? However, when I opened the book Seven Faces of the Ming Dynasty, I found that as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty, the atrocities committed by the bandit troops led by Zhang, one of the leaders of the peasant uprising army, were even more brutal, bloody and heartless than the Japanese war of aggression against China, which was very surprising.
During the Chongzhen period, the imperial court was in the last days, and Huang Taiji, the strong enemy of the Qing Dynasty, was eyeing up and suffering constantly. Natural disasters are frequent, people do not have enough to eat, bandits are springing up like mushrooms after rain, and many peasant rebels go hand in hand in an attempt to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and replace it.
Zhang and Li Zicheng are the two most outstanding leaders in the uprising army, and they are often compared in history. However, there are historical data for reference on the brutality of murder, and Zhang is even more outstanding.
? Zhang's bandits and hooligans fought in a mobile way, and there was no place to station them, in order to avoid the pursuit of government troops and facilitate "grain-making." In fact, they plundered the financial food of local wealthy businessmen, officials and people everywhere to support their troops.
? During the March, his troops sometimes resorted to violence purely for the sake of violence, and "cruelty" even became a kind of entertainment. Among them, when Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown Fengyang was captured, the fire burned for several days. "Thousands of people were killed, pregnant women were planed, babies were injected into villages, and more than 22,650 public and private houses were burned."
After withdrawing from Fengyang, they rushed to Liuhe, Anhui. Thousands of women were arrested, ordered to take off their clothes, cursed loudly at the city, and challenged the garrison soldiers to war. Whoever doesn't shout abuse will be chopped to pieces. In addition, they "gathered dozens of children, burned trees around them and listened to them cry for laughter." 1February, captured Huoshan, Anhui. "A driving father, her daughter, and then kill it. There are naked pregnant women, and there are men and women in the belly. I thought it was a play. Some people take pleasure in burning oil in a big pot, throw babies in and watch them jump. Some people tie people to the ground, gouge out their bellies, feed sheep with Mi Dou, and cook porridge with human blood and rice for donkeys and horses. Hundreds of women were plundered, and when they left, they couldn't take any more. They were all killed. The degree of cruelty has never been seen before. "
? Later, in the battle against Chuzhou, because he could not attack for a long time, Zhang listened to a gentleman of yin and yang and robbed hundreds of women in the surrounding villages. "Cut off their heads and bury them at the gate of the city, expose their genitals on the city, and try to suppress the cannons on the city." Of course, this method is not easy to use. Zhang Jun was completely defeated in that battle.
? Later, Zhang occupied Sichuan, opened a court in Chengdu and established Daxi, calling himself the "King of Daxi". Due to bandits' background, illiteracy, lack of general plan for governing the country, and peacetime tyranny, the people quickly turned against each other and were caught off guard. Later, Zhang felt that the people of Chengdu were ungrateful and rebelled, so he decided to suppress Chengdu.
He ordered a house-to-house search of the people in the city, driving them out of the city gate, and ordered tens of thousands of soldiers to slaughter. People cried everywhere, and then they were all killed, leaving nothing behind. The land outside the city was completely covered with corpses. "There are bodies everywhere and the river is blocked. You can't sail. " Splendid Rongcheng Duncheng wilderness, uninhabited. It was a desolate scene beyond description.
There are countless detailed cases of Zhang Jun's bloody killings in history. However, the fragments described in front of us are already jaw-dropping. Originally, I thought that only Japanese aliens would do such vicious behavior, but I didn't expect that I still underestimated the evil and meanness in human nature. I have to say that reading history can really refresh my cognition.