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Why can the Ming army quickly destroy Mongolian cavalry?
Why can the Ming army quickly destroy Mongolian cavalry?

Speaking of this Mongolian cavalry, everyone should know that their fighting capacity is very fierce. After all, Mongols are a people on horseback and are very proficient in riding. So the Mongolian cavalry was the strongest at that time. But surprisingly, the Ming army quickly wiped out the Mongolian cavalry. Why?

Mongolia had a limited population and was wiped out by the Ming army because of insufficient troops.

1279, the Battle of Yashan, the Southern Song Dynasty perished. 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang expelled Mongolia to establish the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols returned to their hometown in Mongolia. Yuan dynasty was 89 years old.

The main reason for Mongolia's demise in just 89 years is its limited population and inability to rule the Central Plains. Different from the complete sinicization of the Manchu Dynasty, after the Mongols invaded China, the political level remained in a state of savage plunder by nomadic people, lacking the idea of governing China.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties and the heyday of Xiongnu, there were only 300,000 "string controllers" in the army. Limited by the carrying capacity of grassland population, after the rise of Mongolia, the population size is about 2 million, and the army size is only about 300 thousand.

After Mongolia's expedition to the west and south, the army dispersed throughout Europe and Asia and established several khanates. It is estimated that about 200,000 Mongolians have entered the Central Plains. The Red Scarf Army uprising fought in the south and the north for decades, which greatly weakened the strength of the Mongolian army. Zhu Yuanzhang and Ming Taizu, pick up watermelons.

1387, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, sent general sapphire to Mobei. 15000 troops wiped out the elite of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the fishing sea, and all the Mongolian elites were wiped out. Aquamarine only captured 70,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people, which shows that the number of Mongolian troops is around 10000. Therefore, the rapid elimination of Mongols in the Ming Dynasty benefited from the Red Scarf Army Uprising and the revival of the Han nationality.