Chapter 377 Learning from the Scriptures
Facing Yue Feng’s question, Old Chen frowned slightly, as if he was recalling his experiences when he was young.

The old man thought for twenty seconds before he raised his head.

“This tiger coming down the mountain is not easy to fight!
Many people always say that tigers are so powerful and smart. In fact, let me say that they are just mountain animals that are slightly smarter than ordinary mountain animals. They will only come down the mountain to the village to hunt for food when they are forced into a corner!

From this perspective, the tiger’s coming down the mountain and entering the village has a direct relationship with Lao Zhao!

You don’t need to ask me to know that you must have shot the tiger, right?”

Uncle Zhao nodded. “Indeed, we ran into each other face to face. It was about to pounce on me, but the jackal in my hand distracted it, so I shot it!”

The corners of Lao Chen’s mouth trembled slightly: “Then it fits the number!

The injured tiger had a hard time staying in the mountains in the cold winter, so it had to go into the village to find food! Then it dragged away the cow and injured people!
If we analyze the whole thing objectively, this tiger is a missed shot, and it will be difficult to kill it later!”

“This…has a huge impact?”

Yue Feng was somewhat confused when he heard that Uncle Zhao did not give a direct answer but instead made another analysis.

“Of course! People know that tigers are scary, and tigers fear the viciousness of human hearts! The tiger that survived the gunshot must have known how powerful the gun in a human’s hand is.

When you feel the pressure of survival, the choice will be to escape, not to fight to the death!
Therefore, it is meaningless for us to discuss how to beat this tiger now!
I personally am not very optimistic about the tiger-killing operation organized by Kaoshantun tomorrow! There is a high probability that it will be a failure, and we won’t even see the shadow of the tiger! “

“Um…are you so pessimistic about going up the mountain to hunt the tiger tomorrow?”

“Yes! The tiger entered the village and dragged away a cow. What is a cow? It weighs hundreds of kilograms of meat.

An adult male tiger can eat 30 kilograms of meat in one meal! After replenishing meat once, it can eat very little for the next week!
Two days have passed since the incident happened.

If the tiger stayed in the forest outside the village because it was greedy for the unfinished beef, it would have eaten at least two meals.

Even though he had a gunshot wound years ago, he has basically recovered after all this time with the supplement of meat!

If the tiger is not greedy for the remaining food, it will most likely continue to return to the mountains after replenishing its supplies. In two days, with the tiger’s fast speed, covering a hundred miles will not be a problem!

Regardless of the first or second possibility, I think the probability of success for the village hunters to search the mountains and hunt tigers is extremely low! “

“This… your analysis seems to make sense!”

Yue Feng still had some fantasies in his heart, but after listening to Uncle Chen’s analysis, he found the logic so tight that he couldn’t seem to find any point to refute.

“Aren’t you curious about what happened when we went into the mountains to hunt that tiger? Now I can tell you in detail!
The tiger may have stepped on a trap while wandering around, causing an injury to its front paw.

Because his paw was injured and he couldn’t catch food, and he had no meat to supplement his diet, he ended up stealing the production team’s sheep!

After three sheep were lost in succession, the shepherd realized that they were stolen by a tiger, so he organized people to ambush and kill the tiger!

At that time, most ordinary hunters used homemade rifles with powder in front. They had more than a dozen homemade rifles and two 56-and-a-half rifles. They waited in ambush outside the village for several days before they got the chance.

The tiger came at night, and most of the people didn’t even see the shadow of the tiger, and a sheep in the sheepfold was bitten to death.

So many guns fired at once, but they only scratched the tiger’s skin! It ran away!”

“This… then what?” Yue Feng continued to ask after hearing this.

“Then dozens of hunters, more than a dozen soldiers from the security department, and dozens of strong laborers from the village took turns chasing and intercepting the tiger in the back mountain for four days before they killed it!
I was at the scene at the time, and I could tell from the tiger’s teeth that it was an old tiger, a male tiger at least ten years old.

His front paw was injured, inflamed, and festering, and half of it had almost rotted away. He was skinny and had almost no fat left!
At that time, several people from the commune carried it on the scale, and it seemed to be only about 380 kilograms but less than 400 kilograms!
Rather than saying that we killed the tiger, it would be more accurate to say that we were the ones who continuously searched the mountain for several days. The tiger was weak and had no food, and it also suffered from inflammation due to external injuries, so it was dragged to death!
“He was able to hold out for so long against a dying tiger. Do you think this tiger will be killed so easily?”

After listening to Uncle Chen’s analysis, Yue Feng scratched his head and said, “So that’s what’s going on?

Uncle Zhao, is the tiger that attacked you a strong male tiger? Not an old one, right?

“Well, a strong male tiger! I seriously suspect that its main target should be the jackal who was with me, not me! Otherwise, I would be a corpse now!” Uncle Zhao nodded and said.

As the king of beasts, the tiger is naturally aggressive towards predatory animals in its territory. Whether it is a wolf or a jackal, they are all within the tiger’s target of expulsion and attack.

These predators, which occupy a slightly lower ecological niche, will seize the tiger’s food reserves, so if they encounter them, they will definitely be driven away or killed directly by the tiger.

If it weren’t for their owner, Uncle Zhao, the wild jackals might not have been wiped out. At the very least, if they were determined to escape, the tiger could have killed a few of them at most.

But the mixed-blood jackal was worried about the safety of its master and didn’t care about its own safety. It fought the tiger to death and was eventually killed. Uncle Zhao continued, “You don’t know! When a tiger runs, it can jump seven or eight meters! Even if an ordinary hunter has a gun in his hand, he can’t trap a tiger!
Even if you can roughly define the tiger’s activity range by searching the forest, it is difficult to have a chance to shoot!

It’s too far away and there are no good shooting conditions because of the trees in the forest. If the distance is too close, you can threaten it, but it can also be deadly to you!
This scale is difficult to grasp!

After the tiger became a bullet hole, it would not give anyone a chance to shoot it at close range, and would run away early from a long distance!”

“Well, okay! After hearing what you said, I feel that this tiger hunting thing is difficult enough!!”

Yue Feng spread his hands, his tone becoming more frustrated.

The chances of encountering a tiger head-on like the last time at the Cross Ditch are extremely rare. It is something you can only encounter by chance.

However, Captain Guo and his men were not mentally prepared, and their on-the-spot reactions were fearful, thus wasting the best opportunity to kill the tiger.

Once the prey has suffered a loss and been frightened, it will be difficult to find such an opportunity again.

“Xiao Feng, you don’t have to be depressed! If you can’t win, then don’t fight! There’s no need for us to give up our good lives and go against the tiger. Old Chen, what do you think?” Uncle Zhao looked at Yue Feng’s expression and comforted him.

“That’s true, but I haven’t finished speaking yet!
To deal with this kind of tiger, a small number of people is actually worse than a large number of people. If you can find the place where the tiger lurks, you can ambush it by setting a nest!

Maybe the probability of success is even higher!” Uncle Chen added a few more words.

“The nesting method? It’s about tying up some cattle, sheep or other animals, and then hiding yourself to lay an ambush?” Yue Feng asked with shining eyes after hearing this.

“Yes! This trick will only work if the tiger has a fixed place to stay!

The tigers wandering around are actually either subadult tigers that have just been separated from their mothers, or old tigers that have been driven out by their strong young counterparts.

They have no fixed place to stay, so the chances of ambush being successful are too small!”

“Okay! If there’s a chance, let’s give it a try! If there’s no chance, forget it! This stuff is purely based on luck, you can’t get it by begging!!
Let’s leave this topic aside for now and wait until the people who went up the mountain come back and have new information!

A few days ago, my big black eagle kicked and injured a white gyrfalcon in the yard. The white gyrfalcon has recovered from its wound now. What do you think of the eagle? “

……

While Yue Feng was drinking tea, chatting and fiddling with falcons with two old hunters at home, on the other side, the hunters organized by Kaoshantun to go into the mountains had also gathered and entered the mountains in a mighty manner.

The brothers Zhu Erhai and Wang Xiaonian, one carrying a gun and the other leading two dogs, followed the hunting team of Zhang Junhong and Zhou Yuanchao into the mountains.

Speaking of Mr. Qiao San, in order to have some gains today when he went up the mountain and not to go empty-handed, he did a lot of preparation work.

Yesterday, we arranged for a good fighter to take a military dog ​​and go up the mountain to track the tiger.

Ordinary hunting dogs are very afraid of the smell of tigers, and it is normal for them to be scared. However, military dogs that have been professionally trained are obviously braver.

The experienced hunter, leading the military dog, followed the traces of the cattle being dragged away and chased after it. After leaving the village, he quickly recognized Sao.

After several hours of tracking, the military dog ​​led people to the location of Ruanzaozigou, and found the uneaten remains of a yellow cattle in an inconspicuous pile of bushes.

The old ox had been in the village for more than ten years, and the meat on its two hind legs had almost been eaten up by the tiger.

After finding the remains of the cattle, the hunter did not continue tracking.

After all, there are only a few of them, so we dare not show off. If we chase too closely and are ambushed by the tiger, the gain will be counterproductive.

The task assigned by Mr. Qiao San was to preliminarily demarcate the area where the tiger moved. The cattle had not been eaten yet and were hidden here. If luck was good, the tiger would most likely come back to eat more.

Based on this consideration, the hunter who was exploring the way immediately returned to the village and reported the information to Mr. Qiao Sanye.

Early this morning, everyone went up the mountain with the intention of surrounding the Ruanzaozi Valley and trying to drive the tiger to the pass below the Ruanzaozi Valley and shoot it to death.

Ruanzaozigou is not too far from Kaoshantun village. It is a relatively safe mountain terrain and is named after the large number of soft dates at the bottom of the ditch.

Just after eight o’clock, dozens of hunters followed the instructions of Mr. Qiao Sanye and made division of labor arrangements in advance.

When these people heard Uncle Qiao San say that they had found the cattle that were left over by the tiger, they all rubbed their hands in anticipation, and all fantasized about the tiger jumping out and being shot dead with one shot.

(End of this chapter)