At dusk, the nomadic army on the prairie was resting on the flat land of the River Region.
The warhorses they brought from the Eastern lands had become thinner due to continuous marching, but under the fertile water grass of the River Region, they were rejuvenated.
The Tatar's prairie horses, although short and lacking in short-distance explosiveness, did not seem as robust as the Arabian horses or the breeds from the River Region, yet they were as enduring as the Tatar Cavalry upon their backs.
Whether it was rugged mountain paths, winding river valleys, or wet marshes, they traversed them as if on flat ground.
The number of the Tatar Army, after dozens of battles big and small, did not decrease but rather increased when Jochi gathered troops at Hamadan, summoning back the Thousand Households from various regions, expanding almost twice since the start of the Western expedition.
