Bonus - Mongol 5: The Shaman
The History of China
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The Battle of the Qayimangarasan
Mongols learned the first two lessons about settled societies that they would be fighting against from here on out. Like a dog after a stick, they never, but never, could refuse a good chase. Enter the battle tactic that will prove the undoing of every army from China to Baghdad to Poland, a feigned retreat. In short order, the Mongols owned Dykes burst and flooded their own camp in chest deep river water,. forcing them to lift their ill-conceived siege of Yinsiti and retreat. Before withdrawing, however, they sent forth the garrison commander they'd taken captive at Wulahai as a negotiator for peace. The tankate ruler agreed to nominal t
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