Chapter 44: Frustration

Not long after, Tian Yan was reluctantly pushed out of the backyard by the other two girls, and then trotted into Tian Xin's arms.

"I've become fat, my sister has weighed twenty pounds."

Holding the little sister who had recovered her health with one arm and came to the pavilion in the martial arts arena, Tian Xin asked with a smile: "It seems that you have a good time with them, do you want grandpa?" ”

"I miss my eldest brother, I don't want grandpa."

Tian Yan sat on Tian Xin's lap, reached out to catch the bamboo tube handed by Tian Xin, held the bamboo tube in her arms with her left hand, caught the wooden spoon handed to her by Tian Xin with her right hand, dug a spoonful of brown sugar syrup and ate it, and dug a full spoonful and stuffed it to Tian Xin and said: "Uncle also came, sent two sets of winter clothes, and a pair of rabbit velvet leather shoes, dressed warmly." ”

She naturally didn't want Tian Wei, when she was hungry, the only food she had was for her grandchildren, and her granddaughters could only starve.

Tian Xin took the brown syrup in his mouth and said, "If you want Grandpa and Tiger Head, I'll take you to see it in a few days." ”

"Big brother wants to go to see Grandpa, then you have to carry me."

"Okay."

As soon as Tian Xin responded, he heard her say, "Can the eldest brother take the third sister, the fourth sister, and the fifth sister to go?" They all said they wanted to marry the eldest brother......"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pulled out seven or eight hairpins on his head, and Tian Xin noticed that there were many small hairpins in the hair of the little sister's ball, either gold or silver.

Tian Yan pointed to the little hairpin in her hand and pointed out the name of the little girl who gave it one by one, and said whether she was good for her or not, and whether the other party looked good or not.

It is estimated that many of them were given to the little sister by their parents, and most of the children who came to Guan Yu's mansion to play were the children of front-line military officials, or the orphans of the old department of Paoze.

Tian Xin asked her about her daily life, and she was relieved to listen to Mrs. Guan's lectures with her.

At this time, in the backyard of the Guan family, Mrs. Guan and her daughter-in-law were discussing a matter, and they were a little difficult.

Daughter-in-law Zhao held a thick stack of splendid winter clothes: "Mother, this husband confessed in the letter, and repeatedly said that Tian Xiaoxian was honest and brave, and he did not save money and goods in the army, so he asked the concubine to take the winter clothes for the year and give them away." ”

Mrs. Guan took Guan Ping's family letter and flipped through it, the content was nothing more than instructing the Zhao family to be filial to her mother to take care of the housework more, and the extra thing was to send winter clothes to Tian Xin.

Guan Ji and Guan Xing are kneeling in the back hall facing the wall, yesterday the Yizhou envoy arrived, and from this morning onwards, they will carry various rich rewards to Guan Yu's mansion, there is not much gold and silver, but there are many specialties of Shudi. Guan Ji and Guan Xing took their partners to help carry them, and they moved the ten Shu brocades to the martial arts arena.

"Since you are embarrassed, let it go first, and then the old man will go to see Tian Xiaoxian. Since the prince and the country have taken filial piety as their arms, they should not be regarded as outsiders. ”

Mrs. Guan set the tone, eat first, see what kind of person Tian Xin is when eating, and give clothes if appropriate.

Not long after, Tian Xin was invited to dine, and met Huang Quan during the banquet.

It was a private banquet, Huang Quan took the initiative to move several cases to Tian Xin, and dined with Tian Xin, Tian Yan ran behind the screen to dine with Guan Ji.

Huang Quan glanced at the accompanying warriors standing on both sides of the hall door and said, "There are no outsiders here, so Xiao Xian can tell me about the inside story of Xiangfan." ”

Guan Xing, who was eating fish on the side, pricked up his ears and listened to Tian Xin say: "In today's Xiangfan situation, our army is already in an invincible position. There are earth mountains outside Fancheng, and it is easy to attack Fancheng. The prince was hanging in suspense, intending to mobilize Cao's army. ”

Tian Xin picked up the oranges on the plate and peeled them: "It's September now, Yecheng Wei was captured, and more than 1,000 families were implicated and killed, and they have lost the Central Plains and Hebei Neiying. Although capturing Cao Ren can deter the enemy, our army has no chance to enter the Central Plains. It is better to use Cao Ren as bait to lure Cao Jun to sacrifice his life to help, and then hit his new force hard. In this way, before the summer harvest next year, the Cao army on the north bank of the Han River will not dare to act rashly. ”

Huang Quan exhaled lightly: "I think the same way, listen to Xiaoxian's words, and then I feel much more at ease." ”

He blinked his eyes and smiled: "Does Xiao Xian know that the king has sent the left general Ma Mengqi to lead his troops to Jiangling?" ”

Tian Xin's eyes lit up and he asked, "How many soldiers and horses does General Zuo have?" ”

At present, among the generals of the Quartet, the former general Guan Yu is fake, the left general Ma Chao is fake, the right general Zhang Fei is fake, and the rear general Huang Zhong is not knotted.

There is Wei Yan, the general of Zhenbei in Han, Zhang Fei in Bajun, and Huang Zhong moved with Liu Bei's army, but Ma Chao had nowhere to settle and seemed embarrassed.

"General Zuo has more than 5,000 troops under his command, and this time he will enter Jing, and he should lead 3,000 horsemen."

Huang Quan arched his hand in the direction of Yizhou in the west: "The king wants to make General Zuo the main and Xiaoxian as the deputy general, and next year he will go out of Wuguan Road to attack Guanzhong." ”

Tian Xin turned his head to look at the north in the hall, and then turned his eyes to look at the east: "General Zuo moved to Jiangling, can there be a notice to Marquis Wu?" Now I am strong, the Wu army is weak, he has the evil deeds of betraying the alliance to capture the three counties, I am afraid that the Wu people will be thieves, but they will join forces with Cao thieves to attack my Jingzhou. ”

Yizhou is a prison for Ma Chao, this time he came to Jingzhou with 3,000 cavalry, like a tiger out of prison, how dare Sun Quan, who shot the tiger himself, sleep?

Tian Xin asked, Huang Quan smiled and asked: "Can Xiao Xian know who made the decision to make General Zuo move to Jingzhou?" ”

Ma Chao is a fierce tiger, who came to Jingzhou alone, and Sun Quan would protest and condemn there.

Zhuge Liang advocated joining Wu to attack Wei, which was something that Tian Xin knew very well.

But another Fa Zheng who can plan the world for Liu Bei is a person from Guanzhong, can Fa Zheng put aside the glory of returning to Guanzhong and returning to his hometown with honor, but organize a campaign to defeat Wu?

To recover Guanlong, there will be a lot of new civil and military teams of Guan Long's hometown behind Fa Zheng, which is enough to wrestle with the Jingzhou people behind Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, there is no reason for Fa Zheng to organize the battle of Wu at this time, could it be that Ma Chao came to Jingzhou just to deter and warn Sun Quan and let him be honest during this time?

Seeing that Tian Xin Siheng had no clue, Huang Quan said: "It is the policy set by Shangshu Lingfa Xiaozhi, this policy is intended to use the prestige of General Zuo to accept the Guanlong army, the army of Longxi will be controlled by General Zuo, and the army of Guanzhong will be controlled by Xiaoxian." There is also a tiger's eye downstream, which makes Wu Hou jealous. ”

Xiangyang, Tian Xin thought of Xiangyang at the moment.

Taking the strong city of Xiangyang is where Liu Bei's confidence lies in daring to release the tiger Ma Chao.

If Xiangyang is not captured, Liu Bei wants to put Ma Chao in Jingzhou, and he will also worry about stimulating Sun Quan and causing unpredictable risks.

Now that Xiangyang is in hand, I don't care what you Sun Quan thinks, let alone Ma Chao, and even dare to put Huang Zhong in Jingzhou. It doesn't matter what you Sun Quan thinks, it's a big deal to fight.

The Xiangshui Alliance was humiliated by Guan Yu, how could Liu Bei forget?

It suddenly dawned on me that the goal of Fazheng's strategy was to attack Guanlong next year, which was true; But it may also be true that the Northern Expedition was suspended for a year and Sun Quan was beaten to Liu Bei to vent his anger.

Xiangyang, this is the importance of Xiangyang.

Tian Xin took a sip of tea: "Mr. thinks Wu Hou is a weak and humiliating person?" ”

Huang Quan also picked up the tea bowl and looked at the tea leaves in the bowl with his eyebrows: "This is the reason why Huang Moumao recommended himself and came to Jingzhou." ”

Guan Xing couldn't understand beside him, and Mrs. Guan, Zhao, and Guan Ji all looked serious behind the screen.

Tian Xin and Huang Quan looked at each other and smiled, Tian Xin felt relieved, and his shoulders relaxed: "Today, a gentleman has come to Jing, and Jingzhou is solid." What I am worried about now is also the surrender of the army, and there is a shortage of firewood around Jiangling, so I intend to report to the prince and the marquis, please transfer the army to Micheng for settlement. Sir, where will General Zuo be stationed in Jingzhou? ”

"Jiangling, Junjiu Town, Mifu, should not be replaced, Jingcheng is the garrison of Guan Junhou, if it is not stationed in Tun, this Zuo General is stationed in the old place of Tun, there is Zhangshui and Fushui, which is conducive to military tun and grazing."

Huang Quan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, after getting along for half a day, a fighter like Tian Xin is still very easy to get along with.

How to mediate the contradiction between Tian Xin and Ma Chao is his main work in the future.