Where did it all go so wrong?
Too much wen, not enough wu. Mongols had lots of wu, took all of Song's wen.
How did the Mongols win anyway? Were Chinese generals out of practice? Did they not read Sun Tzu?
>>876748
Song BTFO 1005 best year of my life Khitan master race
>>877486
>Song dynasty
>chinese generals actually getting to command anything
Top kek.
>>877486
It took the Mongol 80+ years to conquer the Song. And that was after they conquered the ME.
>>877510
How did the Song retained the Mandate of Heaven after being totally fucked is beyond me
>>877884
they shared their Mandate of Heaven, calling the Khitan Emperors their little brothers and shit
in actuality, they just cucked themselves and paid tribute to the nomadic powers in the region, occasionally interfering in steppe politics to keep the status quo, which later lead to their ruin because they fucked with the Mongols by actively supporting their rivals
Letting Turks into your country
>>877884
>Mandate of Heaven
An invented concept by Christian historians.
>>878884
Nope. You're thinking of Divine Right, m8.
>>878904
Literally one in 17 book in Imperial Chinese history would bother mention that concept even if you count the contemporary superstitious ones.
>>878921
>Literally one in 17 book in Imperial Chinese history
Then it wasn't invented by Christian historians in that case was it?
>>877486
>Be General in Song Dynasty
>Get executed
>>879348
>for winning
