Chapter 219: New Ideas of the Dog Gang
Soon, the meat was dug out. The old man was nimble and skillful, and he also had five red dogs and a hunting rifle, so he never lacked meat while living in the mountains.

This time, what Uncle Zhao dug out and brought into the house for Yue Feng and the others was a whole wild boar rib and two front leg elbows.

Yue Feng and his friends brought a deep steel pot with them when they went up the mountain. This thing is a magic tool for cooking meat. The ribs were chopped quickly with a small hand axe, then rinsed with clean water and then directly thrown into the pot, with water, various seasonings and then started to make a fire.

The small pot was arranged, and the big stove next to the kang was not idle either. The white flour and corn flour from the mountain were mixed together with water to make dough. Water was boiled in the pot, and then the dough was made into two-grain pancakes and stuck to the pot.

Wait until the water in the pot boils, then rinse the washed corn grits and pour them into the pot.

Cover the pot and simmer for a while, and the fragrant barley porridge is ready.

While Uncle Zhao was busy preparing dinner, he chatted with Yue Feng about recent events. The smell of rice became stronger and stronger in the house, and the old man felt more and more relaxed.

When he heard Yue Feng wanted to kill a deer to make medicine, Uncle Zhao said confidently: “It’s just a matter of killing a deer to get some ingredients for making wine. It’s an easy job.

I’ll take you to Luming Valley. With the tough guys we have, we can take down not only the sika deer and red deer, but even the An Dahan with a bit of luck!”

“There is also Andahan? I’ve only heard of that thing but never seen it!” Upon hearing this, Yue Feng’s eyes widened.

The scientific name of the Andahan is Alces edulis. It is the largest species of wild deer in Northeast China.
An adult male moose can grow up to three meters in length and be over two meters tall at the shoulder. The largest documented individual weight is over 1500 kilograms.

The most representative features are the horse face, hump, buck and the largest flat antlers.

Previously, when Yue Feng asked Uncle Li about the three-piece set of deer used to make medicinal wine, Uncle Li said that as long as the time and solar terms are correct, sika deer, red deer, and moose can all be used, and from the perspective of medicinal properties, the larger the size, the better the effect.

Uncle Zhao said slowly: “There are also An Dahan. If it is autumn, it is actually very easy to hunt. You can see Xiushui Lake at the bottom of the valley every now and then.

Now, after several consecutive heavy snowfalls, it’s going to be a bit difficult to find them!

These wild deer have no worries about food in spring, summer and autumn. They can fill their stomachs with all kinds of weeds, mosses, and leaves.

But after the heavy snow in the mountains, the wild deer had a hard time too.

There is a stream of running water over at Luming Valley. After a long period of erosion, it has formed an impact plain of several hundred acres between the mountains. There is also a large shrub area between the two mountains, so there are often herds of deer moving around!

Now the running water is frozen, and the low grass and trees on the impact plain are covered with thick snow. If these deer want to get enough food, they can only migrate to higher altitudes, which is what we hunters call, moving from the hills to the mountains to spend the winter! “

“Then, what do deer eat in winter?” Xiao Tao next to him asked curiously after hearing this.

Uncle Zhao twitched his lips slightly. “Bark, branches, twigs, and leaves! The dry grass that is not buried by the snow, and the dry leaves that fall from the broad-leaved forest and do not rot are all food for deer!”

“Then the wild deer have a hard time in the mountains in winter! By the way, uncle, are there any large wild animals in the Luming Valley you mentioned?

Logically speaking, with abundant grass and water, and herds of deer, there should be more wolves, tigers, and leopards! A few days ago, Brother Feng took us to the mountains to kill a big tiger cub, weighing nearly 100 pounds! “Xiao Tao asked again.

“A few years ago, there were wild animals active there, and I brought these red dogs back from Luming Valley! I don’t know much about the past two years.

As I get older, my physical strength has declined, so I don’t like to walk that far. Even if I kill a big game, it’s hard to bring it back by myself. I mostly hunt to feed these red dogs with meat, just enough for them!”

Everyone felt somewhat sad after hearing Uncle Zhao’s answer.

Hunting is not a problem. With Uncle Zhao’s experience and skills, it is not difficult to find the trace of prey and shoot it to death.

However, after killing the prey, it is very difficult for one person to carry it back to his own cellar.

It’s better in winter, at least the meat won’t spoil easily, and the risk is lower as long as you bury it in the snow.

If the temperature is high in summer and autumn, it will rot and spoil in less than a day. Over time, the old man will naturally go there less often.

Yue Feng grinned after hearing this and said, “It was difficult to get it back before, but now we don’t have to worry about it. We have four brothers here. Each of us can pull a sled. Even if we really encounter an An Dahan, we can pull it back!”

“Yes, it’s great to be young, brothers should unite well, there is strength in numbers!
There are a lot of good things in the deep mountains and old forests! It’s just that there are fewer and fewer hunters who can really endure the hardship. As more and more forest farms are opened, wild animals in the mountains are driven into the deeper old forests, and ordinary people can’t see them anymore! “Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen, Xiao Wu and others were not deeply touched by what Uncle Zhao said, but Yue Feng, who was reborn, felt the same way after hearing it.

Changbai Mountain is such a large mountain range that stretches from north to south that it would be difficult for an ordinary hunter to travel all over it in his entire life. Now there are forest farms everywhere, and wood from the mountains is harvested to support construction in various parts of the country. We may not see anything in a short period of time, but from the perspective of the reborn, looking at it from a few decades, the animal and plant resources in the mountains have suffered unimaginable damage during this period of time.

The foundation of biodiversity is environmental carrying capacity. The concrete manifestation of environmental carrying capacity is plants that can provide food for animals at the bottom of the food chain.

To give the simplest example, when big trees are cut down, the production of fruits such as acorns, pine nuts and autumn nuts will be reduced. Without these foods, wild boars, black bears and other mountain animals that rely on these fruits for survival can only eat other plant foods.

Once these wild grasses and fruits are eaten up, other small animals will have no food, and the environmental carrying capacity will decrease. As a result, the natural density of various animals will be greatly reduced.

In addition, with the intensification of human activities in mountainous areas, the widespread abuse of various hunting tools such as guns, drugs, traps, etc. will greatly reduce the biological population. They will either be caught and eaten, drunk, or used by humans, or escape into deeper forests.

“These dogs of mine are quite useful for hunting wild boars and the like. We are going to hunt deer tomorrow. Will you still bring those five red dogs?” Yue Feng saw that the atmosphere was somewhat solemn, so he started a new topic.

“If you bring the dog, we don’t need to bring Red Dog. I will feed Red Dog after we finish our meal. We will set out at dawn tomorrow!

By the way, among your four dogs, the yellow dog looks familiar. This should be Lao Chen’s previous dog, right?”

Yue Feng nodded: “Yes! Uncle Chen has four dogs. One of them was killed by a blind bear. There are three left. Except for the black wolf I brought last time, the other three dogs were all trained by Uncle Chen!”

“These dogs have good looks! They will definitely be good at working in the fields!

When the weather warms up in the spring, you should bring your wolf cubs up to the mountains! Hounds should be brought up to the mountains from a young age. As long as they are well fed and exercised, their bodies will become stronger!
In addition, I have a suggestion that you can consider in advance! “

“Ah? Go ahead!”

“Now that you have the Big Black Hawk, you can actually go beyond the traditional dog-encirclement method when you play dog-encirclement!

My advice to you is to keep only one or two dogs that can speak, and keep the rest dumb dogs!”

“Dumb dog?” Yue Feng’s thoughts were a little slow to follow when he heard this word.

“Yes, dumb dog! The eagle can give you a signal! It is meaningless for the dog to bark when it finds something peculiar. It will only disturb the prey in advance and make hunting more difficult!
In this dog hunting area, the most harmful thing to dogs is actually the black-haired ones. No matter if it’s a big cannon egg, a wild boar or a blind bear, they are the most harmful to dogs!
But if you can make the most of the big black hawk’s strengths, your dog won’t have to fight these tough prey head-on, and the chances of getting hurt will naturally be greatly reduced!”

“You mean, let the dog bully the weak and fear the strong?”

Yue Feng was very talented. With just a little guidance, he understood what Uncle Zhao meant.

“Yes! What a bully! Many young hunters nowadays don’t understand the essence of dog enclosure at all!

Many people prefer to let hunting dogs fight tough battles and do rough work! The excellent hunting dogs that are raised with great difficulty may be killed in the mountains if you are not careful!
If you let your eagle complete most of the functions of the head dog, all the puppies including the new head dog will be raised to be dumb dogs.

The dog gang can directly deal with soft persimmons like yellow-haired pigs, two-year-old pigs, and gilts!
If they encounter a cannon egg or a blind bear, the puppies need to know how to avoid them, and the silent dogs only need to help the falcon follow the prey, and the hunter can use the gun to solve the battle!”

After Uncle Zhao sorted out his thoughts, Yue Feng suddenly understood.

Yes, with the eagle, the role of the lead dog is diluted. In a conventional dog enclosure, the lead dog’s behavior of barking after finding the trail is not very useful.

“I think your idea is good, but Eagle can’t do that right now. I’ll give it a try with further training and guidance.

You don’t know that the big male lynx that was shot two days ago was the nest where this big black eagle lived!
Now this guy can already report and search for prey, but he is not very proficient in cooperating with the dogs! The hunting habits of these four adult dogs are somewhat fixed, and their cooperation with the eagle is limited. “

“This big black eagle can locate the tiger cub’s den by itself? How is this possible? The tiger cub is so vicious, and the eagle didn’t suffer any loss?”

When the old man heard Xiao Tao say that Yue Feng led them to kill a giant lynx, he was quite calm. But when he heard Yue Feng say that a big black eagle had targeted the lynx’s nest, the old man couldn’t hold it anymore.

(End of this chapter)