Hebei, Pingyuan County, Lujiao Pass.

Qin unified the world and established counties. After Han Gaozu established the Han Dynasty, Pingyuan County was divided from Qi County, and the Jin Dynasty was changed to Pingyuan State. The Song and Wei dynasties were renamed Pingyuan County, and at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the county was abolished and the state was merged, and the Pingyuan County was abandoned in Dezhou, and the great cause was three years, and the son of the great cause was renamed Pingyuan County.

For the most part, Pingyuan County was subordinate to Qi County on the south bank of the Yellow River, but it was only later divided into Pingyuan County. In terms of geographical situation, although a river divides the two banks, the plain county on the north bank of the river is a flat river, and there is no Taishan of Qi County to rely on, in fact, there is no geographical advantage to rely on.

Lujiao Pass is just a town fort guarding the north bank of the Yellow River crossing.

General Liu Zhen personally led his subordinate officers out of the customs to greet him.

The two sides stated their identities, and General Liu Zhen was surprised to hear that this army was actually a new military government that was only added last year, but after hearing that the person who commanded the troops was Luo Cheng, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It turned out to be Luo Cheng, the white tiger of Qi County, who has heard of the name for a long time."

The fourth child said on the side, "Then Liu Zhen will have heard the name of my Qi County Tiger Luo Cunxiao?" ”

"I've heard it, of course I've heard it, the four tigers of the Zhangqiu Luo family in Qi County, this has now resounded on both sides of the Yellow River."

Liu Zhenjiang is also a very interesting person, he looks at least fifty years old, his beard is gray, but his face is red, and he always feels that he drank two or two wines before coming. This person always smiled when he spoke, but Luo Cheng knew that this person must have something to ask for.

Otherwise, there is no reason for a town general who is a sixth-grade to come to greet him, a seventh-grade Fu Sima.

Since the old system of the Northern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty set up towns and garrisons in important military places, each of which was divided into upper, middle and lower grades, respectively placed the town general, town deputy, military master, and military deputy, and commanded the soldiers to guard the town and fort.

As for the strength of the town, it was less than that of the military government, with 1,000 soldiers in the upper town, 800 in the middle town, and 500 soldiers in the lower town. There are 300 in the upper army, 80 in the middle army, and 50 in the lower army.

The general of Shangzhen is even higher than the four products, such as October of the second year of the great cause, put the Luokou warehouse in the southeast plain of Gong County, build the warehouse city, return more than 20 miles, wear 3,000 cellars, the cellar capacity of 8,000 stones to return, put the supervisor and the town soldiers 1,000 people.

There are thousands of soldiers in this town, which is the town, and the town will be from the four products.

Lujiao Pass is stationed in the south of Pingyuan County, guarding the crossing of the Yellow River, and garrisoning 500 soldiers.

The town system is handed down in the Northern Wei Dynasty, in the past, the status of the town will be extremely high, the early town of the north town will be the governor of the states and the history of thorns, the later period of the big town is abolished, the town will no longer have the history of thorns, but also with the post of the county guard.

After the Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, the status of the town general declined again, and it became a county guard and town general.

When they went to the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, most of them were town generals who served as county commanders, and then later, they became county commanders and town generals.

In the Sui Dynasty, although the county order is no longer the town general, but the grade of the town general is also constantly decreasing, and now the town general is still guarding the Guanjin Pass, but the grade is not high, and a town general is only six grades.

But no matter what, there is no reason for the general of the town of Liupin to be a passing Sima from the Qipin Mansion in the neighboring county.

General Liu Zhen set up a banquet in the city of Lujiao Pass and invited Luo Cheng and them to the banquet.

Although I don't know why he is so enthusiastic, since people are speaking, Luo Cheng is not easy to refuse, anyway, this is Pingyuan County, not Liaoxi County, so don't worry about too many other accidents.

The banquet is rich in dishes, and Liu Zhen will be very affectionate.

kept persuading him to drink, and he also called a few kaki to accompany him.

It wasn't until after the three rounds of wine that General Liu Zhen began to complain to Luo Cheng.

It turned out that the status of the town was constantly declining in this dynasty, although he said that there were 500 town soldiers in this Lujiao Pass, but the soldiers were all sent from the local government, taking turns to guard, and the court pulled out some fields for the town soldiers to cultivate the fields to supplement the military rations. This would have been a good thing, but in recent years, most of the soldiers sent by the local government are convicts and criminals.

Criminals are naturally difficult to control, and if they have to be tuntian, they don't have much energy to train.

Over the past year, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in Lujiao Pass has become lower and lower, and there has even been a shortage of soldiers, and he has repeatedly reported to the military department, but it has not been solved for a long time.

Not long ago, the Ministry of War also ordered to transfer 300 soldiers and horses from Lujiao Pass to Zhuo County to assemble, so that only 200 soldiers remained in Lujiao Pass. With such a few people, Tuntian is not enough.

"I am in Hebei, and I have also heard that the four tigers of the Luo family in Qi County are famous, and they are invincible to suppress bandits and thieves. Don't hide it from Brother Luo, my antler pass, don't look small, but there are many places to take care of. To the north, there is the junction of Pingyuan County and Bohai County, and at the junction of the two counties, there is a huge salt pool hundreds of miles large, called the bean brine pit. There is a negative kelp river, the terrain is deep and obstructive, since the high Qi, the group of thieves have mostly hidden here. ”

Douzigang, this Luo Cheng has heard that there are two places in Hebei that are places where Tibetan bandits gather, one is this Douzigang, and the other is Gaojibo, two places, one is a big lake, and the other is Da Yanze, which is the kind of place where it is easy to gather thieves and Tibetan bandits, just like Dayozawa and Changbai Mountain in Henan.

"There have been many thieves and bandits in this bean pit in the past, but they are still small guys and bandits, but recently, the Eastern Expedition is imminent, and the imperial court has conscripted and sent troops, so many scoundrels have fled and gathered in it. However, there is a strong man in this county, named Liu Badao, who is next to the bean pit, and has a huge fortune. Liu is domineering and likes to be a ranger, so he can make friends, and there are often hundreds of diners at home. ”

Speaking of this Liu domineering, Liu Zhen will have a headache.

Because speaking of which, this Liu Badao is actually still his relative, but the relationship is far away. But because of his relatives, as soon as this Liu Badao had an accident, he thought about hurriedly getting rid of the relationship.

Liu Badao is rich, so he can make friends in black and white, and Liu Zhen will have a good relationship with him in the past. But not long ago, a large number of people evaded service and hid in Douzigang, and even joined the bandits to loot places. And Liu Badao deliberately shielded and hidden, and after tracking down in Pingyuan County and finding evidence, he wanted to take him, and this person simply fled to Douzigang.

Because of his previous reputation, as soon as he entered the post, all the bandits went to attach to him, and in a short period of time, it is said that he has claimed to have more than 10,000 people.

"This Liu Badao also played a banner, calling himself an uncle thief!"

Others are bandits and thieves, they all call themselves what kind of chief or even what kind of prince and king, this Liu is domineering, but the name is loud, but when he is a bandit, he wants to call himself an uncle and thief.

Could it be that you like to be someone else's uncle so much?

"Brother Luo knows Brother Luo's prestige, and he is the best at suppressing bandits, so I have a reluctant request today, I want to ask Brother Luo to do me a favor and bring the brothers to do something to help Brother Luo exterminate this uncle thief!"

General Liu Zhen is also very helpless, Douzigang is next to him, which is also part of the defense area of his town, and now it is not just that he is asked to suppress bandits, but the swelling bandits of Douzigang have seriously threatened his Antler Pass, which is only guarded by more than 100 people.

There is news and legend that Liu Badao is ready to break his antler pass so that he can seize the weapons of the Guanzhong town soldiers.

He just wants to save himself now, once the town is broken by bandits, then he will really be the head of the town, and he won't even be able to keep his head at that time.

In desperation, when he saw Luo Cheng's six hundred high-spirited Qi County soldiers, he was like a drowning man seeing straw.

"Please also ask Brother Luo to help the old brother."

After speaking, Liu Zhenjiang waved his hand, and immediately an officer brought a plate of gold, about 100 taels, worth 800 copper coins.

"This is a thank you gift, for Brother Luo. In addition, the money and food spent on suppressing bandits are all from our antler pass. Every time I capture or kill a thief, I exchange money and food. Liu Zhenjiang gritted his teeth and said.