Chapter 268: Fighting the Locusts
Jinzhu Village is located in the south of Jinzhu Mountain, with 242 households and thousands of people, and is the easternmost village of the Wang family. Between the south of the village and the avenue, there are hundreds of acres of good fertile land.
Since yesterday, Uncle Tiger led 2,000 people and carried tens of thousands of chickens and ducks to the village, and told them that the locusts were likely to attack the fertile fields of the village today, and the village exploded: The locusts are coming, so what is it? However, since this morning, all the villages and villages have been silent, and everyone has put on the masks that have been handed down, even the dogs, waiting for the locusts to come.
As time went by, more and more villagers doubted the accuracy of Uncle Hu's message, and when it was noon, some people wanted to go home to cook, but they were stopped, and everyone could only bake glutinous rice cakes and eat them.
Several horse-drawn carriages came quickly along the village road paved in the fields, and Uncle Tiger hurriedly led people to greet them.
"Meet the head of the house, the master mother, and the two ladies."
Wang Shihua walked out of the carriage and stopped everyone from bowing together: "No need to be polite, I'll stop by to see you." ”
After getting out of the carriage, Wang Shihua asked as he walked, "Uncle Tiger, how are you preparing?" ”
"Don't worry, master, you've been prepared for a long time, just wait for these damn locusts to fall into their nets." Speaking of dealing with locusts, Uncle Tiger had a smile on his face and said: "It's still the head of the family who is wise and martial, and the ancestors have no way to deal with these locusts, and they don't know that they have a good weapon around them, but you have come up with such a good way." With that, my lord, you should go down in history for thousands of years. ”
"Uncle Tiger, don't slap me on the back when you keep talking."
"Master, you don't know my temper, have you ever seen me slap a horse? I'm telling the truth, if future generations face the locust plague again, as long as they use this method, they will inevitably remember your name. ”
During the laughter and conversation, Wang Shihua did not lose face, and barely supported himself to walk under the eaves of a family, but he was so tired that he could only sit down. After taking a sip of tea, he asked, "Is it time for locusts?" ”
"According to estimates, it should be at noon, but it hasn't arrived yet, and I guess we have to wait."
As soon as Uncle Tiger's words fell, he saw a spearman pointing at the top of the opposite mountain and shouting, "Uncle Tiger, there is a signal on the opposite mountain." ”
Wang Shihua looked up, but saw a white flag on the top of the opposite mountain waving from side to side.
Uncle Tiger solemnly shouted: "It's not the first time I've done this business, do it according to the previous deployment, quickly..."
Everyone immediately dispersed in an orderly manner, and ran into the house to hide, and even Wang Shihua's three carriages were driven to the back.
In less than two minutes, I saw a yellow-black cloud suddenly burst out of the sky above the mountain on the left, as if it suddenly jumped out of space, which was extremely dazzling. I'm afraid it's a million...
Immediately, the yellow-black clouds poured down the mountain like a torrent, poured into the edge of the 100 acres of fertile fields under the mountain, and then quickly invaded the middle of the fertile fields...... Wang Shihua and his family, who were lying on the side of the bed, witnessed the scene of the locust plague devouring for the first time, and they were stunned with fear in their eyes.
Uncle Hu, who was accustomed to this, instructed the people around him with a light and familiar manner: "Let the people in the field open the covers on the beaks of the chickens and ducks in the chicken coop, and when the locusts are less than five meters away from the chicken coop hidden in the field, open the cage door..."
Someone immediately ran out, pulled out the small red flag in his hand and raised it to Tian, and then put it down.
The 100 people who were lying in ambush in the field immediately reached into the chicken coop and took out the sleeve on the beak of the chicken and duck, and for a while, the cry of the chicken and duck was loud, and the "buzzing" sound formed by the locusts flying came and went.
The distance was almost up, and the herald immediately raised a small red flag and waved it forward to the field, and then to the left.
The people in the field suddenly pulled the rope in their hands, and on the ten chicken coops beside them, the door knocker tied to the rope was immediately opened, and the hungry chickens and ducks in the cage immediately rushed towards the locusts in groups, and many chickens and ducks even flew up and pounced on the locusts...... If you look down from the sky, you will find that tens of thousands of chickens and ducks are like a colorful torrent, crashing head-on into the yellow-black torrent.
The two collided, there was no sound of waves crashing on the shore, but it was more spectacular than the collision of huge waves: although the cries of chickens and ducks frightened many locusts, the number of locusts was too much, and they were attacked by chickens and ducks at close range, and for a time they could all escape, and for a time, the field was full of scenes of chasing and killing and the cheerful cries of chickens and ducks.
Seeing that there were too many locusts, although these chickens and ducks were desperately chasing and killing, the speed of the locusts was still unabated, and they just flew up one after another wherever the chickens and ducks passed. Looking down from the sky, these chickens and ducks are like falling on the sea, stirring up waves, but they don't have much impact on the overall situation for a while.
"Open the chicken coops on the edge of the field and let them go to war..."
Uncle Tiger regarded the extermination of the locust plague as a real marching operation, and the deployment was very in place, and as the flag bearer waved the flag in his hand to send a signal, a scene that really dealt a blow to the locusts appeared.
A full 40,000 chickens and ducks formed a huge encirclement, frantically pounced on the locusts from all sides.
There is a great manifestation of the wisdom of the people: some old hens are charging with their chicks, and even if these old hens are full, they will habitually continue to chase and kill locusts, and after pecking the locusts to death, they will not eat them, but leave them to the chicks, and they will continue to chase and kill locusts happily.
After five minutes, the locusts finally couldn't hold it anymore, and it was natural for them to flee. But they have no intelligence, they just instinctively want to get out of here and scatter out of the woods.
"Uncle Tiger, they're running away."
"Don't worry, the housewife can't run." Uncle Tiger smiled very happily, his eyes flashed, and his eyes were full of murderous intent, as if he was really fighting against his own kind again.
After another three or four minutes, I saw that the locusts left in the fields had basically been destroyed, and a small number had fled to the small forests around them, where they were gathering to plague other places again.
"Let those who are lying in ambush on the periphery do the final reckoning."
The man who was lying in ambush in the forest immediately opened the chicken coop...... Uncle Tiger really did not miss anything, and took everything into account: it was ducks and hens who fought in the fields, because hens could not fly high. But the big rooster can fly to the branches. In the forest, when these hungry roosters saw the locusts fall on the branches, how could they care about anything else, they raised their wings, fluttered and fluttered a few times before flying to the branches, pecking head-on, provoking the locusts to fly high and land on other branches, but tens of thousands of big roosters had already occupied the branches, how could they have a place......
"Send a few more people, ride fast horses to follow, and be sure to figure out where they will gather next."
"Yes..."
In just 20 minutes, an army of nearly 70,000 chickens and ducks wiped out 7.8 million locusts and escaped. Although the process is short, the contribution of the deployment must not be overlooked, otherwise, it will never be possible to achieve such brilliant results.
Wang Shihua let out a long breath, and at this time, he realized that he was too nervous just now, and now he was sweating profusely.
Turned to Uncle Tiger and smiled: "Uncle Tiger, this elimination of locusts is really the same as marching and fighting, it is really hard for you." ”
"Master, although these locusts are not human, their destructive power does not have to be artificially poor. Since it is an enemy, it is natural to take it seriously, and the sooner it is destroyed, the smaller our losses will be. ”
"Uncle Tiger, how many locusts have you destroyed?"
"Back to the master, I made a rough estimate, and after three times, there were no less than five million. This time it was small, the first time it looked really shocking, no less than five million locusts were overwhelming, good guys, the momentum was really amazing, I was a little frightened to see it. Fortunately, there were sufficient preparations, there were many chickens and ducks, and the deployment was proper, and more than 3 million of them were destroyed at one time, ha... Ha... Ha ......"
Seeing Uncle Tiger say that he couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh at the end, Wang Shihua was also very happy.
"Uncle Tiger, how many locusts do you estimate?"
"The head of the family, this is not easy to estimate." Uncle Tiger sat down, took a sip of tea, and said: "The main thing is that people elsewhere take these locusts, except for setting fire to the fields, there is no way at all, you can only watch them spoil the dealer and leave, so that although we can destroy them here, they can grow elsewhere, and then turn around and pounce on us, and so on, so that people are incalculable." If everyone were like us, we would have exterminated these locusts a long time ago. ”
Wang Shihua suddenly looked at Uncle Tiger with a smile and asked, "Uncle Hu, didn't you teach them?" ”
These people are very proud, thinking that this thing is too simple, and there is no need to learn. Take the proud lord of the Xiang family, who received 20,000 chickens and ducks from us, and collected nearly 20,000 from his house. Supposedly, with these 40,000 chickens and ducks, it should be enough to destroy the locusts in his house, but he was good, when he heard that the locusts were coming, he did not plan carefully, but waited there, and when the locusts arrived, he directly drove all the 40,000 chickens and ducks over, and as a result, the locusts were not eliminated much, but the chickens and ducks were tired and starved to death. Hey... Hey... I heard that the first time they did this, seeing that the locusts were about to run, they hurriedly set fire to the fields, and the locusts did not burn to death, but burned a lot of chickens and ducks. ”
Uncle Tiger was half angry, and said with a sarcastic smile: "They are not my sons, and they are not my clansmen, since they refuse to ask, how can I be bored with a hot face and a cold ass." It just so happens that in this way, they suffer a loss, but they can cheapen us, which is very helpful to the plan of the head of the family. ”
"Huh... Ha... Uncle Tiger is right, they voluntarily suffer, why should we spoil their interest, just let them do their work. After suffering a few more losses, they will know that this is not easy. ”
chatted for an hour, and after everyone basically caught all the chickens and ducks, everyone went back to Lao Sicheng in a mighty way.
Late at night on June 8, Erhu took hundreds of spearmen and escorted two carriages into Laosi City quietly through the night......
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