Chapter 2916: Two Groups
Zhou Man looked down at the soldier with the broken leg, a little worried, "What if there are more people injured behind us?"
Bai Shan lowered his voice and said, "Give us all the medicine for external injuries. Two people have escaped. Although the intersections leading to Dongyuzhuang are guarded, there are fields and forests here. We will definitely not be able to catch them in a short time."
The people guarding the Dongyu Village intersection now are mainly there to serve as a deterrent, so that those who run away cannot pass through Dongyu Village and other villages on the road, giving Bai Shan and the others more time.
He glanced at the village chief Sun and whispered to Zhou Man, "Even if the village chief Sun showed up, the possibility of us catching everyone is not high. We are too few in number."
The people from Dajing Village and Xiaojing Village are the most important part, and he must escort them back as a priority. Otherwise, he will be so angry that he will die if he loses the big picture while picking up sesame seeds.
"I've estimated that if Qingzhou City has sent soldiers, they should be here in the next two days. You and Inspector Song will escort these people back. If you encounter them on the way..."
Zhou Man immediately said, "I'll take them over."
Bai Shan's eyes flashed with a smile and he nodded, "Yes."
He lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "If Qingzhou City doesn't send reinforcements, then you'll have to borrow troops."
There are not many people that Bai Shan can trust and use, so he can only ask Zhou Man for such a big thing as borrowing troops.
However, he was confident that Qingzhou City would send reinforcements as long as County Magistrate Lu and Governor Guo were not stupid.
Bai Shan had already arranged the manpower. Inspector Song took seventy soldiers to escort the captured people back to the county government office. Bai Shan and County Lieutenant Dong took the remaining people and Sun Lizheng to Dongyu Zhuang.
However, they did not set off immediately, but sat down to rest and wait for dawn.
At daybreak, the two newly separated teams began to eat their rations. After finishing their meal, Bai Shan led his men away to Dongyu Manor. Zhou Man saw them off and turned to look at Inspector Song, smiling, "Inspector Song, shall we set off now?"
Inspector Song actually didn't want to lead the team back to the county government office. He would rather follow Bai Shan to arrest people, but unfortunately Bai Shan insisted on choosing County Lieutenant Dong.
He sighed, as if he saw greater achievements slowly flying away from him, and could only nod and say, "Okay."
So the group set off.
As long as the injuries of the captured people were not particularly serious, their hands were tied and they were strung together to be escorted forward. Those who were seriously injured and unable to move were placed on stretchers, and then a few who looked more pleasing to the eye were selected to carry the stretchers, but they had ropes tied around their waists, and the other end of the ropes was tied to someone else's hands, also strung together.
If they were linked together like this, not only the bandits, but even the soldiers in their barracks would find it difficult to escape without special training.
Because there are too many people in series, if one person can't keep up with the movement, everyone in the entire line will be dragged down. It's good enough if they don't trip themselves.
This is the experience accumulated over many years by county governments in various places in escorting exiled prisoners.
A small team of ten yamen runners could escort nearly a hundred prisoners. In addition to the deterrent power of the court and the yamen runners' own martial arts skills, the method of binding and escorting was also an important reason.
If these people had not been newly captured, their wildness had not yet subsided, and they were too unruly, they would not have needed so many people to escort them back.
The injured yamen runner was carried by his own people, but he was not feeling well either. He was enduring the pain until his face turned pale.
A yamen runner who was familiar with him saw this and hurried to find Zhou Man, "Master Zhou, Brother Ping seems to be in a serious condition."
Zhou Man dismounted and took a look. Seeing that his lips were white with pain, he said, "It hurts..."
She thought about it and felt that it was not realistic to boil medicine at this moment, so she asked the people carrying him to move aside and used acupuncture to relieve his pain.
It can't completely isolate the pain, it just makes him feel better.
Zhou Man said, "Go a little further. When we stop for a rest at noon, I'll have someone make you some painkillers."
Ma Ping couldn't help asking, "Sir, is my leg going to become lame?"
Zhou Man: "Not really, not really. If you take good care of yourself, there's a good chance you'll recover. The most important thing for a fracture is bone setting and bone growth. If you can guarantee these two things, your bones will be fine."
Ma Ping swallowed and asked, "Can you fix the bone?"
"Yes," Zhou Man told him confidently, adding, "Prince Gong's legs were repaired by our Imperial Hospital."
Ma Ping: ...I heard that the reason why Prince Gong did not compete to be the crown prince was because he had a lame leg.
Ma Ping burst into tears, not feeling comforted at all.
Zhou Man looked at his reaction in confusion. Just as he was about to ask for more details, a soldier came running up from the front with a clang and shouted, "Master Zhou, the reinforcements from Qingzhou have arrived. They are just ahead."
Zhou Man was shocked. He patted Ma Ping on the shoulder, turned around and ran to the front to see.
They were some distance away from the team, but not very far. There was a turning point ahead, and they heard some movement when they turned the corner. So Inspector Song asked the soldiers to go ahead to investigate the situation, and then they ran back and said that reinforcements from Qingzhou had arrived.
But when Zhou Man ran to the front, there was no sign of reinforcements yet.
Zhou Man: "...Didn't they say the reinforcements were here?"
Inspector Song: "The scouts discovered it. We've already contacted them. Let's wait... they're coming."
Zhou Man looked up and saw two men in patrol uniforms leading two teams of soldiers running towards him quickly.
Except for the few people in the lead who rode horses, the rest of the people came running...
She glanced at the speed and secretly calculated the distance from here to Qingzhou City. She figured that they rushed here as soon as they received the news. Otherwise, at this speed, if there was any delay in Qingzhou City, they would definitely not be able to arrive at this time.
The two inspectors came up leisurely with the soldiers. At first, they only saw Inspector Song and had no intention of getting off their horses. But when they saw Zhou Man standing next to Inspector Song and the other party looking at them seriously, the two of them couldn't sit still.
After exchanging a glance, he dismounted and saluted Zhou Man, "Your humble servant greets Lord Zhou."
Zhou Man nodded slightly and asked, "Did Magistrate Lu send you here, or was it Inspector Guo who sent you here?"
The two men looked at each other and said, "We were sent here together by Governor Guo and Magistrate Lu."
Zhou Man clicked his tongue inwardly, looked behind them, and asked, "How many people did you bring with you?"
Inspector Li said, "Including the runners sent by the Governor's Office and the County Court, there are a total of 250 people."
Zhou Man was very satisfied, "That's enough."
She turned to look at Inspector Song and said, "I'll take them to meet up with County Magistrate Bai. You escort these people back."
Inspector Song said quickly, "Master Zhou, I'll go. The injured still need your attention. Look at this..."
"I'll get two doses of painkillers and swelling-reducing medicine. You can have someone boil it for him. Even if he needs his bones straightened, he has to wait until the swelling goes down before being sent back to the medical office. Lord Wen is there," he lowered his voice and asked Inspector Song, "You take them with you. Can you subdue them?"
Inspector Song looked at the two inspectors and was speechless for a long time.
Of course he couldn't control the two of them. Didn't he see that they were unwilling to get off their horses even to meet each other?
See you at 7pm
(End of this chapter)
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