Mastiffs have almost no natural predators in the grasslands.

Even if it is the golden eagle of the sky overlord, it will not provoke them under normal circumstances; Not only will they risk being killed, but even if the hunt is successful, the weight of an adult mastiff may not be able to be caught and brought back to the den.

And for these apex predators, food on the grasslands is relatively plentiful, unless it is a special season.

As a half-sized mastiff, even if he still has a body of fetal hair, he is not much inferior to the third and fourth in terms of size, and he is two laps older than his sister Xiaopang. So, the third and fourth decided to start teaching their son real hunter skills, rather than being content with catching a rabbit or something.

Normally, they should bring Chubby with them, but the two cubs will distract them, especially if the two cubs are just looking big/fat, and are actually a little short of the age when they really learn to hunt.

Thanks to a good investment from the big boss, the new dad and mother's pair of cubs are well cared for by humans, and after months of running training almost rain or shine, Big Fat has very good fitness and stamina.

It's just that the prey in Shunyang Pass is relatively small, and Da Fat has no problem finding the traces of prey, but he has a problem in choosing the type of prey.

Big Fat has his sights on a Hun tribe, a herd of cattle and sheep in the tribe to be exact.

The lamb is delicious!

The teething sticks made of beef jerky are delicious!

The big fat man was prostrate in the grass, staring at the prey with good eyes, and a small puddle of saliva flowed out of his slightly open mouth, and rushed back to let the cook make it for it to eat! So much delicious, eat every day!

The fourth child slapped the stupid son with one paw. There are so many people, just the three of them can't be defeated at all.

After a while, the third child appeared quietly, licked his daughter-in-law, and then licked his son, turned his head, and motioned for them to follow.

In terms of hunting, the third child is still very reliable. The fourth child and the big fat followed the pace of the big boss, and after nearly two hours of searching, they found the second chef who was cooking mutton.

Chu Hao and they were very lucky this day, they caught four wild sheep, ate dry food for a few days, and found no trace of the Huns nearby for the time being, so they decided to take a good rest, and by the way, they cooked the mutton as dry food for the next few days.

In general, although the soldiers carry three to ten days' rations on their backs, in a season like summer, when food is not easy to preserve, the dry food they bring is far from enough, and in many cases it is necessary to use local materials. With the lunch box prepared by Ruan Bai, the conditions this time are already surprisingly superior.

There has always been no big deal at the post station, and both the post house guards have been trained well by Ruan Bai. Ruan Bai has nothing to do, and Chu Hao doesn't know very well what Ruan Bai is usually at home, in addition to preparing three meals a day, he is still tinkering with something.

Like this lunch box and medical kit, Ruan Bai prepared a lot. There were eleven people in his team, including him, and he brought eleven servings, and the number of pancakes was a little insufficient, but there were dried vegetables and spices in them. I have to say that it is much better than that oilcloth vinegar cloth.

Chu Hao often lives under Ruan Bai's aura, and his feelings are not very obvious; But his men were different. They didn't dare to express their envy and jealousy directly to Chu Hao, so they could only look at their boss with eyes full of resentment.

Cut, what about a thousand households? It's not a dog slave yet!

Dogs can't eat anything too salty. Chu Hao also made another sheep, ready to make it for the third family, and when he had time in the middle, he also combed the dog and wiped his face, and waited for it carefully.

Raising a hunting dog is a reserved item for almost every noble family, and hunting with a hunting dog is also one of the must-have programs for the children of the gentleman. Even Chu Hao once had two fierce big dogs, but unfortunately no one had a long lifespan. After the big dog died, he never raised it again.

He really likes the third family, but the third family prefers his second brother. No way, the biggest spoon in the house.

The amount of food that adult mastiffs eat is actually not large, and their main combat power is big fat.

Chu Hao felt that he had made a mistake in giving the big fat name: "I'm about to catch up with your father, why are you still growing?" Reaching out to pinch the fat leg, "You're fat, right?" ”

Da Fat has been harassed by Chu Hao since he was a child, and he was pinched by Chu Hao, but he didn't move, and he gnawed on the sheep bones by himself.

The little soldiers trembled when they saw it, if such a big dog bit down...... Hiss!

The third child squatted vigilantly, his ears drowning in the long hair moving from time to time. The fourth child lay lazily on the ground, pushing Chu Hao with his big paws, signaling to comb his hair.

"Eat all, don't be alert." Chu Hao greeted, no kind of vigilance was as good as the third and fourth. While combing the fourth child, he asked, "Where's the little fat?" Didn't you come out with you? ”

"Ah~hmm." The fourth child yawned.

There was no way to communicate, so they could only rest slightly relaxed for a while under the vigilance of the third child. When he had rested enough, the fourth child pushed Chu Hao with his paws, turned his head and motioned for them to follow.

That is, Chu Hao was stable enough to not be pushed so "gently". After getting along for so long, he can still understand some simple body language of the dogs, but now he is on a mission, and he is not taking the dog out to hunt!

Chu Hao said: "Not now, I'll take you out to play when I'm free." ”

The fourth child glanced at him with cold eyes, and bared his teeth: "Wang! ”

The big fat came over and asked Chu Hao to help it wipe its mouth, and then bit Chu Hao's heel with a clean mouth.

Chu Hao jumped to his feet. It's no better here than at home, where you don't have a place to fix your shoes.

A soldier suddenly said: "My lord, we haven't found any trace of the Huns in the past few days, why don't you follow the big fat ones to have a look?" They seem to have discovered something. ”

This mention looks unreliable, but ...... They didn't find anything now anyway.

So the team got on the horse and followed the third family in the direction of going deep into the grassland.

In less than half a day, they found out about the situation. The flock of sheep in the distance is like a cloud, not even the blind can see it. It is even more evident that a team of about 100 people is rapidly approaching the flock.

Well-equipped and with strong horses, this is not a herdsman, but a cavalry.

When the Huns fought, although the herdsmen could directly become soldiers, there was still a big gap between ordinary herdsmen and the real Hun cavalry.

The big fat was very entangled, and looked back at his father. They couldn't drive the sheep away just now, but now there are a lot more people......

The third child looked back at Chu Hao and his party, and then looked at the scale of the Hun cavalry, and felt that the sheep were hopeless.

The fourth child rubbed his son's fat body with his paws, which was considered comforting, and whispered twice. The prey can be found again, there is no need to keep an eye on such a group of sheep, there are many sheep on the grassland~

The big fat head pushed the mother and decided to find another flock of sheep and rush back to let the cook cook it for it!

"Whew-" The chirping of the golden eagle pierced the sky.

The third child looked up at the sky and called softly to his son: "Wanghu." "Let's go, Daddy will take you to bird hunting!

The three dogs disappeared in the grass for a moment, and even Chu Hao couldn't detect their traces at once. The current situation does not allow him to run after the dog. It was normal for herders to appear in this place, but the appearance of cavalry of this size almost confirmed their previous suspicions.

However, now is not the time to startle the snakes, and their group obviously can't do so many Hun cavalry. Chu Hao suddenly thought distractedly, if Ruan Bai was here, would there be a way to kill this group? He subconsciously touched the medicine bag. His health kit didn't hold the same stuff as the other one in the team; In addition to bandages, gold sore medicine and the like, there are also a lot of □□ anesthetics or something......

"Your Excellency?" The soldier behind him saw that Chu Hao suddenly stopped and asked.

Chu Hao came back to his senses and made a gesture: "Retreat first, find cover, and monitor the movements of the Hun cavalry." I'll go to the camp in the evening. ”

The Huns have golden eagles, which are not easy to touch during the day, but easier at night. He did not come to kill the Huns, but to find out the movements of the Huns.

The third family did not have Chu Hao's patience. Although adult mastiffs are basically not attacked by golden eagles, mastiff cubs are on the recipe of golden eagles. The third child was attacked by the golden eagle when he was a child, and since then he has been full of hatred for all who can fly. Its sons and daughters inherited it well.

Chubby catches a sparrow.

The sparrow was still alive, and was slapped over by a palm-sized claw, and from time to time it was bitten, and when he saw Ruan Bai coming, he took the sparrow over and motioned Ruan Bai to play together.

Ruan Bai: "......" the third family is simply it! He had never seen a cat catch a sparrow, but he had never seen a dog catch a bird. It's a shame to be caught by such a fat dog as a bird with wings!

Seeing that Ruan Bai didn't move, Xiaopang tilted his head: "Hmm~" Don't you play?

Ruan Bai: "Go catch a few more, and cook them for you at night." "It's like eating chicken bones.

Xiaopang threw away the half-dead sparrow, and went to find the former hunter Zhang Daniu to catch the bird together. In terms of catching sparrows alone, Zhang Daniu's ability is much higher than that of Xiaopang. As the number one shooter in every archery competition in the post boy, he came back with a bag of sparrows after a while.

The little chubby head was raised high, just as the sparrow was caught by it.

Anyway, he had nothing to do, so Ruan Bai boiled boiling water and scalded his fur to kill the sparrows, and the small ones were cleaned up by him. If it's not clean, it's not good, Chubby will check on the side, leave a stubble, and it will scream.

Ruan Bai rolled his eyes: "Why don't you stare at them to make briquettes?" "As a wild mastiff, you can't be the same as a pet dog!

It is not difficult to make briquettes, after Ruan Bai taught for a few days, those auxiliary soldiers have done a decent job, and the rest of the pre-job training is left with safety precautions for digging coal. Most of the coal mines in the West Plains are open-pit coal mines, so it is not difficult to mine. He can only talk about the troops on paper here, and the rest will wait for the uniforms and other materials from the Xishan side to be sent, and then wait for the infrastructure on the Xiyuan side to be ready.

As for those retired veterans, they will be on duty tomorrow.