All victories in history are due to the weather.

The sea breeze saved western civilization.

The continuation of Greek civilization and even the whole western civilization can be said to be inseparable from the sea breeze in the Greek-Persian war. At that time, the Persian Empire was in its heyday and was fully capable of overthrowing Greece. In the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, the Greek navy had only 358 warships, while the huge Persian navy had 1207 warships. However, before the start of the campaign, due to unfamiliar weather and navigation conditions, the Persian navy suffered two hurricanes in the siege operation, and 600 warships were shattered with the wind, losing half of their combat effectiveness. Misto Crisley, the general of the Greek navy, easily turned the tide of the war with his knowledge of wind power, and won the possibility of development and prosperity for Greek civilization.

The magical typhoon saved Japan.

/kloc-in the third century, Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, wanted to conquer Japan, but was defeated by two typhoons. According to historical records, in A.D. 1274, Emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty sent a fleet of 900 warships to Japan, which was resisted by Japanese samurai and forced to retreat due to bad weather, and was finally destroyed by a typhoon. 128 1 year, Kublai Khan organized a super-large fleet of 4,400 warships to invade Japan again. Yuan army was hit by a typhoon again near Gaodao, and most of the ships sank to the bottom of the sea. Japanese Shinto monks have always believed that these two typhoons came from the power of prayer, so they have been called "kamikaze" since then.

The Armada was caught in a storm.

For example, the Battle of Salamis in Persia and Greece and the rout of the Spanish Armada in 1588 have always been considered as one of the most crucial battles in the history of western civilization.

In the late Spanish-Spanish War, the remaining Spanish ships fled north with the wind, ready to bypass Scotland and Ireland and return home. When the damaged fleet arrived at Ras Point on the northwest coast of Scotland, it was hit by a huge wave caused by a violent storm in the Atlantic Ocean. The warship was damaged by water leakage, and the crew was hungry and terminally ill. They drifted alone in the sea with the wind. Many warships hit the rocks; Other warships sank into the water and disappeared in the waves. The storm raged for a month. Other warships disappeared off the coast of Ireland, and thousands of people drowned. Many survivors who managed to land on the Irish coast were also killed or starved to death. By June 1588 and 10, only 43 broken ships of the "Armada" had returned to Spain, almost all of them were wiped out. There was no damage to the British ship, only about 100 sailors were killed.

The fiasco of the Armada marked the loss of Spain's maritime hegemony. Spain's maritime strength never recovered, and Britain began to take the position of Shanghai hegemony.

The Northern War was influenced by climate.

1700, Russian czar Peter I launched the "Northern War" with Sweden for the Baltic Sea. 1709 July, 42,000 Russian troops and 32,000 Swiss troops fought fiercely in poltava. At that time, King Charles VII of Sweden led troops into Russia. Due to the cold winter and bad weather in Russia, the Swiss army suffered heavy losses in the long journey and eventually lost. The Battle of poltava was a turning point in the Northern War. 172 1 year, Russia and Sweden signed a peace treaty in Nistat, Finland, ending the war. Russia has seized a part of Karelia and large areas of land such as Ingelman, Estelin and Livran, and is free to enter the Baltic Sea. After the war, the Privy Council of Russia awarded Peter I the title of "Great", and Russia was officially called "Russian Empire" and became one of the European powers.

A heavy fog saved Washington.

In the American War of Independence, the American army was composed of volunteers, with neither weapons nor uniforms. In contrast, the British army is well equipped. 1776 On August 22nd, in the Battle of Long Island, the American army led by General Washington might have been completely annihilated, but a timely fog cast a shadow over the smooth retreat of the American army and laid the groundwork for its future counterattack.

Napoleon was defeated by the cold winter.

1865438+On May 9, 2002, Napoleon, who won a series of brilliant victories on the European continent, left Paris and led 600,000 troops on a mighty expedition to Russia. With advanced tactics and heavy artillery fire, the French army marched straight into Moscow in just a few months. A few weeks later, the cold air brought a fatal curse to Napoleon's army. 18 12 In the winter, Napoleon's army was forced to retreat from Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers froze to death along the way. By the beginning of 12, Napoleon's army was less than10,000. This failure marked the beginning of the decline of Napoleon's empire and gradually established Russia's position as a European power.

Hitler made the same mistake as Napoleon.

194 1 On September 30th, 2008, the Germans launched a large-scale attack on Moscow, codenamed "Typhoon", in an attempt to capture Moscow within 10 days. However, the situation is far from optimistic as expected. At the beginning of February, the temperature in Moscow had dropped to -20 ~ 30℃, the Germans had no cotton-padded clothes, the motors of planes and tanks could not be started, and the optical speculum on tanks failed. Soviet troops used to live in cold areas, wearing cotton-padded clothes, leather boots and winter hats to protect their ears.

On February 6, 65438, the Soviets launched a big counterattack from the south and north of Moscow. At the beginning of 1942, the Soviets defeated the Germans who attacked Moscow, killed 168000 people and won the battle to defend Moscow. The defeat of the Germans in the battle of Moscow marked the complete bankruptcy of Hitler's Blitzkrieg. This was the first big defeat of the Germans in World War II. The victory of the Soviet army greatly inspired the confidence of the Soviet people and people all over the world in the victory of the anti-fascist war. And this is inseparable from the credit of winter.