Chapter 1988： Falcon Force

At one time, Marin thought that the natural enemy of pigeons was human. This is the view brought by his later generations. After all, the extinction of birds in later generations has a lot to do with humans. But in fact, in this era, humans have limited ability to kill birds. The most important thing is the reason for the bullet.

In later generations, the shotgun shells used by human shotguns are mainly divided into three types-bird shells, deer shells and single-headed shells. Among them, the bird bullet is the smallest shot of a single particle. The warhead of a bird bullet is not one of ordinary bullets, but a lot of lead. After the shotgun is shot, it will hit a scattered surface, which is a range attack.

Under the cover of a pile of lead, even a very small sparrow cannot escape death. Because, at the position of the target, there is a lead subarray with a large net, which is difficult to avoid.

It is precisely because of the appearance of the shotgun that the birds have been destroyed. Because no matter how small the birds are, no matter how flexible they are, it is difficult to avoid the scope of the shotgun.

Because the effect of hitting birds is so good, after the matchlock gun was introduced to the Ming Dynasty with the shotgun in the middle and late 16th century, the Ming Dynasty people simply called it the bird batter.

But that was the middle and late 16th century. Now, the prototype of the shotgun-grape bullets have not yet appeared, naturally there is no very restrained shotgun for birds. Therefore, there are still many birds, and it is not too dangerous for homing pigeons to fly over human settlements.

what? You said to shoot birds with bows and arrows? Do not make jokes! Shooting birds in flight with a bow and arrow is an absolute marksman. There may be a lot of these people in the ancient northern China area that focuses on bows and arrows, but there are definitely not many in Europe. Moreover, when shooting birds with bows and arrows, most of the large birds like geese and swans are killed. Small trumpets like pigeons are difficult to hit. The one who can shoot the flying sparrow is definitely the arrow god.

Because of the emergence of plate armor, bows and arrows have greatly reduced their role on the battlefield, and bows and arrows have become almost useless. Therefore, apart from the traditional English in this area, few people in other countries have practiced archery. Even though archery, Europeans generally use crossbows instead of bows. Because it takes a long time to practice bow shooting, and it is not easy to practice well. And using a crossbow, it is very easy to get out of the division. After all, the crossbow has an aiming device, which is convenient for ordinary people who do not understand archery.

The problem is that the crossbow is much slower to load than the bow and arrow. If you see the pigeons flying across the sky, and then find the crossbow to load and aim, the pigeons have been flying far and far.

Therefore, it is safer for birds to fly through European residential areas before the shotgun appears. On the contrary, it passes through deep forests and is easily eaten by falcons.

"So, I still have to build a traditional communication system!" Marin sighed and could only continue to count on the post system and flying shears. After all, although these two methods are slow, they are much safer than homing pigeons that are easily eaten by the falcon ...

Marin had thought of using a condor such as Haidongqing (because the eagle itself is not afraid of being attacked by the falcon), and the brothers of Suha had also demonstrated the skills of using Haidongqing to transmit messages. But the problem is that Haidong's wild nature is untamable, and they may be able to accept the owner and his family. For strangers, do you try it? Can't catch you ...

Only Suha and his younger brothers are also familiar with each other because they are a family. It is only when the letter is communicated that the paper on the eagle's claws can be untied. You can't do it if you are unfamiliar.

It is precisely because of this that, although there are also hawks to transmit letters, they are rare and cannot be popularized. People want to spread the message, they can only rely on the pigeons. Big deal, put a few more pigeons at a time. Even if the hapless encounter with the falcon, one was eaten at a time, and the others could still escape. As long as one of them brings the information, it will be considered a mission.

This depressed situation made Marin depressed to invent the radio telegraph. However, after Zuo Siyou thought about it, he found out helplessly that there was no knowledge of radio in his mind.

In the physics book of junior high school, the principle of radio was introduced, but the introduction is extremely simple, and it is deliberately not mentioned how to make it. Why? Only because there will be radio control in future generations. Therefore, the related technology is not disclosed. Without making it public, Marin will naturally not be able to obtain the technology to make radios, and can only stare.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to raise pigeons. You can raise a few more at the most. Be prepared to be eaten by a falcon halfway. Some pigeons can send information alive ...

But this is not a solution. As far as Marin knows, it is probably because the pigeons are delicious and the falcons like to eat pigeons. In later generations, many falcons sneaked into the pigeon cage on the roof to eat pigeons, just like weasel ran to the henhouse to steal chickens.

Not to mention the large number of birds, the falcon loves eating pigeons, which is extremely harmful to the carrier pigeon book. Therefore, to ensure air safety, those falcons must be killed ...

To this end, Marin issued an order to form a squad of soldiers, among other things, he patrolled specifically on the flight route of the carrier pigeons, and specifically hunted falcons.

Marin hesitated for a long time about what weapons the falconers used, but decided to let the hunters use bows and arrows. Because the eagle falcon has a larger wingspan of about one meter, and the bow and arrow can also hurt.

Moreover, Marin can organize hunters with powerful arrows to hunt falcons in an organized manner. If you bring a telescope, it will be more convenient.

Besides, Marin was not designed to exterminate the falcon, which is unrealistic. What he wants is actually the safety and smoothness of the pigeon route.

Therefore, his falcon troops will only be active on the pigeon route, and will not go to other places to find the falcon. Cleaning up the falcons on the homing pigeon route will also make the homing pigeons much safer.

In fact, the best weapon for falconing is the shotgun. No matter how flexible you fly and how fast you are, the shotgun passes by, and the hit rate is extremely high.

However, Marin is worried that after the promotion of shotguns, others will think of grape bullets ~ www.novelhall.com ~ for artillery to harm themselves, so they did not launch shotguns. Moreover, the falcon is so big that the bow and arrow are enough.

Even Marin planned to let the falcon troops poison the dead pigeons, hang the poisoned pigeon carcasses on the branches, and let the falcons eat. After eating, the falcon will naturally whine.

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Under Marin's attention, a group of old hunters who were good at using bows and arrows to hit birds were selected. Marin equipped them with horses and bows and arrows, allowing them to patrol the pigeon route to hunt falcons. Kill one and reward a gold coin, which is 60 Finney, which is equivalent to one month's salary for ordinary people. Of course, it is limited to the falcons on the flight path of the carrier pigeons, and the falcons elsewhere are not counted.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man. Sure enough, after Marin issued a reward, the hunters of the falcon corps wailed and searched for the falcon to shoot. As soon as I heard that there were hawk falcons near the pigeon route, the gang would rush to hunt. Even the old falcon ’s nest was not overlooked, because Marin also rewarded the destruction of the falcon ’s nest.

Because of these measures, the flight routes of homing pigeons in Beihai have become much safer. Those falcons were so frightened that they dared not get close to the pigeon route. Because, as long as they dare to get close, a group of hunters who want to reward money and go crazy will rush to shoot them. In the eyes of the hunters of the Falcon Force, these falcons are flying gold coins ...