The place where Lu'an Mansion City is located, known as Shangdang in ancient times, has been a very important strategic place in the southeast of Jin Province since the Warring States Period. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After Li Banghua, minister of military aircraft, and his entourage came to Lu'an Mansion in a majestic manner, according to the prior arrangements of Yuan Jixian, deputy military envoy of Shanxi, Guo Jingsong, prefect of Lu'an, and others, they soon set up a temporary Shanxi thief suppression supervisor in the city god temple in Lu'an Mansion.

Li Banghua is a cabinet minister and minister of military aircraft, and he is also the governor of Shanxi to suppress thieves, not to mention the Lu'an Mansion at this time, that is, in the entire Shanxi at present, he is the largest imperial court official, so naturally he cannot arrange to camp and stay outside the city.

However, in the city of Lu'an Mansion in this era, there are not many buildings of a certain scale and appearance, except for the Shen Wangfu, this City God Temple is the highest level and the largest scale, which is enough to be used as a temporary place for the superintendent.

Although the city god belongs to the Taoist gods at the root, but the city god temple is different from the general Taoist temple, except for the birthday of the local city god every year, to invite Taoist priests to worship the city god, or in case of a great drought, officials come here to hold a rain prayer ceremony, the rest of the time, there is no resident Taoist priest or other idle people.

In some places, the temple is often used as a cheap building for the government, providing accommodation for business travelers and traveling students, and of course, many times, it is also a public place to house homeless beggars.

The ancient city god gods are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, some are kings, some are dukes, some are Hou Bo, and some are lower rank.

And the rank of the god god in a place determines what kind of specifications the city god temple in this place is built according to.

Different from the City God Temple in ordinary places, this City God Temple in Lu'an Province happens to be of high specifications, so its scale is also very large.

Even in the later generations nearly 400 years later, the City God Temple of Lu'an Mansion still has the pattern of four courtyards before and after, and the main house of each courtyard is open to seven rooms, and all of them are built with east and west compartments, especially the front yard and the back yard are very large, enough to be used as a garrison for the Chinese army in the mine camp.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was a teenager in the Ming Dynasty, he was a wandering monk for several years, and when he wandered around in the land of Lianghuai, when he had nowhere to stay at night, he often took the city god temples in various places as his home.

Later, when he became the emperor, he remembered this old story and was quite grateful, so he ordered the construction of city god temples all over the country to reward the kindness of the city god in various places.

Therefore, the Ming generation attaches great importance to the city god.

However, now in front of Li Banghua, the elder of the Ming Dynasty and the Minister of Military Aircraft, even if the rank of the city god of Lu'an Mansion is posthumously sealed, he has to be temporarily wronged and give way to the place.

In this way, on March 16 of the second year of Chongzhen, after leading the army to leave the Beijing division for more than a month, Li Banghua took his men and horses and entered the City God Temple in Lu'an Mansion, led a civil and military official, and after worshipping the City God, he set up the superintendent here.

And Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong camp, under the prior arrangement of Yuan Jixian, Guo Jingsong and others, was stationed in Longquan Temple, five miles away from the west gate of Lu'an Mansion, and in the nearby Longquan Town.

On the 21st of March, the green trees and red flowers in the Chenghuang Temple in Lu'an Mansion were shining, and the most outstanding military and political talents in this time and space, such as Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft and the supervisor of thieves, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and Wang Guoliang, the chief soldier of Shanxi, gathered in the city and sat down to discuss matters.

And at this moment, the front of the City God Temple is naturally unprecedentedly heavily guarded.

Just yesterday, within the limited time, the big names who gathered in Shanxi for the first time in this time and space for the first time in several years in advance finally arrived.

Most of these people have met before, some are still friends, and even if they have never met each other, they have all heard of each other's names.

Among these people, Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi who is over 50 years old, can be regarded as an old-qualified governor compared to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, two "young people" who are not yet 40 years old.

However, at this moment, compared to these two people, Shaanxi Governor Zhang Xiao does not have more right to speak, because people brought troops to Shanxi, it stands to reason that he came to help him, the governor of Shanxi.

If he, the governor of Shanxi, can handle the affairs of his own jurisdiction independently, then he can also straighten his waist and speak, but now in this situation, Zhang Xiao naturally has less confidence to speak.

Therefore, in addition to first reporting the military situation and the people's situation in Shanxi to Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft and the supervisor of the thief suppression, especially the disaster situation, he basically listened to others discuss the strategy of entering and suppressing the army.

And Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting rushed to Lu'an Mansion with their Chinese troops on the first day, and they also met with the supervisor Li Banghua respectively, and Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng's worries were different, both of them had seen worse situations in Shaanxi, and they also led the army to fight with the thieves, and they won every battle.

Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng were worried that these thieves were carrying a large number of people to take root in the Luliang Mountains, causing the entire war to suppress bandits to drag on, and wasting too much money and food.

However, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were not worried at all about the thieves taking root in Luliang Mountain and not leaving.

On the contrary, the two of them were most worried about the thieves continuing to wander around.

Their experience in suppressing thieves in Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi told them that it was not terrible for thieves to occupy the mountains as kings, but what was terrible was that these thieves were wandering around and did not meet with the officials and soldiers.

Especially Sun Chuanting, he really had enough of running around behind the thieves' butts, which not only made the officers and soldiers in the army tired, but also burned and looted everywhere the thieves went, and while they were sabotaging, they created more homeless people.

And these newly-born outcasts are the new source of these thieves.

Therefore, when they came to Lu'an, met Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, and heard from Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi, that the main force of the thieves had left the prefecture and county they occupied, and turned into the Luliang mountain area separately, they were relieved.

There is a big gap between the combat effectiveness of the thieves and the official army, and they have all seen this, as long as they can surround these rabble, then exterminating these thieves who have entered Shanxi is equivalent to half the success.

After all, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting have fought against thieves in Shaanxi, and their records are not bad, so their statements have made Li Banghua a lot more down-to-earth.

On the morning of this day, the bigwigs who had already communicated with each other in private officially held a meeting in the Governor's Mansion located in the City God Temple.

Li Banghua, Minister of Military Aircraft, looked at the few feudal officials sitting in the hall of the meeting with blazing eyes, and said loudly: "Since the beginning of the first month, the thieves in northern Shaanxi have broken into Shanxi, and the thieves in Jin have been rampant along the Yellow Line, and the people have been displaced.

"Counting up, this official has been ordered to leave Beijing and join the Jin Governor, and after hearing and witnessing, he also understands the situation in Jindi. Now the reinforcements of Shaanxi and Yansui, one south and one north, and the five elites, have all arrived. Counting the 8,000 strong troops brought by the official from Beizhili, there are now 20,000 and 3,000 officers and troops who have come to aid Jin to suppress thieves. If we add Shanxi Fubiao and Shanxi Zhen soldiers, our officers and troops will have as many as 40,000 or 50,000 troops, which can be described as a large number of generals. In the opinion of this official, it is the right time to enter and suppress the thieves. ”

After saying these words, Li Banghua looked around, and then said: "The people here, except for this official and Master Lu, have also fought with thieves before, and now if they have any ideas, they can say it and discuss it together. ”