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Chapter 294
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 some people and grabbed it and ran away. He had no ability to hold on for a long time.

The second time, historically, it should have happened after Li Zicheng defeated Zuo Liangyu in Zhuxian Town, followed all the way to defeat Nanyang and Xiangyang, and forced Zuo Liangyu to Wuchang.And Ma Xianglin should have died in Li Zicheng's southward journey.

After Li Zicheng defeated Zuo Liangyu in Zhuxian Town, Li Zicheng's attempt to go south was stopped because of Zhu Shuren's horizontal thrust. Zuo Liangyu is still in Nanyang, and it is even more impossible to lose Xiangyang.

And Ma Xianglin was not transferred from the beginning to the end to reinforce Huguang because of the crisis in Xiangyang. The main force of the white soldiers who should have been taken by him can continue to preserve their combat power intact and leave a useful body to serve for Ming Dynasty. Work for Zhu Shuren.

As for Ma Xianglin's wife, Zhang Fengyi, she died in battle in Hebei as early as the sixth year of Chongzhen.

That year when the Qing soldiers entered the pass, all the white-armed soldiers in Sichuan were transferred from thousands of miles away by Chongzhen to defend the capital.Finally, on the Hebei Plain, the white pole soldiers were severely injured by the Qing army, and Zhang Fengyi died in the hands of the Qing army.

It can be seen from this that in Sichuan, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, women were tough, and even women were braver in war.Not only was Qin Liangyu able to lead a bloody battle for decades as a woman, but her daughter-in-law was also able to fight to the death with the Tartars without retreating.

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After Zhu Shuren praised Ma Xianglin, Qin Liangyu continued to introduce other local guards to him:
"This is Fang Guo'an, Fang's general. He used to fight against thieves from Zuo Liangyu. He should have dealt with him when he was in Huguang. Fang Shen will be stationed in Yunyang to support the flank.

Later Zuo Liangyu was defeated, all the prefectures around Nanyang were attacked by Li Zicheng, and Yunyang was also attacked. Fang Shen retreated Nihanshui into Hanzhong, and lost most of his lineage.Later, governor Shao asked the imperial court to transfer to the south, and commanded the compilation and training of Kuizhou's local bravery and surrendered troops. "

Zhu Shuren nodded. He didn't have any ill feelings towards Fang Guoan, and the other party was also quite famous, and he had a bit of writing in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

This person is from Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. He was born as a brave and ruthless rogue.

In history, Guoan has been fighting in Huguang for 15 and 16 years in Chongzhen. After Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong broke through Xiangyang and Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu fled east to Jiujiang, and Fang Guoan was transferred back to Zhejiang by the court.

Later in the Southern Ming Dynasty, King Lu was cowardly and incompetent in Hangzhou to supervise the country. It was Fang Guoan who insisted on fighting the Qing army. Unfortunately, he was so angry by King Lu's weakness that he left and followed Lu King Zhu Yihai instead.

When the King Lu regime lasted, Fang Guoan was still loyal and insisted on fighting against the Qing army, but after Zhu Yihai surrendered, Fang Guoan had no choice but to follow suit.

Bo Luo, the coach of the Qing army's expedition to Zhejiang and Fujian, took Fang Guoan with him, and wanted him to lead the way to attack Fujian.Halfway on the way, Fang Guoan learned that Tang Wang had already proclaimed himself emperor in Fuzhou, and his reign name was Longwu. He thought that Daming might still have something to do, so he wanted to contact Zheng Zhilong again, and agreed to work with Zheng Zhilong to defeat the Qing army in Xianxialing.

As a result, Zheng Zhilong not only did not choose to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but instead voted to be a traitor first, and even sold the secret letter that Fang Guoan wanted to be an internal response directly to the Qing army coach Bo Luo, causing Fang Guoan's family to be killed.

Therefore, it can be said that this person is not a very hard-core anti-Qing faction, but he has more backbone than King Lu, and he was willing to fight to the death when the King Lu regime existed.

However, Fang Guoan's troops have been disbanded and rebuilt many times in history, and the quality of the soldiers is very poor. The people who supplement him are all from the peasant army anyway, and the military discipline is corrupt.

It is written in Ming history that he often plundered the people to obtain supplies, and his military discipline was a little worse than that of the general Zuo Liangyu's troops. This is also a fact.

Zhu Shuren thought to himself, if this kind of person is used well, he can still count on national righteousness and national integrity, but he must give enough money.It belongs to the kind of people who can be very patriotic as long as they have enough food, drink and money.If the payment is owed, then the enemy and the enemy will rob indiscriminately.

Fortunately, others will think that "buying an army must always pay in full" is a very difficult thing to do.But for Zhu Shuren, who is as rich as a country, the problems that can be solved with money are relatively easier.

Fang Guoan was a little apprehensive at first, fearing that Zhu Shuren would look down on his background, let alone the troops he recruited.As a result, Zhu Shuren said to him very kindly:

"Yo? It turns out that General Fang is from Zhuji County, Shaoxing Prefecture? Although I am not from Zhejiang, my ancestral home is in Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili Province. We are also half fellows. You originally followed Zuo Liangyu, that is really a pearl I voted secretly, and I will work hard with this official in the future, and I will surely be able to break the thief and make meritorious service, and I will win my wife's shade."

(Note: Shen Tingyang and his son were born in Taicang County, Suzhou Prefecture, but the Shen family’s ancestral home is Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture. During the Jiajing period, the county seat of Chongming County was still located on Chongmingsha, and it moved eastward to Changzhousha and Sansha during the Wanli period. .

Anyone who knows a little about geography knows that in history, Chongming Island was eroded and collapsed by the flow of the Yangtze River, and the upstream islands were continuously washed away by the river, and new islands were re-deposited downstream.So in the late Wanli period, the islands where the Shen family's ancestral home were no longer existed, and were washed away by the river, and his family went ashore and became a native of Taicang County.

The new islands in Chongming County were gradually transferred to the territory of Songjiang Prefecture further downstream.Over the past few hundred years, Chongming County has moved hundreds of miles to the east, so the later Chongming belongs to Shanghai instead of Suzhou. )
It was rare for Fang Guoan to be flattered to hear Zhu Shuren win over him in this way, and to befriend him as a fellow villager. He quickly said that it was impossible to follow Zuo Liangyu back then, but now that he has the opportunity to follow Guo Xingye, he must do a good job.

After Fang Guoan, Qin Liangyu introduced some lower-level generals to Zhu Shuren along the way, some of whom were directly under Qin Liangyu, and they were all local armed forces and regiments in Kuizhou Prefecture:
"These three strong men, Tan Wen, Tan Hong, and Tan Yi, are all righteous men from Kuizhou. They are powerful and willing to contribute to the imperial court. The old lady has now recruited them under her command. As a post, Tan Hong and Tan Yi are both assigned to guard.

These two are guerrilla fighters Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing, both of whom were recruited by the former governor of the six provinces Xiong Wencan four years ago to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side.Later, Zhang Zongzhen was ordered by Shao Futai to be transferred to Hanzhong by the imperial court, and then went north to Sichuan to reinforce Governor Sun of Shanxi and Gansu, leaving the two headquarters here..."

Zhu Shuren listened roughly, and these people were either the former peasant army in Zhaoan when Xiong Wencan recruited them in the early years, or some inconspicuous small troops, which were assigned to Fang Guoan by the imperial court to train and train——

This is also helpless, Fang Guoan's original direct descendants lost most of them in Zuo Liangyu's battle with Li Zicheng's Zhuxian Town, and Li Zicheng's subsequent pursuit.When Fang Guoan entered Sichuan, he was basically considered a half-bare commander, so he could only use Wang Guangchang, Wang Guangxing and other third-line rogue troops that the imperial court originally looked down on to slowly retrain.

And Tan Wen, Tan Hong, and Tan Yi should be local armed forces, and they are likely to be part of the "Kuidong Thirteen Families" that formed the Eastern Sichuan Anti-Qing forces in later generations.

In history, the "Kuidong Thirteen Families" fought in eastern Sichuan for several years after the Qing army entered Sichuan.Part of this is, of course, that the militiamen of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong later repented and awakened to the righteousness of the nation.But there are more, that is, local officers and soldiers and local armed forces.

It's just that none of these people are well-known in history, at least one or two orders of magnitude lower than Fang Guoan's.Even if Zhu Shuren was familiar with Ming history in his previous life, he couldn't remember all these little people.

After hearing Qin Liangyu's description, Zhu Shuren only vaguely realized that some of these people probably belonged to the later "Kuidong Thirteen Family" anti-Qing righteous fighters, but there must be some traitors who later voted for Zhang Xianzhong and then surrendered.

As for who is a righteous man and who is an idiot, Zhu Shuren's "History of the Ming Dynasty" is not enough for him to tell by name.

But he is not afraid. After all, he can still observe and understand these people in depth. It should not be difficult to distinguish loyal and traitors by relying on his ability to recognize people.

If you have loyalty potential, use it well.

Those who have the potential to be a traitor or to vote for Zhang Xianzhong can just catalyze them to seduce Zhang Xianzhong with bitter tricks, anyway, Zhu Shuren will not lose anything.

Zhu Shuren thought about boosting morale first: "You are all loyal people. The court is in a crisis of the country, and I have no doubts about employing people. You don't have to worry about it, and you don't have to worry that this official will favor the direct line by leading troops—— 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... These days I stayed up late to watch the football, and I can't even come up with a plan. The stalls are a bit messy.

Everyone, let's go watch the ball too. It's okay to gain weight.

(End of this chapter)