Chapter 419: Great battle between tiger and dholes

What was being slaughtered by the tiger at this moment was the leader of the four fierce beasts in the mountains, the one ranked first among the "dhole, wolf, tiger, and leopard"—the dhole.

Dholes are known locally as "red dogs."

Although dholes are ranked first, in front of the tiger, which is ranked third, whether in terms of body size or the battle scene, it was completely one-sided.

However, the most awesome thing about dholes is their spirit of pressing forward with indomitable will, fearing no death.

As long as a battle occurs, they fight for their lives, fight to the death, and fight until they're dead.

Moreover, the entire dhole pack is actually one whole family, which is extremely similar to yellow-throated martens.

But unlike yellow-throated martens, every member of the dhole pack is very united.

So, although the tiger was taking down a dhole with every bite, the pack of dholes still threw themselves at the tiger one after another.

And as long as they bit down, they wouldn't let go, desperately shaking their heads to tear at it.

This led to the tiger constantly jumping and dodging, but it was still covered in dholes.

And around the battle between the two sides, there were already more than ten dead dholes, or dholes that had been bitten and crippled by the tiger and were struggling.

And further away, there was a dhole that had been half-eaten.

It could be seen that it was the tiger that had provoked the dholes first.

The sequence of events should have been that the tiger caught a dhole and was eating half of it when it was discovered by other dholes, and then the other dholes got angry.

But with the tiger's dominance, it certainly wouldn't indulge the dhole pack.

It roared, thinking it could scare away the pack, but the pack didn't indulge the tiger at all.

So the tiger and the pack of dholes started fighting.

For the dholes, whether they could win was one thing, but whether they dared to fight was another; they just fought.

It must be said that this spirit and will of the dholes is definitely very admirable.

To sacrifice the lives of a pack of dholes for the life of one dhole—although it looks very stupid, for every member of the dhole pack, this action is definitely something they are very proud of.

The tiger, as the ceiling of combat power, is not only reflected in its four large fangs; its reaction speed is also shockingly fast, and its claws are also powerful and heavy.

Seeing the dholes pounce, as long as the tiger waved its claws, that dhole would be knocked to the ground, unable to recover for a long time.

The key is that it hits hard and accurately; not a single claw wave was wasted.

To tell the truth, just watching for a short while made everyone's hearts jump and feel shocked, and expressions of exclamation were hung on everyone's faces.

Exclaiming at the tiger's omnipotent combat power, and exclaiming at the dhole pack's determination to die one after another!

It must be said that this kind of scene is definitely something that 99% of people in the world have never seen.

Witnessing this great battle between tiger and dholes with their own eyes is definitely enough for everyone to brag about for a lifetime.

Of course, Wang An and Mu Xueli also have another thing worth bragging about for a lifetime, which is the great melee that happened by the big snow pit before the new year.

As the saying goes, "many ants can bite an elephant to death," and "a good tiger fears a pack of wolves."

But the scene in front of them was not like that at all.

The dholes' attack power is about the same as wolves, and even because of their flexibility, dholes are more difficult to deal with than wolves.

Although dholes are smaller than wolves, about half the size of a wolf, Wang An and Mu Xueli had witnessed dholes and wolves fighting one-on-one.

Dholes indeed couldn't beat wolves, but in fact, dholes didn't suffer much loss.

Therefore, the tiger in front of them facing a pack of dholes and facing a pack of wolves is actually no different.

However, the tiger is not afraid of a pack of dholes.

In other words, the saying "a good tiger fears a pack of wolves" is very likely false.

Of course, whether it's true or false has nothing to do with Wang An and the others.

Just when everyone was watching with bared teeth and full concentration, Wang An aimed at the tiger with his Type 81, but found that at this distance, he was very likely to miss.

Because at this moment, Wang An and the others were about 2 li away from the tiger, which is about 1000 meters.

The Type 81 is indeed more accurate than the Type 56 semi-automatic and has a longer effective range, but the effective range of the Type 81 is only 500 meters.

Beyond 1000 meters, even with Wang An's marksmanship, he couldn't guarantee killing the tiger with one shot.

The most critical problem is that the tiger can jump more than 20 meters in one leap, which shows how fast it is.

In other words, everyone might only have one chance to fire; if they miss this shot, nine times out of ten the tiger will run away.

If the tiger runs away again, then this trip into the mountains would truly be for nothing but suffering.

So, Wang An said to Zhang Shuya:

"Big sister, let me use your gun; at this distance, the range of the Type 81 is too difficult."

Hearing this, Zhang Shuya was stunned for a moment, looked at the sniper rifle in her hand, and subconsciously asked:

"This gun was just developed; do you know how to use it?"

Wang An said in a flat tone:

"In my opinion, guns are all the same, not much difference."

Wang An certainly couldn't say that he was a gun dealer in his past life; although he dealt with the Type 79 relatively rarely, he had indeed handled a few.

Hearing this, Zhang Shuya didn't think much and handed the gun over.

After Wang An took the gun, he checked it simply, then directly raised the gun to his face and aimed firmly at the tiger's head.

It must be said that the Type 79 sniper rifle is indeed quite good; this thing not only has a scope, but the weight is also not too heavy.

Counting everything, it's less than 9 jin.

In this era, this gun can be considered relatively excellent among all sniper rifles.

Seeing Wang An borrow the gun and aim directly, everyone immediately realized that the chance to hunt the tiger might only be this once.

So everyone also raised their guns to their faces one after another, locking the tiger into their sights.

To tell the truth, a distance of 1000 meters is actually a significant challenge for the Type 79 sniper rifle.

Because the mountain wind is very strong, and there are several treetops between everyone and the tiger.

For a bullet, these external conditions are factors that affect the trajectory.

It might just be that a branch lightly touches the bullet in flight, and the bullet will fly off to who knows where.

So although Wang An aimed his sight at the tiger, he hesitated to pull the trigger.

Wang An frowned and thought for a moment, then said to Sun Nian:

"Sister Sun, you fire first, and I'll provide cover fire."

Before entering the mountains, everyone had unanimously decided on Wang An as the leader, so now everyone had to listen to Wang An's command.

Seeing Sun Nian hear Wang An's words, she pulled the trigger without hesitation.

It must be said that although the Type 79 sniper rifle is good, both the sound and the recoil are genuinely not small.

With a "bang" of a gunshot, Sun Nian killed a dhole next to the tiger.

Sun Nian clearly saw in her scope that she hadn't hit the tiger, and she was obviously a bit stunned.

Because in Sun Nian's cognition, although the external conditions were indeed not very good, this was definitely not a reason for her to miss the shot.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 420 =====