Chapter 65: The Great Victory

After Li Yuntian settled Zhou Yuting and Chen Ningning, he rushed back to Baishui Town overnight, and there were many bandits who attacked Baishui Town this time, although Baishui Town had made preparations, but he could not predict the outcome. Pro, eye & fast, a large number of novels to read for free.

However, to Li Yuntian's surprise, when he arrived at Baishui Town nervously, he was surprised to find that in the face of the menacing water bandits, Baishui Town actually won a big victory.

No one expected that when Zhao Hua commanded the sergeant of the inspection department, the county yazhuang squad and the people in the town, with a total of more than 1,000 people, to launch a surprise attack on the water bandits who entered the ambush circle, the unsuspecting water bandits suddenly became a mess, and after only weak resistance, they were defeated and fled one after another.

Pursued by the people of Whitewater Town, except for a few water bandits who escaped by boat, most of them were annihilated, either killed or surrendered.

Later in the war, the men of the town came out of their homes, carrying torches, sticks and other weapons all over the town to search for the scattered bandits hiding in the town, so that the hiding bandits were found out one after another.

It's a pity that the bandit leader Wu Scar ran away, this guy was very cautious, and did not follow the bandits into the town, but waited on the lake by boat.

After discovering that the water bandits who entered the town had been ambushed, Wu Daoscar knew that something was wrong and immediately let people slip away by boat.

However, after this battle, the water bandits under him lost more than seventy percent, and their vitality was greatly damaged, and they could no longer be called giant bandits on Poyang Lake.

Worried that Li Yuntian would send someone to exterminate his lair, Wu Daoscar immediately fled to another place with his people after he returned, making the people who went to encircle and suppress him fall into the air.

The reason why the water bandits were defeated this time was that in addition to the fear of Baishui Town in their hearts, the most important thing was that those water bandits had their own ghosts, and after being ambushed, everyone wanted to preserve their strength, and let others fight with the people of Baishui Town.

As a result, under the courageous pursuit of the sergeant of the inspection department, the bandits quickly lost their fighting spirit, and the defeat was like a mountain, and they were out of control.

After the battle, a total of 237 water bandits were killed and 439 were captured, while 89 people were killed in the battle in Baishui Town.

This great victory not only caused a huge shock in Jiujiang Mansion and Jiangxi's political division, but also made the water bandits in Poyang Lake regard Baishui Town as a flood beast and stay away: Wang San and Wu Daoscar, among the three major water bandits in Poyang Lake, have been planted in Baishui Town one after another, and who would dare to come to Baishui Town for trouble.

In order to commend Li Yuntian for his meritorious service in suppressing bandits, the imperial court commended him in accordance with the report of the Jiangxi Political Envoy, and also commended and rewarded those who participated in the anti-bandit operation.

I'm afraid that the Wang family would never have imagined that her plan to put Li Yuntian to death accidentally helped Li Yuntian a lot, adding a great contribution to Li Yuntian's resume.

Chen Ningning fulfilled her promise and personally distributed those bounties to the Ningshui Town Inspection Division, and gave those casualties compensation according to the standards of the Baishui Town Inspection Division.

This money did not go to the account of the county government of Hukou County, but was issued by the Chen family, after all, the inspection department of Ningshui Town belongs to Wuning County, and if Hukou County is asked to pay this money, I am afraid that it will attract criticism, and besides, the Chen family is not unable to afford this small money.

Later, people learned that the letter that Li Yuntian left for Chen Bozhao when he left Baishui Town said that Wu Dao Scar might attack Baishui Town, so Chen Bozhao was asked to prepare early.

Although the sergeants of the Baishui Town Inspection Division followed Li Yuntian to Ningshui Town by boat, when night fell, they disembarked at a pier and rushed back to Baishui Town by land.

Not only that, Li Yuntian also took fifty sergeants from the Inspection Division to take several small boats all the way, so he arrived at Ningshui Town one hour ahead of schedule, otherwise it would have been too late by the time he arrived at Ningshui Town.

Coupled with the nearly 200 strong soldiers brought by Li Manshan from the county seat, Li Yuntian concentrated all the strength in his hands this time to deal with Wu Daoscar's gang of water bandits, and fought a beautiful battle of annihilation.

Li Yuntian held a public memorial in Baishui Town for those sergeants of the Inspection Division who died in battle, this is the first thing to happen in the prefectures and counties along the waters of Poyang Lake.

After the first seven days of the dead sergeants, Li Yuntian sent their coffins home for burial, and not only did the cost of the burial be paid by the county government, but the corresponding casualty compensation was also carried out in an orderly manner to ensure that the families of the dead soldiers could receive the due protection.

Coupled with the sergeants who died in the battle at the inn in Ningshui Town, and the sergeants who could not serve after being disabled, the inspection department of Baishui Town was reduced by nearly half, which made Li Yuntian extremely heartbroken, but it was not easy for him to pull up such a team that could fight.

Therefore, after finishing the affairs of the soldiers who died in battle, the Whitewater Town Inspection Division began a new round of recruitment.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, the Baishui Town Inspection Department must ensure 300 people, so that it can deal with the threat of water bandits in the future, and at the same time, it is also within the scope of the county's financial power.

This time the recruitment, Li Yuntian is not only limited to the locals of Hukou County, but also to people from other counties, after all, the population of Hukou County is limited, and in order to recruit excellent soldiers, the area of recruitment must be expanded.

As soon as the notice of the Baishui Town Inspection Department recruiting soldiers from other counties was posted in the townships and towns of Hukou County, it immediately aroused the interest of young people from the surrounding prefectures and counties, and they enthusiastically signed up, with more than 2,000 people registering.

After the extermination of Wang San and the heavy damage to Wu Daoscar, the Baishui Town Inspection Division became famous in the waters of Poyang Lake, and in the eyes of young people from other counties, entering the Baishui Town Inspection Division was not only majestic, but also able to support his family with generous treatment, which was a very rare errand.

After several rounds of screening, Zhao Hua selected a group of the best personnel from those young people who signed up to supplement the inspection department.

Although some people still look thinner now, with the food of the Inspection Division, they can become strong in a few months.

Li Yuntian spent the whole month of August busy, and he didn't even have time to take care of the annual Mid-Autumn Festival.

He was not only busy with the affairs of the Baishui Town Inspection Division, but also the affairs of the captured water bandits, and the officials of the Jiujiang Mansion and the Jiangxi Three Envoys Department had to come down to inspect those water bandits as usual, and he, as the head of a county, was naturally responsible for the reception.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhou Yuting spent time in Chen's Mansion in Baishui Town, and in addition to Chen Ningning, there were green calyxes to accompany her for the holiday.

Seeing that the green calyx was pure and beautiful, gentle and virtuous, Zhou Yuting couldn't help but feel a little emotional, Li Yuntian was very blessed, and she was fortunate to marry two charming women as concubines.

Because Li Yuntian was busy outside all day and night, running at both ends of Hukou County and Jiujiang Mansion, it was difficult for Zhou Yuting to even see him, so the matter of Li Yuntian's withdrawal from his relatives was delayed.

However, accompanied by Chen Ningning and Lu Cao, Zhou Yuting had a very happy life in Hukou County, and at the same time had a further understanding of Li Yuntian, knowing that he was humiliated by the officials when he first came to Hukou County, and almost drowned in Poyang Lake, and then endured the humiliation and uprooted the county officials headed by Zhang Youde in one fell swoop.

Although Li Yuntian is now in control of the overall situation of Hukou County, the outside world does not know about his fall into the lake last year.

Zhou Yuting never expected that Li Yuntian would encounter this kind of thing, if it were her, she would have cut Zhang Youde with a sword.

At the beginning of September, Li Yuntian finally finished the affairs at hand and went to visit Zhou Yuting in Baishui Town, Zhou Yuting has lived here for so long, and it is time to return to the capital.

When he arrived at Chen's mansion, Li Yuntian unexpectedly learned that Zhou Yuting was trying the case in the inspection department, and he couldn't help but feel curious and rushed there to check.

It turned out that in the morning, Zhou Yuting and Chen Ningning went out shopping, but they encountered two men fighting, and many onlookers watched.

The two fought over a bag of money, which contained two or three hundred copper plates and a few pieces of broken silver, and both said that the money was their own.

One said that the money was his cousin who sold meat in the town and asked him to take it back to marry his daughter-in-law, and the other said that the money was saved by his hard work and was going to lend it to a friend and ask the friend to buy medicine for the sick old lady in **.

Moreover, both of them said the amount of money in the money bag, which was exactly the same, which complicated things, and after arguing, they started to punch and kick.

The sergeant of the inspection department, who was patrolling the street, immediately took the two men into custody, and since the inspection department did not have the power to try the case, he was ready to transfer the two to the county office for trial.

This matter originally had nothing to do with Zhou Yuting, but the man who lent money to his friend was from the town, and he saw Chen Ningning on the road and knew that she was Li Yuntian's wife, so he knelt down and asked her to be the master.

Chen Ningning didn't want to care about this matter, after all, the trial was a matter for the county government, but Zhou Yuting agreed to it, and she had no choice but to agree to administer justice to the two.

Since the case was to be tried, it was naturally impossible to be on the street, so Chen Ningning and Zhou Yuting went to the Inspection Division, and the people who were watching the excitement were blocked from the door.

Although there is a lobby in the Inspection Division, it is not used to try cases but to deal with military affairs, and it is temporarily used as a place for hearing cases.

When Li Yuntian arrived, he only heard a cry of crying father and mother coming from the lobby, and a strong man with five big and three thick was being beaten with a torture stick by the sergeant of the inspection department, and several people were kneeling on the side.

"Hmph, you are a slippery and cunning person, this girl sees that you are still hard-mouthed!" In the lobby, Zhou Yuting sat at the back of the desk, staring at the strong man who was beaten with a frosty face.

Chen Ningning sat next to Zhou Yuting, looking at the scene in front of her helplessly, it seemed that she did not agree with Zhou Yuting's torture of that strong man, but she was helpless.

Li Yuntian did not enter the lobby, but hid outside the door and watched quietly, his brows furrowed slightly, and from Chen Ningning's expression, he felt that things did not seem to be going well.

"Your Excellency." When Zhao Hua learned that he was coming, he hurriedly came out of the public room, arched his hand to him when he saw this, and saluted in a low voice.

Since Zhao Hua did not have the power to try the case, he avoided it when Zhou Yuting tried the case, and let Zhou Yuting toss in the lobby.