How the Mongols Broke Every Castle in Their Path
You are standing on a wall that has never fallen. Forty feet of stone. Iron-banded gates. Water, grain, archers. And then the horizon moves. In this video, you'll discover how a nomadic people with zero tradition of siege warfare became the most effective castle-breakers the medieval world had ever seen — in less than a generation. From the fall of Zhongdu in 1215 to the six-year siege of Xiangyang, from the Persian engineers who made an entire city shake to the calculated terror that stopped armies before a single stone was thrown, you'll reconstruct exactly how the Mongol siege machine was built, how it worked, and why almost nothing could stop it. If this video changed how you think about medieval warfare, hit like and subscribe — there's a lot more history like this coming. #medievalhistory #mongolempire #siegewarfare #medievalwarfare #gengkhiskhan #middleages #historyfacts #militaryhistory #medievalcastle #mongols #kublaikhan #siegeofxiangyang #baghdad #historylover #educationalvideo #battlehistory #medievalbattle #historychannel #ancientwarfare #castles

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