The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Zhao Jun felt relieved when he saw that the little bear and the puppy were doing well. He asked the old lady to go to his home with Xie Zhong and Xie Chen for a while, and then he went out together with Xie Zhong and Xie Chen.

After the three people got in the car, the car drove to Zhang Yuanmin's house.

When he arrived outside the Zhang Family Courtyard, Jie Chen honked the horn, and the door to the Zhang Family Room opened. Little Bell ran out of the courtyard carrying a long black cloth bag.

When he arrived at the side of the trunk, Xiao Lingdang held the cloth bag up with both hands, and Zhao Jun bent down and reached out to take it.

"What is this?" Xie Zhong asked curiously, while Jie Chen smiled and said, "This is the heirloom of my elder brother Zhang."

Hearing his words, Xie Zhong was startled and became even more curious. The little bell under the car dropped its face and waved goodbye to several people.

With the people, dogs, and equipment ready, the car left Yongan and headed straight for the mountain field.

At the same time, a Jiefang car parked at the place where Jiang Ershuan encountered the tiger yesterday. Jiang Ershuan didn't come today, and Zhao Youcai, Li Chunming, Qin Zhusong, Zhang Dongzhi, and Zhao Jicheng got off the car one after another.

All five people held guns in their hands and looked at the traces left by the tiger on the ground and the hillside with serious expressions.

"Old Qin!" Li Chunming called Qin Zhusong and said, "Let's clear the way!"

"Okay!" Qin Zhusong agreed, and Li Chunming looked at Zhao Youcai and warned: "Master Zhao, please pay attention."

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was startled when he heard this, and suddenly felt that Li Chunming didn't think highly of him.

But Zhao Youcai didn't show it and only agreed lightly.

Then, Li Chunming and Qin Zhusong held their guns and walked up the slope, followed by Zhao Youcai, Zhang Dongzhi and Zhao Jicheng ten meters behind.

Following along, you can see obvious drag marks and blood stains. After walking for more than a mile, Li Chunming and Qin Zhusong found the poor horse in a dustpan.

The horse's belly was torn open and most of it was eaten. All its internal organs were missing, and one of its thighs was torn open.

"Go up!" Li Chunming held the gun with one hand, gestured upward with the other hand, and warned again: "Be careful!"

After saying that, Li Chunming gestured to Qin Zhusong, and the two of them continued to lead the way, followed by Zhao Youcai and three others.

On the road again, the distance between the two waves of people was always about 20 meters, so that they could take care of each other.

But after walking for more than a mile, Zhao Youcai suddenly whistled. Zhang Dongzhi and Zhao Jicheng who were with him were all stunned, while Li Chunming and Qin Zhusong in front hurriedly came back one after another.

"Master Zhao!" Zhao Jicheng asked, "What happened?"

Zhao Youcai didn't say anything, but when Li Chunming came down, he asked directly: "Who whistled, what happened?"

"I blew it." Zhao Youcai responded, and Li Chunming hurriedly asked him: "What's wrong, Master Zhao?"

Zhao Youcai quickly glanced left and right, then looked at Li Chunming and said, "This big claw is injured."

"Huh?" As soon as Zhao Youcai said this, the four members of the Tiger Fighting Team were stunned. Li Chunming frowned and asked with some suspicion: "Master Zhao, how do you know?"

"Look!" Zhao Youcai took two steps to the side. When he stopped, he stepped forward a little and called for the four people to take a look.

Four members of the Tiger Fighting Team came over to take a look and saw that the tip of Zhao Youcai's toe was a tiger paw print.

Tigers, leopards, and lynx are all cats, and their footprints are round like cat paw prints. Just because of the difference in body size, their footprints may be larger or smaller.

Experienced hunters all know that the size of the footprints of the same animal walking on the snow will be different when the snow is deep and when the snow is shallow.

When the snow is thick and soft, the footprints left behind are smaller. When the snow is shallow, the footprints left behind are larger.

Not only did the snow fall late this year in the Yong'an Forest District, but the amount of snowfall this winter was also small.

Therefore, the footprints left by that tiger are not small.

Li Chunming and the other four people came over to watch. After taking a look, they all looked at Zhao Youcai blankly.

"Master Zhao." Li Chunming asked Zhao Youcai, "What do you want us to see?"

"Take another look." Zhao Youcai did not answer the question directly, but said, "This paw print is different from others."

Upon hearing Zhao Youcai say it was different from others, Li Chunming hurriedly knelt down and observed carefully.

At this glance, it is really different.

Li Chunming, who was squatting, tilted his head and raised his eyes, looked up at Zhao Youcai, and said in surprise: "It's a bit confusing."

Lagou is the lingo of local mountain runners, referring to the marks left by the hooves and claws of wild beasts dragging on the ground when they walk.

Animals like wild boars and red deer like to pull ditches when they are walking slowly in the mountains. As a result, the footprints they leave on the snow are sometimes just one line after another.

When tigers and black bears walk slowly, they don't make ditches and leave footprints one after another.

A quarter of the series of footprints left by this tiger were grooved. Although not obvious, it is obvious when compared with other footprints.

This means that the tiger has one leg that cannot move, so it must be injured.

After listening to Li Chunming's words, the expression on Zhao Youcai's face did not change, and the three people next to him immediately surrounded him. The four members of the Tiger Fighting Team squatted in a circle to look at the footprints.

The four of them were not like Chu Anmin before. Chu Anmin had never hunted before going up the mountain with Zhao Jun, but Li Chunming and the others had. Every winter they go to surrounding forest farms and hunt roe deer and wild boars for a few days, both for fun and for eating meat.

Their usual harvests from going up the mountain are pretty good, but their hunting relies on their excellent physical fitness and sophisticated weapons and equipment.

To put it bluntly, their approach to siege is simple and crude. In terms of skills, they have no skills.

They have no problem hunting wild boar and roe deer this way.

But the tiger is no ordinary tiger. Yesterday, four people tried to kill it but failed. This is also the reason why when there was a tiger riot in Yongan more than 20 years ago, the Forestry Bureau only deployed guns but not personnel.

Those years were difficult times, and the livestock in the mountains were starving, so tigers often attacked cattle and horses in forest farms.

The Forestry Bureau at that time had experience, so even though they had veterans from the northern battlefield, they never sent anyone over.

You know, those people are all heroes, but fighting and hunting are two different things.

In the past ten years, the mountain livestock has become thicker and thicker. Especially last year and this year, the thickness of mountain cattle reached unprecedented heights.

Tigers have no shortage of food, so they will naturally not attack cattle and horses, so the current Forestry Bureau has never experienced such a thing.

But when Zhou Chunming went to the bureau that day, he hid his secret. After all, these capable people in Yong'an Forest District are either his neighbors or relatives, and it would not be good to hurt anyone.

Therefore, it was Zhou Chunming who asked Chu Anmin to send people to destroy the tiger.

When it comes to fighting sieges, Chu Anmin is an amateur, and so is Zhou Chunming. They didn't think much about it, they all believed in the elite soldiers and generals in the bureau.

As for the Tiger Fighting Four, they don’t consider themselves amateurs. As soon as I heard about hunting tigers, I came to Aoao.

"Huh?" Zhao Jicheng said doubtfully: "We looked at its front that day and didn't see that it was lame?"

Zhao Youcai glanced condescendingly at Zhao Jicheng, curled his lips and said, "No need to look, my right front leg is injured."

"Huh?" The four members of the tiger-fighting team were all startled when they heard this. At this time, Zhao Youcai continued: "As long as it is not injured, it cannot attack people or horses."

After saying this, Zhao Youcai looked back at the way he came and said, "If its hind legs are injured, it can't drag the horse uphill."

In the past few years of siege, Li Chunming has encountered lame beasts. He also concluded that if a beast's front legs are injured, it must run uphill, and if its hind legs are injured, it must run downhill.

However, Li Chunming suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked Zhao Youcai: "Master Zhao, when he knocked the horse yesterday, didn't it go down from the uphill slope?"

"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai nodded unexpectedly, and then said: "Not to mention the horse yesterday, the horse it knocked against last Saturday also came down from above."

When Zhao Youcai agreed, the four members of the Tiger Fighting Team were stunned. When a beast runs from uphill to downhill, it must use its front legs to exert force. If the tiger's right front leg was injured as Zhao Youcai said, it would contradict the way it killed the two horses.

In other words, Zhao Youcai's words are contradictory.

But just when Li Chunming wanted to ask again, he heard Zhao Youcai say: "The big claw is different from other things. When it gets angry, it jumps out."

"Ah..." The four members of the Tiger Fighting Team seemed to have some realization.

Zhao Youcai's expressive ability is limited and his description is not appropriate. The three top cat hunters in the Northeast are leopards who are good at running, tigers who are good at jumping forward and backward, and lynxes who are good at jumping up and down.

Relying on its special body structure and strong physique, even if a Siberian tiger is injured in one leg, it will not affect its short-range continuous jumps.

Therefore, only the uphill stretch of dragging the horse is when the Siberian tiger is in trouble. If the hind leg is injured, it will never be able to drag the horse uphill.

Seeing that the four of them seemed to understand a little better, Zhao Youcai pointed at Zhao Jicheng and said, "Family, you said that when you look at the front of the big paw, doesn't it jump up if its legs are not lame?"

After being named by Zhao Youcai, Zhao Jicheng nodded repeatedly. At this time, Li Chunming also realized that Zhao Youcai was more than just a guide, so he hurriedly asked Zhao Youcai for advice, saying: "Master Zhao, where do you think we should go next?"

Hearing this, Zhao Youcai raised his eyes to look up, then raised his hand to see the high mountain behind him, and said to Zhang Dongzhi, "Master Zhang, have you seen that top man?"

"I saw it!" Zhang Dongzhi responded, and then heard Zhao Youcai say: "Let's go up now. There are two stubble in front of us. Let me tell you, this big paw is not sitting on the ground, so it must be pushing up. It's over. Walk 57, walk 60, and run to the Rakshasa side."

When Zhao Youcai spoke, everyone felt that this man was too powerful. At this time, Zhao Youcai pointed to the top of the mountain again and said: "The top of the mountain is 57, and there are two forks over there. Why did I say 60? Because the stubble over there is 62, and 62 is over there. It's 66, and above 66 is what people here call Lao Guitouzi Ridge, and there's a big claw on the top."

"Is there another one?" Zhao Youcai's words shocked the four members of the Tiger Fighting Team.

"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai nodded and continued: "That big paw is from a local household. This outsider will definitely not dare to go to 66, so it must do what I say."

At this time, regardless of whether he was the section chief or someone else, who dared to underestimate Zhao Youcai?

Li Chunming hurriedly asked for advice again and asked Zhao Youcai: "Master Zhao, tell us what we should do, and we will listen to you."

Li Chunming said this today, but he spoke from the bottom of his heart.

Zhao Youcai pointed at the top man again and again and said to Li Chunming: "Let Master Zhang drive you and pick up someone else after that. You guys can get in the car and get in the car with the top man."

Zhang Dongzhi was indeed from outside, but he still couldn't lose it even though he drove on the mountain road to reach the top.

Although Zhao Youcai hadn't finished speaking at this time, the Tiger Fighting Team already understood what he meant.

Three people took a car and went to block it. Then Zhao Youcai led a man to chase the tiger's footprints, which was equivalent to fighting a battle.

As long as the three of them reach the entrance of the battle, they will wait for the tiger to fall into the trap!

"Master Zhao! No wonder the Chu Bureau asked us to find your son, saying that as soon as the little Zhao Pao arrives, the tiger will be able to knock it down." Li Chunming took Zhao Youcai's hand in surprise, shook it and said, "Oh, either we say tiger A father has no dog, and I have seen it today."

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai felt that the logic of Li Chunming's words was strange, but he couldn't find anything wrong with it.

…

At this time, Xiao Zhao Pao and his party arrived near the old brick kiln in Yong'an. Yesterday, Zhang Lifu saw a herd of wild boars running in the direction of Linban 62 right here.

Today Li Baoyu was driving, and Wang Qiang was sitting in the passenger seat. They didn't need anyone to show them the way, and drove straight to 62 Linban.

But the car stopped before it reached the place. Zhao Jun, who was sitting in the back of the car, was startled. When he got up with his gun, he heard Li Baoyu shout: "Brother, get out of the car!"

Zhao Jun, Xie Zhong, and Jie Chen hurriedly got out of the trunk, and the three of them went to the front of the car to join Wang Qiang and Li Baoyu.

The road they drive on is called the firewood road, and they can drive large vehicles. The path up the mountain is called a sledge road, which is used by oxen and horses to lead to various trumpets.

Sledges can be used on the firewood transport road, but cars cannot be used on the sledge road.

This road is smooth because of the traffic of cars and sledges, but there are road maintenance workers in the forest farm to take care of the road. They burn sand pits nearby every now and then, and then spread sand and soil on the road to prevent cars from rolling away and sledges from running downhill.

At this time, the road was covered with sand. There were no footprints in the sand, but there were a lot of wild boar excrement.

Some of these wild boar excrements are crushed by cars or sledges, and some are frozen and then crushed by cars and sledges.

But whether it is flat or broken, it is enough to prove that a large group of wild boars passed across the firewood road yesterday.

If it's footprints, you can tell them apart, but feces can't. However, according to Zhang Lifu, the wild boar originally went from Linban 64 to Linban 62.

But here, the wild boar suddenly changed its route. They came down from Linban 63 on the right, crossed the firewood transport road and went to Linban 60.

Of course, this is just speculation. It could also be another group of wild boars, running from Linban 60 to Linban 63.

In this case, even if Zhao Boutou came in person, he would have to go into the woods on both sides of the road and look at the footprints left by wild boars to tell the difference.

But the Zhao family doesn't need help because they have dogs.

"Release the dog!" Zhao Jun gave the order, and Li Baoyu and Jiechen climbed into the trunk to untie the dog's rope.

Letting the lead dog go first, the big fat man jumped off the back of the car. When it landed, the dog's fur was trembling from the back of its neck to its buttocks, and its shiny yellow fur looked like yellow waves in the sunlight.

The big fat man turned to the front of the car, didn't bother to get close to Zhao Jun, sniffed the wild boar dung, put his nose to the ground and ran to the left side of 60 Linban.

Then Black Tiger, Green Dragon, and Black Dragon followed Big Fatty into the poplar forest, and then White Dragon, Erhei, Third Fatty, Tabby Cat, Hualang, Rhubarb, and Xiaohua came out one after another.

At this time, Zhao Jun held a gun in his right hand, held Huang Long in his left hand, and followed Hua Long behind him.

He opened the way in front, followed by Wang Qiang, Li Baoyu, Jie Zhong, and Jie Chen.

The five of them had not walked for ten minutes when they heard the barking of dogs as the mountain wind blew.

In the mountains, there are wild grapes growing around the trees. The branches of the mountain grape vines that have been there for many years are messy and dense.

As the snow falls, it pushes the vine branches down, creating an arch above the ground.

The one weighing less than 200 kilograms weighed heavily the next year, and somehow he became alone.

At this time, it was lying under the arch formed by the grape vines. The strange thing is that at this time of year, it is the time when wild boars gather in gangs. And now it is nine o'clock in the morning, which is when the wild boars should lie down.

But this one got heavy every year. He didn't sleep or find a group. He just lay under the arched vines, curled up and shivering.

When the fat guy got here, he didn't even pause, he pounced on it and bit it. Then the hunting dogs swarmed up and subdued the next year in an instant.

Under the bite of the hunting dogs, Shen hissed and howled every other year.

The barking of dogs and the hissing of pigs are carried away by the mountain wind, heading south from here, all the way up. When they were about to reach the camelback, they saw blood stains and signs of dragging heavy objects.

This is very similar to the traces of a tiger dragging a horse, and it is located above the hunchback, in a nesting circle.

Half of the wild boar was lifeless, and its waist and pole were bitten off. The front half of the body was lying there, and the back half of the body must have been eaten clean.

And the one who eats it is lying next to it.

That's a tiger.

After hearing the whine of the wild boar carried by the mountain wind, the Siberian tiger got up from its sleep.

This tiger is bigger than the tiger that fought with the black bear spirit.

Its head and body are two meters and a half long, and its weight is nearly five hundred kilograms. But such a huge body appeared twenty meters away in an instant as the tiger jumped out.