Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 106 Living in the same cave
After digging for a while, a lot of food, berries and other things suddenly appeared in the cave.

The four of them were overjoyed. The presence of food meant there were badgers underneath. This was a badger's cave.

The badger hole is as exquisite as that of the wild hog. Like humans, it has a bathroom, a living room, a bedroom, and a storage room.

What has been dug out now is the badger storage room, which contains a lot of food. This is the reserve food for a nest of badgers for the winter.

Badgers do not hibernate like bears and snakes, where they sleep the whole winter. Badgers’ hibernation is a semi-hibernation.

They just hide in their nests, eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and never come out of the cave.

The amount of stored grain is definitely not a small number.

Li Shengli skillfully took out two sacks from his backpack and packed the grain and berries separately.

The food in one badger hole filled two sacks.

"A few years ago, when there was a shortage of food in the village, my father took us into the mountains to look for badger holes and dig them out.

One badger hole could yield enough food for one person to eat for a whole winter," Li Shengli said nostalgically.

"I've also heard from my father that he dug badger holes in my sorghum field, but my older brother and I were still young at the time."

Shitou also said this in a simple and honest manner.

"Pay attention, if you dig up food, you'll be close to digging up badgers!"

Li Shengli smiled with some pride. If he still got nothing, he would lose face.

As Li Shengli was speaking, a badger jumped out of a hole and reached for Bingzi's crotch.

The soldier who was swinging the hoe had no idea that a badger would jump out of the hole.

Even Li Shengli did not expect that at this time, the badger would not take the time to dig a hole and escape, but would actually jump out of the hole and hurt people.

At the critical moment, Chen Weidong was quick to kick Bingzi in the butt. Bingzi, who was working, didn't react in time and was kicked far away.

boom!
Immediately afterwards, Chen Weidong took out the gun from his back, opened the safety, pulled the bolt in one go, and shot the badger dead with one shot.

Immediately afterwards, three badgers jumped out and ran away in all directions.

boom!
Chen Weidong shot and killed another one.

Wang Wang Wang!
The white tiger rushed forward and bit the neck of the badger which weighed only seven or eight kilograms. However, the badger was not afraid at all and started fighting with the white tiger directly.

Dahuang and Xiaohei also bit a badger weighing about fifteen or sixteen pounds.

Badger, also known as badger dog and wild boar, are both ferocious wild animals, but badger is more carnivorous and more ferocious than wild boar.

Moreover, as a cousin of the African flathead, it is very brave and can fight bravely, and usually cannot be killed by a few dogs.

Of course, among all the badgers in Northeast China, the most powerful is the wolverine. The wolverine in Northeast China is also called the Northeast flat-headed brother, and has another alias: flying bear. It can fight several Tibetan mastiffs alone and dares to bite the butt of a brown bear. It is known as the most ferocious beast of the Weasel family.

After a while, all three dogs were slightly injured. The badger that the white tiger was facing was only eight or nine pounds. The white tiger was hit two or three times before it bit the badger's neck and pinned it to the ground.

As for Dahuang and Xiaohei, they were facing a badger weighing about 15 kilograms. The two dogs not only defeated the badger together, but Dahuang was bitten and a piece of his meat was almost torn off.

Xiao Hei was scratched by the claws, and his skin was torn.

But the dog can't do it, and Lee Seung-ri and the other two are not just for show.
Hounds cannot beat badgers, but it is easy for humans to deal with them.

Li Shengli responded very quickly. He kicked a badger, causing it to fall over. Then he hit it with a stone and a shovel.

Shitou was as strong as an ox. With the shovel, he hit the badger to death with a loud bang.

At this time, another badger came out of the cave with its teeth bared, howled a few times, and turned around to escape.

Fortunately, at this time, Bingzi had stood up and hit the badger on the bridge of its nose with a hoe. The badger fell to the ground, motionless, and died instantly.

Although a soldier is not as strong as a stone, the badger's nose bridge is its weak point. If you hit the nose bridge, it can be killed in one hit.

After a flurry of activity, the four of them finally killed all five badgers.

"That was a close call! Weidong, thanks to your quick reaction, otherwise, Bingzi would have been in great trouble!"

Thinking of the scene just now, Li Shengli said with some fear. At the same time, he admired Chen Weidong's ability.

All this happened so fast that no one could react.

If it hadn't been for Chen Weidong's kick, the badger would have jumped out for the first time and bit Bingzi in the crotch. Although this bite would not be fatal, it was a real bite.
Maybe the soldiers will lose everything.

I can no longer be a man.

You know, badgers are very ferocious. Once they bite their target, they will hold on tightly and refuse to let go.

At the critical moment, Chen Weidong kicked Bingzi away.

This calm, reaction,

Very impressive!

Bingzi was still frightened. If it hadn't been for Brother Weidong, he would have been unable to find a wife in his lifetime!
He went up the mountain to hunt in order to marry a wife. If everything goes to waste, how will he live in the future?
"Thanks! Brother Weidong!"

"Brother Weidong, Brother Shengli, are you going to dig?" Shitou was not scared by what happened just now. He smiled and asked Chen Weidong and Li Shengli if they wanted to continue digging. Li Shengli looked at the five badgers that were killed, and then said, "Keep digging. There must be more badgers inside."

Badgers live in groups. A litter consists of at least four or five badgers, and sometimes as many as dozens. Of course, there are special cases where there are only one or two badgers. These are usually not all caught.

"Brother Shengli, how do you know there are badgers in there?"

Bingzi asked.

"Look at the pile of dirt at the bottom of the hill!" Li Shengli pointed at the pile of dirt at the bottom of the hill. The volume of the pile is not small, at least five or six cubic meters."

"You said that the mound was a pile of dirt dug out by a badger?"

"Yes, you said that for such a big mound, how big must the badger hole be? How could there be only five badgers?"

"Brother Shengli is right. In fact, there is another reason why we say there are badgers inside. That is because the raccoon dogs have not appeared yet."

Chen Weidong said.

"Raccoon dog?"

"Yes, raccoons like to live in the same burrow with badgers in winter, and raccoons are also the 'earth carts' that badgers use to dig holes and transport earth. If the raccoons don't show up, it means there are more badgers inside. Otherwise, the badgers will definitely drive the raccoons out first."

Chen Weidong explained.

The raccoon dog is a canine that is smaller than the badger, and is a raccoon dog among birds of a feather.

Although raccoon dogs are smaller than badgers, they are one of the badgers' natural enemies.

In terms of human society, Raccoon is a cunning villain who likes to occupy magpie nests and specializes in hunting badger cubs.

In the wild, raccoon dogs always appear in pairs. Although badgers are more than twice the size of raccoon dogs and have a ferocious temperament, they always suffer losses in front of raccoon dogs.

The badger's front paws are strong and powerful, and its claws are very sharp. As long as it grabs a raccoon, it can pin it to the ground.

But raccoon dogs are small in size but very sensitive. Badgers can't catch them at all. Moreover, raccoon dogs appear in pairs and they cooperate very well.

When fighting with a badger, the male raccoon dog dodges in front to attract the badger's attention, while the female raccoon dog attacks from behind.

When the badger wants to turn around to deal with the female raccoon dog, the male raccoon dog that just retreated will pounce on it and actively attack the badger.

Therefore, although badgers are stronger than raccoon dogs, when they fight, badgers are often at a loss and can only be bitten. It won't take long before they are injured and flee, while the raccoon dogs will chase them closely.

Therefore, badgers are very afraid of the raccoon's persistence.

Therefore, when in the wild, badgers hate to meet raccoon dogs the most. They can't catch up with them or beat them, so they can only avoid them.

However, raccoons like to stay in badger holes.

In order to be able to stay, raccoons often take the initiative to act as "earth carts" for badgers to dig holes and transport soil.

That is, the raccoon dog lies on its back, holding the soil in its arms, and then the badger bites the raccoon dog's tail and transports the soil to the bottom of the hill outside the cave like a human pulling a cart.

When staying in a badger's hole, the raccoons are very well behaved and dare not provoke the badger.

Because, in badger caves, there are often four or five badgers, or even dozens of badgers living together. Once a badger is offended, the only one who will die is a raccoon dog.

However, don't think that the raccoon dog will be well behaved and won't do anything tricky just because it stays in a badger's hole.

They will take advantage of other badgers to hunt for food and kill badger cubs.

Therefore, raccoon dogs are one of the natural enemies of badgers. The decline in the number of badgers is not only due to human factors, but also due to the contribution of raccoon dogs.

Of course, human factors still play a very important role here.

After all, it was humans who made the raccoon dog's natural enemy, the lynx, even rarer, which led to the proliferation of raccoon dogs and, in turn, the decline of badgers.

Shitou continued to dig the soil with the hoe.

This time, the four people took turns, and soon they dug up another storage room.

Another two sacks of grain were harvested.

This storage room is filled with food crops such as soybeans, peanuts, and corn.

"Wow! There must be a lot of badgers in this badger cave. There must be at least ten of them." Li Shengli said excitedly.

"Be careful, there might be a badger king in there!" Chen Weidong reminded with a serious expression.

"Badger King? That's impossible?" Li Shengli said.

If there is a badger king, then there must be at least seventeen or eighteen badgers in this cave.

However, when Li Shengli turned around and looked at the pile of earth at the foot of the hill, he felt a little unsure.

Five or six cubic meters of soil, how big is the hole for the badger inside?

How many badgers can live there?
The badger's hole is getting deeper and deeper, and it is getting harder and harder to dig.

At this time, four more badgers jumped out of the cave. Chen Weidong and his three companions were prepared.

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