Indonesia is by far my favorite. Because they really just confused the hell out of the Mongols by surrendering super quickly, directed all their forces to wasteful campaigns whilst feigning loyalty, and were generally just such bad subjects that the Mongols decided it wasn't worth it and left. It has a similar energy to malicious compliance.
The reason why the Mongols suddenly left Java was because monsoon wind will soon end and they doesn't want stuck on hostile island for 6 month, they intended to come back with proper army for invasion of about 100k vs 30k on this punitive expedition (which was originally to punish Kertanegara but bro killed by Jayakatwang so the Mongol capture and executed him) but Kublai Khan died and Raden Wijaya just come to fill the power vacuum.
@@SetupthemabombNot really. The Mongols did several attempts to punish Java, not just once, but it were all failed. Odorico of Pordenonne recorded these events when he was in transit in Java during the middle of his journey to China.
For the context: Odorico of Pordenonne visited Java during the reign of Jayanegara in Majapahit Empire (2nd king of Majapahit) & reported that the Javanese kingdom had seven vassals under it & engaged in several wars with Yuan dynasty but successfully repelled it.. this was already many years after the event of the Sino-Mongol's defeat from Raden Wijaya (1st king of Majapahit)
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 that's not really accurate. Tolkien's Orcs were much more broadly based on the "barbarian horde" trope, which is far older than the Mongols, dating back at least to the Indo-European migrations into Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age.
I like how everyone is relying either on luck or attrition, and then you have the Indonesians playing 4D chess and the Mamluks just straight up beating the mongols at their own game.
Mamluks' greatest enemy was their own internal strife. They made a good stand against that invincible warlord Tamerlane when he invaded Syria, then, the next day, the whole host retreated back to Egypt because someone was plotting a coup in Cairo!
Kinda bummed out that he oversimplified Europe, they basically created a medieval whole ass system to deal with mongols. They walled every major city then the general populace was taught drills how to react to mongols step by step. Sure it might sound stale but this level of organizement is absurd in medieval times.
The Japanese beach defenses didn't really fail. They inflicted grievous losses on the Mongol armies from their shore defenses, causing the mongols to stay on their ships where they were eventually hit by a storm. The madlad Japanese were actually getting onto boats THEMSELVES to attack mongols in their ships, which caused the mongols to lash their ships together so that they could better respond to these Japanese naval raids. It was the lashing together of ships that meant they were terribly equipped to deal with a storm. So if it wasn't for Japanese military success the Mongols would not have been severely affected by the typhoon.
Interesting. I was aware that the Japanese offered heavy resistance and that the Mongols went back to their ships to figure things out, but I never knew that the Japs were also preparing to board the Mongol ships and that this led to the Mongols being at a poor position when the storm came. You learn something new every day. :^)
@@peekaboo1575they weren’t preparing they were actually doing that they were even using kamikaze tactics by setting their boats on fire and ramming it into the Mongol ships history dose has a video that goes in depth about the Japanese defense against the Mongol invaders it’s actually surprising how much problems the Samurai were causing
Fun facts: The mongols invasion of Vietnam is surprisingly similar to the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, half a millenium later. Both armies seemed invincible going into war, both relied on their mobility to overwhelm opponents. Both had rapid early success, captured the capital cities but the vietnameses and russians abandoned their capital and employed attrition warfare. As the war dragged on, the mongols and the frenchs were then severely weakened by guerilla attacks, the weather, diseases, lack of food and other logistic problems. When they retreated, they faced ambushes and counter attacks and suffered catastrophic defeats, to the point their grand armies were close to be wiped out completely.
Just goes to show that conquering a region requires some level of cooperation from said region. If they fully reject you and everything you stand for, you are guaranteed to fail
@@berserkerpride at the same time white angloids worshipping rock, the khmer and champa kingdoms built massive cities and temples with over 200k inhabitants
option 4 is quite funny actually. kublai khan's army came to java to punish kertanegara of singosari kingdom for not paying their tributes to the khan. when they arrived, kertanegara was already usurped by jayakatwang of kediri kingdom. so they tried to tax the new kingdom, which they failed. so a guy named raden wijaya of majapahit, who was allied with the deceased kertanegara of singosari, worked together with the khan's army to depose jayakatwang of kediri. after achieving victory, raden wijaya invited the khan's officials back to his estate to collect their tributes, but warned them not to bring weapons, as princesses cannot handle the sight of weapons. 200 of the khan's men came unarmed to the estate, got shanked immediately (well whaddya expect), demoralising the khan's army, and proceed to chase the rest of the main mongolian army back to the ocean with ambush tactics
That's why after the death of Genghis Khan, Mongol empire become unstable and breaking up to a pieces, for example Yuan Dynasty and Golden Horde @@lolasdm6959
@@ultraunity9912 It refers to the “Cum Non Solum” It’s an uno reverse card letter written by Pope Urban IV telling the Mongols to “submit” and to stop attacking Christians (Russians, Hungarians, Poland, etc.) and that Jesus loves them and are patient with them, and if they do not stop their westward advance they shall know who is the real scourge. (Implying what happened to Atilla the Hun when he kept coming back sacking the Holy Roman Empire) After the next Khan (Hulagu) learned about the letter, he changed his attitude and told the next pope and european kings that he will give back Jerusalem to the Christians if they fully cooperate in destroying the last Islamic power in the middle east (mamluks) and of course, TO SUBMIT TO THE MONGOLS.
The funny thing is, even after Mongols successfully brought the Koreans on their knees, they failed to conquer them directly, and they had to make them into client state instead because Koreans were too troublesome to occupy.
@@Wabu_227 I assumed that the Mongols vassalized Korea instead of occupying them outright out of respect for how it took nine invasions to completely subdue them - plus the fact that the Mongols, being a landlocked nation of horse riders, needed Korean shipbuilders to build their ships for the invasion of Japan.
@@ennui9745 Mongols didn't force other cultures to change, but just steal their workforce and tax them making them basically "respect" and work under mongol rule That also means that they were the most tolerant culture at the time when it came to religion, some even adapting their own shamanism with neighboring religions
@@Duck1en It does seem that way to me. Heck, the Mongols often converted to the religions of the peoples they met and/or conquered, rather than the other way around.
@@Wabu_227you know what is also funny is that Mongols were fighting in so many different fronts that korea was not considered a significant target so in every invasion they only sent 10k and at most 20k troops to subject korea each time.
@@nbdyknw nah...."desperate needs desperate measures" they knew they cant defeat mongol so they did what it take (they didnt consider mongol allie in the first place)
@@nbdyknw Rather than a coward tactic, they are pretty sly on handling the mongols tbh. Sometimes you dont need bloodbath to win a war, you just gotta use your brain and minimize your sacrifices.
The power dynamic of Mongol Invasion of Java and year prior of it was something like soap opera, from Kertanegara giving Kublai Khan a middle finger, then got backstabbed by Jayakatwang only to get backstabbed by Kertanegara's Son-in-Law, Raden Wijaya, resulting in an bizzarro episode of Chinese and Majapahit Army cross-over to defeat the backstabber Jayakatwang, culminating in a final episode of plot twist where Raden Wijaya backstab his Chinese savior and proceed to proclaim himself ruler of Java.
You can put Kertanegara predecessors on that as well. • Ken Arok backstabbed his master Tunggul Ametung and became the first king of Singasari • Ken Arok got backstabbed by Tunggul Ametung son, Anusapati • Anusapati got backstabbed by Ken Arok son, Tohjaya • Tohjaya got backstabbed by Anusapati son, Wisnu Wardhana (father of Kertanegara)
Imagine a world where Japan was conquered and instead of anime weebs the pop culture today was influenced by troat singing, fermented milk and some dudes of the steppes beating the crap out of half the world...
0:22 Imagine being a big empire, trying to conquer a faraway-out-in-the-sea kingdom, only to find out that said kingdom had some sort of war for the throne and you were instead being thrown around like a volleyball 😂🤣😂🤣
@@wikansaktianto9215 the Medival Vietnam army was one of the best army in SEA, Except the Nguyen Dynasty, we used gunpowder weapons since Europe is busy fighting with their Sword and Spear
The most impressive thing about the Mongols is that they conquered so much land and countries that they were the biggest empire to have ever existed on the planet, but left zero structures behind. No statues, no palaces, no giant walls of a city, not even a freaking bridge over a river or something. And that's because for all their conquering, they never once stopped being a nomadic civilization. Sure, they had VERY fancy tents, when you are the ruler of most of the known world you get to have the best tent ever. But its still a tent, it doesn't last centuries, its not supposed to. When a Mongol saw one of those epic palaces in China, they were all like "Yeah, that palace is nice, but with this tent I can go anywhere."
well yes nomadic cultures in general basically never left anything behind because they never build anything permanent besides some graves and some few ruins, they conquered and maintained the settled places that they did conquer tho very well
I don't know if that's either funny or depressing. "Sure, you may have achieved incredible military success and conquered the biggest empire on Earth. And I ask you Khan: What legacy will you leave behind?"
Its actually insane to think that Afganistan has been invaded by Alexander the great, the Mongol Empire, the Soviet Union AND The united states, and somehow beat every single one of them. That is an insane lineup of opponents to have on your defeat list
I see some comments that give too much credit for Japanese defense effort at the time. But let me remind you, It is STILL the typhoon that carried the whole defense. Sure, they gave them some resistance to some extent which the Mongols experienced from everywhere they invaded, but they quickly adapted their tactics and eventually overwhelmed them. They were not only skilled at their superior horse archery skills, but also close melee combat as well. During their campaign on middle east, they dismounted their horses and waded into melee or resort to artillery as they faced mountainous terrian or fortress. They didn't conquer the half of the world with no reason.
But the Mongols weren't even invading Japan. The Soldiers used for the invasion of Japan were mostly soldiers from previously occupied cities, as well as them not having many horses, because you can't carry many on a boat. Therefore the Mongol army that I vaded Japan was a totally different compared to the usual Mongol armies. Far worse, low on resources, low on morale, lots of communication issues The Mongols had the advantige in good commanders and a likely bigger army, but from all we know, there is not enough reliable information to judge if the Japanese would have won the second invasion regardless or not. However, the story that Japan got dominated and got only saved by the hurricane is just untrue. It was more like a rather equal battle, at worst just favouring the Mongols a bit, which then got made a lot easier for the Japanese
During the second invasion, the Mongols set out months before typhoon season because they knew it would happen. They weren't stupid. And yet they failed to make a proper landing on Japan, causing them to be washed away when the typhoon season inevitably arrived. Sounds like a skill issue to me. Also the majority of the soldiers were conscripted Chinese and Koreans. They weren't the same soldiers who did the conquering.
0:34 that's Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise Peak) of Jeju Island, and funny enough they did well for a time to defend Korea from the Mongols as a final redoubt though ultimately Jeju fell to the Mongols.
I love how every civilization has their own version of how to defeat mongols tutorial. Islamic, european, east asian, indian. Different cultures, different answers to the same issue
@@saqlainalvi3333 they are laughing coz there's a recent online hate campaign going on against india. So you'll come across these type of people everywhere.
@@caciqueloko6500 just because indias has been developing and online hatred is useful for making the citizens of India fight amongst themselves in name of religion , caste , culture , language
@@CriminalizeObesityHungary wasn’t weak and had Templar knights fight to help them. Poland was a bit weaker due to it being divided, but also not that much weaker than Western Europe.
@@CriminalizeObesityHungary got crushed by Subotai while he crushed another European army the same week 250 miles away. Then he was recalled after the Khan died and no one felt like coming back.
You.. you do realize that Mongols are horseARCHERS right..? Pikemen ain't going to do shit, and since all your troops are now on foot and holding defensive positions without fortifications, they are just going to get surrounded
no need for 6 nations, a Ming Dynasty general Lan Yu can singlehandley invade and sack the capital of the Mongol Empire/Northern Yuan, during the Buir Lake Battle in 1388, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buir_Lake
One of the most interesting thing about the mongols were most of the men were subsidence hunters, meaning the way they were raised means they're already hunting with a bow for a living.
Not to menton, they hunt in groups. Large groups in large coordinated manner where they coral prey to the designated area. This way, the Mongols are no stranger to work as a large group.
The first Mongol invasion of Japan was different from the second Mongol invasion of Japan. During the first invasion, the Japanese beach defenses failed, the Mongols captured the beach, and the Mongol armies penetrated miles inland. The Mongols went back to their ships for the night to resupply and was then hit by the typhoon. During the second invasion, the Mongol fleet was split into a smaller Korean fleet and larger Southern Chinese fleet. The Korean fleet arrived in Japan first but couldnt defeat the newly constructed beach fortifications, so they retreated to some islands nearby to wait for the Chinese fleet. When the Chinese fleet arrived, both fleets got hit by a typhoon.
@@Ren21798 They don't. Even if your definition of Asian in this case in Mongolian, it's still not true. Sure, the Genghisid line was vast but it there are no closely tied strong communities of it.
Mongol: HOW DARE YOU BETRAY US! Lord Wijaya: i mean.... Im THE son in law of king who torture your messengers, its YOUR fault to trusting me! Im just exploiting the situations 😏
It's crazy to think that if the Mongols had lost basically a single battle during their rise, they would have collapsed. Up until the aftermath of conquering the Jin, I'd say, one single decisive defeat would have crippled them, and human history would have gone in a different direction.
They did have some sizeable defeats of tens of thousands especially going into Southern China but Genghis then Ogedai and Kublai began employing mad artillery.
@@ArdaSReal Mongols were heavily mobile and kinetic in their deployment subsisting heavily on plunder or forage. While one loss wouldn't have done them in, it would have hugely demoralized their willingness to continue a rampage.
@insertnamehere001 The Koreans who didn't like the Mongols hid in the mountains and islands until most of the Mongols left, at which point they would leave the mountains and islands and kill the rest of the Mongols. This cycle repeated several times, causing large casualties to the Mongols. Ostensibly Korea was controlled by the Mongols, but Korea was closer to a client kingdom of the Mongols as opposed to a direct part of it.
@@wikansaktianto9215 What? When did this happen? The Chagatai invasion and raids into India failed and were military defeated by the Delhi Sultanate. If you're talking about Babar, then he reviled the Mongols and didn't want to be associated with them
Can't believe you didn't mention the Vietnamese strategy of laying metal-tipped stakes in Ha Long Bay at low tide, so when the Mongols sent a giant fleet over at high tide to intimidate them, the stakes shredded their hulls and sank the entire fleet in one go
@@JohnShepherd117 memluks managed to beat them bcs of Aybars. And guess what? He was a Mongol too lmao And japanese was simply lucky that a random tsunami decided to show up at the right time
@@mertala8520 last I checked ethnicity doesn’t matter and if I’m not mistaken Baybars was from the Eurasian step and his tribe was unknown as for Japan they where literally attacking the Mongols on their boats and even ramming flaming boats into the Mongol fleet oh and also contrary to popular belief weather is a part of war and does not count as an excuse the weather is where the Mongols failed in their planning
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Perhaps cover Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis who became a Chinese Emperor.
Ruling of Esen taishi
Roman von Sternberg's fight for a Mongolia independent from China and Communism
Rabban Bar Sauma. A Mongol Nestorian priest who traveled from East to the West
Indonesia is by far my favorite. Because they really just confused the hell out of the Mongols by surrendering super quickly, directed all their forces to wasteful campaigns whilst feigning loyalty, and were generally just such bad subjects that the Mongols decided it wasn't worth it and left. It has a similar energy to malicious compliance.
Raden Wijaya and the Javanese:
“We do a lil trolling”
Heh. Visit indonesia and we have many names for this kind of practices..
The reason why the Mongols suddenly left Java was because monsoon wind will soon end and they doesn't want stuck on hostile island for 6 month, they intended to come back with proper army for invasion of about 100k vs 30k on this punitive expedition (which was originally to punish Kertanegara but bro killed by Jayakatwang so the Mongol capture and executed him) but Kublai Khan died and Raden Wijaya just come to fill the power vacuum.
@@SetupthemabombNot really. The Mongols did several attempts to punish Java, not just once, but it were all failed. Odorico of Pordenonne recorded these events when he was in transit in Java during the middle of his journey to China.
For the context: Odorico of Pordenonne visited Java during the reign of Jayanegara in Majapahit Empire (2nd king of Majapahit) & reported that the Javanese kingdom had seven vassals under it & engaged in several wars with Yuan dynasty but successfully repelled it.. this was already many years after the event of the Sino-Mongol's defeat from Raden Wijaya (1st king of Majapahit)
Mongols: Nah, I’d win
Japanese: Ah, my anti-mongol typhoon spam technique I haven’t used since the Heian era
Lobotomy Kaisen memes never cease to amuse
"Are you the largest because you are the mongol empire, or are you the mongol empire because you are the largest"
@@danielutriabrooks477 throughout All the continents I alone am the Mongol one.
Always bet on Kublai
That is some anime stuff right there
Everybody asks how to beat Mongols, but no one asks how are the Mongols. Maybe the Mongols need friends.
Maybe the Mongols are the friends we made along the way.
@@erayagdogan3389 agreed
More like Tributaries.
@@erayagdogan3389 Mongol means Dumb in Persian, So it's kinda true
@@arian7339persian coping
Fun fact: Modern Mongolia still has a navy, despite being completely land locked.
thats because we share a lake with china buir nuur is the name
you should invade Xhina sir @@dorjbatchinzorig9817
I guess they ride sea horses.
@@Zetact_ Dadum tss
last time i checked, it was a force of 1 boat & 7 guys
It's insane to think of cultures halfway across the planet from eachother all fighting the same dudes
Always remember that the Mongol horde was the inspiration for Tolkien's Orcs which in turn inspired Orcs in all media.
It's crazy to think that Indonesians, and slavs from kievan rus was fighting the same dudes bruh
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 It's even funnier when calling someone an orc is one of the worst insults in Mongolia lol
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 that's not really accurate. Tolkien's Orcs were much more broadly based on the "barbarian horde" trope, which is far older than the Mongols, dating back at least to the Indo-European migrations into Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age.
It's somewhat like Spanish fighting Muslims in Philippines just after Reconquista thousands of miles away...
I like how everyone is relying either on luck or attrition, and then you have the Indonesians playing 4D chess and the Mamluks just straight up beating the mongols at their own game.
Ain Jalut, 1260?
@@DiamondKingStudios11/12 battles between Mamluks-mongols were won by Mamluks.
Mamluks' greatest enemy was their own internal strife.
They made a good stand against that invincible warlord Tamerlane when he invaded Syria, then, the next day, the whole host retreated back to Egypt because someone was plotting a coup in Cairo!
Mamluks: I’m you, but better.
Kinda bummed out that he oversimplified Europe, they basically created a medieval whole ass system to deal with mongols. They walled every major city then the general populace was taught drills how to react to mongols step by step. Sure it might sound stale but this level of organizement is absurd in medieval times.
The Japanese beach defenses didn't really fail. They inflicted grievous losses on the Mongol armies from their shore defenses, causing the mongols to stay on their ships where they were eventually hit by a storm. The madlad Japanese were actually getting onto boats THEMSELVES to attack mongols in their ships, which caused the mongols to lash their ships together so that they could better respond to these Japanese naval raids. It was the lashing together of ships that meant they were terribly equipped to deal with a storm. So if it wasn't for Japanese military success the Mongols would not have been severely affected by the typhoon.
Interesting. I was aware that the Japanese offered heavy resistance and that the Mongols went back to their ships to figure things out, but I never knew that the Japs were also preparing to board the Mongol ships and that this led to the Mongols being at a poor position when the storm came.
You learn something new every day. :^)
@@peekaboo1575they weren’t preparing they were actually doing that they were even using kamikaze tactics by setting their boats on fire and ramming it into the Mongol ships history dose has a video that goes in depth about the Japanese defense against the Mongol invaders it’s actually surprising how much problems the Samurai were causing
@@JohnShepherd117 Fascinating. I'll take a look at it. Cheers!
Yeah I'm tired of the idea that the Japanese didn't do anything when they actually were. They weren't carried by the typhoon.
Japanese are real men unlike mongol butchers.
Fun facts: The mongols invasion of Vietnam is surprisingly similar to the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, half a millenium later.
Both armies seemed invincible going into war, both relied on their mobility to overwhelm opponents.
Both had rapid early success, captured the capital cities but the vietnameses and russians abandoned their capital and employed attrition warfare.
As the war dragged on, the mongols and the frenchs were then severely weakened by guerilla attacks, the weather, diseases, lack of food and other logistic problems.
When they retreated, they faced ambushes and counter attacks and suffered catastrophic defeats, to the point their grand armies were close to be wiped out completely.
Just goes to show that conquering a region requires some level of cooperation from said region. If they fully reject you and everything you stand for, you are guaranteed to fail
Proof of that the only lesson humans learnt from history, is that they didn't learn anything from them.
Damn, Vietnam has been a jungle hellhole for a long time.
@@berserkerpride at the same time white angloids worshipping rock, the khmer and champa kingdoms built massive cities and temples with over 200k inhabitants
we pulled a nuh uh move
"When they approach, we run away"
You...
ARE A GENIUS
They did lose, they merely failed to win
-Alexander I of Russia
@@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain”Tsar Alexander made it all the way to Paris.”
-Joseph Stalin, “The Cold War - OverSimplified (Part 1)”
until you realize their cavalry are faster than the massager runner
option 4 is quite funny actually.
kublai khan's army came to java to punish kertanegara of singosari kingdom for not paying their tributes to the khan. when they arrived, kertanegara was already usurped by jayakatwang of kediri kingdom. so they tried to tax the new kingdom, which they failed.
so a guy named raden wijaya of majapahit, who was allied with the deceased kertanegara of singosari, worked together with the khan's army to depose jayakatwang of kediri.
after achieving victory, raden wijaya invited the khan's officials back to his estate to collect their tributes, but warned them not to bring weapons, as princesses cannot handle the sight of weapons. 200 of the khan's men came unarmed to the estate, got shanked immediately (well whaddya expect), demoralising the khan's army, and proceed to chase the rest of the main mongolian army back to the ocean with ambush tactics
Pretty sure they retreated because they couldn't deal with those names.
@@Hungabrigoothe name raden wijaya honestly goes hard asf
@@cybr69lolraden wijaya more or less mean "king of victorious"
@@Hungabrigoo nah man, the Sanskrit/Javanese names SLAPS.
That's fucking hilarious. Especially the part about princesses
Mongol: Submit!
Majapahit: No
Mongol: *bring army. Submit?
Majapahit: Help me and I'm yours...
Mongol: *help. Submit now?
Majapahit: No
In the Mongol hierarchy of needs, the desire to make everyone submit is more important than physiological needs to survive.
"nu uh" -- majapahit @@lolasdm6959
Majapahit : now get the hell out and leave your weapon here so I can conquer as the largest empire in southeast asia
That's why after the death of Genghis Khan, Mongol empire become unstable and breaking up to a pieces, for example Yuan Dynasty and Golden Horde @@lolasdm6959
Mapajahit, majahapit, mahapajit
Number 7 - the Latin Way
when the Mongols sent you a letter of Heavenly Mandate, send them a letter of the Mandate of Heaven.
Speech 100
"Understandable, have a good day"
Can you give context please?
@@ultraunity9912 It refers to the “Cum Non Solum”
It’s an uno reverse card letter written by Pope Urban IV telling the Mongols to “submit” and to stop attacking Christians (Russians, Hungarians, Poland, etc.) and that Jesus loves them and are patient with them, and if they do not stop their westward advance they shall know who is the real scourge. (Implying what happened to Atilla the Hun when he kept coming back sacking the Holy Roman Empire)
After the next Khan (Hulagu) learned about the letter, he changed his attitude and told the next pope and european kings that he will give back Jerusalem to the Christians if they fully cooperate in destroying the last Islamic power in the middle east (mamluks) and of course, TO SUBMIT TO THE MONGOLS.
@@mcbrians.8508meanwhile Atilla the Hun Making the Pope Bow before him and ask for Mercy
Mongols invading Korea: "It's even funnier the ninth time"
The funny thing is, even after Mongols successfully brought the Koreans on their knees, they failed to conquer them directly, and they had to make them into client state instead because Koreans were too troublesome to occupy.
@@Wabu_227 I assumed that the Mongols vassalized Korea instead of occupying them outright out of respect for how it took nine invasions to completely subdue them - plus the fact that the Mongols, being a landlocked nation of horse riders, needed Korean shipbuilders to build their ships for the invasion of Japan.
@@ennui9745 Mongols didn't force other cultures to change, but just steal their workforce and tax them making them basically "respect" and work under mongol rule
That also means that they were the most tolerant culture at the time when it came to religion, some even adapting their own shamanism with neighboring religions
@@Duck1en It does seem that way to me. Heck, the Mongols often converted to the religions of the peoples they met and/or conquered, rather than the other way around.
@@Wabu_227you know what is also funny is that Mongols were fighting in so many different fronts that korea was not considered a significant target so in every invasion they only sent 10k and at most 20k troops to subject korea each time.
Mongols On Their Way To Japan : "Our Navy Is Invincible!"
Japan: "Welcome To Splash Lagoon!"
Vietnam and Indonesia: is that fishing boat? Where is Mongol navy?
Japan December 7th 1941 "Our navy is invincible"
Mongols had landingships for army not navy they never wanted naval battle
Unlike the Ming China, Both medieval Mongolia and medieval Japan had a very weak navy, lack of shipbuilding technology.
@eqwalle4884we may question why an overpowered Vietnam couldn't even unify the Indonchina peninsula in the past,
Mongol to Indonesia : we're allies right?
Indonesia to mongol : about that.....
That case was biggest coward in history
Lies and deception is one of many weapons used in the history of mankind l, u r too naive buddy
@@nbdyknw nah...."desperate needs desperate measures" they knew they cant defeat mongol so they did what it take (they didnt consider mongol allie in the first place)
@@nbdyknwmore like smart and cunning strategy
@@nbdyknw Rather than a coward tactic, they are pretty sly on handling the mongols tbh. Sometimes you dont need bloodbath to win a war, you just gotta use your brain and minimize your sacrifices.
The power dynamic of Mongol Invasion of Java and year prior of it was something like soap opera, from Kertanegara giving Kublai Khan a middle finger, then got backstabbed by Jayakatwang only to get backstabbed by Kertanegara's Son-in-Law, Raden Wijaya, resulting in an bizzarro episode of Chinese and Majapahit Army cross-over to defeat the backstabber Jayakatwang, culminating in a final episode of plot twist where Raden Wijaya backstab his Chinese savior and proceed to proclaim himself ruler of Java.
To be fair, there's lots of moments in Indonesian history where it played exactly like a soap opera
It's called, Vicious Mockery
@@ryannathaniel9296 all of Southeast Asia history is a giagantic soap opera.
true lmao @@Reiner547
You can put Kertanegara predecessors on that as well.
• Ken Arok backstabbed his master Tunggul Ametung and became the first king of Singasari
• Ken Arok got backstabbed by Tunggul Ametung son, Anusapati
• Anusapati got backstabbed by Ken Arok son, Tohjaya
• Tohjaya got backstabbed by Anusapati son, Wisnu Wardhana (father of Kertanegara)
Japan really said: "I have the power of God and Anime on my side"
“I have power of wind on my side”
option 6: be the last air bender.
@@m33p0no way 🧒🏻⬇️🟦
The real Kamikaze (Divine Wind)
Mongols: haha we captured your capitals, that means we won
Vietnamese: we don't do that here.
Mongols: ???
The Mongols really were playing civ 6 domination run 💀
Vietnamese its crazy when it comes to talking trees lol
me playing eu4 for the first time
@@kangmintaid3970 When the trees speak Vietnamese or the snow speaks Finnish, you know you're fucked.
The Mongols had Hoi4 battle plan 💀
Imagine a world where Japan was conquered and instead of anime weebs the pop culture today was influenced by troat singing, fermented milk and some dudes of the steppes beating the crap out of half the world...
Clearly that's what happened to Korea and China
That sounds 10 times better than weebs who want to move to Japan.
Mongols didn't culturally affect their vassals that much
So mount and blade instead of animes.
That didn't happen anywhere in their empire tho. The only difference would be the creators of modern anime and hentai having some mongol dna in them
0:22 Imagine being a big empire, trying to conquer a faraway-out-in-the-sea kingdom, only to find out that said kingdom had some sort of war for the throne and you were instead being thrown around like a volleyball 😂🤣😂🤣
Mongols:[Points at the mamluks]
"He copied my whole flow, word for word, bar for bar "
It was fairly easy for them to do too, since the Mamluks were Turkic, aka also of horse-riding steppe origin like the Mongols.
Mongols Nah I'd win.
indonesian : yes please, i will win after you win first
@@rikofebri627 DUTCH 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
Vietnamese and Japanese: "They did lose, they merely failed to win"
Hehehe
India: "did I ever tell you the definition of Insanity?"
Me: **Steps into a body of water deeper than 1 meter**
Mongolian Invader: "I see you have studied our only weakness. Well played."
Enkhkhuslen: nah I’d win
You forgot to mention Vietnamese people using muddy terrain to sabotage their horses and warm climate that loosen the glue of their bow.
Basically they're weak in South East Asia.
@@wikansaktianto9215
the Medival Vietnam army was one of the best army in SEA, Except the Nguyen Dynasty, we used gunpowder weapons since Europe is busy fighting with their Sword and Spear
So the same as HRE but just cold and wet weather
@@mygame9779 What do you mean in Medieval times? Vietnam literally walloped American Army in modern times aswell.
@@wikansaktianto9215 yes, but it was on thier own terrain and with the help of USSR and China. It's not like Vietnam could invade the US and won
Say what you will, but praying worked. Twice.
Proof that Shinto is the actual, true religion.
@@JackgarPrime Nonsense, the true religion is a yet-to-be-established Portuguese Christianity where Christ died by being crushed by a huge door.
@@peekaboo1575LMFAO 😂
@@peekaboo1575this made me laugh but is this supposed to be a reference?
@@pacifica2391Yep! /watch?v=sWuay9tD40k
The most impressive thing about the Mongols is that they conquered so much land and countries that they were the biggest empire to have ever existed on the planet, but left zero structures behind. No statues, no palaces, no giant walls of a city, not even a freaking bridge over a river or something. And that's because for all their conquering, they never once stopped being a nomadic civilization. Sure, they had VERY fancy tents, when you are the ruler of most of the known world you get to have the best tent ever. But its still a tent, it doesn't last centuries, its not supposed to. When a Mongol saw one of those epic palaces in China, they were all like "Yeah, that palace is nice, but with this tent I can go anywhere."
Igga you missed the point, the mongols care not for them dead "statues" but the people and the funny
well yes nomadic cultures in general basically never left anything behind because they never build anything permanent besides some graves and some few ruins, they conquered and maintained the settled places that they did conquer tho very well
But it doesn't last long as the world are evolving behind mongols. That's their weakness is. They love their comfort zone too much
I don't know if that's either funny or depressing.
"Sure, you may have achieved incredible military success and conquered the biggest empire on Earth. And I ask you Khan: What legacy will you leave behind?"
@@user-unos111Genghis Khan had a lot of children
Mongols: Okay we have helped you dethrone the Enemy. Give tribute and aid please.
Java: *Surprise Betrayal!*
Not just betrayal, but the women and children too
"My name is Monsoon, of the winds of destruction."
Option 7: stand on the bank of a river and stare
A certified Muscovite moment. Don't forget the bit where you first collaborate with them until they grow weak.
Хахха
What event was that again?
@@sheepenjoyer3007 Стояние на Угре
@@sheepenjoyer3007 The Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480
As soon as I saw the title, I was like "alcohol?". You give their commander alcohol until he dies.
No they can handle booze not like the rest of Asia
@@deathtrooper7760 Genghis Khans son famously died of alcohol poisoning.
_Vietnam and Afghanistan are perhaps the two hardest countries to invade ever historically speaking._
Iceland too
@@AvatarAang100 nobody want to invade Iceland bruh
@@albrechtryan7799 Propably because it isnt worth invading unless its for fish or invasions into Europe
Its actually insane to think that Afganistan has been invaded by Alexander the great, the Mongol Empire, the Soviet Union AND The united states, and somehow beat every single one of them. That is an insane lineup of opponents to have on your defeat list
@@BlazingFlame69 unless you are the British yeah Iceland is mad useless
I see some comments that give too much credit for Japanese defense effort at the time.
But let me remind you, It is STILL the typhoon that carried the whole defense. Sure, they gave them some resistance to some extent which the Mongols experienced from everywhere they invaded, but they quickly adapted their tactics and eventually overwhelmed them.
They were not only skilled at their superior horse archery skills, but also close melee combat as well. During their campaign on middle east, they dismounted their horses and waded into melee or resort to artillery as they faced mountainous terrian or fortress.
They didn't conquer the half of the world with no reason.
Yeah Japanese and samurai's thing is kinda overrating
you are right, at that time, Japan didn't even have the ability to send a navy to stop the Mongol fleets,
But the Mongols weren't even invading Japan. The Soldiers used for the invasion of Japan were mostly soldiers from previously occupied cities, as well as them not having many horses, because you can't carry many on a boat. Therefore the Mongol army that I vaded Japan was a totally different compared to the usual Mongol armies. Far worse, low on resources, low on morale, lots of communication issues
The Mongols had the advantige in good commanders and a likely bigger army, but from all we know, there is not enough reliable information to judge if the Japanese would have won the second invasion regardless or not.
However, the story that Japan got dominated and got only saved by the hurricane is just untrue. It was more like a rather equal battle, at worst just favouring the Mongols a bit, which then got made a lot easier for the Japanese
During the second invasion, the Mongols set out months before typhoon season because they knew it would happen. They weren't stupid. And yet they failed to make a proper landing on Japan, causing them to be washed away when the typhoon season inevitably arrived. Sounds like a skill issue to me.
Also the majority of the soldiers were conscripted Chinese and Koreans. They weren't the same soldiers who did the conquering.
Yeah, but who summoned the typhoon? Don’t underestimate the power of the ancient Japanese.
Average civ: Build a fortress it will stop mongols!
Mongols: *Laught in Huihuipao*
Indonesia used big brain pranks to beat the mongols.
0:34 that's Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise Peak) of Jeju Island, and funny enough they did well for a time to defend Korea from the Mongols as a final redoubt though ultimately Jeju fell to the Mongols.
F
Mongols: Stop please, don't hit me with "water."
Japan: Has no one told you I drowned an entire city?
Japanese: the ultimate waterbenders.
An MK1 reference, didn't expect that.
''Divine wind'' moment
I love how every civilization has their own version of how to defeat mongols tutorial. Islamic, european, east asian, indian. Different cultures, different answers to the same issue
Indian? Okay😂
@@juicytoes77 hindu? What is The correct terminology? Why are you laughing?
@@saqlainalvi3333 they are laughing coz there's a recent online hate campaign going on against india. So you'll come across these type of people everywhere.
@@colours8846 why exactly? Just curious
@@caciqueloko6500 just because indias has been developing and online hatred is useful for making the citizens of India fight amongst themselves in name of religion , caste , culture , language
Countries that beat Mongol be like:
When did europe defeat mongols?
@@justinwhy6550 the Mongols got crushed by Hungary of all places and couldn't get past Europe's poorer, weaker states lmao
@@CriminalizeObesityHungary wasn’t weak and had Templar knights fight to help them. Poland was a bit weaker due to it being divided, but also not that much weaker than Western Europe.
@@CriminalizeObesityHungary got crushed by Subotai while he crushed another European army the same week 250 miles away. Then he was recalled after the Khan died and no one felt like coming back.
@@Taospark yeah thats what i thought, they only left europe due to the funeral rather than being defeated
Step 1: Get Archers
Step 2: Deploy Archers behind Pikemen
Step 3: Don't pursue the fleeing mongols
Step 4: Roflstomp the Mongol meta.
You.. you do realize that Mongols are horseARCHERS right..? Pikemen ain't going to do shit, and since all your troops are now on foot and holding defensive positions without fortifications, they are just going to get surrounded
Remember the Battle of Carrhae?
@@pusheendalimitsofgeneva5816horse archers don't get +3 to range, they are in fact a bigger target
@@madmantheepic7278the Romans had barely any archers to counter and Crassus made one blunder after another
They just move around your footman army and go straight to undefended land.
What's interesting about the Mongols is for all their success they still get funneled into the European Steppe just like every other nomadic empire.
0:23 that sound has tramumatized me
Live in an Island nation with unfavorable weather (Japan)
Nah that’s UK.
We got good weather here. 😂
Yay, Vietnam mentioned 🎉
*6 countries. Imagine if they teamed up with the strategies to the Mongolians*
They're gonna get bamboozled by European and Chinese again.
no need for 6 nations, a Ming Dynasty general Lan Yu can singlehandley invade and sack the capital of the Mongol Empire/Northern Yuan, during the Buir Lake Battle in 1388,
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buir_Lake
I think NATO should mimic the Khan's strategies fr fr
7 countries.
No one talks about Korea, holy fuck they handled 9 invasions
Then they become the most loyal mongol subject
Mamluks: look at me ,I'm the mongol now.
Japanese: waterbend hayiaaa.
And wind don't forget the wind 😂
That "HA-HA" at the end was just chef's kiss.
Imagine got betrayed so bad that youre recorded as nothing but footnote in javanese history.
Thank you so much for this clear toterial! I was getting invaded, but this really helped me out!
Have you attempted to shut off the invasion by disconnecting it, and turning it back on?
Anti-Horse Spray
One of the most interesting thing about the mongols were most of the men were subsidence hunters, meaning the way they were raised means they're already hunting with a bow for a living.
Not to menton, they hunt in groups. Large groups in large coordinated manner where they coral prey to the designated area. This way, the Mongols are no stranger to work as a large group.
The first Mongol invasion of Japan was different from the second Mongol invasion of Japan. During the first invasion, the Japanese beach defenses failed, the Mongols captured the beach, and the Mongol armies penetrated miles inland. The Mongols went back to their ships for the night to resupply and was then hit by the typhoon. During the second invasion, the Mongol fleet was split into a smaller Korean fleet and larger Southern Chinese fleet. The Korean fleet arrived in Japan first but couldnt defeat the newly constructed beach fortifications, so they retreated to some islands nearby to wait for the Chinese fleet. When the Chinese fleet arrived, both fleets got hit by a typhoon.
Also don't kill their diplomats they take that very seriously
Except for the Javanese.
they humilate the Khan envoy but still kicked mongols ass when Yuan forces come to punish them.
Although the second bit is marked as being about just Mamluk Egypt, IIRC the Delhi Sultanate used that same strat too.
from wkwkwk land, i salute you for using our language on pilihan empat
What if you, Wanted to Invade Japan
But God Said: “Divine Wind”
0:24 HOI4 naval invasion sound nearly gave me a heart attack
Love the Medieval 2 and Shogun 2 TW reference here
“Or just pay taxes and keep everything without losing men” - Most advanced smartest noble
The Indonesians managed to do that without even paying anything lol
Byzantine strategy. We're like really far away so we have a long time to prepare, no matter how mobile their army is.
I like how for each option you put a sound familiar to the faction that used each option...
You should have put at the end "Option 7, join them" and show the Ilkhanate, Yuan dynasty, Golden Horde, and Chagatai Khanates on a map.
I am a proud Mongolian, THE GOLDEN HORDE WILL RIDE AGAIN!!! (I'm 0.01% Mongolian)
Half of the planet is 0.01% Mongolian. Genghis Khan was a horny man.
How are you 0.01% Mongolian? One of your 8th great grandparents would have to be Mongolian for that to be the case.
i see, a hun
@@ibrahimihsan2090most asian have that, (dont ask why and how gengis did it)
@@Ren21798 They don't.
Even if your definition of Asian in this case in Mongolian, it's still not true.
Sure, the Genghisid line was vast but it there are no closely tied strong communities of it.
Mongol: HOW DARE YOU BETRAY US!
Lord Wijaya: i mean.... Im THE son in law of king who torture your messengers, its YOUR fault to trusting me! Im just exploiting the situations 😏
I love how the Hungarians actually did the Total War fort + doomstack method.
Indonesia: “Never let them know your next move.”
Pilihan empat, pilihan tepat.
Bro put in the referenced countries AND songs used. Now THAT'S quality fanservice
Now, how do you stop the romans from expanding??
Just be any nomadic group ever.
Live in lands so useless and be so uncivilized they take one look at you and go "hell no, let's build a wall".
Simple, Don't Backstab Hannibal.
Send thousands of immigrants to Rome
@@Apoc2K Wrong comment it appears because this makes zero sense
0:44 *BANZAIIIII!*
OIYOYOYOY
What's your point of view? Where are you going to?
Thanks man, I needed this
Imagine being so buffed there's a need for a tutorial to beat you
Civ 6 music goes hard
I like that the Mongols tried to invade Japan 2 times and couldn't cuz of Storms.
That has to be a message from the Heavens at that point.
It's crazy to think that if the Mongols had lost basically a single battle during their rise, they would have collapsed. Up until the aftermath of conquering the Jin, I'd say, one single decisive defeat would have crippled them, and human history would have gone in a different direction.
They did have some sizeable defeats of tens of thousands especially going into Southern China but Genghis then Ogedai and Kublai began employing mad artillery.
why the fuck would a single defeat change anything ?
@@ArdaSReal Mongols were heavily mobile and kinetic in their deployment subsisting heavily on plunder or forage. While one loss wouldn't have done them in, it would have hugely demoralized their willingness to continue a rampage.
Yes, their incursions into Europe and Middle East stopped at Ain Jalut (1260).
@@Taosparkthey Lost a lot of battle brother, your previous statement is untrue 💀
Muskovy needed this guide like hundreds of years ago
Хазарам он не помог
Korea: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old Khan?
What do you mean? Korea was taken over by the Mongols. A lot of the invaders of Japan were Chinese and Koreans subjected to Mongol rule.
@insertnamehere001 The Koreans who didn't like the Mongols hid in the mountains and islands until most of the Mongols left, at which point they would leave the mountains and islands and kill the rest of the Mongols. This cycle repeated several times, causing large casualties to the Mongols. Ostensibly Korea was controlled by the Mongols, but Korea was closer to a client kingdom of the Mongols as opposed to a direct part of it.
Thanks, this helped a lot on the field :)
Kubali Khan HATES this one simple trick
You forgot Delhi Sultanate (India)
Nah, Mongols just got bored and gets a cozy life there.
@@wikansaktianto9215 What? When did this happen? The Chagatai invasion and raids into India failed and were military defeated by the Delhi Sultanate. If you're talking about Babar, then he reviled the Mongols and didn't want to be associated with them
one word: mughals
'Have you tried shutting off the invasion and invading again?'
@@whoisjoe5610 He still expressed pride in his Turko-Mongol lineage.
How mongols lost to japan
*Jin Sakai summons a category 10 typhoon by shredding a fucking guitar on the sea*
Praying works (if you're Japanese)
But not in WW2
@@islammehmeov2334 It doesn't matter if they have God on their side if the enemy has the power of the sun on theirs.
The God of the United States was simply better it seems
Mongols response to kingdoms they did not brutally genocide: "Thanks for the money, dummy."
option 7 just give up to us you can never stop the Mongols
Meh, you can't even use a boat.
Bro, mongols wanted war and wanna see who flexes better. They didn't show mercy to those nerds who surrendered without a fight.
Hungarian walls, crossbows and plate armor:
Kid named the Righteous armies
Let me introduce you to qutuz and baibars , the first ones to ever defeat you in a major battle. They took your war virginity 😂😂
"Now to defeat the mongols it requires us all working together."
"Yeah? And with who in charge?"
Plan falls apart.
Laugh all you want! but praying works twice!
0:43 remember he said “when that fails” NOT “if that fails”
As the Mamluks, thanks for the tutorial!
Mamlouk stoped them They forced them to retreat historically
Easy mode : play in the west of the map so that they won't reach you at all
Mongols:
Buffs: Land
Debuffs: Sea
step 1: build a stone castle
you have created an impenetrable, invincible structure that will now never fall
Cons: The villages around are not part of the castle.
(50-80% of Hungarian plain settlements were destroyed by the Mongols as a result.)
Can't believe you didn't mention the Vietnamese strategy of laying metal-tipped stakes in Ha Long Bay at low tide, so when the Mongols sent a giant fleet over at high tide to intimidate them, the stakes shredded their hulls and sank the entire fleet in one go
It was the Bach Dang River, not Ha Long Bay.
Susanoo really coming in clutch for the team
this tutorial helped a lot 👍
That's the neat part:
You don't
Unless your Indonesia or Japan or the Mamaluks
@@JohnShepherd117 memluks managed to beat them bcs of Aybars. And guess what? He was a Mongol too lmao
And japanese was simply lucky that a random tsunami decided to show up at the right time
@@mertala8520 last I checked ethnicity doesn’t matter and if I’m not mistaken Baybars was from the Eurasian step and his tribe was unknown as for Japan they where literally attacking the Mongols on their boats and even ramming flaming boats into the Mongol fleet oh and also contrary to popular belief weather is a part of war and does not count as an excuse the weather is where the Mongols failed in their planning
@@mertala8520 You can't deny that Vietnamese and Javanese folks gave them severe PTSD
They lost against Poland and Hungary
Option 7: total war teaches to use explosive rounds with onagers. So build onagers and spem