Jack Weatherford

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Also, they had to carry needle and thread.

Every soldier had to be able to sew.

And sometimes that could be a torn garment.

It could be a piece of skin or a wound that somebody has.

It's a very odd thing when you think about the army of Ching as Han and they're carrying everything themselves.

They don't have any pack train behind them.

And that one of the things they have to carry is needle and thread in order to sew up things.

So complete self-reliance in that regard.

Yes.

They also carried dried dairy products, arult it's called, where they dry curd, and they can keep it for a couple of years even.

But you dry it, and then when you need it, you can put it in a flask of water.

You ride all day, it joggles up and down, boom, boom, boom, and turns into kind of thick protein.

It's said that the Mongols could easily go three to five days without ever building a fire.

They had enough food there.

So all these little things at the lowest level were important, as well at the highest level of his loyalty, of his men to him.

And it went all the way down.

Loyalty was extremely important.

And he organized the army into left wing, right wing.

or east and west.

Mongols, the word for left is east, the word for right is west.

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