In the fifth year of Jianyuan, October 23rd.
In the northern grasslands, it snowed early.
The theme song of winter is snow and white, the cold season.
The cold north wind, carrying large flakes of snow, began to howl over the earth.
In this extremely cold and unbearable weather, bad news comes one after another from the turbulent north.
The grassland suffered a serious white disaster.
Heavy snow covered the entire grassland, and in places where the snow was too deep, it was even more than one meter thick.
The excessively thick snow layer submerged the roots of pasture. Cattle, sheep and other livestock were unable to eat pasture. They starved and froze, resulting in large numbers of deaths.
Most of the people living on the prairie are herdsmen. They live on grasses to facilitate grazing and make a living on their cattle and sheep.
However, the white plague this year was very serious, and cattle and sheep died in large numbers.
It has a great impact on all herdsmen on the entire grassland.
Many cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and the impact was very fatal...
According to custom, when the Huns had no cattle or sheep to eat in winter, they would invade the Han territory by going south...
Or go to other countries to plunder food and wealth to maintain the survival and development of their own nation.
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In fact, compared to other races, the Huns' fighting power has always been quite powerful.
They herd horses, swords and bows, and were born warriors.
The reason why this powerful nation did not appear on the stage of history until the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty was simply because it developed late and lacked a heroic leader.
And when a generation of heroes, Maodun Chanyu, unified the tribes on the grassland, his terrifying destructive power and war capabilities turned the Huns into a top nomadic empire in an instant.
During this period, the power of the Huns reached its peak.
The Huns, who had their eyes high above the rest, divided the country around the prairie into dozens of regions, and nicknamed them "sheeppens."
Even the Han Empire, in the eyes of the Huns, was just a somewhat strong sheep with horns on its head.
"..."
In the fifth year of Jianyuan, November 28th.
The cold wind, as cold as a knife, swept over from the boundless arctic frozen soil, bringing with it large pieces of snow flakes, ice chips, and everything that could be frozen by the ice.
It was only November, but the entire grassland was covered with snow. Heavy snowfalls were falling one after another and never stopped.
On the edge of Kusulgu Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the boundless prairie, the golden wolf flag representing the royal court of the Huns fluttered in the wind.
Under the flag is a huge military camp.
The gray-white woolen tents are arranged neatly, like giant mushrooms, endless, located here, with no end in sight.
Dots of bright spots of fire are distributed in front of each tent. If you go up and take a closer look, you will see that the blazing bonfire is burning in the camp.
With the Xiongnu Royal Court as the center, more than a million grassland tribesmen gathered on the side of Kusulgu Lake.
After winter came, more than one million Huns lived in this area.
Since two months ago, the Huns have discovered that this year's winter has come very early.
As the main water source of the northern grasslands, Kusuulgu Lake, which has not frozen for decades, has frozen for the first time.
Kusu'ergu Lake is the largest lake on the grassland. With it as its source, a network of water channels spanning hundreds of miles has been formed.
For the Huns who spent the winter, Kusulgu Lake was their treasured place to spend the winter.
Before the winter freeze, they would store enough food here and build a winter site.
This tradition has a history of hundreds of years.
As a result, this year, that tradition was broken.
Because winter has arrived a month or two earlier than in previous years.
At this moment, there are only two choices before the Huns, either the Huns die or the Han people die, that's it.
At present, millions of Xiongnu tribes are concentrated in one place, and the choice of the Xiongnu Chanyu is self-evident.
You must know that grassland tribes do not have the habit of gathering together, because a piece of grassland can support a certain number of livestock and horses.
Too many tribes gather together, and the result is grassland destruction and grassland desertification.
Only in the cold winter and when preparing for large-scale battles, the grassland tribes will gather.
In the middle of the hundreds of miles of camp, the super large tent with a height of 1,000 meters was definitely the most majestic and spacious super tent among the countless fur tents around it.
The entire tent is made of fine iron as its skeleton, and is covered with five layers of wolf skin. It is twenty meters high and a thousand meters wide. It looks majestic, solemn and spectacular.
This is the core of the power center of the Xiongnu Empire, the golden tent of the Xiongnu royal court.
There is a post every five steps and a sentry every three steps around here.
The majestic, steady, and fierce royal guards were like wooden stakes. They were covered with snowflakes and swayed by the cold wind, but they remained unmoved.
Inside the thick leather curtain, there were waves of heat rushing towards me. The wind was biting outside the tent, but inside it was as warm as spring.
These are simply two completely different worlds.
In the middle of the extremely spacious super tent, there is a circle of wolf-shaped iron stoves with a diameter of more than half a meter, and the fire is burning brightly inside.
The entire golden tent in the royal court is based on white yak skin. On the four walls of the tent, the heads of ferocious and terrifying beasts, such as tigers, wolves, leopards, etc., are hung...
Wordlessly, the Huns worship martial arts in their bones.
"..."
In front of King Khan's throne, there are three rows of a hundred wooden chairs.
The Xiongnu's left and right wise kings, left and right kings of Guli, left and right generals, and leaders of the major tribes were all sitting here.
At this time, sitting on King Khan's throne was a middle-aged man with a majestic look and murderous intent.
I saw him wearing a crown and a Sirius robe. His beard and hair were half black and half white, and there were several scars on his face. He looked terrible.
Being able to sit on the throne of the Khan, this middle-aged man is naturally the supreme ruler of the Huns Empire and the current military minister Chanyu.
The military minister Chanyu sat cross-legged on the throne, looking straight ahead.
From the throne he was sitting on, he was so high up that he could just see the expressions on everyone's faces below.
The military minister Shanyu has the aura of a king who controls the entire empire and suppresses everything...
The wise kings and leaders of the major tribes below did not dare to breathe too much and were restless.
"..."
The political power system of the Xiongnu Empire was very complicated, which was the fault of the first founding Khan, Moton Chanyu.
As a nomadic empire, they used four or five methods to govern the country, which was very chaotic compared to the Han Dynasty.
The military minister Shanyu is now both the highest political ruler and the highest military leader of the Xiongnu Empire.
Under the military minister Chanyu, the Xiongnu nobles and officials were not strictly divided into civil servants and military generals, but mostly combined military and political power.
Because the size of their official positions is actually determined by the strength of their tribe.
