During the prosperous Yuan Dynasty, the territory reached 28 million square kilometers and the population was about 200 million, mainly composed of Mongolians, Han people, Persians, Turks and Arabs.

As the feudal dynasty with the largest land area in ancient Chinese history - Yuan Dynasty .

During the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, the territory reached 128 million square kilometers and a population of about 200 million (data to be verified) , mainly composed of Mongolian , Han , Persian , Turkic people, and Arab .

Even today, there is still no country that can exceed in terms of land area of ​​, which shows how glorious its heyday was.

However, the Yuan Dynasty learned about later generations were actually just a derivative of the Mongol Empire.

The founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty Kublai was established in 1271 AD. "Da Yuan" established by according to the Han law. was also formed by the continuous expansion of its territory on the basis of Genghis Khan .

So, as for the Genghis Khan , which countries do they contain now? How did the nomadic people living in the northern desert region grow into a huge empire that spans the Eurasian continent?

Genghis Khan's rise

A country may be destroyed by day and night in , but it is never possible to be built in day and night. The Mongol Empire built by Genghis Khan also took more than half of his life.

In 1162 AD, was born in Genghis Khan (real name: Borjijin Temujin ) in the upper reaches of the Onon River in the northern grasslands of the Mobei Province. His life was very miserable when he was a child. Because his father was killed, his tribe was ruthlessly divided by other tribe forces, and even he himself became a humble slave to .

Fortunately, he was not depressed, but kept hatred in his heart. More importantly, he understood more clearly than all his peers that everything that the tribe has encountered now, is caused by the oppression of 3 Jin Dynasty .

This also allowed him to have 's clear political policy in his later development. In the treatment of tribes on the grassland, mainly conquer ; in the treatment of Jin, firmly fights . And by the time he was only eighteen years old, he had already begun to put all this into action.

In the year when he was eighteen years old, Minister Tuotuo, the former enemy of the Merki tribe, snatched his wife away, and declared war on the merki tribe for several years, successfully defeated the merki tribe.

With the help of the power of the Merkit tribe, Temujin began to continuously expand to . Although he was defeated in " Thirteen Wings Battle " because of the jealousy of Zamuhe , it was also after this war that Temujin became more mature and never suffered another failure.

In the subsequent battle, Temujin successively destroyed Tatar tribe , Taichiwu tribe and Naiman tribe , etc., and the more powerful tribes, which brought Temujin's strength to an unprecedented height.

to In the spring of 1206 AD, due to the achievements of unifying the Mongolian tribes, Temujin was regarded as "Genghis Khan" by the kings and ministers at the source of Onan River . and officially launched a war against Mongolian tribes outside , and began to lay a solid foundation for the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty.

. According to subsequent records of Chinese history, Temujin 227 died in , the war between the Eastern Expedition and the West did not stop. However, during this period, the area of ​​the conquest did not actually reach the point where the "Yellow Peril" in later generations, and the main impact was still in Asia.

There is no need to say much about northern China, and , the five Central Asian countries ( Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Kazakhstan ), as well as Afghanistan and other regions are all included.

At this point, Temujin 's historical achievement has been completed. has risen in the end and fought hard under the nine heavens. 's evaluation is well deserved.

Compared with other emperors in ancient China, his life is enough to be described as legend . More importantly, after his success, it is rare for his descendants to continue to carry forward their spirit and .

After all, from the perspective of the corresponding emperors in history, after suffering from the power of to corrode , few people still have the motivation to move forward.

Advantages of Mongolian Cavalry

So why could Temujin's command be under "invincible in the world" ? The main reason is the following aspects.

First of all, it is the combat effectiveness of Mongolian cavalry , which is completely incomparable to other countries. During the Cold Weapons, cavalry was just like the tank for all countries in the world during the period.

When the Mongolian cavalry galloped on the battlefield, no country's army could make effective resistance to .

Secondly, the combat cooperation of the Mongolian cavalry is also very advanced , which is particularly obvious when the Mongolian cavalry fought against the Southern Song cavalry.

At that time, when Southern Song cavalry went to fight, they often used individual combat , but the Mongolian cavalry used ten people as a team, closely cooperating with .

This led to the Southern Song Dynasty not being able to compete with the Mongolian cavalry even if it had advantage in the number of soldiers. This is the case in the Southern Song Dynasty, let alone other countries.

Finally, the Mongolian cavalry 's rogue fighting style of fighting gave all countries a headache. In ancient wars, logistics supply has always been a very difficult problem.

But the Mongolian cavalry did not take these things seriously. When they captured a city, they would soon be able to obtain supplies from the city and head towards the next city.

The extremely fast offensive rhythm and offensive speed also makes every country unpredictable. In this way, the growth of the Mongolian Empire is naturally a matter of .