Chapter 221: Clever Ambush
"Good. Now I feel a little relieved. ”
Soon, Hongxia'er's expedition army set off in high spirits and high morale.
A few days later, three detective teams returned to report that it was the autumn hunting season, that the various groups of beasts had intensified their hunting, and that the herbivorous groups were gradually decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
However, the wolves and the jackals do not invade each other, and even cooperate with each other in hunting, and the jackals are more insidious and cunning than the wolves, and often kill them at the most critical time, so that the herbivores have no way to escape and fall into a desperate situation.
And those wild boars use "guerrilla tactics" to come out and rob from time to time.
Hongxia'er felt that the situation was more grim than she imagined, and she decided to personally lead the personal guards and the hunting army to hunt together.
In this way, Hongxia'er led a hunting army composed of seven or eight hundred fox friends and dog friends, and set off in a majestic manner one morning.
The next afternoon, Hongxia'er came to a canyon that was two or three kilometers long, and found that the canyon was lined with dense woods and grass, which was really a good place for ambushes.
She immediately ordered the troops to stop, and each went into the woods and grass on either side of the canyon to hide.
At the same time, seventy or eighty foxes and dogs were sent to find and collect dry firewood and hay to put at the exits at both ends of the canyon, and the fox rocket team also hid near the two exits of the canyon.
In addition, she sent two detective teams to reconnoiter several miles or even more than ten miles away from the two exits of the canyon, and they had to come back in time to report if they found a group of wild beasts and a group of prey.
The rest of the group went to look for similar canyons within a radius of dozens of miles nearby, and at the same time, she had to go back to the communications team to convey her orders, and send three more detective teams over, she wanted to conduct a large-scale and detailed reconnaissance.
Hongxia'er and her team lay in ambush here for three days, and no large herds of large animals passed by for the first two days.
On the morning of the third day, a group of fifty or sixty wild boars were dizzy and hurriedly passed here, and were attacked by Hongxia'er's team at the two exits of the canyon to cut off the retreat and rain resin rockets.
With minor casualties, Red Xia'er's team won the first victory of the Autumn Hunt.
In the past few days, they have been almost starving in ambush, just hunting some mountain hares, wild cats, pheasants and ducks every day when the sun is about to set, and they can't eat at all.
In the afternoon when the sun was setting in the west, a reconnaissance party came back and reported that there was a large pack of wolves and a large pack of jackals, a large herd of red deer and two large herds of sheep in the northeast about seventy or eighty miles from here, and that there was a large canyon about ten miles long that was about ten miles long about thirty or forty miles from here, which was suitable for ambush.
After hearing this good news, the army's heart was immediately excited, and everyone was eager to try.
Hongxia'er also felt that the opportunity could not be missed, and the time would not come again, so she led a large army to the canyon to ambush overnight.
After arriving at the Grand Canyon, Hongxia'er ambushed her troops on the slopes on both sides of the canyon at a distance of more than 1,000 meters and more than 1,500 meters from the northern exit of the canyon, and also about 100 meters from the bottom of the canyon.
He also sent his subordinates to find and collect hay and firewood from the local materials, and put some of them at the north port of the ambush circle (spread a layer of dry firewood and hay on the ground), and some of the hay and dry firewood were spread on the ground at the south port of the ambush circle.
The next morning, fog filled the air, and a group of more than three hundred and eighty jackals hurried into the ambush circle.
Hongxia'er gave an order, and suddenly the resin rockets in the sky flew like locusts to the hay and dry firewood laid on the ground at both ends of the ambush circle and the jackal swarm.
The jackals were in a panic, and the jackals who were hit by the rocket hurriedly fell to the ground and rolled over, trying to extinguish the flames burning on their bodies, and some accidentally rolled into the grass on the side of the road.
Unexpectedly, the autumn dead grass was set on fire, and instead of extinguishing the fire on his body, he burned a bigger fire, causing greater panic among the jackals.
After five rocket launches by 120 archers, the ambush circle at the bottom of the canyon was already a sea of fire, and although many rockets did not directly hit the jackals, they shot at the dry grass on the side of the road, causing a raging fire, which burned the jackals to a state of exhaustion and embarrassment.
Most of the jackals who were hit by the arrows were burned to death, but the jackals who were not hit were so smoky that they had to take refuge in the woods and grass on both sides of the canyon.
As soon as Hongxia'er saw that the time had come, she ordered the field team to rush down the mountain, at this time the jackals had lost most of them, and the rest had no fighting spirit, and the head of the jackals, the jackal king, was unfortunately burned to death by a rocket, and the dragons were leaderless.
In a short time, the herd of hundreds of jackals was wiped out by the brave field team.
The burnt and bitten jackals were eaten by the foxes, and the remaining jackals were taken back to the base camp, and the jackals that were not burned or bitten to death were tied up by the foxes and taken prisoner.
Hongxia'er ordered everyone to clean up the battlefield and extinguish the fire.
Everyone ate the fragrant and crispy barbecued jackal meat, laughed and laughed, and felt very happy and excited, and finally more or less avenged the shame and humiliation of being almost wiped out by the jackals last fall.
Hongxia'er warned everyone that they had to make persistent efforts after eating to meet the next bigger and fiercer battle.
This time, Hongxia'er moved the ambush circle to the north by about 1,000 meters, and brought the troops to ambush on the slopes on both sides of the canyon, which was only a few dozen meters away from the north exit of the canyon and about 80 meters from the valley floor.
She asked her subordinates to continue to collect more hay and firewood according to the ambush method just now, and spread more hay and dry firewood on the ground of the two ports of the ambush circle this time.
At noon, suddenly there was a lot of noise and the sound of animals running to the north outside the mouth of the canyon.
After a while, a large herd of red deer appeared at the mouth of the canyon, and after a moment's hesitation at the mouth of the canyon, they galloped towards the canyon.
Just as Hongxia'er was about to order the launch of rockets after the large herd of hundreds of red deer had entered the canyon, she suddenly noticed that behind the buttocks of this large herd of red deer, another large group of wild wolves followed closely in the direction of the canyon.
So, she raised her eyebrows, her dark red eyes turned around, and after thinking about it, she decided to let go of the group of red deer in front of her and deal with the wolves that followed her with all her might.
Because Hongxia'er knew that it was much easier to deal with the herbivore red deer than against the vicious wolves, she could not pass up the perfect opportunity to eliminate this pack of hungry wolves today.