Suzhou may not be the most important place in the eleven states of Longyou Province, but the place where the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of Longyou Province was established is here, which makes Suzhou's political status very important.

The closest army to Suzhou is not Wuzhou, but Langzhou, but Langzhou only has 15,000 soldiers, shouldering the heavy responsibility of garrisoning Tibet, and it is easy to transfer its troops and horses away, and Liangzhou is a little far away from Huizhou, and far water can not quench the thirst, so Wang Renzizi can only transfer troops from Wuzhou and let Li Xun lead troops to the rescue, these are actually not important, the most important thing is that Wang Renzi, as the governor of the Metropolitan Mansion of Longyou Province, is nominally the highest civilian official in charge of the military of the entire Longyou Province, but he does not have the right to transfer troops. His order was conveyed to Liangzhou, Langzhou, and Huizhou, and the chief general of the local army would not necessarily follow the order to lead the troops to come, and Li Xun took the initiative to write to the imperial court earlier, requesting to lead troops to Suzhou to assist in suppressing bandits, no matter what the intention, but his own attitude was positive, which is why Wang Renzizi finally found Li Xun and asked him to lead the troops to Suzhou first, without waiting for the reply of the imperial court, after all, the Central Plains is too far away from Wuzhou, and the time has been delayed for too long, and the situation in Suzhou is already urgent.

Li Xun quickly made a plan, You Chong and his headquarters of 4,000 soldiers and horses, have the responsibility of defending the city, can not move, in addition, Yuanhe's 4,000 soldiers all followed, and then from Wang Tuyuan's army to draw 2,000 people, Wang Chengxi out 4,000 people, a full 10,000 soldiers and horses, to Suzhou rescue.

Li Xun took the order of the governor, plus Wang Ren Zirconium Long's right road to the rescue documents of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Wang Tuyuan did not dare to disobey the order, and asked his deputy general to lead 2,000 soldiers and obey Li Xun's dispatch.

Wang Tuyuan gave soldiers and horses, but Wang Chengxi had some concerns.

Shenchi County, a large battalion in the army outside the city.

Wang Chengxi summoned the generals to deliberate.

Wang Chengxi is forty-three this year, with a medium build, and there is no fierce aura on his face, but he looks white and tender, and he doesn't look like a leading general.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Li Xun ordered me to send 4,000 troops to cooperate with him to go to Suzhou to rescue, what do you think?"

Wang Chengxi glanced at everyone and asked.

There were more than a dozen officers sitting in the tent, and when they heard Wang Chengxi's questioning, they looked at each other, but no one stood up to speak.

The contradiction between Wu Heng and Li Xun is well known, Li Xun is the governor of Wuzhou, and Wang Chengxi, as his subordinate, should obey the order, but Wang Chengxi is now calling everyone to come to discuss the matter, obviously not wanting to send troops.

"General, the Suzhou official army was defeated, the bandits were serious, and the siege of the county seat was urgent, and now Wang Renzi, as the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, asked Li Xun to lead the troops to the rescue, we belong to the jurisdiction of the Wuzhou Governor's Office, Li Xun ordered us as the governor, General, you had better not come hard."

A strong man in his early thirties stepped forward, clenched his fists and said loudly.

This person's name is Li Cunxiao, and he is Wang Chengxi's deputy general.

Wang Chengxi glanced at Li Cunxiao, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said unhappily: "Although Wang Renzi is the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, he does not have the right to mobilize local troops, although Li Xun is the governor of Wuzhou and is in charge of us, but he also has no right to lead the troops out to fight, and the scope of his control is limited to Wuzhou, I don't send troops, and he can't help me." ”

Li Cunxiao persuaded again: "General, what you said is right, but have you thought about it, now the bandits are besieging the county, Wang Renzi asks us for help, if we don't save it, once the city is broken, hundreds of people will suffer, and the court will investigate it in the future, who will bear this responsibility?" ”

Wang Chengxi sneered: "When the sky falls, it will naturally be held by a big one, so what do we care." ”

Wu Heng sent his mother back to Fengjing, Wang Chengxi was indeed a little uncomfortable, to be precise, he was a little worried, afraid that during the period when Wu Heng was no longer there, Li Xun would take action against himself, but now the situation in Suzhou has changed, which made Wang Chengxi see the opportunity and also have crooked thoughts, didn't Wang Renzizi let Li Xun take someone to Suzhou? If Li Xun does not go, no matter how bad the situation in Suzhou is, in the future, the imperial court will only investigate Li Xun, the supreme military commander, and has nothing to do with him.

Wu Heng once promised Wang Chengxi that as long as Li Xun was defeated, he would help him sit on the post of governor of Wuzhou and replace Li Xun, Wu Heng

is a core member of the Yang family's party, and with his help, that is, with the help of the Yang family's party, and the Yang party's party is now in full swing in the court, with Wu Heng's promise, Wang Chengxi felt that this matter was very promising, so it completely fell to Wu Heng.

Li Cunxiao saw Wang Chengxi speak like this, and a trace of disgust suddenly flashed in his eyes.

Wang Chengxi is only a general from the fourth grade, generally speaking, a general of his level, according to the regular system, can only command an army of 4,000 to 5,000 people, the reason why he now has 10,000 troops in his hands is because after the end of the battle of Longyou, the hundreds of thousands of troops left in Longyou are too messy, some are local troops in Longyou, and some are transferred from the Central Plains, so many troops, scattered stationed in various places, such as Li Cunxiao, who was originally a subordinate general of Yuwenzhen, and his official position is a general, after conquering the land of seven states in the west of Longyou, Yu Wenzhen returned to Fengjing, but the tens of thousands of troops he brought, but many of them stayed in the local area to stabilize the situation, Li Cunxiao was in this situation, commanding more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters, stationed in Maohu County, Shazhou, and Wang Chengxi led more than 4,000 people to garrison Shashan County, Shazhou Prefecture.

Subsequently, the imperial court subdivided the entire eleven states of Longyou into three provinces, Shazhou and Xiazhou are located in the rear, the position is not so important, and after the war, the people of these two states fled, died, the economic situation was very poor, and the situation in Wuzhou was much better, so the court put a total of 10,000 troops in Shazhou and Xiazhou, and all of them were transferred to Wuzhou.

So in a real sense, Li Cunxiao, including some other generals, is not Wang Chengxi's direct subordinates, but is only controlled by him, and Wang Chengxi's real military power is only the original more than 4,000 people in his hands.

Li Cunxiao's ancestors were also born in a wealthy family, and today's Weizhou Jiedu makes Li Conggu is in the same vein, but Li Cunxiao's ancestors finally separated from the main family for some reasons and went to Shannan to live, to Li Cunxiao's grandfather's generation, completely decayed, and became a common man without any identity, everything Li Cunxiao got today is through his own efforts and hard work.

Li Cunxiao's personality is very upright, but also extraordinary martial arts, when he served in the Yuwen Zhen army, he was brave and crowned, often rode as a pioneer, did not taste defeat, and made a lot of meritorious contributions, just because of his background, so that the court was quite suspicious, so that he was over thirty years old, and he was only a Zhonglang general, and it was extremely difficult to promote his official position.