But, most unusually, the Volga had not frozen over. Those 70,000 tribesmen living west of the Volga could not cross the river to join their brethren.
但令他們焦心的，卻是伏爾迦河一反往常，竟然在嚴冬中沒有結冰，住在河西的近七萬名族人無法渡河，眼看著就要被硬生生隔絕了。