I've been reading the wuxiapedia translation of Eagle Shooting Heroes, and I'm fascinated by the accounts of Mongolian life, specifically chapters 3-6 when Guo Jing is growing up. Not being an expert in that area as Orda and some other posters here are, I'm wondering how much of the descriptions of Mongolian lifestyle, structure, battle plans, etc. are based on actual history. I know it's just wuxia and hence pulp fiction, but the details seem to fit with what little I know about the Mongols, such the denary-based organisation of the armies, tactics of surrounding the enemy with horse archers before charging them with spears and so on.