Chapter 799: The Hunt Begins (4/4, Adding More to the Earth-Shaking Rewards of Winter)
"Baba, I want to go too, can I, Baba, you take me to play, okay?"
When Yang Yi was sorting out his equipment in the bedroom, Xi Xi pouted and rubbed in through the door. Xixi actually didn't understand the meaning of hunting, and she didn't know what her father was going to do, she just wanted to be with her father.
"Not today, Dad and Grandpa are going to a bit of a dangerous place, so it's inconvenient to take you there. You see, neither my mother nor my brother went. Yang Yi smiled and pointed to Murphy next to him.
Murphy's eyes were slightly red, although she knew that it was unlikely that Yang Yi would be in danger this time, but after all, hunting was a risky "sport", so she was inevitably worried.
"You still say, I won't let you go, you still want to go, isn't it good to leave such a thing to those experienced cowboys to do?" Murphy couldn't help but grumble
Although it was a complaint, Murphy's deep concern for him was still shown through these few words.
Yang Yi turned around and hugged Murphy, and even Xiao Yu was caught in his arms, he kissed Murphy's forehead, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you don't know my skills, and with me here, I can take care of our dad!"
Murphy knew that she couldn't beat Yang Yi, and she could also feel Yang Yi's inner desire.
Maybe this is a man, right?
She had no choice but to say, "No matter what, you all have to pay attention to safety, don't be reckless, okay?"
"Well, I promise you!" Yang Yi smiled and nodded.
When he came back and packed his backpack, Xixi was still looking at his father with a blank eye.
"It's really not good today, you are obediently at home with your mother. Yang Yi rubbed the little girl's head.
Xi Xi hugged her father's big hand, and her little mouth was already pouting, but in the end, she nodded sullenly, and said reluctantly: "Then, you have to pay attention to safety." โ
"Thank you, Xixi, Dad will definitely pay attention to safety. โ
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On the Mo family's farm, three people were dispatched, and the experienced old Ford took Mo Henian and Yang Yi to the farm in Baria to gather. Here, Yang Yi also unexpectedly saw Doug and the two cowboys on his farm, as well as Stuart, who has better marksmanship, and his two sons.
"Doug, why is he here too?" Yang Yi asked Mo Henian with some surprise.
"Why didn't he come to such an interesting thing?" Mo Henian smiled.
Seeing Yang Yi carrying a bow and a quiver, Doug leaned over a little strangely and asked, "Yang, where is your gun?"
"This is!" Yang Yi patted the hunting bow that had been assembled behind him and said with a smile.
"Hunting with a bow and arrow?" said Doug in surprise, "although I have seen some young men hunt with bows and arrows, but you use a bow and arrow, that is too much of a skill, isn't it?
"Doug, what are you talking about?" said Mo Henian, blowing his beard and glaring.
Doug ignored Mo Henian, turned around and asked his cowboy to bring his gun bag, took out a rifle and its disassembled optical scope, handed it to Yang Yi, and said generously: "Try this, my favorite R18 rifle, it is very practical to fight wolves from a long distance! If you like it, I will let someone go through the formalities when you come back and give it to you!"
R18 Yang Yi has heard of it, it is a very famous standard caliber shotgun in the world, tethered to a single shot, good accuracy, after installing an optical scope, it can also achieve medium-distance sniping.
This one in Doug's hand is indeed his favorite, the body of the gun is very clean, shiny and shiny, as if it has been plated with a layer of luster!
However, it was not so attractive to Yang Yi, who smiled and politely declined Doug's kindness.
Mo Henian looked at Doug triumphantly and said, "Look, it's not that I'm stingy, it's that he doesn't want to use a gun, I gave him this bow, he likes this kind of thing." โ
"It's a pity, sharpshooter!" Doug shook his head regretfully as he had to put R18 away.
Actually, Yang Yi didn't have a gun on him, Mo Henian gave him a pistol, Yang Yi pinned it in the holster behind him, the coat was covered, and he couldn't see it.
But Yang Yi felt that he basically didn't need a pistol.
......
Barria walked in with a few people and called everyone for a short meeting.
Yang Yi also didn't understand it not long ago, why Uncle Baria led the team, it turned out that their family was a well-known hunter family in the prairie town, and what they were best at was prey tracking.
Barria took a printed map of the forest and gestured: "In the past few days, Isaac has been to explore, and the recent distribution of wolves in our forest should be this and this area. There are a lot of us, now we divide the labor like this, I will lead a team of people, Mo you and your people, Doug, you and a few of you follow me, start from this road, and approach the wolves this way!
Isaac and Sebastian will take a team, with Stuart and the children, to outflank them from this road, and try to catch both packs of coyotes, or winter will come, and our cattle and sheep will suffer!"
"No problem!" Stafford nodded, and the two young men in their early twenties behind him were excited.
Doug also smiled at Yang Yi and said, "It's my honor to be on the same team with Yang." โ
Seeing that they had no opinion, Baria clapped his hands: "OK!
The cowboys moved very neatly, and when they were finished, everyone put on their gear and went outside the house to ride the horses they had brought.
Yang Yi also rode to follow Mo Henian, and Baria led their "big army" into the primeval forest behind his farm.
After all, it was a primeval forest, and as they went deeper, the trees around them became taller and denser. The sunlight shines through the gaps in the thick leaves, and even if there are a few patches of light and shadow, it can only make the forest look brighter, but it cannot make people judge the time of day in a vacuum.
Yang Yi prefers this kind of hidden and shady feeling, in the forest, he seems to feel that the pores on his body are breathing comfortably, as if he belongs here.
Barria was so experienced that he didn't need a compass at all, and looking at the familiar trees of the forest, he could point out a path that horses could walk along without a mapโalmost all of which were made day by day by hunters after cutting down some bush obstacles.
However, on such a tortuous and complicated forest path, Yang Yi and the others could not ride their horses and gallop wildly, so they could only pace forward slowly, just a little faster than ordinary people walking.
Maybe it's because of their team, there have always been talking and laughing, the movement is relatively large, they don't see any large and medium-sized animals along the way, but on the trees, occasionally they can meet a group of small birds and finches jumping happily on the trees, and falling together, but it is also very interesting.
According to Barria, it was a black-capped, which was also allowed to hunt. It's just that these palm-sized birds really can't attract the attention of these ambitious hunters.
There was no time in the mountains, and I didn't know how long I had walked, so Baria beckoned everyone to lower their voices: "Soon we will be in the activity area of this group of coyotes that we are targeting, don't make a noise to startle them." โ
The cowboys, who had been laughing just now, were all serious at the moment, and Doug, like everyone else, took off a shotgun and grabbed it in his hand.
Yang Yi didn't move, his ears were sharper than everyone else, and he could hear that there was no unusual movement nearby.
Finally, when they arrived at the place, Baria had everyone dismount, gathered the horses, pacified them, and left a hunter of the Barian family to stay and watch over them. Barria then led the rest of the men to the ambush site to make improvised bunkers.
In fact, it is to pick a bush downwind, put some branches and dead leaves as a camouflage, and people hide behind and set up guns.
That's how you play? It's a scoundrel, isn't it? Nearly ten rifles, is this a tower defense game? I'm afraid that dozens or hundreds of coyotes can be wiped out, right?
But the problem is that coyotes are different from wolves, they are not in groups, most of them are male and female, at most there are a few children, even if the largest family, even the pot end, that is only the number that can be counted by two palms.
The battle was a bit of a big one......
When hunting, Yang Yi prefers guerrilla warfare, and it is best to brush alone. But today he wants to protect the Year of the Crane, and he can't be alone and elusive, so it's better to be patient and follow the big army......
Then, Yang Yi is going to open his eyes!
Baria actually pulled out a pager and blew it.
That's a simulator of rabbit struggling calls!
Instead of waiting for coyotes to appear, they take the initiative to seduce them...... Do all the people of the United States hunt like this?