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Not wanting to be bound to Dorn's purely defensive strategy, the Khan lobbied for a rapid assault to retake Lion's Gate. Dorn allowed Jaghatai a degree of autonomy in an attempt to control him during the battle. During the battle for the [[Colossi Gate]] the Khan led a 300-strong [[Jetbike]] assault against [[Death Guard]] besiegers before quickly turning around and withdrawing back to their defenses.{{Fn|13a}} Alongside [[Blood Angels]] Captain [[Raldoron]], [[Custodes]] [[Captain-General]] [[Constantin Valdor]], and [[Marshal]] [[Aldana Agathe]], Jaghatai succeeded in holding the Colossi gate against a Death Guard, [[Thousand Sons]], and [[Daemonic]] assault.{{Fn|13b}}
[[Image:WarhawkArtFull.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Jaghatai Khan engages Mortarion and the Death Guard{{Fn|14d}}]]
After traitor forces penetrated the Mercury and Exultant Walls, the loyalist war effort seemed doomed. However it was then that Jaghatai Khan announced his intent to retake the Lion's Gate Spaceport to not only slow the flow of traitor reinforcements on the planet but also allow for [[Roboute Guilliman]] to easily land his own forces once he arrived. An exhausted Rogal Dorn did not protest, and the Khan led a massive assault of the White Scars and [[Terran First Armoured]] alongside the [[Sky Fortress]].{{Fn|20a14a}} During the height of the fighting, Jaghatai Khan again came to blows with his brother Mortarion. Faced with Mortarion's new Daemonic endurance and strength, the Khan was brutally beaten down and nearly defenseless. However he was able to find a weakness in the Death Lord with his pride. Jaghatai Khan scolded Mortarion for being weak and giving into the powers of the Warp, while he himself had resisted the temptations of Chaos and remained true to the Emperor. Mortarion flew into a rage, which the Khan took advantage of to launch a second wave of dizzying attacks that overwhelmed the Primarch. In the end the badly wounded Jaghatai Khan was impaled on the blade of Mortarion's scythe, but simply pulled his body along its length to get face-to-face with the Death Guard Primarch. The loyalist Primarch decapitated Mortarion, who was banished into the Warp in a massive explosion similar to that of a [[Vortex Weapon]]. Later, the Khan's nearly dead body was discovered by [[Ilya Ravallion]] and [[Jangsai Khan]] who sought to take him to Malcador.{{Fn|20b14b}}
===Post Heresy===
