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 The envoys from surrounding townships were called upon to give their reports and to confer with them how they could best cooperate to defend themselves against the imminent onslaught of the Mongols.

“We are ruined,” reported the messengers from the Sub-Carpathian communities. “Our villages are burned to the ground, our cattle have been stolen, our youths are all killed. The Mongols have left behind them a wide-spreading river of conflagration and desolation in the entire Sub-Carpathian region. The king sent us no assistance for our defence and the boyars who had imposed themselves upon us in time of peace turned against us in our hour of need.”

The envoys from Korchena and Tustania, told their story: “We are threatened by inundation. On the wolds below the Senevid valley, gleam the white tents of the Mongols. There are countless numbers of them advancing which it would be useless for us to even think of resisting. We are taking everything we can carry and fleeing to the hills and forests. Our boyars had at first begun to erect barricades along the highway, but are now for some reason procrastinating. It is rumoured that they are planning to sell out to the Mongols the passage through our highway.”

The messengers of other mountain range districts said: “Our crops are bad and now many refugees have come to us from the valley below the ranges. The pre-harvest is very hard on us. Save us and our guests from starvation by helping us in our extremity!”

Envoys from the Hungarian side of the Carpathians told them: “We have learned that the Mongol horde is advancing into the Carpathian region. In the name of the Gods of Rus and all other Gods of our forefathers, we beg of you, neighbors and brothers, check that fearful mob. Do not allow them to penetrate into our country! Your villages are natural fortresses: every hill and mountain range, every ravine and gorge