Шалтай Балтай wrote:but in the sense of expansion was stopped by the real Typhoon (natural phenomenon)?
ie not suicide bombers (men)?
that's it...the first attack, which occurred in 1274, operated Mongolian-Korean fleet with the strength of the expeditionary force up to 23 to 37 thousand people. The Mongols easily defeated the Japanese troops on the Islands of Tsushima and IKI and emptied them. Then went to the island of Kyushu and began to attack, including attack from ornametals guns. However, it began Typhoon also killed the commander of Liu, with the result that the Mongols were forced to retreat.
Khubilai began to prepare for the next attack. The Japanese also did not spend the gift of time — they built fortifications and prepared to defend. In 1281 two Mongolian-Korean-Chinese Navy — from Korea and from southern China went to the island of Kyushu. Armada, consisting of nearly five thousand ships with 150 thousand chosen warriors on Board. First came the small Eastern fleet, which the Japanese managed to reflect. Then from the South came the main fleet, but the repeated story of the Typhoon destroyed most of the fleet of the invaders.
as in Japan at that time did not exist an Organized State army,and was only the Samurai squad of the local Rulers, the Daimyo (Japanese, daimyo:, lit. "big name", obsolete. Daimios) is the largest military feudal lords of medieval Japan. If we assume that the class of samurai were the elite of Japanese society of X—XIX centuries, the daimyo, the elite among the samurai. Translated, this concept means "large landowner", it appeared simultaneously with the emergence of resistant strata of the military — bushi — in the IX—XI centuries.),how many serious,especially organized resistance to organize, much less use was not possible. The Mongol army was a..."a perfect military machine of that time, she was armed with the most advanced military equipment taken in the conquered countries, even then Mongols used cannons and catapults with gunpowder and incendiary shells, special siege engines for the storming of cities and castles. Their army was well trained and disciplined, extremely maneuverable and firmly controllable. The Mongols stood head and shoulders above their opponents in the art of war, their commanders advance plan companies and battles. Not risking life, from a distance, they directed their armies, coordinating the actions of all departments, skillfully interacting with each other. Thus, the main superiority of the Mongols over their enemy was their higher level military thinking, and that made them invincible." Even such a rough comparative analysis sufficiently to be able seriously to assume that the Japan of that time and style would not survive such a "Mongolian Blitzkrieg"...only the intervention of the unmanaged (supposedly...
) Typhoon,repeated TWO (Case?) Times,When you need it and Where you need(
),helped tame the war machine and helped to win a crushing victory over the Mongols so small though superbly trained forces...<
