By conservative estimates, over the past six years, the number of pastoralists among the Snow Plains Nomads who have died in battle already exceeds 1.5 million.
And due to reasons such as cold disasters, starvation, and war, the estimated population reduction has also surpassed 5 million.
Adding these together, the total population loss has exceeded 6.5 million, which, compared to the Nomads' peak of 16 million, accounts for more than a third of their population.
With such severe losses, especially amongst the capable young men, the Snow Plains Nomads could be said to be teetering on the brink of extinction.
Given such reasoning, Lu Yuan couldn't be optimistic about the future of the Nomads.
In reality, the actual situation of the Snow Plains Nomads was even worse than his estimation.
