The Sea Peoples(107)

She pointed southward where the wrecked bridge of the ancients still spanned half the Yalu.

“The spirits say that the black evil beyond the Yalu has been weakened. Your lances, your arrows, your swords may strike!”

She raised both hands higher. “Hear! When that which is harder than rock and stronger than the storm wind shall fail, the empires of the North Court and the South shall cease to be. When the White Tsar is no more, and the Son of Heaven has vanished, then the campfires of Genghis Khan will be seen again, and his empire will stretch over the earth.”

Weapons rose across acres of ground, and two-score thousand throats shouted:

“Uukhai! Uukhai! UUKHAI!”