Almost overnight, the wasteland entered winter, and the sky was overcast, and at some point the snow was falling. The temperature plummeted, and the barbarian herdsmen all wore the thickest animal skin robes, feeling cold, and it was just the beginning of winter.

There are now more than 400 people in the Maoniu tribe, and excluding the elderly, women and children, there are 90 young and vigorous young people in total. Zhangzhung Gyatso divided them into nine ten-man teams, consisting of Brown Ma Yangzhen, Tashi Langdo, and Nam Ka Tserang, along with six other people selected from among them, to serve as the captains of the ten. And he naturally became the commander-in-chief.

The cold weather did not stop Zhangzhung Gyatso from training his fighters, after all, after the beginning of spring next year, it was already known that there would be two battles. The Silang clan did not take it seriously, and Zhangzhung Gyatso was confident that he would defeat them once and for all, and then annex his tribe. But for the Duolang tribe of the royal court, he was much more careful.

Being able to gain a foothold in the royal court, and the big-headed Duolang Sanjie also served as an elder, even the weakest was a behemoth to him. What is certain is that next year Duolang Quga will inevitably come to trouble again, and that is the key to the real test of whether the Maoniu tribe can survive.

The number of fighters is small and cannot be changed in a short time, so you have to find a way to use weapons. A few days ago, when the orc merchant Arslen came to Wolf Valley, he negotiated with him to buy a batch of weapons. At the beginning of spring next year, Alslen will come over with goods. And he was going to save as much salt as he could this winter.

Fortunately, there is enough cow dung, and although it is cold in winter, the salt mountain that produces salt is more than ten miles away, so it is easy to obtain. A few tents were set up on the shore of Yue'er Lake nearby, and some people were placed to fetch water on the spot, boil and filter the mud salt, and then send the made salt back to the Wild Wolf Valley for storage. More than ten days passed, and in addition to eating, they had saved more than 100 catties. The tribesmen knew the value of salt, and they worked hard one by one, and the tribe was filled with a certain atmosphere of prosperity.

In addition to training barbarian warriors, Zhangxiong Gyatso sent people to patrol the surroundings several times a day. After all, as the weather gets colder and colder, the beasts in the wasteland have difficulty foraging for food, and they are so hungry that they will even come to fight the idea of the barbarians. It's not like this hasn't happened before............ There was once a herdsman who was attacked by wild wolves at night, and when people found it after dawn, there was only one body left, including livestock and people, and there was not a single living animal left.

The Wild Wolf Valley is not big, and it can't accommodate more than 400 people. Out of his values on earth, in addition to storing pasture that is more important than life, Zhangzhung Gyatso only allows the old and weak and children to enter the valley to rest. The rest of the tents were camped at the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, there were many people gathered together, and a waist-high wall was built with stones on the outer ring, which was slightly resistant to the cold wind.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and as winter progresses, it has reached the point where the water drips into ice. Rao is a sturdy man like Xiangxiong Gyatso can't stand it, let alone women and children. One by one, they walked around, hating to shrink into the tent and not come out.

Snow fell one after another, almost burying the tents, and several tents had collapsed with snow. It was not possible to go on like this, so Zhangzhung Gyatso suddenly thought of a solution, and he led the men to start building a wall of snow, surrounding them into ice houses, and the roofs were covered with thick wooden skins, sprinkled with a little water, and soon became extremely hard.

At first, the tribesmen were unimpressed, and even thought it was ridiculous............ If you live in an igloo, won't you freeze to death immediately?

But what is amazing is that when Zhangzhung Gyatso spread the animal skins in the house and burned a pile of cow dung, the whole house soon became warm, and the ice walls did not show the slightest sign of melting.

The herdsmen were smiling and scrambling into the igloo. It felt so much better than a tent. I was more and more in awe of the wisdom of Zhangzhung Gyatso.

After the success of the igloo, even the sheepfolds of the livestock were built with ice walls, and not a single livestock has frozen to death until now. Not long after, the entire tribe lived in the igloo, and even the children who were hiding in the wolf valley ran out of the igloo, getting in and out, so happy.

The heavy snow stopped and stopped, and the boiling of salt had to stop, and now nothing can be done. Fortunately, more than 500 catties of salt have been accumulated in more than a month, which is enough to trade with Alslen next year.

Winter is actually very boring, there is not much to do. Zhangxiong Gyatso saw Solang Tondrup and Jinba Quni, who had been hiding in the house all day, and guessed what they were doing.

In fact, the same is true of other men who have wives. It's just that the young men who have too much energy are suffering, and Zhangxiong Gyatso thinks that he will have to find a way to get more women back next year, otherwise these men will have to be suffocated.

No matter how harsh the environment is, patrols are essential. As the weather gets colder, it is not uncommon to see packs of wild wolves around. It's just that the wild wolf saw that there were many people in the hairy cow tribe, and he didn't dare to sneak attack.

The beasts of the wasteland are not limited to wolves, grumpy boars, leopards of the wasteland, and even land bears that do not hibernate. Although Zhangxiong Gyatso once killed a big earth bear alone when he was young, it was a fight for his life under anger, and even now that he is an adult, he is still vigilant in the face of the earth bear.

Sometimes, the more you worry about something, the more something will happen.

On this day, Zhangxiong Gyatso was leading the soldiers to fight for their bones, when suddenly the two soldiers who went out on patrol ran back, turned over and rolled off the wildebeest, and shouted in a hurry: "Oh no, Zhangxiong big head, we found the earth bear." ”

"What, where did you find it? How many are there?" The clansmen panicked, it was really the Earth Bear that could almost be said to be the beast overlord of the wasteland, and there were no natural enemies at all. Even the ten toughest warriors, in the face of an adult earth bear, are more than lucky. This is also the reason why Zhangxiong Gyatso was able to make a name for himself after he killed a land bear alone.

"Just over ten miles to the north, on our way. There are three earth bears, one male and one female with a cub. The patrolling scout replied.

Foraging is difficult in winter, especially for two adult earth bears with cubs, which are almost invincible. Even Zhangxiong Gyatso had a gloomy face, this kind of fierce beast is rare, but this time three appeared at once, and the hairy cow tribe is afraid that it will be difficult to escape.

The nose of the earth bear is very sensitive, and I am afraid that it has already smelled the breath of the barbarians of the hairy cow tribe. If they come and eat people, don't even think about getting rid of them until winter is over. The Earth Bear will use the Woolly Cattle tribe as its food source until it is eaten up, or when winter passes.

"Gather the warriors, and we're going to kill the three brutes. "You must not sit idly by, Zhangxiong Gyatso ordered immediately.

After half a winter of training, the warriors had developed the habit of following his orders, and even if they were all a little frightened, they were still quickly assembled.

"Brothers, behind us are our own relatives, if we let the earth bear find it, there will definitely be people who will be eaten by it, so for the safety of the tribe, even if we face danger, we must eradicate the earth bear. Keep up with me, let's go hunting, hahaha............!"

Wielding an iron spear, Zhangxiong Gyatso laughed and cheered for his people.

Only then did the clansmen suddenly remember that the Zhangxiong Gyatso big man in front of him had killed the earth bear with his own hands, and with him, plus dozens of barbarian warriors, what was there to fear?