00:00From a military point of view, these Mongols moved with large armies, I repeat, very numerous,
00:07very numerous, both because there were so many of them, and because there were horsemen
00:11who used, they were horsemen who used cheap, cheap horses that fed on grass and could not
00:18be easily replaced.
00:19However, these armies that were based in fact on tens of thousands of horses, well, the
00:23horses still made a lot of grass and as long as they moved across the vast prairies of
00:29Central Asia and then Eastern Europe, as long as they were in the Hungarian prairie, they
00:33could have the feeling that, for better or worse, the horses found something to eat.
00:40Now, I don't know if the Mongols realized this or if they just sensed it at first glance,
00:44but as you moved towards the west, you began to find a rather different world.
00:52In the meantime, the plains had ended, you could forget about them.
00:55There were mountains everywhere and cities everywhere, a dense network of cities, where
01:01there were no cities, castles, a dense network of castles and cultivated areas.
01:05Yes, but certainly not those large pastures to feed tens of thousands of horses.
01:12And what you used to gallop for days and days before finding a city, and then you besieged
01:16it, took it and left again.
01:17There, before you reach the city, there is a castle.
01:21Well, you besiege it and take it, but there is another one three kilometers away, and another
01:25three kilometers further on, each with armed men inside, ready to defend it.
01:30And then you reach a city, and behind it, there are countless others.
01:34Every 20, 30 kilometers, there is one.
01:36And there is nothing to eat.
01:39I think that for an army as organized as the Mongols, the idea of truly conquering Western
01:44Europe was something that was beyond their technological capabilities.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Yeah.
01:51I think that for an army, I think that for an army, I think that for an army, I think
01:53that for an army, I think that for an army, I think that for an army, I think that for
