Chapter 767: Eight Trigrams Formation

On the way to Wild Boar Lin Zi, Wang An and Wang Li didn't let the dogs run around blindly. Even if they encountered small animals like rabbits and pheasants running past their eyes, the two didn't let the dogs chase them.

Mainly, catching small animals is barely okay once or twice, but if it happens too many times, it will make the dogs form a habit, and they will have similar actions whenever they enter the mountains.

And this point is exactly what all hunters avoid.

Of course, the 7 large dogs like Hearing Da Hei and Da Huang are fine; they generally won't delay serious business after catching small animals.

It's mainly Xiao Hei and the four flower dogs that haven't been fully determined yet, so they absolutely cannot form the habit of catching small animals when entering the mountains.

Because if a dog forms this habit, it will gradually lose its ferocity. After a few times, it will become a useless dog.

Just like that, Wang An and Wang Li, the brothers, basically didn't delay and arrived at their destination: Wild Boar Lin Zi.

Wang An, who had been inside, got off his horse as soon as he arrived and said to Wang Li: "The trees inside are very dense in some places, and horses can't get in. Why don't we leave the horses outside this forest?"

Wang Li agreed casually: "Mm, alright, Fourth Brother."

Immediately after, Wang Li also got off his horse and tied the horses to the trees with Wang An.

Actually, it doesn't matter if you tie up an Oroqen horse after entering the mountains, because this kind of horse is naturally in a state of being free-range.

As long as you put it in one place, it will find grass to eat nearby. When you go down the mountain, blow a whistle, and when it hears it, it will actively run to the owner's side.

One must know that the Oroqen people raise horses, and only when they need to use them will they catch them back from the nearby fixed mountain area. Usually, they just let them be.

And the reason Wang An wanted to tie the horses up was because the terrain near this Wild Boar Lin Zi was relatively complex. Mainly, there were still some old "dead-end pits" left over from the early years on the outskirts.

Although there would be very obvious warnings next to the dead-end pits, such as half-peeled tree bark or one or two bundles of branches, horses don't recognize those warning signs.

Besides, so many years have passed, and many warning signs are long gone, which undoubtedly carries the risk of hurting the horses.

So for the safety of the horses, it's better to tie them up.

After tying the horses, the two led the dog pack and walked toward the depths of Wild Boar Lin Zi.

Not long after entering the forest, Hearing Da Hei and Xiao Hei opened their mouths almost at the same time.

It must be admitted that although this wolf-hybrid Xiao Hei sometimes doesn't obey and always wants to compete for the position of leader, Xiao Hei's ability is indeed unquestionable.

A dog not even a year old already has all the abilities a lead dog should have. Most importantly, it is also a "raised-head scent" dog.

After the two dogs opened their mouths at the same time, Da Huang, who was sniffing around, also followed and barked.

It was clear that all three lead dogs had discovered prey.

Subsequently, the 12 dogs led by Hearing Da Hei rushed out barking wildly.

Seeing this, Wang An and Wang Li also ran up holding their guns.

However, soon, the group of dogs disappeared, and Wang An and Wang Li were still running wildly listening to the faint dog barking.

This point is one of the shittiest reasons for not hunting in this season.

When dogs are tracking prey, their running speed is very fast, but humans absolutely cannot catch up to dogs. However, dogs chasing prey won't always run in a straight line, and because there is no snow in the mountains, this causes the paths the dogs run to leave no traces.

Therefore, dogs run fast, humans run slow, but if the dogs chase prey for a long time, or make too many turns during the tracking process, it will eventually lead to humans losing the dogs when chasing them.

One must know that in these deep mountains, if humans and dogs cannot respond to each other, the probability of dogs being injured or even dying if they run into fierce beasts like black bears, lynxes, or large boars will increase infinitely.

And with dogs not guarding the humans, the probability of humans being injured also increases infinitely.

Of course, besides this shittiest point, there are also reasons like fur not being valuable, meat being hard to transport down the mountain, and meat transported down the mountain not being able to be kept, etc., etc.

Just like that, the 12 dogs led by Hearing Da Hei soon reached the location of the target, which was a small pig herd location.

In this pig herd, there were only 4 large sows and over twenty small "flower-striped sticks," which are small wild boars, weighing two or three jin.

The largest sow was about 260 or 270 jin, and the smallest sow was also 230 or 240 jin. Their unified appearance was that they were all very thin.

However, this is also the normal state of mother wild boars in this season.

Because this time period, which is April to June every year, is exactly when wild boars are breeding in large numbers, and the mother wild boars that are nursing piglets absolutely cannot get fat.

By late June, basically all the mother wild boars have finished giving birth.

Of course, this data isn't absolute; it can only be said to apply to over 95% of wild boars.

With the arrival of the dog pack, these 4 mother wild boars were instantly panicked and, ignoring the group of small piglets, stood up and ran away.

It's just that at this time, the wild boars normally haven't left their nests yet, which led to these 4 wild boars still holding a bladder of urine they hadn't peed out.

Therefore, their running speed wasn't fast at all, and in the blink of an eye, they were surrounded by the 12 dogs led by Hearing Da Hei. 【7

Also surrounded by the dogs were those twenty-some little piglets.

A large boar is not afraid of hunting dogs, but the sows and the little piglets are certainly afraid.

So, after the dogs surrounded these pigs, the pigs began to run in circles.

Seeing this scene, Hearing Da Hei immediately began to bark, and amidst Hearing Da Hei's barking, the dogs began to quickly change their positions.

Very quickly, the 12 dogs had each taken up their new positions.

Hearing Da Hei was next to Xiao Hei, to Xiao Hei's right was Hua Er, to Hua Er's right were Er Hei and San Hei, to San Hei's right was Hua San, to Hua San's right were Da Huang and Er Huang, to Er Huang's right was Hua Si, to Hua Si's right were San Huang and Si Huang, to Si Huang's right was Hua Da, and to Hua Da's right was Hearing Da Hei.

To tell the truth, looking at the formation the dogs had set up, if one were to look down from the sky, it was clearly a Bagua formation.

Corresponding to it were Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and Dui.

To put it bluntly, it was actually the 7 large dogs and Xiao Hei in pairs, occupying the front, back, left, and right positions, while the four most useless spotted dogs occupied the four corners.

Of course, Hearing Da Hei certainly didn't understand anything about the Five Elements and Bagua, but as a dog, being able to organize such a combat layout was truly a bit of a badass, lightning-striking feeling.

(End of chapter)