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Podcast: Age of Conquest: A Kings and Generals Podcast
Episode: History of the Mongols: Conquests Begin
Description: Rain. The constant, incessant rains of autumn. A wide brown river, its water swirling and churning, now overflowing its banks due to the rain. A great inconvenience and threat to the local farmer, but to the commander on horseback, his piercing eyes see a weapon. Men are sent with buckets of earth, stones and trees, and a makeshift dyke soon rises. The water is now unable to travel its standard route, and is now diverted, towards the great city and proud defenders who have dared to resist the Mongols. Lacking tools to take down the city's walls, Chinggis Khan...