On this day, Zhang Fei mysteriously brought a cage of birds and showed it to Li Mengxi.

This is a nest of little birds with big heads and round eyes.

Zhang Fei said, "This nest of birds is amazing. This is the night chant taken from the tomb of Prince Jing in Zhongshan."

Li Mengxi glanced at Zhang Fei in surprise. The key point that Li Mengxi heard was, Prince Jing of Zhongshan, the tomb, Zhang Fei climbed to the tomb?

Zhang Fei came here to ask whether Ye Haozi can really be tamed and whether he can really detect enemies at night.

"Yes!" Li Mengxi nodded firmly.

Zhang Fei became more energetic and said, "How to tame it? You can teach me how to do it."

The core method of animal training is conditioned reflex.

Li Mengxi thought for a while and figured out the training method. He said to Zhang Fei, "Three generals like this.

You first starve the owl for two days, and at night, you stand on the arrow tower, and the owl hangs high and lets it look outside.

Then, you deliberately come here in the dark with someone else."

"Owls have the ability of night vision. In the eyes of owls, all disturbances and movements at night are invisible.

But there is a problem. Although the owl can see people, it cannot speak, so how can we know what it means?"

"So, the key is motivation."

"The owl must have been hungry for two days. It must have been so hungry that only one person was left in the wilderness. This person suddenly shouted out where the owl could see it.

This is the way to draw attention.

The owl is startled by this, and will look at the person and start hooting.

Once you see an owl screaming, feed it immediately."

"Follow this method and repeat it a hundred times, step by step, and the owl will gradually understand that as long as it hoots when it sees a person, it will have food.

In this way, with regular training, the owl will become a natural habit and will hoot when seeing people at night.

At this point, the night horn can be used for night reconnaissance."

The method is just like this, it is the same method as training dogs and monkeys.

Zhang Fei scratched his head, frowned slightly, with a look of confusion on his face, "Is it that simple?"

Li Mengxi smiled, "It's that simple."

Being able to tame the night owl to spy on the enemy at night was such an amazing skill that Zhang Fei couldn't wait to train the owl right away.

"Don't!" Li Mengxi stopped him, "The bird hasn't grown up yet, so you can tame it to death!"

Zhang Fei took another look and found that the nest of owls was indeed still small, so he had to keep it for a while.

The owl cannot be trained for the time being, and the owl is difficult to think about.

Since ancient times, I have only heard of falconers, but I have never heard of anyone who can tame an owl.

He happened to be free, "Come on, Third General, let's go see the eagle." Zhang Fei aroused Li Mengxi's interest in falcon training, so he simply invited Zhang Fei to go and see it together.

In Julu City, where the [Ying Yang Guard] was stationed, Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei came together.

There are one hundred falcon taming soldiers in the Ying Yang Guard. None of these falcon taming soldiers know how to tame falcons. They are only responsible for feeding the eagles for the time being.

Because falcons are precious and we are afraid that if an outbreak of avian influenza breaks out, they will all be killed, so the health regulations of Yingyangwei are more numerous than those of a military medical camp.

The Yingyang Guards have all the sanitary regulations required by the military medical camp. The Yingyang Guards station must be cleaned every day, and lime must be spread all over the place every three to five. Everyone in the Yingyang Guards has been given several sets of clothes, and they are required to wear clothes every day.

One change.

Also, everyone entering and exiting Yingyangwei must wear a mask.

The most special point is that any eagle guard is not allowed to have contact with poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese. At the same time, any eagle guard is not allowed to eat any chicken or duck meat, not even eggs.

This is because chickens, ducks and geese are prone to avian influenza, and avian influenza is easily spread among poultry. Eagles are also a type of poultry and must be carefully guarded against.

Liu Bei brought back dozens of eagles from Luoyang, only six of which were fully feathered.

He picked two big eagles, Zhang Fei held a big cage in each hand, and went out to tame the eagles with Li Mengxi.

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There is probably no essential difference between training a falcon and training a dog or a monkey.

But there is a big problem. Dogs use their hearing and sense of smell. Dogs can be tamed on a rope. Owls can be tamed using their night vision and in a cage.

However, the eagle uses its hunting ability.

If the eagle is used, it can be used when besieging a city. When you see the enemy releasing carrier pigeons from the city, you can use the eagle to kill the carrier pigeons, cut off the enemy's communication, and capture the enemy's intelligence. This is the military purpose of raising eagles.

The problem is here, in order for the eagle to play its role, the eagle must be spread out. If the eagle is spread out, will it stop flying?

Zhang Fei took a small stick and poked the eagle in the cage, and the eagle in the cage screamed.

Zhang Fei teased the eagle for a long time, then raised his head and saw Li Mengxi still frowning in thought.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Fei stood up and asked.

Li Mengxi frowned in confusion and slowly shook his head, "It seems that before you can train an eagle, you have to endure it."

"To make an eagle, one person stares at the eagle with its big eyes and its small eyes for three days and three nights, until the eagle is convinced.

Only when the eagle is ready can we start training the falcon."

It is said that this is how to tame a falcon.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but feel embarrassed, "I can't stand it without sleeping for three days and three nights without blinking."

Li Mengxi was self-aware, and he was afraid that he would not cook the eagle well and would burn himself to death. Also, as the saying goes, if you play with an eagle all your life, you will be pecked in the eye by the eagle in the end.

This shows that falcon training is very dangerous. If you are not careful, your eyes will be pecked, which is not fun.

In view of the huge dangers of falcon training, Li Mengxi decided to leave the falcon training to others.

Ao Ying ignored him for the time being. Li Mengxi remembered an experiment mentioned in the biology textbook. The experiment was like this. Put a piece of bulletproof glass in front of a crocodile, and put a live chicken behind the glass. At first, the crocodile tried to eat it.

The chicken kept rushing towards it, but it hit the glass again and again. As time went by, the crocodile gradually lost interest in the chicken that was so close. In the end, the scientists removed the bulletproof glass, even if there was no glass to block it.

, the crocodile still turned a blind eye to the chicken in front of him.

The difficulty in controlling an eagle lies in the fact that the falcon is about to fly away.

There are two ways to prevent the eagle from flying away. The first method is that later generations will have a javelin missile with optical fiber guidance. After the missile is fired, the optical fiber can fly several kilometers long. According to this method, tie super long talons to the eagle's talons.

With a rope, just let the eagle fly out and let it fly. No matter how high it flies, the rope will pull it back. But the difficulty with this method is the rope. The Javelin missile has optical fibers that can fly several kilometers. The high-tech optical fibers are thin and

It is light and strong. If you tie a rope to an eagle, if the hemp rope is thick and the rope is heavy, the eagle will not be able to fly more than ten meters. If the rope is thin and not strong, the eagle has steel-like talons and beak. The thin rope will scratch it.

Just cut it off.

The rope pulling method is almost useless.

The second method is to use a ropeless traction method. Imitate the experiment between crocodiles and bulletproof glass. Tie a rope around the eagle's feet and neck, and then let it fly. It will hit it once when it flies, and hit it once when it flies. In the end, the eagle will Even if the rope is cut, the eagle will not dare to fly anymore.

Then, it's over.

What is the difference between an eagle that dare not fly and a hen?

To improve it further, you can get a signal and a whistle. Once the whistle is blown, the eagle can fly out. If the whistle is blown again, the eagle can be trained to fly back.

In this way, the eagle can fly out to hunt homing pigeons, but will not let go and disappear. This is a biological weapon that can play a role on the battlefield.

Now that we have a method, Li Mengxi said that we need a long, solid rope and two whistles, preferably one with a melodious sound that can travel far, and preferably one that can make different sounds.

Zhang Fei was very enthusiastic about falcon training and immediately went to help with errands.

The rope is easy to find, but the whistle is difficult to get.

There is a whistle in the army. Pull out the arrow of the whistle and blow it. This is also a whistle. But here is the problem. The whistle to order the war eagle should not have the same sound as the whistle. On the battlefield, both the enemy and us should stop blowing the whistle randomly. , the eagle heard the sound, thought it was a command, and flew around. How could this be good?

A long time later, Zhang Fei returned, carrying a long rope and bringing back two copper whistles.

Li Mengxi took the whistle. The whistle was similar to a bamboo tube. One was long, one was very thin, and the other was thick and short.

Li Mengxi picked up the whistle and tried each one. The sound produced by the slender whistle was "chirp~hu~"

A thick whistle means "woo~"

Both whistles have unique sounds, perfectly distinguishable from whistles.

Not knowing how far the whistle could carry the sound, Li Mengxi asked Zhang Fei to go three hundred steps away and blow the whistle hard to see if Zhang Fei could hear it.

After a while, Zhang Fei came back and reported that the thick and short whistle could not be heard, but the slender one could.

That's enough, use the thick and short whistle as the starting whistle, and use the slender whistle to call the eagle down from the sky.

The whistle and rope are ready, and the falconry begins.

The first step is to carefully take the eagle out of the cage and tie the rope to the eagle's talons. After the rope is tied, Zhang Fei holds the rope with one hand and holds the eagle's talons like a chicken. The eagle is full of wildness and quacks. It screamed, its powerful wings flapped sharply, and its hook-like beak like an iron cone pecked Zhang Fei's body and pulled it slightly. The clothes on Zhang Fei's arm were ripped open with a squeaking sound.

Zhang Fei cursed angrily, and in order to vent his anger, Zhang Fei grabbed the eagle and threw it around in a circle.

After turning dozens or hundreds of times, the eagle fainted when he let go.

Li Mengxi was very happy.
To be continued...