Chapter 46: Shoot the Tiger
Hearing that the magistrate personally led his troops to round up the injured tiger, although the surrounding villagers were suspicious, everyone gathered from seven towns and eight miles, some came to see the excitement, and some came to help. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Looking at the crowd of more than 1,000 people around him, Yang Xuan was also interested, and asked with a smile: "Folks, it's really hateful for tigers to hurt people. ”
Everyone expressed their gratitude again and again, but some were also full of doubts, blinking their eyes and touching their beards, and said: "My lord, this tiger is a monster in the mountain, and it is a refinement. ”
Yang Xuan smiled and said: "Although the tiger has become a spirit, this county is like the Monkey King, who specializes in subduing demons and eliminating demons, and today there is the support of the villagers, why worry about the tiger not being destroyed?" ”
Everyone was skeptical, and an old man said, "My lord, do you know how to do magic?" ”
Yang Xuan laughed, lit the fire rope and pointed the bird gun at a crow on the branch fifty meters away in the distance, pulled the trigger, the fire flashed, the smoke rose, and the crow was shot to the ground in response.
Seeing that Yang Xuan's marksmanship was so accurate, everyone applauded loudly.
Put away the gun, throw it to the guards next to him to clean up the residue inside, and facing the surprised everyone, Yang Xuan stood on a high place and shouted: "Everyone, everyone knows the power of the strong bow and crossbow, compared to the strong bow and crossbow, the power of the bird gun is far above it.
In the 5th round, I had 3 soldiers equipped with bird guns, and each spear head had a spur, which could shoot at a long distance and fight like a spear at close range. Even if you encounter a fierce tiger, I don't think it's much of a problem. ”
Everyone claimed that it was, and everyone joined the ranks of rounding up the tigers, and more than 300 people gathered in less than half a sound.
Yang Xuan found Yang Risheng, Chen Huaixi, Yang Fuquan, Niu Dayong and others to discuss the hunting method.
Hunting is different from hunting, in order to alarm the beasts in the mountains, you need to prepare pots and pans, firecrackers or something, in order to scare the beasts in the mountains.
Most of the people had no experience, so the hunters were very valuable, and all those who had experience in hunting were assigned to the various squads to teach hunting skills.
Dafang Mountain is more than 20 miles in circumference, the mountains are surrounded by clouds and mist, there are many forest vegetation, the mountain roads are rugged and narrow, there are many pebbles, and the tiger is hiding in it.
On a flat land, Yang Fuquan placed different stones of different sizes to explain the topography, which is the most primitive sand table in ancient times, which is said to have been used in the early years of the Han Dynasty when the general Fubo Ma Yuan conquered the southern barbarians.
The tiger is a large carnivore, from time to time will make a low whistling sound, the sound shocks the valley, a radius of several miles can be heard clearly, after making a big move, it is completely possible to lock the tiger's position according to the tiger roar, and then gather and kill it.
According to the terrain, there are cliffs in the west and north, and only two mountain paths are connected to other peaks, so it was decided to send Yang Fuquan to lead two teams to intersperse the past, dig ravines in dangerous places, and set up mechanisms to cut off the tiger's retreat.
Chen Huaixi and Yang Risheng led a large group of men and horses to round up from the southeast and southeast directions.
Yang Xuan and Niu Dayong led 2 firearms teams to hunt.
The task was quickly assigned, and while Yang Fuquan led his troops to carry out the interspersed tasks, Yang Xuan asked people to set up a marching pot, and everyone cooked and rested first.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the hunt officially began, and the people walked along the various roads, beating gongs and drums, beating tree branches, setting off firecrackers, lighting torches, and walking in a row.
All of a sudden, the sound of people within a radius of four or five miles was noisy, the sound of gongs and drums shook the sky, the mountains shook, and the people who came from the seven towns and eight miles were quite novel.
After being frightened, rabbits, monkeys, and wild deer came out of their nests in fright, and fled in panic.
The people saw that these animals were very fresh, and they often broke away from the team to go to catch them, but these animals had already had the ability to escape, and suddenly burrowed into caves or fled to the depths of the jungle during the people's pursuit.
In this bustling sound, Yang Xuan stood on a hill behind him, holding the pergola with his hands from time to time, observing the movement ahead, letting the surrounding soldiers tear their throats and shout loudly, planning the progress of each department.
In order to hunt the tiger, Yang Xuan led two firearms teams to respond in the back, and if he found traces of the tiger, he led the firearms team to quickly arrive and hunt the tiger with the intensive firepower of the birds.
Yang Xuan was thinking about it, and at the same time looking at the progress of the hunting on the four or five mountains in front of him, the people were in a commotion, everyone was in a hurry, and there was no coordination at all, so there was a lot of vacuum.
Despite this, the main purpose of today's hunt is to hunt and kill the tigers that are harming the people, and the tigers are too big to be exposed in less than half an hour.
In order to show that he is sacrosanct, there are bursts of tiger roars in the distant mountain col that are very low, which makes people feel creepy.
Hearing the roar of the tiger, the people in front reacted to two poles, some quickly ran towards the roar of the tiger, and some timidly stopped and did not dare to act.
According to the previous terrain model, after some throat-tearing shouts, the actions of the various units gradually unified, and everyone slowly surrounded the hill where the tiger was.
Chen Huaixi was the first to spot the tiger, on a hill, the tiger stood on a large rock and screamed at this group of people who dared to invade their territory, everyone was very excited, many of them shouted loudly with waving sticks in their hands.
In the distance, a large white-fronted tiger walked back and forth on the hill in front of it, and from time to time let out a low hissing sound to frighten everyone.
When everyone saw the tiger appear, their hearts rose to their throats, and some of them were even more nervous and ready to beat gongs and drums to drive away the tigers.
Yang Xuan raised his hand to stop everyone and quickly formulated a killing strategy.
The assignment was quickly completed, Chen Huaixi and Yang Risheng led the people to beat the branches and wave torches in the distance, while the tiger saw that there were many people under the mountain, just walking back and forth in the mountain stream, roaring from time to time.
Under the leadership of the local hunters, Yang Xuan led the brothers of the two firearms teams to trott all the way to the back mountain, and climbed to the top of the mountain along the sheep intestine path.
According to the original plan, it was to wait until it was more than 100 meters away from the tiger to light the fire rope and load ammunition to kill the tiger, has the situation changed now?
At this moment, there was a burst of heavy footsteps in the distance, and everyone was shocked, could it be that the tiger left the mountain stream and pounced on the top of the mountain?
Before he had time to think about it, Yang Xuan asked everyone to reload gunpowder, iron pills, and primer medicines, but the movements were very cumbersome, and the footsteps became heavier and heavier.
When the tiger appeared in front of him, half of the people around him had not finished reloading.
The tiger also sensed that there was someone in front of him, and suddenly stopped, raised his head and let out a low roar, as if to tell everyone that this was his territory.
Yang Xuan took a deep breath and commanded everyone to line up and surround the tiger.
Considering that the tiger moved quickly, everyone moved very slowly, so they moved to more than fifty steps, and just when Yang Xuan was about to give the order to fire, he suddenly saw the tiger running to the left.
Yang Xuan immediately ordered to fire, the flames flashed, thick smoke drifted overhead, more than a dozen bird guns fired one after another, and for a while, crackling gunshots came from the entire forest.
From a distance, he saw the tiger being shot by the iron ball, but quickly got up from the ground, let out a burst of hissing sound, and ran north.
Yang Xuan was shocked, he couldn't imagine that the tiger was so agile, and the ten bird guns couldn't shoot the other party, and now seeing that the tiger wanted to flee to the north, the tiger was obviously injured, and there was blood everywhere on the ground.
After everyone reloads, they outflank and pursue them in two ways, left and right, along the flowing blood.
Everyone put gunpowder on one side, iron pills and primers on the other, and the speed of the pursuit can be imagined.
But the tiger was injured just now, and with these two hills, the tiger's hiding place was very limited, so everyone pursued all the way along the bloodstains.
After running less than 100 steps just now, seeing that the tiger was about to turn back and run back, Yang Xuan was shocked, hurriedly stopped everyone, and set up a formation to shoot.
The tiger was probably eager to try, and just after running two steps, the sound of a bird bell sounded, and the tiger was frightened and immediately turned back and fled.
In this way, it took two pillars of incense to finally force the tiger to the edge of the cliff in the north.
The tiger was visibly hurt, and now it suddenly rushed towards everyone after seeing the crowd constantly surrounding, and after making a series of terrible hisses.
Everyone was shocked, everyone held their breath, and those who lit the fire rope pulled the trigger one after another, and because the distance was too close, about half of them hit the tiger's body.
The tiger was obviously injured, and his body shook slightly, and he kept tossing left and right in the hope of avoiding the bird, but this time the injury was not light, and he fell heavily to the ground when he rushed to the front of everyone for more than ten steps.
Everyone was overjoyed, and some of the bold birds were about to celebrate, but to everyone's surprise, the tiger actually stumbled to his feet, and then prepared to turn back and run backwards.
But it was too late, and the brother who had arrived by other means pulled the trigger, and after a dense burst of gunfire, the tiger was struck and slowly collapsed in a pool of blood, never to get up again.
Blood kept flowing back and forth on the ground, looking at the tiger whose body was blurred, and there was only breath out but not breath in his mouth, Yang Xuan sighed, this was the first time that everyone had gathered their strength to kill the tiger.