Chapter 83: The Rabbit Kicks the Eagle

“Cat!” Yue Feng shouted, and pushed the eagle upwards. He used the force of the Ironback Red in his hand to leap up and rushed straight towards the startled rabbit.

This rabbit is quite big, weighing about four to four and a half kilograms. It should be two or even three years old.

The big red eagle was chasing the rabbit close to the ground, and when the eagle’s claws were about to touch the fur on its butt, the rabbit suddenly jumped up.

Yue Feng was scared to death when he saw this scene. Are the rabbits around the village so ferocious? They even know the unique martial art of “rabbit kicking eagle”?
Generally speaking, there are two interpretations of the rabbit kicking the eagle.

One of them is that when the hawk swoops down to attack, the rabbit suddenly jumps up, uses the strength of its whole body, and hits the diving falcon with its back, thus getting a chance to escape.

Yue Feng had encountered this kind of situation many times during his falconry experience, usually those cases where the falcons had been catching old rabbits through years of practice.

Yue Feng had not seen the other version with his own eyes, but heard it from his grandfather, which was passed down by the older generation of falcon trainers.

It is said that when a rabbit gets old to a certain age, the hair on its back will turn red. The weight of this red-haired old rabbit can even reach as much as 7 or 8 kilograms, far exceeding the average weight of ordinary wild rabbits of 3 to 5 kilograms.

This clever old rabbit has learned a life-saving trick when facing a raptor’s dive attack. When faced with a raptor’s dive attack, it will actively turn its body over in an instant, with its soft belly facing the sky and its two strong and powerful hind legs retracted.

The moment the eagle swoops down to attack, its two powerful hind legs suddenly spring up and kick the eagle’s crop on the front of its chest.

The crop is the eagle’s vital part. The eagle’s crop is similar to that of a domestic chicken. When it eats food, it will swell up.

Even if the eagle’s crop is empty when it is hunting, if it is kicked hard it will definitely suffer internal bleeding and will lose half its life if not die.

Yue Feng had never seen a red-haired old rabbit turning over and kicking its crop in his previous life when he was releasing eagles. However, today was only the third day after the Iron-backed Red Eagle was released, and he encountered a rabbit that jumped high and hit the eagle.

This Iron-backed Red Eagle, who used to catch little rabbits by pressing their buttocks, now worked purely by brute force. He had never seen such high-end operations before, and he was hit by the rabbit’s back without paying attention.

puff!
With a dull thud, the rabbit’s back hit the big red eagle’s well-developed pectoral muscles. The eagle was not hurt because it had wings to maintain its balance, but the rabbit rolled on the ground several times before it regained its balance.

At this time, the ferocious side of the Iron-backed Red Eagle was revealed. It fell to the ground due to the collision, and did not give up the attack even after being hit. It actually jumped on the ground and stepped on the rabbit.

The rabbit had just turned over to keep its balance when it was hit on the butt by the Eagle Claw. It wanted to run away in pain, but the eagle swung its other claw directly onto the rabbit’s waist.

In an instant, the nerves in the rabbit’s thighs seemed to have been electrified, and it could no longer exert its full strength.

The rabbit had limited strength in its hind legs and could not just sit there and wait for death, so it continued to struggle forward to escape, just as if it was pulling a cart, carrying the big red eagle forward.

The big red eagle was a little dazed by the collision and was also a little puzzled at this moment.

Yesterday, the rabbit was unable to resist when the claws hit the lumbar spine of the prey. Why was this prey able to continue running forward today? For a while, there was no good way to deal with it.

Seeing this scene, Yue Feng was the most nervous. The falcon was being pulled by a large rabbit, which was a very dangerous situation. If there were thorns or bushes around, the rabbit would take the eagle into them. Even if the rabbit was finally subdued, it would still be a tragic victory for the falconer.

In the worst case, the eagle will be injured, with broken claws and wings, and will be almost useless.

Fortunately, the rabbit was struggling to escape in the direction of a harvested field, at least 150 meters away from the nearest thorn pile at the edge of the field.

The big red eagle was pulled and moved for at least seven or eight meters. The ground was covered with dust along the way, but the big red eagle refused to let go of its claws. After noticing that the rabbit’s speed of moving towards the ridge slowed down a little, it decisively released its claws on its buttocks, flapped its wings, and raised its claws in the air to grab the rabbit’s head.

The claws are inverted and the mouth is precisely clamped.

Grabbing the rabbit by the butt will definitely cause less damage, but if you use one paw to clamp its mouth and the other paw to hold the rabbit’s waist, the rabbit will be unable to run away in an instant.

The next second, the falcon was seen holding the rabbit tightly, and the rabbit, feeling the pain, stopped running and kept turning around in circles, stirring up a large cloud of dust.

Three seconds later, screams of despair were heard.

This old rabbit who knew martial arts was successfully subdued by the big red eagle.

The entire battle process seemed to take a very long time, but in fact, from the time the rabbit was chased up to the time it was subdued by the eagle, it took less than fifteen seconds.

The eagle had no intention of overdrawing its energy after subduing the three rabbits it caught earlier. But this time was different. It was hit, and was pulled by the cart. Finally, it had to spin in circles on the spot with its claws folded upside down, flapping its wings constantly to keep its balance. All these were very exhausting.

When Yue Feng approached, the big red eagle also opened its mouth, and its chest was obviously rising and falling.

Seeing this, Yue Feng decisively grabbed the rabbit’s two hind legs and gently pressed to one side, and with a snap, the rabbit’s hind leg joints were dislocated.

Seventy percent of the rabbit’s abilities lie in its strong hind legs. Now that its hips have been removed by hand, the rabbit will not be able to escape even if the eagle lets go.

After getting the situation under control, Yue Feng slowly took out a knife from his bag, cut a hole at the rabbit’s foot, and dipped the meat roll in the rabbit’s blood to feed the eagle.

The big eagle was so tired that it was panting heavily, but it still lowered its head and started eating the meat. After it finished three meat rolls, Yue Feng covered his eagle claws and took the living rabbit off.

It was a bit awkward for a person to lead a hawk and organize its prey. After seeing the rabbit, the hawk would try to attack, so after Yue Feng took the rabbit off, he used his body to block the hawk’s sight, tied the rabbit up behind his back, and then stuffed it into his bag.

After everything was ready, Yue Feng finally had time to check on the eagle.

In the situation where the rabbit kicked the eagle just now, you can tell from the sound that the rabbit was hit hard by the eagle. If the eagle’s physique was a little weaker, with a protruding keel, it might really be injured by being hit, and its keel might even be broken.

However, Yue Feng felt around the keel below the crop of the Great Red Eagle, and his worries soon subsided.

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