The Story of the Mongols:

How They Pulled Off Impossibilityby Chichi Zhu

The Mongols were incredible warriors.

The Mongols connected the world with their conquests, and they started a new age of history.

Once Upon a Time,There was a group of people called the Mongols.

Some would say, the Mongols were bad people. Some would say, their first great and ruthless leader, Genghis Khan, was a bad person.

Genghis Khan lied and stole and killed many, many people, a lot of the time for no reason at all. He did many bad things, but he was a good leader to his people.

In fact, Genghis Khan was very smart. All the great khans during the Empire’s peaking years were.

The Mongols were good at fighting, not just because they were strong, but because they used good strategies.

The Mongols would trick their opponents. They sent out a small group of warriors first.

These warriors would pretend to be defeated and retreat. The people they were running from would continue to follow them.

When the followers got close enough, the rest of the army, who would be at first hiding, would jump out and attack them.

Their enemies would be surprised and already tired.

The Mongol attack would bring them right down.

This way of catching the enemy off guard is called “ambush,” and the Mongols were exceptional at ambushes.

When Genghis Khan took prisoners to kill or enslave from the lands he defeated, he often kept the smart ones. After “home base” was established in China, these scientists and physicists and astronomers helped the Mongols.

Engineers from China and Persia designed this HUGE machine for the Mongols. Called a siege machine, it was basically the tool

used to break into the places they wanted to invade.

This machine was a large catapult launcher, to be put simply. The Mongols would launch stones over the city walls, as well as, at some times, plague victims.

Another way the Mongols won their wars was by rotating fighters. Some men were archers, and some were lancers.

There were three rounds of rotating archers. The bows were light and could shoot with deadly accuracy, straight to the bull’s eye, even from hundreds of meters away.

After the archers tired out the enemy, lancers would come in. Lancers would come in with their long, sharp spear-like weapons and finish the enemies off.

The lances and bows and arrows were very light and small. This was needed because the Mongols’ favorite way of moving from place to place was on horseback.

The Mongols kept many horses with them. These horses were nearly no more than ponies, comparatively small in size for

battle horses.

Sometimes, in times of extreme food and water shortage, the warriors would even slay some of the less hardy horses and drink their blood to relieve hunger and thirst.

The Mongols brought entire civilizations to their knees, time and again, by employing these tactics. They had Russia, China, and Turkey, just to name some of the big ones.

The Mongols were ruthless fighters who had extensive knowledge on the arts of war. It was with these traits that they helped shape a major chunk of history.

The End.