The young soldier named Xiao Du should have witnessed the process of an eagle catching a rabbit for the first time. At this moment, sweat was breaking out on his forehead and his eyes were filled with excitement of a successful hunt.

Xiao Du: “Uncle Li is amazing! This eagle is really awesome. It can even catch such a big rabbit!”

Yue Feng also agreed: “Yes, it’s really good! This rabbit must be at least four and a half pounds!”

“Four and a half pounds? It must be at least five or six pounds! If you don’t believe me, feel it!”

When he heard the weight of four and a half pounds, Lao Li was obviously unhappy and pretended to take the rabbit out of the hunting bag.

Yue Feng watched it from beginning to end. The rabbit was indeed fat and not small in size, but it was definitely not as exaggerated as weighing five or six kilograms. Rabbits weighing over five kilograms were rare, and it was difficult to find one even if you caught rabbits in a whole winter.

The rabbit caught by Purple Eagle yesterday was slightly bigger than the one today. After feeding the eagle, it still weighed a little over four pounds. The rabbit in front of him weighed four and a half pounds.

But Yue Feng didn’t want to argue with him because he saw through it but didn’t say it out loud. If he lost face, all his forbearance for so long would have been in vain.

“No, no, if you say there is, then there must be. I don’t quite understand and can’t be sure!!” Yue Feng waved his hands repeatedly, and only then did he change the subject.

Seeing that Yue Feng didn’t argue, Li Wenzhe continued with a smile: “Let me tell you, my thick bean yellow can definitely work efficiently!
Catching rabbits is just a small job. After a few days, when they have fattened up a bit, you can catch pheasants, pigeons, etc.!

When the airport inspects it, there will be absolutely no problem. Once the eagle takes off, all the birds will have to lie down quietly under the grass!!”

When Xiao Du heard what Lao Li said, he took out a notebook from his pocket and started to record it. After writing and scribbling a few words, he continued to ask, “Uncle Li, if this eagle is trained well, how big an area can it cover? Our airport is not small!”

“How big an area do I need to manage? I can’t say if it’s larger than that, but thirty or twenty acres will definitely be no problem!
As long as there are falcons working around the area, it won’t be long before all the pheasants and rabbits are caught!!”

“You think we can catch them all?” Upon hearing this, Xiao Du’s eyes lit up and he immediately continued writing in his notebook.

Li Wenzhe: “An eagle catches a rabbit and a pheasant, which is like brine and tofu. One thing conquers another!
Others may not know, but I know it all.

In previous years, when I released hawks, after the coldest days of winter, there was not even a trace of prey in the old field! “

After hearing Lao Li’s bragging, Yue Feng calmly pressed the hem of Xiao Tao’s clothes.

This guy brags without thinking and dares to say anything.

It is true that eagles can catch pheasants and rabbits, but to say that they can catch all the prey is absolutely bragging.

The more rabbits you catch, the smarter the remaining rabbits will be. They may even be trained to become extremely experienced and extraordinary individuals. When the time comes, even the most powerful falcon will be severely injured if it is kicked by the old rabbits.

As for the fact that prey disappears in ordinary mountain areas after the coldest days of winter, it is easier to explain.

The weather was too cold, about thirty or forty degrees below zero, and there was heavy snow. There was nothing to eat in ordinary places. Only a fool would stay there and wait to starve to death.

After Xiao Du finished recording, he continued to ask: “Uncle Li, according to your experience, if we want to let the big eagle start to drive away birds and catch flying birds, how long will it take to actually demonstrate it?”

“It won’t take long, a week at most! The eagle is just grown, it weighs little, and flies slowly. It’s a bit disadvantageous to chase the winged one now, because its fat is too low!”

“Okay! A week is not a long time! What should we do next? Head back?” Xiao Du continued to ask.

Just when Yue Feng thought that Lao Li would answer that he would stop while he was ahead and take a rest before going back, Lao Li gave an unexpected answer.

“No! Give the eagle some food, and when it has rested, we will release another one!!”

“Didn’t you say that the eagle’s fat condition was low? Will it be okay?” Xiao Du continued to ask.

“It’s okay! This eagle worked very efficiently today! I only fed it one-third of the meat. Since there are so many of us, it won’t be a problem to release another handful later!”

Since the Eagle Master had spoken, naturally everyone had no objection.

Yue Feng and Xiao Tao looked at each other, and both tacitly revealed expressions of wanting to watch the fun.

There are hawks that are trained to catch rabbits and become hawks when they go out. There are hawks that go on to release the second hawk after the first one, but they are definitely not the light yellow hawk with mediocre skills and very little fat in Lao Li’s hand.

An eagle catching a rabbit is itself a relatively dangerous predatory behavior.

On the day the eagle matures, it is in the hands of humans and suffers from hunger. It is good enough if it can display 60% or 70% of its ability. Every time a eagle is released, it is a huge risk.

In this case, the safest way is to catch a rabbit and go home, and then plan to release it again after giving it a little meat. Lao Li’s greedy behavior of releasing it a second time is extremely irresponsible to the eagle.

Some people may be confused when seeing this. Why can they play two or even three times the next day? Only one night has passed. Is the difference that big?

To be honest, the gap is that big.

There is a night’s interval, and the difference is not just in time, but also in the physical reserves that the eagle needs to restore after eating food in its crop after it becomes an eagle.

Now the eagle has indeed eaten some soaked meat, and its crop has bulged slightly, but it takes time to digest the meat, at least several hours to complete digestion and absorption.

Continuing to release the eagle during this period is, after all, an act of seriously overdrawing the raptor’s physical limit, which is not worth the loss. Five people and one eagle rested in place for about half an hour. The big eagle bent its neck to press food into its crop, and slowly relaxed its feathers.

After a bar of water came down, Lao Li stood up again with the eagle.

Lao Li: “Let’s go, the eagle has had a good rest! Let’s release it again and try to get a double reward!”

“go!”

The five men formed a driving formation again, and then continued to move forward with banging sounds.

I don’t know if the noise of people scared the nearby rabbits, but I walked through several hundred meters of wasteland all the way to the edge of a ditch, and never chased out a second rabbit.

“All the rabbits in this area have been scared away. Let’s go to another place! Go over the ditch and keep going forward. There must be more rabbits ahead!”

“Haha, good food is never too late! It’s not even nine o’clock now, it’s still early for noon!” Xiao Du also agreed with a smile, not knowing that the farther they walked with the hawk, the more physical energy they consumed.

Just like that, the five men crossed the shallow ditch below and continued to move forward.

After running for another hundred meters, the second rabbit suddenly appeared from a distance of ten meters in front of Yue Feng.

“Cat!” Yue Feng called out immediately, pointing the stick in his hand in the direction where the rabbit ran away.

“Come on, come on!” Old Li held the eagle’s arm and pushed forward. The big eagle in his hand immediately took off and chased the rabbit.

Judging from the falcon’s flying posture when it left the hand, the eagle was in a relatively normal condition. It chased forward at the height of the grass, and with one flap of its wings it could chase at least twenty meters.

This rabbit seemed about the same size as the previous one, and it ran away very agilely. The eagle kept clawing at its butt, but the rabbit always managed to dodge by stopping suddenly and changing direction.

After two consecutive attacks were thwarted, the rabbit suddenly adjusted its direction and ran towards the shallow ditch behind it.

There are sparse small trees on the other side of the shallow ditch, which makes the terrain more complicated than the bare wasteland, and is obviously more conducive to the escape of rabbits.

The Eagle’s several attacks were thwarted in succession, and its confidence in attacking was significantly reduced. It did not stop chasing, but its flying altitude during the pursuit was obviously much higher, from thirty to forty centimeters above the ground to about one meter above the ground.

The eagle chased the rabbit but no longer took decisive action. It could only watch helplessly as the eagle followed the rabbit towards the shallow ditch.

After the rabbit jumped down the shallow ditch and turned left and right beside some small trees to avoid the pursuit, the eagle, seeing that the attack was completely hopeless, spread its wings and landed on a small tree less than four meters high.

“Dad, the eagle has landed!” Xiao Lei was the closest and when he saw the rabbit run away and the eagle land on the tree, he shouted loudly.

“I’m not blind, why are you yelling! Pay attention to where the eagle has landed and don’t shout loudly!” Old Li walked quickly and chased after it.

When everyone chased after it, panting, the eagle was squatting on a horizontal branch, pressing the food in its crop.

The big eagle that has experienced the friendship between the brave and the ferocious will not flap its wings and fly away immediately even if it is being lazy. At this moment, its state is that it has lost confidence in pursuit after several consecutive setbacks in its attacks and is a bit passive and sabotaging. In common parlance, the eagle is in a bad mood and is a bit slippery in catching rabbits.

Lao Li: “The grass here is a bit high, and it’s hard for the eagle to catch it! The eagle tried to catch the rabbit twice but failed! We can’t let the eagle go again today!!”

Lao Li’s falcon training skills are not very good, but he has experience in releasing falcons, and he could see that there was something wrong with the eagle’s condition.

Xiao Du looked at the eagle landing on the tree and asked in an unprofessional way: “It’s so high up, what should we do? Climb the tree and get the eagle down?”

Old Li smiled and shook his head: “No need! It’s normal for an eagle to climb up a tree! Just shout it down, this eagle is very cunning!
Xiaolei, bring the remaining food over here, we will feed this eagle, we won’t continue catching today~!”

“Oh, great!” Li Xiaolei took out the eagle food again.

I saw Lao Li stretched out his arms, turned sideways to face the eagle on the tree, holding the meat in his hand and shouted: “Hey!!!”

The eagle squatting on the tree clearly heard the call, but since there was food in its crop, it was not so sensitive to the food in its owner’s hand, so it squatted there without moving.

“Hey! Hey! Hey!!” Old Li was not discouraged and shouted a few more times while holding the meat.

Just when he was getting a little angry, the big eagle squatting on the tree branch nodded its head up and down lightly, folded its wings, glided over from the tree and landed directly on Lao Li’s arm.

It lowered its head, ate the meat, tore the eagle food out of its hand, and then raised its head to swallow it.

From the reaction when the eagle cried out in the distance, Yue Feng could see a lot of problems.

Judging by Yue Feng’s own standards, the eagle’s training maturity was only about 70% to 80% at best. It was barely able to be released, but it was still at least two days away from being as mature as the purple eagle in Xiao Tao’s hands yesterday.

The other side obviously started training earlier, but the eagles matured later, with a difference of about two days in between. Just think about it and you will understand how big the real gap in eagle training technology is.

Fortunately, this is just an ordinary light yellow eagle. If the iron-backed red eagle from last year was really given to Lao Li to train from scratch, it is still unclear whether it can work in the fields. (End of this chapter)