So they listened to whatever Sheng Xiping said. They followed him wherever he went.
The group followed Sheng Xiping and the others, heading southwest towards the forest farm.
When they arrived at the hillside, with Sheng Xiping's guidance, they could see clearly the pig hoof prints covering the entire hillside.
"My God, how huge is that herd of pigs?"
Li Zhenggang exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the messy, some even blurry, pig hoof prints on the ground.
"A conservative estimate is that there are fifty or sixty pigs, in a forest of red pine, oak, and linden trees more than ten miles away from here."
Sheng Xiping raised his hand and pointed forward.
"Everyone stay calm, no one rush, just follow my instructions."
"Anyone who disobeys me and shoots recklessly will be kicked out," Sheng Xiping said, glancing at the crowd.
"Understood. Don't worry, you'll be our leader for the next seven days. If anyone dares to disobey, I'll slap them twice first."
Li Zhenggang wasn't particularly interested in the spring hunt, but the sight of the pig hoof prints covering the hillside immediately piqued his interest.
If they could really bring down this group of wild boars, wouldn't each of them get one to take home? Just thinking about it makes me happy.
Sheng Xiping nodded and led his men toward the woods he had marked yesterday.
When they were about a mile or two away from the woods, Sheng Xiping signaled to everyone to rest for a while and not to rush forward.
At the same time, Sheng Xiping called Li Zhenggang, Guo Yongping and a few others over, picked up a tree branch, drew on the ground, and explained to them how to hunt.
"Wait a moment, Brother Li will be guarding the east side with ten men."
Yongping led ten men, circling around to the west side of the woods. I led the rest to guard the southern side of the woods.
Hunting wild boars is unlike hunting other animals; you can't ambush them from all sides.
In that case, the wild boar would become extremely ferocious and would fight to the death rather than let the hunter succeed easily, which could easily lead to problems.
“Yesterday I took the dog for a walk around the perimeter of the woods. Yongping, it will take you about forty minutes to get to the west end of the woods.”
We'll start timing from when we part ways, and fifty minutes from now, we'll enter the forest simultaneously from three sides.
Be careful not to make any noise, try to get as close to the pigs as possible, and when you are about 200 or 300 meters away from the pigs, climb the tree.
"We'll use gunfire as a signal. Once you hear any movement on my side, then you can move. Let's try to drive these pigs to the shady slope to the north."
During this season, a large portion of the snow on sunny slopes melts, while on shady slopes, the snow melts a little during the day and then freezes again at night, leaving a hard layer on the snow surface.
Pigs and roe deer have sharp, thin hooves. Once they step on snow, the hard cover can't support their weight, causing the pig to fall into the snow and become unable to move.
There's an old saying: "Chase a rabbit in falling snow, chase a cannon in melting snow," which illustrates this point.
Roe deer have very thin legs. Once they get stuck in the snow, their hooves have no support and they can only stay stuck and unable to move.
At this point, you don't even need a gun; you can just go up and hit them with a stick.
That's why it's called "beating a roe deer with a stick"—it comes from this.
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