294 Pursuit

However, as the boars back then suffered from deaths and injuries, they also learned to be afraid when hearing gunshots, running off in the process. Therefore, the villagers would employ sparrow warfare. They would throw live firecrackers into buckets, hit gongs and shout, lighting up fire torches at the same time. This typically could stop the attacks of the boars.

But later, firearms were banned across the country. Be it self-made or anything else, they were repossessed. Without guns in the village, the boars immediately became abhorrent. They were a little afraid against the firecrackers, fire torches, gongs, and scare crows in the beginning but later on, they realized that those did them no harm. Once they got used to the strategies in place, the herd of boars would treat the foot of the mountain as their own grain warehouse. They came in spring, summer and autumn, causing great destruction and distress to the locals.