Just when Xu Chen was training two big eagles, suddenly there was a burst of violent cheers and commotion from the direction of the pier.
Xu Chen stood up and looked across the river. He saw a wild donkey coming out from among the wild grass on the other side. Sure enough, several hunters pulled and pulled it with ropes.
"Ouch~ow~"
The howling sound of the wild ass can be heard clearly from this side of the river, and judging from its size, it should be an adult wild ass. I don't know how these guys caught it.
Xu Chen regained his energy, ordered the two hunters to bring back the two fat eagles, and rode straight to the dock.
Wild ass and wild horse belong to the same family, but are very different in size and habits.
Wild donkeys generally live in small groups and families, unlike wild horses, which tend to be large groups. There are usually only a few of them, and they mix with deer herds, cattle, and wild horses to forage. Their range of activities is very large, and they can survive in mountains, rivers, and rivers.
Cargos are very powerful swimmers. There is no way they can be stopped in large and medium-sized rivers like the Wulong River, so they can swim across them dragging their families with them.
Therefore, although donkey meat is delicious, it is actually very difficult to cook.
In addition, wild ass is very alert, runs very fast, and has extremely strong endurance. Even the primitive hunter known as the terrifying upright ape cannot catch up. After discovering it, he chased it, either crossing the river or going up the mountain, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
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There are two difficult groups on the river beach, one is the wild horses and the other is the wild donkeys.
In addition, wild donkeys have extremely loud voices. Once they find a hunter, they will howl and howl, which can be heard by wild animals for miles up and down the river beach. It is completely like a wild animal alarm, which makes the hunters hate it but they are helpless.
However, as the riverbank from the Ba people to the Wu people was gradually occupied by the human race, the number of wild donkeys became less and less. Now almost no one can see them on this side of the river, and most of them have gone to the other side of the river.
"Gah, the Cang tribe is getting rich, three pieces of pottery!"
On the pier, many Cang hunters cheered excitedly. It was obvious that the Cang hunting team on the opposite side had caught the wild donkey.
On the opposite side, a group of Ba hunters who were staying on the riverbank responsible for river crossing and logistics saw it and went up to help. Soon a group of people got the wild donkey onto the raft and tied it to it with ropes like rice dumplings. Then a group of Cang hunters jumped on it again
I was so scared that I ran back and continued hunting.
Half an hour has passed since the hunting began. These Cang hunters who caught the wild donkeys were the first to bring back prey, and they were live prey. Therefore, the onlookers on the other side of the river were still very excited and excited.
Discuss how to raise this wild donkey, whether it can be ridden, etc.
Since the Ba people started raising wild animals and wild birds, raising animals is nothing new to all tribes, but for everyone, the most successful breeds of the Ba people are wild horses and wild ducks.
The large population of wild ducks lays many eggs, which can indeed form a very important source of high-quality and delicious food.
Raising horses can not only carry goods and cultivate the land, but its riding function is a function that all tribes, both men and women, are excited and jealous of.
Wild donkeys and wild horses look very similar, so they should be rideable.
As for raising wild beasts specifically for meat, almost no one has thought about it. There are wild beasts everywhere in the wild. If you work hard, you can catch them everywhere, so why bother raising them.
Wouldn't it be better to keep it in the wild?
As for the Ba people, except for horses, monkeys, wild wolves, big eagles and other wild beasts are basically of no use to birds, and they are almost not classified as daily food. At most, they are just a chance to get a taste of something new.
The horse Ruoguo, which Xu Chen had not successfully tamed, was actually a very high-quality large carnivore. However, since they learned that they could ride it, basically no one planned to hunt the horse back for food. The only way to keep the horse is to keep it as a horse.
Therefore, the hunting plan released by Xu Chen to capture various beasts alive and exchange them for pottery was not only an opportunity for all tribes to make a fortune, but it was also full of doubts.
Wild horses, wild ass, bison, and buffalo are large enough to plow fields, carry goods, and even ride on them, but what use are wild sheep and wild boars?
The game continues during the wait-and-see discussion.
For a long time, no hunter came back, but the range of the sounds gradually expanded to several miles up and down, and even reached as far as a valley a few miles away on the other side.
"Ouch~~"
Far away on the opposite side, the howling of wild wolves was heard.
And this howl was like a signal, and soon the howls of wild wolves began to be heard everywhere in the woods and mountains near the upper and lower river beaches.
Humans invaded on a large scale again, causing dissatisfaction among the wolves.
The howling of the wolf was like a shot in the arm to the participating hunters, instantly making everyone's blood and lungs ache.
According to the hunting rules, only those who kill wild wolves or capture some live beasts will receive pottery rewards. Other beasts can only be used as hunting trophies and become free meat for the conference.
Pottery is now the hard currency of all tribes.
Take pottery to any tribe and you can exchange it for something.
Therefore, when faced with rewarded prey and non-rewarded prey, all hunters will not make miscalculations.
But it is not easy to catch wild beasts, big or small, alive, except for those newly born cubs in spring.
However, according to the hunting rules passed down from ancient times, it is not allowed to capture newborn cubs in spring, otherwise not only the great witch will be angry, but the gods will also be angry.
Therefore, given the choice between catching wild beasts alive and killing wolves, hunters are more willing to deal with wild wolves.
No matter how ferocious the wild wolf is, it is not worth mentioning in front of a group of hunters.
Moreover, wild wolf fur is thick, especially in autumn and winter. As long as you get a wild wolf fur, you can almost guarantee that a person will stay warm through the winter.
Unfortunately, wolves are wary and cunning, so hunting them is not easy, and they are not easy to encounter on weekdays.
Today, they are about to face dozens or even hundreds of wild wolves.
This is a super-human-wolf battle that has never been seen in dozens or hundreds of years.
Therefore, after the wild wolf appeared, the shouts of hunters could be heard everywhere for several miles up and down the river beach, communicating with each other and passing on information, and they all began to move closer to the raft on the river beach.
Soon, there were groups of hunters heading straight to the river beach carrying large and small prey.
These hunters almost all appear in teams and have rich hunting experience, and few act alone.
On the river beach near the raft, dozens of corpses of various beasts were piled up one after another.
Most of them were wild sheep and wild deer, and there were also a few wild donkeys, which seemed to be quite large. However, Xu Chen looked carefully and could not find another living beast.
"It's really hard to live a life!"
Xu Chen couldn't help but shook his head and sighed in depression.
However, just when he thought that his long-awaited livestock breeding plan would come to an end this year, several teams that came back one after another brought him a big surprise. These people were basically participating teams of the Gonghuo League, wearing
The furs are used to hunting and running among the jungle hills. One of the teams actually got four wild sheep, big and small, and the harvest was incredible.
Another tribe also brought two wild sheep and a wounded deer.
The most outrageous thing is that a team of trained captive hunters from the Gonghuo Tribe seemed to have caught a group of small wild boars, seven or eight in total. They were holding them in their arms, struggling and kicking, and people on this side of the river were howling.
Hear it clearly.
As these teams of hunters with live animals came back one after another, Xu Chen's mood suddenly improved, and he hummed a tune and issued an order, asking the other side to transport these live beasts as soon as possible.
As for the remaining prey and hunter teams, he didn't worry too much.
A full hunting team of 150 people, plus the most elite archers and spearmen of the Ba tribe led by Mo and Gou who served as security and logistics, and nearly 200 of the strongest and most courageous hunters selected and trained by each tribe,
If you can't win against dozens or hundreds of wild wolves, you might as well commit suicide collectively by drowning in the river.
On the opposite bank of the river, more than a dozen hunting teams were slowly gathering in an area of several hundred meters to be on guard.
After hearing the order, a group of Ba hunters tied all the captured beasts to the raft with ropes. After tying more than a dozen large and small beasts, they put seven or eight beasts hunted by the two tribes on the raft, and then started
Stroke back.
The roars of the wild wolves up and down the river beach and near the woods at the foot of the mountain were getting louder and louder. It was obvious that under the command of the Wolf King, they had begun to press towards the river beach.
As a huge family of wild wolves that have dominated this river beach for generations, they have never had any contact with humans.
In this riverbank and mountain area, they are like overlords.
Not to mention ordinary boars and cheetahs, even more ferocious tigers and bears dare not run wild here.
Their huge family covers a radius of dozens of miles, and hundreds of thousands of wild animals are kept in captivity for them to survive and reproduce.
Any hunter who enters this area is their enemy.
The day before yesterday, a group of bipedal beasts crossed the river on the opposite bank and poached some prey, but they quickly ran away after feeling threatened.
But unexpectedly, just one day later, they came again, not only in greater numbers, but also in hunting more beasts.
If they cannot be driven away completely, the beasts here will soon be killed by them, and the survival of the wolf family will be greatly affected in the future.
Therefore, this battle is inevitable, and the opponent must be permanently driven back to the other side.