In the vast wilderness, the turkey called the 'ghost-faced pheasant' by the immigrants turned its blue face smartly, as if sensing that the killing machine was about to fly, and before it could move, the big feather arrow pierced through the crazy weeds, accurately smashed the red, blue and white heads, and continued to leap a few steps and nail it to the trunk of the tree.

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

A whistle came from behind the weeds, and a yellow whirlwind came out from the side of the tall cactus, and the four paws flew over and scraped the grass bark and dust, and grabbed the fat turkey leg in one mouth, and dragged it backwards with great difficulty, until it heard footsteps behind him, and then the yellow dog opened his mouth and raised his head, and walked around the prey twice, looking forward to himself, and at the end he curled his tail upwards and invited the grass to invite merit.

Ding Hai put the bow wrapped in cowhide with the handle into the back waist sac, pushed aside the weeds and strode in front of the turkey, squinted slightly at the prey and paused, then squatted down and pulled the turkey's neck and raised the knife to chop it and handed it to the yellow dog, praising 'good dog', then he looked back and urged: "Ah Yang, hurry up." ”

It didn't take long for Ding Lu, who was carrying the arquebus on his shoulder, and Wang Yang, who was holding a long-handled boring and carrying a horn bow, walked out of the half-human-high weeds together, Ding Hai had already pulled out a feather on the ground, looked up at the two brothers, and said, "Hurry up, Xu Baihu is coming over soon, we have to rush to meet." ”

The younger Wang Yang stuck the boring handle on the ground, and said with a smile while helping: "The day before yesterday, I hunted a deer, yesterday I hunted three earth rats, and today I hunted a fat ghost-faced pheasant...... There are many birds and beasts, and they will not be afraid of starvation in the future. ”

Ding Lu stood in the wilderness with the yellow dog on the lookout for the beasts around him that might be attracted by the bloody gas, and the day before yesterday they strayed into the territory of a cougar while hunting deer, and the big guy was called the big golden cat by them.

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

The dun army on the nine sides may not be good soldiers, this is not to blame them, the saline-alkali land can't bloom good flowers, and no matter how good the combat skills are, the five dun armies can't stop the northern captives and scattered cavalry, and the length of their fate has its own number of days.

But most of them are good hunters, and it depends on whether they can get some meat to fight and sacrifice their teeth in addition to their meager income.

Compared with honing combat skills, the two professional skills necessary for the dun army are actually the sinking pit and weaving a scarf, a good pit means that there is a foolish deer crashing into the pit, and weaving a good scarf can be sold for two dollars of silver in a month when there is no rotation.

After cleaning up the hair of the ghost-faced pheasant, Wang Yang wrapped more than a dozen catties of turkey in soil and wrapped it in a flower cloth and picked it on the tip of the boring handle, and the turkey feathers were collected in the waist bag, these long feathers can be attached to the arrows, although they are heavier than the carving feathers, but they are not bad, and the women who sit in the ox cart and donkey cart after meeting with Xu Jin can scrape out the appropriate tail feathers.

"This is because there is not enough food on the road, and when we arrive in the village, we must follow the rules for hunting, and we will not hunt in spring and summer."

Compared with the ordinary people among the immigrants, Ding Hai, who has been in charge of a dungeon fort in northern Xinjiang for seven years, is obviously more knowledgeable, although the dunker only counts five dun soldiers and a dozen people, but he already has a plan for the future village, and he is well substituted into the role of the village lieutenant.

"I inquired with Xu Baihu, there is no agricultural time in this land, melons, beans, and corn are harvested as they are planted, and they all go to farm; Although there are no four seasons and no four seasons, birds and animals have heavenly hours. ”

According to the ancient Chinese hunting method, spring search, summer seedling, autumn hunting, winter hunting, which means that in spring to carefully collect and hunt wild beasts that are not pregnant, in summer the fields grow up but the wild beasts are still small to kill and destroy the crops, autumn killing can be appropriate hunting, winter wild beasts grow fat and strong can carry out large-scale hunting.

But in Mexico, there are four distinct seasons in the Central Plains, and this set is not good, which makes the hunter very embarrassed.

"Pregnant female beasts, not grown into small beasts are not hunting, hunting mountains are not too big than a thousand acres, every six months into the mountain, every eight out of the mountain, but also enough to subsidize the family."

When Ding Hai said this, he walked in front with a cluster of chiseled arrows with wide and broad blades, a little absent-minded, he felt sorry for his arrow shaft.

Qi Jiajun brought to Jizhen arrowmaker with the 'three uneven' technique to do, the so-called three uneven, the practice is to cut three or four pieces of bamboo to cut the round, the bamboo is not aligned, in the Sancha River with a hairpin to ask the military craftsman from eastern Zhejiang to change, put an arrow shaft outside at least 30 treasures, not want to buy can be bought.

The shaft of the arrow is broken not because it is of inferior quality, but because the arrow is too good, and the broad-bladed arrow with a width of one inch has a ridge in the middle, and the wings are as thin as cicada wings, which are sharper than any knife, and they are specialized in fighting without armor.

Good arrow clusters are forged, more expensive than arrow shafts, and ten good arrows can be made for one or two pieces of silver, but if good arrow clusters are used for hunting, usually the arrow clusters are not bad when people die, and the arrow shafts are different.

These things can't be bought here, and Xu Jin told him that one or two pieces of silver in the bow and arrow shop in Changsheng County can buy almost ten, but the arrow shaft is made of wood and rounded, and the arrow cluster is cast and sharpened, which is not durable at all...... But don't really say it, if the price of the Central Plains is followed, he should use casting arrows when hunting.

Because his arrow shaft is more expensive than the cast arrow, there are only a few in total, and it is very distressing to break it.

The group of three did not walk long before they found a large army led by Xu Jin along the hillside, and the carriages, donkey carts, livestock and goods were moving very slowly on the official road.

Several groups of immigrants who had entered the same group under the command of Lin Hu'er had already moved forward, and their group of people was much slower than the others because of the weakness of three horses and two oxen.

Horses and cattle are brought by the boat when they come, the horses are all inferior horses, and they are the ingredients in the Gyeonggi horse meat restaurant, and in recent years, they have not been happy to eat horse meat, so they can bring a large number of dismounts all the way from Tianjin, and a lot of people have died on the way.

It's okay if the horse is sick, maybe it's for fear of becoming a horse sausage, and in the end it can still walk; It's really not good when the cow is tired, and these big guys are really lying down when they're tired, and they don't leave anything.

It was precisely because of the slow speed of travel that Xu Jin was worried about not enough food, but as he walked, he found that he was too worried...... This is simply a godsend, there are too many things to eat in the field, turkeys, marmots, deer, as long as you want to fight, there is nothing you can't beat.

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

"Your hunting skills, our Beiyang Army is afraid that they won't be able to catch up with the horses, and it seems that the craftsmanship of the sinking pit will not be bad."

Xu Jin, who was walking on the official road, saw that the three of them came back with their prey, ordered the team to stop, stood on the side of the road, took out a pipe and stuffed a little tobacco and smoked two puffs, and said: "In the past, there were more pits in the east, and there were two big battles here before you came, and many brothers died in Beiyang. ”

"If the second phase can arrive on time, Dashuai can take us to drive Xiyi into the sea and drown them!"

Lower-ranking officers don't care about other reasons, and they will be done with death.

"Lieutenant, tell me." The soot from the wooden pipe was knocked out, and Xu Jin asked, "How are you going to protect your people?" ”