the Black Death is understandable (although hard to imagine such scale) but it's a pandemic, it happens.

But how do you kill 1,000,000 people in a couple of years visiting Hungary when you don't even have any real guns? How do you round up that many people from all over the countryside with primitive weapons and they don't try to escape or anything? Such a crazy thing to do...

Is the number from direct killings or just like, you turn up with a big army and raid food stores or interrupt agriculture in some way and then people starve because most are just scraping by as-is?

tfa says "slaughtered", no idea if it's accurate, but scary if it is

> Ogodei's armies slaughtered an estimated 1 million Hungarians: Troops, clerics, nobles, knights, and peasants.