"Karganov and Hadji Aga and Akhmet Khan and all the militiamen gathered together- like sportsmen round a slaughtered animal- near the bodies of Hadji Murad and his men (Khanefi, Khan Mahoma, and Gamzalo they bound), and amid the powder-smoke which hung over the bushes they trimphed in their victory".
The imagry of this passage forces the reader to view Hadji Murad and his men simply as nothing more than game in a hunt. The dead lose all human characteristics of themselves once dead, having thier lives claimed as a victory. It is the imagry which reinforces the concept of inhumanism withing the passage, specifically showcased in the simile.