Chapter 47: The Hunt

This round-up of tigers also made people realize the lack of training, not to mention anything else, just take the musket squad as an example, firing forty or fifty rounds of projectiles, and the real hit rate is less than 2 percent, and this hit rate is too low anyway. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, it was the coordination of the various ministries, and in the final hunting process, the other ministries did not know how to assist in the hunt except for waving their flags and shouting.

These all need to be summarized, but at the time of summarizing, Yang Xuan hopes to engage in a larger range of hunting, so as to raise more food for the army.

The dead tiger was carried to the river, and seven or eight hunters were skinning the dead tiger around him.

Everyone was excited, and many were ready to leave.

Yang Xuan stood on a big rock, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then hugged his fists to express his gratitude to the surroundings, and said to everyone: "Everyone, in addition to killing this tiger, this hunt also killed twenty rabbits, monkeys, wild deer, wild boars, and so on.

In this way, let's divide the prey, 10 catties of tiger meat for every 20 Zhuang Ding, and a rabbit or something.

Not to mention the rest, this tiger is a treasure all over his body, he endangered everyone in the past, and today we will eat his flesh. ”

Everyone laughed, and some village representatives even resigned repeatedly, the county organized soldiers to kill the tiger and eliminate the harm for the locality, how can everyone share this prey?

Yang Xuan smiled and looked at everyone: "Everyone, if you don't have everyone's support to succeed, let's take it first."

In the next few days, this Dafang Mountain and Xiaofang Mountain will be hunted, and the prey will be indispensable at that time. ”

Everyone was shocked, and naturally asked how to hunt and whether they needed manpower.

Yang Xuan expressed his welcome, so that more than 100 men were willing to participate in the hunt the next day.

Considering the small number of people, it was decided to hunt the small square mountain next to it first, and then this big square mountain.

The hunting destination was quickly chosen, there is a ravine about half a mile long in the middle of Xiaofang Mountain, called Wild Boar Ridge, the east and west sides are cliffs, only the north and south roads are the same, if the prey can be driven to the Wild Boar Ridge, and then hunt, so it will be twice the result with half the effort.

After deciding on the combat intent, it was decided to order Chen Huaixi to lead the 3rd Squadron to encircle in the east, west, and north directions with the cooperation of more than 100 villagers, while Yang Xuan led the rest of the troops to round up from the south with more than 200 villagers, so as to achieve the purpose of driving the prey to the wild boar ridge.

Everyone was very excited, as Yang Xuan declared, this was a real combat exercise, and only after many drills, everyone could slowly become familiar with the battlefield operations.

Emphasizing the cooperation between personnel in the hunting process, generally a team of 5 people is a team, and each team designates a person in charge for command and coordination.

Before driving to the Wild Boar Ridge, we need to beat tree branches, set off firecrackers, beat gongs and drums, set off fireworks, etc., in order to achieve the purpose of driving.

In order to let everyone better understand how to hunt, Yang Xuan told everyone that hunting is like a villager chasing ducks, blocking the key pass, and driving the prey to the destination.

Although everyone didn't understand it for a while, the most important thing on the battlefield was obedience, the absolute obedience given by the commander.

After a night's rest, the hunt began early the next morning, despite the fog in the sky, very low visibility, and rough roads.

After each squadron and squad received the order, everyone rushed to the destination with a one-man high arquebus, a rattan card, a large knife, a spear, pots and pans, torches, firecrackers, etc., and then began to hunt.

I saw three or five people standing next to each road, and others shouted trumpets, beat the branches of the trees around them, beat gongs and drums, or fluttered torches in their hands, and surrounded them from all directions.

Yang Xuan stood on a small hill behind, his hands were set up in a pergola, and the sparks in front of him were used to inspect the progress of the various action teams.

Seeing such a momentum, Niu Dayong next to him was full of doubts and asked, "My lord, this, is this useful?" Will this drive away the prey? ”

Although Yang Xuan was quite puzzled in his heart, he still nodded and said, "Of course, why can't it?"

Although I haven't seen hunting, the villagers should know that three or five villagers can drive more than 100 ducks, and hundreds of us can hunt with the help of steep mountain passes? ”

Niu Dayong nodded as if he didn't understand, everyone was thinking about it, and suddenly received a report from Guo Chonglie that he found a few rabbits in a few holes during the hunting, and asked for advice on whether to give up or continue the hunt.

Yang Xuan was shocked in his heart, the terrain in the south was different from the north, the southern waterways were vertical and horizontal, the hills were dense, and there were many ravines, while the north was a boundless prairie.

In the north, animals have nowhere to hide, just simply drive away, but in the south, the prey can enter caves and other places, if you give up so easily, then the other party may give yourself a guerrilla war.

Ling Niu Dayong led two hunters to smoke with smoke and fire, use firecrackers and other methods to drive out the prey in the cave, or eliminate them on the spot.

The hunt proceeded very slowly, and in such an afternoon, although more than a dozen rabbits, five monkeys, a fox, and a wild deer were hunted, only four or five hills were rounded up.

Yang Fuquan was anxious, pointed to the opposite mountain and shook his head: "My lord, according to this progress, even Xiaofang Mountain can't be hunted today?" ”

Yang Xuan's face was solemn, nodded and said, "Yes, the progress is a little very slow, let's talk about what's the best way?" ”

Everyone was gossiping, and the hunter Xu Yue touched his cheeks and thought about it, and said timidly: "My lord, didn't you say that during the hunting process, you need to send some elite people to rush in and kill those prey?"

But the terrain here is very complicated, and although the prey is driven away, it is often found in some caves or something to hide.

Either the hunters who are in the hunt will not only hunt the startled prey, but will first drive them out with torches and firecrackers when they find the prey burrowing into the hole.

If this is the case, it is equivalent to giving the other party a tiger's mouth, so the progress of the hunt will be much faster. ”

Yang Xuan felt that it was feasible, and after some consideration, he immediately changed his method and adopted a new hunting method the next day.

Not to mention, the effect of the change of method was immediately apparent, there were people outside who beat gongs and drums to hunt, and there were people inside who made trouble, and the animals that were rounded up could no longer be slightly startled and driven out of the cave as they had done in the past, and then immediately found a hiding place and were hunted by the soldiers who kept killing them.

The hunt went on and on, and the number of prey caught continued to increase, and by noon they were quite happy to see a wild bear, two wild boars, four or five deer, four or five foxes, forty or fifty rabbits, monkeys, and so on.

Due to the large number of people, rabbits, monkeys, foxes, and all kinds of wild animals in the valley could no longer be at peace, and one by one they ran out of the caves, and when they saw the fire coming in, they ran away one after another.

Seeing that the momentum was so loud, everyone also came to the momentum, shouting one after another, and the animals were constantly driven away, running back and forth, and at this time, the various hunting teams organized by Yang Xuan continued to rush in, hunting and killing panicked wild animals.

The strength of the number of people is great, especially after the successive organization, by the time the sun sets, the closure is completed, and about 200 animals are surrounded in the wild boar ridge.

Everyone was very excited, and Yang Fuquan suggested using a bow and crossbow to hunt.

Yang Xuan frowned, if it was just a simple aim and shooting, what was the use of this compared to hitting a live target on weekdays?

In the previous life, everyone said that the Japanese were powerful, mainly because they admired the Japanese for their accurate marksmanship and the Japanese for fighting bayonets. Of course, Yang Xuan could not use a living person to practice bayonets like the Japanese, but he could use livestock to practice fighting skills.