Chapter 20 Killing of wild boars
On the first day of February, Qingsong selected an advance team of 20 people from among his sons and nephews, a spearmen team of 100 people from among the veterans, and a logistics brigade of 300 people with carpenters and blacksmiths. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info made arrangements for the teams in the compound and distributed equipment. On the second day of February, Qingsong personally led the team to leave the village, passing by the brick kiln, taking out the contents and loading them onto a wheelbarrow.
At the foot of the mountain, the advance team placed an incense case, and Xiaogang worshiped the gods of heaven and earth. Zhu and Bai Ping began to stand beside Xiao Gang with swords on their shoulders, and after they would protect Xiao Gang in the mountains every step of the way, Xiao Gang sat on the futon after worshipping and pointed out the direction for a while, Qing Song ordered: "Let the spear team go to the logistics team to change to a bold axe, open the road for thirty miles from this direction, and let the carpenter of the logistics team bring a saw to cut wood along the road." The pillar took a detonator and went to the front of the three miles of the earthquake mountain!" The pillar took a large detonator with a lead and ran away quickly with a match, and it was estimated that it would be three miles. I chose a big tree and climbed up, set up the detonator and connected the long lead, then slipped down and lit the fire and ran back. There was a loud bang, and the frightened spearmen and logistics teams were weak, and some timid logistics teams even fell to the ground. Bai Ping's mouth was wide open and couldn't close for a long time, Qing Song came over to him and said, "This is a detonator, the sound is like thunder, the power is huge!" Bai Ping was stunned and said: "Shibo is such a fun thing, let me come next time!" Qing Song also felt that he had a true qi body that ran faster than the pillar, and he should be allowed to do it, but it was not good to bring it up. Now he proposed it himself, and told him the specific usage at the moment. An hour later, when they came to the place where the detonator had exploded, they saw that the tree had broken off and the canopy was scattered everywhere. Qing Song once again asked Bai Ping to be careful when lighting the fire, and then ordered: "The logistics team comes up, cook here!" The spear team continued to move forward, and the logistics team followed and began to cook. After lunch, Qing Song asked Bai Ping to go to the front five miles to light a detonator. Bai Ping took his things and began to jump, and when Bai Ping walked away, Qing Song and Xiao Gang discussed it, feeling that this speed was too slow. Xiao Gang proposed a method of narrowing the scope so that the advance team could find a relatively flat position, the spear team would rotate to open the way, and the logistics team would be expanded.
In this way, on the first day, after only fifteen miles of advancement, he stopped to set up his tent. After the tent was set up, Qingsong asked the logistics team to sprinkle quicklime powder and sulfur powder along the perimeter of the tent.
The next day, we had dinner at the hour and set off at the hour of the hour, and the advance team directly carried Xiaogang and Qingshan through the forest. The spearmen followed, leaving ten men every half hour to cut out the path, and then the logistics team took over the widening and leveling. The next day it advanced for thirty miles without a detonator.
On the third day, they finally reached the top of the first mountain before noon, and Qingsong and Xiaogang stayed behind to direct the logistics team to build a supply point at the top of the mountain. Looking in the direction of the village, the hillsides seemed so small. The temperature on the top of the mountain was much lower, and the cold wind blew on the face like a knife. Trying to pitch a tent in such an environment is not sustainable. Fortunately, because of the saws, the big trees were constantly knocked down by the carpenters of the logistics team, and there were already three large and five small wooden houses at night. After dinner, a large number of bonfires were lit, and there was no fear of any wild beasts here, and Bai Ping also made a lot of game, and even killed two bears. Qing Song called the logistics captain and asked him to divide a hundred people after dawn to bring fifty wheelbarrows down the mountain to bring supplies and store them here, and asked Yikang to hand over the work to the deputy for the time being, personally select twenty people to bring twenty horses that are more capable of climbing the mountain, and let the logistics team steam steamed buns tomorrow morning to bring them to those who came down the mountain. They were not allowed to raise a fire on the road, so they used buns to make dry food.
On the fourth day, everyone rested on the top of this mountain for a day.
On the fifth day, after the wheelbarrow descended the mountain, the advance party and the spearmen advanced along the ridge, which had less vegetation. The speed was much faster, and it was fifty miles in a day.
On the sixth day, Qingsong instructed: "Conserve water and continue along the mountain beam." The spearman captain sent two men back to the supply point, and asked the supply point to draw fifty men to carry supplies and follow. "On the sixth day, I walked another fifty miles, but the direction was already a little off. At night, Xiaogang Jingjing still chose a safe position, although there are some deviations, but it saves a lot of trouble.
On the seventh day, both the logistics team and Yikang caught up in Shenshi, and Xiao Gang asked Qingsong to adjust his position to cross the mountain stream. Choose a suitable place on both sides of the mountain stream, pull out a bridge with a thick rope, and everyone crossed the mountain stream and camped on the spot. In the middle of the night, it was raining, and Qing Song asked the pillar to wrap the detonators and other important items in pigskin.
On the eighth day, fortunately, the rain gradually stopped after dawn, and Xiao Gang pointed out a direction, and the brigade moved forward slowly, because it was raining, and the ground was very slippery. At noon, Qing Song said to everyone: "Stay up, don't be busy cooking, go a little more!" Before the advance team in front of him came cheering, and found a big cave. Qing Songrang shouted: "Don't go in, Bai Ping, you take a small detonator and light it and throw it in, throw it faster! But you have to pay attention to how much time it will ring after throwing it out." Bai Ping took a small detonator, lit it and threw it in, and then he also ran his true qi and stared at the entrance of the cave. After the detonator exploded, a large number of bats flew out of the cave, and the cave did not collapse. After a while, Qing Song asked people to light some torches and throw them in, but there was no movement inside before the advance team sent two people in. After a while, Qing Song called for someone to call for the two of them to come back at the entrance of the cave. The two returned, saying that they had not yet reached the bottom of the cave. A lot of bats were killed inside, and a thick layer was covered. Qing Song asked the spearmen to send people to transport the dead bats out in pigskin bags and pile them at the mouth of the cave, and the spearmen sent twenty people in one after another to fix the torches before carrying the dead bats, and if they were not dead, they would be stamped on two more feet. Qing Song shouted that the rest of the people could cook, and everyone ate porridge at the time of Shen.
Xiao Gang had already whispered to Qing Song that he might have to stay here for a few days. After eating, the person continued to clean, and only then did the inside be cleaned. The dead bats piled up at the entrance of the cave already looked like two or three thousand catties, and the soldiers wanted to dig up the soil and bury them. Xiao Gang quietly told Qingsong that he didn't need it, these things were still used. Qingsong said to the soldiers, "You don't need to bury it, there are other uses, go and cut down some trees to build a shed here, and bring the branches that can be burned into the cave!" At night, a bonfire was lit at the entrance of the cave, and some small fires were also lit in the cave. Nearly 200 men and 20 horses slept in the cave and it was not very crowded, and when it was about to dawn, it was raining outside, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.
After dawn, Qing Song looked at Xiao Gang and nodded slightly, Xiao Gang whispered to Qing Song: "The ancestors also used to rest here, and there is something in the ground on the right!" Qing Song pretended to let the soldiers and the advance team dig the soil at will, and transported the soil out to block the rain, so as not to let the rain wet the bat corpses. Everyone was digging, and suddenly the person on the right shouted, "My lord, there is something here!" Qing Song said, "Oh, take a few more torches and take a look!" Sure enough, there was a small stone slab underground, and Qing Song asked a nephew to carefully remove the stone slab. Below is an altar, in which there is a roll of bamboo slips, unfolded and reads: 'It has been ten days into the mountain to thirty miles away, because the heavy rain has fallen from the sky and turned back, and the beasts around have been killed, but there is a giant python in the waterhole five miles to the west of this cave has not been removed. The python can devour the military horse, but it is a pity that there is no craftsman who can't build a bridge in the mountain stream and transport a bed crossbow to suppress the giant python!
After learning that his ancestors had also been here, Qingsong began to write down some of his experiences on paper with a brush. It rained heavily for two days, but fortunately, the supplies from the 50 people in the logistics team came.
On the eleventh day of entering the mountain, the rain stopped! It was even colder after the heavy rain, so Qingsong asked the logistics team to go to ten people to inspect the suspension bridge, and let Yikang and his men lead the horses out to graze. Let the advance team go west to look for the waterhole, let the spear team continue to cut down the trees outside the cave, and the men sent out at noon have returned. The advance team had already found the waterhole, which was surrounded by mountains on three sides and was so large that it could be a thousand steps horizontally and vertically! There were many canals around it that were pouring water into the pool. The waterhole is open to the west, with no trees and only grass, and no end in sight to the west. Qingsong let everyone rest, ate lunch and took a nap. During the afternoon nap, Bai Ping was asked to go outside the cave to guard the dead bat, and Qing Song and Xiao Gang discussed it.
On the twelfth day, Qing Song handed over the scroll written on paper to Yikang, and asked Yikang to take his men back to Xincheng over the mountain stream, and bring 200 horses and 100 people to carry salt. After Yikang set off with a small amount of dry food, Qing Song asked the spearmen to send 20 people to open a road in the direction of the waterhole, fetch water from the canal, bring back 80 spearmen, cut down trees, make throwing guns, and let the 50 members of the logistics team first go to reinforce the suspension bridge and then find a suitable place to dig a hole and open a kiln, and the advance team went out to set traps and use dead bats as bait to catch carnivores. Seeing Bai Ping's eagerness, he also asked Bai Ping to follow the advance team, and it was enough to leave the pillar. After sending everyone out, Qing Song asked Xiao Gang, "Why do you want to bring so much salt?" Xiao Gang said, "It's a pity that such a big python is rotten! Kill it and pickle it." Qing Song asked again: "Do you have a big grasp?" Xiao Gang said: "Grandpa don't worry! Throw a detonator into his mouth, it's hard not to die!" An old man and a young traitor laughed, and the pillar also smirked beside him and said, "Can you marinate thousands of catties of jerky, right? Maybe tens of thousands of catties?"
On the thirteenth day, the advance team found a lot of wild boars in the trap and came back to report them. Qing Song asked Xiao Gang: "What should I do?" Xiao Gang said: "There must be a big herd of wild boars nearby, this thing is very dangerous! To the ancestors of the year, they were not fierce beasts, and they may really be fatal to us! Let the spearmen and logistics teams stop what they are doing and hurry out to dig more traps." Don't mess with the wild boars that have fallen into the trap, they will kill each other when they are hungry! We will kill them differently, they will scream, and the wild boar herd knows that it is very dangerous for a foreign enemy to enter us!" Qing Song asked the sons and nephews of the advance team to immediately call the spear team and the logistics team back, and made arrangements according to what Xiao Gang said.
On the fourteenth day, there were some shallow traps in which the wild boars had broken through the earth and escaped, and some of the old and weak wild boars had been killed by their companions and eaten. The newly dug trap did not fall into the wild boar, and Qing Song ordered to continue digging the trap. Xiao Gang even let the pillar start to bury detonators at the entrance of the cave and make a fence for the cave with wood after everyone went away, and strengthened the fence when everyone came back in the evening.
On the fifteenth day, all the traps were more or less wild boars, and you Shi Qingsong ordered: "Kill the pigs, each team of ten people will find a trap with fewer pigs, one team will stare at a trap and stab it with a spear, and run back immediately after stabbing it to death, Bai Pingshi's nephew will pay attention to the break! The advance team is divided into a group to guard the other side of the suspension bridge, it is estimated that the logistics brigade is coming, let them wait for us to send someone here to inform them to come over!" Then everyone ran to the cave with all their might, and the response of a wild boar was heard in the distance. Bai Ping also played a mocking role in the back, and wild boars chased Bai Ping in groups all the way to the entrance of the cave. Bai Ping jumped in, and the wild boar attacked the fence to tear the wild monkey inside. In the caves, the spearmen were holding their spears and monzas, and rows of wild boars were either wounded and fled, or simply fell. The people in the cave were nervous, and many of the timid logistics team were trembling with fear. When the gunmen were tired, they changed people and continued to stab, and they didn't know how many wild boars there were, anyway, they stabbed hard with their guns. Some of the spears were poked in and could not be recovered, and the wounded boars dragged them away. The fallen boar hindered the attack of the herd, and the ferocious boar began to drag away the fallen boar from the entrance of the cave, whether dead or alive. Xiao Gang hurriedly pulled Qing Song's sleeve a few times, and Qing Song shouted: "Ignite!" The people holding torches in the advance team lit the fuse at the same time. Qingsong roared again: "Keep sticking hard, you can't stop!" The fence began to loosen, and the wild boar herd slammed into the fence harder. The ten detonators buried outside finally exploded, and I don't know how many wild boars were killed in the chaos, and the wild boars at the entrance of the cave survived without being affected by the explosion. As soon as the explosion stopped, the wild boar turned around and ran, and Qing Song ordered: "Rush out, use the throwing gun, kill one less one! Bai Pingshi's nephew, don't kill too much, pay attention to tracking." Come back when you see where they are staying! The logistics team comes out to clean up the dead pigs at the door and make dinner! If the logistics team arrives, tell them to slowly separate and cross the bridge, and if they haven't arrived, you can call all the advance team back!" Because the wild boar herd that hit the cave just now consumed a lot of physical strength, it was not very fast, and it was directly stabbed to death by the spearmen, and the one who ran farther was attacked by the spear for a few rounds. It was really a mountain of defeat, and there were more than a hundred wild boars still fleeing at this time, and if they returned to attack the spearmen, they would definitely suffer heavy casualties. After a charge, the spearmen had no strength to chase, leaving Bai Ping still chasing the wild boar. Many of the gunmen sat down tired and began to gasp, and by this time it was slowly getting dark. Qing Song was still directing the logistics team to mend the wounded wild boar, and if it hadn't been for the shouting to them to clean up the dead pigs just now, they would probably not dare to come out. After dark, there were still injured wild boars that were killed one after another, but the advance team was still physically better. Began to set up a bonfire at the entrance of the cave, some took out short knives to peel and cut the meat of wild boars and barbecue, and the pillar also returned with the brother who guarded the bridge to help tidy up dinner. After everyone ate the barbecue, Bai Ping returned to the cave. After Bai Ping had eaten the barbecue, Qing Song asked him, "How is it? Are you tired?" Bai Ping said: "It's okay! Not very tired, I chased them for fifteen miles, and saw them far into a forest and didn't come out, so I retreated." Qing Song said some words of encouragement to everyone, and then let everyone on duty in the advance team sleep at night.
On the sixteenth day, after breakfast, Qingsong sent three advance teams to pick up the logistics team, and then told everyone to kill all the wild boars in the trap first. By the time all the wild boars in the trap had been killed, it was almost noon. All the people poured into the nest and led the way by Bai Ping to find the foothold of the wild boar. Because Xiao Gang knew that wild boars came out to forage in the morning and evening, they would not move much at noon. When approaching the wild boar habitat, Bai Ping asked everyone to be silent, and behind the woods was a steep slope, and these wild boars were dead. Bai Ping quietly touched over, climbed a big tree, and Qing Song commanded the spearmen and the logistics team to disperse. When the encirclement was completed, the pillar used a flag made of underwear to mark the circle to transmit the signal to Bai Ping. Bai Ping took out a large three small detonators and lit the big ones and threw them at the pigs, and the detonators exploded before they could completely hit the ground, which was in the middle of the pigs. For a time, a large number of wild boars were shocked to death, and the remaining wild boars also bled from their mouths and noses and began to run wildly. The first to rush out of the forest was nailed to the ground by several waves of throwing guns, and after the sow rushed out with the piglets, it was surrounded by the outside and fired another volley of throwing guns, and the wild boar actually ran into the forest again. When they gathered, Bai Ping dropped a small detonator, and there were only more than 20 big pigs that could run. Bai Ping's luck really shouted angrily: "Attack quickly, there are only more than twenty big ones!" Qing Song shouted coldly: "Kill!"
A hundred spearmen rushed in with their guns, and the logistics team slowly followed in, and the pillar put Xiao Gang on his shoulder, and Qing Song watched the battle outside. Bai Ping also came down from the big tree and pulled out his waist knife to chop. All the wild boars had been killed, and even those that were beginning to be shaken down were given a few rounds of spears. Qingsong immediately ordered: "Take everything you can take with you when you go back to the cave." ”
When everyone returned to the cave, the logistics brigade was already steaming meat buns, and many wooden poles had pickled wild boar meat hung on them. The captain of the logistics team came over and said to Qing Song: "My lord, we have already arrived at the time, and there are still some people who are carrying supplies at the suspension bridge. Qingsong nodded and said: "It's just right to come, there is no need for the wheelbarrow suspension bridge, they are all here, right? Don't worry about the salt, use as much as you want, marinate all this pork! How is the physical strength of the people of your logistics team?" The logistics captain said: "The physical strength is okay! The wheelbarrow left ten on this side of the suspension bridge waiting for them to carry their things, and there are forty outside the cave." Qing Song said, "We are too tired to do it, so let your men set aside a hundred to light a bonfire on the side of the road where we and the wild boars have stepped on, and carry the wild boars overnight." When the buns are cooked, let's eat them first, we don't have anything to eat for lunch!" Bai Ping helped Qingsong to the cave and slept first. After a while, the buns were cooked, Bai Ping came over with a basket full of bamboo baskets, grabbed the buns with one hand and bitten, and handed them over with the other hand and shouted Qingsong: "Shibo, the buns are ready! An old man and a young man are unkempt, gobbling up hot buns, no matter how you look at it, they look a bit like beggars. The pillar hurriedly handed over hot water, and the people in the cave also got up and went to get the buns and eat them vigorously.
After eating the buns, the spearmen and the logistics team that had been here fell down and slept, but the pillar took the advance team to help carry the wood to make the bonfire. After the wheelbarrow on this side of the suspension bridge arrived, he hurriedly went to help with the transportation, and loaded some buns on the wheelbarrow to chase the people in front. In the middle of the night, Qing Song's spirit was much better, and he got up and looked at the people sleeping in the cave and sighed for a while! He said to himself: "It's better to be young! Today, after this toss, I just ran a little and I was so tired that I couldn't do it!" The logistics team leader did not sleep, but commanded the reception of wild boars at the entrance of the cave and sent people to add firewood to the bonfire. Qing Song was relieved when he saw it, and he went to the stove at the entrance of the cave to scoop some boiling water and drink it slowly. While drinking, he said to the logistics captain: "Thank you for your hard work, it's a pity that so much pork is not shipped back, so many people in the family can eat it for a lot of days when they move back." The captain hurriedly humbled for a while, and Qingsong went back to sleep inside.
On the seventeenth day, all the wild boars in the forest had been transported back by wheelbarrow, and the big wild boars weighed three or four hundred catties. If it weren't for the timely arrival of the wheelbarrow, everyone really couldn't help it. Seeing that the weather was not good, Qing Song asked people to notify the other side of the suspension bridge to protect the supplies with tents on the spot. Let the spearmen take over the wild boars killed in the trap in the wheelbarrow, and call the people transported by the logistics team and the advance team overnight into the cave to sleep. shouted that the captain of the logistics brigade also hurried to sleep, and asked the fifty-person logistics team who had slept enough to cook. Arrange these things. It began to rain in the sky, and the pikemen braved the icy rain to collect wild boars in traps everywhere, so that they could not be soaked in the rain. At noon, the wild boars were finally transported back in the rain, and the logistics team gave the gunmen ginger soup. Fortunately, there was no strong wind, and Qing Song commanded everyone to strengthen the shed. When the rain stopped, the logistics captain called everyone sleeping in the cave, built a shed at the entrance of the cave, let the blacksmith open the furnace to process the iron ropes brought by the furnace, and let the carpenter cut down the big trees that had not been cut down a few days before. Qingsong said to him, "You don't need to cut down those big trees, use them as fulcrums to build sheds!" With the blacksmith and carpenter, the work was much faster, and enough sheds were built in time. Because there was not enough salt, there were only two jars left, and they could not continue to be pickled. The logistics captain asked people to divide the wild boar meat, boil the fat ones in the pot, boil the lard, dry the lean ones into jerky, and even the internal organs are made into all kinds of cooked and semi-cooked food. Qing Pine told him to keep ten of them without making them, but to take out the internal organs to avoid rotting, and then smoke them. The main dish of the evening is red stewed pork brain, which is addicted to foodies. There were not so many people sleeping in the cave, so those who did not sleep continued to work at the entrance of the cave.
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