Chapter 320 New Discovery

Seeing that the captain had made up his mind, Xiaowen immediately took out the hemp rope he carried with him from his hunting bag.

The little sow weighing about 200 pounds tried to struggle when she heard people approaching, but she was stuck on a thick tree and her head was hit, so she staggered for two steps and fell down again in a snow pit.

Xiaowen made a double-stranded noose, and after taking his best aim, he was the first to put the knot on the wild boar’s muzzle.

A blind wild boar is still a wild boar. Even if it doesn’t have fangs in its mouth, a slap in the face from it is still painful enough.

Xiaowen knew the wild boar’s attack methods well enough, so the first part he lowered the rope to was the pig’s snout.

The noose was easily caught, and Xiaowen tied a knot based on the noose.

Then the rope was tied to the tree nearby, and the wild boar was no longer able to move its head. Even if it wanted to attack people, its mouth was tied and it could not move its head in a large range.

The sow felt her snout was locked and tried to struggle again, but after walking a few steps left and right, she could not see that her snout was tied up again. The rope was stretched straight and she lay there, unable to even stand up.

Seeing this opportunity, Xiaowen took the second rope handed to him by Yue Feng, still started with a loose knot, and directly put it on the wild boar’s right hind hoof.

Tighten the noose and tie a knot, use this leg as a fulcrum, and tie the other leg tightly.

After tying up the hind legs, tie up the front legs in the same way.

In less than ten minutes, this little sow weighing just over 200 pounds could only lie there groaning, completely unable to move.

Xiaowen did not untie the rope on the wild boar’s snout, but untied the side tied to the tree and hooked it together with the ropes tied to the pig’s limbs and hooves. In this way, even if the wild boar wanted to struggle and shake its head, it could not do it and could only move its head in a small range.

“It’s done! The job is done! Just let me see if I can bundle the pigs well enough!”

Xiaowen rubbed his hands, very satisfied with his work.

Yue Feng nodded: “Not bad, in terms of knotting skills, you are the best!
Don’t just stand there, lend a hand and lift him onto the sled, we’ll drag the pig back.

Xiaowu and Xiaotao are still waiting for us over there. If they wait for too long, they will get anxious!! “

Soon, the two brothers dragged the sled to the bound wild boar, lifted its legs onto the sled, and after initially securing it, they dragged it back together.

After such a long period of low-temperature tempering, the snow on the mountain has become much harder. It is not too difficult for the two of them to pull the sled carrying the wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms.

Seeing that the owner tied up the prey alive and prepared to take it back, the big black eagle was also very excited, as if watching the fun. It cackled a few times above Yue Feng’s head, and there was obviously a bit more joy in its tone.

The two men dragged the pig back along the same route. When they returned, Xiao Tao and Xiao Wu had already dealt with the 30-pound pig.

“Brother, have you fed the dog? You didn’t come back, and we weren’t in a hurry to feed the dog!” Xiao Tao asked Yue Feng from a distance.

“Don’t worry, I’ll feed you!”

When they got closer, Xiaowu and Xiaotao saw that there was a live pig tied to the sled.

“Oh my god! Caught it alive? How did you do that?” Xiao Tao asked the pig in surprise.

“Look at these eyes! It’s the work of Big Black Hawk! When Xiaowen and I went over, the pig was lying there motionless.

“It must have been blinded by the pecks and was knocked around on the tree!” Yue Feng explained.

“Really? Both eyes were pecked out! It’s Big Black Hawk’s business!

If this thing can be widely taught, and more eagles can be trained, then we can save the trouble of having dogs in the future!”

Xiao Tao stared at the fat pig in front of him and said.

“Damn, what you said seems really feasible!” Xiaowen slapped his head and agreed.

Normally, when hunters go into the mountains, they rely heavily on hunting dogs. Whether it is for hunting, tracking, warning, restraining, or fighting, the role of hunting dogs is very important.

However, Yue Feng and his team had a top-level falcon like the Black Hawk, so they adjusted their way of searching for prey from smell to vision.

The way of fighting has also changed from the dogs constantly restraining and circling to consume their physical strength and finally settling down to end the fight, to pecking the prey’s eyes blind and then the owner taking over the subsequent battle.

The overall hunting mode has undergone obvious changes. Without considering other issues, if we only look at the feasibility, there is indeed some room for operation.

Yue Feng poured a basin of cold water on him at this time.

“Come on! Where can you find a second eagle as smart as the Big Black Eagle? An ordinary eagle wouldn’t dare to grab the wild boar’s head and peck at its eyes!

Let me tell you, this job is too risky. What if the pig hits its head against a tree, or the eagle’s wings or legs are broken?”

Xiaowen also nodded: “Okay! This is indeed a big problem! The big black eagle is smart and can make more judgments about the surrounding environment. It will peck the eyes only when it is sure that there is no big risk.

If it were any other eagle, it would only care about pecking at the eyes, and no matter how many eagles we train, they would not be enough to sustain the losses in actual combat!”

“Quack, quack, quack!”

Hearing his master talking about him, the big black eagle dropped from the sky next to the removed internal organs of the cannon egg.

“Come on! Eat the meat first! Big Black Hawk is the main contributor to catching these two pigs today!”

Upon seeing this, Yue Feng pulled out his meat-cutting knife and gave Big Black Hawk a reward first.

It was only eleven o’clock in the morning, and Yue Feng and his companions were not planning to go down the mountain so early, so they controlled the amount of food they fed to the eagle and the dog.

The lean pork heart meat from Cannon’s eggs fed Black Hawk until he was about 60% full, and the four dogs shared the rest of the heart, liver, and lung internal organs, also feeding them about 60% full.

After feeding the eagles, the collected pig eggs and meat were cut into large pieces and loaded onto two other sleds. The brothers dragged the two pigs out of the ditch and returned to an inconspicuous ditch near the main road down the mountain.

This area is at least three or four hours away from the mountain settlement area. In this season, apart from the hunters who also go up the mountain, there are basically no people coming here, so there is no need to worry about the prey being stolen in a short period of time.

The pig and the sled were temporarily placed in the ditch, and the dead pig was covered with a little snow to mask the smell. After a simple repair, Yue Feng and the hunting team began searching and fighting again.

After driving away the herd of pigs nearby and catching the two unlucky ones, Yue Feng did not let Hei Hu continue searching for the scent of wild boar. Instead, he took out the piece of sable paw skin and asked Hei Hu and Da Huang to search for traces of the sable.

The reason is simple. Wild boars also have their own territory, and those active in the surrounding area must be the same group of pigs.

Now the pigs are frightened and are running for their lives, leaving behind a very messy scent trail.

If we let the dog track us, there is still a possibility of increasing the results.

But compared to the probability of getting a boar in a cold place, the probability of getting a boar in a hot place where a battle has already taken place is much lower. The most likely possibility is that the dogs will chase the wild boar’s tracks and walk around the mountain without getting anything.

To be honest, after experiencing several gains by relying on the powerful firepower of two guns to hunt with sticks, Yue Feng was no longer so impressed with the hunting efficiency of this kind of hunting where it might take half a day to catch a wild boar.

This may sound a bit ridiculous, but it is the reality.

Rather than catching one more wild boar, Yue Feng hoped to encounter one more sable.

Based on this objective consideration, Yue Feng gave the order to let Gouzi mainly search for sables.

After confirming the smell, Dahuang began a detailed search. After smelling the sable paw skin provided by Yue Feng for a while, Black Wolf also started to do the same.

Of course, Yue Feng didn’t know whether he could distinguish the subtle concentration of odors.

In this way, the hunting team, led by the two dogs, began to explore the mountains and forests again, advancing along the secondary forests of large and small ditches and ponds.

The search took more than two hours. The density of sables was low, so there was naturally little information left, making the search extremely difficult.

During the two-hour search, Yue Feng and his team searched three ditches and ponds in the surrounding area, two large and one small, but found almost nothing except a suspicious smell found by rhubarb that quickly died down.

After an intense journey and mountain search, it was time for lunch and our stomachs started to growl with hunger.

Yue Feng looked at the time, then found a sheltered place not far away, made a fire and prepared to have lunch!
When I went up the mountain today, the dry food I brought was sauerkraut stewed with meat and white flour buns.

There were four aluminum lunch boxes in total. After the brothers collected firewood and built a fire, they put the lunch boxes on the side of the fire to heat them. After the rice was hot, they gathered together to eat steamed buns and stewed large slices of meat.

While eating, Xiao Tao stuffed his steamed buns into his mouth and asked, “Brother, shall we continue to search the mountain along this route this afternoon?

I feel the efficiency is a bit low, compared to our trip to Blind Tuozi Mountain, it’s much worse!!”

“It’s true that the efficiency is low. We don’t have that many sables to catch, but there’s nothing we can do! We can’t just clear out the two mountain fields where we keep the seeds!

This is just like the reluctance to eat seeds during a famine.

Seeds can only be eaten as food in an emergency. If we don’t consider the future and eat all the seeds because of temporary hunger, there will be no seeds to plant in the spring, and the land will be left to waste. Others will have a harvest in the autumn, but we can only starve!”

Yue Feng was also a little helpless. The low density of sable distribution was an objective reality. Searching the mountain bit by bit now was actually like looking for a needle in a haystack. Whether or not he could catch it depended a little on the strength of the dog, but more on luck.

At this time, Xiaowu, who had pickled cabbage in his mouth, muttered, “It would be great if the big black eagle could recognize the sable!
Let the eagle fly out and search the sky for traces of sables. If it finds one, it will swoop down and stun it. It would be best if it could bring it back alive! That would save us a lot of trouble!”

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Yue Feng’s heart moved slightly after hearing Xiaowu’s joke.

The last time Yue Feng took the Big Blue Kitten and the Big Black Hawk to the old sable hunting ground in his memory, Big Black Hawk had done something similar.

It was just because he failed to differentiate between a sable and a yellow-throated marten, he almost led a group of yellow-throated martens to kill the black wolf.

If the Black Hawk is strengthened to a certain extent, it might be able to help with the task of searching the mountains and catching sables.

Yue Feng nodded slightly: “It’s not realistic to bring it back in the situation you described. A sable weighs at least one or two kilograms. The big black eagle will be exhausted after flying not far with it in its mouth.

But theoretically, it is possible to let the eagle help us search the mountain!
The last time I shot five honey dogs, the big black eagle actually knew that I was looking for a sable, but it just couldn’t distinguish between a sable and a yellow-throated marten!

Now if I could catch a sable, I could give Black Hawk a better impression and search phrase, maybe I could have a chance!”

Xiao Tao: “Let’s try it when we have a chance! The big black eagle is so smart and learns things very quickly. As long as we give it the right guidance, it will know what we want it to do!”

Yue Feng nodded: “Try again if there is a chance!”

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The four brothers of the hunting team ate and drank and took a brief rest around the campfire, then continued searching the mountain in a pond that had not been searched before.

After more than an hour, apart from driving out a rabbit and a few pheasants, there was still no trace of the sable.

Just when Yue Feng thought that it would be difficult to catch a sable during today’s mountain search, the search team on the ground found no trace of the target prey. Instead, the big black eagle that had been circling in the sky made a new discovery.

At this moment, the four Yue Feng brothers were walking in the ditch with their dogs. Suddenly, the big black eagle above their heads started to caw again.

After calling a few times, the big black eagle was seen folding its wings and swooping down from a height of about 100 meters.

Afterwards, it stayed at a height of about 20 meters, slightly higher than the treetops, diving back and forth at the trees and making quacking sounds.

When the Yue Feng people heard the alarm call from the Big Black Hawk, they immediately ran towards the area where the Big Black Hawk was.

When I got closer, I saw an adult sable trying to escape on a larch tree.

Yue Feng had known for a long time that sables were good at climbing trees, but there was nothing he could do. Using hunting dogs to search the mountains and catch sables would not allow him to take into account the situation in the trees.

Before the meal, Dahuang had made a suspected discovery in this area, but he couldn’t find it after the noise stopped.

Unexpectedly, the sable climbed up a tree and lost the source of the scent, so naturally the smell stopped.

There is always a way out. The sable, which had originally escaped from being tracked, was discovered by a big black eagle in the sky after it had just been basking in the sun on the sunny side of a tree for a while.

At this moment, the sable was moving back and forth on the tops of several trees, but it didn’t dare to go down the tree and escape.

The big black eagle knew that this sable was the prey that its master needed. The sables caught in the mountains were kept in cages at home. After discovering the target, it had a strong desire to attack.

The presence of wings gives the eagle an absolute advantage when attacking the sable.

Although the big black hawk did not find an opportunity to swoop down close, its flying back and forth frightened the sable so much that it was unable to break free for a while.

“Damn! There’s a sable in the tree! What shall we do, brother?”

Xiao Tao was eager to try. While speaking, he had already taken down his hunting bag and was ready to dig out the hooks from the tree.

Yue Feng took a look and couldn’t help curling his lips: “You bastard, are you planning to climb a tree to catch a sable?”

Xiao Tao scratched his head and asked with clear eyes: “What else?”

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