"I'm aiming at the yellow sheep with the white hair on the right eyebrow. Can you see it clearly?" Li Long raised his gun, looked at his own position, then looked at the positions of other people, and then counted the yellow sheep and said.
"Hey, Xiaolong, you have good eyesight. Can you still see the white hair on the head of the yellow sheep?" A militiaman said with a smile.
"Then let me tell you, counting from the left, the first yellow sheep is a ewe with no horns, and the second is a ram with a black head and yellow body. This is the largest sheep..."
“That’s what I aimed for!” Liang Shuangcheng shouted, “I aimed for the second one.”
“The third one I saw has two eyes with white hair, the fourth one is so crowded that I can’t see its head, the fifth one is a ewe, not small, and the sixth one is a small one. The ram’s horns have just grown out, with a yellow head and half white hair on its body..."
Li Long mentioned all the obvious or semi-hidden yellow sheep characteristics, and these people knew it well.
Of course, some people think that Li Long is talking nonsense.
"Aim everything, if I say shoot, shoot together!" Xu Chengjun held the gun without aiming. He wanted to see the strength of the militiamen.
Target shooting and hunting are different. Target shooting is about dead things, while hunting is about living things. Only when you can hit live things can you be considered to have combat effectiveness.
This is Xu Chengjun’s view.
"Everything is there, get ready - let go!"
Xu Chengjun shouted as if he were on a shooting range.
The yellow sheep more than a hundred meters away looked here warily, probably wondering why these guys didn't leave? What do you want to do?
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
At the same time as Xu Chengjun gave the order, gunshots rang out, almost at the same time, but slightly different in more subdivided time.
Li Long had excellent eyesight. The goat he was aiming at was shot and fell to the ground. Two other goats also fell to the ground, including the one Liang Shuangcheng was aiming at.
More yellow sheep ran away in fright when they heard the gunfire.
"Okay, withdraw the bullets and turn off the safety!" Xu Chengjun ordered again, "Put the gun away. If you hit or miss, go and have a look!"
The militiamen are used to it. He obeyed the order and put away the gun, and then ran towards the place where the yellow sheep fell to the ground with the gun, just like running to the target.
They naturally lined up in a row, with no one in front and no one behind to ensure there would be no accidental injuries.
By the time they reached Huangyang, everyone except Li Long was out of breath. Although they were not tired, they would inevitably run out of oxygen after running for a while.
Li Long kicked the yellow sheep he had shot. The bullet penetrated through the neck and hit the internal organs, basically causing instant death.
"Hey, Li Long, the yellow sheep you beat really has white hair on its forehead." A militiaman saw Li Long lifting the yellow sheep, took a look and said in surprise.
Liang Shuangcheng looked at the others and then at the biggest one he hit. He was overjoyed and said with a smile:
"Brother Long has really good eyesight. It’s a sheep, it’s the biggest! The horn is really long, about thirty or forty centimeters!”
Tao Daqiang missed. He aimed at a ewe. The ewe was startled when he hit it. The trigger of the gun he held was too hard and it was not well maintained.
Neither he nor Li Long participated in the training during this militia training season. If Li Long's gun is fired from time to time and maintained regularly, there will be no problem.
His gun was untouched in the gun cabinet. He just got it last night. The children at home were making noises, so he didn't take care of the gun, so he didn't get used to it.
Fortunately, it is his own gun, and Tao Daqiang knows how to adjust it. He believes that he should be able to hit the yellow sheep next time he encounters it.
A group of people came back lively carrying four yellow sheep. The yellow sheep he hit were two males and two females. Because Li Long had mentioned their characteristics before, no one was fighting over them.
Several people who wanted to fish in troubled waters calmed down when they saw that the real target said that the characteristics of the yellow sheep were the same as what Li Long reported just now.
It would be a shame to fish in troubled waters at this time.
Xu Chengjun watched the four men carrying the yellow sheep return to the tractor and said with a smile:
"Yes, this group of yellow sheep was so far away and they hit three, which shows that Our marksmanship is pretty good. I think there are still some wounded, but the yellow sheep has run away and we can’t catch up, so let’s keep moving forward and continue if we encounter the yellow sheep again!”
The four yellow sheep were thrown on the truck and the tractor continued to move forward. It is not easy to disembowel the tractor at this time, mainly because there are people sitting in the tractor, which is difficult to handle.
Li Long looked at the no-man's land on both sides and sighed secretly. At this time, this place was still an uninhabited land. In another forty years, both sides of the place would be reclaimed and turned into farmland.
From Shicheng to Kuitun, and then west to Wusu and Gaoquan, both sides have been turned into farmland, with prefab houses built to grow cotton, wheat, corn and other food and cash crops. .
Only after passing Gaoquan, there is the Lake Aibi Nature Reserve, where both sides of the road will be the same as now, with patches of tamarisk and Haloxylon ammodendron, and the Gobi Desert. Occasionally, you can see a small flock of yellow sheep.
I heard that in the other two countries outside the border, because there are fewer people in the country, there are also large herds of yellow sheep, antelopes and other animals.
Hundreds of them.
The tractor continued to move forward. Less than two kilometers away, someone on the tractor shouted:
"What is that? A deer?"
Li Long looked in the direction pointed by the shouter. , his heart felt nervous.
That’s the weird-looking saiga antelope!
This small group of eleven or two antelopes are eating the young branches of Haloxylon ammodendron on the south slope. They were more than 70 meters away from the road and on top of the terrain. They were not very scared when they saw the tractor stop.
"Come on, come on, no matter what it is, let's fight it down!" Xu Chengjun was also a little excited, "The four who just shot the yellow sheep stand up, and the people who didn't participate in the shooting also stand up, you, and me, Lao Li Brother, come and take aim too!”
Li Jianguo is no longer considered a basic militiaman. He is holding the 56-and-a-half that he borrowed from Li Long, a basic militiaman, which he used before. That one.
These people lined up in a row. Xu Chengjun also knew that Li Long had good eyesight, so he asked him to indicate the targets one by one.
"There are nine people who can watch and those who can fight." Li Long looked at the people on the left and right. There were four just now, plus Li Jianguo and Xu Chengjun, plus the two who didn't fight just now, there is still one missing. He shouted:
"Daqiang, come over to the edge!"
Tao Daqiang was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xu Chengjun.
“The little dragon is calling you, just come here. I’ll give you another chance to see if you can catch it!”
The different characteristics of these saiga antelopes are not obvious. It was also more than seventy meters away, but no one could tell it immediately.
If you knock it down, you can beat it. Just count your own position and the position of the antelope.
But what about the defeat?
This requires Li Long to name the different body parts of the antelope in different positions, so that it can be easily distinguished.
This group of antelopes has a total of four adult rams with long horns, and one juvenile ram with horns that have only grown a few centimeters. The rest are ewes.
Li Long read out the differences between these "sheep" to others while adjusting his position. When he finished reading, he also stood at the fifth position from the left - the head sheep is here.
"Okay, now Xie Yundong comes to give the order, just shout 'Ready - Release'. Okay, everyone aims..."
Xie Yundong missed the hit just now, but he was not discouraged. After hearing what Xu Chengjun said, he stood up behind the shooter. When he saw that he had almost achieved his aim, he shouted loudly:
"Ready - let go!"
"Bang bang bang bang!" A messy but clear gunshot sounded, and more than a dozen saiga antelopes fell to six on the spot. Xu Chengjun laughed:
"Hey, I hit it! I must have hit it! Where are you? Li Long?"
"I hit it, too."
"The one I shot may have escaped..." Liang Shuangcheng was a little excited this time. He pressed the trigger a little too hard and the bullet flew away.
“I hit it too.” Tao Daqiang said with suppressed excitement.
"Brother Li, can you not hit the target anymore?" Xu Chengjun asked with a smile.
"Hit it, a ewe." Li Jianguo said.
"Let's go over and take a look. Did you remember all the marks just now? See who marked them?"
After being shot, those who missed or were lightly injured quickly ran away. There were so many Haloxylon ammodendron here that there was no way to replenish the shot. It was basically a one-shot deal.
These people closed their guns and walked over there. Two of the six antelopes were still struggling and were not dead. Among them was Tao Daqiang's one and Xu Chengjun's one.
They wanted to shoot again, but Li Long stopped them, took out the knife he carried and slit their throats.
"This blood is a pity." A militiaman said, "If we take it back alive and slaughter it, the blood can be used for cooking."
"Okay, okay, this If you get hit, you'll have a lot of meat alone." Xu Chengjun laughed and scolded, "Look at your useless look! Okay, those who got hit should take theirs back and think about why they didn't get hit. ”
Li Long knocked the leader down and the bullet hit his head. Li Jianguo was hunting an ewe, which was also an adult. It weighed more than 40 kilograms, so it was not light.
After calculation, after two strikes, the Li family already has three heads, which no one can compare with.
Some people are envious, some people are jealous, and some people whisper strange things.
But don’t dare to speak loudly. If you speak loudly, someone will definitely speak for the Li family.
After all, I have the ability.
Ten sheep is a lot. The two tractors each occupied half of the truck, making it difficult for people to sit.
Xu Chengjun was about to leave, Li Long suggested:
“Captain, let’s process this meat first, otherwise it will freeze by then and the blood in the stomach will not be drained out, and it will stink. ."
"You are the expert, you have the final say." Cheng Jun followed the good advice, "How to do it?"
"Eviscerate, if it's not troublesome, just take out the internal organs and put them in a bag to clean up - of course, squeeze out the feces in the stomach and intestines first. If it's not troublesome, just take it out. Just open it and deflate it.”
"Okay." Xu Chengjun agreed, "Just open the chest and deflate it. It will freeze in a while. Go back and melt it and deal with it slowly."
He wanted to hit it a few more times. After all, such good resources and such good opportunities are rare right now. After the militia training is completely completed in two days, the guns will be handed over to the countryside.
Although he has a way to get a gun, it is not easy for other militiamen to get guns, and it is not so easy to drive this tractor.
It would be very fast to just disembowel them. After Li Long disemboweled the antelopes one by one, he continued to throw them into the truck, and after the militiamen got on board, he started the tractor again.
He could hear people in the car discussing what kind of thing this thing was because it didn't look like a yellow sheep. Some people just ignored it, meaning that it was okay to eat it.
Walking further, we passed through Anjihai, and then walked west. We were about to reach Kuitun for another two or three kilometers, and then we encountered the largest group of yellow sheep we had encountered this time when we were out hunting.
There are more than twenty of them, all grazing in the bushes on the south side near the mountain.
The tamarisk and Haloxylon ammodendron here are not densely packed, nor are they high. The young branches are often gnawed and do not grow high, basically about one meter.
The shoulder height of these yellow sheep is about the same as that of a shrub. If you lower your head, you will be in the red willow bushes, but if you raise your head, you will be higher up.
Because Tamarisk and Haloxylon ammodendron are relatively sparse, these yellow sheep can see them clearly.
Xu Chengjun excitedly directed the tractor to stop and said:
"Okay, okay, last chance, everyone, from left to back, start getting ready. This time, you don’t need Li Long to mark you, right? So It’s such a large area, if we can make a mistake, no one will be able to fight for it.”
The area where these yellow sheep are located spans nearly a hundred meters, and it is natural that they are spread out in such a large area! Needs to be marked again.
Li Long planned to target a big female gazelle this time and kill it for meat.
He was also thinking about how to get back the male antelope that others had shot.
Of course, it's not the kind of coaxing. You can change it if you don't want it. Don't lie.
Because one person can target three or four on average, there is no need to fight, but orders still need to be given.
This time Xu Chengjun also wanted to fight. If everyone wanted to fight, he simply said:
"When you have your sights set, report the number, don't speak too loudly, and then wait for my order. Shoot. There are so many yellow sheep. If you kill one, you can aim again if you are sure. The more you shoot, the better..."
After that, he signaled that everyone can aim freely.
Li Long saw that there was a half-sized male gazelle next to the end he was about to aim at, and he planned to hit two of them at once.
"Ready--Fight!" Xu Chengjun also took aim, looked left and right, then placed the gun again, aiming and shouting.
He had already shot when he shouted to shoot. The others were half a beat slower and had to hear before shooting, so several people missed shooting.
But because there were many targets, and those yellow sheep didn’t seem to be afraid of people, most of them were hit.
“Pa!”
The gunshot rang out again, and someone saw that it was Li Long shooting, and someone smiled and said:
"Xiaolong, you are too late."
"It's not over." Li Long laughed Laughing, "I hit two."
"Hey? Real or fake?" Someone asked unconvincedly as he didn't hit even one.
"Of course it is true, there is a big female and a small male." Li Long said, "The female has a few black patches on her body, and the male has two rings of white hair on her buttocks. ”
Seeing what Li Long said so clearly, the man stopped talking.
"Okay, hurry up and put the safety on your gun. Let's go and get the sheep." Xu Chengjun was also hit this time. He said:
"We have to go back as soon as possible. The military station is now We must have heard gunshots over there, and they might be here soon. Although we are out hunting normally, it is troublesome for people to ask.”
A group of people immediately turned off the safety and lined up in a row. Go over and see the yellow sheep.
The distance between the two that Li Long was hunting was only about ten meters away. He carried the two yellow sheep and walked back with great satisfaction.
Enough. (End of this chapter)