red ribbon lion king

Chapter 25 The Elephant and Lion War (1)
Vomit—vomit—the continuous roar came from the grassland on the left. The sound was louder and more powerful than the roar of a lion.In the African grasslands, only wild elephants can overwhelm lions with their roars.The roar of the elephant was louder than the next, and there were also the panic-stricken wailing of the lion in the middle.For lions with sensitive hearing, it is no need to guess that something unusual must have happened to the elephants and lions on the grassland on the left.

The red streamer who was hunting stopped and looked towards the grassland on the left.The wasp-waisted lioness and hyena-less lioness were also watching.The terrain is uneven, and several grass slopes cut off the line of sight, only a cloud of dust dancing in the air far away.

Like all spiritual animals, lions like to watch.The red streamer was so excited that the corners of his eyes turned up, and he took a few steps towards the grassland on the left, obviously wanting to run over to see what happened.It just ran to a scorched tree stump that was knocked down by lightning, and suddenly stopped as if hitting a wall, and the expression on its face instantly became bewildered.The wasp-waisted lioness ran a few steps and stared wide-eyed. On the burnt black tree trunk, there were strands of khaki-colored lion mane, fluttering in the breeze.

The wasp-waisted lioness understood why the red streamer stopped as if hitting a wall, oh, they were standing on the scent boundary line, and beyond that was the territory of the Patilu lion pride.

Ever since the demon yellow giant hyena and braided lion invaded the gourd wasteland and killed lion cubs, the red streamer tried to avoid stepping into the Patilu lion group when they went out to look for food.Sometimes, in the process of chasing the prey, the prey fled into the Patilu lion group in all directions, and the red streamer would stop chasing; Territory, you can avoid many detours, but the red streamer would rather make a big circle than step into the boundary line of Patilu lions.On the surface, this is a wise move to avoid unnecessary conflicts, but it is actually a taboo and avoidance, revealing inner cowardice and fear.

Knowing the reason why the red streamer stopped like hitting a wall, the wasp-waisted lioness felt a burst of sadness in her heart.Two months ago, it turned an apparently failed encounter into a victory, and held a grand and enthusiastic celebration ceremony. Could it be said that the effort is equal to zero, and it doesn't work at all. The red streamer is still troubled by the failure complex. Is the giant yellow hyena fearful?If this is the case, wouldn't the celebration ceremony it painstakingly directed two months ago become a farce!
Ugh——The wasp-waisted lioness yelled loudly behind the red streamer. It was a reminder, a wake-up call, and a memo-like confession: Don't forget, you once defeated the demon yellow giant hyena, and we will still fight for you. A celebration ceremony was held!

The red streamer looked at the burnt tree stump thoughtfully, the bright red mane slowly opened, and the eyes were shining brightly. He hummed in his nose, flicked his tail chicly, and quickly walked across the tree. Smell the boundary line, enter the territory of Patilu lions, and run to the place where elephant roars and lion roars are mixed together.

The wasp-waisted lioness was relieved and relieved.Facing the territory of the Patilu lions, which had been avoided in the past, the red ribbon strode in without hesitation. This step is of great significance, marking that its failure complex has been completely solved.The territory of the Patilu lion group is the scent boundary line arranged by the demon yellow giant hyena. The red streamer saw the mane of the yellow giant hyena hanging on the burnt tree stump, and smelled the yellow giant hyena smeared on the grass and rocks There is no hesitation, no wavering, no hesitation, and he rushes past, revealing the mentality of being a winner who is arrogant and arrogant to his opponent.For Hong Piaodai, who had suffered a tragic failure and had a deep fear of the giant yellow hyena, this was a remarkable event, which can be called a spiritual sublimation and a liberation of the mind.

The celebration ceremony two months ago still seemed to be effective.

Looking from a distance, on a low-lying grassy slope full of bushes, a group of African elephants are engaged in a scuffle with Patilu lions.

This is a rare big family of wild elephants in the Luolian prairie. There are thirty or forty adult elephants with long tusks protruding from their snouts, which is twice as many as lions.

A gray and white calf about one year old had several bloodstains on its back and its right ear was torn and dripping with blood.An old female elephant with a wrinkled face and a black and white female elephant with a long nose guarded the injured calf. Only the injured ear.The hind legs of the old matriarch and the buttocks of the black-nosed female were also scratched and dripping with blood.

Following the cry of the old female elephant, more than 30 adult elephants pouted their tusks like scimitars, and pressed towards the lions like angry hills.

On the edge of an S-shaped depression with a puddle of rainwater, seven or eight elephants cornered a lioness with white chest hair and a half-year-old lion cub with black paws.The wasp-waisted lioness was exiled from the Patilu lion group. I know this lioness, named White Breast, and I don't need to ask. I know that the black-clawed lion cub is born of White Breast.

With his back against a ridge more than one meter high, White Chest bared his teeth and roared, leaping left and right, eager to pounce, making all kinds of threatening gestures that a lion can make, trying to fan the animals in front of him. The elephant backed off.However, relying on the large number of "humans", the elephant did not take the threat of the white chest seriously. With its nose held high and its long tusks held up, it approached with steady and powerful steps.

On the other side, more than 20 elephants lined up in a line and roared angrily. Some charged with their huge bodies, and some rolled up gravel with their trunks and threw them, driving away the lions like flies.The lions wailed and backed away.The giant yellow mane of the demon has lost its former prestige, its mane is messy, covered with a layer of loess, and looks like a beggar; there is a long scratch on the buttocks of the braided lion, and the body hair is shaved off, revealing the bluish-white flesh. Like a little white snake embedded in it.

It's not hard to guess what just happened here.

The giant yellow mane and the braided lion led a group of hungry lions to the depression to look for food. They happened to meet the wrinkled old female elephant and the black-and-white-nosed female elephant leading a calf to the depression to drink saline water.Although the lion is known as the overlord of the African grasslands, has no natural enemies, and is at the top of the food chain of nature, it does not dare to do violence to elephants like other herbivores.

African elephants are huge in stature and strong in character. Both male and female have well-developed incisors—sharp ivory, and a smart and strong long nose, which daunts all carnivores who want to try elephant meat.Elephants are used to living in groups, and they are bound by blood. The members of the group are united and friendly, and they are extremely difficult to deal with.Therefore, unless the lion is hungry to the point of desperation, he will not dare to provoke the elephant herd.

Of course, elephants will not find trouble with lions for no reason.Under normal circumstances, lions and elephants meet in grasslands. The lions stare at the elephants with salivating but helpless eyes, and the elephants stare at the lions with vigilant and cautious eyes. Neither side dares to attack rashly. After staring at each other for a while, they each went their own way, as if they had signed a non-aggression treaty.

But after all, lions are carnivores whose only way of survival is killing. They are typical opportunists. As long as conditions permit, they will inevitably try elephant meat.Usually lions will choose to attack an old orphan elephant, or a young elephant that is not well guarded.Under the law of the jungle where the jungle preys on the weak, the two sides will not invade each other unless the balance of power is balanced. Once the balance is broken, the invasion will happen immediately.Therefore, when the Patilu lion group faced an old female elephant and a female elephant guarding a calf, the giant mane immediately had the idea of ​​attacking the calf.

The giant yellow hyena weighs each other's strength: the old female elephant is old, the wrinkles on her face are as bumpy as crocodile skin, and her teeth are stained yellow, so it is not difficult to deal with; Come on, even if the nose is sharper than a steel whip, even if the ivory is sharper than a sharp knife, it can't resist the lions from all directions to bite; the small elephant's skin and tender meat must taste pretty good.It looked around cautiously, but there was no sign of other elephants, ha, this cheap one is not for nothing.It made a predation command, and the lions immediately surrounded them in two directions, some roared to threaten, some used tricks to divert the old female elephant and the black-nosed female elephant away from the calf, and some took their chances Taking advantage of the loopholes, he tried to drag the baby elephant out from under the body of the black-and-white-nosed female elephant.

Although the old mother elephant is old and frail and not very flexible, she is very experienced. While roaring hoarsely, she shook her huge head desperately, her trunk and tusks swung left and right, like a movable shield, preventing the lion from approaching the calf.The black-and-white-nosed female elephant, out of the instinct to protect the calf, guards the calf tightly between her two front legs. No matter how many bloodstains are scratched on the buttocks by the lion's claws, she will never move half a step.

Lions have a headache for elephants. In addition to their huge size with long trunks and ivory tusks, elephants are also difficult to deal with when biting.Elephant skin is thick and tough, much thicker than rhinoceros skin, buffalo skin, hippopotamus skin, crocodile skin, etc., and it can be called the first in the world.The sharp knife-like lion's claws grab it. If you grab it lightly, it is equivalent to scratching the elephant. If you try your best to tear it hard, you will get a few bloodstains at most. You can't slap it like other herbivores. The opponent was torn apart, causing a fatal blow; the elephant's body was like a round hill, and although the lion had a bloody mouth, facing such a huge elephant's body, there was no way to bite - I don't know where to bite .

Lions have three tricks to hunt. One is to bite off the neck of the prey, the other is to bite off the prey’s foot, and the third is to jump on the prey and overwhelm the prey. Unfortunately, these three tricks are used on adult elephants. The effect is equal to zero.The neck of an elephant is short and thick, let alone biting, and it cannot be hugged; the legs of an elephant are as thick and strong as a pillar, and even if a lion's teeth are broken, it may not be able to break the elephant's legs; an elephant is as stable as Mount Tai, stronger than a camel It can bear more weight, and even five lions jumping on the elephant at the same time cannot crush the elephant.

This was really a tough battle. The yellow giant mane organized seven or eight rounds of pounce. Several lionesses took turns to attack, but failed to drag the calf out of the guard circle of the two female elephants, but two lionesses were killed. The elephant's trunk was whipped in the face, and the nose was crooked, and the nose was bleeding.There was an old lioness named Quma who thought she was clever, squatted down and got under the crotch of the black-and-white-nosed female elephant, trying to bite the calf's leg as if sneaking into a tunnel, but was trampled on by the black-and-white-nosed female elephant , almost broke the spine.

There were so many lions, and the two female elephants couldn't be balanced. The giant yellow hyena was so angry that his seven orifices were full of smoke, roaring, and he rode out himself, and rushed up with the braided lion from the left and right sides.The lionesses actively cooperated, some tearing the elephant's buttocks, some jumping on the elephant's back, some shouting and cheering, and some feinting to restrain the old female elephant...a melee.

In the sharp and angry roar of the black-and-white-nosed female elephant, under the cover of the misty smoke-like dust cloud, the yellow giant hyena, relying on its vigorous skill and super physical strength, held the black-and-white-nosed female elephant's body with one paw. chin, the other paw to grab the baby elephant, the baby elephant's skin is tender, and the sharp lion claws are like a dagger deeply pierced into the baby elephant's back.Just as it was about to drag the baby elephant out, the black and white female elephant suddenly turned around and stabbed her face with two ivory tusks. Of course, it is not cost-effective to kill a baby elephant and become a blind lion. It has to retract its paws from the baby elephant's back, twist its waist and jump away.Although he failed to succeed, he had already scratched the baby elephant.The whimpering of the baby elephant made the black and white female elephant's heart break. She stared at the blood-red eyes, pouted her ivory and stabbed wildly at the lion who rushed to her side.

The giant yellow hyena was very happy, this is what it wanted.

Experienced lions know that in hunting, once the composure and composure of the prey is broken and the prey is forced into a state of panic, victory is not far away.

Sure enough, the old mother elephant and the black-and-white female elephant were anxious to retaliate, and they could not care about the other.It was a good time to bite, and the giant mane was about to take off. Suddenly, in a short forest directly in front of him, there was a high-pitched and loud elephant roar. come rushing.The elephant's hoof stomped on the dry grass, raising clouds of dust, only two or three hundred meters away.Obviously, this is a huge herd of elephants. After hearing the call for help from the old female elephant and the black and white female elephant, they rushed to the rescue.

It stands to reason that with such a large group of elephants coming over, the most sensible choice for the lions is to rub the soles of their feet with oil—and run away quickly.But the giant hyena couldn't bear to leave just like that. It was so hungry that its belly was growling, and the other lions were so hungry that their bellies were stuck to their spines. The baby elephant in front of him was just enough for the lions to have a full meal. If they gave up, It's such a pity, you know, it's not easy to find, find, chase and capture a prey again.

The giant hyena thinks that the baby elephant has been exposed, so all he has to do is jump up and hug the baby elephant's neck. It will be dislocated or broken. It only takes half a minute. If it is muddled, it only takes 1 minute at most to solve the problem.

The rescued elephant herd is still far away, and they cannot reach here in one minute.Calculating the distance and speed by eye, it took a few minutes and a few seconds for the leading bull elephants to come here, and this time difference could just be used.All it takes is to knock down the calf and you're done, allowing the lions to retreat in seconds before rescue elephants arrive.Lions run faster than elephants, and elephants cannot catch up.The baby elephant that has been bitten down does not need to be taken away. The herd cannot take away the baby elephant that cannot stand up. They will wait by the dying baby elephant, and when the baby elephant dies, it will roar angrily and roll some branches and grass leaves Cover the baby elephant, and then leave dejectedly.Hey, at that time, the baby elephant will become a delicious meal for the lions.

After thinking for a while, the giant hyena felt that he was very sure, so he rushed up fiercely and grabbed the little elephant's head.Unexpectedly, when the black-and-white-nosed female elephant saw the herd coming to rescue her, her confidence increased greatly, and her anxious mood calmed down in an instant. Twitching, slapping twice, impartial, just right on the base of the ear of the yellow giant mane, until its head buzzed, and there were stars in its eyes.It is tolerable for a generation of male lions to be bullied by female elephants like this, but it is unbearable!

The yellow giant hyena was so angry that he forgot that his immediate priority was to kill the baby elephant, so he abandoned the baby elephant and turned to deal with the black-and-white-nosed female elephant, opening his mouth to bite the black-and-white-nosed female elephant's nose.

The elephant's trunk is the most important universal organ on an elephant. It looks bulky, but in fact it is extremely dexterous. It is even more cunning than a loach in the mud. Before the giant yellow mane's mouth approaches, it bounces into the air.The giant yellow mane took a bite, and with a wild animality, he jumped high and high regardless of everything, and hugged the neck of the black-and-white-nosed female elephant from the right side.

To be fair, the tactical move of the giant yellow hyena is beautifully done. It is in a blind spot, and the forward tusks cannot poke it, the elephant's trunk cannot beat it, and the elephant's hoof cannot step on it. Although it cannot Twist off the thick neck of the black-and-white-nosed female elephant, but you can bite and taste the palm-like elephant ear; the cartilage tissue on the elephant's ear is thin and brittle, and the taste must be good. shameful shame.

The yellow giant mane was about to bite the elephant's ear when he suddenly found the lionesses screaming in panic, as if something terrible had happened. He looked up and saw dust flying more than ten meters away, covering the sky and the sun, as if a sandstorm was raging ——No, the herd of elephants is almost here!

The yellow giant hyena just woke up like a dream, and realized that he had made a huge mistake, and should not have diverted his attack target to jump on the black and white nose female elephant.It wants to correct its mistake and attack the baby elephant again. Unfortunately, the baby elephant has shrunk to the back of the old mother elephant.Now it is more difficult to create a fighter plane to pounce on the little elephant again than to reach the sky.It didn't even have time to bite off the palmetto-like ears of the black-nosed female elephant.If he wanted to avoid being surrounded by elephants, he had to jump down from the black-and-white-nosed female elephant and give the lions an order to flee, no, no, to retreat.

The moment the giant yellow hyena rolled down from the black-and-white-nosed female elephant in embarrassment, the rescue elephant herd had arrived, relying on the large number of elephants, driving the lion like a shepherd dog driving a sheep.Normally, a herd of elephants will chase after a lion and drive the lion out of the danger zone, and then they will not chase again; elephants are vegetarians and are not interested in lion meat, so they will not chase after their prey like carnivores. After all, lions are mighty and brave. From the heart, elephants are somewhat afraid of lions, and they are cautious when chasing them, so they will not chase them too far.

But this time, the lions escaped 300 meters away, and the elephants were still relentless, staring at them.

There is no doubt that the elephants, seeing their calves injured, were enraged, vengeful, and determined to chase the crap out of the lions.Soon, the lions fled to the starting point when they attacked the calf, and several lionesses stopped at the same time.Generally speaking, the running speed of an elephant is not as fast as that of a lion, and the lion can easily get away during the chase.In fact, so far, the distance between lions and elephants is gradually widening.But the lionesses stopped.For these lionesses, they have already retreated to the line of life defense, and they cannot retreat any more.

(End of this chapter)