stjorthotic Chapter 51 The Wolf-Fighting Duo
Chapter 51 The Wolf-Fighting Duo
Although Chen Tuo could tell that Hong Ye was being insincere, he still nodded.
"Of course, but only if you come and work..."
After walking around the open-air log cabins for a while, Chen Tuo was very satisfied with the preserved buildings.
I am also very satisfied with the current measures for protecting human-made objects.
Although the old lumberyard had been used as a stable, it did not suffer from the dilapidated state of abandoned buildings.
Even the gaps in the original wooden walls after the roof was removed were nailed with wooden boards to prevent rainwater and snowmelt from eroding the wooden walls.
"Absolutely..."
Hearing the familiar tone of the chubby girl's voice, Chen Tuo stepped forward, put his arms around her neck, and said:
"Say it again, it's quite funny..."
"Absolutely..."
The two returned to the educated youth settlement amidst laughter and banter, arriving at work time.
After walking around the old timber yard, Chen Tuo had a mixed feeling about whether to advance or retreat.
If the Forestry Bureau takes back the educated youth settlement.
He tidied up the log cabins in the timber yard, and then leased the land when the contracting began.
If the forestry bureau doesn't accept him, then he's prepared to take over the entire Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement.
Hong Ye, who has confirmed that Chen Tuo has amnesia, is also thinking about how to use his poetic talent to become famous.
The two, who were in high spirits and each thinking about good things, were interrupted by Wu Laowai, who was waiting at the educated youth settlement.
"A pack of wolves has come to the logging area in the mountains, didn't you know? What are you doing wandering around so early in the morning?"
Beside Wu Laowai, on the sled that Sun Changkui and his wife had taken away last night, besides a pile of fishing nets, were two water-powered rifles.
Upon seeing the gun, Chen Tuo abandoned his thoughts of leasing land and buying out the educated youth settlement and stepped forward to take it.
"Uncle Wu, is this for me?"
"What the hell are you thinking? This is the town's armed forces department, temporarily lent to you. From now on, the two of us will be the wolf-hunting team of Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement."
Upon receiving the news that a pack of wolves had attacked the horse stables at the Green Water Forest Farm at night, Sun Changkui didn't sleep all night.
The militiamen and hunters in Songling Town were also summoned to the armed forces department early in the morning for a mobilization meeting to hunt wolves.
Wu Laowai, who was determined to fish with Chen Tuo, argued his case at the Armed Forces Department, which gave him the opportunity to team up with Chen Tuo.
Hunting wolves is a non-rewarding and non-mandatory activity, so Wu Laowai never participates in it.
My decision to join the wolf-hunting team at Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement was purely out of necessity.
Although the Xingan Mountains are rich in resources, the total number of game animals that can actually be hunted in the mountains may not even be as many as the population of the Songling area.
Of course, the "capable prey" mentioned here refers to large animals such as roe deer, wild boar, red deer, and moose.
Rabbits, pheasants, and wild animals are not included in this category.
This is also why Wu Laowai's hunting grounds cover hundreds of miles around.
It's not impossible to make a living by hunting meat in the mountains, but it's inevitable that one's legs will become thin and one's body will become weak from all the running.
If the hunting grounds are not big enough, the people are not diligent enough, and the luck is not good enough, it is difficult to make a living by hunting!
They usually set traps to hunt pheasants and rabbits, and designated hunting grounds to hunt for pelts.
Only by gathering medicinal herbs in summer and autumn and harvesting grain in spring and autumn can one rely on the mountains for sustenance.
Running in the mountains is difficult enough, but you also have to consider the weather.
For mountain runners, wolf packs are not a good time.
The arrival of wolves in the mountains means that pheasants and rabbits within a radius of dozens of miles will be harder to hunt.
Even the fixed hunting grounds for pelts are affected by wolf packs.
The mountain harvest this winter will be significantly reduced, which is pretty much a foregone conclusion for Wu Laowai.
Furthermore, he is over fifty years old, and it's time for him to retire from his criminal activities.
That's why he argued with the town's armed forces department to be assigned to the same group as Chen Tuo.
"The Wolf Hunting Squad? Uncle Wu, does taking a gun from the Armed Forces Department mean you have to complete their missions?"
"No need for that. The Forestry Bureau's security department is responsible for going into the mountains to hunt wolves. We just need to guard the gap at the educated youth settlement and prevent the wolves from entering the town."
Sun Changkui wanted him to go into the mountains to hunt wolves, but Wu Laowai refused on the grounds that he was too old.
In winter, heavy snow closes off the mountains, and even mountain hunters on horseback may not be able to find wolf tracks, let alone those who rely on their own legs to travel through the mountains.
Even if you find them, the wolves will just disappear into their snow dens, and you won't be able to fight them.
"That's easy. We can just do what Brother-in-law Sun and Chu Maolin did, fire a few shots in the Hetao region, and that'll be it."
Chen Tuo was a little disappointed to hear that the wolf-hunting team couldn't go into the mountains.
Fishing is fun, but it's nowhere near as exciting as hunting bears.
The thought of going into the mountains to hunt wolves sounds pretty exciting.
"Simple? The horse stable on the mountain, although it didn't catch any wolves, found some wolf fur, white, and the ones that came were Siberian wolves from the Russian side."
Knowing that Chen Tuo didn't know what a Siberian wolf was, Wu Laowai explained it to him.
"Mongolian wolves have gray fur, mostly brown and black on their cheeks. They are small and easy to hunt!"
"Siberian wolves have grayish-white fur, are large, and highly aggressive. Smaller ones weigh 60-70 pounds, while larger ones weigh over 100 pounds."
"The Armed Forces speculate that the Russian mountains had a good harvest last year, resulting in many wolf cubs. After winter, they split into groups and there wasn't enough territory for them."
"If that's the case, then it won't just be one or two packs coming; it could easily be several hundred, causing a wolf plague..."
The possibility of Siberian wolves entering the country and causing a wolf plague is not merely a speculation by the Songling Town Armed Forces Department.
Instead, Siberian wolves were discovered entering the country at three locations: Tahe, Huma, and Heihe, and the Songling Armed Forces Department was notified.
The sources and tributaries of these three riverside counties are connected to the river bends on the Songling side.
The wolf pack that entered the country, after being driven away through three counties, might very well converge at Songling.
Now that the heavy snow has closed the mountain passes, it is difficult to provide specific and accurate information in a timely manner.
Perhaps, a considerable number of wolves have already gathered around Songling.
Wu Laowai wasn't very clear about these things, let alone understand them.
They could only offer Chen Tuo a vague warning.
"A wolf attack? Does that mean we can dig ice traps in the Hetao region?"
For Chen Tuo, Wu Laowai's explanation and reminder were merely popular science.
In his mind, whether it was a Siberian wolf or a Mongolian wolf, they were only slightly more formidable than dogs, and more frightening when they bared their teeth.
Now that he's a member of the wolf-hunting team, the ice nest he couldn't get last night can finally be put into action, which is what interests him.
"Okay! That works! You dig an ice hole and freeze the wolves in the snow crust of the Hetao region, then the wolves from the Russian side will gang up on the educated youth settlement."
"If that's the case, then our water-based firepower might not be enough!"
"Screw you! We're sending you a heavy machine gun, are you going to take it or use it?"
Chen Tuo's ignorance and fearlessness left Wu Laowai scratching his head repeatedly.
The man with the gun was not afraid of any wild animals, except for wolves.
The reclamation team that was besieged by wolves in the Lesser Khingan Mountains suffered from the wind and snow at night.
But in addition to the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, they also had hand grenades.
In this way, almost all of the forty-odd people were wiped out.
Although Wu Laowai didn't know how to fight, he knew how to hunt.
Forty men with five or six semi-automatic rifles, organized as a platoon, were supposed to be attacking a wolf pack, but it should have been an encirclement and annihilation of the wolf pack.
If the unexpected event occurred, excluding weather factors, it can only mean that the wolf pack was large and the wolves that attacked the reclamation team were particularly fierce.
"Old Wu, how to hunt wolves isn't up to you. Since Chen Tuo has an idea, why don't you go ask Section Chief Sun at the Armed Forces Department!"
Wu Laowai never said anything nice, and Chen Tuo was used to it.
Hong Ye, who already looked down on Wu Laowai, couldn't stand seeing him talking to Chen Tuo like that.
As soon as Hong Ye finished speaking, Sun Changkui, who was worried about Chen Tuo and Wu Laowai's wolf-hunting duo, also went to the educated youth settlement with his cane after arranging for the militia to hunt wolves.
"Master Wu, Xiao Chen's idea is good. The Hetao region is located in a valley, which attracts the retaliatory wolf packs and causes a wolf plague. It's a good opportunity to launch an annihilation campaign."
To Wu Laowai, Sun Changkui's words sounded like the words of a complete novice.
What is the Hetao region?
That was the marshland along the Dobukur River, where there was far more reeds than in the Great Northern Wilderness, which was full of tatami meadows.
Once the wolf pack disappears into the densely populated Tatoudian area, even artillery might not be effective, let alone guns...