Chapter 64 Excerpts from the Atrocities of the Guan Ning Army
According to the orders of executioner Wu Fengqiu, a large number of anti-Guanning intellectuals in Jiangnan were killed, and their wives and daughters were sacrificed to Guanning soldiers.【】
According to historical records, twenty-three years before Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the population of Manchuria was 1.04 million, and there were 740,000 Manchus under the banner of the Han army. However, three years after Weiwu, there were only 24,600 Manchus left in various places. Of course, there is also a Manchu regiment belonging to the battle sequence of the Guanning Army. The regiment has 3,000 soldiers. The remaining people are only 320 Manchu men and children under the age of eight. , the rest are all women. In other words, in just three years, the population of Manchuria dropped by 9%. It can be said that the Manchus as an independent nation have basically disappeared and can only be found in the "Manchuria" in Beijing. People's Museum" to see the customs of this nation. And the population of the 700,000 Han Manchus has also dropped by half, and the surviving Han Manchus are also treated as second-class citizens of the empire. From time to time They had to bear heavy labor. Twenty years later, in the fourth year of Yongkang, a report submitted by the Imperial Census Bureau showed that the Manchus of the Han Army had disappeared from the imperial household.
The emperor of the empire did not shy away from the massacres he and his men committed against the Manchus. He told his historians to record in detail every outstanding cleanup action performed by the soldiers. Therefore, in the first history of the empire, In the archives, we can find many descriptions of the massacre.
We now know why the emperor allowed his men to massacre the surrendered Manchus so wantonly, and we don’t know why he allowed historians to record this series of atrocities in detail. But at least we can be sure that this emperor was indeed a man. A strange emperor, he is very magnanimous. In his eyes, perhaps he thinks that everything he does is noble, and he never feels a trace of guilt. A strange person and a strange emperor make people have a strong feeling for him. curiosity.
In the Jinan Massacre, “in total, four out of ten city bannermen were massacred, two out of ten people sank into a river and fell into a well, two out of ten were captured, one out of ten escaped, and not one out of ten who hid survived. It can be said that all the people were killed. They escaped from the city gate and trampled on the dead, including women and babies. In the monk's dormitory in Jinan City, thousands of women and children were hidden, and they were all hunted and slaughtered. Blood flowed down like water from a stream."
In the Guilin Massacre, "there were more than 100,000 people in the camp, and all the beef and hog they ate were boiled soup and boiled soup. The number of people who died after being fed and wet lying down in the camp voluntarily was 17 or 18. The soldiers who arrived first had already carried their own stewing meat. After Lian Ke came down, the plundered men and women were sold together. At first, some people did not want to die, hoping that the city would be destroyed or won, and a few common people would survive; but when they saw the plunder and resold it, the elders said goodbye to the village, and everyone's wail shook the sky, and they fought with all their strength. Go. Floating corpses cover the river, and the sky is filled with severe haze."
Kunming Massacre, "Xuan Tong changed his surname and was punished for three years. How could he neglect the people and be subjected to the Six Extremes again? Blood splashed in the streets, and ants gathered to eat. Hungry birds pecked their intestines and flew to the north of the city. The north wind ate cattle and piled up skulls. Or like this A pagoda may be like a mountain or a hill. The five elements are all in one place; wisdom, foolishness, nobleness and inferiority are all in the same area."
"Ma Long massacred Ningchuan, and the survivors were left behind; those who escaped from the city were crowded into the sea. The bannermen's cries of complaint have not stopped for more than a hundred years."
Gubeikou Massacre, "Those who hang banners, those who throw themselves into wells, those who throw themselves into rivers, those whose faces are bloody, those whose limbs are severed, those whose limbs are still moving after being hacked, are all in shreds." Guan Ning's soldiers "all came from the house" Mercedes-Benz, traffic was blocked. Refugees in the city were unable to escape due to street bricks and stones, so they all threw themselves into the river to die because the water stopped flowing. "Every day, the neighbors raped those who refused to follow in public, and they nailed their hands to the board with long nails. "Forcing him into prostitution." "Every time a soldier encounters a person, he will call the dogs to offer him treasures. When the soldier comes in, he will take it, wrap it around his waist, and offer it to him. Only when he is satisfied will he release it. When he encounters another soldier, he will seize him as before. If he does not offer much, he will chop him three times. When everything is gone, kill them."
The Chaozhou Massacre, "The soldiers slaughtered and looted, and the skeletons of the bannermen were exposed in the wilderness, and people dared to pick them up."
Changshu Massacre: "The alleys, bridges, rivers, and dilapidated houses were all piled with corpses. There were no less than five thousand people in total, and not a few bannermen women were abducted." "The trees along the pond were covered with human heads." All of them are citizens of the Qing Dynasty."
Three Diaries of Chengdu, "Kill the whole city, and then seal the sword... There are a few people in the city who are hiding in the secluded places of the temples, towers, and monks, etc., a total of fifty-three people, big and small. This is a battle, and the city will be defended for eighty-one days. More than 57,000 people died, and more than 35,000 people died outside the city. After this battle, there was no more people in Sichuan."
On September 6, the second year of Weiwu, Guan Ning's army arrived in Hunan. The Qing army resisted desperately. After breaking through Changsha, there were still more than ten thousand bannermen in the city. When Guan Ning's army entered the city, they demanded gold and silver. Cut him off with the sword, and the woman may support him and commit adultery. After he is done, he will kidnap him and put him in a boat.” “When encountering a man or woman, he will lead him by the neck and retrieve his treasure. If he hesitates, he will cut his belly and remove his intestines.”
In the first year of Weiwu, after Guan Ning's army carried out the massacre of the Manchus in Nanjing, when they arrived in Xi, "there were women of bannermen on every boat, who had been plundered from Yangzhou and decorated them with beautiful pearls and jade, pink, white and dark green."
In December of the first year of Weiwu, Guan Ning's troops arrived in Wenzhou Prefecture, and Fei, the wife of Li Deguang in Qingzhi County, was plundered. "The plan can be entrusted, and Yin Fing said: 'I have gold and silk hidden in a well, and I am lucky to take it from it. "Bing was so happy that he went to the well with him. He leaned down to look into the well and fell down. Bing hated Jin and lost his wife, so he dropped huge rocks and hit him away."
Guan Ning's army returned from thousands of households and sent troops to seize more than a thousand women of the bannermen. "We were disgusted." They made long beds, and dozens of naked concubines were placed on the beds. "They were then imprisoned on the beds and raped. They planted wooden stakes on the ground. Sharpen her body, mark the concubines on wooden stakes one by one, cut out her vagina with a knife, play with it by running a thread through it, and throw her body into the river."
When Guan Ning's army besieged the city of Hefei, outside the city, "dozens of beautiful women and virgins were selected as bannermen, all stripped of their clothes, and poisoned with lewd poisons." After the fall of Hefei, Guan Ning's army looted "the bannermen's eldest wives and concubines." The beautiful women were captured and raped in public in the neighborhood during the day. If anyone refused, their hands were nailed to a board with long nails and they were still forced to commit adultery." "The women were so angry that they killed seven of them."
At Hushang Temple in Hefei, Guan Ning's army "plundered the women's obscene grounds. The monks hated the filth and secretly set fire to the back room."
In the first year of Weiwu, when Nanjing fell, the daughter of the governor of Liangjiang was plundered by Guan Ning's soldiers. She tied her hands, put a knife between two fingers, and said: If you follow me, you will be perfect, if you don't, you will be torn. It was a humiliation, and it was a benefit to him quickly. The soldier slightly wounded his finger, and blood flowed out of his hand. He said: "I will comply?" He said: "Don't comply." He was angry, split his hand and came down, gouged out his chest, and died."
Lu Guang, the magistrate of Kunshan County, refused to surrender and led the green battalion and rural soldiers to resist Guan Ning. The city was broken and he was killed. His wife, Lu Chen, held her three-year-old son in her arms and tried to jump into a well, but was caught by a Guan Ning soldier. When he was arrested, he cut his face with a saber, and...he cursed him endlessly until Wei Ting swung the knife and performed a disembowelment and died."