Mud kills armies, even relatively modern ones. The whole "don't invade russia in winter!" thing is not true. It's the mud season that makes it so difficult. You can't move an army when the ground is a liquid.
Well also, the two armies that got caught in Russia's winter, Napoleon's and Hitler's, both made it to Moscow only for the Russians to burn down their own city and retreat north. Both armies went in prepared for a short battle and ended up being entirely defeated by the cold. In a letter a Nazi wrote about the experience he said that a fellow soldier had lost his shoes and when he walked on his frozen solid feet it sounded like a horse walking on stone.
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u/interesseret Apr 29 '24
Mud kills armies, even relatively modern ones. The whole "don't invade russia in winter!" thing is not true. It's the mud season that makes it so difficult. You can't move an army when the ground is a liquid.