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Chapter 173 The Hunt Begins

Maria's money-making plans have to take a break because the hunt has officially begun.

The horn sounded in the north wind, the hounds rushed out of the camp, the falcons circled over the forest, and the hunters rode their horses to the hunting ground full of expectations.

Frederick rode dawn to the selected area with his men on the ground, and at the same time exhorted again: "Remember, we can't work too hard today, and the harvest must be less than that of Grand Duke Bayern. In short, the principle is not to be ranked among the guests. No. 1!"

Little Franz asked him suspiciously: "Why do we do this? The Grand Duke of Mainz said that No.1 of the guest will be given a precious gift."

Frederick said solemnly: "We must not take that gift!"

Little Franz was questioning, but the master said so, so he obeyed.

Hunting competitions rely on stacking prey to see who can pile up the highest and largest. If there are monsters in the prey, it will be a bonus item.

Frederick had already chosen his main hunting area, which was around a small lake with a diameter of more than [-] meters in the depths of the forest. From the traces by the lake and on-site reconnaissance, it can be judged that many animals would go there to drink water every day.

What they have to do is to form an encirclement circle with the lake as the core, drive the surrounding animals to the lake, and then enclose and destroy them.

Frederick knew nothing about hunting, so today's operation was left to Little Franz to command.

The team quickly dispersed in platoons, and then something went wrong.

Although the leaves of the trees in the forest were about to fall, the line of sight was still poor, and the command post on the top of the mountain lost the team in a blink of an eye.

Frederick didn't fly into the sky with Lixiao to find the troops, but looked at little Franz scratching his head anxiously.

In the past, the troops were dispatched on a large scale, and the movements were much larger than now, and they could be seen from a long distance.

If it is a small-scale operation, there are often only one or two teams, and the commander will be in one of the teams, at least not losing half of the teams.

Now it is a large-scale operation of small troops. Dozens of people will not make much noise when they enter the forest, just like throwing salt into the water.

Whether it is marching or driving, losing control of the situation is the beginning of disaster. This sense of loss of control has brought great psychological pressure to little Franz.

Frederick didn't say anything, and let him think of a solution to this problem. He took Liebherr, Schmidt, BASF and a dozen people who had come to fly the hot air balloon to a mountain farther away to find the Hellwolf.

On the way, Frederick asked Liebherr: "Why didn't you say that your hometown is in the Principality of Mainz?"

BASF also said to his fellow apprentice and fellow villager: "Yes, I would not have known if your father hadn't come to grab your ears. I haven't seen you back in the past two years."

The reason why they ran here from Constantbul was mainly because there were many locals.Ogilvy's hometown is in the Principality of Bain, and the village is less than [-] kilometers away from the castle of the Grand Duke of Bain.BASF's family is a well-known dye merchant in the Principality of Mainz, located less than [-] kilometers away from Mainz.Liebherr's home is farther away, adjacent to the Principality of Bavaria, but his family is a well-known architectural family in the Principality of Mainz, and his father is currently an official in charge of construction projects in the court.

Liebherr said a little embarrassedly: "I sneaked away to Constantbul by myself, and my family was very angry. I heard that there is still a warrant for my arrest in the city."

Schmidt asked him curiously: "There are a lot of people sneaking away to study in Constantbul. How did you make your family so angry?"

Liebherr raised his head, looked at the blue sky through the iron-like branches, and said lightly: "The family wants me to marry into a material merchant's family. I ran away at noon on the day of the engagement."

After speaking, he sighed deeply.

BASF thought about it for a while, and said after a while: "So that person is you, no wonder, if I were you, I would run away too."

Without waiting for everyone to gossip, I suddenly smelled a faint aroma of barbecue in the air, and it was the kind without seasoning.

"Attention!" BASF gestured, "There are Hellwolves nearby!"

Everyone cheered up immediately and gathered in a circle, pointing the weapons in their hands around, paying special attention to the position of the downwind vent.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, and there was an occasional sound in the wind, apparently something was surrounding them.

Not long after, the temperature of the wind blowing from the upwind vent was a little higher, and the encirclement formed.

The body of the hell wolf is very hot, and the place it just stepped on feels a little hot. When the mouth bites the prey, the place it bites can even be cooked. A strong adult individual can even breathe fire. The meat can warm the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidney and help the yang It has the effect of strengthening strength and nourishing blood, suitable for consumption in winter.

This time they came to hunt Hellwolves mainly to prepare some wolf meat for BASF's wife. With the current medical level, it is quite dangerous for pregnant women to survive the winter. Eating some Hellwolf meat on weekdays can strengthen the resistance and prevent colds.

Like other wolves, hell wolves are good at hunting and sneak attacking, and will surround their prey and swarm them.

However, these guys who looked like prey this time did not speak martial arts.

"Throw gas bombs." Frederick said calmly.

A few people in the downwind immediately took out a fist-sized smoke bomb and threw it away. After a while, thick white smoke rushed towards the woods with the wind.

In less than 2 minutes, there were bursts of wailing in the white smoke, and it was quiet after a while.

Five florins of gas bombs seem to work well, and the hellwolves over there should be asleep.

On the other side of the encirclement, the Hellwolves not only did not escape after hearing the wailing of their companions, but also launched an attack on Frederick and others.

Although this group of people were working on machinery, they were all real magicians, and they all held double-barreled shotguns for hunting. In a short while, the dozen or so hell wolves that rushed over were all killed.

Seven hell wolves were stunned by poison, and their limbs and long mouths were quickly tied up, and they were called to pick them back with a wooden stick later.

With this batch of monsters as the base, everyone will not be left behind compared to the prey this evening.

On the other side, Franz Jr. contacted all the teams through the sound of bugles, and started to act after seeing that they were all there.

Everyone yelled and shuttled through the woods, and the pheasants, deer, wild boars, rabbits, red foxes, lynxes and other animals fled in fright.

The encirclement gradually narrowed, and the beasts kept running around the lake, trying to find a breakthrough, when gunshots rang out.

After noon, the soldiers began to pack the game and pile it up by species.

Before evening, Frederick had people divided into two batches, and moved the large prey to the camp of the Grand Duke of Mainz to pile up. If there were too many people, he would add some more, and the rest would be moved back to his camp at night. Riga meal, but also asked to spread out to pile, pile a little shorter.

In the end, the Duke of Mainz had the most prey, the Duke of Bain came second, and Frederick's own prey seemed to rank third, but some people objected.

(End of this chapter)