Chapter 45: Ambush in the Valley
87_87057There are indeed not many small and medium-sized fish-man tribes on the south bank, Bai Qi and they searched along the coast for three days before they found a nest of about 500 fish-man tribes in the middle of a small mountain range near the river.
Bai Qi guessed that it was probably because of the obstruction of the small mountain range behind them, which made it more difficult for this fish-man tribe to enter the jungle on the south bank to hunt, so that their number was limited.
And the reason why this fish-man tribe has always stayed here and is reluctant to move is also clear, there is a powerful fish-man tribe upstream and downstream, which restricts their way out, and the large shallow beach in this small col is also a reason to attract them.
Finally found this target that could be dealt with, Bai Qi immediately sent Adrian to investigate, the most important thing is to investigate whether there are fish-man shamans in this tribe.
After an afternoon of reconnaissance, in the evening, Adrian returned with a bad result.
This fish-man tribe is a little special, their scales are a very rare pale gold, and their body is larger and stronger than ordinary fish-people, and there is a shaman in the tribe, who is an elderly shaman.
In addition to this elderly shaman, there are two Chosen Warrior leaders in the tribe, one of whom is exceptionally strong and quite powerful.
Although there are not many of these fishmen, they are extremely well-equipped, and even some ordinary fishman leaders are equipped with the Black Fish King War Spear in their hands
Judging from the news brought back by Adrian, this fish-man tribe is obviously not a good target, but Bai Qi and they don't have a very good choice, and it is not easy to find such a fish-man tribe on the south bank of the powerful fish-man tribe such as the forest.
After a few people discussed for a while, Bai Qi asked Bode to turn the bow of the ship and drive back for dozens of miles. Anchor in a valley bay in the adjacent river range.
This bay mouth is small and wooded, and the boat is hidden here. It is difficult to spot the boats passing by on the river outside, otherwise they go hunting fishmen. When you come back and find out that the cargo ship has been hijacked by pirates, it becomes a joke.
A few people rowed a small boat and went ashore in the dense woods on the inner side of the bay, and then under the cover of night, they slowly approached the fish-man tribe.
The moon is bright tonight and the stars are scarce.
By the moonlight, looking at the rudimentary water villages in the valley along the shallows of the river banks and the figures of fish patrolling around the water villages, Bai Qi began to recall the information that Adrian had brought back.
This fish-man chose this location for the nest, and the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious.
This mountain range is bordered by a river. The shallows formed by the numerous valleys provide a large number of resource-rich fishing grounds for this fish-man tribe, which allows this group of fish-people to feed three or four hundred people very easily, but when the number of people in the tribe exceeds this number, the nearby fishing grounds cannot provide enough food, so they have to climb over the hill and go to the jungle behind the mountain to find food.
This small mountain range is not high, but it is very steep. It is also relatively wide, and to cross the mountains, you have to climb several mountains. Even with the vigor of the fish-people, it would take nearly three hours to cross this small mountain range, which undoubtedly brought great difficulties to the hunting of this fish-man tribe and limited the development of this fish-man tribe.
From the Fish-Man Water Village over the mountains behind it, the nearest best way is the mountain pass above the valley where the Fish-Man Water Village is located.
The hiding place of the people at this time is on the hillside behind the fish-man water village, and a path has formed on this hillside due to the frequent walking of the fish-people.
According to Adrian's observation of the fish-man returning from hunting this evening. Perhaps because of the long distance of the hunt, the hunting team of this fish-man tribe is quite large. There are more than 100 people, and there is a Chosen Warrior to lead.
Such a large contingent of fish-people. It's no longer something that Bai Qi and a few of them can deal with, they have to find another way.
Bai Qi waved his hand to the others, turned and followed the fish-man trail, towards the mountain pass above the valley, he said as he walked: "According to Adrian's observation today, this fish-man hunting team has not brought back large game that has been divided, but a small number of medium-sized game and a large number of small game, which shows that this hunting team will disperse after crossing the mountains, maybe there, we can find an opportunity." ”
Adrian and Barrian nodded, and Rounda followed Bai Qi without saying a word.
The three of them followed the fish-man path in the mountain forest, and gradually moved away from the fish-man water village, and Barrian, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Boss, have you noticed it, the golden-scaled fish-people in this water village seem to be taller and more burly than the other fish-people. ”
Bai Qi didn't think about it, and said casually: "Maybe it's a different variety." ”
Barian nodded, but didn't say anything more.
The four of them followed the fish-man trail and spent more than an hour climbing over three mountain peaks to an open valley.
This valley is located between two mountain beams, in the shape of a herringbone, about seven or eight acres of area, the inner side of the valley is a rocky ground, almost no grass, close to the mouth of the valley gradually there is a soil layer, grow a large shrub, this shrub has been extended to the valley outside a hundred meters away, only then began to appear tall trees.
At the bottom of the valley there was a small cave on the rock wall, and there was a spring in the cave, forming a small pond, and the bones of animals were scattered all over the cave, and the ground was full of miscellaneous traces left by fishmen.
Bai Qi stood at the entrance of the cave, covered his nose, and looked at the pond in the cave by the strong light of the flashlight, although the outside of the cave was dirty, but the inside of the cave was quite clean, and the water quality in the pond was quite clean because of the spring water gushing out.
After looking at it for a moment, Bai Qi waved his hand and quickly left this rancid place with everyone.
Coming to the open ground in the middle of the valley, everyone couldn't help but breathe heavily.
After taking a breath, Bai Qi said: "It seems that this place is the transit camp of the fish-man hunting team, the fish-people came to this valley over the mountain, replenished the water in the pond in the cave, and then went out to hunt, judging from their harvest, this group of fish-people should be scattered into small groups into the jungle." ”
Adrian said: "Then let's go into the jungle and ambush first, and break each one?" ”
Bai Qi frowned and said: "With the obstruction of this mountain, this group of fishmen does not have much time to hunt, only about five or six hours, so the range of their hunting should not be too large, with the speed and body of the fishmen, it should be within more than twenty kilometers near this valley, unless there is some big water source nearby and other hunting grounds where animals have to concentrate, otherwise, if this group of fishmen wants to get enough prey, I am afraid they will have to divide the team very scattered, and it will not be like the fishman tribe we encountered before, There are fixed hunting routes. There were only four of us, and there weren't a few of us in ambush. ”
Adrian said, "What then?" ”
Bai Qi said: "Let's go out of the valley first, maybe my guess is wrong?" ”
In the large area of bushes hundreds of meters wide at the mouth of the valley, there is a path trodden by a fishman, and the path is tortuous and only for one person.
Passing through dense bushes, the valley is fronted by a sparsely shrubbed gravel slope with a dense forest as far as the eye can see.
On the slope in front of the valley, the fish-people's footprints are scattered, and it is too chaotic to tell how many groups of fish-people they have divided, and there is no clear road in the woods below the hillside, which shows that as Bai Qichai did, this group of fish-people did not have a fixed hunting route, and there was no way to ambush at all.
After observing a circle in the forest, the four of them gathered on the slope of Taniguchi Mountain, and everyone's eyes were focused on Bai Qi's face.
Bai Qi looked back at the large bushes at the mouth of the valley, as if he had some idea, he waved his hand, led everyone around the bushes, came to the hillside on the side of the valley, and climbed up.
Everyone climbed up the hillside for a while, and came to a position where they could see the entire valley, and Bai Qi carefully observed the terrain in the valley for a while by the bright moonlight in the sky.
He pondered for a moment, then pointed to the large bushes at the mouth of the valley and said: "You see, there is a storage of this shrub, and it is impossible to see the situation in the valley from outside the valley, you think, if the fishmen are divided into small teams to hunt in all directions, then the time of their hunting return must not be unified, it must be the return of threes and threes, why don't we ambush in this valley?" ”
Bai Qi's words made Adrian's eyes suddenly light up.
Bai Qi said again: "You see, the shrubs at the mouth of the valley are getting more and more sparse as they go in, we hide in the bushes and launch an attack on the back of the fishmen who are fully loaded, and then quickly kill the fishmen and drag their bodies to the bushes to hide, anyway, the prey they bring back will definitely smell bloody, and there is no need to be afraid that their sensitive sense of smell will find our ambush, with the strength of the four of us, as long as we are not too lucky, we will encounter a large number of fishmen and return at the same time, it is enough to kill this fishman hunting team little by little." ”
Bai Qi's words made the three of them nod again and again.
With an idea, several people put their minds at ease, found a few big trees on this mountain beam with a wide view, tied them to hammocks, and began to take turns to rest.
After arranging the order of night duty, Bai Qi fell into a deep sleep in a hammock more than three meters above the ground, although he had only experienced two or three missions, Bai Qi seemed to have fully adapted to this kind of life.
Bai Qi felt as if he had just fallen asleep when he was woken up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Adrian who was the first on duty.
She saw Bai Qi open her eyes and said softly, "Boss, there is a situation, it is very strange. ”
After saying that, she didn't explain much, and quickly slipped down the tree, and went to wake up Barian and Round.
Bai Qi listened to Adrian's voice that seemed to be full of doubts, but he was not panicked, and judged that things might be very strange, but it should not be very urgent, so he looked at the time unhurriedly, around half past two in the morning.
The time is determined according to the time when the sun rises after they enter this world space, but the day time in this world is much longer than the day on the earth in reality, a day is about thirty-two hours, but fortunately, the timekeeping function in the character panel can adjust the unit time of the day. (To be continued).