Perhaps the wild boars also knew this was their last chance to eat well before winter arrived. After charging noisily into the alfalfa field, they immediately scattered, each finding a patch to root around and eat.
The little wild boars picked out tender alfalfa, while the experienced adults rooted straight through the topsoil to gnaw on the filling alfalfa roots, grunting contentedly as they ate.
The largest male wild boar, which brought up the rear, showed some vigilance, but not much. Li Long guessed that several days of successful feeding had made it feel there was little danger.
Their ambush position was thirty or forty meters from the boars. Anyone whose eyesight was a little poor could only make out dark shapes.
Li Long was not sure whether Meng Hai and the others could see the boars clearly. He regretted not putting in more work that afternoon. Since they were lying in ambush here, they should have dug several large pits on the opposite side. Once the shots rang out, the boars that escaped being hit would surely run that way. If they tumbled into the pits, they could have caught a few more without wasting ammunition.
He was still too inexperienced, and a little overconfident.
But it was too late for regrets now. Seeing that the boars had relaxed and were eating at their leisure, Li Long felt Meng Hai and the others had adjusted to the darkness too, so he called out in a low voice:
"Fire!"
Even as he shouted, he fired at a half-grown boar at the farthest edge of the herd!
Li Long wanted to use his marksmanship and speed to shoot as many boars as possible!
Bang!
After firing, Li Long did not even check whether that boar had fallen. While the animals froze