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Introduce the Battle of Quang Ninh at the end of the Ming Dynasty and feel the killing scene of purgatory on earth.
The story begins in the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1622), there were two military commanders in the Liaodong region, Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi and Liaodong Governor Wang Huazhen, at that time the Jurchens had already controlled the vast area east of the Liaohe River, including Shenyang and Liaoyang, Xiong advocated defending to the east, and Wang planned an attack to unite with the Mongols and Koreans to counterattack and recover the lost territory in one fell swoop.
On both sides of the red line in the picture above is the front line of the armed confrontation between the two sides, that is, the Liao River Valley, when Xiong and Wang were still in dispute, in the first month of 1622, the Jurchens raided the Liaohe Defense Line and went straight to Guangning (Liaoning North Town), the two armies just came into contact, the Ming army collapsed, inspector Wang Huazhen fled without a fight, abandoning the so-called "three lines of defense".
This battle was another fiasco defeat of the Ming army after the Battle of Salhu, after which the Ming Dynasty's rule in Liaodong was also declared over, and a large number of grain supplies and military facilities fell into the hands of the enemy.
After the Jin dynasty occupied Guangning, it successively captured Yizhou (present-day Yixian County, Liaoning), Pingyang Bridge, Xixingbao, Jinzhou, Tiechang, Dalinghe, Jin'an, Youtunwei, Tuanshan, Zhenning, Zhenyuan, Zhen'an, Zhenjing, Zhenbian, Daqingbao, Dakangbao, Zhenwubao, Zhuangzhenbao, Luyangyi, Thirteen Mountain Yi, Xiaolinghe, Songshan, Xingshan, Xiangmaling, Qijiabao, Zheng'an, Jinchang, Zhong'an, Zhenyi, Dajing, Daning, Daping, Da'an, Dading, Damao, Dasheng, Dazhen, Dafu, Daxing, Panshanyi, Etuobao, Baituchang, Tashanbao , Zhong'an Fort, Shuangtai Fort and other more than 40 castles.
To put it simply, it swept the whole of Liaodong again, and the reason why it was so easy was the "merit" of the traitor Sun Degong, as Wang Huazhen's confidant, after this rebel surrendered to Houjin, Shuai's headquarters people and horses offered Guangning City to Houjin.
What follows is an important part of this article, which is recorded in the history books: "Nurhaci ordered the people west of the Liao River to be driven to the east of the Liao River to be slaughtered and slaughtered, and the people were devastated."
Horrible?
What kind of horror? At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 100,000 residents in Liaodong, only 6,000 people escaped into Guannei with Xiong and Wang, more than 100,000 Han chinese were killed, and after 50,000, the Jin army killed an average of 2 people per person.
Unexpectedly, the killing lasted less than a week, and the main daily work of the Houjin army was to march, attack forts, loot, kill people, and set fires.
There will be no time to bury the corpses, not even to throw the dead into the fire, more than 40 forts are full of human purgatory, and more people are driven to the east of the Liao River and killed in a concentrated manner.
From Guangning and Jinzhou in western Liaoning to the east of the LiaoHe River, a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and in the cold winter moon, whether women, children or the elderly, it is a death trip, three or nine days in the northeast region, the north wind and smoke and snow mixed with crying, simply ghost crying wolf howl.
When they arrived at the Liaohe River, there was no such a rapid killing tool as a machine gun, the Jurchens were called Jianfu, the way of killing liked to behead, there were headless corpses everywhere, the blood formed a red ice curtain, the cries were tremendous, the war horses roared, and the scolding was endless.
The massacre was not as tragic as the "Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading", but it was not well known to most people, and afterwards, the Chongzhen Emperor beheaded Xiong Tingbi, who had fled back to Beijing, and passed on the head to the nine sides.
Today's historical story is here, the next time we talk about the Battle of the Great Ling River, it will be a bone-burning purgatory on earth, just here, bye-bye!