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Citation Information
CHAP. LII.
BATTLE WITH THE KING OF MIEN IOI
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CHAPTER LII.
OF THE BATTLE THAT WAS FOUGHT BY THE GREAT KAAN'S HOST AND HIS SENESCHAL, AGAINST THE KING OF MIEN.
AND when the Captain of the Tartar host had certain
news that the king aforesaid was coming against him
with so great a force, he waxed uneasy, seeing that he
had with him but 12,000 horsemen. Natheless he was
a most valiant and able soldier, of great experience in
arms and an excellent Captain ; and his name was
N EsCRADIN. 1 His troops too were very good, and he
gave them very particular orders and cautions how to act,
and took every measure for his own defence and that of
his army. And why should I make a long story of it ?
The whole force of the Tartars, consisting of 12,000
well-mounted horsemen, advanced to receive the enemy
in the Plain of Vochan, and there they waited to give
them battle. And this they did through the good
judgment of the excellent Captain who led them ; for
hard by that plain was a great wood, thick with trees.
And so there in the plain the Tartars awaited their
foe. Let us then leave discoursing of them a while ; we
shall come back to them presently ; but meantime let us
speak of the enemy.
After the King of Mien had halted long enough to
refresh his troops, he resumed his march, and came to
the Plain of Vochan, where the Tartars were already
in order of battle. And when the king's army had
arrived in the plain, and was within a mile of the
enemy, he caused all the castles that were on the
elephants to be ordered for battle, and the fighting-
men to take up their posts on them, and he arrayed his
horse and his foot with all skill, like a wise king as he
;
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