So, where did Xin Sizhong get the 150,000 troops It turned out that Ma Shouying, who had been active in the southwest of Hubei and Jingzhou, died, and he led part of the army, under the leadership of Mrs.
Ma Shouying, to Longzhong to take refuge in Xin Sizhong, so that Xin Sizhong's troops increased from 10,000 to more than 100,000 at once.Why did Ma Shouying's troops take refuge in Xin Sizhong, it has to start with Lao Huihui.Ma Shouying is a rebel general with the Zijin Liang King for his own use, and the old King Gao Yingxiang is a generation higher than the King of Chuang, Li Zicheng, and can be said to be one of the first generation of leaders since the rise of the peasant army in Shaanxi in the last years of the Apocalypse.He was born as a border soldier, and in the first year of Chongzhen, because the court was in arrears of food and wages, he led the border soldiers to rebel and took refuge in Gao Yingxiang, the king of Laochuang.In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang and King Zijin Liang used their own troops to attack Shanxi, and Ma Shouying belonged to one of the famous "36 battalions", which was second only to Wang Ziyong and Gao Yingxiang's important leader.In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the leaders of the thirteen rebel armies held a meeting in Xingyang, Henan Province to discuss the plan to destroy the Ming Dynasty, and Ma Shouying was also one of the leaders of the thirteen families.Ma Shouying was resourceful and good at adapting, and led his troops to fight in Shaanxi, Jin, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui, Hunan and other places, and repeatedly disintegrated the Ming army's encirclement and suppression, and even the general Zuo Liangyu almost died in his hands.Zhang Xianzhong, known as the "Yellow Tiger", was twice subordinate to his subordinates, and the base area he established in the Yinghuo Mountains became an important base for the peasant army at that time.In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting was reused by Chongzhen, led the troops to encircle and suppress the rebel army, Gao Yingxiang was sacrificed, and then, Li Zicheng was also defeated by Sun Chuanting, and only escaped with fifteen horsemen, hiding in the deep mountains of Shangluo, and the rebel army was hit hard.At this time, Ma Shouying and Ge Li Yan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Yidou Gu Liu Xiyao, and the current Wang Lin formed a joint army, called "Ge Zuo Five Battalions".Therefore, he and He Jin are lifelong friends.At the lowest ebb of the peasant uprising, only the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left continued to fight and constantly posed a threat to the Ming army, which had a great deal to do with the resourcefulness of the old Hui Ma Shouying.Under the planning of Lao Huihui, the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left sometimes divided its troops to hide, sometimes pretended to surrender, and sometimes joined forces to attack the Ming army, becoming the most powerful peasant army at that time.In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng came out of Shangluo Mountain and made a comeback.In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng designed to kill He Yilong.Ma Shouying should take into account the overall situation, not to avenge He Yilong, but still defend Jingzhou, guard the south gate for Li Zicheng, and secretly persuade He Jin and other generals of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution to focus on the overall situation.There is also a reason why Li Zicheng did not kill Ma Shouying.In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was seriously injured in defeat, and ran alone to the Xichuan Ma Shouying camp, which was taken care of by Ma Shouying and his daughter-in-law for more than half a year, and Li Zicheng returned from injury.Yes, Li Zicheng was not embarrassed to move his horse to respond.But he was not at ease with Ma Shouying, and before he sent troops to Beijing, he sent an envoy with his own order and rushed to Jingzhou, and named Ma Shouying as the "heroic general of the Yongfu Battalion" to test his attitude.After Li Zicheng established the Dashun regime in Xi'an, he created an official system, but there was no rank of "heroic general" in the official system.The meaning of "Yongfu" is to persuade Ma Shouying not to stand alone, to sincerely obey him, and listen to his dispatch.Ma Shouying understood what Li Zicheng meant, and in order not to affect Li Zicheng's great cause, he accepted the title against his will, but he was not happy in his heart.King Chuang is no longer the humble and cautious King Chuang who treats people with sincerity, and faintly has the majesty of an emperor.Whoever stands in his way to becoming an emperor is his enemy, regardless of whether this person is his brother who shared hardships and lives and dies with him back then.Whoever regards him as an emperor is a friend in his eyes, regardless of whether this person is an executioner who harms the people and has the blood of countless rebel soldiers in his hands.He Ma Shouying is an out-and-out return, and he rebelled because the court did not take it back as a person, had no land, no capital to live, wandered around, and was deducted from his salary as a border soldier, so he rebelled, to create a world that treats them back fairly, not to overthrow one emperor and then set up another emperor.However, he has struggled for half a lifetime, seeing that the rebel army from all walks of life is surging, and it is about to be realized, but he was denied by King Chuang, who wants to inherit the mantle of the emperor, he does not approve of King Chuang, but he can't kill each other in the righteous army, what should he do all day long in depression, plus Rong Ma half a life, the wind and rain come and go, and the blade begs for life, and a body of pain occurred in the early spring of Chongzhen's seventeenth year.During the period before and after his illness, he, like He Jin, also received many letters from Xin Sizhong, and learned about the army led by Wang Shuo in Longzhong and the land reform in Zhangxian County.He agreed with Wang Shuo's reform methods and ideas on governing the army from the bottom of his heart, and planned to rush to Longzhong to have a look.As Xin Sizhong said, he decided to join forces with Wang Shuobing and occupy the area of Longzhong.Even if Li Zicheng became the emperor, relying on his life-saving grace in the past, he asked him to settle down in Longzhong, he should not disagree.He can hand over the army to Wang Shuo, and as long as Wang Shuo can continue to do so, he can push him to be the leader.When he was in the fifth battalion of the left side, he also pushed He Yilong as the leader, and he only came up with ideas.He is not as greedy for power as Li Zicheng.Unexpectedly, at this time, the old horse fell ill.He knew that his life would be short, and he only regretted that he did not go to Longzhong to see it in person.During his illness, he wrote a letter to Xin Sizhong and asked him to come to Jingzhou, and he wanted to inquire about the situation in Longzhong.Unexpectedly, as soon as the messenger who delivered the letter left, he couldn't hold on.Before he died, he didn't have time to arrange more things, and ordered his wife to take the soldiers and horses to Longzhong to find Xin Sizhong.He knew that Xin Sizhong was a wise and assertive general, and like him, he wanted to create a happy land for the poor and put his army in his hands, and he was relieved.As for what Xin Sizhong would do in the future, he didn't have time to think about it.Even if Xin Sizhong continued to follow Li Zicheng, when Li Zicheng became the emperor and was no longer the king of the poor, Xin Sizhong would not allow his army to oppress and harm the people, and he was sure of this.After Ma Shouying's death, Mrs.
Ma led the team to Longzhong in accordance with his will.Unexpectedly, Ma Shouying's deputy in the team, Xiao Hui Ma Yuguang was unwilling to take refuge with Xin Sizhong, who was about the same level as himself, so he secretly took half of the people and joined Zhang Xianzhong, who had already entered Sichuan.In this way, Mrs.
Ma took half of Ma Shouying's team, more than 100,000 people, to Longzhong and joined forces with Xin Sizhong
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