Chapter 1480.

In less than a cup of tea, Wang Dust killed through the queue of thieves and bandits.

At this time, there was no other enemy in front of Wang Dust, except for a big man with a battle axe in his hand.

The eyes of this big man looking at Wang Chuan were filled with incomparable resentment and indignation.

He let out the hiss of a wild beast, and violently swung up the battle axe in his hand towards Wang Chuan, the force of the axe was more powerful than a thousand pounds, as if it was able to cut open an entire mountain.

However, Wang Chuan retreated with an arrow step, flattened his sword with both hands, and stabbed out at the strongest of the thieves and bandits.

An inch longer and an inch stronger, Wang Chuan’s weapon was several times longer than the opponent’s tomahawk, so it struck the bandit’s chest like lightning.

Pfft!

The brawler roared in pain as his descending battle axe chopped heavily on the blade.

Clang!

The blades clashed with dazzling sparks, but failed to cut through.

With a twist of his wrist, Wang Chen’s long blade spun rapidly, immediately creating a large hole in the opponent’s chest.

The bruiser stared at Wang Chuan dead in the face, taking his last breath the moment the latter drew back the stranger’s blade.

Wang Dust turned back to see the three hundred sharp soldiers under his command struggling to hunt down the fleeing bandits.

These bandits were killed by Wang Duan and cried their parents and abandoned their armor, completely lost the will to fight, and each of them could not grow two more legs.

Then the surrounding terrain was open and flat, there was no place to hide, so many of the bandits were shot over by the arrows from behind, or were killed by the sharpshooters who caught up with them.

Screams, wails, and pleas for mercy ……

Under the setting sun echoed for a long time, and it took a long time before they completely subsided.

The wilderness was filled with hundreds and thousands of corpses, and crimson blood flowed into rivers among the weeds.

In the distance came the cawing of a crow.

“Mr. Wang.”

A blood-soaked dart master strides up to Wang Duan and salutes, “The bandits have been completely killed and defeated by us!”

Although he was very tired, his face was all excited.

It was really too painful to kill!

“Hmm.”

Wang Dust looked at the sky and said, “Command down, clean up the battlefield and return to guard the camp!”

His orders were quickly conveyed, and the warriors who had been chasing the thieves and bandits returned to rendezvous, then began to treat the wounded and clean up the battlefield.

These thieves and bandits were not destitute stragglers, so there was quite a lot of loot that had been plucked from the corpses.

By the time the battlefield was cleaned up and everyone returned to the camp, it was already dark.

A blazing bonfire was set up in the merchant camp, and the bright firelight reflected the excited faces.

Wang Dust asked the accountant who accompanied the team to count the captured loot, and then took out a large box of silver and distributed it to everyone who participated in the battle.

This was the reward they deserved.

In the battle that had just ended, even though Qing An Merchant Team’s side under Wang Duan’s leadership had achieved a brilliant victory, killing more than a thousand bandits and invaders, their own side had some losses.

But their own side also had some losses, there were more than a dozen dead in the battle, and even more injured.

Wang dust let people set aside part of the silver for the pension, and let people will be sacrificed cremated, one by one into the altar to bring back home.

By the next day at noon, the caravan was back on the road.

Leaving behind the corpses on the ground.

And these corpses also greatly deterred other bandits, Qingan caravan on the way home there is no danger.

So before and after more than a month’s time, the caravan with a large number of food back to Qing’an County.

The return of the caravan also stirred up the whole county.

The county magistrate Ye Xiangming personally went outside the city to greet them, and countless people greeted them with a warm welcome, the scene was so warm that it became a memory that many people could not forget for the rest of their lives.

Wang Chen also met his wives and concubines, Ye Dai and Xiao Yu both cried into tears.

For nearly two months, they had been missing each other day after day, and they had been scared for Wang Chen, so their lives had been quite tormented.

Now finally, a big stone in their hearts fell to the ground.

But as the leader of the caravan, Wang Chuan could not go home with them immediately.

After the grain was put into storage and the caravan was disbanded, Ye Xiangming invited Wang Duan to the county office for a secret talk.

The first thing to talk about was naturally the matter of the roving bandits.

Li Zili, the self-proclaimed Prince of Peace, led his men and failed to take down Qing’an County, and then turned to attack another city, besieging it for half a month and capturing it, thus recovering most of his strength.

However, they were soon besieged by an army sent from the capital, and after a fierce battle, the Pingtian army suffered a series of defeats and was forced to withdraw from the territory of Changyi Prefecture.

Currently, the situation in Changyi has been stabilized, and several lost counties have been recovered.

The problem lies in the fact that it will take a long time to repair the damage done by the roving bandit army!

The drought in Changyi Province has not been alleviated, the water level of the Qingshui River has dropped to its limit, and all the artesian water trucks have become useless.

As a result, this year’s autumn grain harvest in Changyi Province was less than one-third of the normal harvest.

In some places, the harvest was even completely cut off due to the destruction of the roving bandits.

Qing’an County’s fall rice harvest has been completed, the loss is just as heavy, the current price of rice in the county remains high, some merchants are even hoarding, making Ye Xiangming very headache.

If this situation continues, the stability that Qing’an County has managed to obtain with great difficulty will fall back into chaos.

Fortunately, Wang Dust returned with a large amount of grain.

Although the grain purchased by the merchant fleet was not enough to fill this year’s grain deficit, at least it greatly stabilized people’s hearts.

It also stabilizes the price of rice.

“Xian son-in-law, come to the county office and help me.”

Ye Xiangming said with gleaming eyes, “I intend to recommend you for the position of county minister!”

In the current Qing’an County, Ye Xiangming could be said to be in sole control of the power, and was deservedly the number one person.

But having a handful of military and political power was also a great burden for him, after all, a person cannot be split into two halves to be used.

Ye Xiangming is very clear, he is concurrently county magistrate county minister two positions is only a stopgap measure above, once the situation is completely stabilized, the capital city side will certainly have new appointments.

His county magistrate position is certainly solid, but if he replaced a county minister with his own incompatibility up, that is undoubtedly a very big trouble.

So after thinking about it, Ye Xiangming wanted Wang Duan to occupy this position.

He also knew that Wang Dust did not have the slightest interest in being an official, so his attitude was very earnest: “Just be a favor to me!”

The old father-in-law had spoken to this point, so Wang Dust couldn’t refuse: “Alright then.”

“Great!”

Ye Xiangming high-fived and laughed, “I will immediately petition the government office to finalize this matter!”

The right to appoint the county magistrate and the county minister were both at the government office, in order to avoid a long night’s sleep, Ye Xiangming immediately wrote a recommendation and had it sent to the prefectural city by fast horseback.

Half a month later, the government sent a new appointment.

Because of his success in fighting the bandits, Wang Duan was appointed as the county minister of Qing An County!