April 11, 1241 · Hungary (Central Europe) Theater
April 11, 1241
During the great invasion of Europe, Subutai and Batu lured the Hungarian army of King Béla IV into a vulnerable camp near the Sajó River at Mohi, encircled it using a feint and a flanking crossing, and destroyed it, leaving the Hungarian dead strewn for miles. Days earlier, a separate Mongol force had crushed a Polish-German army at Legnica.
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