20 of the most gruesome torture methods used by Mongolian armies (unbelievable, but TRUE)
In the period from 1206 until 1368 destroyed the Mongol Empire around 40 Millions of people. That corresponded to about 10% of all on the Planet living people to this time. And the methods they used to kill were not fast, not clean and not even remotely merciful. These are the 20 cruelest torture methods, those of the Mongol armies were applied in reverse Order from January 20th And the first number is the reason why entire civilization [clear throat] in disappeared in a moment.
Let’s start with number 20. Collecting from ears of the dead. After the Battle of Lignitz in Poland in April 1244 the Mongolian army had a problem. [clear throat] They just had the European ones alliances of Polish soldiers, Merian [clear throat] troops and Elite knights smashed, including the Templars and the Teutonic Knights.
But they had to count how many of them had killed. So they walked across the battlefield from corpse to corpse and cut each one dead soldier’s right ear. When they were finished, these filled Ears nine big sacks, nine full sacks human ears after just one single battle. Reports from Bulgaria and Russia describe the same thing, which is approximately the same happened at the same time.
The Mongols treated counting the Corpses like office work. collect, count, report, [clear throat] move on. But this collecting of ears was considered one of the milder methods. What they did to entire cities was on a completely different level. Next to number 19, killing the earth itself. When the Mongols invaded parts of Central Asia and When they conquered Persia, they did what no sword could do.
They destroyed the irrigation systems. These channels were for generations were built away and were only thing that is agricultural Land in the dry regions like kept Korasan alive. The Mongols intentionally destroyed them. Without water the crops died harvests, people were starving. Entire areas that are green and full of life were turned into dust.
Some of these regions recovered neither after decades nor after centuries. The Mongols understood that one could not threaten everyone with a blade must if you take away their water and time does its murderous work can leave. And if the slow death from hunger already sounds terrible, wait until you hear what they did when they really at your doorstep appeared.
Go to number 18. wait until you get your own shoes eat. If a city has thick walls and… had strong defenders, they went Mongols don’t always attack about. Sometimes they just sat outside and waited. They blocked every street, everyone River, every way in and out. Nothing moved. Weeks became too months. First the food ran out, then this clean water.
People ate Leather straps, rats and things about that no one wants to talk. Diseases spread to the crowded, starving streets like one wildfire. At the time the gates opened opened, people were inside walking skeletons and the Mongols still killed most of them. [snort] The siege never happened aimed at life to spare Mongolian soldiers.
It was aimed at that next city surrendered the second in which they display the Mongolian flag horizon saw. The next number. 17. The live baking of a [clear throat] People in the sun. A Persian nobleman learned firsthand body. After the capture they covered Mongols take his entire body with him a thick layer of sheep fat, wrapped it tightly in heavy felt and left him tied up under the lying in the open desert sun.
The fat slowly baked into his skin a. The felt held up to any heat fixed. He couldn’t move himself couldn’t turn around, couldn’t even really scream because the felt is on face squeezed. He just baked alive for hours, while the Mongols sat next to it and watched. It wasn’t a quick death Battlefield. This was a slow personal letter and the message was simple.
fights against us and we have all day Time to make you regret this. But the baking of a person in the The sun still wasn’t there Worst thing you can do with a single person people made. This part was a bit much more personal. Go to number 16. Nails driven into the skull were. This method actually first came from the other side.
After Persian forces a Mongolian army in a battle defeated, the Persian victors took their Mongol prisoners and drove iron nails straight into their heads. In the Mongolian faith the Head the soul. Hence the collection of nails into a Mongolian skull. Not just killing the body, it was an attack on the Soul itself, which it also has in the afterlife should destroy.
The Mongols remembered that, every detail. And when they came to this region returned and they always returned back, was the punishment they received imposed, so cruel that the People have talked about it for centuries spoke. The last few methods were terrible, but we’re not there yet once you get to the methods that Mongols applied on a mass scale and It gets really dark there.
Continue to Number 15. work like a machine until death. When the Mongols conquered a city, Don’t just kill them all straight away. They sorted people into groups like scrap. Skilled workers such as blacksmiths and Craftsmen were found as far away as Mongolia sent to do things for the empire build.
Young men in conscription Ages were forced into the Mongolian army absorbed and forced in the next battle to fight against their own people. Everyone else became slaves. These slaves carried supplies, built roads and worked on construction projects across thousands of miles of empire without breaks, without medical help, without end. When their bodies failed, they were left lie where they fell.
The Mongols treated people like Tools and if a tool is broken If it works, you can’t fix it. You take just another one. Go to number 14. Rain from severed heads from Heaven. Collected during the siege the Mongols the heads of the soldiers they had already killed them in their huge catapults and hurled them directly over the City walls.
Imagine you [snort] standing on the wall of your city, look up the Mongol army and suddenly dozens of human heads fly through the air and fall to yours feet. Some of these faces belonged People you knew, yours neighbors, your friends, yours Relatives from the neighboring town. The Mongols used this tactic because she broke people faster than any weapon.
Many cities simply opened their gates and surrendered the moment they did Heads began to fall from the sky, because fear spreads faster than every arrow. And these catapults Mongols, loaded them with something else worse than beheading. The next one Number 13. throwing diseases into yours city. Sometimes the Mongols took whole dead ones bodies, especially those that are on Plague or disease had died and they catapulted over the walls into the City that was still holding on.
That was biological warfare, Centuries before anyone had a name invented for this. The rotting flesh spread Diseases from water, food and air within these walls. People who endured the siege themselves survived, fell ill and died Weeks later from an infection couldn’t see or fight them. Some historians believe that this Tactics helped the Black Death of Asia to spread to Europe.
[snort] The Mongols turned corpses into Guns and these guns still killed long after the last soldier had left the battlefield. Continue to Number 12. Flooding cities with theirs own rivers. In 1209 Jingis Kh couldn’t get through the walls the capital of the western SIA in Break through Yinchuan. Then he ordered one to his engineers to divert the entire river and direct it to the to judge the city.
The water broke through the outer ones fortifications and flooded the streets. People drowned in their own houses. and there was no place to Escape. Then in 1221 The Mongols destroyed the city Urgensch the dams that surround the Amudalia River held back after the city had already emerged. The water killed thousands of survivors, who thought they were safe.
They had laid down their weapons, they had accepted defeat and the River came after them anyway. The Mongols understood what everyone other army overlooked. Water doesn’t stop in front of walls. In the water It doesn’t matter how strong your armor is. Water gets in everywhere and kills everything it touches.
The flooding of cities was already happening terrible enough, but the Mongols their most sophisticated punishments lifted for those who care about them personally had offended. And these punishments will come to you at night don’t let you sleep. Go to number 11. dragging through the streets hind horses. In 1228 the Mongol army actually lost a battle near the city Isfahan.
The Persian victors seized Mongolian prisoners, tied them to the hindquarters of horses and dragged them through the city streets while the The entire population watched and cheered. The paving stones tore them apart Mongolian body piece by piece amusement of the audience. The residents of Isfahann laughed and celebrated. [clears throat][snort] The Mongols remembered every face, every call, every insult of that day.
And when she years later with one larger army to Isfahn returned was the retribution that they imposed, so [clear throat] cruelly, that the entire region is in fear fell silent. Move on to number toe. The use of Civilians as living boards. The Mongols developed a tactic which they called flock, which means living boards is translated.
Before attacking a fortified one They were already driving civilians out of the city conquered settlements together, women, Children, old people. Then they forced these people in front of the To approach the attackers, directly underneath the arrows and the boiling oil that the Let defenders rain down from above.
The defenders had their own Killing neighbors just to try and kill them Mongols to meet behind hid from them. Fathers shot bows into the crowd, where their own families were. The Mongols passed through unharmed, while innocent people everyone received a blow. During the invasion of the Choris Mreich thousands of prisoners were captured here Used on three continents.
On to number 9. The Assembly line mass murder. After the capture of the city of Urgensch in Year 1221 the Mongols organized the killing like a factory process. According to the historian Juvaini received 50zetau Mongol soldiers, each exactly 24 prisoners for execution. Do the math. And you get one Million people in one were killed in an organized operation.
In Nishapur every soldier received this Order at least 300 people kill. No chaos, no randomness Violence, only assigned numbers, clear ones Efficiency and a number of victims in which one gets dizzy. They transformed Mass murder into something mechanical. No emotion, no hesitation. just work that needed to be done and they were just simple soldiers, [clear throat] carried out orders.
And what did the Mongol leaders do with enemy kings and generals? This was a completely different level of horror. On to number 8. Alive in cooked in huge cauldrons. Before Jingis Khan the Mongols brought tribes under his control, his main rival was a general named Yamucha and Yamucha had a favorite punishment, who was so cruel that she jingis actually helped come to power.
After winning a great battle Yamuchaen ordered enemy generals alive in to throw huge boiling cauldrons, while their own soldiers watched. Historical sources mention 70 cauldrons, that were used at the same time. Whether that number was accurate or simple very many meant, plays none role. The screams from these boiling cauldrons were so terrible that warriors in the entire steppe to the other side defected.
They decided that everyone was better as the man who gives people pleasure boiled alive. And honestly They weren’t entirely wrong. Because Jies had his own and nightmarish list of preparation. The next one, number 7, the construction of Pyramids made of [clear throat] human skulls. In 1221 The Mongols conquered the Persian Empire Nishapur city and then killed everyone people in it.
The attack was personal. Your own Son-in-law Jing Kanz was born during killed in the siege and his daughter demanded full revenge. According to that Historian Juvaini were the skulls of those killed and collected into huge ones Pyramids stacked in front of the city gates. Separate pyramids for men, women and children.
Three towers of bone, the in an open place for the whole world stood. The death toll is 700,000 up to 1,700,000 people. These pyramids stood there for months as a warning and it worked. After Nishapur, city after city opened the goals without a fight. A descendant of Jingi Kanz Timur went further. After killing 9,000 people in Baghdad in 1401 erwyren built from skulls.
In Isah he stacked Towers of two skulls. This wasn’t random anger, this was Advertising. Continue to number 6. Sewn shut and thrown into the river. When Gjukhan decided that the powerful woman named Fatima his brother had poisoned, the punishment was over a nightmare. After several days of beating, burning and forced confessions Fatima found guilty.
Every orifice on her body was sewn up. Mouth, nose, everything. She became tightly wrapped in felt so that nothing gets stuck or could exit. And while they still alive, still conscious, still Feeling everything, she was in the river thrown. The reason? Mongolian religion said that the shedding of blood on the earth God heaven Tengri offended.
That’s why they invented killing methods, where every drop of blood in the body stayed. The result was such a slow and painful death that a quick one A sword hit in the neck is a gift would have been. The rule of Not shedding blood almost sounds like it polite until you realize that they are Methods they created for this purpose belonged to the most cruel tortures that the man has ever invented.
Go to number 5, the breaking of the spine. Jingis Kh and his old friend Yamu were once blood brothers, two men, who swore lifelong loyalty to each other had. But Yamusha more than betrayed Jingis once. and finally the boat came him in. Out of respect for their former gangs Jingss Yam wanted without bloodshed died.
Therefore his back became broken, fast enough to than to be considered honorable, slow enough to to be painful. A wrestler named Buri received one more worse version. Years earlier, Buri had Ching’s brother Belgai in a public wrestling match dishonored. When Ching finally came to power, he invited Buri to a rematch. In a panic, Buri lost the fight intentionally in the hope that the Defeat would save his life.
But at a signal Jingis rammed Belguti his knee in Buri’s back and pulled his shoulders up to the back wheel cracked. Buri became paralyzed but alive dragged out and on the floor left lying to die, while everyone watched. That was the Mongolian definition of Grace. The next one, number 4. A Feast on the bodies of the dying Princes.
[snort] After the battle on the river Kal23 The Mongols seized several Russian ones Princes together with their nobles General. And what happened next became one of the most notorious executions in the recorded history. Mongolian soldiers laid everyone captured princes flat on the ground. Then they laid heavy wooden planks over it and then they sat down Mongolian generals on this Planks and held their victory celebration.
They ate roasted meat, they drank wine, they laughed and told stories from the battle they just fought had won. And all the time the Russian princes were defeated They slowly crushed and suffocated to death. The cracking of bones that were suffocating screams, the Mongolian generals ignored everything and continued eating.
That wasn’t just a method of killing someone. [clear throat] That was a statement that said, “You be so far below us that we can be yours using a dying body as furniture.” Go to number 3. Into a carpet rolled and trampled by horses. In Year 1258 captured Hulagukan and 150,000 soldiers Baghdad, the most powerful city in the world Islamic world.
And the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustassim, the highest religious leader of Islam, was captured. The Mongols rolled him into a thick one Carpet, tied it up and drove Fighting horses back and forth over his body until he died. The carpet prevented that royal blood touched the earth and fulfilled the Mongolian religious Rules.
But death itself was pure agony. Each hoof closed and broke more and more Bone, and the carpet held him like that found that he couldn’t even twitch. The fall of Bagdat shocked everyone world. During the siege and the Week of murders that followed died from 200,000 to 2 million people. Ancient libraries, the centuries of science and philosophy were burned.
The Tigris River was reportedly black from the ink from all of them Books thrown into the water. The city that for 500 years been the center of human knowledge was wiped out in seven days. The next one, number 2. Molten silver in the skull was poured. In 1218 the governor named Inlchuck met the worst decision of his life.
A Mongolian trading caravan with 450 Merchants arrived in his city ORA. Contentschuck accused her of Espionage, just ordered each of them to killed and stole all their goods. As Jing Kahn three diplomats with the sent demands for justice, the Sultan beheaded one of them and sheared the other two’s crops as an insult.
That was the moment when everything changed changed. Jingiskan gathered 200,000 soldiers and invaded the entire Kor Empire. After a five-month siege Inschuck was captured alive and his punishment was according to his Crime in the most horrific way. The Mongols heated silver until it was became liquid and then poured it directly in his eyes and ears.
The molten metal burned his Skull from the inside. He had the Mongol merchants killed and gem silver and gold, and the Mongols made him swallow it. After the death in Altschucks, they judged Mongols the entire population of Otra there, about 100,000 people and moved then move on and wipe the rest of the Empire in two years from the face of the Earth.
And the last one, number 1, this Wiping a city from the face of the Earth. This is not a single specific one Method, that’s all at the same time. And that is exactly why the Mongol Empire became to the most fearsome force that the world has ever seen. If a city resists the Mongols performed and then lost, the Command given in just two words: Feed the horses.
That was the signal to complete Destruction. Every man was killed. Women were taken, children were taken into the Slavery brought, buildings up to the foundation walls burned down, Libraries, temples, markets, houses. Everything was destroyed. The dead were placed in pyramids in front of the Gates stacked.
Survivors who were hidden in cellars tracked down and dragged onto the streets. In the city of Merv in 1221 Jingis Kahn sat on a golden throne and watched the prisoners brought to him and one by one were killed. The rich became tortured until they got every piece gave out hidden gold. Each of his soldiers was ordered to kill 300 to 400 people.
Historians estimate the number of dead in Merv. From 700,000 to 1m 300,000 people. In Baghdad in 1258 the Hulagukan army spent one whole week with nothing else to do do as murder, pillage and the largest city in the Islamic world loot. The Mongols did not defeat their enemies only, they wiped them out. You transformed cities, whose It took centuries to build empty land covered with bones, and then rode to the next town and did same again.
At the height of their power included the Mongol Empire, 24 million square kilometer, making them the largest land empire in the history of humanity. And every mile of this territory was on pure, cold, calculating terror built. Such was the Mongol Empire in its worst form. If that sends shivers down your spine run, subscribe and click on that Video on the screen right now, to find out more about the story, that they never tell you in school will. Uh.
