Before Xu Jiaming could remind them, the villagers had already taken out their phones and started reporting the wild boar's location to the villagers.
Just then, several gunshots that reverberated through the valley suddenly rang out from the opposite mountain, followed by the gradually fading cries of wild boars.
"Haha, let's keep going! The other side has made some gains too."
Xu Jiaming looked in the direction from which the gunshot came and laughed heartily.
"These two pigs aren't very big; one of their pigs might even be bigger than ours."
Chen Chongshan replied with a smile.
"Let's go, let's go, where do we go?"
Xu Jiaming nodded and looked at the villager who had led the way, asking a question.
"Let's cross it."
The villagers replied to Xu Jiaming, "There are still a few sweet potato fields and a harvested cornfield over there. There should be wild boars there too. We'll slowly climb the mountain again."
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
Xu Jiaming nodded, then led the dog in the direction the villagers pointed out. As soon as Chen Chongshan and Wen Fei moved, Ah Huang and the other dogs rushed ahead.
Seeing the other dogs roaming freely, Shak and Luocha became extremely anxious, pulling harder and harder, but Xu Jiaming and Chen Chongshan showed no intention of letting them go.
These two are fighters by profession; they've only been hunting in the mountains a handful of times, and they have absolutely no experience in hunting. Letting them go would only have a negative effect on the other dogs.
After the group walked through several bushes and followed a small mountain path to this place, Ah Huang chased out of the bushes a wild boar weighing about 100 pounds.
These wild boars are clearly around one year old and have just reached adulthood; they might even be siblings born in the same litter.
The sheer number and density of wild boars here is astonishing; venturing into this forest alone would be extremely dangerous.
Although a wild boar weighing around 100 pounds posed no threat to Chen Chongshan and his group, it was the most powerful beast in the mountains for the villagers who had no hunting experience and worked the land. Their killing power was extremely strong, and they could not possibly fight against them with hoes and sickles.
Ah Huang's bites were exceptionally fierce. Unlike the wild boars in Lianshan Bay, the wild boars here would choose to run away first.
The first choice for the wild boars here is to confront them face-to-face, which Ah Huang likes very much. It is not afraid of any confrontation. If they run away, it will take a lot of effort to chase them, but now it can directly find a way to overturn its opponent.
However, since firearms were available, Chen Chongshan was clearly unwilling to let Ah Huang continue to expend energy and risk fighting the wild boar. He called Ah Huang back again, and Wen Fei understood and rushed forward, delivering a fatal blow to the wild boar.
After dealing with the wild boar, Chen Chongshan and his group had no further successes all morning.
Perhaps it was the occasional gunshots coming from the nearby hilltop that finally alerted these unbridled wild boars, and they began to consciously retreat into the depths of the forest.
A morning spent trekking through the mountains and forests had already taken a toll on the group.
Xu Jiaming, in particular, rarely goes up the mountain. Although he works out regularly, the workouts he does in the gym are not as effective as the workouts he gets up in the mountains.
Wen Fei was in a better position, as he often went hunting in the mountains and was in better physical condition. The group stopped in a sweet potato field.
The villagers skillfully gathered some firewood, and Chen Chongshan helped them start a fire. Then they found a few sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field that hadn't been destroyed by wild boars and roasted them in the soil under the fire.
After roasting the sweet potatoes, the group also took out some braised meat that Lao Qin had prepared and had it for lunch. The roasted sweet potatoes from the mountains were especially fragrant and sweet, and Xu Jiaming couldn't help but eat a few more.
After lunch, the group started hiking through the mountains again, but this time it wasn't as smooth as it had been in the morning.
They only managed to kill one wild boar weighing about 100 pounds in the entire afternoon. However, Xu Jiaming showed off his marksmanship by shooting a pheasant and two rabbits, which was an extra bonus.
In the mountains, it gets dark quickly in late autumn. By four o'clock, the sun was already setting. Urged on by the villagers and Chen Chongshan, the group began to walk down the mountain.
After a day of running, Ah Huang had vented its frustrations and walked ahead contentedly, with several Xia Si dogs happily following behind it.
After a day of fighting, they had completely accepted this big guy. They enjoyed fighting alongside him. With him around, the wild boar no longer seemed so huge and difficult to overturn.
Shak and Rakshasa, who had not had a chance to show off their skills, were rather sullen and silently followed Xu Jiaming.
They excitedly went up the mountain and saw one wild boar after another, but their owner never let them out, which made them extremely frustrated.
At the village entrance at the foot of the mountain, a number of hunters had already gathered, and wild boars were piled up on the flat ground, waiting for county vehicles to come and load them.
The spectacular sight of dozens of wild boars lined up together excited countless hunting dogs. The barking of dogs was incessant throughout the village entrance. Xu Jiaming watched the wild boars with great interest, taking pictures with his phone while searching for the largest one.
"Damn, Chongshan, this pig must weigh at least 300 jin (150 kg)."
"Hey, Chongshan, Afei, is this the one we fought?"
"Wow, this guy must weigh at least 400 pounds!"
"This must be the first wild boar, right? Wow!"
"Chongshan, take a look! How big is this guy compared to the wild boar we killed last time?"
Xu Jiaming stopped in front of a huge wild boar and shouted loudly.
A number of villagers had gathered around the wild boar, pointing and whispering.
Chen Chongshan walked over, looked at it, and finally shook his head: "This pig is not small, but compared to that mountain boar, it should still be smaller, probably not more than 350 jin."
"That's true, even fangs aren't that long."
Xu Jiaming nodded in reply.
While everyone was discussing it, the county's statistical data had already been released.
Xu Jiaming grabbed a copy first, glanced at it a few times, and then said somewhat dejectedly, "Damn, how come I'm only fourth?"
"fourth?"
Chen Chongshan was also a little frustrated. He took the data and glanced at it. They had hunted four wild boars today, but none of them weighed much. The total weight was only 397 jin, which was less than 400 jin.
Although the top-ranked team only killed two wild boars, each of their wild boars weighed over 330 jin (approximately 115 kg), and with the addition of another wild boar weighing 230 jin (approximately 115 kg), the total weight exceeded 600 jin (approximately 300 kg).
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