Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain
Chapter 536 A strange combination of circumstances
The big black eagle’s goal was very clear, to capture the leader first, the first target of its swooping eagle attack was the wolf king, who was obviously half a size larger and had shiny silver fur.
Hearing the low-frequency howling sound of a bird diving down at high speed, the Silver Wolf King looked up alertly.
It saw a black shadow rushing down at a speed that it had no chance to avoid, and kicked the wolf king’s shiny mane on his back.
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The wolf king roared angrily, tucked his tail between his legs, turned around and dived into the woods.
There is no way. The top predators, birds of prey, have a natural blood suppression over land mammals. Even the wolf king cannot resist this suppression.
As soon as the leading wolf king moved, the other little friends followed him into the woods.
The big black eagle and the little white spear swooped down and attacked several times without any results, and soon landed on the treetops near the edge of the forest.
Quack, quack, quack!
The big black hawk let out a series of rough cackling sounds.
This call is obviously different from the usual quacking tone. In addition to the ordinary hostility and aggression, combined with the diving attack posture just now, it carries a sense of driving away and threatening.
The Silver Wolf King seemed to understand the threatening cry of the Big Black Hawk. He howled at the wolf pack with varying lengths, then gave up tracking Yue Feng’s six-man hunting team and left down the mountain.
Big Black Hawk and White Spear watched the wolves move through the forest and down the mountain without launching a new round of attacks to drive them away.
It just watched quietly until the wolves walked away, then flapped its wings hard and took off, heading towards the hunting team.
The camera then turns to the other side, Yue Feng.
A big black eagle in the sky cawed a few times, and then two eagles flew away.
Yue Feng felt somewhat worried when he heard the screams, but he was not overly nervous.
Currently in the forests of Changbai Mountain, only hunters with good marksmanship can threaten these two experienced falcons.
When an eagle finds something, it will bark a few times and chase after it. If it has really identified its target, it will definitely come back and bark to report the news.
If there is a threat like other birds of prey, we will simply engage in a dogfight for a while, and then come back after the enemy is driven away.
In a word, leaving the queue and following area for a short period of time with signs is not a big deal for the smart Black Hawk.
Yue Feng waited patiently for more than ten minutes, and sure enough, the big black eagle and the little white spear came back.
The two eagles flew back to their temporary resting place and circled a few times. After hearing Yue Feng’s whistle for feeding, they folded their wings and landed on his arm.
Quack, quack, quack!
“Okay, okay! Stop shouting, give it to us, everyone has a share!!”
Yue Feng coaxed them softly as if he was doting on his own children, then used a knife to cut the fresh meat dissolved in warm water into slices and fed them to Big Black Eagle and Little White Spear.
There was a small incident during the lunch break. Yue Feng and the other members of the hunting team did not take it seriously at all. However, the two eagles, the Black and White Evils, did something big without making any noise.
On the other side, the wolf pack that was driven away by the two eagles ran down the mountain along the ridge line for seven or eight kilometers before stopping to regroup.
The wounded wolf who had suffered three serious losses from Uncle Wu’s shots howled and groaned at the silver-haired wolf king for a long time, but the silver wolf king, who had originally intended to avenge the wolf pack, remained unmoved.
The Silver Wolf King became so angry that he pounced on the lame wolf, knocked it to the ground, and bit it to vent his anger.
The injured wolf’s fighting power was not as good as the wolf king’s, and its hind legs were injured, which made it even more useless. After being beaten and having a lot of fur pulled out, it tucked its tail between its legs and dared not show off anymore. It could only follow the wolf king down the mountain.
The wolf pack of 19 wolves, big and small, moved at least kilometers in just one afternoon.
As it was getting dark, the wolves stopped in a pine forest on a sunny slope sheltered from the wind to rest temporarily.
Sometimes, one has to sigh at the magic of fate.
The Silver Wolf King tried to avenge his clan but failed, and happened to run into Qiao Muzhou’s team who were heading into the mountains to look for the Moon-gazing Frog at the Holy Maiden Lake.
Less than two kilometers away from the pine forest where the wolf pack settled, Qiao Muzhou led the horse team and the people entering the mountain and chose a relatively flat place to build a leather nest to rest for the night.
Here, I want to mention this thing called a mouthful of skin.
It is different from the neat military tent. It is a bit like the huts where the Oroqen people live.
What is the shape? A dozen wooden sticks as thick as arms are temporarily cut and arranged in a circle to form a tower-like structure as the skeleton of the leather nest. Then the conical skeleton is covered with animal skins sewn together.
A fire was lit in the middle, and smoke could be emitted from the open air above, while people spent the night there.
A leather hut can sleep four to five people. Because a fire can be made in the middle, it is not difficult for hunters to spend the night with this traditional thing.
There are fifteen people in Qiao Muzhou’s team, but there are two real veterans in the mountains, and the rest are the kind who just have less than half a bottle of wine and come here to join in the fun when they hear about going into the mountains, but they are not that strong.
Fifteen people were divided into three huts according to their closeness to each other to spend the night. After several days of tiring journey, everyone ate and drank their fill and lay down to sleep.
The job of arranging shifts to add firewood and stand guard at night is basically meaningless. When the firewood burns out in the middle of the night, the fire goes out, and you wake up from the cold, you have to get up and add firewood.
Under normal circumstances, with so many people and horses going into the mountains, there is really no need to worry about any mountain animals daring to rush into the camping place.
There are more people, and they are more powerful. The mountain animals are not stupid. If they have any choice, they will not choose to attack people.
However, there are exceptions to everything, and empiricism is deadly.
They were unlucky and happened to run into the ‘prime state’ wolves being driven down the mountain by the big black eagle.
That night, the two hounds tied next to the horses began barking shortly after dark.
Hearing the cry, someone came out to see what was happening, but after looking around, he didn’t see anything suspicious.
When people came out to see what was happening, the dog soon stopped barking.
After several times, Wang Yufei heard the dog barking and came out carrying a half-eaten wild boar leg.
“What are you yelling for? If you keep yelling, I’ll really punish you!
I finally got the chance to drink some wine, eat some meat and take a break, but you two bastards really ruined the fun!
I’ll give you some pork leg meat, so stop shouting!”
After saying that, he threw the pork leg to the place where the dogs were tied, and the two dogs lowered their heads to gnaw on the bones. Wang Yufei glanced around, didn’t see anything, turned around and went back to the nest.
Qiao Muzhou: “What’s going on, Xiaofei? The dogs and horses are a little restless. Is there something outside?”
Wang Yufei curled his lips and said, “These two dogs that were brought here temporarily are useless.
I’ve gone out to look several times, but there was nothing around. I just picked up some pork legs, and the dog immediately lowered its head to eat the meat without saying a word!
In other words, dogs are needed to stand guard in the mountains, otherwise this kind of stuff will be beaten to death and eaten!
It’s fine if he wants to eat, but the barking made the horses a little nervous. Now the dog has stopped barking and the horses have calmed down, so there shouldn’t be any problem! “Hearing this, Qiao Muzhou nodded slightly.
If a dog that is a little bit smart keeps barking, there must be something wrong. It is impossible for it to be calmed down just because its owner feeds it two pieces of meat.
It is understandable that a dog that is temporarily brought in to guard the night would howl for food.
“Okay, come on, let’s continue drinking! Eat and drink enough early, and rest early, because we still have to travel tomorrow!” Qiao Muzhou nodded and raised the wine glass in his hand.
The other familiar hunters had already drunk half a pound of wine at this moment. When they heard Qiao Muzhou’s call, they picked up their glasses again and took a big sip with relish.
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It was not until after two o’clock in the middle of the night, when the sky was darkest and people were sleeping the deepest, that the wolves that had been hiding and watching outside the camp suddenly moved.
At first, the four strongest male wolves rushed straight towards the two dogs tied next to the horses.
The two dogs only had time to bark a few times before they were bitten on the neck by the larger Northeastern wolves. Then another wolf pounced on them and bit them again, suffocating the dogs to death in a short time.
After dealing with the night watch dogs, the wolf pack’s real battle begins immediately.
For a moment, the Silver Wolf King stood on a ridge not far away and took command of the overall situation. With varying tones of voice, he directed his fellow wolves to attack the horses on one side of the camp.
It would be quite difficult for a few wolves to attack a horse alone, but the wolf pack is now large in number.
A dozen strong Northeastern wolves rushed forward and surrounded the outermost mare.
He feinted, circled, and suddenly bit the horse’s leg tendon. In just a few bites, he broke the horse’s leg.
The three-legged horse was restricted in its movement, and more wolves rushed forward.
They used all kinds of tricks, such as digging out the anus, cutting open the abdomen, jumping up and pinching the horse’s neck and biting its trachea.
A sturdy four-year-old mare was knocked down in less than ten minutes.
The whole herd of horses was thrown into chaos by the wolves, but everyone in the camp was still soundly asleep, having drunk some strong liquor in the first half of the night to ward off the cold and relieve fatigue.
At the beginning of the commotion, no one woke up and called for help to come out and check.
Now, the wolves have room to maneuver.
After the filly was bitten to death, the other black horse could not escape the wolf’s bite. There was another siege and biting, and the black horse was also knocked down by the wolf.
These wolves gathered by the Silver Wolf King seemed to be angry. After failing to seek revenge on Yue Feng’s hunting team, they took their anger out on the horses of Qiao Muzhou’s hunting team.
This is not just hunting, it is clearly a biased revenge!
And they succeeded.
In one night, three horses were killed by wolves, and the remaining two horses were closer to the entrance of the leather nest and survived.
The next morning, just as the sky was getting light, the tall Wang Yufei, wearing a sheepskin coat and with dazed eyes, came out of the fur nest, opened the door curtain and walked out.
Wang Yufei, who had been holding back his morning urine, walked to a place not far from the door. Before he even untied his belt, he smelled a strong smell of blood.
He rubbed his eyes and looked around, and instantly all sleepiness disappeared.
“Everyone, get up! Third Master, don’t sleep any more. Everyone, get up and take a look! Our horses and dogs were bitten to death by something unknown!!”
At a call early in the morning, the people in the three camps immediately broke out. A group of people hurriedly came out of the camps carrying barreled guns and saw the place where the horses were tied. It was a cruel and bloody scene.
Three horses, all of them were disemboweled and lying in the snow. The frozen blood was pink and emitted a strong smell of blood.
Most of the horse carcasses were bitten to death but not eaten. In the area near the periphery, the ground was covered with dense footprints left by the wolves.
Master Xi lifted the curtain from the leather nest and came out. He looked around the camp and after finding the footprints left by the wolves staying outside, he made a preliminary judgment in his mind.
Qiao Muzhou, holding the 56, came up and took a look at the situation in front of him. His breathing suddenly became rapid.
“These weeds are so pissing me off!!! What did they do? I have to gather everyone to beat them to death!!”
Master Xi said, “I just looked around the camp and it must have been done by a large pack of wolves!
There are a lot of footprints over there, at least a dozen or twenty wolves! It’s too cold since winter, and the wolves are starving!”
After hearing about the wolves, Qiao Muzhou calmed down a lot. He asked angrily, “Three horses and two dogs were bitten to death, and you didn’t hear anything at night?
Where are the night shifts? Are you all busy sleeping?”
“The dog barked several times last night, and I went out to check, but there was nothing going on!
In the middle of the night, around one o’clock, I added some firewood, but I didn’t hear any noise! ! “
“I didn’t hear it either!”
At this critical juncture, who dared to say that they heard the noise? Either they remained silent or shook their heads and pretended to be stupid, which led to a slightly awkward situation.
Master Xi continued to advise: “The wolves in this mountain are very cunning, and we can’t blame you.
They consciously lure the dogs to bark from the periphery, then divert everyone’s attention, and then launch a sneak attack when everyone is asleep and relaxed!
We don’t have this kind of experience, so it’s hard to guard against it!”
Master Zou took a look at everyone’s reaction, walked up to Qiao Muzhou and whispered, “Third Master, forget it! The horse is already dead, there’s no point in worrying about this!
Let’s study and figure out how to arrange the follow-up of our climb to Saint Lake! Without three horses, we won’t be able to carry the supplies for so many people!”
Qiao Muzhou nodded and asked, “Old Zou, what do you think is the best way to deal with this? Otherwise, we should stay where we are and send someone back to arrange for new horses to come up?”
Master Zou thought for a moment and shook his head: “We have to rush to Saint Maiden Lake on the night of the full moon. It will definitely be too late to go back and forth!
In the current situation, we can only make drastic changes and split our forces into two groups!”
“Divide the troops into two groups? Tell me about it!”
“We still have two horses. Let’s pick out the most elite members of the team that will enter the mountain, and continue forward with the horses and supplies.
The rest of the people will stay where they are and wait for the others to come back!
We have enough supplies, plus we have so much horse meat, so those who stay behind won’t have to worry about food and drink for a while!
This is the most appropriate strategy at the moment!”
After listening to Master Zou’s advice, Qiao Muzhou thought for a moment and nodded.
There are so many good things at home, but everything is difficult when you go out. This is the only temporary solution.
“There is no other way at the moment, so this is the only way! The supplies that two horses can carry are limited, and can only carry supplies for five people at most.
So, I, Master Zou, Xiao Fei, Master Xi, and Zhang Pao, the five of us will divide the supplies and continue on our journey, while the others will stay where they are and wait for us to come back and reunite! “(End of this chapter)