bookrebus Chapter 457 The Falcon Hunts Down the Alpha Wolf
Chapter 457 The Falcon Hunts Down the Alpha Wolf
Wolves are cunning by nature, making them difficult to track, and even more difficult for their prey to escape.
It's dark now, the wind is strong, and Li Ju'an is upwind, so the situation is very unfavorable.
The falcon was unable to fly, and the hunting dog was badly injured. He carried the heavily wounded white mastiff on his back, and walked slowly. The injured hunting dog lay on the sled. Only Big Tiger, Chicken Butt, and Fa Cai were able to walk.
Big Tiger wasn't doing too well either; he was weak and his legs were a bit wobbly. The previous battle with the two black bears had severely depleted his strength, and now he was panting heavily while pulling the sled.
Li Ju'an felt sorry for the dog and took the sled to help pull it. Xu Da also hitched up the sled and said, "Lu Zhiqiang, get up yourself. Why can't you get up? You're dawdling like a woman."
Seeing that the wolf pack behind him hadn't followed and was merely testing the waters, Lu Zhiqiang relaxed considerably. He chuckled, patted his knees, and pushed himself up onto the snow, saying, "This is nothing, I, General Lu..."
Suddenly, before he could finish speaking, a fierce male wolf suddenly leaped out from the side, biting his neck and spine and dragging him away.
The change happened too fast. The alpha wolf was incredibly fast, with agile and powerful limbs. Lu Zhiqiang was wearing a thick sheepskin coat, and with a quick drag and bite, it grabbed his collar and dragged him away. A drag mark was left on the snow, along with Lu Zhiqiang's shout and the sound of him pulling the trigger of his gun.
Li Ju'an and Xu Da reacted extremely quickly, turning around to take out money and firing shots.
Bang! Bang! The fierce battle here attracted Sun Weimin's and Zhao Pao's teams, who quickly surrounded them. Zhao Pao's eyes lit up, and he said, "Damn it, there are more than twenty scumbags waiting behind us!"
The large male wolf was just the vanguard; behind it followed more than twenty other robust male wolves, lying in ambush in the woods on both sides of the sled path, waiting for Li Ju'an to turn around. As Li Ju'an and Xu Da turned around, the central pack of male wolves charged forward, drawing away their energy.
Zhao Pao shouted, quickly fired his gun, and led the two men, with all three guns aimed at the wolf pack, to launch an attack.
Unlike black bears and wild boars, wolf packs do not fight back when suddenly attacked. Instead, they conserve their strength and scatter to wait for the next attack.
The wolf pack, attacked from behind, quickly scattered. The falconer behind Zhao Pao shouted, "The wolves are scared. Give them a couple more chases; this one's about to die."
He fired bullets from his gun as if they were free, prompting Sun Weimin, who was to his right, to shout, "Damn! You're really courting death. I still have a pack of wolves here."
The wolf pack surrounded Li Ju'an and Zhao Pao's teams again. Bullets fell from the sky. Li Ju'an looked down and saw that Sun Weimin and two other people were sitting on the high branches of a big red pine tree, firing at the people below.
This kid is cunning too. He copied Lu Zhiqiang's high-angle shooting technique perfectly and actually managed to shoot down three wolves from a high place.
The pack of wolves was routed, and Li Ju'an, with sharp eyes, kept a close watch on the pack, observing and searching for the alpha wolf.
These male wolves are all robust and in their prime. There are a great many of them, and the alpha wolf is probably nearby.
The wolf pack began to retreat, and Zhao Pao and Sun Weimin wanted to give chase. Li Ju'an said, "Don't chase them, let's keep going."
Exhausted and panting, Lu Zhiqiang couldn't understand and said, "Keep going? These wolves are practically riding on our faces. If we keep going, we'll just get harassed even more."
Li Ju'an nodded and said, "We'll wait for the wolves to harass us. We'll wait until dawn."
The Falcon only has a home-field advantage at daylight.
The group continued their journey intermittently, creating a stalemate with the wolves harassing them from behind. Their ammunition was nearly exhausted, and the wolves were also worn out; both sides were running out of energy.
Finally, the first rays of sunlight broke through the darkness.
The first rays of sunlight pierced through the sky, casting a halo of light through the rolling morning mist in the mountains and forests. Li Ju'an raised his hand and released the golden eagle and the hawk, blowing a whistle.
After three years of training and teamwork, the three falcons are no longer what they were three years ago. Zhao Pao and the falconer simultaneously sounded the whistle to hunt down the alpha wolf.
The falcon is intelligent. After a long period of cooperation, the falcon soared into the sky and circled, its sharp eyes immediately fixing on the alpha wolf hiding in the pack.
The wolf's eyes were very prominent, and it was naturally cautious. It was surrounded by the male wolves. All the male wolves, with the alpha wolf as the center, began to harass Li Ju'an.
Two golden eagles and a gyrfalcon swooped down aggressively towards the wolf pack. Their sharp talons could tear through the fur of wild animals, and the enormous golden eagles had wingspans of up to two meters, easily seizing the hides of sub-adult green wolves.
Wolf Eyes wasn't large; having been raised by humans for many years, he was only medium-sized for a wolf in the pack. The golden eagle raised its head, letting out a high-pitched, sharp cry, and with its sharp talons spread, it grabbed Wolf Eyes from the pack, clamping its grip on the fur on the wolf's back and lifting him up.
Caught off guard, the alpha wolf let out a mournful howl and tried to turn its head to bite the golden eagle's talons and break free.
The golden eagle, losing its balance, was about to be dragged into the pine forest by the struggling wolves. Once inside, it would face a frenzied attack from a large pack of wolves and be unable to take off again.
The golden eagle cried out in anger, released its talons, and flung the wolf's eyes from the sky.
The wolf was lucky; it fell from a great height into a branch of a large red pine tree, where the sharp branch pierced its soft abdomen and went inside.
The wolf, in pain, let out a piercing howl, and the pack was thrown into complete chaos.
Li Ju'an and his men charged forward, nine hunters, nine guns, and angry barking hunting dogs.
Bang bang bang!
The dense firing of gunfire attracted the attention of Jiang Pao's three small squads not far away. Li Ju'an and his men fired on the ground, while Jiang Pao fired from the hilltop at long range, and Zhang Pao was on another hilltop, also within effective firing range.
A barrage of gunfire erupted, bullets raining down relentlessly, leaving the trapped wolves in the pine forest crippled and wounded. The seriously wounded were finished off on the spot, bullets piercing the back of their heads. The crippled wolves were captured by Falcon, who, after subduing them, caught up and finished them off.
Within minutes, more than a dozen green-skinned stags lay scattered across the pine forest of the Great Red Pine, while many more limped away, only to be hit by long-range rifles from Li Ju'an and his men, and their hunting dogs rushed up and tore at them in a frenzy.
As dawn broke, the air was thick with the pungent, overwhelming smell of blood from the red pine trees. The stench could travel for miles, so foul it made one dizzy and uneasy.
Li Ju'an walked to the big red pine tree, looked up at the alpha wolf whose abdomen was pierced by a pine branch, and said, "Qin Pao is about to be released from prison. I wonder what kind of expression Old Qin will have when he sees the wolf's eyes now."
Wolf Eyes wasn't dead yet, but he was seriously injured in the lower abdomen.
The group scrambled up the giant red pine and chopped off a branch with a single stroke. Wolf Eyes' abdomen pierced through the branch, and it fell to the ground. Li Ju'an tied it up tightly with hemp rope and put it on a sled to take it down the mountain.
He looked back at the wolf's eyes as he walked, and saw resentment and malice in them. He shouted at Lu Zhiqiang to take off his smelly socks.
Lu Zhiqiang's smelly feet were notorious in the village. The stinky socks, which also smelled sour, were stuffed into the wolf's mouth through its eyes by Li Ju'an, who said, "Don't blame me, I really had nothing else to stuff in your mouth, and I was afraid you'd howl so loudly that it would be bad for us if you howled over all your relatives."
The wolf glared at him fiercely.