Chapter 47: Preparing for War

The western side of the Newly Reclaimed Lands Province is marked by the Big Horn River as a natural boundary.

Crossing the Big Horn River and traveling a hundred more kilometers to the west, one arrives at the Terdun Tribe's winter grazing grounds.

In the past month, tens of thousands of Terdun people had continuously migrated to this area, making the number of tents in the winter grazing grounds unprecedentedly high.

Yet, no matter how numerous the tents were, one could not witness the spectacle of tens of thousands of horses galloping across the plains, with at most small groups of riders rushing along the horizon.

Felt tents were distant from each other, herds too kept to themselves, each maintaining a cold distance as if they were isolated islands on a vast yellow-green ocean.

The reason such a scene presented itself was partly due to the social structure of the Herders, and partly due to the dictates of survival.

The Herders could roughly be divided into three classes: