By Gilles Kepel
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Routing the Saxin tribes as they went, they rode into the lands of the eastern Cuman Kanglis who had provided so many soldiers for the war in Khwarizm. Here, in the last hostile territory of their journey, the Mongols had a score to settle. Not until the Kangli khan had been killed in battle, his army annihilated and his scattered people forced to pay crippling tribute, were the Mongols ready to ride on again and join Chingis Khan at his camp on the Irtish river. Before they reached Chingis Khan’s camp, however, the journey of the victorious army was marred by tragedy.
John of Plano Carpini, the papal ambassador who visited the Mongol court twenty years after Chingis Khan’s death, wrote that the Mongols were more obedient to their lords than any other people. Almost always outnumbered, Chingis Khan knew how to gain his objectives with the minimum amount of force. Relying on a vigilant intelligence network, he advanced his armies on a wide front, controlling them with a highly developed system of com munication and using their supreme mobility to concentrate them at the decisive points.
Here, in the last hostile territory of their journey, the Mongols had a score to settle. Not until the Kangli khan had been killed in battle, his army annihilated and his scattered people forced to pay crippling tribute, were the Mongols ready to ride on again and join Chingis Khan at his camp on the Irtish river. Before they reached Chingis Khan’s camp, however, the journey of the victorious army was marred by tragedy. As they rode along the Imil river in Tarbagatai, Jebe Noyan died of fever, leaving Subedei alone to enjoy the glory and the admiration of the khan.