597 Vikings' Snow Wolf Trial (Part II)
With night vision, Eriksson is as addicted to computer games as a high school student who has just been exposed to computer games.
Even when it was time for him to go to bed in the second half of the night when the changing of the guard came, he was reluctant to leave.
In this way, the trial team walked for another two days, and came to the border of the wasteland, and beyond that was the towering snow-capped mountains.
At this time, the snow on the mountains had not yet melted, and there was a shortage of food. There were so many snow wolves that they wouldn't go up the mountain, so now they just had to slowly search for the snow wolves.
At this time, Eriksson still looked like a Viking, he was wearing Datang combat boots, a telescope on his chest, and a night vision device on his head, just like a special soldier.
Kneeling on the ground to identify it, he stood up excitedly and said, "Found it!" ”
"What is this?" Tang Ping asked, "Wolf feces?" ”
For the past two days, Eriksson has been searching the ground, and he thinks he is looking for this.
"That's right, it's the snow wolf's feces, this should be two days ago, it means that we are not far from them, look around, you can roughly judge the direction of their journey."
Tang Ping called everyone over, everyone looked at the feces on the ground, and then began to split up, and soon there was a new discovery.
Then, after walking in the direction of the newly discovered feces for about half a day, Eriksson pinched some more from the ground and put them on his fingers.
"That's right, these are the feces of a day ago, softer. Although the wolves are moving in this direction, they also have to hunt, and the current event should be that the she-wolf will give birth. ”
Wolves at low altitudes generally mate around January and February, and the gestation time is 61 days, which is two months, which happens to be the most recent.
If there are pregnant she-wolves or she-wolves who have just given birth to cubs, they are not destined to move too fast.
Now that they had found the traces of the wolves, Tang Ping and the others also decided to speed up and be more careful.
In the direction of the wolves, they kept walking to a higher place with a better line of sight, first observing with a telescope, and if they did not find the wolves, they went to the next high ground.
Along the way, they found prey that had been eaten by wolves, and even the carcasses of small semi-brown bears.
Eriksson looked at it and said, "This is an old and lonely brown bear, otherwise the wolves would not easily provoke such a large animal, but it also shows that they are not very rich in food, so they will risk attacking this large prey." ”
There are not many small animals in this wasteland, but since each animal can survive, it has a way to escape their natural predators.
No matter how powerful the wolves are, they have to rush up to hunt, and they can't shoot the animals before they even find him like Xue Rengui.
Plus they are huge, so it's not so easy to find enough food.
"Can we use food to lure them into our ambush or trap?" Tang Ping asked.
"Ambush?" "Wolves are suspicious by nature and sometimes even want to starve for a day or two to hunt them, so I'm not sure if our bait will attract them. ”
"But now I can feel that they are moving slower and slower, and I think it may be that the she-wolf in the pack is about to give birth, and this should be our chance!"
After continuing to track for a day, Tang Ping and the others finally found the traces of the wolves, and in the binoculars, they could clearly see that this wolf pack was not only forty in the intelligence, but fifty-one, but there were seven female wolves in it with very large bellies, and they should be about to give birth.
After observing for a while, it was found that the wolves were indeed planning to stay here, and there were even carcasses of other animals in their ranks, which were supposed to be their stored food.
"It is estimated that for more than ten days, they will not move anymore." Eriksson judged: "It takes more than ten days for the wolf cub to open its eyes and walk. "So do they have enough food?"
"It's definitely not enough!" "These snow wolves can sometimes eat dozens of pounds of meat in one meal, and this food is mainly for female wolves and higher-status wolves, and the rest of the wolves will still hunt nearby," Eriksson said. ”
"And what if we chase away the nearby prey?" Tang Ping asked: "The range they can find us is about two kilometers, and we will clear their prey within a range of two kilometers." ”
Wolves are nocturnal animals, and they hunt at night, so Tang Ping has enough time to shoot or drive away the prey on the periphery during the day.
This way, at night, these wolves don't have much to gain when they hunt.
Only hunger can make it easier for them to enter Tang Ping's trap.
Tang Ping took a few people to stay on this high ground to observe the wolves, while the others scattered, although not everyone had Xue Rengui's superb archery skills, but as long as they drove the prey away.
By nightfall, everyone was back.
They were also very patient, and the wolves went out to hunt this night and still had some gains, but it was much less than usual, but with the intelligence of the wolves, it was impossible to suspect that there were humans who were playing ghosts.
The next day, Tang Ping and the others repeated their old tricks, and this time they went out and encountered a lot fewer prey.
At night, the wolves harvested less, and even a few wolves approached Tang Ping's temporary camp, but unfortunately the distance was still a little farther, this distance only Xue Rengui was sure that he could shoot one horse with one arrow, and the others might run away.
By the third day, the time was ripe, and Tang Ping and the others put some of the animals they had caught in advance on the way to their ambush circle.
The animals were still alive, but they had been knocked unconscious and tied with ropes.
When the wolves come over, they don't think that these prey, which are obviously dumber than usual, are traps for humans.
The wolves that came out to hunt approached Tang Ping's circle step by step.
The landform of Northern Europe is the "fjord landform", which is a type of glacial erosion.
One of the most notable features is that there are many U-shaped valleys, which is quite advantageous for Tang Ping's ambush.
When the wolves entered the U-shaped Valley, Tang Ping directly ordered the fire.
The dry firewood that had been placed at the entrance of the U-shaped valley was ignited by rockets, and the sudden fire made these snow wolves startled.
The instincts of the creatures make them afraid of the flames, and they can't get out of the mouth, so they can only start a frenzied escape to the rest of the U-shaped valley.
It's just that Tang Ping's people have already been ambushed on the surrounding heights.
Condescendingly using bows and arrows to attack, even these Norse giant wolves will not escape the fate of being shot.
Soon more than a dozen giant wolves fell with a wail.
But there were more than a dozen giant wolves jumping on the rock wall with agility, and they actually rushed out of the U-shaped valley, and it happened to be the direction that Tang Ping led people to guard.