While the preparations for this sort of entombment were making, the head was an object of a very solemn and mysterious interest for all the horde. They said that the tongue thrust itself several times out of the mouth, and the soothsayers, who watched the changes with great attention, drew from them important presages in respect to the coming events of the war. These presages were strongly in favor of the increasing prosperity and power of Temujin. Sankum, the son of Vang Khan, was killed in the battle, but Yemuka escaped. CHAPTER X. THE DEATH OF YEMUKA. 1202-1203 The victory complete.--Exaggeration.--The plunder.--Great accession.--The khans submit.--Sankum and Yemuka.--Hakembu and his daughter.--Hakembu's fears.--Temujin's gratitude.--His reply.--Yemuka makes his escape.--Arrives in Tayian's dominions.--Tayian's conversations with Yemuka.--Yemuka's representations of Temujin's character.--Plots formed.--Alakus.--The plots revealed to Temujin.--He is deceived.--The young Prince Jughi.--Council of war.--Yemuka and Tayian.--Temujin crosses the frontier.--His advance.--Preparations for battle.--Kushluk and Jughi.--Great battle.--Temujin again victorious.--Tayian killed.--Yemuka is beheaded. In the mean time, while these events had been occurring in the country of the Naymans, whither Vang Khan had fled, Temujin was carrying all before him in the country of Vang Khan. His victory in the battle was complete; and it must have been a very great battle, if any reliance is to be placed on the accounts given of the number slain, which it was said amounted to forty thousand. These numbers are, however, greatly exaggerated. And then, besides, the number slain in such barbarian conflicts was always much greater, in proportion to the numbers engaged, than it is in the better-regulated warfare of civilized nations in modern times. At all events, Temujin gained a very grand and decisive victory. He took a great many prisoners and a great deal of plunder. All those trains of wagons fell into his hands, and the contents of many of them were extremely valuable. He took also a great number of horses. Most of these were horses that had belonged to the men who were killed or who had been made prisoners. All the best troops that remained of Vang Khan's army after the battle also went over to his side. They considered that Vang Khan's power was now entirely overthrown, and that thenceforth Temujin would be the acknowledged ruler of the whole country. They were accordingly ready at once to transfer their allegiance to him.