Chapter 88

When Li Long arrived at Ha Ha Li Mu's winter camp, it was about ten o'clock. Based on the current short days and long nights, it was the normal time just after finishing breakfast.

Ha Ha Li Mu habitually heard the dog barking and knew it was Li Long. He came out of the winter camp, helped Li Long tie the horse to his own horse post, and then pulled Li Long into the house.

"Drink milk tea first, we'll go find Yushanjiang in a while, and then go hunt Mongolian gazelles together."

Knowing Li Long's purpose for this trip, Ha Ha Li Mu didn't say much nonsense.

After spending a long time with them, Li Long became more and more accustomed to milk tea. He took a beautiful sip and said:

"Ha Ha Li Mu, I see that you've shoveled away all the snow that was stained with blood outside."

"I have to shovel it away." Ha Ha Li Mu smiled bitterly, "The wolves howled all night the night before last. Yesterday, not only were there wolves, but a snow leopard also came! That thing can't be hit by a gun at all! If I don't shovel away the snow stained with blood, I won't be able to protect these sheep."

"Then where did you put the snow?"

"Threw it far away, into the ditch." Ha Ha Li Mu said, "I also shot a wolf last night. When you leave, take the wolf skin with you."

"Good." Li Long wasn't pretentious either. After selling these sheep, the relationship between him, Ha Ha Li Mu, and Yushanjiang had risen to an unprecedented height, so there was no need to be polite.

After drinking the milk tea, Ha Ha Li Mu explained to his wife, and then he and Li Long rode their horses to find Yushanjiang.

Yushanjiang had also been waiting for a long time. After drinking milk tea here, he took out a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle for Li Long.

"Brother Yushanjiang, this isn't the gun you had before, right?" Li Long looked at this gun, it was older than the one Ha Ha Li Mu was carrying, but much newer than Yushanjiang's.

The gun was naturally a standard Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. The three-sided bayonet, which was rumored to be miraculous in later generations, and the cleaning rod accessories were all there. Most of the paint surface had no wear, and it looked like it hadn't been used much.

"This is a gun specially found for you." Yushanjiang said with a smile, "Your gun!"

"Mine?" Li Long was a bit surprised, and even more pleasantly surprised.

"Yes, the two of us exchanged six sheep, two sickles, and four bricks of tea for this gun. It was from another herdsman's family, they had no use for it, and I thought you just happened not to have one, isn't this just right."

"Great!" Li Long skillfully opened the safety, pulled the bolt to look into the chamber, it was very clean, only a few rust spots on the surface cover.

This was nothing, just get some gun oil and wipe it well when training with the militia.

"The gun hasn't been fired, you'd better test the gun here, verify the accuracy, and then we'll go hunt Mongolian gazelles."

"Good." Li Long took the gun and went out.

Walking a hundred or eighty meters out of the winter camp, Li Long loaded the bullets into the gun, lay in the snow, set the rear sight to one, aimed at a tumor on a willow tree by the river ditch fifty or sixty meters away, and fired two shots.

After firing, he closed the safety, ran to the tree to look, and the bullets hit the tree tumor, just a bit to the right and down.

Knowing the specific position, just aim slightly to the upper left next time.

In front of the winter camp, Ha Ha Li Mu and Yushanjiang waited for Li Long to determine the accuracy of the gun, and the three of them rode their horses with guns on their backs and hurried to the location where the Mongolian gazelles appeared.

Riding for nearly an hour, Yushanjiang got off the horse first. He signaled Ha Ha Li Mu and Li Long to get off the horse too, tied the horses to the pine tree next to them, and said:

"It's less than a kilometer from here, we'll walk over."

Yushanjiang led the way, they walked up and down the mountains, wading through the snow. Li Long's leather boots were already filled with snow, but at this moment his heart was full of excitement, and he couldn't feel the cold at all.

"Next time you come, you should wear felt boots." Ha Ha Li Mu behind reminded, "That's better than what you have."

Li Long thought it was true. Felt boots are like long boots, although they are harder, at least the protection range is stronger than leather boots.

"Quiet, we're almost there." Yushanjiang in front reminded in a low voice.

Climbing up the mountain top, Yushanjiang squatted down first and moved slowly towards the top of the mountain.

Li Long and Ha Ha Li Mu followed suit and moved over slowly together, trying not to make any sound.

Reaching the top of the mountain, they looked down. In the distance was a shrubbery, and there were traces of being trampled and arched in the snow nearby. They were already on the outermost periphery of the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. To the north was an endless Gobi and wasteland. Occasionally, they could see patches of red willow, white thorn, and saxaul, and the location Yushanjiang pointed to was the shrubbery less than two hundred meters under the mountain in front.

But Li Long didn't see any Mongolian gazelles.

"Where are the Mongolian gazelles?" Ha Ha Li Mu didn't see them either and asked Yushanjiang in a low voice.

"Your eyes are not good anymore." Yushanjiang said in a low voice, "See that shrubbery?"

"I see it."

"Beside those short trees," Yushanjiang pointed, "see if there are any clumps of reed grass?"

"I see them."

"Beside the reed grass, those gray-yellow lumps."

"Aren't those stones?"

"Of course they aren't stones, those are Mongolian gazelles lying there."

Those were actually Mongolian gazelles?

Li Long looked carefully, it really was Mongolian gazelles!

These guys should have eaten enough and started to rest. When resting, they kicked away a large piece of snow, then lay down and huddled together, warming each other in the snow pile.

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"At this time, it's best to hunt. They are all huddled together, the target is big, and it's easy to hit. If they were eating grass, at such a long distance, it would be really hard to hit!" Yushanjiang said, "People with poor marksmanship can't hit them."

"Then we..."

"Let's shoot now, how many we can hit depends on luck."

The three people dispersed and slowly began to make their own gun platforms.

Because the Mongolian gazelles were resting, there was naturally no need to be so anxious to hit a fixed target, so the gun platform had to be done well, and the three people had agreed.

"I'll shoot the one on the left, Ha Ha Li Mu, you shoot the one on the right, Li Long, you shoot the one in the middle. After one shot, the Mongolian gazelles will definitely be startled, and then you can just pick and shoot."

Yushanjiang said this like it was child's play, but it was very serious.

Li Long guessed if it was because he was a novice at hunting, so they were so solemn.

In fact, it could be more complicated. But with him, a novice, they would pay great attention to details. Maybe they were cultivating him, a quasi-hunter, and teaching him experience.

While his mind was wandering, Li Long had already made the gun platform, then lay down, opened the safety, and began to aim.

The distance was relatively far, and the commotion here didn't affect the Mongolian gazelles, those guys were still lying there.

Squinting, Li Long could see that among these Mongolian gazelles, at least three were rams, and the upright horns were the sign.

Li Long aimed at the largest ram in the middle, which was also the ram with the longest horns. At a distance of two hundred meters, the point he could see was actually very small. But fortunately, the Mongolian gazelles gathered into a large lump, so the aiming range was relatively large.

"Ready, I'll count one, two, three, get ready to fire." Yushanjiang saw that the three people were ready, so he said.

"One, two, three... bang!"

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