The army of the Mongols during the period of the conquest of Ancient Rus

In the XIII century. The principalities of Ancient Rus" and the state of Eastern and Central Europe experienced a stunning onslaught of the military machine of the Mongol Empire, literally sweeping away everything in its path. Granious in its scale of the campaign 1236-1242 (The general forces of the Mongols made up astronomical 250–260 thousand people) entered the history of wars as a great western campaign. The population of conquered regions hoped to sit out behind the walls of cities, but the Mongols had not only a rich arsenal of technical means to take fortifications - they possessed experienced engineering and stone -metal artillery units. The extreme western point of the campaign of the Khan Baty in Europe became Poland, the Czech Republic and the Hungarian kingdom (it included Hungary, Slovakia, a significant part of the former Yugoslavia), and in 1242 the army of the Mongols entered the last sea - the Adriatic. In 1243, the Baty accepted the Golden Horde in the capital of the first Russian princes, who arrived with an expression of humility.
On the pages of this book, a well -known specialist in the military history of the Mongol Empire gives a wide picture of the forces and opportunities with which the conquerors established political domination over the Russian principalities, which lasted from the middle of the XIII to the XV century, and a significant part of Eastern Europe. For the first time in the historical literature, exclusively on the basis of the sources of the Mongol Empire (internal documents of the Mongolian power, its interstate acts, official and unofficial reports, evidence of eyewitnesses who visited Mongolia and Mongolian bets) show the organization, weapons, tactical techniques and combat use of the army of the Genghiskhan empire and its first successors