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Chapter 291 The brown bear is destined to die in his den and the jackal loves to dig his crotch
The sky turned black, the sunset faded away the last color, and the moon rose quietly, hanging in the southeast. It exuded cold white light, and the light spread through the gauze clouds...

Xu Ning squatted under the roots of an oak tree. Next to him were Wang Hu, Guan Lei and Li Fuqiang. The four of them were about one meter apart. In this mountain forest valley where there were only howling winds, roaring bears, and grinning animals, all they needed to do was You can hear each other's voices by opening your mouth slightly.

Guan Lei tilted his head and looked at Xu Ning. Seeing that he didn't reply, he turned to stare at the dogs and the big brown bear in front of him, silently holding the shotgun tightly.

Li Fuqiang glanced at Xu Ning's side face, then turned his face to scan the front, and listened to the surrounding movements with his ears. Wang Hu, on the other hand, turned around and looked behind him and at the woods to his left and right. This was a habit the three of them had developed since they joined forces. The purpose was to prevent other animals or people from jumping out unexpectedly. After all, people's sense of smell is not as good as that of animals.

Xu Ning held the handle of the gun with his right hand and put his index finger on the trigger guard. He stared at the pack of dogs wandering around the big brown bear with wide eyes. He counted them in his mind, there were eight of them in total.

They bared their mouths and fangs to make a barking sound, but the sound was sharper than that of dogs.

Xu Ning heard the sound and recognized what these dog-like things were.

"Jackal!"

On the side, Wang Hu heard the sound and said in surprise: "Jackal?"

When Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei heard the two people whispering in surprise, they both turned their heads and took a look, and then immediately looked at the dogs wandering around the brown bears...

Jackals are members of the Canidae family and the genus Jackal. Their appearance is similar to that of dogs and wolves, but their size is smaller than that of wolves and much larger than that of foxes. Their body length is about 85-130 cm, their tail length is 45-50 cm, and their weight is about 30-40 cm. About kilograms.

Their mouths are relatively short and their ears are semicircular. Jackals do not have an obvious forehead like dogs, and they look flat from the side.

Jackals have shorter limbs than wolves, which helps them travel through mountains and dense forests. Their tails are thick, their hair is fluffy and drooping, and they are brown-black, similar to foxes. The tips are black or brown, and their body hair is thick and rough, which allows them to They spend relatively long winters.

Body hair changes with the seasons and regions. Jackals in the south are slender and slender, with a light yellow belly, black lips and cheeks, and a very thin face.

There is an idiom called skinny as a stick, and the stick here refers to a jackal!
The jackal in the north has a ferocious body and a rough appearance, with a white belly and a brownish-red back. The fur on the cheeks and mouth is mostly white. The hair on the cheeks and neck is very long, which makes the face, head and neck look very wide. .

At this moment, the brown bear in front was unable to fight. It wanted to run, but could not move.

Why? Because as long as it moves or lifts its butt slightly, the jackal will open its fangs and bite it.

This jackal is called Jackal Gouzi or Hong Gouzi in the Northeast; it is called Red Dog, Red-haired Dog, or Red-haired Jackal in the Northwest; it is called Pilang in the Jiangxu region; it is also called Yellow Spot in the southern Hunan region; and it is also called Yellow Spot in the Zhuangxi region. Ma Gouzi.

Although the jackal is smaller than the wolf and about the same size as a dog, it is not as fat as a dog. Its IQ is similar to that of a fox. Jackals, tigers and leopards are ranked in IQ.

Jackals work in family groups, usually one female with multiple males, so the king jackal is the female. However, the jackal group basically works together to hunt and eat in a big pot. They can eat by opening their mouths, ensuring that all jackals can eat.

They hunt strategically and have habitual behaviors before hunting, such as touching their noses, rubbing their bodies, and hissing to communicate with each other.

Because of their persistent character and good endurance, prey targeted by jackals rarely escape. Sometimes they hunt wild boars in groups. When encountering large beasts that are difficult to deal with, they will all gather together. at.

Because jackals are extremely united and good at siege, and their lower jaws are quite ruthless. They focus on the crotch of their prey and can sometimes pull out the prey's blue string, which is very scary.

That's why the brown bear in front of him didn't dare to move. It must have been crotched before Xu Ning and the others came...

Xu Ning stared at the eight jackals, reached into his pocket, took out a round of bullets, and said: "Huzi, you three don't fire your gun yet. I'll hug the brown bear first and wait for the jackals to pounce. You three just go up the tree..."

"Eh!"

Wang Hu responded and hurriedly turned around and whispered Xu Ning's intention to Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei.

After the two men nodded, Xu Ning took out a round of bullets and held it in his mouth. Then he held the 56 and a half in both hands and stared at the movement in front of him under the not-so-bright moonlight. At the same time, his body slowly became rickety. , arching his back like a prawn, leaning on the oak tree and walking forward through the snow...

The snow here is thicker than on shady slopes. Even though Xu Ning bent his knees, it still reached the top of his thighs. However, the snow in front was much shallower. Xu Ning thought that there should be the entrance to the wind channel, otherwise they would have touched the group of jackals and brown bears more than 60 meters in front of them. With their sensitive sense of smell, why didn't they smell it? Woolen cloth? It must have been disturbed by the wind.

Xu Ning moved forward three or four meters, and the sound of the snow under his feet was not loud. Because he was walking through the snow, he basically kicked aside the eucalyptus leaves buried under the snow, and the snow covered the sound, so there was no sound. What a sound.

The reason why he didn't let Li Fuqiang and the others fire was that they were holding old stick shotguns. The range of this kind of gun is only 80-90 meters. An old hunter who often plays with guns might be able to hit a standard target meters away. But the marksmanship of the three of them is definitely not as good as that of the old hunter. They can hit a moving animal from thirty to fifty meters away, but they will drift away if they are farther away.

Although Xu Ning held 56 and a half in his hand, he definitely had to shoot the brown bear first. He had to fire at least two shots before he could confidently kill the brown bear. After all, it was Black Sky and it was relatively far away.

If the jackals were to rush towards their brothers with a fierce look on their faces, Xu Ning would not have the confidence to kill them all with the remaining eight bullets, because jackals are smarter than wolves, and even though they are not as big as wolves, they are worse than wolves. Much more flexible.

Moreover, jackals belong to a family group, and their social structure is quite complicated. Generally, there are 5-12 jackals in a group. In addition to the jackal king and his husband, most of the other adult helpers are male, such as the jackal king’s cousins, brothers, sons... …

In addition, jackal cubs generally do not leave their parents immediately after they reach adulthood. They stay to help raise their younger siblings. The males basically stay at the place of birth after they reach adulthood, while the females run out and travel long distances to join other jackal groups and bloom branches. Loose leaves.

Jackals basically do not fight among themselves, and family members are very friendly with each other. Unlike wolves, jackals with high status will rarely fight against jackals with low status.

They hunt mostly in the early morning and dusk, and sometimes hunt during the day. They often hunt wild boars, deer, and roe deer, and feed on livestock with hooves.

When they are extremely hungry, they can eat almost anything as long as it fills their stomach, whether you have hooves or not!

Xu Ning had heard before that in the 1950s and 1960s, there were many jackals and green-skinned dogs in the Sanjiang Plain who came into the villages to pick up chickens, ducks, sheep, and cattle. There were also jackals who picked up children returning home from school. I found a red cloth shoe in the mountains...

Xu Ning moved forward about six or seven meters, bypassing the branches of two oak trees, and came to an open space with a wider view. He leaned against a calf-thick ash willow, his eyes never leaving the brown bear and the group of jackals.

The brown bear lowered its head, grinning and roaring in a low voice. The group of eight jackals seemed to be playing a game, not in a hurry, but just wandering in front of the brown bear. From time to time, they jumped towards the brown bear, but quickly Run away, your behavior is quite despicable!
Seven or eight meters behind Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, Wang Hu and Guan Lei stared at the brown bears and jackals in front of them, while keeping an eye on Xu Ning. If the jackals had the intention to pounce later, they would climb up Tree.

Although jackals can climb trees, they cannot climb trees. In this snow-covered valley, their jumping ability is greatly reduced, so they cannot jump to branches two or three meters above the ground.

At this time, Xu Ning was only more than fifty meters away from the brown bear that was destined to die. From his position, he could clearly see the brown bear's drooped head, so he almost did not hesitate, handed over the muzzle of the 56 and a half gun, and the butt of the gun. He put it on his shoulder and pulled the trigger just by feeling.

Bang!Bang!
After two consecutive gunshots, the brown bear's body froze, his head moved slightly to the side, and he fell to the ground. However, the group of jackals that were showing off in front of the brown bear's eyes were stunned for a moment, and then they barked and whistled. The group of jackals were frightened and ran away to the left, right and rear, but they just ran away. He stopped two or three meters away, and turned to look at the place where the gunshot came from. Then a jackal screamed "Ouch" from his mouth, and then the jackal that stopped turned and ran away...

Xu Ning stood there with his mouth dry. In fact, he was a little nervous because he had never beaten a jackal before, but had only seen a few from a distance.

The three people behind him saw the jackals fleeing and rushed over immediately.

Wang Hu shouted excitedly: "Second brother, piss!"

Guan Lei laughed: "Haha, that's right! These two shots must have hit me in the head!"

Li Fuqiang was relatively calm and just smiled and said: "Brother, what should we do? Go directly to get the bear bile, or should we wait a little longer?"

After Xu Ning fired the gun, he hurriedly took out two scattered bullets from his pocket and added them to the gun case. He raised his hand to remove the round of bullets from his mouth and said hurriedly: "Look for firewood! Get on fire, quick!"

Hearing Xu Ning's urgency, Li Fuqiang, Wang Hu, and Guan Lei were obviously stunned, but they did not refute Xu Ning's words. They just turned around and dispersed to find Song Mingzi.

Xu Ning said: "Don't separate! The four of us are together and look around! These jackals are even smarter than the green ones, so let's be more careful... just pick up the branches while looking at them, and make a fire first!" "

"Okay! Brother, I'll look behind you, Lei Zi, look ahead."

"OK."

After Xu Ning's reminder, the three people who were originally excited all calmed down and finally realized the danger.

It was already very difficult for the three of them when they faced the wolf pack in Wangxing. There were only six wolves.

And now there are eight jackals, who like to pick out their crotches and pull their intestines the most. If a person is paralyzed by them, he will definitely not die from having his trachea bitten off, but his crotch will be opened and he will bleed to death...

Xu Ning shot and killed the brown bear, and the jackals ran away. Less than half a minute passed before Wang Hu and Guan Lei walked forward, lowering their heads and pulling on the snow-covered branches.

These branches were not completely covered with snow, but had exposed branches, so they were easy to find. Besides, the most indispensable thing in the woods was dead trees. Li Fuqiang spotted a dead tree as thick as his wrist and cut it with one kick. After kicking it off, Mang Jin dragged her forward two steps, while Xu Ning dragged the tree trunk behind...

"That's enough! Hurry up and start the fire."

Wang Hu ran to Xu Ning, took out a match from his pocket, picked up two handfuls of oak leaves on the oak tree, and lit it easily with a match. He placed a small branch on the burning oak leaves, and it ignited in just a few seconds. Then Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei pulled out their knives and axes, cut off the branches of the dead trees, and piled them on top of the flames.

"Brother, the jackals can't come back."

Xu Ning shook his head: "I'm not sure, if we rob them of their mouths, will they be able to run away?"

Guan Lei glanced around and said, "Brother, if they come back, can we hug them?"

Xu Ning frowned and said: "I just had the opportunity to hug them. Why didn't I fire the gun? I was afraid that I couldn't hug them clean... This jackal is more vindictive than Qingpizi. The year before last, I met a gang leader while walking on the street. .

He said that he had encountered a group of jackals in the Jiao River, and a man who helped the trap strangled two little jackals to death and stewed radishes for them to eat.

Later, when he went to pee in the corner of the corner in the middle of the night, he was attacked by a group of jackals. At that time, the leader of the gang and a few people saw it with their own eyes. The guy in his hand was an old foreign cannon, and he couldn't save him even though it was smoking... …”

Guan Lei was stunned for a moment and asked, "What happened next?"

"How's it going? That person never came back, and the Wood Gang has become obsolete. Otherwise, can the boss come back to our street?"

"Oh, fuck..."

"These bastards are pretty cruel."

Li Fuqiang took a deep breath and said, "Brother, if those jackals come around, will we fight or not?"

"If we can't help it, we won't. These animals are almost extinct in our Northeast. It's fate that we meet them. As long as they don't want our lives, what can we do if we leave some meat for them?"

Wang Hu nodded: "Yeah, I'll leave all the lantern hangings for them later, and add some meat..."

"Well, hurry up and draw the fire to the brown bear. This black one can't see anything. Brother, you and Shitou get guns. If the brown bear makes any movement, put the gun in the head."

"okay!"

Immediately, Wang Hu held a bundle of branches under his arm, bent down to pick up a fire from the fire, and followed Xu Ning's steps towards the brown bear. At this time, less than two minutes had passed since the gunshot, so they were far away from the brown bear. There is still some distance to go.

After walking forward for more than thirty meters, the four of them reached the brown bear. Through the firelight, they could see that there were patches of blood and ice in the white snow on the ground. The brown bear's buttocks were even covered with a layer of blood ice, and blood spots were scattered all over. One place.

Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei walked around to the top of the brown bear's head with guns, pointing the muzzles at its head. Seeing that it was motionless, they became a little alert. When Wang Hu came over with a fire, the light just hit the side of the brown bear's head.

Li Fuqiang saw the two bullet holes on its head and said: "Brother, both bullets have cut off the brain. It must be dead."

Guan Lei looked at the whole body of the brown bear and joked: "Oh my god, this big brown bear is so big!"

Li Fuqiang said with a smile: "What's the point? This brown bear is bigger than the black bear. Some of them can weigh more than a thousand kilograms. That's a lot of fat."

It’s almost the beginning of spring. I was hungry and thin when I was squatting in the barn. Now I’m walking in the heavy snow in the mountains with nothing to eat, and I’m even thinner. When you look at the brown bears that will be squatting in the barn after autumn, you will know how big they are..."

Xu Ning lowered his head and was driving away the snow with his feet. After clearing a place with dead leaves, Wang Hu threw the fire in his hand into the open space and piled the branches under his arm on the small flame.

(End of this chapter)