Chapter Eighty-Three: Winter Hunting
William was on a war horse, with a long lance in his hand, and five or six spears in his quiver at his waist, and yes, he was on a winter hunt.
He led the knights, their children, and a few retinues into the forest for the winter hunt, while the ladies waited for their prey outside the forest, when they should have begun to light fires, which was also a good way for the lord to communicate with his vassals.
Three hunters, the best of the archers and experienced hunters, followed the trail of their prey in front, and they would find out where the prey was and bring William there, and that was their accusation.
A group of more than forty people shuttled through the forest, and a few attendants at the back led a few mighty hounds, they jumped up and down in the forest, the reckless forest stimulated the wildness in the body, and the sound of barking dogs resounded through the forest.
"My lord, we found some traces, judging from the footprints, it should be a small herd of wild boars, the number is about three or four, it should be a family!"
The hunter at the front, dressed in thick fur, walked up to William's horse and said.
"Looks like we've got our lunch done today!" William smiled and said to the knights behind him.
"Let's go!"
"Oh!" The children of the knight's family let out a cry of excitement, and very few of them had participated in this kind of hunting, and their father had only begun to become a knight with a fief, so they were still very excited about such a pastime.
Their little faces were filled with excited smiles, in addition to the fur cotton clothes, William also specially prepared a leather armor for each of them, and the knights were also the same equipment, wearing iron armor in winter would dissipate heat.
They followed the path of the prospectors in search of the boar, and at that moment there was a faint cry from the woods in front of them, which was the cry of the boar.
William kicked the horse's belly and sped forward, and as the sound grew louder, the boars appeared in front of everyone.
They are rummaging around in the snow, and in winter plants and prey are scarce, and these wild boars are also in danger of food.
It's clear that this is a family of wild boars, two big wild boars, three and a half big wild boars.
Truth be told, wild boars are not good prey, although they have a lot of meat on them, they are no worse than tigers and leopards.
Especially the boar at the head, whose huge body of nearly three meters shows his strength.
After discovering the anomaly, the wild boars noticed the large number of species and watched them warily.
"Hounds!" William commanded the servants.
The seven hounds broke free from their restraints and rushed towards the wild boars like seven arrows, which angered the overlords of the forest, and the two adult wild boars roared and rushed towards the seven hounds.
The charge of the wild boars is not something that the hounds can resist, and these wild boars can even break a thinner tree in a flash, and the fangs on their mouths are even more lethal.
Although the wild boar is infinitely powerful, the hound is tender in number and has a flexible mind, never fighting the wild boars, but relying on their flexible bodies to constantly harass the two wild boars.
Although the half-sized boars were still minor, their lethality should not be underestimated, and the knights watched their battles from the sidelines, and when the hounds had exhausted the boar's physical strength, they were ready to strike.
The hound is agile, often grabbing and biting on a wild boar, and then escaping immediately, causing him to be very angry and let out a burst of roars.
At this time, the wild boars already had a lot of wounds on their bodies, although they were not fatal, but they lost a lot of blood, and at the same time, they had to deal with the hounds, which had consumed a lot of physical strength.
"Do it!" William gave the order, and at the same time rushed out with the riding gun in his hand.
The knights also began to move, scattering to surround the boars, while the children of the knights followed their fathers and helped to fight.
The sound of more than twenty horses galloping attracted the attention of the wild boars, and while they were observing their surroundings, they were inevitably attacked by the hounds again.
William rode on his horse, and instead of rushing towards the boar, he watched from the sidelines, looking for an opportunity.
At this moment, the adult male boar had a flaw in the fight with the hound, and William immediately made a decision, jumped off the warhorse, took out a throwing spear more than a meter long from the quiver on his waist, and threw it.
With a "whoosh", the spear pierced the boar's back, and the entire head of the spear was submerged, obviously with great force.
William set his sights on the biggest prey, and the other knights also chose their prey, some of them used their spears to consume the wild boar, and some were not good at long-range weapons, so they rode directly on the war horse, approached the wild boar, and used the riding spear in their hands to cooperate with the hounds to poke the wild boar.
The wild boar was shot by William, raised his huge head and stared at William more than ten meters away, roared, no longer cared about those hounds, and his huge body rushed directly towards William.
William was not in a hurry, and he knew how to deal with this bulky wild boar, he quickly rode on the war horse, and kicked the horse in the belly, and the war horse immediately pierced out like a sharp arrow that had been off the string.
Even in the snow, the speed of the war horse was not comparable to that of the boar, and just as the boar was angry and wanted to pursue William, the loyal hounds caught up with the boar again and swam with him.
In this way, William kept teasing the boar, four of the five spears hit the target, the boar's physical strength was rapidly consumed with the flow of blood, and its movements had begun to slow down, and it was already the end of the crossbow.
William was no longer afraid of the boar at this time, and let the hound consume it for a while, and he would go to kill the boar.
The hounds were consumed for a while, and one of the hounds was trampled on his left leg by a wild boar when he harassed him again, and now he must have broken his bones.
"It's now!" William's eyes lit up, he raised his rifle and rushed towards the boar.
"Whew!" The spear stabbed the boar in the left shoulder, and then slashed, a hideous laceration appeared on the boar's body, and William accelerated his horse out of the boar's range.
In the end, William stabbed the rifle into the boar's eye, and its body fell to the ground, and the tormented boar finally ended his miserable life.
William wanted to look around, and everyone else also cooperated to kill all the wild boars, especially Banstersk, who held a battle axe in his hand and directly slashed at the head of the wild boar that had half his life left, directly splitting the pig's head in half, the scene was very bloody and violent.
As for the wood, he showed off his superb archery skills as a Kriza, using a dozen arrows to consume the boar's physical strength, and the last arrow shot directly into the boar's eye, killing it, causing a cheer.
Today's picnic was a bit monotonous with wild boar alone, and after wandering in the forest for a while, I found a small herd of deer.
More than a dozen deer, such prey is not very lethal, in order to play a tempering role, William ordered the knights to give up the horses to the young man behind, so that they can complete the hunt of the deer.
William's order caused a cheer among the boys, and the knights hesitated, but they did not object to it.
These future knights, armed with their riding spears, began to hunt for the deer.
is really worthy of being the eldest son of the knight's family, in the end, he is the inheritor of bravery, even if he is the youngest boy, he behaves very brilliantly, without revealing half of the fear, and cleanly solves the prey.
William saw that the prey was almost there, so he asked people to tie the prey behind the war horse with a rope, especially the big wild boar, which was estimated to weigh almost a ton, and it could not be pulled by a war horse alone.
The knights gathered together in twos and threes to chat, and the teenagers happily boasted to their companions about how brave they had just been, and their red faces were full of youth.
Back at the camp, more than a dozen knights' wives were huddled around Wella, talking and laughing, while some of the knights' second sons were snuggling up to their mothers, happily watching everything around them.
A few bonfires were burning vigorously, baking the camp in no such cold, and the men and women were busy working on the cooks.
"Look, they're back!" Wella saw the returning knights and smiled at the noblewomen.
So saying, they got up and prepared to meet them, and all the ladies got up one after another to meet their returning husbands.