1766, use the art of war to defeat the yellow sheep
Three people were lying behind a withered bush, wearing white cloth cloaks.
Mo Zhui used a telescope to observe the sheep in the distance. These yellow sheep were a large group, with more than six thousand in total. Each of them was fat and strong. They looked very fat.
People in the Yang Fan system are very familiar with the environment in Mongolia. Naturally, they are also very familiar with this kind of animal that is the most common on the Mongolian plateau.
Every winter, tens of millions or millions of yellow sheep migrate south from Khalkha to Monan and northern Shaanxi, and overwinter in Gansu. It is a wonder of the animal world.
Yellow sheep, whose scientific name is Mongolian gazelle, is a kind of antelope in the family Bovidae and genus Oryx.
Body length 100-150 cm; shoulder height 54-84 cm. Weight 20-39 kg.
A yellow sheep can produce half of the meat, which is 10-15 kilograms of meat.
In fact, the yellow sheep are not big and don't have much meat. One yellow sheep can only feed the three of them for four or five days.
But I can't stand it, there are so many of them.
However, the yellow sheep ran so fast that it was impossible to catch them on horseback, and it was difficult to hunt them. When this thing ran, it could reach speeds of over 90 kilometers per hour. It would even make the horses tired and vomit blood, but they could not catch them.
The old man was very surprised. There were always some good things in the grinding table that he had never heard of or seen before. Just like the 62-type military telescope hanging on his chest. This thing is so useful.
This thing works great even in low light.
Because of the comprehensive coating and sharp imaging, the Type 62 telescope is excellent in terms of observation brightness, image quality and authenticity of object color. At the same time, it has the excellent performance of wide field of view, large exit pupil diameter, and long exit pupil distance.
Therefore, the Type 62 telescope can observe targets clearly and comfortably in low-light environments such as dusk and dawn.
Just like now, today is cloudy, and people with poor eyesight cannot see the yellow sheep in the distance.
Mo Zui looked at these little yellow guys with an eight-power lens. They could reach a height of two and a half meters in one jump. He couldn't help but say, "It's not easy to catch these little guys. They can jump so well."
The old man said: "Every year we just follow the sheep, wait until early in the morning when they are most lazy, and use bows and arrows to secretly shoot the stray sheep in the periphery. We can get two or three sheep a day, and they will migrate after staying here for a few days.
.It’s hard to find it again if you leave.”
"When hunting, you have to be careful. Once they are alerted, they will all run away in an instant and you will not be able to catch them."
Seeing so many sheep and only being able to hunt a few, Mo Zhui felt a pity.
"Is there any way to lure them out?" Mo Zuo asked.
The old man thought for a while and said: "This thing likes to eat salt, and likes to lick at the salt water lakes with salt and alkaline. To supplement the salt, they can run and jump so much, which consumes a lot of physical strength. They can't do it without enough salt. I'm like this
I brought a leather bag with me this time, and a salt block powder collected from the edge of the saltwater lake. I can try it later."
The old man's method was to crawl over quietly after dark.
Throw the salt powder on the ground and return it.
Yellow sheep have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night to urinate. Their noses are very good, and when they smell salt, they will come and lick the salt powder on the ground. Humans cannot eat the mineral salt by the lake, but the yellow sheep can.
In this way, it will leave the flock unknowingly. Once it is alone, it can be shot with a bow and arrow. This will not disturb the large flock. You can kill a few every day until these sheep migrate away.
Because once they are alarmed, they will immediately start running wildly, and once they run away, they will not be able to catch up.
After thinking about it for a while, I realized that doing this would not only be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also not very effective. I wouldn't be able to get a few.
"Sir, are you familiar with the terrain in front of you? I think the sheep habitat is a hillside. What is behind the mountain?" Mo Zuo asked thoughtfully.
"You can't go to the back of the mountain. You can't go there. It's a snowy nest." The old man said quickly.
It has been snowing for a long time now. This is a wilderness and the wind is unimpeded. It is extremely strong.
The snow in front of the mountain will be blown by the wind across the ridgeline and accumulate behind the mountain. Over time, there will be very little snow in front of the mountain, while the back of the mountain will be filled with snow, and some of it will even be level with the ridgeline.
The locals all know the danger, because what looks like flat ground to you may actually be several meters or even ten meters deep of snow.
Once you lose your footing and fall, you won't be able to climb up without someone to help you, and you will soon freeze into an ice sculpture. Only when the snow melts next year will the body be exposed.
You can understand Mozui as soon as you hear it, it is the same as Northeast China.
Mo Zuo shook his head and said: "Instead of going to the back, we surrounded the hillside on three sides, beating gongs and firing guns at the same time. We deliberately frightened them and drove them to run backwards. It is estimated that there will be many panicked yellow sheep who climbed over
Ridgeline, falling into a snow nest."
The old man slapped his thigh and said in surprise: "Such a good idea, why didn't I think of it? You are smart, young man."
The girl asked: "Brother Zhang, but the sheep fell into the snow nest, and we can't get it. We can only see it when the snow melts in spring next year. By then, it will be civilized, and the mutton will already smell bad and cannot be eaten."
Already."
The old man smiled and said: "We can use a horse pole, carefully hang the horns, and carefully pull out the frozen goats. If this method works, I don't know if hundreds of goats will fall in and freeze inside.
, I can’t finish it all in one winter.”
Mo Zuo smiled and said: "You guys watch first, I'll go back and get some good things back. After all, there are only three of us. If we startle the sheep, they won't run away, but charge towards us, which will be dangerous."
Yes, after all, it is a large group of more than 6,000 animals."
The old man asked doubtfully: "If we don't go up there ourselves, how can we scare them?"
Mo Zuo laughed and said: "Use gunpowder. Arrange dozens of explosive points on the outside. Use fuses to light them and explode them one after another. It will scare them crazy. They must all turn around and run back. No one dares to run outside."
Animals are afraid of huge fires and noises. Even the overlord of the grassland, the Mongolian gray wolf, is afraid. Not to mention these yellow sheep. If the effect of using gunpowder to drive them away is much better than that of humans.
They lose their minds and run and jump like crazy, and more of them will be driven into the mountains.
Before early the next morning, Mo Zuo came back with his camels. He took advantage of the darkness and the sheep were sleeping to bury dozens of gunpowder bags not far outside the sheep.
Because of the cold, the yellow sheep are reluctant to leave the heated stones, so as long as you are careful, you will not disturb them.
The sky gradually became brighter, and some of the yellow sheep had already woken up.
The grinding table ignited the fuse. The fuse burned and rushed towards the first explosion point.
Boom! A ball of fire burst out, and rocks flew everywhere.
In the quiet morning, this huge explosion woke up all the yellow sheep. But they were stunned by the sudden explosion and were at a loss for a moment.
But then, one explosion after another exploded in the periphery, with fire and rocks flying, and a loud sound that almost shattered the eardrums.
The yellow sheep exploded! Seeing these explosions coming towards them, all the yellow sheep turned around and ran up the mountain.
For a moment, dolphins were running like pigs, and all the eyes could see were the white hairs exploding on the buttocks of the frightened goats. Countless hooves and long legs were kicking up the sand and gravel on the ground. A cloud of dust rose up on the hillside, along with snow mist.
Flying.
The old man and the girl were both dumbfounded that they could hunt sheep like this.
Mo Zui stood up and said: "Let's go, let's go and take a look. It is estimated that at least a few hundred of them have fallen into the snow nest. It's so cold in the winter and they're all frozen. They won't be broken. They can last all winter. That's all.
When spring comes, we will eat roasted whole lamb every day."