The main force of the Russian army retreated step by step at this time, because the Mongolian army was too brave and had the spirit of disregarding death. However, this does not mean that the Russian army has given up on this war. This is their fight for freedom.

The first war, so they have a conspiracy!

The Russian army finally lured the Mongols into the swamps. Because the Mongols were almost all cavalry, the swamps at this time very effectively affected the Mongols' offensive. It was at this time that Dimitri immediately led the Russians.

The army carried out a very crazy counterattack.

It was at this time that the Russian cavalry ambushing in the forest saw the Mongols falling into the swamp and fighting frantically with their own army. Therefore, the formation of the Mongolian army immediately began to become a little chaotic. Finally, at this time, the Russian cavalry

The commander decisively ordered the attack.

Although the Mongols are extremely brave and blindly believe that even if they are currently affected by the swamp, they can still win this war. However, the Mongols did not expect that there was an ambush behind them.

This caused the Mongolian army to become morally confused. In an instant, the Mongolian army was attacked from both sides by the Russian army. In addition, the terrain was seriously unfavorable to their Mongolian cavalry, so many Mongolians were killed. There were corpses everywhere and rivers of blood everywhere.

The scene. However, many people in the Russian army died, but in the end the Mongolian army was defeated and fled, because if they did not escape, the consequences would be unimaginable. It might be the destruction of the entire Mongolian army. Is this a joke? So this time

The war finally ended with the victory of the Russian army.

And this war on the Kulikovo Plain also means that the Russians can defeat the Mongolian army. This made the entire Russian people wake up instantly and no longer believe in what they once thought. The Mongolian army is

The myth of absolute invincibility. Therefore, the significance of this war is very important. Finally, in the fifteenth century, Ivan III of the Principality of Muscovy unified the entire Russia, and finally completely defeated the Mongols and ended the Golden Horde.

After two and a half centuries of violent rule over Russia, by the sixteenth century, Russia had become a powerful country in Europe.

We have learned about the rise of several countries and the collapse of the Mongol Empire. But next we are going to learn about a very outrageous thing. How outrageous is it? It can be said that it is the most outrageous thing in our entire human history.

Crazy epic disaster! This is the Black Death that we indirectly talked about when we first mentioned Genghis Khan! Now let’s talk about it in detail.

One day in 1345, the Mongolian army besieged the city of Kaffa on the Corimian Peninsula. However, the Italian merchants and Byzantine troops in the city of Kaffa relied on their tall city walls to resist desperately. Because

If they don't resist, based on the Mongolian army's approach, it will definitely be difficult for them once captured. We have also talked about the Mongols' usual style before, which is to kill all their men, rob all their things, and play with all their women. So

Fearing this threat, the city of Kaffa resisted to the death for a full year, but the Mongols were never able to capture the city of Kaffa.

Later, the guards of Kaffa City discovered that the Mongolian offensive momentum was getting weaker and weaker, and finally stopped the attack completely. But this is not that the Mongolian army has no army. On the contrary, the Mongolian army is still very powerful.

Because the Mongol Empire has a very large territory and a lot of resources, which indirectly leads to a very large number of troops. So the guards in Kaffa City have no idea what the Mongols are doing? This is really surprising.

The guards of Kaffa City were puzzled.

However, the guards of Kaffa City fully understood the strength of the Mongols. Although they could not figure out what the Mongols were doing now, they did not relax their vigilance at all, because at this time the guards of Kaffa City believed that the Mongols were

They may be gathering in large numbers, preparing to launch an extremely grand assault on their city of Kaffa.

After a few days, the guards of Kaffa City felt that their previous feelings were correct and their vigilance was completely correct. Because at this time, the Mongols did launch another attack on Kaffa City. But this time

The Mongols were very strange. Instead of climbing up ladders to attack the city as they had done several times before, they placed several rows of very tall trebuchets under the city.

emission!!!!

Following the order of the Mongolian general at this time, cannonballs were fired one after another, and then flew towards Kaffa City. At this time, the defenders of Kaffa City were very surprised when they saw the cannonballs.

, because these are not cannonballs! It turns out that these cannonballs are not huge rocks, but blackened corpses! So after a while, the city of Kaffa was filled with many, many smelly corpses.

After the Mongols fired these special shells, they quickly retreated and did not attack the city at all. And these rotting black corpses seriously polluted the water and air of Kaffa City. We have also talked about this before

The streets and alleys of European countries at that time were already very dirty, so this kind of pollution spread very quickly.

It didn't take long for the entire city of Kaffa to develop chills, headaches and other symptoms. After a day or two, these patients began to have fever and coma, followed by large-scale bleeding and ulceration of the skin, and symptoms began to appear on their bodies.

A lot of sores appeared, and it became increasingly difficult to breathe.

Moreover, this disease spreads very quickly, almost like lightning. On the other hand, it also kills very quickly. As long as a person gets this disease, he will die in two or three days, or in four or five days.

, the whole person's skin turns a dark purple color after death, so the people in Kaffa City call this disease the Black Death. But at this time, people in Kaffa City did not know that it was actually spread by rats.

Plague is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus rodentium.

So suddenly it was terrible. In a very short period of time, the city of Kaffa turned into a hell on earth. The streets and alleys of the city were filled with black corpses, and there were painful shouts and suffocating desperate cries everywhere.

.The whole picture is simply unsightly. This is a real hell. This is definitely not our human world.

The surviving Italian businessmen were covered in black veils and hurriedly took boats to escape back to Italy, because the Mongolian army would no longer attack here. However, the Italian businessmen never expected that a large group of rats carrying the Black Death bacteria would

He also climbed onto their ship, hid in the cargo hold, and followed them to Italy.

The Italians soon learned about the Black Death in the city of Caffa, so they refused to allow the Italian merchants' ships to dock. At this time, almost everyone around them knew about the Black Death, so only the Mexicans in Sicily

The port of Sina only allowed them to stay for a short time. After the Italian merchant ship stopped at the port of Messina, the rats on the ship ran to Sicily, and this is where the Black Death first spread.

But because the Port of Messina is a very large port, merchant ships from many other European countries dock every day, and these rats boarded these merchant ships, so these rats came to various European countries at once. So this

The Black Death, an epic catastrophe in human history, began to spread throughout Europe at a very rapid speed.

In fact, we have analyzed it before. The rapid spread of the Black Death is inseparable from the poor living conditions of people in Europe at this time. We have actually analyzed it before. At this time, even in large capital cities

, even in big cities such as Rome, Paris, London, etc., there are sewage flowing across the street, garbage, human feces, and animal carcasses, etc., are randomly discarded on the street, and the entire street is full of stench.

God, the sanitary conditions were very poor, almost to the point of being unbearable, so this provided very favorable conditions for the spread of the Black Death.

At this time, in European cities, except for high-level nobles and wealthy people, the vast majority of civilians lived in overcrowded and small rooms with poor ventilation. Many people even slept together in the same bed, and even more

The most outrageous thing is that some people don't even have a bed at home. This is the living standard of European civilians in this era. They are all exploited by high-ranking officials, nobles and even the rich, and have no human rights and quality of life at all. So this is also

As a result, European commoners rarely bathed at this time. However, this cannot be said to be because the common people were not able to bathe frequently because of the lack of conditions, because in European countries at this time, not only the common people, but also the nobles and rich people rarely bathed. So far, this is

As a result, many people, from nobles to peasants, had fleas and lice crawling around on their bodies.

But when it comes to this, we cannot blame the Europeans. We say they are disgusting. Anyway, I think children or people in big cities in China can say they are disgusting, but I am not qualified because I was not exposed to the big cities when I was a child.

This is also the case at the time. I only take a shower during the Chinese New Year. I usually have lice and fleas on my body, and I have caught them myself. So everyone would say that it is disgusting for Europeans not to take a shower at this time.

You can tell me, I won’t. And what about this matter? How should I put it? I also described it in the book "Sky of the Soul". That book is just a complete version of myself.

Okay, let's continue the topic now. We have learned about the living habits and even health conditions of European people at this time. Next, let's learn about a more outrageous thing. Why do I say this is outrageous? Because it is really outrageous. This
Chapter completed!