The tumen stirred before the light had fully separated from the dark, and the atmosphere of the stirring was different from a march.
The standards went up first, each one placed in the order the brothers' commands required, and the force took form around them with the pressure the moment required. Each mingan announced the same thing.
This force had come here to be seen.
Batu stood at the Jochid camp's center and watched what had gathered around him.
Orda's White Horde riders formed on the eastern edge of the combined camp, their colors distinct from the western tumen's wolf's track standard. Tangqut's contingent were into the southern section with the riders he had brought from the Kipchak steppes.
Toqa-Timur's men on the western face. At the outer edge, at the margin agreed on the night before, Berke's contingent carried the minimum of standards appropriate to a mingan-scale command, present and contained, its placement in the line unambiguous.
