open sea

Chapter 820 Hate
In the vast wilderness, Xiaoming's tendons and horns burst out with strong strings. The turkey, which is called "ghost-faced pheasant" by the immigrants, turned its blue face quickly, as if sensing murderous intent and fluttering its wings. Smash the red, blue and white head, continue to fly a few steps and nail it to the trunk.

The huge force of the arrow shaft made a sound of cracking stones on the arrow cluster.

A whistle came from behind the weeds, a yellow whirlwind sprang out from the tall cactus, four claws flapped the turf and raised dust, grabbed the fat turkey leg in one mouthful, and dragged it back with difficulty, until he heard footsteps behind him, Only then did the yellow dog open its mouth and raise its head, and walked around the prey twice, looking forward to its own glory, and finally curled its tail up and went to welcome the grass.

Ding Hai had put the bow wrapped in cowhide in his back pocket, brushed aside the weeds and strode to a stop in front of the turkey, squinted slightly to see the prey, and then squatted down and pulled the turkey's neck to lift the knife He chopped it off and handed it to the yellow dog, praised 'good dog', then turned his head and urged: "Hurry up, A Yang."

Not long after, Ding Lu, who was carrying a matchlock gun on his shoulder, and Wang Yang, who was holding a long-handled boring handle and carrying a hornbow, walked out of the weeds at half a person's height together. Ding Hai had already pulled out a feather on the ground and looked up. Glancing at the two brothers, he said, "Hurry up, Xu Baihu is coming soon, we have to meet up."

The younger Wang Yang stuck the boring handle on the ground, and smiled as he helped: "The day before yesterday I hunted a deer, yesterday I hunted three ground mice, and today I hunted a fat ghost-faced pheasant... There are many birds and beasts here, so I won't be afraid to suffer from it in the future." hungry."

Ding Lu was standing in the wilderness with a blunderbuss in his hand, together with the yellow dog, he was on guard against the beasts that might be attracted by the bloody smell. They strayed into the territory of a puma while hunting deer the day before yesterday. The big guy was called the big golden cat by them. .

Because of the loud noise and gunpowder smoke, although the process was thrilling, the three brothers still escaped unscathed after cutting off a deer leg, but they didn't know if the big golden cat was following them, which made people feel a sense of crisis .

The pier troops on the nine sides may not be good fighters, it's not their fault, the saline-alkali soil can't bloom good flowers, no matter how good the combat skills are, five pier troops can't stop the northern captives from scattered cavalry.

But most of them are good hunters, and this is related to whether they can get some meat and tooth sacrifices in addition to their meager salaries.

Compared with honing combat skills, the two professional skills that Dunjun must have are actually sinking pits and weaving nets. A good trap means that a silly deer crashes into the pit, and weaving a good net towel when not on duty is a month If you can sell it for two renminbi, it will add up to a lot.

After tidying up the ghost-faced pheasant's feathers, Wang Yang wrapped more than a dozen catties of turkeys in soil, wrapped them in flower cloth, and carried them on the tip of the boring handle. The turkey feathers were stored in his waist pocket. These long feathers can Attached to the arrow, although it is heavier than the eagle feathers, it is not bad. After meeting with Xu Jin, the women sitting in the ox cart and the donkey cart can scrape out suitable tail feathers.

"It's because there's not enough food on the road. When we get to the village, we have to hunt according to the rules. We don't hunt in spring and summer."

Ding Hai, who has been in charge of a pier fortress in northern Xinjiang for seven years, is obviously more knowledgeable than ordinary people among immigrants. There is already a plan, and it is well substituted into the role of the village deputy lieutenant.

"I asked Xu Baihu that there is no farming season here, and melons, beans, and corn are harvested as they are planted. Although there are no four seasons or four seasons, birds and animals have their own seasons."

According to the hunting methods in ancient China, spring search, summer seedlings, autumn seedlings, and winter hunting mean that in spring, we should carefully collect and hunt unpregnant wild animals. In summer, the fields grow up but the wild animals are still small and only kill the ones that destroy crops. With proper hunting, wild beasts grow fat and strong in winter and can be hunted on a large scale.

But in Mexico, where there are four distinct seasons in the Central Plains, this method does not work well, embarrassing the hunters.

"Pregnant females and young animals are not allowed to be hunted. The hunting mountain is only a thousand acres and it is not too big. It is enough to subsidize the family when entering the mountain every six times and leaving the mountain every eighth every month."

When Ding Hai said this, he was walking in front of the cluster of chiseled arrows with broad blades, a little absent-minded, he was feeling sorry for his arrow shafts.

The archery craftsmen brought to Ji Town by Qi's army made it with the technique of "three irregularities". The military craftsmen in eastern Zhejiang changed it, and put an arrow shaft outside at least [-] Tongbao, and you can buy it if you want to.

The arrow shaft was broken not because of poor quality, but because the arrowhead was too good. The one-inch-wide broad-bladed arrowhead had a ridge in the middle, and the wings were as thin as a cicada's wings. It was sharper than any knife and was designed for hitting without armor.

Good arrow clusters are all forged, more expensive than arrow shafts, and ten good arrows can be made out of a tael of silver, but if good arrow clusters are used for hunting, usually the arrow clusters will not be broken after death Rods are different.

None of these things can be bought here. Xu Jin from a hundred households told him that in the bow and arrow shop in Changsheng County, you can buy almost ten pieces for a tael of silver. ...But let alone, if the prices in the Central Plains are used, he should use forged arrows when hunting.

Because his arrow shafts are more expensive than cast arrows, there are only a few in total, and it hurts a lot if it breaks.

The three of them walked along the hillside to find the large army led by Xu Jin within a short time. The horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, livestock, and goods meandered along the official road very slowly.

Several immigrant teams traveling together under Qianhu Lin Hu'er had already moved forward. Because of their weak health with three horses and two cows, their journey was much slower than others.

The horses and cows were brought on board when they came here. The horses are bad horses. They used to be the ingredients in the Gyeonggi Horse Meat Restaurant. In recent years, horse meat is not popular, so they can bring a large number of dismounted horses all the way from Tianjin. Many died along the way.

The horse is fine when it is sick, maybe it is because it is afraid of becoming a horse's sausage, and it can still walk after all; the cow is really tired when it is tired, and these big guys are really lying down when they are tired, and they will not walk.

Because of the slow walking speed, Xu Jin from Hundred Households was worried about the lack of food, but as he walked, he realized that he was worrying too much... This is a piece of heaven-sent land. There are too many things to eat in the land, such as turkeys, groundhogs, Deer, as long as you want to fight, you can't beat it.

It's just that the hot weather is too easy to break.

"Your hunting skills, our Beiyang Army may not be able to catch up with you, and it seems that your skills in sinking pits are not bad."

Xu Jin, who was walking on the official road, saw the three men coming back with prey, ordered the team to stop, stood on the side of the road, took out a pipe and stuffed it with a little tobacco, smoked a couple of times, and said: "Pass over and make more traps to the east, before you come here There have been two big battles on the side, and many brothers in Beiyang have died, and there is really not enough troops, so we can negotiate a peace."

"If the second phase can arrive on time, the commander-in-chief can take us to drive Xiyi into the sea and drown them all!"

The lower-level officers don't care about other reasons, and it's over.

"Lieutenant, tell me." The ashes from the wooden pipe were knocked out, and Xu Jin asked, "How do you plan to protect your people?"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)