Why did the Mongols FAIL to take Vietnam? Forgotten: the best tactic ever (PART 9)

Why did the Mongols FAIL to take Vietnam? Forgotten: the best tactic ever (part 9)
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Why did the Mongols FAIL to take Vietnam? Forgotten: the best tactic ever (part 9). “You run to the sky, I’ll chase you to the sky. You run to the earth, I’ll chase you there. You climb a mountain, I’ll be right behind you. You dive in the river, I’ll dive too.” - Omar
There are wounds in a nation's memory that never heal....only scab over with time: tender, aching, waiting to bleed again.
In the winter of 1287, the Mongols came to Dai Viet one last time. But they didn’t come to rule, and they didn’t come to bargain.
They came to punish.

Why did the Mongols FAIL to take Vietnam? Forgotten: the best tactic ever (part 9). Fields were flattened. Homes were swallowed in flame. The sky was black with the smoke of a thousand villages, each one with names that would never be spoken again. Families scattered. Mothers fled with children pressed to their chests. Fathers who stayed behind disappeared into the dark, taking their last stand beneath the ruins of their homes. Temples crumbled. They dug through the sacred earth, looking for the bones of the former king, as if digging up the dead could kill the spirit of the living.
This was no longer about thrones or treaties.
There were no rules left. No mercy.
This… was extermination.

Why did the Mongols FAIL to take Vietnam? Forgotten: the best tactic ever (part 9). That was the price Dai Viet paid—for daring to wound the pride of an empire that had never learned to lose.
With a strike that would make any sea raider proud, Tran Khanh Du and his scrappy band of warriors ambushed and annihilated the Yuan supply fleet led by Zhang Wenhu. One minute the enemy’s rice and salted fish were on their way to feed a mighty army, and the next—they were fish food. By taking out that supply fleet, he didn’t just ruin the Yuan army’s lunch—he cracked open the door for a whole new kind of war.
No food for the invaders meant no comfy campaign. That’s a slow burn disaster. Them Mongols were gonna have a hard time settling in for a long fight. Meanwhile, the home team could now settle in for a long, gritty fight, just like they did during the last invasion. That’s the kind of war Dai Viet was built to win.
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