot of countries with that strategy, Mongol invaded Vietnam, and then they were defeated. Other strategy is planting wooden stakes on the river bottom and taking advantage of the tides invented in Ngo Quyen Dynasty in 938, Tran Dynasty inherited and applied it so well.

    • @Furnique
      @Furnique 19 днів тому +3

      you looks having very good knowledge on our history bro

  • @thanhcongnguyen9397
    @thanhcongnguyen9397 6 місяців тому +656

    As a Vietnamese, I think it is truly a miracle that our country still exists today. I really don't understand how my ancestors were able to continuously defeat such powerful empires.

    • @pattran3030
      @pattran3030 6 місяців тому +103

      An unbreakable will to survive

    • @user-gr5uy1hg9d
      @user-gr5uy1hg9d 6 місяців тому

      You Viet but you have no heart and soul….of real Viet….that why you don’t understand ….we viet fight for our homeland and freedom…is in our blood…..

    • @NguyenKhanh-12
      @NguyenKhanh-12 6 місяців тому +21

      nhưng làm chư hầu phương bắc đến ngày nay anh ạ, tự hào quá đáng làm gì, chỉ được cái tính dồn vào chân tường thì ms khôn ra thôi chứ vẫn nhỏ nhen khôn lanh lắm

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 6 місяців тому +139

      I don't think it's a miracle. The Vietnamese are the toughest, most resilient human beings I've ever seen or heard of, and so friendly, too. Best damned coffee on the planet, too.

    • @luongo7886
      @luongo7886 6 місяців тому +7

      @@NguyenKhanh-12Bon tau cho phai CHET!

  • @farmdude2020
    @farmdude2020 6 місяців тому +181

    Fun fact: Lý Long Tường was a survivor of the Ly dynasty who ventured to Korea and helped them halt the Mongol invasion there.

    • @cashmeretran5004
      @cashmeretran5004 16 днів тому +9

      Yess that's a group of Lee family name we often see

    • @Global_Storyteller33
      @Global_Storyteller33 14 днів тому

      Vietnamese politeness is very heroic, and Vietnamese culture is very unique, so unique that only Vietnamese people like to eat dog meat and foreigners do not.

    • @tamangvan1527
      @tamangvan1527 12 днів тому +2

      I have got this information before

    • @Henrywinwins
      @Henrywinwins 5 днів тому

      Same royal family, but an older adoptive branch settled in Korea before. They fell into poverty at the military dictatorship era. One of them, Yi-Ui-Min became dictator. He is not remembered well but interesting nonetheless.

  • @SavageDragon999
    @SavageDragon999 6 місяців тому +989

    Vietnam's story of the 20th century is 100% the best underdog story of any country of that period. Fending off France then the US without any period of rest or break in succession, then after the US, taking on another war against the Khmer Rouge and overrunning the country in 2 WEEKS and shortly after having to fend off China in the north while the entire army was busy in Cambodia. And all of that happened between 1950-1979.

    • @phuongvu527
      @phuongvu527 6 місяців тому +144

      That's the golden generation of our country, when everyone is a patriot

    • @siddude
      @siddude 6 місяців тому

      Not really. Only dumb ignorant white people believe Vietnamese communists distortion of history of portraying 20th century wars as a resistance to outsiders. That's a lazy version of history which Viet commies like to portray. It's an example of Communist marketing at play. Among Vietnamese the war is known as Nationalists vs Communists. China, USSR and Warsaw Pact countries supported communist North Vietnam and the US supported RVN (South Vietnam). In fact most of Vietnam's history, the wars are fought between Vietnamese factions for power. And usually there is a faction of Vietnamese which always rely on Chinamen for help. In the 20th century, Viet commies follow this line. They imitate Chinese (Maoist) communist political system, copied Chinese flag, and wear Chinese clothes and uniforms. PAVN officers were educated in Chinese war colleges and speak Chinese. That's why Nationalist Vietnamese hate them for their overt Chinese influence. But most white people are so ignorant of Viet history. There are a lot of jokes in Vietnam about Viet commies. Example: Di tham bac means to go visit Uncle Ho's House (Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum). But since most Vietnamese refer to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum as the Sh*thouse, it's actually mean to go and use #2. LOL.

    • @frankng792000
      @frankng792000 6 місяців тому +80

      thank you and appreciate a foreigner understanding the hardship and the determination of the Vietnamese.

    • @gfreeman9843
      @gfreeman9843 6 місяців тому +73

      ​@@phuongvu527and resistance against the Japanese during WW 2. ❤❤❤

    • @Vin-sv9fm
      @Vin-sv9fm 6 місяців тому +39

      Vietnamese people sure know how to fight

  • @yusufibntachfin7978
    @yusufibntachfin7978 5 місяців тому +232

    I think the vietnamese have something more when it comes to war, their resilience and will to win is on another level and they proved it many times in history. Great warriors indeed.

    • @thanhhamai6214
      @thanhhamai6214 3 місяці тому +17

      Việt Nam chúng tôi có tình yêu nước nồng nàn,k bao giờ chịu khuất phục ngoại bang,từ cổ chí kim việt Nam đã từng đánh thắng quân Nam Hán,quân Tống,quân Nguyên Mông,quân Minh ,quân Thanh,và sau này đánh thắng 3 cường quốc mạnh nhất trên địa cầu này,tôi luôn tự hào mình mang dòng máu Việt

    • @syletrong8412
      @syletrong8412 Місяць тому +2

      @@thanhhamai6214phải là đánh đuổi 4 cường quốc chứ bạn. Có Pháp, Nhật, Mỹ, Trung ❤❤❤🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

    • @thainguyen2130
      @thainguyen2130 29 днів тому +3

      @@syletrong8412Việt Nam nào đánh Nhật?

    • @syletrong8412
      @syletrong8412 29 днів тому

      @@thainguyen2130 bạn đọc kỹ vào

    • @Furnique
      @Furnique 19 днів тому +1

      yes but basically we love peace as always my friend, just will be super strong soldiers when it come to war to protect our fatherland

  • @justinle8787
    @justinle8787 6 місяців тому +406

    Everybody love Spartans, Vikings, Samurai... but Vietnamese actually were one of the if not the most formidable medieval army of all time. It's crazy what they were able to accomplish with such disadvantage

    • @thanhluc8938
      @thanhluc8938 5 місяців тому +1

      👍👍

    • @NamKhanhART
      @NamKhanhART 5 місяців тому +6

      Chuẩn đó bro

    • @horacestorm13
      @horacestorm13 5 місяців тому +47

      Not to mention Vietnam is also one of the first few countries to invent and effectively master gunpowdered weapons, just after China. It's only during the few reigns when the French first attack is their military technology outdated, because of how the kings during that time spend all their money extravagantly on luxurious things.

    • @3edget539
      @3edget539 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@horacestorm13 I know right
      Shame

    • @htjohn205
      @htjohn205 5 місяців тому +4

      ​​@@horacestorm13 The first is China, after that is Arab, Europe,... Vietnamese not invented gunpowder weapon or anything

  • @wileyjackson5124
    @wileyjackson5124 6 місяців тому +727

    I love this part of history. This is a huge point of pride for us here in Vietnam.

    • @Gabryal77
      @Gabryal77 6 місяців тому +36

      People say Afghanistan is where Empires go to die, I say it's Vietnam

    • @Otto45
      @Otto45 6 місяців тому +13

      ​@@Gabryal77Nah..
      Afghanistan is the king of resistance.
      I'm sure modern Vietnam would never survive the US occupation like Afghanistan did..
      They even established a Taliban government right after the US left.

    • @dickyboi4956
      @dickyboi4956 6 місяців тому +58

      ​@@Otto45nah. The us fought way harder in nam than it did afghanistan. Afghanistan was toppled in about a year, the next 20 were us funtioning as a police force and pouring billions into a corrupt blackhole of a government in the naive belief that everyone wants a liberal democracy and will fight for it given half the chance. Also, the taliban only had to keep one road fucked up for occupiers to not be able to resupply while vietnam is literally a coast.

    • @guaporeturns9472
      @guaporeturns9472 6 місяців тому +24

      @@Otto45They already did. History not your thing obviously.

    • @tatarcavalry2342
      @tatarcavalry2342 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Otto45 Afghanistan is the king of misery they are so dumb and hopeless that nobody see a point to invest money in them to make infrastructure with the main goal of carry out sources. They did not made empires collapse they just cut their advance and colonization nothing more but while doing this they are living no better than wild animals.

  • @autohoanggia
    @autohoanggia 6 місяців тому +165

    Tran Hung Dao (1228-1300) was a Vietnamese military strategist and commander who played a crucial role in the defense of Vietnam against Mongol invasions during the 13th century. He is often credited with the famous saying: "Chiến thắng ở chỗ kiên nhẫn, không phải ở chỗ mạnh mẽ."
    This can be translated to English as: "Victory is in patience, not in strength."
    This quote reflects Tran Hung Dao's emphasis on strategic patience and perseverance in the face of challenges, suggesting that success in warfare and life comes not only from raw power but also from careful planning, resilience, and the ability to endure difficulties.

    • @superfly19751
      @superfly19751 5 місяців тому +12

      100%
      And the Yuan utterly failed bc of their egos.

    • @SaifAlikhan-wy1zs
      @SaifAlikhan-wy1zs 2 місяці тому +2

      The same thing happened in Afghanistan recently

    • @hoangkybactien7207
      @hoangkybactien7207 26 днів тому +1

      There were 2 famous battles of Bạch Đằng river. One occured in year 938 A.D. by King Ngô Quyền against Southern Han navy. With the victory of this battle Việt Nam regain independence from China, ending 1,000 years of china occupation.
      350 years later, in year 1228, supreme general Trần Hưng Đạo defeated Mongo navy with the same tactic on Bạch Đằng river again.

    • @thongnguyen002
      @thongnguyen002 11 днів тому +3

      ⁠@@hoangkybactien7207 3 battle of Bạch Đằng. The other one is Lê Đại Hành (981) against Song Dynasty. And Long Tinh Kỳ of Vietnamese ancestor dont have 3 stripes. Please stop using 3 ///, which reminder of French vassal Flag, yellow flag with three blue stripes. It is an disgrace to Vietnamese ancestor to use 3/// flag.

    • @yolo9264
      @yolo9264 17 годин тому +2

      Tran Hung Dao is hands down Vietnam's greatest general. This man was a legend revered by the Vietnamese people more than any other kings or generals in Vietnamese history.

  • @LeiCal69
    @LeiCal69 25 днів тому +15

    Every time I watch or read about Vietnam, my respect of them increase.

  • @JarodFarrant
    @JarodFarrant Місяць тому +48

    Very few cultures can say they fought the Mongols and won, Vietnam you are a proud and extraordinary country that I hope to visit someday.

    • @hautrieu6884
      @hautrieu6884 27 днів тому

      Chào mừng bạn đến việt nam

    • @quynhong548
      @quynhong548 19 днів тому

      welcome to Viet Nam

    • @HaiNguyen-jq4tz
      @HaiNguyen-jq4tz 12 днів тому +2

      Thời điểm quân Mông Cổ hùng mạnh nhất, chúng tôi thắng họ đến ba lần 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @tenzinalexander
    @tenzinalexander 6 місяців тому +255

    I am half Vietnamese, this makes me proud of my mother's side of my heritage.

    • @tokyoghoul5530
      @tokyoghoul5530 5 місяців тому +5

      As you should! ❤😍

    • @thanhluc8938
      @thanhluc8938 5 місяців тому +2

      👍👍

    • @tranhuudat8386
      @tranhuudat8386 5 місяців тому +5

      Cảm ơn bạn,có thời gian bạn hãy về Việt Nam du lịch nhé

    • @tenzinalexander
      @tenzinalexander 5 місяців тому +13

      @@tranhuudat8386 I never learned how to speak the language, I should have had my mother teach me :(

    • @HDN1308
      @HDN1308 5 місяців тому +1

      ❤🇻🇳🤝

  • @szbszig
    @szbszig 6 місяців тому +343

    The battle of Bach Dang river was an epic victory. Prince Hung Dao used the very same tactics the Vietnamese had used in 938 in the first battle of Bach Dang river against the invading Southern Han troops. That battle is even more famous, as it ended about thousand years of Chinese rule, and marked the beginning of an independent Vietnamese state.

    • @duyhungle9375
      @duyhungle9375 6 місяців тому +2

      Note that if you say prince, most people’d think u mean prince instead of prince

    • @HungPham-ki9wu
      @HungPham-ki9wu 6 місяців тому

      ​@@duyhungle9375là sao tôi ko hiểu

    • @DestroyerDestroyerplayz
      @DestroyerDestroyerplayz 6 місяців тому +5

      @@duyhungle9375 what

    • @dungduc4047
      @dungduc4047 6 місяців тому +15

      Bạn ơi. Trần Hưng Đạo không phải hoàng tử ( không phải con vua) ông ấy là dòng dõi tôn thất họ Trần ( cha ông ấy là tướng quân) và chính tài năng bộ nộ sớm khi còn trẻ tuổi mà ông ấy được triều đình, nhà vua phong cho vị trí thống lĩnh toàn bộ quân đội ( Tiết chế Hưng Đạo Đại Vương).

    • @haduong96353a
      @haduong96353a 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@dungduc4047nhưng là cháu vua

  • @RamielLilith
    @RamielLilith 6 місяців тому +106

    Being Black and Vietnamese born in California I love that I got to learn something new from my mother birthplace and part of my culture today. 🤙🏾

    • @SoBeIt27
      @SoBeIt27 6 місяців тому

      Would you by any chance know where, in the bible, is your mother's origin?
      I'm trying to understand who is who today, by the nations biblically. Any kind of info would be appreciated.

    • @karaqakkzl
      @karaqakkzl 6 місяців тому

      Well that's surprise, black in Vietnam is less about racism and more about bodyshaming, mostly between girls

    • @minhngoctran7271
      @minhngoctran7271 6 місяців тому +5

      ​@@SoBeIt27take a look at Vietnamese creation myth. Take from it what you will. May God bless you in your search

    • @SoBeIt27
      @SoBeIt27 6 місяців тому

      @@minhngoctran7271
      Thankyou 👌🏽

    • @blackknight50277621
      @blackknight50277621 6 місяців тому +2

      yo you must look WILD dude

  • @proud4373
    @proud4373 Місяць тому +25

    Vietnam's history is unmatched. It is a unique and unusual due to Vietnam's long standing history of having successfully defeated the world's great powers. The Vietnamese are the one and only people in human history that had completely defeated the unbeatable Mongol army, not once, not twice, but three times before forever ending Genghis Khan's dream of conquering the whole world! Also, Vietnam is the one and only country in the world that had fought the Chinese for about 2,000 years triumphantly defeating all the powerful Chinese dynasties including Qin, Wu, Han, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. In addition, the French invasion of Vietnam by Napoleon III began with the first attack on Vietnam in September 1858 after the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte known as Napoleon I had conquered much of Europe, and finally ended with the French defeat in Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This eventually brought an end to a 100 year domination of the French colonialism in Indochina, which eternally changed the course of human history leading to one of the bloodiest wars of the 20th century-the Vietnam War, and later came the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War where China was crushed by Vietnam, according to nationalinterest, not to mention the 1978 Cambodian-Vietnamese War bringing an end to the genocidal Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime. With its unique history of resisting the world's great powers, Vietnam is still Vietnam today as the symbol of the Biblical epic David versus Goliath.

    • @blurli271
      @blurli271 4 дні тому

      你们的历史和你们国家一样狭隘 越南在任何时期 都无法与中国抗衡。在古代你既然说打败过中国那么多次 为什么领土依然那么小?让人尴尬😅 中国之所以不统一越南 是因为在中国古代被称之为蛮荒之地,用来流放犯人的地方。越南在每个朝代都得向中国进贡,就连现代越南共产党也是基于中国共产党来的,当然 现代也是 你们的gdp都达不到中国的一个4线城市标准 你们的电视节目 你们的文化 都被中国文化影响。而不是越南影响中国

    • @davidgibson3631
      @davidgibson3631 3 дні тому

      @@blurli271 if you say that is true why even today Vietnam still standing and still aim missile to your ship and your government can't do anything even can't send a bunch fighter jet stop them or even embargo them but then nothing happened .Maybe China doesn't accept the fact Vietnam is powerhouse maybe CCP need to spend more money to help half a billion people in China no access to home first instead stick nose into Vietnam

  • @harriusk4u
    @harriusk4u 6 місяців тому +74

    My child absolutely loves history, especially Vietnam history.

    • @YasserMaghribi
      @YasserMaghribi 6 місяців тому

      How old is (s)he ?

    • @harriusk4u
      @harriusk4u 6 місяців тому +6

      @@YasserMaghribi 7y

    • @StopFlaggingVideos
      @StopFlaggingVideos 6 місяців тому +18

      @@harriusk4u i believe those who show interest in history have a higher intelligence and curiosity about the world around them. your kid will be very smart

    • @thanhluc8938
      @thanhluc8938 5 місяців тому

      👍👍

    • @HungPham-ki9wu
      @HungPham-ki9wu 3 місяці тому

      but you are vietnamese

  • @huytra8157
    @huytra8157 6 місяців тому +828

    The problems with attacking Vietnam is not only the resistance from the people, but also the environment, the weather and terrains that are very difficult for conventional warfare.

    • @jlvfr
      @jlvfr 6 місяців тому +56

      Indeed. It's a lethal combination, almost perfect for defense.

    • @HiThere-eg1iq
      @HiThere-eg1iq 6 місяців тому +153

      These environment and weather factors are way overblown. Yuan used a lot of Southern Chinese troops who basically live in the same climate and experience the same weather everyday. As for the terrains not suited for conventional warfare, this is also BS. Vietnamese history books never taught history properly so even most Vietnamese are not aware how the wars were fought in Vietnam. If you look closely, they were basically full of conventional battles. Early Le - Song war, Ly - Song wars, Tran - Yuan wars, Later Le - Ming war, Tay Son - Qing war, all were fought conventionally. This doesn't count all the times they were invaded by Champa and the times they invaded Champa. How do you think Le Thanh Tong razed Vijaya? With guerilla warfare? No, he bombarded Vijaya with cannons and gunpowder. Oh, and don't forget all the civil wars in 16th-19th centuries where everyone was fighting with muskets, cannons, and frigates/ships of the lines, each with 30-60 cannons. Guerilla warfare in Vietnam before 20th century was in fact very rare, it was always conventional warfare.

    • @huytra8157
      @huytra8157 6 місяців тому +26

      @@HiThere-eg1iq you do know that sure conventional warfare will win at first, but to occupy long time, you have to shift to more specialized warfare, like mountain warfare, jungle warfare and swampy warfare.
      The Vietnamese can just stay hidden in the high mountains and thick jungle, so that large body of troops will not be able to penetrate the thick foliage and terrains.

    • @HiThere-eg1iq
      @HiThere-eg1iq 6 місяців тому +43

      As for why it was difficult to invade Vietnam, the main reason is that they have always had mandatory military service. In most countries, when a lord raises an army, it is usually a small fighting core of knights/samurais supplemented with untrained peasants. In medieval Vietnam, when you raise an army, it is an army of trained soldiers. Every male in the fighting age must enlist, and for a couple of months every year they have to serve in the military and receive training. Because of this, Viet dynasties can afford to lose so many battles without losing the war. If they lose a battle, they just need to go south, raise a new army by calling up trained soldiers, and go again. Tran-Yuan war is a prime example of this. Yuan dynasty got some early successes, then Tran dynasty went south, raised some new armies, and counter-attacked.

    • @HiThere-eg1iq
      @HiThere-eg1iq 6 місяців тому +40

      ​@@huytra8157Did you even understand what I said? The Vietnamese had always used conventional warfare to beat the invaders. Most wars in Vietnam were fought conventionally and won conventionally. Early - Le war, Early Le won by defending the key fortress of Binh Lo. Ly - Song wars, Ly successfully defended Nhu Nguyet rampant. Le - Ming war, Le won by conventional offensives encircling key cities and defeating reinforcements coming from China. Tay Son - Qing war, Tay Son rolled and smoked Qing army with superior firepower. This doesn't count all the civil wars in 16th-19th centuries and all the wars against Champa.
      Your ancestors fought conventionally very well, and had the most modern and advanced army in the whole Asia in 16th-19th century. It is a shame that Vietnamese history books didn't teach real history so most Vietnamese don't know how their ancestors fought.

  • @trongds
    @trongds 3 місяці тому +57

    Korea also defeated Mongolia. But the general who defeated the Mongols was a Vietnamese prince who was a refugee in Korea

    • @duquemann27
      @duquemann27 18 днів тому

      Wow, such a new knowledge

    • @trongds
      @trongds 18 днів тому +5

      @@duquemann27 Yes, that was the prince of the Ly Dynasty in Vietnam. After the Tran Dynasty coup, he took refuge in Korea and became a Korean general, he commanded the war against the Mongols in this country

    • @duquemann27
      @duquemann27 18 днів тому +14

      @@trongds I didn't know a Vietnamese general has participated in the war in korea against the mongols until now, i must have say i really admire the vietnamese people for their heroic mentality and great strategic actions to response to the enemies.

    • @tuphan441
      @tuphan441 14 днів тому +3

      @@duquemann27ở 1 ngôi làng Hàn Quốc còn hậu duệ của nhà Lý VietNam còn ở đó.. và đã đến VietNam bái tổ tiên của họ!

    • @Me_Chom
      @Me_Chom 11 днів тому

      ​@@duquemann27 dòng dõi đời thứ 31 của ông về VN thắp hương nhận tổ tiên

  • @anthonyburke5656
    @anthonyburke5656 6 місяців тому +81

    Waaaaaaay back, when training to fight in SVN, I started reading Vietnamese/Annamese history. I read book after book, I’ve never really stopped. Of all I’ve read, two statements I came across really struck a cord in my mind. The first was a statement “70 years is but the blink of an eye”, this was attributed to Uncle Ho, but it predates him by a thousand years. The second was a statement “A victory that results in 90% casualties is still a victory”. A cohesive population with only those two guidelines can’t be beaten, can’t be conquered, can’t be occupied. Any attempt to breed them out, migrate them out or exterminate them, will fail.

    • @DaiMie
      @DaiMie 5 місяців тому

      That why the Jews will failed every time if they think they can conquer Vietnam.

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 3 місяці тому +1

      That's why your country lost in Vietnam.

    • @anthonyburke5656
      @anthonyburke5656 3 місяці тому +2

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 no it’s not, the US “lost” because it refused to use its full might. At any time the US could have, if there was the political will, have crushed the North. Even then, after Tet, if the bombing campaign had been renewed and the ground forces beefed up, I believe the North would have dissolved into Civil War. The Tet losses were so horrendous for the North. You may recall, after Tet, Giap lost his power and became an empty figurehead. After Tet, the North moved from military to Political, they won in Paris what they had lost in Tet. Having said all that, I believe the North wasted about 2,000,000 Vietnamese lives in the war. If Ho had been reasonably clever, after Dien Ben Phu, he would have economically and politically conquered the South. If Ho had been truly brilliant, after the French left, he would have had an open breach with the Chinese (which his political descendants did), openly dissolved the Communist Party (see Indonesia) and become a client state of the US. But those cards didn’t fall that way and over 2,000,000 Vietnamese and 100,000 Americans died.

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 3 місяці тому +10

      ​​@@anthonyburke5656 too bad those are merely myth, your army lost countless battles during the war, and besides you had half of the country to use as meat shield so that you can lose less soldiers. But no, in the end like many invaders that came to Vietnam, you lost the war and forced to leave the country for good. The Tet Offensive gave the North and the VC more advantage as it dealt mental damage, and even after that both the VC and the PAVN still continued to fight while yours lost morale!

    • @anthonyburke5656
      @anthonyburke5656 3 місяці тому

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 oh Dear, you are a product of indoctrination. I do concede that Tet was a psycho local turning point. Do you seriously say that the war that cost (in my estimate) 2,000,000 Vietnamese dead to less than 60,000 US dead was “won”? Have you ever heard of a “Pyrrhic” Victory? What I was trying to say, not so clearly I concede, is that if the Norths leaders had been a tiny bit clever, they could have achieved unification sooner, with better outcomes and no loss of life. The “iron hand in the velvet glove” approach isn’t that hard to manage, it was open to the leaders in the North, but they became fixated on the military solution for over 10 years (from Dien Ben phu to the Paris Accords) when all that was really needed was some political wiles! Who was the loser? Not the US, after all, the US lost 20 times more casualties to Covid in 2 years than it lost in 10 years+ in Vietnam. Vietnam lost a whole generation, both in the North and the South AND 2,000,000 adult workers and untold infrastructure and economic development. The horror of the war was the opportunity cost of the war as well as the lives and treasure it consumed.

  • @etivathanh
    @etivathanh 6 місяців тому +151

    As someone who studied Vietnamese history at a Vietnamese university, I find this video pretty nice to watch. Trần Hưng Đạo is still considered a national hero in Vietnam. Thank you for the video, which is a lot more interesting to watch than the history books I was reading :D

    • @darren5597
      @darren5597 6 місяців тому +1

      chúc anh chị trăm năm hạnh phúc.
      How is Tran Binh Trong viewed?

    • @VuLinhAssassin
      @VuLinhAssassin 6 місяців тому +8

      ​@@darren5597A hero martyr. "I'd rather be a Southern ghost than to be a Northern king".

    • @darren5597
      @darren5597 6 місяців тому

      @@VuLinhAssassin How much ancient history is taught in Vietnamese schools ?

    • @VuLinhAssassin
      @VuLinhAssassin 6 місяців тому

      @@darren5597 Throughout all school grades

    • @superfly19751
      @superfly19751 5 місяців тому +1

      History can be overblown depending on whose side you’re on. It’s nice to have an unbiased voice from sources like K&G.

  • @EnclaveEmily
    @EnclaveEmily 6 місяців тому +1644

    Today i learned that the mongols reached vietnam

    • @Dantheman813
      @Dantheman813 6 місяців тому +31

      😂😂😂

    • @jozzieokes3422
      @jozzieokes3422 6 місяців тому +25

      Amazing work !

    • @teo2972
      @teo2972 6 місяців тому +137

      And more! They even reached Java!

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew 6 місяців тому +11

      Like all the others

    • @Ayy_Doll_Fiddler
      @Ayy_Doll_Fiddler 6 місяців тому +85

      They went further. Ended up in Java.

  • @HJ-bd6mb
    @HJ-bd6mb 5 місяців тому +43

    Damn that final battle with the wooden stakes could be a whole movie on its own

    • @maybae97
      @maybae97 Місяць тому +4

      Thật không may khi nền điện ảnh của Việt Nam chưa phát triển và chưa có kinh phí ..và còn nhiều đi tích lịch sử đã bị tàn phá trong chiến tranh vẫn chưa được phục dựng

    • @thienloi01
      @thienloi01 4 дні тому +2

      It would be great but the problem is that most Vietnamese people have a false idea or have no clue about the culture in ancient Vietnam, they still think for instance that Vietnamese people during the Trần dynasty dressed in áo dài like during the 20th century (the áo dài is the dress worn by the imperial princess at 10:06 that is totally out of place). If a movie was made with a more accurate representation of the Trần dynasty, the Vietnamese audience would complain that it looks Chinese. Unfortunately, mainly because of ignorance and modern sinophobia, I don't think there will be a good movie about ancient Vietnam anytime soon.

    • @seanle8778
      @seanle8778 3 години тому

      Is very hard to make movies at that period Vietnam peoples mostly not except the fact they dress like Chinese people. I hope one day they will change their perspectives about the history and open mind about it period then the movie could be made…Vietnam and china at that period culture and everything else very similar…

  • @truongquoctuan9
    @truongquoctuan9 6 місяців тому +376

    As a Vietnamese, I am impress with the detail and accuracy regards to my nation history, well done.

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 6 місяців тому +115

    Vietnam successfully staying itself for as long as it has, is nothing short of incredible.
    So many groups and nations with immense power have tried to take over that small bit of land with no real long term success. Regardless of how I feel about Vietnam and its more recent history (since the 50s), I give them a LOT of credit for this.

    • @thevannmann
      @thevannmann 6 місяців тому +1

      I mean, Vietnam is far from alone in being a country with its own identity and it's not like Vietnam is not a poor, corrupt 3rd world country where most of its big traditions stem from China and where 50% of its word are from Chinese.

    • @ClassifiedUnit-135
      @ClassifiedUnit-135 6 місяців тому +17

      @@thevannmann Tell me you know nothing about Vietnam without telling me you know nothing about Vietnam.

    • @phambinhan17
      @phambinhan17 6 місяців тому +8

      ​@@thevannmann you just said Britain does not have its own identity?

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 6 місяців тому +6

      @@thevannmann Pathetic 3 sticks/Mi Chau 4.0 hybrid.

    • @hoangngoc2905
      @hoangngoc2905 6 місяців тому +8

      The recent history of Vietnam has prolonged its tradition of independence and strong will. Vietnam is one of the few countries in Asia that can say no to both the USA and China. You can compare, in terms of politics, the interactions between Vietnam and the USA and those of Japan or South Korea with the USA. I can guarantee that Vietnam can sway the USA more than Japan or South Korea can.

  • @muteme4980
    @muteme4980 6 місяців тому +63

    France, US, Japan, China, Cambodia, Mongolia etc. Vietnam a self defense powerhouse

    • @tuan-tran
      @tuan-tran Місяць тому

      ... missing Thailand bro

    • @quangvinh1153
      @quangvinh1153 Місяць тому

      include, champa / kherme (thailand, campuchia, south vietnam, myanmar, malaysia, singapore), so huge

    • @GodsBlessing00
      @GodsBlessing00 22 дні тому +2

      not just US but the some of the UN members like s korea, australia, ph and many others in Vietnam War

    • @user-nx2uo5jo1c
      @user-nx2uo5jo1c День тому

      ​@@GodsBlessing00 The fact is that Vietnam was ruled by China for a thousand years, by France for 80 years, and by princes from Sichuan, China for 50 years. Even after independence, the Vietnamese dynasty was basically established by Han immigrants, except for The Later Le Dynasty founded by the Mong minority

  • @conho4898
    @conho4898 6 місяців тому +124

    Great video! But there are some mistakes:
    1. Lí and Trần dynasties did not fully speak Chinese in their courts. They wrote in Chinese, but spoke in Vietnamese and Chinese.
    2. The Vietnamese rulers were not kings, but emperors. They only submitted themselves kings to China, but declared themselves emperors to everywhere else. They even had vassal and tributary states. You can read more about this foreign relations concept that was actually quite widespread in East Asia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_at_home,_king_abroad
    3. Trần Khâm was the emperor's real name. His dad's real name was Trần Hoảng. Trần Hoảng's temple name was Trần Thánh Tông, and Trần Khâm's temple name was Trần Nhân Tông. It would be great if you guys can be more consistent with name choices for Sinospheric rulers. If you're gonna use temple names, use it for all of them.

    • @darthvadeth6290
      @darthvadeth6290 6 місяців тому +6

      Emperors do not submit to other emperors, that doesn't make any sense. They were local vassal state rulers that paid tributes to their emperor in China.

    • @conho4898
      @conho4898 6 місяців тому +37

      @@darthvadeth6290 it doesn't make any sense to you because you don't understand the political situation of ancient East Asia. Please do research on the concept of "Emperor at home, king abroad". Multiple states in history have done so. And by your logic, we shouldn't call the Japanese ruler emperor either since they historically submitted to China.

    • @Kenjiunovt
      @Kenjiunovt 5 місяців тому

      Thực tế. Việc gọi người đứng đầu trung quốc thời trung cổ vơis người đứng đầu Việt Nam chỉ là hình thức ngoại giao:)) việc vua gặp vua là không có chỉ qua lại thư( chiếu chỉ) và sứ thần

    • @maihanh1989
      @maihanh1989 5 місяців тому

      @@Kenjiunovtthực tế VN là chư hầu. Vua Việt muốn lên ngôi chính danh phải được hoàng đế TQ sách phong. Ta cũng phải cống nạp rất nhiều nhưng đó cũng là chính sách khôn ngoan của ta. Một mặt hoà hoãn với phía Bắc, một mặt mở rộng xuống phía Nam.
      Thực tế dân tộc Việt Nam là một dân tộc hùng mạnh, một trong số ít các dân tộc không bị sát nhập vào TQ. Hãy nhìn nước Đại Lý rộng lớn một thời giờ không còn tên trên bản đồ, hay trước đó là hàng chục quốc gia bị sát nhập vào TQ. Việc các quốc gia sát nhập với nhau trở thành một quốc gia lớn là quy luật tự nhiên, như cá lớn nuốt cá bé, cũng như các bộ lạc liên kết với nhau trở thành nước Văn Lang, hay như Văn Lang sát nhập với Âu Việt thành Âu Lạc. So với TQ, chúng ta là con cá nhỏ nhưng con cá nhỏ này đủ khôn ngoan và đủ sức mạnh để không bị nuốt.

    • @Babigoldfish
      @Babigoldfish 5 місяців тому +3

      @@darthvadeth6290 Chinese emperor used this as an excuse to invade all the times. Do not think of this as weakness from the Viet side cus if China was strong enough in a period they could just invade without a valid reason (China was like the strongest nation on earth so that’s something to consider)

  • @teo2972
    @teo2972 6 місяців тому +125

    Holy heck!! KINGS AND GENERALS, You truly reign supreme in terms of youtube historical documentation!! I absolutely love the mongol series youve been doing. Cant wait for the Javanese vs Mongols!

    • @ulsaaulsqq311
      @ulsaaulsqq311 5 місяців тому +2

      Lol it s Mongols vs oceans ahahaha not Japan

    • @tonykusz9943
      @tonykusz9943 3 місяці тому

      Check out fall of civilisations you will be astounded

  • @TsunamiHistory
    @TsunamiHistory 6 місяців тому +111

    Vietnamese people are very friendly and intelligent 😍
    Their food is also very delicious 🤤

    • @thanhluc8938
      @thanhluc8938 5 місяців тому

      👍👍

    • @tranhuudat8386
      @tranhuudat8386 5 місяців тому +1

      ありがとう

    • @vantrinhnguyen987
      @vantrinhnguyen987 3 місяці тому +3

      I like your comment -- We VIetnamese love peace, enjoy the life, we have beautiful country and ... so many good food !!! -- we like make friendship with every ones ...
      We only get to fight if there's no choice .....

    • @Quanghuy1987bg
      @Quanghuy1987bg 12 днів тому

      Thanks you❤

  • @Layon_King
    @Layon_King 6 місяців тому +80

    This is why China dont wanna mess with Vietnam. Viets endurance and creativity in fighting is just so amazing.

    • @TranHungDao.
      @TranHungDao. 6 місяців тому +4

      They did, and they paid.

    • @Mahapadmadipatu
      @Mahapadmadipatu 3 місяці тому +1

      That why they was paying tribute at the beginning of the video to chinese empire😅😂

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Mahapadmadipatupaying tribute to avoid further fight, and the chinese knew better than to wage war to vietnam, the vietnamese played them well 😂😂😂😂

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@Mahapadmadipatua meager tribute for complete peace is a great diplomacy there 😎

    • @user-st1jl2qr1o
      @user-st1jl2qr1o День тому

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 The fact is that the generals who defeated the Mongols and the then King of Vietnam were both descendants of Chinese immigrants. During the Ming Dynasty, 200,000 troops were sent to conquer Vietnam. At that time, there were 1 million Vietnamese troops. Twenty years later, the Mong minority in Vietnam rebelled and successfully drove away the Ming army. Otherwise, the Vietnamese would have become Chinese 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @MrPookiexL3oi
    @MrPookiexL3oi 4 місяці тому +13

    Many don't know this part of Vietnam's history. Thanks for making this video.

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 6 місяців тому +112

    It never ends well when someone tries to take control of Vietnam.

    • @marc-antoinemarcoux697
      @marc-antoinemarcoux697 6 місяців тому +14

      Except when its the vietnamese themselves

    • @dx-ek4vr
      @dx-ek4vr 6 місяців тому +17

      I am The Lorax and I speak for the Trees.
      And the Trees speak Vietnamese.

    • @AL_AFGHANI1
      @AL_AFGHANI1 6 місяців тому +1

      Except for the French and Chinese

    • @vanyac6448
      @vanyac6448 6 місяців тому +3

      What about the French? Didn't they colonize Vietnam?

    • @pattran3030
      @pattran3030 6 місяців тому

      Both got their asses kicked@@AL_AFGHANI1

  • @BengCrypto
    @BengCrypto 6 місяців тому +28

    I am a Vietnamese person, I am proud that our ancestors have always fought to bring peace to the nation. I'll correct you one question That was the time when our writing was similar to Chinese characters. But it's not Chinese. It is Vietnamese. Thank you for your great video. Wishing you many good videos about history

    • @lyhthegreat
      @lyhthegreat 4 місяці тому

      it's just chinese characters mixed with some some modified chinese characters for native viet words, the role is not unlike hiragana in japanese or even written cantonese...and before people say it's the same as latin and vietnamese that is used today, it's different, a person who can read latin alphabets will not be able to understand vietnamese now even if they can somehow read it but a chinese person will be able to read a large portion of the vietnamese text(minus the chu nom) and understand the general meaning even though they won't be able to pronounce it because it's a logogram.Yeah it's not quite chinese but it's not entirely uniquely vietnamese too. Go take a walk around saigon or hanoi and see how many chinese words you can find around the historical structures and temples you can find if you can read chinese.

    • @BengCrypto
      @BengCrypto 4 місяці тому

      @lyhthegreat Maybe google translate translates your words I don't understand. But there is a passage where you say that most Chinese people can read Vietnamese. Except for the word NOM, it's wrong.

    • @thanhhamai6214
      @thanhhamai6214 3 місяці тому +3

      Chữ nôm giống chữ Hán,người việt đọc được chữ Hán nhưng người Hán k đọc được chữ Nôm

  • @ATLBraves1992
    @ATLBraves1992 6 місяців тому +42

    Mongols: “should be an easy conquest”
    Vietnamese: “hold my rice paddys”

    • @jacku8304
      @jacku8304 6 місяців тому

      Mongols: “should be an easy conquest as China control it for one thousand years"
      Vietnamese: “mongols horses have short legs and not faster than our barefoot soldiers"
      Mongol of today: "But they still our tributary state under our control for a hundred years.

  • @anhthiensaigon
    @anhthiensaigon 6 місяців тому +28

    Fun fact: before the 3rd invasion, king Nhân Tông (mentioned as Trần Khâm in the vid) consulted prince Hưng Đạo for strategy. He (reportedly calmly) answered: "this year they're a piece of cake". It can be interpreted that prince Hưng Đạo understood that our people and troops were already familiar with their scorched earth-type of stragegy (abandoning Thăng Long), or that he knew the Yuan had lost its major elite forces (i.e. the native Mongolians, in contrast to the Han-Chinese ones conscripted from former Song) and couldn't come up with any inovative strategy. Therefore he had no doubt that victory was already in his hand.
    Prince Hưng Đạo still remains the proudest, most venerable historical figure of our folks (together with Quang Trung - but that's a different story). All Vietnamese people regardless of political alignment agree on this one. Even during the separation of Vietnam war.

    • @toaninh9120
      @toaninh9120 6 місяців тому +6

      "năm nay thế giặc nhàn" is the ultimate flex

    • @vinhdo4914
      @vinhdo4914 Місяць тому

      I don’t know what I do this game I settled up I have to go for complete

    • @user-jd3ei2hy9o
      @user-jd3ei2hy9o День тому

      @@vinhdo4914 Fun fact::king Nhân Tông,prince Hưng Đạo, Quang Trung ,All are descendants of Chinese immigrants😀😀

  • @thewaterbearer16
    @thewaterbearer16 6 місяців тому +84

    Afghanistan - Central Asia’s Graveyard of Empires
    Vietnam - South-East Asia’s ICU of Superpowers 😂

    • @thuyluong5925
      @thuyluong5925 2 місяці тому

      Can you give a source? I wanna read that

    • @thewaterbearer16
      @thewaterbearer16 2 місяці тому +1

      @@thuyluong5925
      Vietnam defeated France (First Indochina War), USA (Vietnam War) and China (Sino-Vietnamese War)

    • @youngvvyoungonevv8798
      @youngvvyoungonevv8798 Місяць тому

      @@thewaterbearer16 Japan also

    • @thewaterbearer16
      @thewaterbearer16 Місяць тому

      @@youngvvyoungonevv8798 No.
      Japan did not won over any superpower nor hurt them so bad that they stopped/retreated. It eventually got occupied although it didn’t really got invaded and had to fight on its mainland.
      Even in ancient times, Kamikaze typhoons are natural phenomenons so that doesn’t even count against Mongols and its allies.

    • @youngvvyoungonevv8798
      @youngvvyoungonevv8798 Місяць тому

      @@thewaterbearer16 no i meant Vietnam defeated Japan too

  • @nhienleminhhue6605
    @nhienleminhhue6605 6 місяців тому +82

    -first in correction: the Chinese language wasn't the official language of the court but Medival Vietnamese, the Trần Clan had Chinese origin but had been assimilating into Vietnamese culture and language for the last 2 centuries, the Han characters were used for writing but the Chinese would be confused because we wrote it as we pronounced thus appearing grammatically wrong, and nonsensical to the Chinese.
    -second, Islam only came to Champa during the 15th century so before that Champa was Hindu.
    -Third, the first invasion, according to the main Vietnamese source in the 15th century, was that Thăng Long was abandoned and its population evacuated but the Mongol rapid advance most likely forced the court to abandon the capital with 30.000 of its inhabitants.
    -Fourth, the first Mongol invasion was an utter defeat for Đại Việt, but we managed to save face, counter-attacked, and recapture Thăng Long, most likely garrisoned by 20.000 Yi soldiers brought there by the Mongol in addition to 30.000 Mongol in the first place.

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +5

      The earliest agricultural societies that cultivated millet and wet-rice emerged around 1700 BCE in the lowlands and river floodplains of Indochina.So one could argue that it was the Viets that founded China

    • @ieatass4226
      @ieatass4226 6 місяців тому

      @@expatstone8310Are you a Chinese troll trying to make us normal Viets look like nonsensical nationalist idiots?

    • @DccAnh
      @DccAnh 6 місяців тому +11

      @@expatstone8310That’s nonsensical lol, China’s heartland is further north in the Central Plains, while ancient Vietnamese, Au Viet and Lac Viet live much further South in today’s Southern China, we were then push down further south to what is now modern day Northern Vietnam by the Han. The only thing that can be argue here is who grow rice first cause Northern China’s climate aren’t suitable for growing rice, but China definitely started with the Han’s predecessor the Huaxia.

    • @conho4898
      @conho4898 6 місяців тому +3

      your 1st point is also wrong. Han characters were used for writing, yes, but they wrote in standard Classical Chinese, which is completely legible to an average Chinese. Every modern Chinese can read Vietnamese sources written in the courts with ease. The one you're thinking about is the Nôm script, which most Chinese can't read, but they were only used informally, never in court writings.

    • @livbratione1319
      @livbratione1319 6 місяців тому +2

      @@conho4898 I think modern Chinese can guesstimate Vietnamese written courts scripture, but not do so "with ease". Besides, Chữ Nôm actually was used in courts during the Trần dynasty, not just informally. We did not have proof of them doing so extensively, partially because of Chinese vandalism during the Ming invasion. There were records of this kind of literature being applied in national examination during the period.

  • @vanvuonglai9174
    @vanvuonglai9174 6 місяців тому +19

    When you are alone against a great empire as Mongole Empire, you need not only luck but also good talents and strategy as well.

  • @lhp9266
    @lhp9266 4 місяці тому +21

    Joke: in a crowded bar in Saigon, a Singaporean man told a Vietnamese bartender that "we have Singapore Sling, do you think of having a Vietnam Cocktail?
    The Viet Bartender said: "we already had one which everyone must think of Vietnam when having it"
    Singaporean man looked at the Viet Bartender with surprise and suspicion; then the Viet Bartender made a B52 cocktail in front of the Singaporean man, he burned the top layer of alcohol, and said that the B52 was only shot down and burned in the sky over Vietnam. "The drink is on me", he smiled with the Singaporean man.

  • @ManhHungPham3003
    @ManhHungPham3003 6 місяців тому +21

    Chinese was not the official language of the court. It was Vietnamese, and Chinese characters were used to record the spoken language - just like Latin alphabet is used to record Vietnamese language today.

    • @user-jd3ei2hy9o
      @user-jd3ei2hy9o День тому

      The fact is that the generals who defeated the Mongols and the then King of Vietnam were both descendants of Chinese immigrants. During the Ming Dynasty, 200,000 troops were sent to conquer Vietnam. At that time, there were 1 million Vietnamese troops. Twenty years later, the Mong minority in Vietnam rebelled and successfully drove away the Ming army. Otherwise, the Vietnamese would have become Chinese

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq 6 місяців тому +7

    Thank you Kings & General’s for another Extraordinary video.

  • @chaosspork
    @chaosspork 6 місяців тому +54

    This is fascinating. I actually visited Vietnam around this time last year, which got me really interested in their history. I was especially interested to hear a bit about Thang Long, since I actually got to see it in person.

    • @MinhDucAnh16516
      @MinhDucAnh16516 6 місяців тому +1

      It's Hanoi today, myfriend

    • @chaosspork
      @chaosspork 6 місяців тому +10

      @@MinhDucAnh16516 I visited the The Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, in Hanoi. The castle is still called Thang Long.

    • @DaiMie
      @DaiMie 5 місяців тому +4

      Vietnam have gotten better over the years. Electricity still goes out sometime which is annoying. Wonder what the deal with Vietnam Power Grid. Vietnam need better power sources. Also, a bowl of Pho in Vietnam is only 2 dollars, while in the United States, at minimum, it cost 12 dollars for a bowl of pho. Fucking rip off.

  • @finalfalcon7368
    @finalfalcon7368 6 місяців тому +129

    This is such an interesting part of history that usually gets footnote treatment. Meanwhile the Mongols are treated like an invincible army instead of just another (admittedly amazing) war machine. Its also a hreat example of difficult this country is to fight in.

    • @hoaphan-uc3me
      @hoaphan-uc3me 6 місяців тому +1

      Nah they were failing elsewhere like Japan, too. Just incompetent at that point in history.

    • @karlolson1363
      @karlolson1363 6 місяців тому +5

      That's what wining a lot will do to someone. They eventually think they cannot lose ever. All that power and prestige got to the Mongols.

    • @CSGraves
      @CSGraves 6 місяців тому +1

      A history lesson that the USA would re-learn centuries later, albeit via a Pyrrhic victory for Viet Nam.

    • @Minhert
      @Minhert 6 місяців тому +5

      @@hoaphan-uc3mebruh they were killed by sea

    • @acudaican
      @acudaican 5 місяців тому +3

      @@hoaphan-uc3me How do you fight a storm while at sea lol.

  • @ThroneOfBhaal
    @ThroneOfBhaal 6 місяців тому +8

    Props to Devin, quite enjoy his narrations, he's quite good at it and has an interesting voice to listen to.

  • @ngocminhvu5009
    @ngocminhvu5009 6 місяців тому +29

    Viet in Vietnam itself means to overcome or to passover. The kanji for this word is found on the name of old Japanese provinces during Sengoku Jidai, Echizen (Việt Tiền), Etchu (Việt Trung), Echigo (Việt Hậu)

    • @ucchau173
      @ucchau173 4 дні тому

      But it others mean in begining it mean the people that passover the war and imigrant to the south (2500 years ago)😂😂

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 6 місяців тому +124

    China
    The Khmer
    The Mongols
    The French
    The Japanese
    The United States
    Vietnam's track record of resisting larger empires is crazy.

    • @kassander7353
      @kassander7353 6 місяців тому +9

      It's Amazing.

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +19

      You forgot China after the USA left

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew 6 місяців тому +11

      its an astonishing

    • @jimmyngo2191
      @jimmyngo2191 6 місяців тому +10

      We pretty much devoured the Khmer empire in the middle of the 19th century. If not because of the French, you cannot see Cambodia in the world's map now.

    • @usersixnine347
      @usersixnine347 6 місяців тому

      I wouldn’t consider Khmer a large empire.

  • @nguoianhien
    @nguoianhien 6 місяців тому +9

    Thank you for making this video, please make more about Vietnam's underrated history

  • @marc-antoinemarcoux697
    @marc-antoinemarcoux697 6 місяців тому +28

    Thank you for this video I learned so much and vietnamese history is so underappreciated sometimes.

    • @cuongvumanh806
      @cuongvumanh806 6 днів тому

      Bạn bị nhầm đấy . dân tộc Việt Nam là một dân tộc anh hùng số 1 trên thế giới

  • @saijiang7697
    @saijiang7697 5 місяців тому +29

    The resilience and tenacity of the Vietnamese people were the key factors in overcoming formidable adversaries from the North

    • @balloooom
      @balloooom 5 місяців тому +1

      I've always respected the Vietnamese people for their iron will but I didn't realize their history of guerilla warfare was 800 years old!!

    • @ucchau173
      @ucchau173 3 місяці тому +1

      @@balloooomwe use it when war with qin shi huang 2200 years ago (qin yue war 218-208 bc)😁

    • @truongtrinh8260
      @truongtrinh8260 8 днів тому

      ​@@balloooom vậy mà người indonesia luôn tự nhận và cho rằng anh ta đã chỉ dạy chiên tranh du kích cho Viêt Nam, hài hước thật sự.😂😂😂

  • @frankieseward8667
    @frankieseward8667 6 місяців тому +32

    Vietnam, the bane of many empires. Mongol conflict was particularly legendary

  • @johnsmead5096
    @johnsmead5096 6 місяців тому +146

    wish we had some more detailed accounts of some of the battles. hard to imagine mongol warfare in such a humid and vegetated land

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +34

      I lived in Vietnam for 7 years , the North is definitely NOT tropical it is a temperate climate. the forests look feel and smell like a British forest in the summer time

    • @SavageDragon999
      @SavageDragon999 6 місяців тому +7

      @expatstone8310 that's completely nonsense. There is no fucking way Cuc Phuong national park is the same as your average British forest.

    • @TTminh-wh8me
      @TTminh-wh8me 6 місяців тому +22

      Most of the jungles, swamps in northern vietnam (the red river delta) has been cut down or drained into agriculture land. Back in the 13 century, the region was much more covered, very different from the open space it is today.

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +9

      @@SavageDragon999 hey savage,granted The British forests have less mountains and monkeys but the trees and trails look very similar and the average temperature is the same as a British forest in summer.Having worked in and enjoyed both I can honestly say the Brits were not out of our comfort zone, the south we very much were.

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +4

      @@TTminh-wh8me Ok I did not consider that but I do remember the Northern Vietnamese wearing ski jackets in the winter.

  • @soumyadiptamajumder8795
    @soumyadiptamajumder8795 6 місяців тому +17

    First Mongol Invasion of Vietnam
    At the beginning of the 13th century, Gengis Khan, having unified Mongolia, started a war of conquest against China. In 1253, Kublai conquered the Dai Ly kingdom (now Yunnan Province), thus reaching the Vietnamese frontier. The Mongols demanded passage through Dai Viet in order to attack the Song from the south (1257), but the Tran refused. A Mongol army invaded Dai Viet, smashed its defenses, and seized the capital Thang Long, which was put to the sword and burnt to the ground. The King Tran left the capital, which was also abandoned by its inhabitants. The Mongol army were not able to obtain food and fared badly in the tropical climate. A Vietnamese counter-offensive drove the Mongols out of the capital. In retreat, the enemy was attacked by local partisans from an ethnic minority group living in the Phu Tho region. This was the first Mongol defeat.

    • @user-jd3ei2hy9o
      @user-jd3ei2hy9o День тому

      At that time, there were 3,000 Mongolian soldiers, plus 10,000 Chinese ethnic minority mercenaries, while the Vietnamese army exceeded 100,000. The Mongolian generals left Vietnam after receiving orders from the Great Khan to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, not that Vietnam defeated them.

  • @laszlo5201
    @laszlo5201 6 місяців тому +39

    Vietnamese history is underrated!

    • @lacviet8728
      @lacviet8728 6 місяців тому +3

      I couldn't agree more!!!

    • @jacku8304
      @jacku8304 6 місяців тому

      Please explain the One thousand years of being part of China's control. That's a mind boggling figure. That's the most unrated event in history some people hope many will forget !

    • @kingofnuggets7304
      @kingofnuggets7304 6 місяців тому

      @@jacku8304 Ye it was true that we got conquered and became China's territory for a fking thousand years but guess who survived and beat the heck outta them ?

    • @rive4410
      @rive4410 5 місяців тому

      Bởi vì Việt Nam là cái gai trong mắt các đế quốc từ thời cổ đại cho đến hết thế kỷ 20. Bạn nghĩ họ sẽ tuyền truyên truyền và tung hô cho Việt Nam sao?

    • @huylam3951
      @huylam3951 5 місяців тому

      That's because Vietnam is the brains like Sinosphere: Taiwan (ROC), Japan & Korea. The brains are smart and secret figures, especially if they are on the good side & they’re fighting for people, country & freedom.

  • @gamerhungry8463
    @gamerhungry8463 5 місяців тому +10

    In Vietnam, they have a phrase that translates to English the King's law loses to the Village's rule, which shows that villages are based factor to build up the country which they have now

    • @HauNguyen11994
      @HauNguyen11994 3 місяці тому

      Luật vua thua luật Làng

    • @taibui3402
      @taibui3402 3 місяці тому +1

      @@HauNguyen11994 Phép vua thua lệ làng

  • @SuChi146
    @SuChi146 6 місяців тому +32

    I‘m Vietnamese and I’ve learned a lot about history from your channel. Respect your work and thank you so much.❤

    • @MentallyLoner
      @MentallyLoner 6 місяців тому

      Bạn tiến hóa ngược sao?
      Dù không có hình ảnh nhưng sách giáo khoa và lời giảng của giáo viên tốt hơn.
      Và cùng ngôn ngữ nên dễ hơn
      Quan trọng là không có giấu diếm!

    • @SuChi146
      @SuChi146 6 місяців тому +7

      @@MentallyLoner tôi lớn rồi và cũng đã ko còn học trong trường để nghe giảng nữa. Những bài giảng của thầy cô đã qua rất xa rồi. Chỉ là những video ngẫu nhiên tôi tìm về Việt Nam trên mạng và muốn cảm ơn lịch sự tới công việc của ngta thôi. Bạn ko ưng cmt của tôi thì thôi cũng ko cần quá gay gắt.

    • @ucngocnguyen8938
      @ucngocnguyen8938 6 місяців тому +3

      Thông tin họ đưa không chính hoàn toàn đâu bạn, trong cuộc tấn công lần thứ 3, với tháng mà quân Nguyên Mông chọn tấn công Việt Nam thì làm gì có bão. Hải quân Nguyên Mông nó đi làm 2 đợt, đợt đầu là tàu chiến, đợt sau là hậu cần ít sự phòng bị hơn nên Trần Hưng Đạo đã tập kích phá hủy bằng hỏa công. Đoàn tàu chiến đi trước thì mới bị bẫy cọc gỗ khi rút lui sau đó.

    • @SuChi146
      @SuChi146 6 місяців тому +5

      @@ucngocnguyen8938 chuyện ko có bão thì tôi biết. Sử gia hoặc các youtuber làm sử họ tham khảo nhiều nguồn khác nhau, chính thống hoặc ko chính thống. Đôi khi có đưa cả ý kiến chủ quan của họ. Việc mình chọn lọc thông tin để nghe và tiếp thu là tuỳ thuộc cá nhân mình thôi. Như tôi đã nói ở trên, là một lời cảm ơn lịch sự khi họ đã để ý và nghiên cứu lịch sử Việt Nam thôi. Họ làm một video cũng rất đầu tư nữa. Cảm ơn bạn đã trả lời tôi và thông tin thêm. Chứ như bạn ở trên bụp vào hỏi ngta tiến hoá ngược à thì rất vô duyên.

    • @user-gr5uy1hg9d
      @user-gr5uy1hg9d 6 місяців тому

      ⁠​⁠​⁠@@SuChi146noi hay….nhieu khi nguoi chien thang viet su ,,,chua Chac la Su that 100%….nhu kieu trung quoc viet Su cua ho…
      co vai nhan vat tu cho Minh la Gioi…hoc vet..vai quyen sach Giao khoa…..lai to Ra Thông Thái….dung la con ech deo kính ngoi trong gieng😂😂😂

  • @hieunguyenthanh7108
    @hieunguyenthanh7108 5 місяців тому +16

    I come from Vietnam, I'm always proud of my country's heroic history, I always wonder what foreigners think about my country's history, I accidentally saw your video on UA-cam, I didn't expect Other countries also know and care about my country's history, I thank you very much for your video

    • @yusufibntachfin7978
      @yusufibntachfin7978 5 місяців тому +12

      Im from Morocco and i respect very much the vietnamese, they're amongst the strongest people in the world and they proved it many times. True warriors.

    • @PhanHai-vlog
      @PhanHai-vlog Місяць тому +1

      ​​@@yusufibntachfin7978đã từng có 200 người lính Maroc phục vụ trong quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam trong cuộc kháng chiến chống thực dân pháp. Những người lính Maroc dũng cảm mạnh mẽ tuyệt vời đó là những người anh hùng dân tộc thực sự 😊

  • @umayyadball4126
    @umayyadball4126 6 місяців тому +10

    This was a great episode! There should be an episode (or multiple) on the history of the Cham people. Champa ruled central and south Vietnam for around a millennia.

    • @bobbyo3867
      @bobbyo3867 5 місяців тому +2

      More than a millennia.

  • @jozzieokes3422
    @jozzieokes3422 6 місяців тому +2

    well done as always!

  • @ageingviking5587
    @ageingviking5587 5 місяців тому

    Another informative video.Thank you Ks and Gs.

  • @yeastori
    @yeastori 6 місяців тому +87

    That river spike strategy was genius, they destroyed a massive fleet by simply turning a powerful armada into a sitting duck. This was also how the Vietnamese defeated the Chinese invaders many centuries prior when they were also invaded by China.

    • @diephoainambui9682
      @diephoainambui9682 6 місяців тому +11

      this tactic was a meta against chinese that it was used 2 or 3 times

    • @jacku8304
      @jacku8304 6 місяців тому

      But how do you explain the over a thousands of being controlled by China and almost a thousand years of being vessel and tributary states to China ? Remember it is a thousands years and nor few hundred years. It also changed your looks and color of your S.E.Asian skin tone. Your S.E.Asian culture was almost eradicated too.

    • @diephoainambui9682
      @diephoainambui9682 6 місяців тому +2

      @@jacku8304 it was later independence and not even becoming them so thousand years of being China's slave doesn't mean much if they can't make it forever
      China dominated but still having many rebellions against them for each hundred years so they didn't actually control the land, they took the land but they couldn't make people a slave forever

    • @darthvadeth6290
      @darthvadeth6290 6 місяців тому +5

      @@diephoainambui9682 That's a very dumb argument. China dominated Vietnam for 1000 years. That means a lot. 1000 years is a lot, lol
      Your expectation that as long as something a country doesn't get wiped out "forever" then it's not a defeat is just a crazy standard that nobody uses. By your standard, even Native Americans in America cannot be described as "defeated" by Western colonizers, because they are still alive and still own land in America, lol

    • @diephoainambui9682
      @diephoainambui9682 6 місяців тому +2

      @@darthvadeth6290 i don't say that it didn't get defeated, I only said that they couldn't keep Vietnam as a part of its land forever cuz in the end Vietnam are free from it so it doesn't mean much

  • @nhattan1991
    @nhattan1991 6 місяців тому +19

    Cuối cùng cũng có 1 ai đó làm video nói về cuộc chiến này 😀 , người Việt Nam chưa hề sợ bất kì 1 kẻ thù nào ❤

    • @tranhuudat8386
      @tranhuudat8386 5 місяців тому +1

      Việt Nam bên nên viết hoa.Phải tôn trọng từ việc nhỏ nhặt như thế này

    • @nhattan1991
      @nhattan1991 5 місяців тому

      @@tranhuudat8386 ok bạn

  • @ice-str
    @ice-str 6 місяців тому

    Tx for such valuable contents

  • @superfly19751
    @superfly19751 5 місяців тому +4

    As a Vietnamese American I appreciate Kings and Generals authentic documentaries, blocking out biases from either side of history. This just to show how your own egos can kill you quicker than a bullet even after two previous failed attempts.
    Supplies are the bloodline of an army. It was crucial that you pointed out the Yuan’s supply fleets were party decimated by a storm before getting finished by the Viet’s Naval force. It seems like that was the second time the Yuan’s forces had lost their mandate from heaven including The Devine Wind in Japan.

  • @tobechannel9640
    @tobechannel9640 3 місяці тому +7

    Hope Netflix make a series about this legendary war

  • @JoeBuchanan1346
    @JoeBuchanan1346 6 місяців тому +37

    The sheer scope of the Mongol empire is crazy, in the show Marco Polo, Kublai khan states “ Alexander the Great has 20 cities named after him, I now control them all “ that sent chills down my spine

    • @sangbum60090
      @sangbum60090 3 місяці тому

      He didn't control Alexandria though

    • @JoeBuchanan1346
      @JoeBuchanan1346 3 місяці тому

      @@sangbum60090 you did the quote right? Alexander the great has 20 cities named after him in Asia not just the Middle East

    • @JoeBuchanan1346
      @JoeBuchanan1346 3 місяці тому

      @@sangbum60090 well yes, but actually no

    • @OGtruthserum
      @OGtruthserum 25 днів тому +1

      Khan could not control Hung and Dong, which the Vietnamese had plenty off. There is a reason Vietnamese are known as Kinh people, which stand for dominant.

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 6 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for the video

  • @JonathanGeorgeVillarreal
    @JonathanGeorgeVillarreal Місяць тому +1

    Your talent leaves me speechless. Keep following your dreams!

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott9546 6 місяців тому +49

    Some pretty clever tactics employed by the Nam. Determined resistance + the jungle defeated a mighty enemy, indeed !

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +7

      Determined resistance yes ,jungle no ,I lived in Vietnam for 7 years , the North is definitely NOT tropical it is a temperate climate. the forests look feel and smell like a British forest in the summer time

    • @murrayscott9546
      @murrayscott9546 6 місяців тому +5

      @@expatstone8310 Even a British forest, if filled with combatants, would be a little demoralizing.

    • @expatstone8310
      @expatstone8310 6 місяців тому +2

      @@murrayscott9546 Lots of talk of tropical weather, jungles and tropical diseases in the north, not true. As an English city boy from London I would agree when working in the south lots of food poisoning and diarrhoea while being eaten alive by bugs that ground us down to weaklings in a very short space of time.But hey ho when in Rome Vietnam had lots of speed and opium to soften the pain and discomfort.

    • @highlightsfootball9464
      @highlightsfootball9464 5 місяців тому

      Chả có khu rừng nào chống lại dc quân Mongol cả anh bạn à 😂😂😂

    • @murrayscott9546
      @murrayscott9546 5 місяців тому

      @@highlightsfootball9464 please translate to English.

  • @mikemodugno5879
    @mikemodugno5879 6 місяців тому +25

    Awesome! I would love to see more from you guys on Southeast Asia.

  • @Harrier_DuBois
    @Harrier_DuBois 5 місяців тому +5

    Every country has it's story. Love the content!

  • @ralambosontiavina7372
    @ralambosontiavina7372 5 місяців тому +1

    Great work !

  • @mienluuhien9563
    @mienluuhien9563 6 місяців тому +25

    As a Vietnamese, thank you for this video. Nice work as always!

    • @HungPham-ki9wu
      @HungPham-ki9wu 6 місяців тому

      Vietnamese là tính từ ko phải danh từ nên ko thể nói as a vietnamese

  • @DanhNguyen-1905
    @DanhNguyen-1905 5 місяців тому +15

    Many people say that the Mongols were not used to the tropical monsoon climate in Vietnam, but they only invaded Northern Vietnam. The climate in the 13th century was not as hot as it is now, and Mongolia has the Gobi desert that is as hot as the Saha During the day and at night it is colder than Northern Vietnam

    • @MinhNguyen-ff6xf
      @MinhNguyen-ff6xf 4 місяці тому +2

      You forgot the humidity. In the north of Vietnam, the weather is weird and unbearable. It can be hot and norm like a tropical jungle in summer but turns cold and norm in some days in winter, and other days can be cold and dry. Norm days have humidity like 99% that you can swim in the air and everything has mold on it. The Mongols and Tartars are used to dry climate not norm country that contains so many germs and tropical diseases

    • @Cip2008
      @Cip2008 22 дні тому

      @@MinhNguyen-ff6xfĐúng rồi. Mặc dù chúng ta chiến thắng nhưng sự thật là chúng ta có lợi thế về địa hình lẫn khí hậu. Và chúng ta đã tận dụng những lợi thế đó 1 cách rất hiệu quả.

    • @user-nx2uo5jo1c
      @user-nx2uo5jo1c День тому

      Don’t forget Vietnam’s mountains, jungles, mosquitoes and malaria

  • @anhsangcuaang6521
    @anhsangcuaang6521 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for sharing

  • @line_inthe_sand2569
    @line_inthe_sand2569 3 місяці тому

    ❤ great video guys.
    It's sad we don't get tons of detail on death tolls and causalities.
    But I understand that sometimes sources did not elaborate these things.

  • @auburntiger6829
    @auburntiger6829 6 місяців тому +26

    People love to meme about Vietnam's rice farmers, but forget that-for most of history-professional armies were raised by agrarian-based civilizations, such as Rome, Persia, and China. Vietnam, like Feudal Japan, was a fierce warrior nation that was not only proud and united but also knew how to fight in its tropical terrain extremely well. Even the Chinese who conquered Vietnam for 1,000 years were eventually kicked out after a thousand years of continuous resistance.

    • @nooonanoonung6237
      @nooonanoonung6237 2 місяці тому

      Vestiges of decentrialised village-level martial traditions survive nowadays in traditional village games like wrestling, marching and martial arts competitions.
      This means that training soldiers for war was something all villages did, all the time. When the time came, great armies could be called up at a moment's notice to fight then quickly return to economic activities after wars. But it also means the central power sitting in Thăng Long couldn't get too uppity with the peasants, otherwise there would be lots of spears pointing at their throats.

  • @MML-gk5xc
    @MML-gk5xc 6 місяців тому +11

    Respect for the noble and courageous people of 🇻🇳 ❤️💛

  • @AironSmieciowy-di3qy
    @AironSmieciowy-di3qy 6 місяців тому +1

    Great video!

  • @wileyjackson5124
    @wileyjackson5124 6 місяців тому +7

    I love your pronunciation! It’s pretty good, plus you’re using proper Hanoian viet which is uncommon for a foreigner

  • @BasicEnglish1o1
    @BasicEnglish1o1 6 місяців тому +25

    In Hanoi right now there's this park called Gò Đống Đa (Đống Đa Mount) which literally made from the bodies of Chinese invaders back in the swords and arrows age, estimated about 20,000 bodies. I guess that one way of making Vietnamese soil more fertile. 😅😅😅😅

    • @duongtieuta223
      @duongtieuta223 6 місяців тому +12

      There were multiple mounds like that after the Qing invasion in late 18th century. The one in Đống Đa is supposedly the only one remained.

    • @BasicEnglish1o1
      @BasicEnglish1o1 6 місяців тому +3

      @@duongtieuta223 Thanks, I love to find out more of them.

    • @chungngo1321
      @chungngo1321 3 місяці тому

      😂

    • @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj
      @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj Місяць тому

      It’s turns out good we have less non-Chinese in the country now so I am glad Vietnam is not part of China. You are also invaders too champa and Cambodia so don’t play victim too much

  • @jimmyngo2191
    @jimmyngo2191 6 місяців тому +15

    @KingsandGenerals You had a serious mistake in this video. Vietnamese court used Chinese but not in court. It for diplomacy purpose only. In court, all dynasties used Vietnamese and Chinese characters and later we developed a new writing system which based on Chinese characters, is similar to Kanji in Japan and Hangul of Korean. We also had an ancient writing system developed in Hong Bang era (before the Qin and Han annexation) but it is incompleted (you can see Chinese scholars mentioned about that system in "the book of Han".) .

  • @yousseftalal4520
    @yousseftalal4520 6 місяців тому +1

    Great video as always, can you make a series about the reconquista

  • @ronjohnson6916
    @ronjohnson6916 6 місяців тому +15

    Interesting stuff. I thought I had some knowledge of the Mongols and had never heard about this.

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 6 місяців тому +4

    Thanks for a great video on a region not often featured in Western histories of the world.

  • @buinghiathuan4595
    @buinghiathuan4595 6 місяців тому +5

    Did not expecting you guys making about Vietnam

    • @pierreiiidenormandie625
      @pierreiiidenormandie625 6 місяців тому

      They already made another video around Mongol invasion of Vietnam before!

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion 6 місяців тому +108

    The Mongols' greatest defeat is not at Ain Jalut but in Dai Viet and Champa. Also, thanks for covering the history of East Asia again! It's been a while since I saw one on this channel!

    • @aburoach9268
      @aburoach9268 6 місяців тому +3

      wrong, their greatest defeat is Ain Jalut // Dai viet and Champa conducted Guerilla warfare // But the Mamelukes Defeated the Mongols in Open Pitched battle, outmatching them in a head on clash, which broke their prestige

    • @bazo8478
      @bazo8478 6 місяців тому +6

      ​@@aburoach9268yeah, Mamluk victory at Ain Jalut saved the entire Middle East and Africa from being steamrolled by Mongols.

    • @lamvutran9345
      @lamvutran9345 6 місяців тому +12

      ​@@aburoach9268 nah, both can be right, it has to do with how you define "victory" / "defeat".
      In term of scales alone, the war against the Dai Viet dwarf Ain Jalut in size, boasting 300000 troops from the mongols (some source cite 500000), and about 100000 Daivietnese troops in both the 2nd and the 3rd invasions. That's at least 10 times greater than most of the invasions the Mamluks and its allies have seen, at least that's what I could find. I'll admit I'm not well-versed in the history of Africa and the Muslim World. But "greatest" it was not.
      The reason Ain Jalut are often viewed by international historians as the greatest victory against the Mongols has to do with the definition. Since the Dai Viet and Champa continued to give tribute to the Mongol Empire after they won both wars (arguably, the first one as well), they argued that the Mongols had achieved their purpose to inherit the vassal states of the Song Dynasty and thus, "winning" rather than a "losing" the war. Yet, if you research a bit more about the local historians pov, you'll know that the Champa and the Dai Viet would most likely give tribute to their bigger state after the war to be left in peace, as they have done so times after times in the past, and will continue to do so in the future war with the Ming and Qing Dynasties. So, from the pov of a different culture, it was a defeat from the Mongols. As said, both of you can be right. It come down to how you define "victory" in this particular war. However, had we viewed the war as a defeat the Mongols suffered, as per this video, we'd have a rather hot debate on our hand.
      Btw, it's far from a simple "guerilla warfare". The Mongol suffered heavy loss and retreat, knowing despite winning a massive battle at Binh Le Nguyen, they couldn't keep the occupied territory under their control for long. Later, it was written in the book "the history of Yuan", citing the reason for their retreat was the hot weather. Which has been called bullshits by many modern historians as the war took place in the middle of winter.

    • @aburoach9268
      @aburoach9268 6 місяців тому

      @@lamvutran9345 you are not giving the symbolic impact of a guerilla war vs a conventional war, enough credit here // The Vietnamese made good use of their terrain which did not favor the mongol style of war and conducted irregular warfare with many skirmishes and ambushes
      The Mamelukes on the other hand Defeated the Mongols on *their preferred terrain* with *their preferred tactic* called a feigned retreat
      Clearly the Impact of the Mameluke victory on mongol "invincibility" was massive and spoke way louder then vietnam
      That's why historians speak of Ain jalut soo much, Because for the first time this highly skilled army that Ghenghis built, got outmatched in it's own game, Terrain & manner of warfare by another Better Cavalry Force
      it cannot be blamed on terrain, or element of surprise
      It's simply a clean head on clash by two cavalry armies on the open field and one got better of the other
      A challenger dethroned the Champion of Cavalry combat
      It's like if the Iraqi army under saddam were to win a tank battle against the US

    • @Majo.44
      @Majo.44 6 місяців тому

      lol compares guerrilla warfare and hiding in the forests to open warfare above ground in a barren desert. The Mongols faced real Muslim men. They confronted them with swords. hit them in the middle of their faces. and annihilated the Mongolian army with a word in the Battle of Ain Jalut. They beheaded the leader of the Mongol army and hung his head on a spear. The commander's name was Katbugha Khan

  • @lacviet8728
    @lacviet8728 6 місяців тому +17

    Its about god damn time Kings and Generals feature the Viet people's unprecedented and astonishing stance from the Mongol horde. Not once or twice, but three times Dai Viet repulsed the most powerful empire history has ever known!

    • @user-mm7zi4ue7d
      @user-mm7zi4ue7d 6 місяців тому +1

      The Mongols didn't want to live in Vietnam without air conditioning, they just wanted to prevent the Song Dynasty's exiles from resurrecting in Vietnam

    • @davidgibson3631
      @davidgibson3631 6 місяців тому

      @@user-mm7zi4ue7dthis is just a trick to invade Vietnam no one even leader think about let to outside army into their land . Is like give away a sovereign state ? no one even Serbia

    • @HigehiroGo
      @HigehiroGo 5 місяців тому +1

      @@user-mm7zi4ue7d what a hilarious. Mongols didn't want to live in Vietnam? So, why did they invaded Vietnam 2 times after Song Dynasty defeated? And if Khubilai-khan didn't died, he may be take the fourth invasion in Vietnam.

  • @TheSci-fiAnarchist42
    @TheSci-fiAnarchist42 6 місяців тому +43

    Forget Afghanistan, Vietnam is the real graveyard of Empires. 🇻🇳

    • @FreetechShare-uy9zc
      @FreetechShare-uy9zc 6 місяців тому +4

      Việt Nam là một dân tộc yêu hòa bình ❤

    • @tommy2117
      @tommy2117 5 місяців тому +2

      Please don't, this with the generation of vietnamese blood and cries. We just want the peace, like today

    • @gaywardebichui
      @gaywardebichui Місяць тому

      Trung quốc, pháp, nhật, mỹ, mông cổ, thái lan, úc, hàn quốc, philippin,new zealand, ponpot ,Anh,Đức,tây ban nha chúng tôi chiến thắng tất cả 😮

    • @user-nx2uo5jo1c
      @user-nx2uo5jo1c День тому

      @@gaywardebichui The fact is that Vietnam was ruled by China for 1000 years, by France for 80 years, and by princes from Sichuan for 50 years. Even after independence, the Vietnamese dynasty was basically established by Han immigrants, except for the Later Le Dynasty established by the Mong people.

  • @megapangolin1093
    @megapangolin1093 6 місяців тому +26

    I think the US government should have watched this video before invading Vietnam. Excellent, well-researched and presented video. Thank you.

    • @yenlinhtran69
      @yenlinhtran69 6 місяців тому +3

      I don’t think they did. My mom always said that we were the only ones able to stop the mongols.

    • @DaiMie
      @DaiMie 5 місяців тому +2

      @@yenlinhtran69 That mean the Roman were kinda shit at wars.

    • @Phuongtran-wp2jt
      @Phuongtran-wp2jt 3 місяці тому

      Probably because there was no UA-cam back then:))

    • @megapangolin1093
      @megapangolin1093 3 місяці тому

      I think you might be right, but I am not sure, I think they should have watched anyway, just in case.@@Phuongtran-wp2jt

    • @vantrinhnguyen987
      @vantrinhnguyen987 3 місяці тому +1

      and now Americans know that better's become friend of Vietnamese than their enemy .....

  • @gustavrask8592
    @gustavrask8592 6 місяців тому +2

    good video keep op the good work

  • @cuocsongthuviquanhta
    @cuocsongthuviquanhta 3 місяці тому

    Great video. Love from Vietnam !

  • @minhduc17801
    @minhduc17801 5 місяців тому +5

    1:23 "Chinese was the official language of the court". As I understand it, language includes both speaking and writing, but we only use Chinese characters in administrative documents but still speak in Vietnamese. Chinese characters in Vietnam are called Chữ Nho. Chữ Nho are Chinese characters pronounced in Vietnamese. Chữ mean words, Nho means Confucianism. It is called that because it is a tool to spread Confucianism. Because of the different pronunciation, according to many records at that time, many people could even communicate with Chinese people in writing but could not communicate by voice.

  • @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500
    @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 6 місяців тому +3

    I've literally been waiting years for this

  • @hokage6984
    @hokage6984 6 місяців тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @DanielLee_2304
    @DanielLee_2304 6 місяців тому +21

    Interesting video on the Mongol invasions of Vietnam. I've always been curious on how the two kingdoms at the time defended itself.
    I also hope a the Mongol Invasion of Java, this particular event is an interesting case because this led to the rise of the Majapahit and fall of the Singhasari kingdom, the Majapahit using the Mongols to defeat the Singhasari.

  • @vachnganvietnam5835
    @vachnganvietnam5835 6 місяців тому +8

    so good! Because they have experienced many wars, Vietnamese people understand the value of peace very well

  • @vazak11
    @vazak11 6 місяців тому

    Inspiring!

  • @robertduy
    @robertduy 6 місяців тому +1

    Hi. I am Vietnamese . Thanks for your video. Have a good time guys