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Jiang's term for Chinese warfare that throws peasant armies at opponents and replaces them when they die, teaching the Mongols that people are expendable.
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Human wave attacks
Jiang's term for Chinese warfare that throws peasant armies at opponents and replaces them when they die, teaching the Mongols that people are expendable.
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The Mongols learned to treat people as an infinite resource from long contact with China, where warfare used disposable peasant armies and human-wave attacks.
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"...and throw it at my opponent again. Okay? It's like human wave attacks. Okay? We call this human wave attacks. This was pioneering in..."
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"Right? So, if you're the Mongols and you're fighting this enemy and they're just throwing these peasants at you and you're killing them all..."
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"Whereas the Mongols were not curious about the world. They were intent on conquest. And enslaving other people, and exploiting other people. Okay? They..."
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"...You could massacre them. You could send them off in human wave attacks. It didn't matter because they were an infinite resource. And this..."
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