(June 1, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Too complicated for the likes of you.
Think of how you supply water to a 185,000 man army in a semi-arid region which could support at most a population of 10,000?
Then remember that armies have to eat, too.
What happened to the Mongols at Ayn Jalut, where they had to pull back the majority of their forces out of the region because of the lack of food, water or fodder and the remaing 20,000 get slaughtered by a coalition of the Mamlukes and the Crusader remnants.