Marco Polo and the Elephants of Bhagawan

The explorer and adventurer Marco Polo was serving as a diplomat in the court of Kublai Khan. This army finally met the Mongol garrison at a rocky forested gully known as the Vochang valley. It's likely that for many of the Mongol soldiers, this was their first experience of seeing war elephants fielded in combat. These enormous creatures would have advanced in a terrifying wall with their wooden superstructure's carrying archers. The horses of the Tartars took such fright at the sight of the elephants that they could not be got to face the foe, but always swerved and turned back.