At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the battlefield of the Emperor Taiji was at its peak! As a Ming Dynasty garrison to defend against the Manchu Qing Jin Army, at the junction of the present Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, there was an island called Phi Dao! The garrison was general Mao Wenlong of the Ming Dynasty at the time, but when the Jin army first wanted to go south to Korea, it was necessary to capture the island. However, as a later thief, it is still gratifying, it is General Mao's subordinate!
Shang Kexi has been in the army for generations, and from his ancestors, he has been defending the territory for the Ming Dynasty! When the Qing army went south, many of the men in the Shang family died in the army, including Shang Kexi's father and his brother. However, his wife was also captured by the Qing army, which wanted to reward his wife as a reward for meritorious soldiers. However, his wife was more fierce, and vowed not to kill herself to preserve her innocence!
When the Qing army hit Phi Dao, Huang Taiji also had a headache, because this place was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The water area is large, but the Qing army is a nation on horseback, and it is not impossible to capture it, it is only a matter of time. Because it was very difficult for the Ming Dynasty army to support here, after all, the arrival of Emperor Taiji was full of energy to go south to dominate, so General Mao was killed in battle, and Shang Kexi, who succeeded his father as a deputy general, led his men to sneak out of the island to join Emperor Taiji!
Just when I was worried about how to attack, God sent a general from a place that had been here for decades! Making Huang Taiji smile and bend over, with his help, the Qing army quickly took Phi Dao. When it was really time to employ people, Huang Taiji casually gave him a small reward. However, Shang Kexi made many military achievements on the way south with Emperor Taiji, and later in 1649, Shang Kexi was appointed as the King of Pingnan to give the Golden Seal Gold Book!
From then on, shang kexi ignored that Emperor Taiji's Qing army was his enemy who killed his father and brother and took his wife and concubine, but instead submitted to Emperor Taiji's Qing army. Shang Kexi, who confessed to being a thief, was sent to occupy the city of Guangzhou the following year, but the Ming army in Guangzhou vowed to resist to the death! The military and people in the city were united, whether they were still happy to take cannons or play tricks, they did not break through the city of Guangzhou for ten months, and later because there was no foreign aid, they could not withstand the cannon attack!
It was gratifying, because he had not conquered it for ten months, and he ordered the slaughter of the city for 10 days, but it was rumored that more than 700,000 were slaughtered, but later according to the calculations of historians, at most it was 400,000 to break the sky! The scene is comparable to the Nanjing Massacre, and it is hateful that Shang Kexi, as a general of the Ming Dynasty, did not fight for his own court, and even helped his enemies to mutilate his compatriots!
Shang Kexi, who committed such a heinous catastrophe, ushered in his bad retribution in his old age! He gave all his power to his son Shang Zhixin, but his son did not want to be an enemy's lackey like his father, so he contacted Wu Sangui to fight with him! After being informed by Shang Kexi, he was furious, afraid that his father would block him, so he sent troops to surround Pingnan Province, and Shang Kexi died of a cerebral thrombosis in a fit of anger. Later, his son was also killed by Kangxi!