Subutai: Genghis Khan’s Demon Dog of War

this video is brought to you by Squarespace from websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business check out Squarespace through the link in the description below more on them in a bit it's one of the most chilling passages in military history in the 13th century secret history of the Mongols Genghis Khan's quartet of elite generals are described thus they are the four dogs of Temujin they have four heads of brass their jaws are like scissors their tongues like piercing oils in the day of battle they devour enemy flesh behold they are now Unleashed and they slobber at the mouth with glee coming from an empire as bloody as the Mongols these passengers fairly drip with horror but even among the dogs of Temujin one stands out as more cunning more sadistic and more terrifying than the others his name is subbu Ty Genghis Khan's dog of war a non Mongol who joins the Khans tribe at age fourteen simatai blossomed into a master of battle the Mongols greatest general sibu ty road further and conquered more than any other man in history it was thanks to him that Russia was brought into the mongol falls that the mongols reached central europe that they came this close to taking Vienna yet despite being both brilliant and vicious subbu ty is now mostly forgotten in today's video we're looking back it's the greatest and deadliest general to ever live [Music] although you would become the Mongols greatest general suet I was never destined to be one of Genghis Khan's people when he was born rounds 11 75 ad it wasn't on to the endless plains of the Mongolian steppe this into the dense dark forests on the western shores of Lake Baikal his tribe were the early ank I sometimes inaccurately known as the forest Mongols inaccurate because the rank I had almost nothing in common with their southern neighbors where the Mongols could ride night and day the Erlang high used sledges where the Mongols were masters of weaponry the Ariane Kai were better known for their metalwork but that's not to say that the two had nothing in common every year when the snows finally melted the Mongols and the URI yang high would meet to trade it was during one of these meetings that Sigrid eyes fate was sealed the story goes that subitize father often traded with a Mongol known as yesugay the subitize dad wound up owing yasugi a favor and promised him his firstborn son 18 years later the Ariane Chi trader returned to the step with subitize older brother yell Mei in tow ready to fulfill the bargain but when he reached the Mongol can be discovered that yesugay had died many years before in his place was now his son the outlaw Temujin rejected from his own clans a moochin was a nobody at this time but a deal was deal so yama joined him not sixteen years later tomaron would acquire a different name Genghis Khan and llame would make sure that his younger brother got to join the great khans conquests sadly this neat origin story may just be that though a story a fiction but what is true is that llame for whatever reason wound up joining Temujin around 1187 just three years later he invited his younger brother subbu type superhigh was by now a fourteen as was the custom he was supposed to train and his father's business become a blacksmith and take over as the man of the house but subbu ty clearly yearns for adventure for a life like the one that Jame was leading out on the endless romantic plain so in 1190 he left the yeren Chi behind he abandoned the thick forests of his ancestors and headed south to where the action was boy what action it was in 1190 Temujin was just setting out on the path that would soon see him unite the mongrels butts aboot i wasn't yet a fighter he still needed to learn the skills the mongols valued in a warrior luckily his brother was by now one of two merchants most trusted advisors jomi ensured sobota got the chance to learn horsemanship how to ride day and night non-stop and how to survive the alternating Ice and Fire of the Mongol plane by 1197 Siebert I was ready for battle for his first assignments he was to help Temujin wipe out some long-term rivals back then the Mongol step was still a fractured collection of tribes who enjoy nothing more than bashing one another's heads in and making off with their wives what are these tribes the markets had done exactly this a while back with Temujin zwei fans now Temujin never missed an opportunity to attack them only this early version of Genghis Khan wasn't just a Russian and Kelvin guy he preferred stuff like spies and infiltration and that's house aboot I came to appear in the market camp claiming it defected from Timon in offering his hosts intelligence on his former tribes movements market apparently being Mongol for gullible buffoons the tribe believed him and sweet hide led them right into an ambush they were subitize first serious taste of blood and it certainly was not going to be his last [Music] while Genghis Khan is mostly remembered today as a conqueror he was also a great innovator one of those innovations was the idea of promoting his generals based on skill rather than kinship it was this enlightened policy that would allow the non mongaul su butai to rise to the very top not the progress was fast in Samoans clan you earned your stripes the hard way through years and years of constant bloody warfare sympathize early adulthood was spent doing stuff like helping unite the Mongols culminating in 1206 with two Mugen being proclaimed Mongolia's universal ruler or Genghis Khan he was part two of the subsequent assault on the shyah shyah Kingdom the first time the Mongols fought as a united force outside their homelands importantly he was also part of the gigantic war the Mongols undertook against the great Jin dynasty of northern China we say importantly because it was during this epic war that su boot I showed the first glimmerings of the great general that he would become in 1211 Genghis Khan cooked up a plan to deliver an early body blow to the Jin armies with a surprise attack subitize role was to lead an army of 30,000 towards Jin territory from the north when the Jin forces masked Genghis Khan would attack with a larger force from the west smashing them apart first the plan worked Siebert I rode down from the north paraded his army around all the while doing his best to look nonchalant the Jin took the bait masked their forces and then were duly surprised when Genghis Khan came charging into their flank but then things started to go wrong the Jin put up an unexpectedly strong fight refusing to give grounds then subitize army vanished from the field allowing the Jin to focus on Genghis Khan had super tide just bottled it had he fled since this video isn't titled tsumetai that dude who ran away from battles you can probably guess the answer to that one question rather than flee sabot I had rode south hard pushing his horses to the limit now his army was swinging back up north circling around the Jin coming at them from behind the Jin never knew why there was simply no way Zubat I should have been able to ride that far and that fast yet Harry was suddenly leading thousands of Hmong girls in a surprise attack from the rear it's a mystery whether Sibu tying Genghis Khan plans this before hands or whether suet I took a gamble in the heat of battle either way the sneak attack made possible only by an impossible ride would become a Cebu Thai hallmark over the next few years the Mongol conquests rampage Don in 1214 the Djinn were driven out of their capital of Zhang do now Beijing and the city burned to the ground five years later in 1219 Genghis Khan attacked the Central Asian quarries M Empire beginning a war that would see his Empire stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Japan not that Sibbett I would witness this in 1221 Genghis Khan's selected as loyal general for a special task as the war raged on in chorus mere Sabbath I would take 20,000 cavalry west on a reconnaissance mission it was the beginning of a process that would soon see Mongol hordes sweeping into Europe and destroying everything in their path it was also the beginning of subitize rise from mere general to the greatest Conqueror in all of history try to picture just for a moment what it must have felt like to be in Eastern European in the early 12 20s up till now your comfortable world view has essentially extended no further east than Jerusalem China and the Far East a vast blank nothing's where you suspect no humans really live and then it happens the first Mongol raiding party comes sweeping through the caucuses and Ivan's your backyard bringing unprecedented devastation in their wake it must have been the 13th century equivalents of a Martian invasion and Sibbett I was the mighty Martian warlord the speed of his invasion was shocking in 1222 subitize army reached Georgia where they wiped the floor with their army that done they pushed West reaching Crimea by early 12:23 it was at this point Europeans first made contact with the empire that would nearly destroy them as they reached Crimea subitize army had sliced their way through the nomadic humans but the Cuban leader had managed to escape and had gone running to his son-in-law prints missus laughs of galley and gallic in 1223 just so happened to be a part of the fabled Empire of Kievan ruse the forebears of modern Russia Ukraine and Belarus the princes of Kievan ruse were a loose alliance ooh together one of the greatest forces of Europe so when mr. Slav heard about these barbarians hammering at his gates he forged a pan Russian army to go and teach them some manners at first sabbatai seems to have realized that it made a mistake his forces fell back from the vast Slovak army for nine whole days the princes of Kievan ruse chased the Mongols east they chased them all the way over the Kalka River now thought to be the couchy critter in Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine finally in late May Prince mr. Slav forced a battle his forces attacked the Mongol rearguard and naya lating them as the panicked Mongols retreated over the river the Prince followed determined to finish these heathens off once and for all at this point scimitar presumably gave a truly terrifying smile it had been a trap of course the moments the Russian armies were pins with their backs against the river the Mongols stopped their retreat turned around and well that was it for the princes of Kievan ruse it's estimated that 90% of the ruse force was annihilated 40,000 soldiers 17 nobles and 6 princes fell before subitize sword among those captured was the prince of kiev who suffered the worst fate of all rather than simply kill him CBI arranged Aven placed on the floor wards on top of which the Mongols held their victory party a night of a thousand men frantically dancing atop him was enough to slowly crush the Prince to death yet this would be the finale of subitize first journey West despite the damage that unleashed the Mongol army was a mere twenty thousand strong far too small for a serious campaign of conquest so after a journey that had taken them 8850 kilometers from their homelands or about the distance from anchorage alaska to bogota Sibbett Ollie and his men turned around and rode home you can almost imagine the relief in Europe as this unstoppable new threat receded a slow exhale of breath as people realized that they weren't doomed after all but this was dangerous miss reading of the situation Sibbett I might be gone but he hadn't forgotten those who tried to fight him he would soon return when he did it would be game over for Europe and just before we return to today's video I do want to take a moment to tell you about today's sponsor Squarespace now two simple things maybe you've got an idea for a website or a business that you want to start or maybe just a podcast or a YouTube channel something like that well the only way to figure out whether that's something good is the 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though the Empire was stable enough that Agha Dai told sir but I to head west again it was music to the old war dogs ears by now the legendary general was a man of sixty his days of riding were over and had grown so fast that he has travel in a carriage yet the tactical genius that had served him so well had only improved with age when Civet I would return to Europe it would not be on a mere reconnaissance mission that a full-blown campaign of conquest incredibly in the 13 long years since the Mongols first appeared Europe still had not got its defences sorted the Russian princes were busy squabbling amongst each other and while a united force might be forged it was gonna take a while so sabotage simply decided that he wouldn't give them even a spare second to think about it that senior 1236 the Mongol army crossed the Volga River its head was nominally bow to Kahn grandson of Genghis but the one in charge of strategy in charge of terror tactics was sibert I and if there was one thing so but I excelled at it was terror the first year of the invasion was spent mopping up the semi nomads of Europe's Far East the Volga boggers the Kip checks the islands as one by one year of satellite tribes fell subitize sent ambassadors to the princes of Kievan Rus telling them to surrender without resistance or watch their whole world burn when the princes refused we can only imagine subitize smiled his terrible smile on the 21st of December 1237 the city of rise and some 200 kilometers from Moscow became the first to fall to subitize forces women were dragged screaming through the streets children were shot full of arrows and thrown into burning buildings men were disemboweled well their families watched at the end of the slaughter rise was no more only a handful were left alive spared by subbu ty so they could spread the tale of his savagery it was a tale that would soon require many more chapters after Oz and the Mongols moved northeast columnar fell then Sue's doll then Moscow yet even as Moscow burns the Russian Prince's still couldn't coordinate a defense still couldn't forget that petty rivals long enough to defeat the dog of war on February the 7th 1238 the war dog fell upon the city of Vladimir it's Grand Prince Yuri the second fled the carnage assembling an army to fight back he returned to the smoking city only to get pinned down by a blizzard as EURion des army waited for the weather to lift they wondered where the Mongols were if they were hiding to the north to the east or somewhere else entirely finally the storm lifted enough Yuri to send out scouts they came back with a horrifying answer the Mongols were hiding to both the North and the east and the west and the south the 200,000 strong army had completely surrounded the Russians in the subsequent battle Sibbett I systematically slaughtered the entire Russian army at its end he had Yuri dragged before about UConn and ordered to kneel when the Grand Prince refused his head was sliced clean off by April 12 38 Sibbett I had done the impossible hid invade in Russia in Windsor did 112 cities were in ruins the northern principalities had been laid to waste but this incredibly this was just his warm-up act before support I was done the whole of Europe was going to cower before him [Music] in late 12:40 the first Mongol warriors were sighted from the walls of Kiev in those days Kiev was the center of the Orthodox faith one of the three great cities along with Rome and Constantinople of Christianity well that was the case until December the 6th anyway that day the mongols breached the city walls everyone inside was killed leaving such a pile of corpses that the streets were still littered with bones nearly a decade later yet Kiev's fall was just the opening salvo for the next act of subitize invasion subitize plan was to attack the kingdom of hungary home to one of Europe's greatest armies but rather than just go charging in he split his forces into sending 30,000 north under a warrior named kaiju it was kaijus forces that torched Krakow and drew the citizens of Rodd Slav into flight it was Qaeda's forces who killed the Silesian King Henry the pious and so effectively destroyed his army that they were able to fill nine sacks with the severed ears of the dead but it would be Sibbett i alone who annihilated hungary in spring of 12:41 Sibbett i divided his forces into four columns and marched on the kingdom as this angel of death approached king bela the fourth summons an army 100,000 strong they amassed on the swollen shores of the danube just as subitize party appeared but if Bella thought he had the situation under control he was badly mistaken as he marched out east to fight the small among ghulami fell back they retreated for nine whole days until they had crossed the one small bridge over the wide unfor double-size river if this sounds familiar it's because these are the exact same tactics which I had used against the princes of ruse nearly two decades earlier but Bella wasn't an idiot he waited across the stone bridge refusing to take the bait daring Mongols to come to him so they did on April the 11th 1241 the Mongol force attacked across the bridge at daybreak although the Hungarians were taken by surprise they weren't broken they managed to rally it even looked like a Hungarian victory might be on the cards but if Bella had had any advisors from Jin China they would have been able to tell him what a grave mistake he was making they would have been able to ask the quest that would soon doom the whole of Hungary where was super high it turns out the general had found a way to Ford that unfortu ball river they were all fighting on making one of his trademark impossible cavalry rides to crossfire some far-off marshlands now 30,000 bloodthirsty mongrel Warriors were bearing down on the Hungarian flank their teeth bared war dogs just ready to devour their prey the impact shattered the Hungarian army as the Mongols closed in salute I kept a gap in the ranks almost daring the enemy to escape it was an obvious trap but the panicked Hungarians had no other option they fled through until a column of screaming terrified refugees was pouring off the battlefield their weapons discarded finally when the army was in complete disarray the trap sprang shut two columns of fresh mongrel horsemen appeared charging down the fleeing soldiers one by one they were slaughtered and the soldiers were all dead the mongrel forces then rode into nearby villages and put everyone to the sword by the end of the massacre up to 70,000 Hungarian bodies lay strewn across the plain with them had fallen Europe's last great line of defense there was now nothing between the Mongols and the Atlantic nothing between sobota and the complete conquest of Europe but the old war dog would never get to fulfill his dream the Mongols would never conquer and he thought the Western hungry even at the pinnacle of his tribe subitize war days were nearly over [Music] the early winter of 1241 was spent teaching the Hungarians a bloody lesson civet i rode from ends to end of the kingdom destroying any settlement in his path Buda and pest were both burned the town now known as erst gone went up in flames by the time December came it's been estimated that up to 50% of Hungary's population had been massacred and still subitize thirst for blood had been quenched as that dark December of 1241 gave way to a january that was bleak and grey the mongols began to push west again subitize and a column down into northern italy and instructed reconnaissance units to scout the danube valley all across europe petrified people's waited for the hammer to fall as Mongol Raiders were spotted from the walls of Vienna it must have felt like the continents time had finally come and then subitize army just stopped as Europe watched and trembled the Mongol armies halted their advance fell silent for weeks on end at the ends they suddenly packed up turned their horses around and incredibly unbelievably they rode back home today what caused the mongol retreat is a source of controversy the main theory is that news of Agha daikons death on December the 11th 1241 finally arrived necessitating a long ride home to help elect the new Khan however there are other theories linked to the miserable weather that decade or the unavailability of food and famine stricken areas but whether it was protocol or rain turned back the Mongols did it said so what I didn't want to go that the dog of war gnashed his teeth and begged her to finish his mission the thing that he was born to do but battle Khan ordered him and like a good dog with its master Zubat I eventually obeyed not that the ride back was exactly peaceful on the return journey the Mongols swept down through Croatia Bosnia Albania and bulgaria doing their usual slaughtering on the fringes of Central Asia battle Khan stayed behind established the golden horde the Carnot's that would be one of the world's great powers for centuries but these were just distractions post scripts to the great adventure it was time to go home now time for the story to end at last after arrived many thousands of kilometers long Siebert I returned to Mongolia as though his life of adventure gave way to a singularly unaddressed oh sure he was still respected when a Franciscan monk visited the mongrel caught in 12:47 Sibbett I was practically royalty one year later though in 1248 see what I drops out of the historical record one story says he spent his old age helping to raise his grandchildren another says he accompanied one of his sons back west of the Golden Horde where he lived out his last days on the fringes of the continent it once come so close to conquering the date of subitize death or even how he died is unknown but what's not in doubt is his legacy it said that super ty in his long career conquered 32 nations that the lands distance he covered with these conquests was nearly ten thousand kilometers enough to put any other great Conqueror to shame Alexander the great Julius Caesar Napoleon all these guys are mere pygmies next to super ty yes it was a sadist a killer bloodthirsty maniac yes he used his gifts and the service a brutal empire but Sibert I was never destined to be a great thinker or artist he wasn't made to be a peacemaker so what I was built to accomplish one thing only to fight to fight so hard that hit become the greatest warrior the world had ever known on that counts at least the old dogs succeeded [Music] so I really hope you found the video interesting if you did please do hit that thumbs up button below and don't forget to subscribe also please do check it off antastic sponsor Squarespace who I'm linking to you below and thank you for watching

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