10. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. The Qing army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army fought, the two sides in order to seek victory to do whatever it takes, the massacre of prisoners of war and civilians in enemy-occupied areas to intimidate each other is commonplace, 14 years of war, China alone lost more than 20 million people, the number of casualties in more than 40 million people.
9. Ming and Qing Wars. From 1616 to 1683, for more than 70 years, the casualties caused by the war were not too high, but the Qing army slaughtered many places, resulting in the Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, and the Robbery of Gengyin, resulting in more than 10 million losses in China.
8. The Battle of Qin Shi Huang to Unify the Six Kingdoms. From 236 BC to 221 BC, the Qin army annihilated more than 1 million Six Kingdoms troops, lost more than 500,000 people, only the army lost more than 1.5 million people, and civilian casualties exceeded 5 million.
7. Chu-Han War. The war between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu for control of China took place, with more than 1 million troops and 3 million civilian casualties.
6. War of Liberation. The Kuomintang army suffered 1.711 million casualties, the People's Liberation Army lost 260,000, captured and missing 190,000, wounded 850,000, and the number of casualties in the army alone was nearly 3 million.
5. The First Kuomintang-Communist Civil War. The Nationalist army suffered 430,000 casualties and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army suffered 270,000 casualties, but this did not include civilians killed under the Kuomintang White Terror, and the number of casualties in the civil war in a rough ten-year civil war was roughly estimated to exceed 3 million.
4. Central Plains War. Also known as the Chiang Feng-Yan-Li War, which took place from May to November 1930, it refers to a warlord melee between Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Zongren in Henan, Shandong, Anhui and other provinces in China for dominion. More than 1.3 million troops were invested on all sides, with 300,000 casualties in the army and 3 million civilian casualties.
3. The Mongol War to Destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. Because Mongolia likes to kill civilians indiscriminately, the Southern Song Dynasty has ten rooms and nine empty spaces in the war, and it is roughly estimated that the death toll of the Southern Song Dynasty is more than 10 million people, and the number of casualties is more than 30 million.
2. Wuhu Chaohua. The total number of casualties reached 10 million, and because the population in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty did not return to the heyday of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the proportion of casualties in the total number of casualties was the largest in previous wars.
1. The War of Resistance Against Japan. If calculated in seven years, the total number of casualties in China has reached 35 million, and if it is calculated for 14 years, the total number of casualties in China has reached 50 million, and the number of casualties is the largest in previous wars.