The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 344 Self-Hunting
The coal mines in Hami New City have only been operating for a few days.

The youngest son of the old general Hasibaren, Su Rilege, along with two noblemen and three thousand horse archers, arrived with more than ten thousand Hu horses.

When they encountered the waiting army of the Verumbeek, Surileg explained it this way:

"We were afraid of delaying the agreed time, so we brought the horses and ransom first. The grain was being transported by the camel caravan behind us, and there were also more than 800,000 sheep, which would arrive in half a month at the latest."

What could the Bei army left behind say?

Hu Ma, they did indeed send it.

There were about thirty Akhal-Teke horses inside.

It's obvious at a glance that it's not a cheap product.

As for how much ransom the other party brought, that was beyond his control.

The Bei army of Weilumu quickly sent this information back to Hami City.

General Xiong, who had been waiting impatiently, was overjoyed when he received the news. He ordered the messenger to hurry back and inform the other party that the transaction location would be Huozhou.

The main point was to prevent the Hu people from coming to Hami City.

Before the fortifications were erected at the city gates of Hami New City, which was under construction, General Xiong did not want the Hu people to know that such a city had appeared on the Gobi Desert.

Huozhou would be a good fit.

There were 20,000 troops stationed in the city, which was also very close to Verum.

Tian Jiu, as one of the key members, was also among those accompanying the group.

Upon being notified, Tian Jiu asked, "Sir, should we inform General Gan as well?"

The implication was whether he needed General Gan's protection.

"This time, we won't trouble General Gan to make such a trip! Just two days ago, she sent a letter reporting that the Rat King had discovered several packs of gray wolves on the snowy mountain."

Wasn't she trying to create chaos in the vanguard camp by eliminating competitors? One of the competition events this month is the hunt.

The fact that Hasbaren's youngest son and his men brought back the ransom shows they're still afraid of dying! If the amount of ransom they bring is incorrect, we won't tell them that the medicine General Gan fed them wasn't poisonous.

Moreover, the lives of their entire Zhongshun King family, dozens of nobles, and the old general and his son, along with over a hundred others, are in our hands. Let alone three thousand, even thirty thousand barbarians, we are not afraid!

Tian Jiu looked slightly embarrassed, touched his nose and said, "It's not that I'm afraid! I just feel that General Gan can suppress all the monsters and demons."

General Gan: Listen to me, thank you.

That afternoon, General Xiong and Tian Jiu, along with their personal guards and a sharpshooting battalion, had all the hostages drugged and rushed to Huozhou.
The southern foot of Dongxueshan Mountain is only a few dozen miles away from Ganluchuan.

The presence of wolves was indeed a threat to the livestock in the camp, especially the sheep.

According to the report from King Atu, who spends his days in the mountains, the wolf pack in the middle section of the snow mountain is being chased by some wild animal and is heading east.

Its original plan was to inform its master and then capture the gray wolves to claim credit.

Unexpectedly, the owner turned his back on the mouse after receiving the news.

It even ordered it to use itself as bait to lure the wolf pack this way.

After that, the vanguard battalion received this hunting assessment project.

No matter how many wolves there are, they won't be enough for the three thousand people to divide up.

General Gan's rules for the game are:
"You will have three days and two nights for this hunt. You may use all weapons except for thunderclaps and muskets."

When it's time, don't linger. Come out quickly. The first 100 people to come out will each get five points.

Please remember the following scoring criteria:

Hunting the most dangerous prey, such as wolves, snow leopards, brown bears, and lynxes, earns you forty points.

Hunting wild boar, ibex, argali, blue sheep, red deer, red fox, and other prey with moderate or strong attack power or those that are good at running away, earns you 20 points for each adult prey you hunt.

Snow hares, pheasants, and roe deer are small, non-aggressive prey; ten pounds of meat can be exchanged for one point.

You can work alone or as a team. But in the end, the team's score will be distributed equally among each person.

The top ten with the highest scores will each receive a two-courtyard house! The bottom one hundred with the lowest scores will be eliminated in this round.

Next year, or at the latest next autumn, a magnificent new city will be built in Ganluchuan, and the best houses in the inner city will only be awarded and not sold.

General Chuben has already made plans for the team members who will be eliminated next fall.

The four city gates require hundreds of men to guard in shifts, and the thousands of horses need to be specially tended. There's also the land reclamation; there's work to be done everywhere.”

All team members: From the army's elite to the gatekeeper, the stable boy, and the farmer?
No one can accept such a huge drop in value!
General Gan had previously informed all the team members of Ganluchuan's development plan for next year. Anyone who wasn't out of their mind knew that this garrison had a bright future.

Even if they are eliminated, they won't want to leave.

Therefore, the team members put in utmost effort for this assessment.

The vanguard battalion left two days ago.

The boys would discuss things like reed leaves and green sandals in their spare time:
“If it were Ang, Ang would specifically target the Siberian goats! Goats always travel in herds, so you can catch a whole group at once.”

"Do you think these goats are as docile as fat-tailed sheep? I've heard that these wild goats that grow in the mountains are very timid. When attacked by enemies, they run faster than horses! They even dare to jump off cliffs!"

"Isn't that perfect? ​​Let's drive the sheep off the cliff and let them fall to their deaths!"

"Are you stupid? I've already said it's a cliff, is it any shorter? If someone goes down, even if they survive, they won't be able to get back up."

"Overlord, stop keeping me in suspense! If it were you, what kind of prey would you catch?"

"Of course, it's to kill wolves! The ultimate goal of this hunt is to wipe out the wolf pack. Wolves are very vengeful; if someone kills their entire pack and doesn't wipe them out, they'll most likely come back for revenge."

"Wolves aren't so easy to kill!"

For ordinary people, wolves are indeed not to be trifled with.

But for the vanguard battalion members who had experienced several battles, it was nothing to fear.

They patiently made their deployments and slowly moved eastward.

There are almost no individual combatants.

Large teams have two to three hundred people.

There were at least fifty or sixty people in the group.

The team members walked and walked.

Soon, a surprising phenomenon was discovered:

Herds of gazelles and blue sheep have arrived.

The figures of the lynx and the snow leopard also flashed by.

Wild boars came in droves towards the direction where the team members were hiding.

The team members had never encountered this kind of self-organized hunting mode before.

Caught off guard by their prey.

While shooting arrows, someone curiously asked a bystander:
"Why are these prey running? Were they all chased by wolves?"

"Who cares! They're all good meat that's fattened up for winter, once you're here, you're not leaving! The wild boar with the longest tusks belongs to Ang!"

Before he finished speaking, the arrow in his hand had already flown out.

"whoosh whoosh"

Take down one group, then another one comes.

The wolf pack quietly approached while the team members were engaged in fierce fighting.

Not just one.

It wasn't a group either.

Seven groups of animals arrived at once, totaling more than 300 animals of various sizes.

(End of this chapter)