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Funny thing was the Mongolian "horde" didn't really exist and was more a result of European and Arab/Persian observers being unfamiliar with the envelopment tactics the Mongols used. Generally in the initial engagements they did not hugely outnumber their opponents, but because their forces were almost entirely mounted they would attack at every point, withdrawing and attacking again and again until the enemy army routed, typically leading to the entire war being decided at that point since the European/Persian force was likely destroyed and it's leader captured/killed.

The same thing happened in the Korean War, the UN commanders were like "but gentlemen wouldn't sneak past our armies in the night!" yet that's what the Chinese were totally doing. (one will note that the term "Human Wave" does not actually appear in the official US Army histories of the war.)