Chapter 199: Tiger, tiger, tiger

Xie Li forwarded the original text of Bao Yan’s telegram to the division and added his own opinions. Of course, he agreed with Tan Zhenhua’s point of view, because he also felt that the most important task at the moment was not to trouble Kunsa, but as soon as possible. Strengthen yourself, after all, your own strength is better than anything else.
It has been two days since the team set off. It has been walking through this dense forest. In order to avoid premature exposure, it is not easy to bypass the fortifications built by the Burmese army and avoid the patrols that appear from time to time along the way. In addition, the team is in a state of heavy load, so the marching speed is not fast. Counting the distance, it will take a day to reach Wansala. In order to maintain his strength, he decided to camp on this hill tonight.
It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with picturesque scenery and a bit of wild interest. If it is in peacetime, it is also a good place to travel. However, Xie Li has no intention of caring about these now. He supervised the construction of the temporary camp, arranged the guard post, and ordered people to arrange a few directional mines on the necessary roads. Then he returned to the camp and sat down, and got into his own after eating something casually. The marching tent, with the faint lighting of the flashlight, turned on the military map, and began to study the marching route for tomorrow.
Just as he was looking at the map attentively, there was a loud noise outside. He raised his head, frowned, and was about to go out to see what happened. He saw Li Daming, who was in charge of the first sentry, hurriedly. He got into his marching tent and reported breathlessly:
"Head, one of our mules was taken away by a tiger!"
"Fuck it, isn't it, it's so scary!"
Xie Li couldn't help but explode, and hurriedly followed Li Daming out of the marching account to check.
The mules who accompanied the army were kept in a temporary fence at the foot of the mountain. The fences were all made of bamboo with the thickness of arms just cut down from the mountain to prevent mules from running around in the camp. Xie Li saw the scene. A fence was knocked open by a big opening, and a mule was missing. The remaining ones were kneeling on the ground with four hoofs and trembling with white foam at the mouth. There were obvious traces of heavy objects being dragged on the ground. The foot prints of plum blossoms with big bowls are very eye-catching, really tigers!
This is pretty good!
Xie Li hurriedly assembled a few soldiers, and the live ammunition rushed to a depression along the distinctive traces left by the tiger dragging the mule. It’s amazing to say that when Xie Li and the others set up their camp, they arranged sentinel points and placed directional mines at several key locations, and this tiger actually bypassed all sentinel points and the buried mine arrays very cleverly. Going straight to the core of the camp, and dragging away a large mule weighing hundreds of kilograms, coming and going freely, the instinct and fierceness of this beast is really frightening.
In a bush in the hollow, Xie Li's team found the mule that had died, and it hung on a half-person-high tree branch. Xie Li and others quickly and carefully searched the surroundings, but no traces of the tiger were found except for the footprints. The neck of the mule was bitten off by the tiger’s sharp teeth, and the flesh, tendons, and blood vessels were all turned out. The knees were all worn to the ground and the flesh was blurred. It seemed that the knees were dragged, even the bones were exposed, and the death was tragic.
Xie Li watched for a long time and asked everyone strangely, "Why didn't this tiger eat this mule? It took so much effort to drag it over here?"
Lin Shuangxi, who came with him, thought for a while and said: "When I was a child, there were tigers in the mountains at home. I heard the old man say that tigers actually prefer to eat carrion. They kill prey and often drag them to a place. The prey is left, and only start to eat after the prey begins to rot. If it is a female tiger, you may also ask your cubs to eat together. Although my hometown is a South China tiger, this is a Bengal tiger, but they are all tigers. I think the habits should be similar."
Xie Li grew up in Liu City. Where did he see this? Hearing this, he asked curiously: "Then the tiger is not afraid of other beasts stealing the food it has hunted so hard?"
Lin Shuangxi smiled and said: "The tiger is the king of the jungle. It must have left its own scent in this forest. We can't smell it. The noses of other beasts are very good. You said which beast that does not open eyes will It's easy to stroke its beard, isn't it just looking for death."
Xie Li also thought about it. Animals generally have the habit of delimiting their territory with scents. The Chinese pastoral dog that he raised before knew how to urinate along telephone poles, and this tiger must be the same.
However, since there is a tiger by the side, one eye must be kept open while sleeping. Also, this mule is my own property, so why is it cheaper to live with the animal? This is fresh meat! So he greeted a few people, chopped down two bamboos, tied the mule's body to a bamboo pole with a bandage, and several people carried it back to the camp.
After this incident, Xie Li sent two additional posts as a precaution, that is, two people were on duty at each sentry post, and they had to take care of each other. The rest of the soldiers were so tossed and temporarily lost sleep, everyone simply roasted the mule over the bonfire. Although the mule meat is rough and old and not tasty, in the eyes of this group of people, it is also a scorpion, isn't it?
To say that the appetite of these trousers is also really good. Not long after they had eaten dinner, these 30 people were stunned by the bonfire to roast the mule, which was several hundred kilograms, clean, even the bones. I was knocked on and sucked my bones, and then lay on the ground with his round belly and groaned. Xie Li stood up and looked at the foodies, and said angrily: "I see, you guys are better than that. Tigers are still fierce, they really eat meat without spitting out bones."
The two brothers Lei Bo and Lei Tao said in unison: "When you ate meat just now, you obviously grabbed the most powerful one by yourself, so I am ashamed to say us!"
Xie Li rolled his eyes. In front of these people, he couldn't hold the head of the leader. He touched his stomach and said, "I'm going to let it go."
Li Daming said: "Go away, let it go downwind, don't let the smell pass, it will make us unable to sleep by then."
Lin Shuangxi said, "Brother Li, I will accompany you. Be careful."
Xie Li smiled and waved his hand and said, "It won't be a problem. I will bring the spear. If the big cat dares to come, I will kill it." After that, he staggered and walked down the wind.
Xie Li walked out more than ten meters down the wind, found a place with luxuriant wormwood, squatted down and untied his belt and started to relax. To be honest, he was also a little nervous. Just refusing to Lin Shuangxi was simply not saving face, just now he A person feels guilty, so he has to hum a few model dramas to embolden himself:
"Heroes in troubled times are everywhere,
A gun is a grass head king.
Hook up three parties to invade;
...
Xie Li couldn't sing anymore, because he suddenly saw a pair of green eyes staring at him in the grass!
His whole body's hairs exploded at once, from the scalp to the soles of the feet, cold sweat swishes out, how could it be so coincidental? Did I meet him at this moment?
When it was said that it was too late, Xie Li’s first reaction was to pull the 56 punches flat on his hand, and wanted to give the big worm a shuttle, but the big worm’s reaction was faster, and he let out a tiger roar. He rushed over!
Xie Li was too late to shoot. He subconsciously swung the spear in front of him, hoping to block it for a moment, the tiger just pounced and bit on the barrel with one bite. The sharp canine teeth and the metal of the gun body There was an unpleasant rubbing sound, and the huge force of the tiger pounced Xie Li directly to the ground. Xie Li desperately held the gun to the tiger's mouth, and the stench from the tiger's mouth filled the top of his skull!
At this critical moment, there was a clear gunshot from a distance. The tiger was taken aback by the sound, and suddenly turned his head up, still biting Xie Li’s gun in his mouth. This suddenly changed from pressing down to pulling up, and Xie Li could no longer hold the gun in his hand. He was torn off by the tiger and flew far away.
He felt miserable. He just thought about the pill today. He was a hero. He didn't expect to lose his life under the mouth of this beast. But suddenly he saw the tiger's tail swept away, bent his hind legs, and plunged into the grass with a vertical leap, and then disappeared. Got without a trace.
At this time, Lin Shuangxi and a few people had arrived, Xie Li was in shock, and finally stood up, his legs were still trembling involuntarily like chaff, Leibo's stinky mouth opened:
"Oh, Commander Xie, how can you disarm a beast?"
What this said was so full of sand that Xie Li was choked for a long time to speak. After holding back for a long time, he stunned back: "What you said is so easy, you can try it yourself?"
Lei Tao was not idle: "I said Yaoji, your marksmanship is too stinky, you can't hit such a close distance, such a big target, don't blow your marksmanship in front of me in the future!"
Lin Shuangxi rolled his eyes and said: "You know what a fart, but I didn't see Brother Li being pressed underneath. I deliberately raised the muzzle of the gun and fired it to the sky, for fear of hurting him." After speaking, he suddenly pumped. Nose, then frowned: "What smells so bad!"
Li Daming pointed his eyes and pointed to Xie Li: "Brother Li, why did you on your back?"
Xie Li was depressed after a second thought, Nima, this was just because the big worm just pressed himself on the excrement! I kept this excrement by myself, and I didn't have a punching bag to find it.
He didn't feel in the mood to continue quarreling with Leibo. It was important to wash and change clothes quickly, this time it was really embarrassing!
Everyone walked to the center of the camp, and Xie Li took a look at his gun halfway. The gun was bitten by the tiger so that the barrel of the gun was recessed, and it was completely deformed and scrapped. Li Daming looked at the deep tooth marks and said, "This animal is so powerful, he has to take a bite, I'm afraid it won't be finished right away."
Xie Li was also terrified, and secretly sighed that his fate was too big for him to blow up for a while, so he silently praised his just now.
Of course there are also uncomfortable things. For example, the animal made himself stinky. As he changed his clothes, he thought bitterly: "If you want to see this animal again, you have to peel it and make it into a carpet. Otherwise, how can it be eliminated? The hatred of the little master!"