sinovels Chapter 1146: Crossing the Forest and Snowfield
Chapter 1146: Crossing the Forest and Snowfield
Chapter 1146: Crossing the Forest and Snowfield
There are only three reasons why bears in the mountains attack people without being attacked.
One was to protect the cubs, two was that the man and the bear met in a narrow road and were very close to each other, and three was that the bear was injured.
The brown bear killed Hong and Su probably because they were close to the bear's lair.
But this was the first time the bear attacked humans, and it also killed 129 forest rangers yesterday. It was definitely proactive in both attacks.
If they didn't meet on a narrow road and he wasn't carrying his cub, then he must have been injured.
Although the security team checked the guns of Hong and Su after they were killed and confirmed that the three had not caused any harm to the brown bear, who can guarantee that the brown bear had not been injured before?
The same bear will behave differently if it is injured or not. If it is injured, it will actively attack people. In other words, it is more dangerous than before.
"Tsk!" At this time, Zhao Jun smacked his lips and said, "I should have brought a dog earlier."
Huang Gui nodded in agreement after hearing what Zhao Jun said. Bring a dog. The dog doesn't need to attack the brown bear. It only needs to warn people when the brown bear is nearby.
"Nephew." Wang Qiang said, "That's okay. We have more people. We should be more careful."
As he spoke, Wang Qiang looked around at the people around him. Everyone who came today was carrying a gun. There were nine people in a group and nine guns, three of which were semi-automatic and one was fully automatic. They should be fine.
"Then let's take a break." Zhao Jun was afraid that Zhao Weipeng would get tired, so he suggested, "After that, let's follow my uncle Zhou up and see if we can catch some shadow today."
"Ah...ah..."
Suddenly, the sounds of some mountain birds chirping were heard from the woods on the opposite hill.
"Crash..."
Everyone looked up and saw several mountain birds flying into the sky.
"The big animals are getting out of their nest." Wang Qiang looked at Zhou Dagui and asked, "Brother Zhou, where did you chase them yesterday?"
"It's right down here." Zhou Dagui pointed downwards and said, "In the big winnowing basket at the bottom."
This place is a valley sandwiched between two mountains, shaped like a large winnowing basket.
After hearing what Zhou Dagui said, everyone looked towards the opposite mountain. Huang Gui took a look and pointed to the high mountain in the north and asked, "Is it going to Erdingzi?"
Huang Gui had been to Yong'an Forest Area. Although he could not recognize all the mountains in the area, he knew and had been to the prominent mountains like Dadingzi, Erdingzi, Daguokui and Erguokui.
"Not so good." Zhao Jun said, "If it goes to the old Beisanban, we won't be able to get it if it goes to the big top."
After saying that, Zhao Jun turned to Zhou Dagui and asked, "Uncle Zhou, can we borrow a sled to go to the 129th field?"
"Yes!" Zhou Dagui said, "We met that leader yesterday. I should be able to do it after I talk to him."
"Let's go!" Zhao Jun turned around and waved, saying, "Let's go to the arena."
Everyone turned back, and after less than two miles of climbing the mountain, they headed south and arrived at 129 Lengchang.
After Zhou Da Kui negotiated with the leader, the leader of 129 Lengchang, Wang Fenghai, and his brother Wang Fengshan, each drove a sled, carrying Zhao Jun and his men over mountains and across ridges to hunt down the brown bear.
The sled was moving very fast on the mountain sled track, and the cold wind was so strong that everyone couldn't raise their heads.
Half an hour later, the two sleds, one in front of the other, turned and stopped on the hillside.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun supported Zhao Weipeng, who held the hat on his head and said, "Oh my god, this is different from the sled we rode a while ago."
Everyone laughed. Zhao Jun said to Zhao Weipeng, "Uncle, don't go up. Let's go up and see if the brown bear made its den here last night. We have to come down after that."
"That's fine." Zhao Weipeng said, "Then I won't go up."
After hearing Zhao Weipeng's agreement, Zhao Jun looked at Jiang Weifeng again and said, "Brother Jiang, don't go up either."
The sled will be used later, and the two fighters and the sled cannot move. Although Zhao Weipeng stayed, his marksmanship was... hard to describe. Zhao Jun was afraid of accidents, so he let Jiang Weifeng stay.
Jiang Weifeng wanted to go with him, but Zhao Jun spoke, so he agreed without hesitation.
After hearing Jiang Weifeng's agreement, Zhao Jun looked at Li Chen again. This was his brother, so Li Chen said without Zhao Jun saying anything: "Brother Jun, I'll stay too."
Zhao Jun nodded when he heard this, and then walked towards the Zhaoshulin together with Wang Qiang, Huang Gui, Zhou Da Kui, Chen Jinjun and Chen Jinyong.
On the way up the mountain, Huang Gui asked Zhao Jun, "Brother, why did you bring that fat guy here again? We need someone to take care of him."
"Okay, brother." Zhao Jun said, "He came here to tinker with the wood. Next year, when his wagons and other things come up, the common people in Lingxi, Lingnan, Lingqian and Linghou can all benefit from it."
"What light can we rely on?" Huang Gui asked curiously.
"He needs workers to load the wood for him." Zhao Jun said, then suddenly changed the subject and said to Huang Gui: "Brother, there will be nothing to do in the spring next year, so why don't you all come? You can work on the loading and earn money by the piece. When you have worked enough, you can take a day off and go to the mountains to fence."
"Hey?" Huang Gui's eyes lit up when he heard that, and he said, "You're right, I'm the same person at home. Your sister-in-law and my sister worked together to take care of the few acres of land at home. I can bring the two children out and make some money, right?"
"Uncle Zhao." Chen Jinjun asked Zhao Jun, "Can we come?"
After Chen Xueyi became disabled, he spent most of the family's money. Chen Jinjun and Chen Jinyong were also old enough to get married, and the family was short of money, otherwise they would not have let the two brothers go up the mountain to hunt.
"Sure." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "When the time comes, I'll call you in the village after I hear the news. You can come if you want. There are shacks on the mountain. It's good to have food and shelter."
As they were talking, they arrived at the woods. The six of them split into three groups. Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and Huang Gui each led one person to search the woods.
The forest here is selectively felled. All the trees that are thick enough are cut down, and the remaining ones are not thick enough.
The trees in the forest are sparse, and there are traces of brown bear footprints around. It can be seen that this big brown bear circled the forest more than once before lying down.
Suddenly, someone whistled in the west, and Zhao Jun hurriedly took Chen Jinyong to that direction.
The whistle was blew by Wang Qiang. Under a tree, there were traces of a wild animal lying down.
When Zhao Jun arrived, Huang Gui and Chen Jinjun came over from the other side, and the six of them gathered together again.
At this time, Wang Qiang was squatting under a tree, looking at the bloodstains on the yellow grass.
The brown bear must have been lying down here last night, and its body temperature melted the snow, exposing it to the ground.
Zhao Jun took a closer look and saw spots of purple-black blood on the ground and grass.
This color of blood indicates that the injury is quite serious. But what is puzzling is that if the injury is serious, the blood surface should be quite large.
Moreover, the security team chased the brown bear for several days, and no one saw the bloodstains left by the bear.
If the security guards don’t know how to hunt, then Zhou Chengguo didn’t realize it?
"Where is the blood coming from?" Huang Gui looked at Wang Qiang in confusion. Wang Qiang shook his head and looked at Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun blinked his eyes, unable to figure out what was going on.
If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it. Just kill him and you'll find out.
The six Zhao soldiers followed the brown bear's footprints out of the forest. They observed the bear's footprints and saw that it was indeed heading north, towards the two horses.
After determining the direction, the six people went back through the woods to meet up with Jie Chen and others, and then took a sled straight to the North Third Class.
The jeep couldn't get on the sled path in the mountains, but the horse pulled the sled along the bumpy road and reached the destination in less than twenty minutes.
Everyone got off the sled. Zhao Jun took the Shilin cigarettes that Guan Zhao Weipeng had asked for and gave one to each of the two brothers. Then he smiled and said to Wang Fenghai, "Boss Wang, please wait for us here for a while."
Zhao Jun glanced around and said, "If you feel cold, gather around a fire."
"Ah..." Wang Fenghai responded stiffly, looked at the Shi Linyan in his hand, and said reluctantly: "Okay then..."
Zhao Jun smiled faintly when he saw this, and winked at Zhou Da Kui who was about to step forward, then Zhao Jun whispered to Wang Fenghai: "Who is checking the ruler for you guys?"
"Technician Ma." Wang Fenghai replied.
"Ma Liang?" Zhao Jun asked. Seeing Wang Fenghai nod in agreement, Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Then we are not strangers. When we return later, I will go to your place and talk to him. I will find you an extra half meter of wood one day."
The "half meter" that Zhao Jun mentioned refers to half a cubic meter. These days, the average price of a cubic meter of wood is 20 yuan, so half a cubic meter is 10 yuan.
Wang Fenghai and Zhou Dagui met each other yesterday when the security guard came up the mountain after an incident at their farm. The big brown bear has now left the 129th forest squad and is no longer a threat to their farm's production. Wang Fenghai made this trip purely because he didn't want to offend the security guard.
And the fact that they were able to drive the sled and take the Zhao army so far was already very kind.
When Zhao Jun deals with people, he always seeks mutual consent. If the other party is unwilling, Zhao Jun will find a way to get it back for them.
When Zhao Jun said this, Wang Fenghai laughed on the spot. He asked Zhao Jun with a smile: "What is your relationship with Technician Ma?"
"We are colleagues." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I am also an inspector."
"You are also an inspector?" Wang Fengshan looked at Zhao Jun in surprise and asked, "Then why don't you go to work?"
"I..." Zhao Jun's mouth twitched, and he responded quickly: "Didn't something happen to you guys yesterday? You were transferred to me today."
Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Wang Fenghai pretended to apologize and said politely, "I'm sorry to have caused you trouble."
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhao Jun smiled and waved his hands, saying, "Then we'll go up. Thank you for your hard work."
As Zhao Jun spoke, he clasped his fists to the Wang brothers, and then he led a group of people up the mountain.
Walking up along the fork in the hill, we encountered brown bear footprints.
Xie Chen, who was exploring the way, went forward and touched it, then turned back and said to Zhao Jun, "Brother Jun, it's soft, not hard at all."
Although Xie Chen had only been training with the Zhao army for a few months, he had seen many battles and had been instructed by experts, so he had accumulated a lot of experience.
"Oh!" Zhao Jun looked up the mountain and sighed, "It's not hard. My legs can't catch up with it."
All the way to Erdingzi Mountain, it's an old logging area. The big trees on the mountain have basically been cut down. Although there are some small trees here and there, most of them are clear cut at a glance.
There were no big trees, so the amount of snow was small. But no matter how small it was, the snow here was almost up to the Zhao army's knees.
Moreover, the snow falls on the mountains, and the higher you go, the heavier it gets.
Two legs can never outrun four legs, and the heavy snow only affects people but not bears.
The Zhao army looked at Xie Chen, and Xie Chen took off the sack on his back without saying a word.
The sack was sewn with cloth straps on the top and bottom, and Xie Chen always carried it on his back when he went up the mountain. Huang Gui and the others had asked what was on his back, but Xie Chen just smiled and didn't answer every time.
At this time, Xie Chen untied the tied sack and took out a pair of skis.
Zhao Jun's family has never lacked wild boar skin for ski boards, but they once lacked someone who could do the job.
In the beginning, Li Dayong asked someone to do this for him, but later Zhang Yuanmin surrendered to the Zhao Family Gang. Not to mention how skilled this old guy was in going up the mountain, he was really deft and could do this with ease.
There were four pairs of skis in total, which were custom-made for the four people in the Zhao family. However, Zhang Yuanmin and Li Baoyu were not here today, so Zhao Jun asked everyone, "Who among us knows how to wear skis?"
"Skis!" Zhao Weipeng walked forward in surprise, took a pair of skis from Jie Chen's hand, and looked at them carefully.
Boss Zhao had skied before, but he had never seen this kind of skis.
The others looked at each other in bewilderment. Anyone can wear this thing, but whether it will slip is a question. Not everyone can slip on it.
Zhao Jun knew that Wang Qiang couldn't do it, so he asked Huang Gui and Jiang Weifeng, "Brother, Brother Jiang, you two can't do it?"
"No." Huang Gui shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother, we have never done this before."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun looked at Jie Chen. If all else failed, they brothers would have to go up first.
But at this moment, Zhao Weipeng took the skis and said to Zhao Jun: "Nephew, uncle will go with you!"
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was frightened by him. He dared to go, but Zhao Jun didn't dare to use him.
"What? Uncle can ski." Zhao Weipeng said, pulling the sack that Jie Chen had thrown on the ground. He took a look and saw that it was empty, so he asked everyone, "Where are the ski poles?"
Zhao Jun: "..."
Everyone looked at each other, and no one knew what Zhao Weipeng wanted.
Seeing that no one was talking, Zhao Weipeng threw the sack in his hand to the ground and said, "It's not enough to just have skis, you also need ski poles!"
The ski poles Zhao Weipeng mentioned are the two sticks used for skiing.
Hearing his urging, Zhao Jun said to Wang Qiang: "Uncle, you lead Da Chen and Er Chen, and watch how many sticks you chop."
"Hey!" Wang Qiang responded and left, taking Chen Jinjun and Chen Jinyong away.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Weipeng and said solemnly, "The big brown bear is not like the others. Uncle, you have to follow me."
"Don't worry, nephew." Zhao Weipeng said, "I'm not stupid, I can't do anything reckless. I'll go with you, just to have more people and more strength."
"Then put it on." Zhao Jun said, and began to put on the skis. As he put them on, he said to Huang Gui, "Brother, let's go, and you guys go down the mountain. Don't be in a hurry to leave after that. We are also fast. Let's go to the north end of the North Third Class to check. If we can intercept it, it will have to stay here for a while."
"Okay, brother." Huang Gui said, "The two brothers of the leader are starting a fire downstairs, let's go find them. When we hear you firing, we will come up; if we don't hear you, we will wait for you there."
"Okay!" When Zhao Jun responded, Wang Qiang and the Chen brothers came back carrying two poles each.
There are six poles, two from elm and four from larch, and all six poles are cut to about two meters long.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun took a larch pole, pulled out a deerskin knife from his waist, cut off the skin on one end, and then handed it to Zhao Weipeng and asked, "You have never used this ski pole before, right?"
Zhao Weipeng took it with a smile and weighed it in his hand. After the three put on their skis, Zhao Jun led the way, Zhao Weipeng was in the middle, and Jie Chen was at the rear. The three of them skied up the mountain.
Riding skis uphill is not very fast, but when going downhill, the speed of the skis is not much slower than that of a sled. All the way down the hillside, sparse trees fly by on both sides. It is really like walking through a sea of forests and across snowfields.
(End of this chapter)