Xiangyang fell twice in the history of the last years of Chongzhen. The first time was stolen by Zhang Xianzhong, but Zhang Xianzhong just killed a few people and grabbed a few and ran away. He had no ability to hold it for a long time.
The second time, historically, should have occurred when Li Zicheng defeated Zuo Liangyu in Zhuxian Town, pursued him all the way to Nanyang and Xiangyang, and forced Zuo Liangyu to Wuchang. Ma Xianglin was originally supposed to be part of Li Zicheng's southward march.
Die in battle.
After Li Zicheng defeated Zuo Liangyu in Zhuxian Town, Zhu Shuren's intervention blocked Li Zicheng's attempt to go south. Zuo Liangyu is still in Nanyang, and Xiangyang is even less likely to be lost.
And Ma Xianglin was never transferred to reinforce Huguang because of the crisis in Xiangyang. Only the main force of the white-pole soldiers that he should have brought with him could continue to preserve its combat power intact and leave useful people to serve the Ming Dynasty. This will be the case in the future.
Work for Zhu Shuren.
As for Ma Xianglin's wife Zhang Fengyi, she died in the war in Hebei as early as the sixth year of Chongzhen.
That year the Qing troops entered the Pass, and all the white-armed soldiers from Sichuan were transferred thousands of miles away by Chongzhen to defend the capital. Finally, on the Hebei Plain, the white-armed soldiers were severely damaged by the Qing army, and Zhang Fengyi died at the hands of the Qing army.
It can be seen that in Sichuan, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, women were strong and brave, and even women were braver in fighting. Not only was Qin Liangyu able to lead a female army in bloody battles for decades, but her daughter-in-law was also able to fight to the death with the Tatars.
Fight to the death and never retreat.
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After Zhu Shuren praised Ma Xianglin for a few words, Qin Liangyu continued to introduce other local guards to him:
"This is General Fang Guoan. He used to suppress thieves from Zuo Liangyu. He should have had some dealings with him when he was in Huguang. Before the battle of Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu followed Yangge to the old town of Nanyang.
Fang Shen will be stationed in Yunyang to support the flanks.
Later, Zuo Liangyu was defeated, and all the prefectures around Nanyang were invaded by Li Zicheng. Yunyang was also captured. Fang Shen retreated against the Han River into Hanzhong, and most of his direct troops were lost. Later, Governor Shao asked the imperial court to transfer to the south, and commanded Wen Lian Kui.
The local people in the state are brave and surrender the army."
Zhu Shuren nodded. He didn't have any bad feelings about Fang Guo'an, and he was quite famous. He was a well-known figure in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
This man was from Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. He was a brave and ruthless scoundrel. He joined the army under Zuo Liangyu in order to gain fame. He fought with the gangsters for several years and accumulated meritorious service to become a general. It was not easy.
In history, Fang Guoan was in Chongzhen for fifteen years and continued to fight in Huguang for sixteen years. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang. After Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu fled east to Jiujiang, and Fang Guoan was transferred back to Zhejiang by the imperial court.
Later, during the Southern Ming Dynasty, King Lu was supervising the country in Hangzhou, but he was cowardly and incompetent. It was Fang Guoan who insisted on fighting the Qing army. Unfortunately, he was angered by King Lu's weakness and left, and instead followed King Lu Zhu Yihai.
When King Lu's regime lasted, Fang Guoan was still loyal and insisted on fighting the Qing army. However, after Zhu Yihai surrendered, Fang Guoan had no choice but to surrender.
Bo Luo, the commander of the Qing army's expedition to Zhejiang and Fujian, took Fang Guoan with him and wanted him to lead the attack on Fujian. Halfway through, Fang Guoan learned that the Tang Dynasty king had proclaimed himself emperor in Fuzhou and was named Longwu. He felt that the Ming Dynasty might still have a chance.
He wanted to contact Zheng Zhilong again and agreed to be a spy and work with Zheng Zhilong to defeat the Qing army in Xianxia Ridge.
As a result, Zheng Zhilong not only did not choose to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but instead turned into a traitor first. He also sold Fang Guoan's secret letter directly to the Qing army commander Bolo, causing Fang Guoan's family to be killed.
Therefore, it can be said that this person is not a die-hard anti-Qing faction, but he has more backbone than King Lu, and he is willing to fight to the death when King Lu's regime exists. In the end, he has more backbone than Zheng Zhilong, so he can be considered usable.
However, Fang Guoan's army has been dispersed and rebuilt many times in history, and the quality of its soldiers is very poor. Those who were replaced by him were all former members of the peasant army, and military discipline was ruined.
It is written in the history of the Ming Dynasty that he often robbed the people for supplies, and his military discipline was a bit worse than that of the general troops under Zuo Liangyu, which is also true.
Zhu Shuren thought to himself, if this kind of person is used well, he can still count on national justice and integrity, but he must give enough money. He is the kind of person who can be very patriotic as long as he has enough food and drink and enough money. If he owes
Pay, then the enemy will rob us without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy.
Fortunately, others may think that it is very difficult to "buy an army and always pay the full amount". But for people like Zhu Shuren who are as wealthy as the enemy, it is relatively easy to solve problems with money.
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Fang Guoan was a little uneasy at first, fearing that Zhu Shuren would look down on his origins, let alone the troops he recruited. In the end, Zhu Shuren said to him very kindly:
"Young? It turns out that General Fang Shen is still from Zhuji County, Shaoxing Prefecture. Although I am not from Zhejiang, my ancestral home is Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili. We are half fellow villagers. You originally followed Zuo Liangyu, which is really a pearl.
I surrendered secretly, and I will work hard with my officer from now on, and I will definitely be able to defeat the thief and make meritorious deeds, and find a wife and son."
(Note: Shen Tingyang and his son were born in Taicang County, Suzhou Prefecture, but the ancestral home of the Shen family is Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture. During the Jiajing Period, the county seat of Chongming County was still located on Chongming Sands. During the Wanli Period, it moved eastward to Changzhou Sands.
Sansha.
Anyone who knows something about geography knows that historically Chongming Island followed the flow of the Yangtze River, and the islands in the upper reaches were continuously washed away, eroded and collapsed by the river water, and were redeposited into new islands in the lower reaches. Therefore, by the late Wanli period, the islands where the Shen family’s ancestral home was no longer existed.
It existed, but was washed away by the river, and his family went ashore and became a native of Taicang County.
The newly developed islands in Chongming County also gradually moved to Songjiang Prefecture further downstream. Over the past few hundred years, Chongming County moved hundreds of miles eastward, so Chongming later belonged to Shanghai and not to Suzhou.)
Fang Guoan was extremely flattered when he heard that Zhu Shuren had won over him in this way and even made friends with him as a fellow villager. He quickly said that he had no choice but to follow Zuo Liangyu back then. Now that he had the opportunity to follow Mr. Guo, he would definitely do a good job.
After Fang Guoan, Qin Liangyu introduced some lower-level generals to Zhu Shuren. Some of them were directly under Qin Liangyu, and they were all local armed forces in Kuizhou Prefecture. Group training:
"These three heroes, Tan Wen, Tan Hong, and Tan Yi, are all local righteous men in Kuizhou. They are very powerful and willing to contribute to the court. The old woman has now taken them under her command, and the court has also awarded Tan Wenshi the title of Tuan Lian Du Si.
As a post, Tan Hong and Tan Yi were awarded the garrison title.
These two guerrillas, Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing, were recruited by Xiong Wencan, the former governor of the six provinces, and abandoned the secret service four years ago. They also accompanied our veteran general Zhang Ling from central Sichuan to fight against the thieves in Zhangzhen. Later, Zhangzhen was taken over by Shao Futai.
According to the imperial court's order, Governor Sun was transferred to Hanzhong and went north to Sichuan to reinforce Shaanxi and Gansu, leaving two of his own troops here..."
Zhu Shuren listened briefly and found out that these people were either the former peasant army from Zhao'an when Xiong Wencan was recruiting him in the early years. They were some small and inconspicuous troops, and were now assigned by the court to Fang Guoan for training and training——
There was nothing we could do about it. Most of Fang Guoan's original direct troops were lost in the Zhuxian Town battle between Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng, as well as Li Zicheng's subsequent pursuit. When Fang Guoan entered Sichuan, he was basically half-baked.
The commander can only use Wang Guangchang, Wang Guangxing and other third-line bandit troops that the imperial court originally looked down upon to slowly retrain.
Tan Wen, Tan Hong, and Tan Yi should be local armed forces, and they are most likely part of the "Thirteen Kuidong Families" that formed the anti-Qing forces in eastern Sichuan in later generations.
Historically, the "Thirteen Kuidong Families" fought in eastern Sichuan for several years after the Qing army entered Sichuan. Some of them were, of course, the militiamen of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong later repented and awakened to national justice. But there are also more,
They are local officers and soldiers and local armed forces.
It's just that these people are not well-known in history, at least one or two orders of magnitude lower than Fang Guoan. Even if Zhu Shuren was familiar with Ming history in his previous life, he would not be able to remember all these little people.
After listening to Qin Liangyu's description, Zhu Shuren only vaguely realized that some of these people probably belonged to the later "Kuidong Thirteen Families" anti-Qing righteous men, but there must also be traitors who later defected to Zhang Xianzhong and then to the Qing Dynasty.
As for who are the righteous men and who are the losers, Zhu Shuren's knowledge of "History of the Ming Dynasty" is not enough for him to tell them by just hearing their names.
But he is not afraid. After all, he can observe and understand these people in depth. It should not be difficult to rely on his ability to recognize people and identify loyalties and traitors and then exploit them.
If you have the potential for loyalty, then use it well.
For those who have the potential to be traitors or to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong, that will serve as a catalyst and allow them to seduce Zhang Xianzhong with a cruel trick. Anyway, Zhu Shuren will not lose anything.
Zhu Shuren then considered to boost morale first: "You are all loyal and righteous people. The court is in this autumn of national crisis, and I employ people with no doubts. You don't have to worry, and you don't have to worry that I will favor the direct lineage when I lead the troops - in this country
In the eyes of officials, as long as they are willing to fight hard and be loyal to the country, they are all treated equally!"
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ps: I went to watch the football... I have stayed up late these past few days to watch the football, and I can't think of any strategies. The stalls are a bit messy.
Everyone, let's go watch football and get some fattening up.