Chapter 141 The Tragedy of the City Massacre

The word "guan" is very common in Chinese history books, and many Chinese history books will mention the word "guan" more or less. So, what level does "guan" mean during the Qin and Han dynasties?

I guess some friends would say it is Shanhaiguan. Shanhaiguan is known as the world's number one pass, and Wu Sangui, the traitor who "should be angry and became a beautiful woman" once guarded the place. This is a well-known pass in the world, so it is understandable that this is the most important thing.

However, this is incorrect. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Shanhaiguan was not famous. At that time, the pass referred to Hangu Pass. Outside the pass refers to the vast area east of Hangu Pass. Guanzhong refers to the 800-mile Qinchuan area west of Hangu Pass, which is the Wei River Plain area in Xianyang, Xi'an.

The west of Hangu Pass was the central area of ​​China at that time, and it was the place where China was invincible. Some people once thought that they were not from Guanzhong and wrote a letter to Emperor Wu of Han, asking him to move Hangu Pass west. If that happens, he would be a Guanzhong person, and this person was Yang Pu. It is also true that Hangu Pass has the difference between Qin Hangu Pass and Hangu Pass, and later there was Wei Hangu Pass. This book refers to Qin Hangu Pass.

"The sky opens Hangu to Guanzhong, and the dust is shaking towards the north", "Twin peaks are towering beside the river, and since ancient times, Hangu is a battlefield", this poem describes the dangers of Hangu Pass. Hangu Guanxi is located in the Plateau, facing Juejian in the east, Qinling Mountains in the south, and Yellow River in the north, which is the most important strategic channel from Chang'an to Luoyang.

When it comes to Hangu Pass, I think it is no exaggeration to say that as long as anyone with a little history knowledge knows the name of this pass, because there are too many historical events happening here, many of which affect China's historical process. It can be said that China's history today is closely related to this pass. If it were not for this pass, China might not have the history today.

Hangu Pass is fifteen miles long, with a valley ranging from fifty to seventy meters deep, with a valley floor of about ten meters wide, and a narrow place of only two or three meters. It is said that "cars do not merge tracks, horses do not merge saddles", which shows that it is dangerous.

There are winding roads at the bottom of the valley, rugged and narrow, and deep valleys. When people walk in it, it is like entering Hanzhong. On both sides of the Guan Road, cliffs rise sharply, peaks and rocks stand, the terrain is dangerous, and the landform is brilliant. The Qin State's location was so dangerous that it was built Hangu Pass and guarded the throat of the eastern part, which was really a strategic matter. Facts have proved that the actions of the Qin people had an extremely important impact on the direction of Chinese history.

Qin had Hangu Pass, which could attack and defend and advance and retreat freely, as if it were fish in water, so it became stronger and stronger in the battle, and eventually unified China. Qin was not a common sail on the road to unification, and the "strategy of unity" was not a medicine for all spirits. The six Shandong countries also had a "joint" time. The six Shandong countries once united to send hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Qin, but the result was that they failed to survive at Hangu Pass.

The influence of Hangu Pass on China is not only reflected in the military, but also in the ideological sense that the victory of the Qin State made China a unified country, the most important Taoist work, "Tao Te Ching", is written here. Friends know how much the impact the "Tao Te Ching" has on China, so I won't say much.

At that time, the commander of Hangu Pass was Yin Xi. He was proficient in Yi principles and was good at observing the weather. One day, he came on stage to see a ball of purple air rising from the east, and knew that a saint came, and he bathed and changed clothes and waited for the saint. Not long after, Lao Tzu came riding a cow. He asked Lao Tzu for advice, and Lao Tzu wrote the "Tao Te Ching". From then on, there was an additional Taoist school in Chinese history, which has been passed down to this day. This is the origin of the story of "Purple Qi Comes from the East". (Note: As for where Lao Tzu went, it is still a mystery, and no one knows it. However, according to Taoism, Lao Tzu "riding a cow to transform into Hu in the Western Regions" and then there was Buddhism. Of course, this is the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, and it should not be true.)

There are too many historical stories happening here, and the story of chicken crowing and dog robbery related to Mengchangjun also happens here.

Snowflakes are flying, and the heavy snow is flying like goose feathers in the sky, thousands of points, the wonders of the snow country are indescribable. Hangu Pass is snow-white, covered with silver, and the majestic pass is particularly charming.

The unresolved west wind blows by, causing snowflakes to fly, ravaging this snow-capped wonderland.

"Damn it, it's so cold." A Mongolian soldier muttered at the flying snowflakes: "It's so fucking unlucky. I'm still suffering here in such a cold day."

One of his pieces was frozen red, like a ripe apple, and his nose couldn't stop flowing down. Because the temperature was too low, the nose was frozen as soon as it flowed out, and pieces of crystal ice stuck to the lips.

No one can stand such a cold day. It is normal for him to mutter and complain. Unfortunately, before his muttering was over, he let out a scream like a pig-killing sound. A horse whip flew over and slapped hard on his face. The whip was too powerful, and a deep blood mark appeared on his face immediately, and blood oozed out.

The horse whip is painful on the face, and the temperature is low in winter, so it hurts when you touch it. If you whip hard, it will make you feel bad. There is still a reason why it doesn’t hurt.

The soldier was furious and pressed the hilt of his right hand unnaturally. Before he could do his next move, his body flew up to kick a tall thousand-man captain, falling far away, and eating shit. He was really unlucky, his mouth was knocked against a stone, and he broke two front teeth, opened his mouth and screamed, and blood and teeth sprayed far away.

A thousand-man strides behind him, kicks him hard in the butt, and curses: "You fucking dog, why are you muttering? You can't bear this little bit of hardship, and you're worthy of being an eagle on the grassland?"

This soldier is a Han Chinese, not like the Mongolians who grew up in a bitter and cold place in the north. He is not afraid of the cold. It is normal to mutter a few words. Unexpectedly, he was beaten by a commander of thousands of men. It is really unfair.

"Bah! I'm not a Tartar! Fucking a shit eagle! Stinky! A little crow!" The Han soldiers couldn't stop cursing in their hearts and begged for mercy: "Sir, I dare not, I will never dare again."

At that time, the Mongolians were rampant and did not take the Han people seriously and beat and scolded them at any time. The Han soldiers had no status in the army. To exaggerately, they were tools for Mongolian officers to vent their anger and scapegoats who blocked disasters. The Han soldiers muttered that they had discovered that they would not suffer any loss.

"Do you want to rebel?" The commander of the thousand-man was still unhappy and stomped his right foot on the soldier's right hand and cursed: "You fucking dog, damn it! Your ancestors are useless. You will know how to escape when you see the eagle on the grassland. You are also fucking cowards."

He was a yelling and scolding, although it was a bit hurt, but it also revealed a truth. The Southern Song Dynasty was incompetent, and many Song soldiers wanted to escape when they saw the shadow of the enemy. What would they think if they knew that their descendants would suffer because of his shameful escape back then and were ridiculed?

His stomp was too powerful. With the sound of his bones shattering, the right hand of the Han soldier had been broken, and a broken bone was pierced and exposed. The bones were so thick that they were particularly terrifying. The Han soldier was so painful that he didn't even have the strength to shout, and he opened his mouth and gasped. The thousand-man leader had no sympathy at all, and he couldn't curse with his mouth wide open, and his mouth flew everywhere, as if this was the supreme pleasure.

Bullying the Han army was a pleasure for Mongolian soldiers to have fun when they were bored. They were very happy when they were all this. They followed suit and said, "Kill the Han dog! Kill the Han dog!" Some pointed at each other, some spitted on the Han army, and some even raised their feet to kick him. This made the Han soldiers suffer a lot.

When they were sick, many Han soldiers could not help but feel indignant when they saw this scene. They gathered in groups of three or five, pressing their right hands on the hilt of the knife. It was obvious that as long as someone yelled and killed all the Tartars, they would definitely draw their swords. After all, they were also Han people, and their compatriots were insulted. They could not be angry. The more soldiers of the Han army gathered, they were indignant at first, but later they started to clamor and said, "Let him go, let him go."

The commander of a thousand men is used to being arrogant and blessed, so he would not be intimidated by the Han army's voice. He waved his horse whip and pointed at the Han army and shouted: "You fucking Han dogs, do you want to rebel? Come on, take it down for me."

The Mongolian soldiers cheered and pulled out their scimitars to surround them, surrounding the Han soldiers in the middle. As long as the commander of the thousand men gave him the order, they would take the people.

The soldiers of the Han army just wanted to complain for their compatriots, but they didn't expect that the commander of the thousand men had reached the point of using the army to deal with them. They had been in the Mongolian army for a long time and knew that once they were matched with the Mongolians, they would not have a good end. Now they had become a scimitar and could not get out of the stage. They drew out their scimitar and held it in their hands, preparing to fight with force.

"Cut off the dog's head and throw it to the mass grave to feed the wild dogs." The leader of the thousand-man ordered loudly. The Mongolian soldiers waved their scimitars in their hands and chopped them at the Han soldiers. Now the Han soldiers can only fight this way and waved their scimitars to fight. They are in the Battlegrounds, and they all seem to be desperate and desperate. Although there are many Mongolian soldiers, it is difficult to win in a short period of time.

The commander of the thousand-man never expected that the Han army had such courage. He changed his previous attitude of humiliating and humiliating in front of the Mongolians. He fought with the Mongolians with real swords and spears. He was stunned at first, and then he realized that he had played too much and caused a mutiny. The problem was so big that he was a little dumbfounded and shouted: "Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop me."

The Mongolian soldiers stopped immediately after hearing the order. The Han soldiers knew that they had become thorns in the Mongols' side. If the Mongols had the upper hand, they would never have a good end. They would not have been able to follow the command of the commander and stop and take the opportunity to slash the Mongolian soldiers. In a short while, they cut down a lot.

It was a big deal to stir up a mutiny. After thinking for a moment, the commander immediately had an idea and shouted loudly: "Kill me, these Han dogs are spies, kill them all." He drew out the scimitar and chopped off the heads of the Han soldiers under his feet with one knife. His idea was also good, he wanted to get dirty for the Han army, so that he could escape responsibility himself.

Since the Mongols occupied the Han people, no Mongols have killed and injured Han soldiers. The Mongolian soldiers have become angry. After hearing his orders, they all became excited and shouted: "Kill the spies! Kill all the Han dogs!" They waved their scimitars and stepped on them again. For a moment, both sides refused to give in and fought together.

The racial hatred between Mongolian and Han is originally a powder keg, and there is a possibility of detonation at any time. On weekdays, the Han military is complacent and complacent, which does not mean that they have no hatred. The deeper the oppression, the deeper the hatred is. This sentence makes sense. The deeper the hatred accumulated over a long period of grievances. The actions of thousands of men are tantamount to the fuse of detonating the powder keg. The hatred of the Han army all erupts, and they all shout: "Kill all the Tartars! Kill all the Tartars!" If you have hatred, you will revenge, and you will relieve your hatred. You will wave your scimitar and slash hard like a life-despair.

The fighting here is like ripples in the water, expanding rapidly. The Han army, who had been fed up with grievances on weekdays, broke out completely, and people continued to join in. In a short while, the fighters expanded from a hundred to more than two hundred, and then to hundreds, thousands, and thousands. A sudden mutiny took shape, and the entire Hangu Pass was in a turmoil, and the Mongolian soldiers and the Han army fought fiercely.

The reason is actually very simple. The Mongolians usually bully the Han army for fun and do it secretly. Even if they do it blatantly, it will not be large. Such a group of fights of hundreds of people is a provocation to the Mongolian soldiers who are proud of their superior races, and they will fight when they see the Han soldiers.

If the Han soldiers just beat and scolded like they usually do, they might have endured it. If they fight like today, the Han soldiers will naturally not endure it and immediately fight back. In this way, it would be impossible to not expand the situation.

When Wu Halie, the commander of Hangu Pass, received the report, he immediately knew that the situation was serious. The current situation was very unoptimistic. The Song army had already reached Guanzhong, and the Mongolians' war in Guanzhong was not going smoothly. It would take a moment for the Song army to visit Hangu Pass. If the trouble broke out here again, a large-scale mutiny or even civil rebellion occurred, let alone how serious his crime was, it would give the Song army an opportunity to take advantage of it. If the Han army, or even the common people, seize Hangu Pass and welcome the Song army, Kublai Khan would be able to die a hundred times as soon as he was investigated.

After weighing the trade-offs, he decided without hesitation to quell the mutiny and immediately mobilized the army to launch an attack on the Han army. His attack was not only aimed at the Han army that fought back, but also the Han army that did not participate in the mutiny were also his targets. He believed that the Han army was unreliable, and sooner or later they would join forces, and he would use thunder to clean them up when they were not prepared.

It was the Mongols who caused the incident, but the Han army who were punished. How unfair!

Many Han troops who were not involved in the mutiny were killed without any preparation, but I don’t know how many Han troops died unjustly.

Fortunately, the Han soldiers who were not poisoned were fled in a hurry, and some hid in the homes of ordinary people. For the Mongolians, the Han people were not even as good as dogs, and they did not bully them much on weekdays. Now the Han soldiers hid in the homes of ordinary people, which is the best excuse for them to bully the people. Naturally, they are not polite. The burning, killing, robbery and rape have increased sharply, and the heroic pass of Hangu Pass became a hell on earth for a while.

The Mongolian soldiers covered in blood from the Han people have committed countless heinous crimes!

The Mongols were trying to bully people, regardless of whether there were really Han soldiers hiding in the homes of ordinary people. When they saw the people, they would kill and chop them up. There were countless people who died. Disasters came from the sky, and the people never expected that they would encounter such a sudden disaster. They were all so scared that they didn't know what to do.

Wuhalie's suppression was very effective. As soon as his army was put into operation, the resistance of the Han army quickly collapsed. In an important strategic location like Hangu Pass, the Mongolians naturally sent the most effective troops to garrison. The Mongolians dispatched much more Mongolian troops here than the Han army. They occupied an advantage of the number of people. Although the resistance of the Han army was fierce, the strength was very different after all, and it was impossible to be defeated.

"If these Han dogs don't give them some strength, they will be in a rebellious way." Wuhalie looked at the corpses on the ground and said excitedly. He was fully qualified to say this. As long as the battle continued for a while, the resistance of the Han army would no longer exist.

However, things are often unexpected. There is a soldier named Wang Quanqing in the Han army. He has a flexible mind. After a little weighing, he immediately concluded that if the Han army in the city wants to survive, he can only join forces with the people.

Wang Quanqing jumped to a high place and raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, fellow villagers: The Tartars do not regard us as human beings. Now is the time for us to take revenge. The court has come over! The king's army will be in front of the pass! Brothers, fellow villagers, go out of the city and we will go to the court!"

The incident of the Mongolian army's defeat in the south of the Yangtze River has spread all over the country, and the people here know that the court marched into Guanzhong.

The Mongolians fought in Guanzhong but were not smooth, and rumors spread everywhere, and there were many rumors that were not conducive to the Mongolians. After he said this, the people who were not careful really thought that the Song army had already fought. They were desperate. After hearing this, they seemed to be in the dark and suddenly saw the light. They were all overjoyed and shouted: "Let's go to the court!"

For a moment, the roar of looking for court echoed over the heroic pass of Hangu Pass! This was the first time in more than a hundred years that the heroic pass was angry.

The Mongols' misconduct made the people frightened and were already angry, and they only sent one person to lead them to resist. Wang Quanqing naturally became their heads. Under Wang Quanqing's arrangement, the Han soldiers ran around to contact the people and gathered the lost Han army. Not long after, the common people and the Han army gathered around Wang Quanqing, followed his orders, and began to attack the Mongols.

Wuhalie never expected that the mutiny that was about to be destroyed would suddenly rekindle and his resistance became stronger. He knew very clearly that he must calm the incident in the city before the Song army came, otherwise as soon as the Song army arrived, Hangu Pass would no longer be owned by the Mongols. He immediately ordered: "Never a Han dog is human. Letting them live in the world is a waste of the coolness of the eagle on the grassland, and let them all go to hell!"

His order was tantamount to a city massacre. The city massacre was the sign of the Mongolian army during the Genghis Khan period. Wherever they passed, they must be ruins. After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, he thought of cleaning up the people's hearts. The city massacre has been useless for a long time, but he did not expect to reappear in Hangu Pass, a thousand-year-old heroic pass.
Chapter completed!