On the vast land of Central Asia, a loud cry of an eagle awakened the entire Great Gobi Desert.
On a leeward slope, tens of thousands of Qidan troops were in battle formation.
At the very center was naturally the most elite Palace Division of the Kara Khitay army, dispatched from the tribe directly under Ju'er Khan. They occupied the most fertile pastures, lands, and had the most sophisticated equipment. Although the properties of Husi Woreda were earlier plundered and occupied by the Tatars, losing a source of soldiers, the main force remained, numbering ten thousand troops, with eight thousand light cavalry and two thousand armored heavy cavalry.
The Commander-in-Chief of this Palace Division was also Yelv Zonghan, the senior of Qidan, and the uncle of Ju'er Khan.
