The wind swept across the ground, raising a deafening howl and cutting painfully into people's faces like knives.
The north wind scoured the earth and snapped the white grass; in the Hu lands, snow already flew in the eighth month.
Only the Central Plains were a paradise with a pleasant climate.
Neither the north nor the south was suited to human survival. This was something everyone agreed upon.
North of Qin and Zhao and Yan State lived peoples vastly different from All Xia.
All Xia called them the Hu.
The Hu People were entirely different from the Western Rong and other tribes that the Zhou State had exterminated in years past.
Among the Four Barbarians that the Zhou State had defeated back then, many possessed civilizations, and their knowledge of bronze-working was not even poor.
But the Hu People were truly savage, nomads who followed water and pasture.
Developing a civilization was hardly realistic.
"Thud, thud, thud."
As hoofbeats rang out like the beating of drums, everyone knew.
The Hu People had come.
The entire frontier fortress sprang into action, but no one was nervous.
When Li Mu had guarded the frontier in years past, he had first held his defenses without venturing out, then lured the enemy deep into his territory and crushed the Hu People.
Although Li Mu had now been transferred to the court and left this place, he had left behind methods for fighting the Hu People.
Wang Jian led four hundred thousand troops of the Qin Army against Zhao.
The whole of Zhao State was plunged into fear and unease.
Handan City.
At court, Zhao State's ruler and ministers sighed and lamented.
With the King of Zhao muddleheaded and incompetent, and an outstanding statesman like Lian Xiang lost to them,
the whole of Zhao State