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A Song for Song



A Song for Song

On 1277, Kublai Khan would meet an accident falling in a horse causing the Mongols to retreat from the Song Empire.

This was said to be a lucky event for the Song Dynasty in general, since the Song Empire would have a chance to improve their military against the mongols, now under the regents of Emperor Zhao Shi and they would be able to repel the mongols for a decade until the mongols would start to decline.


The fact that the Mongols were not able to conquer that means the Song Empire would recover even if it would take time for the recovery to happen, at least the collapse of the mongols would have created a space for Song to recover from Jin and Yuan aggression.
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