Chapter 688 The living are not as good as the dead
Qian Zongbo Qian Qianyi insisted on secretly fighting against the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, not to restore the Ming Dynasty, but to not go to see the ancestors with the ugly braid behind his head after his death!
More than ten years ago, in order not to bring this ugly braid to meet our ancestors, millions of soldiers and civilians in Jiangnan rose up to fight and finally fell into a state of "living people are not as fragrant as dead people!"
One hundred thousand people will die together and leave the country of Ming Dynasty for three hundred miles!
After the Qing army occupied Nanjing and captured Emperor Hongguang alive, they sent envoys to pacify various prefectures and counties in Nanzhili. Most of the places were frightened by the power of the Qing Dynasty and surrendered. At this moment, everyone, including Qian Qianyi, only thought that this was just an ordinary dynasty change. Even if the Manzhou people entered the Central Plains and settled in the Han family, they would never want to completely cut off the inheritance of the Han people. However, the fact is that the Manzhou people in Beijing really wanted the Han people not only to destroy the country but also to destroy the race, so that the Han people did not know the civilization of their ancestors, the inheritance of their clothes, and only knew how to be the only slaves!
The gentry, military and civilians in Jiangnan woke up. They were unwilling to die and had no face to see their ancestors and they rose up to resist. The first thing that raised the Yi Banquet was Jiangyin County, a small county under Changzhou Prefecture.
After the Hongguang regime quickly collapsed, Lin Zhiji, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangyin, was removed from office. Fang Heng, the magistrate appointed by the Qing court, took office and posted a notice to ask the people to shave their hair in accordance with the Qing court's laws. On the first day of the leap month, student Xu Yong and others gathered in the Minglun Hall of the Confucius Temple and unanimously decided: "The head can be broken, and the hair must not be shave." At this time, Changzhou Prefecture issued a document to strictly order shave his hair, including "Leave your head but not your hair, and leave your hair but not your head." Fang Heng asked the clerk to write the mansion text into a notice to post it. When the clerk wrote this sentence, he was filled with indignation and threw his pen to the ground and said, "It's better to die!"
The news soon spread throughout the city, and the gentry and people became crowded. Fang Heng saw that the scholars and people refused to obey, so he secretly reported to Changzhou Prefecture that he asked his superiors to send troops to kill Shuwei. This secret letter was found by Yimin, so he arrested Fang Heng and others on the second day of the lunar month. Chen Mingyu was the leader of the clerk of the Ming Dynasty. Under the banner of "The Revival of the Ming Dynasty", he claimed that he was officially anti-Qing. Although Chen Mingyu was loyal and courageous, he felt that he lacked the ability of military organization. With his recommendation, the Jiangyin scholars and people in his hometown (at the time of Hongguang to be promoted to the chief clerk of Yingde County, Guangdong, but did not take the post) Yan Yingyuan welcomed the city to take on the important task of defending the city.
After the news of the people of Jiangyin's resistance to the Qing Dynasty spread, Zong Hao, the governor of Changzhou in Qing Dynasty, sent 300 soldiers to suppress it. On the fifth day of the leap month, the righteous people of Jiangyin were annihilated at the foot of Qinwang Mountain by the Yimin Mountain. The commander of the Qing army, Duoduo, saw that Jiangyin's small town dared to disobey, sent surrendered general Liu Liangzuo to lead troops to attack. Liu Liangzuo's troops surrounded Jiangyin County from late leap month, and the attack was unfavorable. He repeatedly sent envoys to shoot letters with bows and arrows into the city to recruit surrender, and even came to the city in person to show his words, asking Yan Yingyuan to surrender.
Ying Yuan scolded Liang Zuo for his betrayal of the Ming Dynasty in the city. He said: "There is a surrendered general, but no surrendered history!"
Liu Liangzuo was speechless. Duoduo first sent King Kong Youde of Gongshu to lead his troops to attack, and then sent Bellboro and Bellenkan to lead Manchu soldiers with red-clothed cannons to attack the city. Boluo came to Jiangyin City and believed that Liu Liangzuo had been the count of the Ming Dynasty and had heavy troops in his hand, but he could not even capture a Jiangyin County, so he beat him up. Liu Liangzuo was ashamed and urged his subordinates to attack the city.
Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu encouraged the bravery of urban and rural areas to guard the dangerous city. They sent Hui Shang Cheng Bi and others out of the city many times to contact volunteer troops from all over the country to help, but they never received reinforcements from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They persisted until August 21, when the Qing army concentrated cannons to bombard the northeast corner of the city. The city wall collapsed, the Qing army swarmed up, and Jiangyin fell. Chen Mingyu died in street battle. Yan Yingyuan was injured and threw himself into the lake. He was dragged out of the water by the Qing army and was unyielding. The Qing army then massacred the city and killed them all. The drowned women and babies were counted. The Qing army massacred the city until the afternoon of the 23rd. There were only 53 people of all sizes left in the city.
Emperor Longwu, who was in charge of Fuzhou, heard about the steadfast and unyielding deeds of the people of Jingxian and Jiangyin, was deeply moved and said, "My descendants met people from these two counties. Even if they were three feet tall, they should be pity and respected."
At the same time when the people of Jiangyin resisted the Qing Dynasty, the people of Jiading County also forced the shave and launched an army due to the Qing government's forced shave. After the fall of Hongguang's court, Jiading had already fallen into the hands of the Qing Dynasty on June 14th. On the 24th, the magistrate Zhang Weixi appointed by the Qing Dynasty took office. On the 12th of the leap of June 12th, the people of Jiading were indignant and refused to obey. Someone asked the opinions of the famous gentry Hou Dongzeng (a Jinshi in the fifth year of Tianqi, and was the Zuo Tongzheng envoy of the Tongzhengsi at the time of Hongguang). Hou Dongzeng resolutely replied: "When Xu Taishi was ruthless in his hair care, why not be righteous? That is, he should not do it, and he survived and died with the city, and it was not too late."
On the 17th, Hou Dongzeng led his two sons Hou Xuanyan, Hou Xuanjie, Jinshi Huang Chunyao and his younger brother Huang Yuanyao to the city to promote righteousness and revival of the Qing Dynasty. After meeting with local gentry, they decided to lead the people to go to the city to draw land and guard it. The white flag was erected on the city and wrote a big book "Jiading Restoration of the Yi Army".
After the gentry and civilians in Jiading rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army immediately led troops to attack. Hou Dongzeng, Huang Chunyao and others wanted to use the township soldiers outside the city to block the Qing army. However, the soldiers in the four townships were peasants who were temporarily organized and had no combat experience. Although there were many people, it was difficult to fight with the regular Qing army. On the first day of July, there were no less than 100,000 soldiers in the east of the brick bridge, which was crowded and crowded, and they were crowded like mosquitoes, which were mostly exhausted. The Qing army must be divided into left and right wings in every battle. The village soldiers did not know the formation and called it a crab claw formation. Every challenge was made, there were only more than ten cavalry, and they were scattered and not gathered. The soldiers from the villages saw the soldiers coming out from afar, and their arms were getting worse and louder. As soon as the two sides confronted each other, the township soldiers collapsed without fighting. The people who left did not know what to do and died after trampling. Many people were squeezed into the river and drowned, with corpses scattered, and they were endless.
On the third day of the seventh month, the Qing army attacked the city in large numbers. The next day, the city was broken, Hou Dongzeng rushed into the pond and was dragged out by the Qing soldiers to behead him. His son Xuan Yan, Xuan Jie was killed, Huang Chunyao, Yuan Yao and others hanged themselves. The Qing army killed a lot in the city, and the houses arrived, and searched for all the streets and alleys. The thorns of reeds must be stirred up with guns, knowing that no one could have been there. The zombies in the city were covered with scars and wounds. This was caused by repeated chopping, which was not caused by one person. The sound of begging for life was noisy as a city, and countless people were killed. Those who hung beams, those who threw themselves into the well, those who had broken limbs, those who had bloody faces, and those who were still chopped and moved their hands and feet. They were all in a mess, and there were no less than thousands of people. Three days later, from Xiguan to Gelong Town, the corpses were floating all over the river, and there was no place to take the boat.
Under the advocacy of the former Yunyang Fuyuan Wang Yongzuo, the editor of the Hanlin Academy Zhu Tianlin, the magistrate Yang Yongyan and others, the gentry of Kunshan County killed Yan Maocai (formerly the county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty), and raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty and recommended Wang Zuocai as the commander. On the sixth day of the seventh month, the Qing army broke the city, and Zhu Tianlin and others escaped, and Wang Zuocai was captured and killed. The Qing army massacred the city, and tens of thousands of scholars and civilians died.
Suzhou was raised by Yang Wencong, deputy envoy of the Hongguang Dynasty military preparation, and tens of thousands of people were in charge of the city. After the Qing army besieged the city, the general Lu Zhiyu died in battle. Wu Zhikui, the general of Wusong who was reinforced by water, retreated. Yang Wencong abandoned the city south (later Wu Zhikui and Yang Wencong were both killed in battle). After Suzhou City was broken, the city was massacred by the Qing army, searched and killed, and looted women. The deaths in the city were counted.
Changshu was led by Yan Zizhang, the head of the Ministry of War, and persisted for a month and a half. After the city was broken, it was massacred. The city was slaughtered for two days and one night. All the alleys and rivers on the bridge were piled up.
Taicang was led by the civil gang Oolong Association. After failure, it was massacred, with thousands of women plundered, thousands of boys and women slaughtered, and thousands of people were killed, and corpses were accumulated like tombs.
Qian Guohua, a Jinshi, raised an army. After failure, he retreated to Nanshan. He was surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army. He slaughtered Nanshan all the way, more than a hundred miles, killed countless bodies, accumulated like a mountain, and passed through the war and fire, which was not as serious as this.
Jiaxing was slaughtered by the Hanlin people. Li Daxin, the chief minister of the Ministry of War, raised an army and was massacred after the failure. At that time, twelve and three out of the city escaped, and seven or eight out of ten people were not released. Some people cut their hair and avoided Buddhist temples. Some people were in prison and were called criminal prisoners. There were only more than 300 people. The rest were killed, with blood all over the ditches and corpses gathered in the alleys.
Songjiang was led by General Huang Man, the chief officer of the Ministry of War Chen Zilong, and the Minister of the Ministry of War Chen Youlong. After his defeat, he was massacred. One out of ten soldiers and civilians in the city were not separated, and more than 20,000 people died.
Yixing, Jintan, Wujin, Pinghu, Haiyan, Jinshan, and Shanghai were all massacred!
After Qian Qianyi's hometown of Changshu was massacred, the surrounding villagers still rose up to resist, and the Qing army was again massacred, with no less than 100,000 people killed.
The past was full of things. Qian Zongbo grabbed his braid hard, and his scalp was blue and purple. He still refused to let go. He scared his wife Liu Rushi and Mao Xiang and his wife to stop him desperately, but he still refused to let go.
"This braid and this clothes are not my Han people! The one living in the imperial city is not my Han people!" Qian Qianyi laughed loudly, laughing angryly, and he pointed his finger at Nanjing, where there was a city.
The whole city is full of people, and the Han people cannot enter. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!