Chapter 1139 – The Battle of the Wild

“What’s going on? Why is there the sound of wolves howling?”

The sleeping Zhuang Rui was awakened from his sleep by the mournful wolf howl, and hurriedly rolled over and walked out from the tent.

“Bad thing, there are wolves in this neighborhood, I guess it’s going to disturb the wild horse herd.”

Bartel several people all climbed up one after another, hearing the sound of wolves howling, several grassland people’s faces had worried colors.

“Big brother Bartel, this herd of horses won’t be surrounded and eaten by the wolves, right?”

Zhuang Rui has seen the ferocity of the steppe wolves, although it has already happened for many years, but now looking back, it is still palpitating, at first, if not for Zhou Rui well-prepared, it is estimated that his own line of people are going to lose their lives under the kiss of the wolves.

“Surround?”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Bartel’s face showed an odd smile, and then said, “Brother Zhuang, now is not pre-liberation, prairie wolves are almost extinct in the prairie, this is also the summer, there is a little space for them to survive, but the wolves are just three or five, how can they encircle the wildebeest herd?”

Due to the development of modernization, the survival space of grassland animals was further compressed, the number of wolves was almost scarcer than wild horse herds, which was also caused by the changes in the underlying biological chain.

In fact, the decrease of wolves is not a good thing for the prairie, just like the Australian pastures, which conducted a wolf extermination campaign in the 40s and 50s, making the wolves almost extinct, but then they introduced a kind of hare, and then disaster struck.

Due to the lack of natural predators, the hare multiplied very fast in Australia, while the grass in the pastureland was decreasing at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye, and everywhere became bare.

The Australian government had no choice but to import wolves, snakes, eagles and other natural enemies of rabbits from abroad, which slowly reduced the danger of rabbits to the grassland.

Now the Mongolian prairie also has signs of development to this trend, but in recent years the prairie people have been paying attention to the protection of grassland carnivores, as long as there are not wolves attacking the pasture, almost very few hunters to actively hunt wolves and other animals.

“The plan looks like it’s going to change, the horses will definitely be alerted when they hear the wolf howl, let’s all stop sleeping and get our things ready, we might have to follow the horses and move again.”

Bartel looked very depressed, when he turned back to pack up his tent, his mouth was still chanting, “It doesn’t make sense for a few wild wolves to go to the horse herd to die?”

After packing up the tents, the group took the horses in hand and headed on foot closer to the herd, while the sound of the wolves howling became clearer and clearer, seemingly right up ahead.

“Stop, I know how to turn back.”

After walking for about half an hour or so, Bartel in front suddenly raised his right hand, which was clenched into a fist, and signaled the people behind him to stop moving forward.

Timur was also very familiar with the terrain here, glancing around with a look of realization on his face, he spoke, “Big brother Bartel, this is the Coyote Valley, right? It seems that the horse herd has occupied the nest of the wild wolves, so this is why there is a conflict.”

Bartel picked up the binoculars and observed for a while, nodded and said, “That’s right, but the wild horse herd didn’t occupy the wild wolves’ lair, but rather blocked the wolves’ way in and out of the Wild Wolf Valley.”

“It’s still true, what kind of place is not good for this group of horses to choose but here?”

Zhuang Rui took the binoculars in Bartel’s hands and looked directly ahead through the moonlight, and couldn’t help but laugh.

More than four hundred meters in front of him, he could clearly see the shadows of many horses either lying or standing, and behind these horses, there was a valley, about thirty to forty meters high, this kind of terrain in the grassland is very rare.

As for those few prairie wolves that let out mournful cries, Zhuang Rui was not able to find their silhouettes, but from the direction of some of the horses’ bodies outward on the periphery of the wild horse herd, they should be hidden in the dense grass directly in front of the herd.

“Strange, these wolves don’t need to fight with the wild horse herd! Wouldn’t it be over if we wait for them to leave and then go in?”

Listening to the howling of the wild wolves became more and more miserable, Zhuang Rui’s heart was a bit puzzled, just as Bartel said, the number of wild wolves would never be more than five, and there was really no need to impact this wild horse herd.

To know, the wild horse is not domesticated cattle and sheep, for the attack of the wild wolves all have no power to fight back, on the contrary, I am afraid that the attack power of the wild horse is not weaker than the wolves, their hooves if kicked in the wolf body, will definitely make it lose combat power.

What’s more, if these more than a hundred wild horses rushed together, not to mention three or five wolves, even if there are several times more, it can only be stepped into the meat of the portion.

“It’s probably because there are young wolf cubs inside the Coyote Valley that these wolves are in a hurry.”

After observing for a while, Bartel, who was extremely experienced in grasslands, opened his mouth and answered Zhuang Rui’s question, and only this answer was more reasonable, otherwise, with the characteristics of such cunning creatures as the grassland wolves, they would definitely not go to mess with an enemy that was stronger than themselves.

“Then what are we going to do? Wait here?”

It was only a little more than two o’clock in the morning, although looking at the stars on the prairie was something that many couples longed for, but being in this place made it clear that it was not a place that could make one’s mood happy.

Not to mention, is that those who are accustomed to wreak havoc in the middle of the night mosquitoes, let Zhuang Rui a little can not stand, even if the body wears long sleeves and long pants, but can not help the neck and face did not cover things ah! It’s only a moment’s work, he gave himself several slaps in the face.

“Wait a little longer, if there are really young wolf cubs in the valley, these wolves will not be able to resist, and then an impact, as long as the horses are in chaos, our opportunity will come.”

Bartel for the ear “buzzing” mosquitoes straight barking pressure does not care, eyes staring straight ahead and the wild wolves and wild horse group confrontation, this kind of situation even if he is such a grassland people, but also rare to see.

After Zhuang Rui heard Bartel’s words, he could only shut his mouth, even Uyunqiqiqi that little girl didn’t say anything, what does one old man have to complain about.

“The wolves can’t help themselves.” Suddenly, Bartel’s face became excited.

Sure enough, just as Bartel’s words fell, a howl came out from the wolf species, and a low figure scurried out from the grass, running towards the wild horse herd.

Zhuang Rui’s binoculars immediately aimed at this wild wolf, and at a glance, he couldn’t help but be a little disappointed.

The size of this wild wolf is really not good, not even as big as some rural dogs, covered with gray hair, only the two eyes that are glowing with green light can make people feel a hint of coolness.

Coyote scurried out from the grass, immediately let the wild horse group some commotion, in the outermost several wild horses, uneasy with the front hooves planing the grass in front of them, after all, this herbivorous and carnivorous animals, itself has a qualitative difference, that kind of fear is also inherent.

“Resume the law ……”

Suddenly, a horse neigh that resounded through heaven and earth came out from the wild horse group, the sound was so loud that it was like thunder on the bottom of a flat, exploding the entire prairie.

The loudness of that sound, hearing Zhuang Rui and the others who were several hundred meters away were a little shocked, was this something that a horse could emit? Even the few horses beside Zhuang Rui revealed uneasy looks.

“This is the head horse, it seems that I still underestimated it, it’s quite a bit better than Red Blood’s breed.”

Bartel’s face revealed a gloomy look, to say that originally there was still 60% to 70% certainty of capturing this head horse, now when he heard this neigh, the expectation in his heart immediately dropped to 30%.

Because Bartel found that just when that head horse was neighing up to the sky, his own red blooded eyes, also revealed an expression of trepidation, this is something that the weak will only show when they see the strong.

“I saw it, oh my! What a beautiful horse.”

Zhuang Rui used his binoculars to search for the owner of the sound at the first moment the neighing sound sounded, and it wasn’t difficult to spot the head horse, because there was no more horse that dared to come close to the five or six meters around it.

This was a wild horse with a body as bright red as a date, the hair on its body was extremely short, only at the neck, there were some fluffy hairs, both eyes were as black as glue, standing there motionless, gazing at the wild wolves running in the distance.

The height of this head of the horse, than its surrounding wild horses to be a lot higher, Zhuang Rui eyeballing a full one meter eight to two meters or so, standing there bathed in moonlight, just like a heavenly horse, majestic.

“This …… I’m afraid it’s the mixed Dutch horse, also not as divine as this horse, right?”

Zhuang Rui had once seen horse racing in Hong Kong, the horses used there, are all from the Netherlands or Britain and other places of the hybrid horse, this kind of horse is characterized by a tall, handsome body, but compared with this one in front of him, it is simply like a dirt dog as inconspicuous.

While Zhuang Rui was observing the head horse, the wolves also approached the herd, and behind the first one to run out, there were two more wolves, one in front of the other in a triangular shape running towards the head horse.

It seems that the prairie wolves also know how to use tactics, and know that capturing the thief is the first thing to do, as long as the head of the horse is defeated, the entire wild horse herd will collapse without a fight.

The distance between the two was only a few dozen meters, just more than ten seconds, the first wild wolf came to the front of the head of the horse, the mouth issued a low roar with a deterrent, the body jumped up, pounced on the head of the horse.

Seeing this scene, the wild horses around the head horse, were all in a bit of a commotion, but that head horse was very calm, and when the wild wolf pounced up, the premise suddenly lifted up.

Seems to know the horse’s front hooves, the wild wolf in mid-air a dexterous turn to change direction, the body is to come to the head of the horse’s buttocks, stretching out sharp claws to the head of the horse buttocks grabbed.

Coyote hunting, for those animals whose size is much larger than them, often from the abdomen or buttocks to cut the prey’s skin, scratch out its intestines so that it bleeds to death.

This coyote obviously had this kind of idea in mind, and its tactics were successful, seeing that its sharp claws had already grasped the head horse’s buttocks.