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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
The other part of this is that Mongol horses need forage and winter ain't the time for this. In other words, sooner or later in the year, the Mongols have to leave and thus lifting their own siege. In other words, winter is when they were the weakest while Roman armies are used to winter campaigns.
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So were the Poles and the Teutonic Knights but they got their asses handed to them despite the winter advantage. The same goes for the Slavs.