Jack Weatherford

And you see in this episode, though, Jamukha

is already a little bit fierce without necessarily thinking it through carefully.

He gives this long speech about all the things they're going to do to the market people.

We're going to jump through the tunnel, the smoke hole in the top of the gear.

We're going to jump in there and we're going to kill them all.

We're going to kill the men and the women and the children.

We will destroy these people forever.

He has an extremely militant rhetoric, at least.

And he's also rather critical of the elder people.

Wang Han's people came late, and he gave them this long lecture about, we are Mongols, and if we give our word, our word is our promise forever.

And rain or sleet or snow, it doesn't matter.

We be there on time.

So he's dressing down his superiors.

He's very aggressive, but he's very helpful.

So these troops, they move in on the Merkit camp.

They also come in at night.

And so there's a small amount of warning because some men are out hunting sables, the Merkit men, and they race back to the camp and they tell the people, and the people are getting ready to get out as fast as possible.

So Burshta has no idea who's coming.

She doesn't want to be kidnapped again.

It's just somebody.