Chapter 39 - Finding Your Own Future
In Lukou, LΓΌ Meng gathered the information obtained by his subordinates, and couldn't help but deepen his attention to Tian Xin.
The military officials under Tian Xin's command naturally praised Tian Xin in various ways, so much so that he swore frankly and frankly declared that in a series of battles before and after Xiangfan, Tian Xin himself alone was beheaded at more than 200 levels.
The beheading of the 200th level includes Tian Xin's personal subordinates, and Tian Xin's own beheading military exploits are less than 100 levels, but they are enough to be proud of the whole army.
The reputation of the fierce general is largely publicized, and people generally follow it blindly, so that Tian Xin woke up and found that his charm had risen a little more.
When the sailor fleet passed through Baqiu, it was warmly received by the Wu army here, and due to Tian Xin's military order, these Wu troops could only look up at the surrendered troops basking on the deck on the small boat.
In the year of the Xiangshui Alliance, the morale of the Wu army was crushed by Zhang Liao on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, and the Wu army did not take advantage of it in the next few years, so that now a situation has been formed in which the Han army restrained the Cao army and the Cao army restrained the Wu army.
Tian Xin stood on the deck wrapped in a brocade cloak to breathe in the fresh air, and when he raised his eyes, he could see that the large and small military officials and sergeants of the Wu army rowed small boats and cruised in the group of naval warships, like children visiting the zoo, pointing to the ship and descending to each other, laughing and laughing.
The surrendering army was impatient and hid back in the dreary cabin.
It can be clearly observed that the sailors of the Han army and the Yi soldiers on the boat are arrogant, and there are even a few places where the Wu army officials tried to board the ship but were reprimanded by the sergeants guarding the ship.
Tian Xin saw it in his eyes, and he was not ready to intervene in anything.
Now there is such a consensus: Cao Cao's army cannot defeat the army of Liu Bei and Guan Yu, and Sun Quan's army cannot defeat Cao Cao's army left behind on the eastern front.
In this case, how could the Jingzhou army look at Wu Jun with a straight eye?
Besides, the Xiangshui Alliance, at the beginning of the year, Guan Yu had more than 10,000 people in his hands, and they were restrained by Le Jin and Wen Ping, and they couldn't move lightly, so they watched the Wu army attack against the alliance. After getting the 20,000 troops left by Liu Bei, Guan Yu immediately advanced to the north and fought for many years, so that the Cao army on the south bank of the Han River was left with a fortified city of Xiangyang, as well as a few branch strongholds.
As a result, at the end of that year, Sun Quanzhi proudly led an army of 100,000 to conquer Hefei, and the main force of Cao's army followed Cao Cao in Hanzhong, but Sun Quan was almost beheaded by Zhang Liao.
Also from that year, Liu Bei led Cao Jun by the nose in Hanzhong, and Guan Yu cut off Cao Jun on the periphery of Xiangyang in Jingzhou, and almost two lines bloomed; After the defeat of the Wu army on the eastern front, the people in the territory were shaken, and many Cao troops instigated rebellions.
Since the Battle of Xiangfan, the Jingzhou army has sent less than 30,000 troops, and so far it has annihilated more than 60,000 living forces of the Cao army.
Now that the Jingzhou army is up and down, how can it be possible to look at the Wu army?
Not to mention the Jingzhou Army, Tian Xin also looked down on the Wu Army.
Sun Quan has almost given up his ambition to enter the Central Plains to dominate the world, and how to survive and save his life is what Sun Quan has to consider.
At this critical moment when the balance of power between Ji Han and Cao Wei was about to be reversed, Sun Quan was probably more afraid than anyone else that the Han army would crush the Cao army.
Sun Quan's backstab was almost unavoidable, especially when the Han army won successive battles on the Western Front and the Central Front, Sun Quan was even more afraid of the Han army's strength.
The first thing people think about is survival, and then they think about ideals.
Tian Xinli looked at the upper Xiangshui and the Yangtze River on the deck, and then looked at the Wu army camp and water village outside Baqiu City, where more than 30,000 people were stationed in its heyday.
If the Wu army betrays the alliance again, this is the assembly place of the former army of the Wu army, which can drive straight into Jiangling, Yiling, and public security, and can also cut off the connection between Wuling and Lingling counties and Jiangling in one fell swoop, and the entire Jingzhou battlefield will be divided into pieces by the Wu army.
It is a fact that the Han army was stronger than the Cao army, and the Cao army was stronger than the Wu army.
The Wu army betrayed the alliance, and in order to achieve victory, it must be dispatched, and the scale may exceed 100,000.
Tian Xin thought about this, and couldn't help but sigh, who would dare to believe that Sun Quan would betray the alliance for the second time? With the weakest army in the eyes of the world, attack the strongest, peak Han army?
He looked in the direction of Jiangling and thought about his future after the Wu army betrayed the alliance.
Unless Liu Bei personally led an army of 350,000 to Jingzhou now, there was no way to stop Sun Quan from betraying the alliance, and this was a foregone conclusion.
The rebellion of Fu Shiren, the public security guard, and Mi Fang, the Jiangling guard, is a key.
The most simple thing about Fu Shiren's surrender was that after the public security was lost, Jiangling lost its outer barrier, and Mi Fang's troops were thin, and Fu Shiren's persuasion made Mi Fang surrender.
Therefore, when Wu Jun backstabbed, he was powerless to rescue and seize the public security city on the south bank of the Yangtze River, so he could only protect Jiangling and protect the whole army's family from falling into the hands of Sun Quan.
can keep Gangneung, is Mi Fang taking the idea in Gangneung City, or is he taking the idea?
Thinking about this, Tian Xin felt that the arrow wound on his back was a little itchy.
There is another problem, Liu Bei is a character with clear grievances, like a chivalrous man.
If you pretend to be dead, sit back and watch Mi Fang go out of the city and surrender, and recapture Gangneung...... It is inevitable that there is a suspicion of making Liu Bei ugly, and there is also a suspicion of taking the opportunity to retaliate against the northerners, and Liu Bei's character will definitely hold a grudge. Liu Bei's revenge is not like Sun Quan's ability to endure for more than ten years, Liu Bei is not overnight.
So I can't watch Mi Fang kill herself, and I have to save Mi Fang, I have to maintain Liu Bei's face and the overall situation.
As for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei not dead, the question of who will have military power after Liu Bei's death will be discussed later.
Zhuge Liang's gang of Jingzhou people should be able to wait, after all, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are only about ten years old.
The question is, how long can Zhuge Liang live? Can the people of Jingzhou endure until Guan Yu and Zhang Fei go to bed at the end of their lives?
It seems that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will not die, and after Liu Bei's death, even if Zhuge Liang becomes prime minister, it will be difficult to coordinate the overall situation. Just like the current Shangshu Ling Fazheng, it is a Shangshu Ling without Shangshutai, which is purely an honorary position.
Shangshutai is the institution that issues government decrees, and without Shangshutai, government decrees are signed by Liu Bei himself.
If Guan Yu is alive, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister, may be the prime minister without the prime minister's mansion.
Therefore, his own existence has greatly interfered with the situation in the three countries.
Thinking all the way, the sailor arrived in Jiangling, and Mi Fang, the guard of Jiangling County, led more than 10,000 people to watch, and captured more than 30,000 Cao troops at one time, which was the first time in Liu Bei's history.
Guan Yu had already made arrangements for the surrendered army, but now it was just to lead the surrendered army to the military camp renovated in the old city of Jiangling, and the daily supply of the surrendered army was responsible for Pan Jun, who was engaged in Zhizhou, and Tian Xin was only responsible for guarding and suppressing the rebellion of the surrendered army.
Tian Xin inspected the camp with injuries, this military camp is full of barren grass, it is the station of Guan Yu's former department of the Xiangshui Alliance, and now it has been abandoned for three years, and many houses have fallen off the thatch.
The surrendered troops moved to the barracks in batches, and Tian Xin could only order his troops to harvest reeds and thatch outside the city first, so that the surrendered troops could spend the night.
It's late autumn and the nights are cold.
Pan Jun and Mi Fang only repaired part of the barracks, barely enough to crowd the Yi soldiers overnight, and most of the troops could only stay overnight in the wasteland, without even a grass shelter to shelter from the wind and rain.
"Mifu Jun can lead 10,000 people to admire the demeanor of the surrendered army, but he can't send 1,000 people to repair barracks and barriers, and he has no state affairs."
Tian Xin folded a section of reed flowers in his hand and rubbed them, kneaded them into a ball of reed tidbits, and said to the army Sima Xihong: "Jiangling has a lot of firewood in storage, and I promise you to lead a battalion of soldiers to drive 5,000 troops to the city to carry firewood." Inform the army that this firewood is used by them to stay overnight to ward off the cold, and it is better to have more than less. β
Xi Hongfu asked: "Captain, drive 5,000 people to carry firewood?" β
"Yes, it is a sin to take it once, and it is an offence to take it twice, but it is better to take it once than to take it for five days. After five days, our army should be able to repair the barracks and barriers, and the troops should also have a place to shelter from the cold. We are human beings, and the surrender of the army is also human beings, and we must not slack off. β
"Yes, I'll do it."
Shivering from afar, seeing Tian Xin standing in the wind with an injury, he said to one person beside him: "This son is strong and not caring for his physical fitness, and he will be punished by God." β
The generals around him have been in the army for twenty or thirty years, and they have seen more warriors and warriors who can't afford to be sick.