Genghis Khan had given orders to the princes not to kill the governor, but to take him alive. He wished to have the satisfaction of disposing of him himself. For this reason the soldiers who attempted to take him on the terrace were very careful not to shoot their arrows at him, but only at the men who were with him, and while they did so a great many of them were killed by the arrows which the governor and his two friends discharged at those who attempted to climb up to the place where they were standing. [Illustration: THE GOVERNOR ON THE TERRACE.] After a while the two men were killed, but the governor remained alive. Yet nobody could come near him. Those that attempted it were shot, and fell back again among their companions below. The governor's wife supplied him with arrows as fast as he could use them. At length all the arrows were spent, and then she brought him stones, which he hurled down upon his assailants when they tried to climb up to him. But at last so many ascended together that the governor could not beat them all back, and he was at length surrounded and secured, and immediately put in irons. The princes wrote word at once to their father that the town was taken, and that the governor was in their hands a prisoner. They received orders in return to bring him with them to Bokhara. While on the way, however, another order came requiring them to put the prisoner to death, and this order was immediately executed. What was the fate of his courageous and devoted wife has never been known. CHAPTER XX. BATTLES AND SIEGES. 1219-1220 Continuation of the war.--Saganak.--Hassan.--The murdered embassador.--Jughi's revenge.--Jughi's general policy.--Account of a stratagem.--The town taken.--A beautiful city.--Toukat.--Toukat taken.--Arrangements for plundering it.--Kojend.--Timur Melek.--His preparations for defense.--Engines and battering-rams.--The floating batteries.--The morass.--Obstinate conflict.--The pretended deserters.--No more stones.--Building of the jetty.--The horsemen in the water.--Timur's boats.--The fire-proof awnings.--The fire-boats and the bridge.--The bridge burned.--Pursuit.--Battle in the river.--The boats aground.--Timur's adventures.--He finally escapes.--The governor's family.--Kojend surrendered. After the fall of Bokhara and Otrar, the war was continued for two years with great vigor by Genghis Khan and the Monguls, and the poor sultan was driven from place to place by his merciless enemies, until at last his cause was wholly lost, and he himself, as will appear in the next chapter, came to a miserable end. During the two years while Genghis Khan continued the war against him, a great many incidents occurred illustrating the modes of warfare practiced in those days, and the sufferings which were endured by the mass of the people in consequence of these terrible struggles between rival despots contending for the privilege of governing them.