Maria's plan to make money has to be slowed down because the hunting activity has officially begun.
The sound of the horn floated in the north wind, the hounds rushed out of the camp, the falcons circled over the forest, and the hunters rode towards the hunting grounds with great expectations.
Frederick rode Dawn on the ground and rushed to the selected area with his men. At the same time, he once again gave instructions: "Remember, we can't work too hard today. The harvest must be less than Archduke Byrne. In short, the principle is that we cannot be ranked among the guests.
First place!"
Little Franz asked him in confusion: "Why are we doing this? The Grand Duke of Mainz said that the first guest will be given a precious gift."
Frederick said seriously: "We absolutely cannot ask for that gift!"
Little Franz had a question mark, but the master said so, so he should obey.
The hunting competition relies on piling up the prey to see who has the highest pile. If there are monsters in the prey, it will be a bonus.
Frederick had already chosen his main hunting area, which was around a small lake with a diameter of more than 100 meters deep in the forest. From the traces around the lake and on-site reconnaissance, it could be judged that many animals came there to drink water every day.
What they have to do is to form an encirclement with the lake as the core, drive the surrounding animals to the lake, and then surround them and eliminate them.
Frederick knew nothing about hunting, so today's operation was left to little Franz to direct.
The team quickly dispersed into platoons, and then something happened.
Although the leaves of the trees in the forest were about to fall off, the visibility was still not good, and the command post on the top of the mountain lost the team in the blink of an eye.
Frederick did not take off with dawn to look for troops, but looked at little Franz scratching his head anxiously.
In the past, troops were mobilized in large numbers, and the movement was much louder than now, and could be seen from a long distance.
If it is a small-scale operation, there are often only one or two teams, and the commander will be in one of the teams, so that at least half of the team will not be lost.
Now it is a large-scale small-unit operation. Dozens of people enter the woods without making much noise, just like spreading salt into water.
Whether he is marching or driving, losing control of the situation is the beginning of disaster. This feeling of losing control brought huge psychological pressure to little Franz.
Frederick didn't say anything, so he was left to find a way to solve the problem. He took Liebherr, Schmidt, BASF and more than a dozen people who had come to fly the hot air balloon to a mountain further away to find the Hell Wolf.
On the way, Frederick asked Liebherr: "Why didn't you say earlier that your hometown was in the Principality of Mainz?"
BASF also said to his junior fellow student and fellow countryman: "Yes, if your father hadn't come here and grabbed your ears, I wouldn't have known about it. I haven't seen you back in the past two years."
The reason why they came here from Constantbul was mainly because there were many locals. Omet's hometown is in the Principality of Bain, and the village is less than 50 kilometers away from the castle of Archduke Bain. BASF's home is Mainz
The famous dyer in the principality
Liebherr is a material merchant, and his location is less than 100 kilometers away from the city of Mainz. Liebherr's home is farther away, adjacent to the Principality of Bain, but his family is a famous architectural family in the Principality of Mainz, and his father is currently a member of the palace.
The official responsible for construction projects.
Liebherr said a little embarrassedly: "I sneaked away to Constantbul by myself. My family was very angry. I heard that there was still a wanted order for me in the city."
Schmidt asked him curiously: "There are many people sneaking away to Constantbulo to study. How did you make your family so angry?"
Liebherr raised his head, looked at the blue sky through the iron-like branches, and said lightly: "My family wanted me to marry into a family of material dealers, so I left at noon on the day of the engagement."
After speaking, he sighed deeply.
BASF thought about it and said after a moment: "It turns out that person is you. No wonder, if it were me, I would run away too."
Before anyone could gossip, I suddenly smelled the faint aroma of barbecue wafting in the air, and it was the kind without seasoning.
"Attention!" BASF gestured, "There are hell wolves nearby!"
Everyone immediately cheered up and gathered in a circle, pointing their weapons around, paying special attention to the location of the downwind vent.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, and occasionally there was a sound in the wind. It was obvious that something was surrounding them.
Not long after, the temperature of the wind blowing from the upwind outlet became a little higher, and the surrounding circle took shape.
The body of a hell wolf is very hot, and the area it has just stepped on feels hot to the touch. When it bites prey, it can even cook the area it bites. Strong adult individuals can even breathe fire. The meat can warm the spleen and stomach, and nourish the kidneys and yang.
, has the effect of strengthening strength and replenishing blood and Qi, suitable for consumption in winter.
This time they came to hunt hell wolves mainly to prepare some wolf meat for BASF's wife. With the current medical level, it is still quite dangerous for pregnant women to spend the winter. Eating some hell wolf meat on weekdays can enhance their resistance and avoid colds.
Like other wolves, hell wolves are good at hunting and sneak attacks, and will surround their prey and then swarm it.
However, these guys who look like prey this time have no martial ethics.
"Throw gas bombs," Frederick said calmly.
Several people in the downwind immediately took out fist-sized smoke bombs and threw them away. After a while, thick white smoke surged toward the woods with the wind.
In less than two minutes, bursts of wailing sounds came from the white smoke, and then it became quiet after a while.
The five-florin gas bomb looks very effective. The hell wolf over there should be asleep.
On the other side of the encirclement, the hell wolves not only did not escape after hearing the wails of their companions, but also launched an attack on Frederick and others.
Although this group of people usually worked on machinery, they were all real magicians, and they all held double-barreled shotguns for hunting. Within a moment, the dozen hell wolves that rushed over were killed.
Seven hell wolves were stunned by the poison, and their limbs and mouths were quickly tied up. They were later called for someone to pick them back with a wooden stick.
With this batch of monsters as a base, everyone will not be left behind compared to the prey this evening.
On the other side, little Franz contacted all the teams through the sound of the bugle, and started to act after seeing that they were all present.
Everyone yelled and ran through the forest, causing pheasants, deer, wild boars, rabbits, red foxes, lynx and other animals to flee.
The encirclement gradually narrowed, and the beasts kept running around the lake, trying to find a breakthrough, when gunfire rang out.
After noon, the soldiers began to collect the prey and pile it up according to species.
Before evening, Frederick ordered his men to be divided into two groups. First, they would move the large prey to the Archduke of Mainz's camp and pile it up. If there were too many people, more would be added, and the rest would be moved back to their own camp in the evening.
When he added some food, he also ordered them to be spread out and piled low.
In the end, the Archduke of Mainz had the most prey, and the Archduke Byrne came in second. It seemed that under Frederick's control, his own prey should be ranked third, but some people were dissatisfied.