Chapter 153 Eagle Commander

Yue Feng shook his head: “It’s not a matter of being cautious or not. It’s no big deal to release a mature eagle until it’s fat. It just requires a longer time to hold the eagle every day!

This kind of eagle has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it is fat, has plenty of energy, and performs very solidly when working!
But the disadvantages are also obvious. If the falcon is too fat, once it spends the night outside, the falcon will revive extremely quickly!
You have also seen the performance of the eagle when it was netted this morning. Each day passes by.

If we had found this eagle in the wild this evening, it would have flown away before we could get close to it! It wouldn’t have given us the chance to get within ten or twenty meters!

If you want to hear my advice, as long as the eagle’s actual combat performance is sufficient and the hunting intensity is moderate, this big eagle with a fat weight of 2.3 should be kept at 2.1 or 2.15, and the standard is that it does not lose fat after the next morning!”

Chen Pao nodded after listening to it: “Then I’ll listen to your advice from now on! This flat-haired beast can’t be trusted. I’ll learn my lesson after torturing me once!”

“Haha! Not really! Just keep calm! I’ll tell you in detail how to deal with this eagle next…”

While they were chatting, breakfast was ready at Chen Pao’s house. Aunt Chen knew that Yue Feng loved bean sprout and dumpling soup, so she made some for breakfast. The three of them drank the dumpling soup, ate the pork belly and steamed buns that they hadn’t finished last night, and finished their hot breakfast quickly.

While eating, Yue Feng told Chen Pao some key details on how to retrain the Big Eagle.

It is very simple to say. Things like feeding the eagle and calling out far away, since the eagle has been trained before, there is no need to spend too much effort on retraining. The main focus is to keep the eagle awake at night, and to confront crowded places during the day. The rest is the details of preparing food for the eagle and lowering the axis. After a simple mention, Chen Pao quickly had an idea in his mind.

After eating and drinking, and talking about the precautions for eagle training, Yue Feng said goodbye early and went home.

There are both dogs and eagles at home that need Yue Feng to take care of them. It doesn’t matter if he takes a day or two out, but a long time will affect Yue Feng’s normal life rhythm and plan to train the big black eagle.

When Chen Pao and his wife heard that Yue Feng was leaving, they accompanied him to the entrance of the alley. Yue Feng jumped on his bicycle and rode away slowly towards home.

It didn’t take Yue Feng long to get home by bike. After parking his bike, he went straight to his room.

According to his usual life habits, Yue Feng should have finished his breakfast and taken the Black Hawk out for training at this time, but because he went to help Chen Pao’s house, he came back less than an hour late.

Inside the room, on the falcon stand placed by Yue Feng, a big black eagle was squatting on the stand with its hat on to rest. Upon hearing the sound, it immediately pulled its head out from between its wings.

quack quack
“what?”

Yue Feng was a little surprised to hear the big black eagle’s caw. He had just not played with it until midnight yesterday, but it actually started caw upon hearing his movements.

Judging from the sound, it is not a warning scream, which means that the eagle maintains a high affinity towards humans. This is a positive interaction between the eagle and humans.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng put on leather gloves, held the big eagle in his hand, and immediately took off the eagle hat by pinching the tassel of the eagle hat.

“Quack quack!”

After seeing Yue Feng’s face, the big black eagle cackled a few times and nodded its head up and down while cackling.

In the body language of birds of prey, nodding up and down does not mean agreement, but rather indicates that the eagle is relatively active. Nodding up and down is similar to focusing on a target with the eyes, and looking eager to try.

“Dad, did the big black hawk go out this morning?” Yue Feng shouted through the door curtain towards his parents’ room in the east room.

“It’s out of control. You’re not at home, so I have to help you with the eagle! This big black eagle is quite smart. I took off its hood and let it go this morning. After it got out of control, it played with a few puppies in your room for a while!
By the way, did you catch the big eagle from your uncle Chen’s house? “

“Caught it! We set the net as soon as it got light this morning!” Yue Feng responded, and had a preliminary understanding of the black eagle’s condition.

No wonder the big black eagle is a little excited. When he went out in the morning, he ran around and had fun with the puppies in the house.

Recalling the idea Chen Pao gave him yesterday when they were discussing how to train an eagle to send messages, Yue Feng smacked his lips and decided to go up the mountain to give it a try.

Eagles are the same as dogs. They are trained and released in actual combat every day! The initial training of eagles is just to help them find the right way to get along with people. As for the improvement of their strength in the later stage, it is all learned through repeated practice in actual combat.

No matter how much you think about the training plan at home, it is not as good as testing it in actual combat when taking the eagle to the mountain for training.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng placed the eagle on the falconry, opened the door curtain and walked out of the house.

The food for the eagle, the tools to be brought up the mountain, the dry food and other items were quickly prepared. Yue Feng took down the 56 and a half from the wall, and then carried the eagle out of the house.

“You just got home and you have to go out again? Have you had breakfast? There’s rice left for you in the pot!” Mother Meng Yulan had just seen her son bending over to tie his leggings, and when she saw Yue Feng was about to leave the house, she asked with concern.

“I’ve just come back after eating at Uncle Chen’s house! I went up the mountain to train the falcon. Unless there are any special circumstances, I should be back after noon!” Yue Feng said hello, took a hemp rope from the warehouse, tied up Black Wolf and was about to go out.

When the four dogs in the house saw Yue Feng dressed as if he was going hunting in the mountains, they immediately got angry and started barking.

Hounds yearn for mountains and forests, and if they don’t go up the mountain for a long time, they will have obvious mood swings.

Originally, Yue Feng only planned to take Black Wolf and one other dog up the mountain. However, when he saw Da Huang and Da Hei whining and wagging their tails pitifully, Yue Feng’s heart softened and he simply took a few more hemp ropes and tied up all the dogs.

Just like that, a man carried a 56- rifle on his back, mounted an eagle, and led four dogs out of the village in a mighty procession.

Yue Feng took the dog and the eagle out today. His primary goal was not hunting, but to try to train the big black eagle to exchange bait for food.

Yue Feng felt that the analysis that Chen Pao gave him yesterday was somewhat reliable.

As for the dog, he was just brought up the mountain for a stroll.

With eagle training as the main purpose, Yue Feng did not go too deep into the forest. He crossed several ridges near his home and took off the big black eagle’s hat early in the No. 8 forest area.

Forest Area No. 8 was a fully logged area a few years ago. After all the big trees were felled, only the small trees that grew out of the trees were left in the yard. The ground in the yard was not very bright, and there were many seedlings that grew out of it, but the only advantage was that it was exposed to the sky.

The big black eagle took off its hat, spread its wings, and was eager to try. After pausing for a few seconds to poop a little, it used Yue Feng’s arm to take off and soon jumped into the air.

After such a long period of consolidation training, the big black eagle has long adapted to the habit of flying above Yue Feng’s head. It gradually climbed to an altitude of about eighty or ninety meters and slowly stabilized its flying posture. With its wings fully spread, it circled in the sky with Yue Feng as the center, sometimes even for a long time without flapping its wings.

The eagle plate reached the predetermined state, and Yue Feng quickly untied the dog.

“Dahuang, Heilang! Don’t run around!” The ropes were untied, but Yue Feng did not give the dogs the order to track prey. These dogs were mature hunting dogs trained by Uncle Chen. They knew the rules of going up the mountain. Their owner did not allow them to run too far in search of prey, so the radius of their activities was relatively small, roughly staying about 20 to 30 meters away from Yue Feng.

The dog was very excited after climbing up the mountain. He sniffed here and there, and from time to time he would find small branches or something to lift his legs and urinate to mark his territory.

Yue Feng was walking aimlessly in the mountains with his dog. The original plan was that Yue Feng would take out the lure and wait for the eagle to come down in about an hour and a half.

This time he didn’t tie meat to the lure in advance to see how the black eagle would react. If it held on to the lure and refused to let go, Yue Feng would take the opportunity to take out the meat and exchange the lure with the eagle.

But plans can never keep up with the speed of change.

The man and the dog had been walking in the forest for less than half an hour when the black wolf that had been wandering around Yuefeng suddenly spoke.

The “open voice” mentioned here refers to the dog’s serious barking, which is clearly different from the usual humming and weeping.

When a hunting dog barks, it usually means it has discovered the trace of prey, or has spotted some unknown danger and is alerting its owner.

Hearing the noise, Yue Feng’s heart moved, and he took off the Type 56 and a half from his shoulder almost reflexively.

You can’t be careless when going up the mountain alone. Even if this is not a deep old forest, there is no guarantee that there will be no unexpected risks.

Just as Yue Feng was looking around with a gun in hand, the black wolf barked a few more times.

This time, not only Black Wolf howled, but also Dahuang, Dahei, and Xiaohua all joined in.

The four dogs all raised their heads and barked towards the bottom of the ditch in the southwest direction, looking back at Yue Feng as they barked. If Yue Feng had not given the command, the dogs would have probably chased out directly.

Yue Feng looked in the direction but didn’t find anything unusual, but the dog’s barking continued, making Yue Feng feel a little itchy.

Could it be a wild boar? Judging from the performance of Black Wolf and Big Yellow, the dog barked very anxiously, and while barking, he watched the owner’s actions, and the dog almost opened his mouth and said, “Let me chase it.”

“Big Yellow, Black Wolf, chase!!!”

Yue Feng hesitated for a moment, but still gave the order to pursue. Currently in this forest, there were not many creatures that could threaten the four dogs at home. Yue Feng wanted to see what was causing the trouble.

After receiving Yue Feng’s command, Dahuang and Heilang immediately chased out side by side. Xiaohua and Dahei were a few steps behind, but they also chased out together.

Yue Feng looked up at the big black eagle coiled on his forehead, blew a whistle to calibrate the position, and then Yue Feng chased in the direction the dog ran.

The chase was across two mountain ridges. The dog was chasing in front, barking, but its movement speed was not very fast.

After Yue Feng followed the dog over a ridge and stood high on the mountain ridge, he quickly saw what the dog was chasing.

A two-year-old sow weighing about 170 to 180 kilograms, either got separated from the group or was separated by the dog, but was now caught up by Da Huang. Da Huang tried to bite the sow’s butt several times, but the pig dodged.

The relatively noisy objective conditions of this mountain area played a certain role at this moment. The branches as thick as a little finger had almost no obvious effect on the wild boar, but the dog’s movement and pursuit were hindered and not so smooth.

A wild boar of this level, if it were in a bright mountain area, would probably be pinned down by four dogs in one round.

There was definitely no problem with the safety of four dogs chasing and intercepting such a half-grown sow. Yue Feng was no longer in a hurry. He stood on the ridge less than 50 meters away, watching the dogs fighting with the wild boar below.

At this time, the big black eagle hovering in the sky was also thinking.

The dog that the owner took out hunting found prey. Should he help like last time?

The four dogs were very afraid of the big black eagle. Even the smartest black wolf didn’t dare to show his teeth to the big black eagle. The relationship between the dogs and the eagle was quite harmonious. The big black eagle and the dogs also tacitly accepted the eagle’s status as the big brother in the dog pack.

After hearing the barking of the dog below, Big Black Hawk quickly made his own judgment.

The master may not react, so just leave it to me!

The next second, the big black eagle that was originally hovering above Yue Feng’s head swooped down directly towards the first battlefield at the bottom of the ditch.

Whoosh!
Snapped!
The big black eagle swooped down at high speed and kicked the wild boar on its back while it was fighting with the dog.

The wild boars in the Northeast region are all northern subspecies. They have very long heads, long front legs, extremely strong upper bodies, and shorter hind legs.

This type of wild boar has thick skin and flesh, with almost no obvious vital parts. The skull at the back of its head is much thicker than that of a roe deer. Ordinary hunting dogs cannot bite it, let alone a diving hawk like a black hawk.

The pig was kicked hard by Black Hawk in a non-vital part, but apart from being frightened, it did not cause any obvious fatal injuries.

However, the addition of the big black eagle gave great support to the dog pack. Originally, several dogs were circling in a stalemate with the wild boar, but the big black eagle’s swooping down from the sky made the wild boar suddenly pause.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dahuang and Dahei rushed up without hesitation.

Dahuang still cuts the soft flesh on the outside of the armpit of the pig’s left front leg, while Dahei hangs the pliers directly on the right ear.

Xiaohua, who was a little slow, bit the pig’s snout with one hand and put the weight of her whole body on the front half of the wild boar.

The three dogs have subdued the stubborn wild boar.

The black wolf, who had demonstrated the skills of hanging pliers and taking out the back door before, did not move forward at this moment. Instead, he stared at the big black eagle squatting on the small tree next to him.

quack quack
The big black eagle barked a few more times at the dog and the wild boar, and the black wolf barked twice in response.

An eagle and a dog, I don’t know how they communicate.

There is no way to communicate if you speak eagle language at one end and dog language at the other.

(End of this chapter)