Chapter 48: A Xian's Slaughter of Cattle (I) [Seeking Reading]
The speed of the crowd was not fast, and it took some time to travel three or four miles.
Soon, small cabins and shacks began to appear scattered ahead, apparently where tenants stored their tools, seeds, and resting during the busy season.
There is also a dusty flat-topped stone mill that stands in a high open space.
Large tracts of farmland are ahead, stretching from east to west.
The three of them dismounted ahead of time and were led by the servants behind them, and then walked on the slightly wet dirt road towards the stone mill.
It was surrounded by wooden stakes, which was a relatively safe place nearby.
The father and daughter just happened to be able to watch Zong Xian capture and kill the bull on the flat top of the mill!
Led by two bold servants, Zong Xian found the four-eyed bull in the field two or three hundred meters away from the stone mill!
I saw that all the surrounding fields had been dragged out of the messy soil ditches.
The bull lay in the middle of the field, where it had carved out a nest, and seemed to be sleeping soundly with its eyes closed.
They approached cautiously, not daring to make much noise.
When the distance was shortened to sixty or seventy meters, Zong Xian saw the whole picture of this guy.
The size of this wild bull is extremely huge, and its body length may have reached one and a half feet.
There is a pronounced bulge from the neck to the back, and the muscles of the front shoulder blades are knotted, making its body appear thick in front and thin in the back.
The pair of threaded horns on the top of the head are sharp and curved, and are based by a protruding bone plate with black hair.
The large bull's head has four symmetrically distributed eyes.
The nose of the cow was accompanied by the breath of the four-eyed bull, and it spewed out columns of pale white air.
Its body is dark and brown, its hooves are a circle of white hair, and it is a little slender compared to its huge body, and its tail is as thick as a child's arm, like a soft stick.
Such a huge size was beyond Zong Xian's cognition.
At the same time, he also observed a soft, large hump extending from the back muscles of the bull, and inward-facing depressions on both sides of the neck.
That should be the brute bull's weakness of the "back bag" and "neck meridian" mentioned by Qi Shi.
In addition, there are many injuries on the body of the brute bull.
With Zong Xian's current eyesight, he saw several arrows inserted into the skin on the side of the brute's body alone, and there was a steel fork hanging on his buttocks.
The forelimbs were wrapped around a small ball of twine, and it seemed that this was the result of the hunters.
However, the wild cow has thick skin and hard meat, although it is not to the point of invulnerability, but ordinary methods of dealing with wild beasts are also difficult to be effective.
Zong Xian stood in place and thought silently.
If you want to kill this kind of brute beast with "thick blood and high defense", it is the best strategy to fight hard and kill.
It would be nice to be able to use traps to solve it, but the previous hunters have all failed, indicating that ordinary traps are useless.
If you want to arrange a pit, according to the size and strength of this guy, at least dig a huge pit that is four or five zhang deep and not a small area, and the amount of work is huge, otherwise it only takes a moment for this guy to rush out of a slope on one side of the soft soil wall.
Moreover, digging a big pit is a stupid method, and it may not be effective if it is time-consuming and laborious.
The hemp rope restraint is also not good, because the strength is not enough, and the brute bull can easily break free.
It is not easy to carry out long-range strikes with bows, these hardwood bows are not very powerful, and the power is naturally very average, unless they can accurately hit the eyes of the bull, they can play some role, otherwise it will be difficult to make contributions.
It's even worse to use poison, not to mention whether the dose that could have poisoned people can poison the brute cow, even if it is really poisoned, not only can the bloody thing not be done, but this brute beef will also have to be wasted.
After thinking about it, I didn't think of any reliable way.
"Cow..."
"Matador?"
Zong Xian suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and the picture of bullfighting appeared in his mind.
"Cows are colorblind, but are unusually sensitive to things that shake..."
"I don't have to expect those traps and lures to kill the bull, but as long as I delay a little, I can find an opportunity to make a move, and strive to kill with one blow!"
“……”
Thinking of this, he turned to the two servants who followed him and gestured.
The three men immediately turned around, and soon returned to the mill.
Xu Yuan's father and daughter were on the top of the mill, and when they saw him return suddenly, they asked a few questions.
Zong Xian didn't ink, and directly put forward his own requirements.
"In addition to Xu Yuan, I need seven or eight pieces of silk cloth, at least five feet in length and two feet in width, and seven or eight bamboo poles or wooden poles."
"Prepare seven or eight more bundles of fine hemp rope and some bells."
"By the way, by the way, carry two bags of wheat seeds!"
"The silk cloth should be fixed at the top of the bamboo pole, and then hang bells and fine hemp ropes on the top, and prepare as quickly as possible while the wild cow is asleep and does not wake up!"
After hearing his request, Xu Yuanwai hurriedly ordered a servant to quickly ride back to the village to prepare.
Although Maple Grove is not large, it is not difficult to prepare these things.
Taking advantage of this time of preparation, Zong Xian once again observed the terrain near the four-eyed bull and confirmed several "flag planting points" to mislead and lure the bull.
After almost a stick of incense, the servants rushed to the stone mill with the things that Zong Xian needed.
Everyone got busy under Zong Xian's orders, and it didn't take long to make seven silk bell flags, which were carefully inserted on multiple points from dozens of meters to one or two hundred meters around the four-eyed manniu, and then sprinkled a few piles of wheat seeds, so that the preparation was complete.
Each silk bell flag was connected with hemp rope, and a few young and bold servants pulled the rope a hundred meters away, supplemented by wheat food to lure it.
Zong Xian went around and came to the rear of the wild bull who did not have a point.
He'll be here to look for those Achilles' heels and look for opportunities.
The reason why ordinary hunters are helpless is not because the hunting strategy is insufficient, but because the means of killing are insufficient, and Zong Xian can make up for it by himself.
The intense set-up was quickly completed.
Zong Xian is also in place.
He silently ran the "Turtle and Crane Murmuring Technique" to adjust his breathing rate, squatted down, and waved his arm into the distance.
The two bell flags closest to the bull were pulled with the pull of the fine hemp rope.
"Jingle Bell..."
The crisp sound of the bell broke the silence in the fields.
After a dozen breaths, the bull in the nest moved.
"Whew!"
First, there was an unusually heavy wheezing sound.
Then the four red eyes of the brute bull opened at the same time, and the muscles of the strong shoulders and back trembled.
"Moo!"
It slowly stood up, like a black boulder rising.
Seeing this scene, the flag pullers at the two points hurriedly followed Zong Xian's instructions, half-bowed and quickly withdrew from the original place, the hemp rope in their hands was not released, and the bell flag was shaking.
In this way, it really attracted the attention of the four-eyed bull!
The snow-white front hooves picked the ground, and the huge black shadow took a step and rushed out of the dirt nest!