Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

A documentary clip was played on the sky screen.

On the withered yellow grassland, the earth was shaking and the distant horizon was surging like boiling water.

A dark mass of Mongolian cavalry emerged from the fog.

The silver helmet gleamed coldly in the sunlight.

Further away, black smoke was rising from the beacon tower on the Jin Kingdom’s border wall.

In the solemn scene, the voice continued to explain.

[In the first month of 1228 AD, in the bitter cold wind, the Mongolian army rushed towards Dachangyuan with great momentum.]

【The famous Jin general Wanyan Chen Heshang was not afraid at all, and personally led 400 loyal and filial soldiers to fight against the 8,000 Mongolian troops with a small number of troops. 】

[On the battlefield, Wanyan Chen Heshang brandished his long sword and charged forward. ]

【The Zhongxiao Army charged directly into the Mongolian army formation.】

[With their tenacious fighting spirit and sophisticated tactics, the Jin army defeated the Mongolian army! ]

【We defeated the enemy with fewer troops and won a brilliant victory in the Battle of Dachangyuan. 】

[This also became a rare highlight moment for the Jin Dynasty in the Mongol-Jin War. ]

[However, a short-lived victory can hardly stop the wheel of history from rolling forward.]

[In 1229, Genghis Khan's son Ogedei ascended the throne of the Great Khan in accordance with the imperial edict, surrounded by Mongolian nobles.]

[As soon as the new king ascended the throne, he put the conquest of the Jin Kingdom on the agenda. ]

[A more violent storm is about to sweep across the land of the Kingdom of Jin.]

[In the autumn of 1230, Ogedei and Tolui personally led a large army from the northern desert to the south. The Mongolian cavalry was like a surging tide, quickly engulfing a large area of ​​territory north of the Yellow River.]

【Then they crossed the Yellow River and continued to advance westward.】

[In the first month of 1231, Wanyan Chen Heshang once again showed his power and severely damaged Subutai's army in Daohui Valley.]

【But this was only the last gasp of the Jin Dynasty. 】

[In February, the Mongolian army captured Fengxiang, an important town in the west, and used it as a base to plan a detour through Song territory to attack the Jin Kingdom.]

[Under the powerful offensive of the Mongolian army, Jin's Pingliang, Qingzhou and other places surrendered one after another. ]

[The Jin court had no choice but to abandon Jingzhao Prefecture and retreat to Tongguan, trying to rely on the natural barrier to protect Henan.]

[In May of the same year, Ogedei convened a meeting and finalized the grand plan to destroy the Jin Dynasty.]

[The Mongolian army divided into three groups and surrounded Nanjing, the capital of the Jin Dynasty.]

[The Eastern Route Army was led by Ochenanayan and set out from Shandong to contain the Jin Army.]

[The Central Army was led by Ogedei himself, crossing the Yellow River and heading straight for Nanjing.]

[Tuo Lei led the main western army, departing from Fengxiang, passing through the Southern Song Dynasty, heading north along the Han River, and directly into the heart of the Jin Kingdom. ]

[In August, Tolui led his army and made unstoppable progress. ]

【The Southern Song Dynasty knew that the threat posed by Mongolia was huge and was unwilling to allow the passage. 】

[Torre forced his way through and led his army to capture Dasan Pass, Fengzhou, Yangzhou and other places. After besieging Xingyuan Prefecture, he advanced eastward along the Han River and successfully bypassed the southern line of the Jin Kingdom. ]

[In December, the Mongolian army crossed the Han River and launched a general offensive to the north.]

[In the first month of 1232, Emperor Aizong of Jin hurriedly dispatched 20 troops from the Yellow River defense line to Yushan to block the attack.]

[Tolui avoided the enemy's attack and led 4 troops northward in different routes. He set up an ambush at Sanfeng Mountain southwest of Junzhou and used cavalry to lure the enemy.]

[It happened to be snowing heavily, and the Jin army was starving, cold, and exhausted. ]

[Tuo Lei deliberately left a way to Junzhou. ]

[When the Jin army was fleeing, the Mongolian army suddenly rushed out. ]

[Forty thousand cavalrymen were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, killing 15 Jin soldiers! ]

[The last elite troops of the Jin Dynasty were completely wiped out. ]

……

Outside the sky.

Han Dynasty.

When Huo Qubing saw this, he saw the last elite troops of the Jin Dynasty who had been forced to train into a battle-hardened army after 20 years of fighting.

In their own home ground, 15 people were annihilated by the -strong Mongolian army!

I was completely convinced.

"It's really awesome."

"If we say that the battle at Yehuling at the beginning could be attributed to the Jin Kingdom relaxing its vigilance and enjoying peace for a long time, which led to a decline in combat effectiveness."

"But in this Battle of Sanfeng Mountain, the Jin Kingdom has gone through many years of fighting, and the remaining troops are undoubtedly veterans with combat effectiveness."

"Just like the monk Wanyan Chen mentioned by Tianmu before."

"This proves that their individual combat capabilities are not inferior to the Mongolian army to a great extent."

"The result was still a miserable defeat where the outnumbered defeated the larger force."

"The rise of the Mongol Empire, Temujin, Muqali, Tolui, Ogedei, Subutai and others."

"Are they really more powerful than each other?" Huo Qubing couldn't help feeling a little itchy as he spoke.

He always felt that the Mongolian generals were better than the Xiongnu, and thought to himself:

If they came to his time and fought against the Han army instead of the Xiongnu, what kind of results could he achieve?

Canopy.

[Seeing this, Li Ping, the commander of Tongguan, opened the city and surrendered. The Mongolian army took advantage of the situation and captured dozens of states including Shang, Lu, Shaanxi, and Luo.]

[In March, Jinchang Prefecture fell, and Subutai led 3 troops to the gates of Nanjing.]

[Hundreds of Mongolian cannons bombarded the city walls, and the Nanjing army and civilians fought desperately. ]

[After sixteen days of fierce fighting, corpses were scattered all over the ground on both sides.]

【At this time, the plague was rampant, and the Mongolian army saw that they could not conquer the country after a long siege, so they had to temporarily negotiate peace with the Jin Kingdom.】

[In the following months, the situation changed dramatically.]

【Xuzhou and the counties north of the Huai River surrendered to Mongolia.】

【Guo Anyong led his troops to rebel against the Mongols and return to the Jin Dynasty. 】

[The Jin and Mongolian sides engaged in a seesaw battle in many places. ]

[In August, outside Zhengzhou, the Mongolian army once again defeated the Jin army, killing more than 10 people, and the Jin army was almost collapsed. ]

[In December, Nanjing ran out of ammunition and food, and Emperor Aizong of Jin had no choice but to abandon the city and flee to Caizhou.]

[In the first month of 1233, Cui Li, the defender of Nanjing, opened the city and surrendered.]

[Wu Xian, the garrison commander of Tang and Deng states in the Jin Dynasty, attempted to escort Jin Aizong to Sichuan, but was badly defeated by Meng Gong when he attacked the Guanghua Army of the Southern Song Dynasty.]

[The plan to enter Sichuan was completely shattered. ]

【The Southern Song Dynasty also knew that the countdown to the fall of the Jin Dynasty had begun, so they were no longer conservative.】

[In August, Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty formed an alliance and decided to attack the Jin Dynasty from both the north and the south.]

[In September, Tachaer led his army to attack Caizhou.]

[In November, the famous Southern Song general Meng Gong arrived with 2 Song troops and joined the Mongolian army.]

[In December, Shandong, Huainan and other places of the Jin Dynasty surrendered one after another. ]

[On the tenth day of the first lunar month in 1234, Jin Aizong died unwilling to bear the identity of a king who lost his country, and abdicated the throne to Wanyan Chenglin. ]

[The next day, the Song-Mongol coalition forces captured Caizhou, and Emperor Aizong of Jin hanged himself.]

【Wanyan Chenglin, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, fought with a sword and died in the chaos.】

[After the Mongolian army entered the city, they burned, killed, and looted. Almost all of the Jin royal family was slaughtered, and the women in the harem were brutally raped.]

[The humiliating scene was recorded by the Southern Song army and painted "After the Taste".]

【The body of King Aizong of Jin was divided into two halves. The Mongols took one thigh, and the rest was taken by the Song army.】

[The Song army brought back the remains of Jin Aizong's body and presented them to the Imperial Ancestral Temple.]

【The Jin Dynasty, which lasted for more than a hundred years, was completely destroyed in blood and fire.】

……

"I saw Jin Aizong again. This guy is so pitiful. Even Li Shimin possessed him and he couldn't be saved."

"What sin did King Aizong of Jin commit that he had a predecessor like King Xuanzong of Jin?"

"I used to think that the Mongols were brutally beating up the Jin Dynasty, but after watching this, I feel that the Jin Dynasty is really a tough nut to crack. It's actually quite strong."

"The Jin Kingdom was basically the toughest nut to crack, facing Temujin and several waves of the main forces of the Mongolian army."

"Yes, the Jin Dynasty was still able to fight a field battle with Mongolia."

"Although the Southern Song Dynasty resisted for a long time, it was not as good as the Jin Dynasty in field battles."

"Even if the anti-Mongol heroes in India, Egypt, and Western Europe won, they were only fighting against a small group of troops. The Jin Dynasty was really able to withstand the main output of the Mongols."

"If the Jin Kingdom really were to enter Shu, it would be a barbarian regime in the northeast, and then become a separatist regime in the southwest. It's a bit humorous."

"Why is the Jin Dynasty's health bar so high? The battle of Yehuling cost only 45 soldiers. They must have lost millions of soldiers, right?"

"The Jin Dynasty had a population of over 40 million at its peak, and it was normal to have a million-strong army. "

"Some were defeated and then recalled."

"The Jin Dynasty had a peak population of about 4500 million. After the Mongols conquered the Jin Dynasty, only 475 million people remained, a 90% drop. The Jurchens were almost exterminated."

"The Jin Dynasty had always had poor control over the grasslands and was also wary of Mongolia, so it continued to carry out sweeping operations to reduce the population."

"In the end, they were destroyed by Mongolia."

"It is understandable that the Southern Song Dynasty did not ally with the Jin Dynasty to resist the Mongols, but why didn't they march north earlier to recover the lost territory?"

"At the beginning, the Jin Kingdom's Guanhe defense line was still there, and the Southern Song Dynasty also hoped that the Jin Kingdom could hold out for a while longer."

"Besides... the Song army's fighting power... they really can't defeat them in the Northern Expedition."

"The Guanhe defense line collapsed, and the window of opportunity is very short. There is not much chance to recover the lost territory."

"The Duanping invasion of Luoyang was a great opportunity, but it was a pity that it was not done well."

"It's meaningless. Even if we can stand firm for a short time, we can't hold on because our combat power is too far behind." (End of this chapter)