It had been raining for three days, and when the blizzard finally stopped and the winter sun was lazily emerging from the clouds, Zarhan was finally relieved. In the past three days, he did not stop for a moment, and led people to save many herdsmen who were affected by the disaster. In order to settle these people, more than 20,000 head of cattle and sheep were consumed by the royal court itself. Of these, less than one-fifth actually froze to death.

Even if the Xiongnu royal court is strong, this time it is also a big loss of vitality.

However, Zarhan was not purely charitable, he gave so much in exchange for a sharp increase in the population of the royal court. The increase in the population is made up of the survivors of the extinct tribes, and most of them are young and middle-aged. As long as they can survive this difficult winter, Zarhan has the confidence to train them all into soldiers. This is tantamount to increasing the size of his army in disguise.

These people were saved by the people of Tsal Khan in the most desperate moments of their lives, and they were generously given food, and many of them could not help but shed tears as they huddled into makeshift tents and munched on fatty beef and mutton.

You must know that although every herdsman on the grassland will raise cattle and sheep, they may not be able to eat a few meals of meat throughout the year, because they are reluctant, and the most they usually eat is dairy products made of cow or goat's milk.

So when someone took the lead, all the people fell on their knees, and they were so fortunate that they did not abandon their people......

After this battle, everyone's loyalty to Zarhan was firmly locked at the max point. As long as Zarhan waved his horsewhip and let them go to the Great Chu Imperial Capital now, no one would question the killing of Chu Emperor Xiang Liang.

However, Zarhan was not complacent about the growth of the royal court, he knew very well that this was done at the cost of the weakening of the entire Xiongnu.

Moreover, the power of the royal court is limited after all, and he has only saved dozens of tribes near the royal court with all his might, and he can't do anything further away. Now that the snow had just stopped, he didn't know exactly how much damage was going this time, but it was conceivable that it must have been a number that would make his heart explode.

What made him even more uncertain was the reaction of the Chu people, such a big snow disaster, it was impossible to hide the news from the Chu people, and the only thing he was not sure about now was whether Xiang Liang would lead his troops to attack him immediately after learning the news, just like the royal expedition when he first ascended the throne more than 20 years ago.

According to the information he gathered, the state of Chu should not be ready for the war of annihilation now, but if Xiang Liang is willing to set the country's economy back by ten years, it is not impossible to forcibly push forward the war in a short time.

As soon as he thought of this, Zar Khan's mouth was full of bitterness, and the Xiongnu were sad here, the fragile economy determined that the upper limit of the potential of the war was far worse than that of the Chu State, and supporting the existing strength was already the limit, even if he wanted to learn from Xiang Liang, he couldn't do it.

If he followed along, he could only scavenge all the wealth of every Hun and throw it into the bottomless black hole of war. But in this way, I am afraid that before the real fight starts, Shan Yu, who has just been baked for a long time, will be tied up with ropes by the people under his hand and sent to the main hall in the palace of Chu State.

He was very sure of this.

However, before Xiang Liang could kill him, the Xiongnu side was in chaos first.

On the fourth day after the heavy snowfall, a news suddenly spread in the grassland: Zarhan disobeyed the will of Lao Shan Yu and snatched Shan Yu's position from Hu Hanxie's hands, which angered Da Heitian, so it was the result that such a severe snowstorm fell this winter. In order to appease the anger of the Great Black Heaven, the only way to do this was to oust Zarhan from Shan Yu's position and re-support Hu Hanxie's ascendancy.

Not to mention, there are quite a few people who believe this.

This is not surprising, ninety percent of the Huns are illiterate people who do not know a single word, and among these people, the majority of them believe in the Black Heaven Sect, and when they heard that the supreme Black Sky was angry, they immediately panicked.

They don't care who should be Shan Yu between Zarhan and Hu Hanxie, anyway, it can't be themselves. But even if you nobles are fighting for power and profit, why should you involve us?

Many people thought with resentment in their hearts, and even many of the herdsmen who had been rescued by Zarhan became wandering when they looked at him, apparently influenced by this rumor.

Zarhan was suddenly slapped in the back of the head, and he was a little dizzy for a while.

It must be said that this rumor hit the soft underbelly of Zarhan. If it wasn't Hu Han Xie who replaced him in the edict left by his old Khan before his death, if he could bring back Dai Yue'er, the Holy Maiden of the Black Heaven Sect, to win the support of the Black Sky Sect, if there was no such heavy snow this winter......

One after another, if one after another was rolling in Zarhan's mind, in the final analysis, it was that the time he had been in Shan Yu was too short, so short that he had not had time to establish his majesty.

In fact, there may still be some people in the grassland who think that their leader is still the same old Shan Yu, which is too likely in such an era of information blockage.

The first thing they did after they just sat on the throne of power was to pick the most unruly tribe, and then lead the army to kill it without leaving a chicken and dog, and announce to everyone with bright red blood and miserable white bones that the new Shan Yu was born!

Zarhan was supposed to repeat this ancient tradition, but was disrupted by news from Dai Yue'er.

But his choice at that time was not a mistake, after all, Dai Yue'er had a great deal to do as a saint, not to mention that she was the successor cultivated by the deceased high priest, and the seed of the next great master of the Huns.

The only thing he didn't expect was that he personally led people to fail in action, and the Zhu Yan who came out at the last moment can be said to have flown into trouble and messed up everything.

and the kid named Cheng Kun was also very hateful, and he actually snatched Dai Yue'er back when he was entangled by Zhu Yan. His lungs were about to explode when he first learned the news, and for this, the negligent Lantuo was also severely punished afterwards.

But now it is useless to care about this, as soon as he learned about the rumor, Zarhan sent someone to investigate the source of the rumor, and the result did not surprise him, the rumor was first spread from his good brother Hu Hanxi.

However, with his own understanding of Hu Han Evil, such a vicious strategy is not quite like what his younger brother with a somewhat cowardly personality can come up with, but more like the handiwork of Hu Han Evil's mother, Ning Hu Yan. He knew very well that this woman also had the flame of ambition burning in her heart, and if Hu Han Xie really sat in the position of Shan Yu, the power in his hands would also be seized by his mother in various ways.

Once the source of the information is determined, the rest is taken care of.

Zarhan immediately gathered his army, and he only brought a total of 5,000 elites, so he killed them directly.

Hu Han Xie panicked after learning that his eldest brother brought someone to kill him, this script is wrong.

He was originally going to hide in the shadows and wait for the rumors to ferment further, so that the Zarhan people would come out after the rebellion, and then sit in the seat that should have belonged to him under the support and cheers of everyone.

But now, Zarhan's decisive dispatch of troops has ruined his plans.

He knew in his heart that he had only one choice now, and that was to fight his eldest brother with those who also supported him. As long as you win, you win everything.

But Hu Hanye is very self-aware, he knows very well that his talent in military affairs is far worse than that of his eldest brother, and although there are many people who defect to him, there are no people who have experience in leading a large army in battle, which is a little unpleasant.

He was entangled for a moment, hesitating to come up with a suitable candidate. The Ning Hu clan on the last side really couldn't see it, she was quite disappointed in her son's indecision, although she didn't know how to fight, but she understood one thing, at this time, no matter how bad the decision was, it was better than doing nothing.

In this way, after being reprimanded, Hu Hanxie rode on the war horse aggrievedly under the "coercion" of his mother, and prepared to fight with his eldest brother on the battlefield.