How 30,000 Foot Archers SLAUGHTERED 120,000 Mongols in Just One Day | Battle Of Parwan

The Battle of Parwan (1221) was one of the rare moments when the Mongol war machine stalled—and recoiled. In the mountains north of Kabul, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu gathered Khwarazmian survivors and chose ground the Mongols hated: narrow valleys, broken slopes, and steep approaches that blunted horse-archer mobility. When Mongol detachments pushed in, they couldn’t fan out or execute their trademark encirclements. Infantry held the heights, arrows and stones poured down, and repeated charges bogged in confined terrain.

For hours the fighting ground on. Mongol units rotated attacks but failed to crack the line; losses mounted, momentum bled away, and at last they pulled back—a genuine battlefield reverse. Parwan didn’t change the war’s outcome—Jalal ad-Din’s coalition later fractured and Genghis Khan returned in force—but it proved something crucial: the Mongols were not invincible everywhere. With the right terrain, discipline, and nerve, even the steppe’s greatest army could be stopped.

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