Wang Yanqiang's reminder was very timely, and as soon as everyone walked forward, they encountered a series of large and small potholes. The deepest one is almost five meters, and the entrance of the cave is covered by dense artemisia sour jujube bushes.

It's hard to spot anomalies without getting closer.

When Rhubarb led the way in front, he always hunched over and sniffed, looking very nervous. As for the other dogs, the reaction was more pronounced. One by one, they clipped their tails and barked non-stop. Apparently, they also smell the unusual smell of the ravine.

Afraid of scaring the wild wolf away, the dog owners scolded them several times, but to no avail.

Soon, Rhubarb leaned over a bush of wolf fangs and let out a low roar to alert his master.

When everyone got closer, they noticed a pile of wolf dung scattered on the ground next to them.

Some are yellowish, some are off-white.

"There are still fresh ones, everyone be careful," after the admonition, Wang Yanqiang immediately loaded his steps, ready to attack at any time.

In this way, they cautiously walked out three or four hundred distances, and suddenly another pit appeared in front of them.

Much like the one in Wolf's Den Mountain, the entrance of the cave collapsed into a slope, and there were many weeds and needles growing at the bottom of the pit. On the loose soil of the slope, you can also see obvious plum blossom-shaped claw marks.

Rhubarb sniffed around the edge of the cave a few times, then suddenly lowered his body and made a gesture of fluttering at any moment.

The barking of the other dogs also became more and more rapid.

Wang Manyin squatted down and looked down a few times, and found that there were a string of holes extending towards the ground.

He had no choice but to speak, "Uncle Yanqiang, the wild wolf should be hiding below. There are strings of holes, what should I do?"

"Leave half of the people here, and the rest of us will go with me to find the water mouth and block it." Wang Yanqiang thought for a moment and gave another order.

These potholes are made by rainwater and usually have outlets underneath. As long as it is blocked, there is no way for the wolf to slip away quietly.

As soon as everyone walked more than ten meters away, they found a hole in the grass. The entrance of the cave is not large, it is long and narrow, and there are obvious traces of water erosion.

In just a few minutes, the entire outlet was completely sealed with stones.

When they returned to the entrance, a difficult problem lay ahead: how to get the wolves out.

This pit is not deep, only more than four meters, and the key is that no one knows what the situation is in the string of holes.

After the last incident, Wang Manyin has some psychological shadows about the string hole.

The underground environment is complex and pitch black, and human vision is seriously obstructed. Once you enter it, even if you have great ability, you can only play two or three points.

Wild wolves, on the other hand, have excellent night vision. In this environment, it is easy to sneak attack.

Even if you have rhubarb with you, you may not be safe.

When facing Xue Laosan and a few people before, Wang Manyin wanted to protect the orchid, so he naturally dared to let go and fight for his life.

Now he wasn't completely scared, and the point wasn't worth the risk.

The rest of the people looked at each other in the same way, and none of them offered to go down and check it out.

Wang Yanqiang saw that no one came forward, and said with some disdain: "I'm afraid of a bun, a group of cowards, and all of them will be strained at a critical time. Tie the rope and I'll go down and see. If there's something unusual, you just pull me up right away."

After saying that, he tied the rope around his waist and let the two of them pull it and slowly release it downward.

During the whole process, Wang Yanqiang was highly concentrated, and his fingers never got off the trigger.

As a result, as soon as he got to the bottom of the pit, he suddenly raised his gun and turned around, and let out a low roar: "Sun!"

Bang!

A gunshot rang out.

"Uncle Yanqiang, what's wrong, there's a wolf?" Wang Manyin was startled and asked urgently.

"Quick, pull me up!" The other party did not answer, but yelled loudly.

Hearing this, Wang Manyin and Liu Xiangyang hurriedly pulled hard. In just a few seconds, the person was pulled back to the ground.

"The wolf's hole is on the edge of the pit...... It's a pity that it didn't hit! Let them retract!"

Wang Yanqiang replied regretfully.

"They, you mean

Down there was a wolf's den, and there were a few of them...... It can't be a pack of wolves, right?" Wang Licheng asked in surprise. He had heard before that the Loess Plateau was usually a lone wolf, or a male and female wolf. If there are really wolves, and everyone only has one gun in their hands, I'm afraid they won't be opponents.

"I don't know, it should be a wolf cub......" Wang Yanqiang shook his head.

He had just landed on the ground when he turned his head and saw a cave in the hollow of the cave wall, and several pairs of green eyes were staring at him.

Wang Yanqiang thought he was dazzled, so he hesitated for less than two seconds before shooting, and several wolves had already shrunk to the bottom of the cave. Whether it hit the target or not, I don't know.

Wang Yanqiang was holding an old-fashioned Type 53 rifle rifle in his hand, which needed to be drawn by hand and single-shot. Afraid that he would be attacked by other wild wolves in the process, he hurriedly asked people to pull him up.

At this time, everyone also heard a low roar coming from the bottom of the pit.

"And wolf cubs? Thankfully, we found out early. If we wait for the autumn, these guys will gather in groups, and the threat will be even greater." After hearing this, Wang Manjun also said happily.

Knowing the setting of the cave, Wang Manyin has a bit of a spectrum in his heart.

He thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Yanqiang, why don't we go down again. You're holding a gun, and I'm guarding with a seedling gun?"

The Miaozi gun is a cold weapon, similar to a spear, with a barrel of two meters long.

As long as he blocked the entrance to the cave as soon as he went down, the wild wolf would definitely not run.

"No, the wolf's hole is curved, and that's why I just shot it empty." Wang Yanqiang shook his head again.

"What then, these guys are hiding in the hole and won't come out, we can't wait forever, right?" Liu Xiangyang asked out loud.

He had read from books that wolves could last for days without eating or drinking.

A few people definitely can't spend it together, and there is not so much time to waste. What's more, when it gets dark, their vision is seriously obstructed, and they are likely to become the target of hunting.

"What's so troublesome, just burn them out with fire! Smoke can be smoked to death!" Wang Yanqiang spoke bluntly.

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up.

As for killing a few wolf cubs, no one objected, and Wang Manyin did the same.

This is not the moment, he is not pedantic. In later generations, the wild wolf naturally belongs to the protected animal, but now it is a well-known harmful beast.

And just like Wang Manjun said, this wolf's den is too close to the village, and if it is not eradicated in time, those broken babies in the jar village will be in danger.

Then, Wang Yanqiang began to divide labor. Two people were left to guard the entrance to the cave, while the rest gathered around to collect the remaining dead grass.

A dozen or so people set out in unison and soon collected a large pile of hay.

From April to now, it has been almost 20 days without rain. The dry grass in the ditch was very dry, and it was lit with a little fire.

As the flames burned, everyone grabbed and threw themselves into the bottom of the pit.

Under the high temperature, the weeds growing at the bottom of the pit were also ignited. As the water evaporates, billowing smoke rises and spreads deeper into the pit.

Everyone stood on the edge of the pit, also choking and coughing.

Soon, wolf howls and coughing could be heard inside. Apparently, a couple of guys were also smoked by the smoke.

After a while, smoke also came out of the hole in the distance.

At some point, the sound in the pit gradually stopped.

After a large pile of hay burned out, Wang Manjun asked out loud, "Uncle Yanqiang, it's almost over, let people stop?"

"No, you go ahead and cut wood. The wolf is too cunning, what if we don't smoke to death, what if we go down and suddenly hurt people?" Wang Yanqiang was unmoved.

Now that you have done it, it is natural to do it perfectly.

Now it's so thick with smoke that I can't see anything clearly. To be on the safe side, it's better to smoke for a few more minutes. Anyway, there is no shortage of firewood in the cliff ditch.

On and off for almost half an hour, Wang Yanqiang finally asked everyone to stop.

It wasn't until the smoke had completely cleared up that they cautiously walked down.

It is still Wang Manyin and Wang Yanqiang who are the heads, and one of them is holding the seedlings

A man with a rifle and a rhubarb next to him.

The bottom of the pit was quiet, and no unusual movement was heard.

When they saw the wolf cave, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

I saw a wild wolf's body half-blocked at the entrance of the cave, motionless, and it looked like it should have been smoked to death.

However, for the sake of safety, Wang Manyin still poked a few times with a seedling gun. After confirming that this guy was really dead, he struggled to pull the wolf corpse out.

The fur is intact and it is a she-wolf. Deep in the hole, there were three dead wolf cubs.

When Wang Yanqiang saw this situation, he was a little annoyed and said, "I guess it's going to be bad, there is only one female wolf in it, and the male wolf must have run out to find food."

"What then?" Wang Manyin didn't expect that this wolf fight would leave trouble.

"The cowardly, no matter how many there are, bring these back first. There are hundreds of people in our jar village, and we are afraid that a wolf will not make it!"

Wang Yanqiang is right, you can't stop killing wolves because you're afraid.

When the wolf corpse was dragged to the ground, everyone tied it firmly with a rope and carried it away from the knife splitting ditch.

He hadn't gone far when suddenly there was a howl behind him.

They hurriedly turned their heads to look, and saw a wild wolf on the mountain beam more than 200 meters away.

"It must be the male wolf who caught up with him to collect the debt!"

For a moment, everyone became nervous again.

They all expected that the male wolf would definitely come to him with a smell, but they didn't expect it to be so soon.

Wang Yanqiang didn't open his mouth at all, he directly raised his gun to aim, and then shook his head and said, "The distance is a bit far, and it still blocks the line of sight, my marksmanship is not good." The others waited in place, full of silver and rhubarb, let's get closer."

As a result, the two of them and a dog just returned and walked forty or fifty meters, and before Wang Yanqiang could aim, this guy barked twice, quickly turned around and ran away.

"This thing is so capable, it's deliberately fighting guerrilla warfare for us! But since you encountered it, it's best to kill it today."

After Wang Yanqiang beckoned the rest of the people over, he commanded again, "The five of you plus two dogs will return with the wolf corpse. The rest come back with me, and you must not let this guy escape. The wolf has a strong sense of revenge, and if he escapes, I'm afraid that our Jar Village will be really uneasy next."

Everyone discussed it and asked Wang Licheng and a few other educated youths to leave first. Wang Manjun, as a sick number, naturally followed back. But Liu Xiangyang insisted on staying.

Then, the remaining six people chased in the direction where the male wolf had disappeared.

Although I didn't see that guy, there was rhubarb, and they weren't afraid of getting lost.