Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

There was not much communication, and the two brothers each performed their duties.

This kind of stone warehouse usually does not have a dead corner. In addition to the exit, there are ventilation holes inside, so even if the smoke is filled up, it is impossible for the smoke to spray out immediately.

next moment.

A half-grown black bear suddenly squeezed half of its body out of the cage.

Perhaps frightened by the firewood at the entrance of the cave, he immediately turned around and went back in, but soon he couldn't stand the smoke and turned around again to get some fresh air.

This time it stepped directly on the fire, kicking the firewood everywhere. The whole bear came out and looked around angrily, looking for the culprit who had harmed it.

"Oh!"

Yu Qiutang's gun fired.

He was aiming at the white hair on the bear's belly, which was the location of its heart. If hit, the bear would lose half its life.

At the same time, Yu Qiujiang saw that the bear's body was fully exposed, and according to the agreement, he immediately overturned the prepared stone.

There was nothing wrong with this combination.

Yu Qiutang was responsible for the attack, and Yu Qiujiang was responsible for cutting off their retreat. Even if Sun Tzu's Art of War came, it would still be this attack mode.

But what.

After all, the bear is a living creature, and is in a state of rage, so it is bound to resist, and the pace of the resistance is often unpredictable.

Yu Qiutang was originally aiming at the abdomen, but at the critical moment, this guy actually noticed Yu Qiujiang on the stone. He probably smelled it and immediately turned around to look.

When it had only turned half a circle, Yu Qiutang's bullet arrived and hit it right in the waist.

This frightened it and it immediately prepared to go into the warehouse.

However, at this moment, a stone happened to fall and hit it right in front of it. He hit the stone directly and was knocked back again.

“Bang!!”

The bear roared angrily, got up from the ground, and rushed straight towards the stone in an almost crazy state, knocking it away in one fell swoop.

"Oh!"

Yu Qiutang fired again.

Because the bear was facing away from Yu Qiutang, he could only aim at its head, otherwise hitting its back would have little effect.

But after Xiong stood up, he was very tall. From Yu Qiutang's perspective, Xiong and Yu Qiujiang were basically at the same level. He also had to worry about hurting Yu Qiujiang, so he couldn't shoot rashly and quickly. He would only shoot when he was sure.

Sure enough, this time the gun did not hit the bear's head, or even the neck, but just hit below the neck.

Although the damage to the bear is still great, it is not immediately fatal.

Yu Qiutang looked at the gun barrel, finding it a little difficult to understand.

His shooting skills can't be so bad.

Logically speaking, if it doesn't hit the head, it should at least be on the neck.

How did it slide directly onto my back?

That's okay.

With such a bad aim, he didn't dare to move upwards. If he looked downwards, at least he would still be on the bear. If he drifted upwards, he would end up on the human.

Don't be so rash.

This is because bears have thick skin and flesh. If it were an ordinary animal, two shots of 7.62 mm bullets would have killed it or at least made it unable to move.

In the field.

The bear was completely crazy after being hit again. It didn't care that someone was hitting it from behind and just wanted to hide in the cave immediately.

But Yu Qiujiang is here.'

He saw the bear moving the stone away and knew that the bear wanted to get in.

How can that work.

Yu Qiutang's words were still ringing in his ears. If the bear was put into the cave, in its current state, the bear would know that there were many dangers outside and would definitely rather die inside than come out.

In desperation, he used all his strength to stab the knife from top to bottom into the bear's neck.

But not fatal.

The bear was completely enraged by his rash action and grabbed the handle of the knife and pulled it hard.

Yu Qiujiang didn't react at all. He didn't have time to let go of the thing in his hand, which was dragged down from above and smashed heavily to the ground.

The height is not very high, only about one meter, but the power is quite great.

He fell to the ground and was knocked unconscious. After struggling for a while, he refused to get up immediately.

"Run!"

Yu Qiutang shouted hurriedly.

He didn't care about anything else and quickly shot at the bear's neck again.

Bears are big, so it's easy to hit a target, but it's hard to hit the vital points.

Especially in this kind of rapid movement state, it is impossible to predict what its next move will be.

Aiming a rifle takes several seconds, and it is impossible to hit the target with a single shot like in the game.

At this moment, he just wanted the bear to retreat immediately.

Don't rush to Yu Qiujiang.

As long as it gets close to Yu Qiujiang, the bear's next move would be simple and brutal, which is to sit directly on Yu Qiujiang's body. This is the most common move used by bears to conquer their prey. Once it sits on you, you will basically be crippled if not dead.

Maybe it was Yu Qiutang's roar, or maybe it was the suppression of the gunfire, the bear suddenly changed sides and stopped attacking Yu Qiujiang, turning around and running towards the western mountain path.

His body was seriously injured and he ran very unsteadily, but the desire to survive still drove him not to stop.

Soon we turned to the other side of the triangle bend.

Yu Qiutang had already lost sight of the bear here, and there was no point in lying there any longer, so he let go of Dahei's rope and let it take Xiaohei to temporarily lock the black bear. He then hurried down to check on Yu Qiujiang's body.

Yu Qiujiang was still in shock after what had just happened. He sat against the stone wall, his face pale and breathing heavily.

"How's it going? Are you okay?"

Yu Qiujiang shook his head, "It's okay."

Yu Qiutang pulled Yu Qiujiang to stand up and helped him stretch his body. He found that his left arm was dislocated by the bear, so he helped him reconnect it.

"Try shaking your arms?"

Yu Qiujiang endured the pain and shook his arms a few times. He found that he could use his arms flexibly again, and then he looked much more relaxed.

"This damn thing is quite difficult to deal with."

Yu Qiutang looked at the mountain path where the bear escaped. The blood was spilled all the way, like many crimson flowers blooming in the snow.

Yu Qiujiang nodded.

They had killed a bear once before, but that wasn't as difficult.

So hunting is sometimes a matter of luck, and it doesn't always go smoothly.

This is the reason why many old hunters, who have been hunting for half their lives, still get hurt by their prey in the end.

In fact, many hunters will suffer varying degrees of injuries over time.

There are two main reasons why hunters retire: either they are injured, or they become psychologically unable to accept the consequences of killing too many lives.

Yu Qiujiang shook his head. "It's all my fault. You must have been affected by me."

Yu Qiutang shook his head. "Not entirely. This bear is really hard to deal with. If you encounter an ordinary one, these two shots would basically leave half of its life. How can it be as lively as this one?"

Yu Qiujiang nodded and asked again: "What should we do now? Just ignore it?"

"How is that possible?"

Yu Qiutang looked in the direction where the bear disappeared and said, "Wait here for me. I'll go after it. It's so badly injured that it can't run away."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Yu Qiujiang struggled to get up, but Yu Qiutang held his shoulders and said, "Don't get up. Just wait here."

"How about that?"

"Why not? Your health is more important." "Let's go together."

Yu Qiujiang was very stubborn. He struggled to stand up, stretched his body, and then bent down to pick up the knife.

"Let's go."

Yu Qiutang smiled bitterly. There was nothing he could do about his cousin who was so stubborn.

I had no choice but to let him do it.

"Then you just watch from a distance..."

"Don't say that. I'm basically fine now. I just fell down accidentally. It's nothing. Our bodies are not that precious. If you want me to rest, why did I come to the mountains with you?"

What else could Yu Qiutang say? He had to agree.

The two drove along the blood trail.

There was the sound of a dog barking in the distance.

It must be Dahei who was following the black bear closely, constantly calling out for Yu Qiutang and the other man to come.

They couldn't help but speed up.

Yu Qiutang ran for a distance and looked at Yu Qiujiang beside him. He found that Yu Qiujiang was following him very closely and showed no sign of slacking off, so he felt relieved and started to speed up.

Ten minutes later, the two ran into a pine forest.

Compared to other places that are covered with snow or towering dead trees, the conifers here are a little red, but their leaves have not completely fallen, and the snow on the forest ground is also very thin.

The two followed the sound of the dog and stopped under a thick pine tree.

This tree is estimated to be several hundred years old. It is possible for four or five people to surround it. For some unknown reason, a large hole appears in the tree more than one meter above the ground.

Dahei was barking desperately into the tree hole.

"In here?" Yu Qiujiang pointed at the tree hole.

Yu Qiutang nodded.

He noticed that there were bloodstains on the ground and on the tree trunks, proving that the bear had just crawled into the tree hole.

This situation of running from a stone warehouse to a tree hole is relatively rare.

Generally speaking, the living habits of bears in stone warehouses and bears in tree warehouses are slightly different.

Bears are omnivorous animals. They can eat all kinds of wild fruits, leaves, grass stalks, etc., but they also eat rodents, weasels, martens and various birds, etc.

If you feed them beef or mutton, they will eat it.

Therefore, professional hunters will use beef and mutton to make nests for bears when looking for bears, and then slowly define the bears' activity range.

The bears in the tree barn have a mostly vegetarian diet with less meat.

The bears in Shicang mainly live near rocks, so they are natural enemies of various small animals.

They have no strict boundaries, but they basically maintain a stable pace of life.

Unless the bear has migrated or something unexpected happened when it was a cub, it can have both survival situations at the same time.

Now that they were sure the bear was inside, Yu Qiutang and Yu Qiujiang worked together to deal with the debris around them.

Make room for the bear hunt.

This may seem troublesome, but it must be done.

Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. At critical moments, details matter of life.

Yu Qiujiang didn't complain either.

Yu Qiutang wanted to let him rest more and do it himself, but Yu Qiujiang insisted on doing it, so Yu Qiutang had to let him go.

But here, the space that Yu Qiutang cleaned up was very small.

This is just a last-ditch effort.

He estimated that the bear only had one-third of its energy at the moment and could not make any waves.

It doesn't take long.

After the process was completed, the two continued to divide the work.

Yu Qiujiang's task this time was to stand behind the tree and knock on the trunk, while Yu Qiutang's task was simple, he just prepared to shoot from the front.

The two dogs were not needed originally, but seeing that they had a strong desire to perform, they were let to guard on the left and right respectively. As long as the bear came out, they could just roar at the bear a few times from a distance.

This method is a common way to deal with tree bears.

However, generally speaking, it requires the cooperation of at least three people.

If a person knocks on the tree trunk from behind, the sound will create a bell-and-drum effect inside the trunk, which will be very noisy and make it difficult for the bear to stay inside for long.

One uses a dedicated clip-on fork head in the front.

If you don't have clamps, you can also use two strong wooden sticks. When a bear is harassed, it will often stick its head out from inside to look. At this moment, the two clamps can directly clamp the bear's head and prevent it from going in.

All that remains is to wait for death.

The remaining third person is the attacker. Of course it would be best if he has a gun. He can solve the problem by shooting through the bear's head or heart.

But if you don't have a gun, an axe is best.

The knife is too thin to be used to kill bears and is basically useless.

With a sharply sharp axe and the momentum of the swing, the hunter's powerful arm strength can chop off the bear's head almost completely.

Yu Qiutang currently has only two brothers, so naturally he cannot take care of so many things and can only divide the work to the minimum.

Yu Qiujiang began to hit the tree trunk hard with the handle of a knife from behind, while the two dogs in front were also barking desperately at the tree hole.

It is quite difficult for a bear to hide inside and not be affected.

Yu Qiutang was well prepared. He felt embarrassed in front of Yu Qiujiang for not killing the bear earlier.

There must be no mistakes this time.

however.

Maybe the bear was too frightened to come out no matter how hard Yu Qiujiang knocked on it.

For more than half an hour, Yu Qiujiang's toughness developed from blacksmithing could no longer hold out, and his hammering speed gradually slowed down.

It seems that there is nothing that can be done.

This made Yu Qiutang depressed.

I couldn't help but feel stubborn.

I have never seen such a stubborn bear.

He put away the gun, asked Yu Qiujiang to pull it back, retreated with the two dogs, and stood a hundred meters away waiting for him.

He was ready to fight the bear alone.

Yu Qiujiang and the two dogs were unwilling to retreat at first. Yu Qiujiang could still give explanations, but the two dogs were completely unable to do so. They were unwilling to retreat and left Yu Qiutang here.

There was no other way, so Yu Qiutang had to pull Dahei and Xiaohei's ears and drag them far away himself, letting Yu Qiujiang hold Dahei's reins.

Then he returned to the tree hole.

Since knocking doesn't work, we can only shoot.

But this is not the preferred method.

Because bears live in tree holes, if you accidentally kill the bear inside, it will be basically impossible to get it out.

Hunters would not cut down a hundreds-year-old tree just to get a bear.

So they would try every possible means to force the bear to come out of the tree hole before taking care of it.

Otherwise, if you just use a long-handled knife to stab into the tree hole, you will definitely kill the bear. Why don't people do it?

Yu Qiutang stood in front of the tree hole, thinking for a moment, judging the direction the bear might have gone in, as well as the bear's posture as it lurked in the tree hole.

This is very important.

Bears are not humans, so they will not just crawl in and sit up, maintaining an elegant sitting posture.

They must be lying in a tree hole, and it is difficult to determine which direction their heads are facing. (End of this chapter)