Historically, a war is often very tragic, and both sides must pay a huge price to seize a stronghold. More classic is that in order to seize an area in the Changping War that year, qin and Zhao even paid millions of casualties.
Logically, after a battle, everyone is scarred, and what should be done should be to digest the occupied area as quickly as possible, and then make up for its own shortcomings. Therefore, don't look at the fight to the death on the battlefield, but in the end you will still put forward a notice of safety and security, so that everyone can live a good life.
Moreover, after the end of a war in ancient society, it was inevitable to replenish the grain and the number of troops from the occupied areas, which was an important reason for the phenomenon of the people. However, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a general who did not take the usual path, no matter where he went, he chose to slaughter the city, and even when the other party held up a flag to welcome him, he also killed the other side. So who is this person?
When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, when it comes to killing prisoners, in fact, most people already have the answer, and this person is Chang Yuchun. It should be said that this person is well-known in both the folk and official history books, and in the folk, this person is a well-known king of Yama on earth, not only does not take his own life seriously, but also does not take the life of the enemy seriously, and every time a war starts, it will inevitably bleed into a river.
In the official history records, Chang Yuchun is also a lifeless character, in the battle with Wang Baobao that year, dozens of people dared to chase after tens of thousands of others, simply a humanoid chariot, looking like a normal person.
However, these contents are not nothing, because in history, most of the generals are relatively fierce, such as Bai Qi, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States, who fought coldly like The King of Yama, killing people without blinking.
As for the matter of killing prisoners, although Chang Yuchun was scolded by Zhu Yuanzhang for pointing at his nose every day and leaving a lot of bad reputations in history, it is also excessive to say that he was the only abnormal phenomenon, because the more famous generals in history have recorded killing prisoners.
For example, Bai Qi killed 400,000 people that year, and the famous Cao Cao often used slaughtering the city for his own pleasure, so in ancient times, killing prisoners was not an individual case, nor could it be said that they lost their minds, which were some needs on the battlefield.
However, Chang Yuchun's performance is completely different from these people. For example, Bai Qi wanted to kill 400,000 Zhao Guo soldiers, because there were too many of these people, and there was still a possibility of resistance, so he naturally killed them all for their own safety. As for Cao Cao's desire to slaughter the city, in fact, the reason is also very simple, because when he was fighting a war, he fiercely resisted the people here, and the result was that he paid a huge price, and Boss Cao could only make the other party feel afraid in order to avoid difficulties in the next siege, so the slaughter of the city was also purposeful.
So is there a purpose for killing captives and slaughtering the city in the spring? Judging from the official historical records, Chang Yuchun really had no other purpose, that is, a perverted hobby.
For example, in 1359, when Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youyi formally exchanged fire, the two sides confronted each other at Jiuhua Mountain. Because Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger and installed spies in the other side's camp, Chen Youyi's sneak attack troops were yin. Tens of thousands of troops were beaten to pieces, and 4,000 were taken prisoner.
Since this war was only Zhu Yuanzhang's small test knife, and he did not want to provoke the other side, old Zhu Qianban ordered to tell Chang Yuchun not to kill the prisoners, otherwise he would be cut down.
Zhu Yuanzhang's order had just been issued, and Chang Yuchun immediately killed 4,000 people with a hot head, and he also imitated Bai Qi and destroyed them by burying them alive. As a result, this move disrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's overall planning, resulting in a large-scale war between himself and Chen Youyi.
Through this record, we can see that Chang Yuchun did not look like a normal general at all, he had an almost perverted desire to kill, and even Zhu Yuanzhang could not stop him. Therefore, after that, whenever there is a war, everyone is afraid when they see Chang Yuchun, and even if they choose to surrender, they must cry and beg Xu Da to accept them, otherwise they are willing to fight until the last moment. I have to say that this is really a funny scene.
However, the above record is only the tip of the iceberg, because in the historical record, Chang Yuchun has also done more immoral things, and this incident has even become a stain on his life.
According to historical records, Chang Yuchun attacked Henan on the orders of Zhu Yuanzhang, and although Henan was one of the few heavily defended areas of the Yuan Dynasty, it was helpless to meet Chun too much to fight, so after several battles, the garrisoned army could only retreat in an all-round way, leaving an undefended city.
In this way, Chang Yuchun took the army to receive this city, and the local people were also very happy about it, and they all held up signs to celebrate Zhu Yuanzhang's recovery of the Central Plains and welcome The Great General Chang Yuchun to receive everything.
As the saying goes, if you don't hit a smiley person with a smiley face, even if you often meet someone in the spring and kill a red eye, you must look at the situation and then say. Moreover, according to historical records, the troops of Chang Yuchun at that time actually suffered quite a lot of losses, and he himself lacked a certain amount of military pay and needed to be replenished by the army. In general, he should put up a notice of safety and then turn this place into his own rear.
However, Chang Yuchun didn't care so much at all, only to see him coldly give an order and say two words, Slaughter City. As a result, the people who opened the city gate immediately saw a large number of cavalry rushing in, and then there was a crazy massacre, and the people on the top of the city did not even come and throw down the signs, and they were turned over by the soldiers who killed them.
That night the whole city was wailing, how many people had died, and the entire gate of the city was soaked in blood. Chang Yuchun was like this, riding a horse and walking into the city with blood and corpses.
Looking back at this passage, many people feel chilled by this, because this practice is no longer like the work of one person, but more like the demons in hell. You must know that although the people here were once ruled by the Mongols, they were all Han compatriots, and they had already surrendered, so how could they kill them at will?
The Qing Dynasty people wrote about this matter in various ways, defining it as the madness of the generals of the early Ming Dynasty, and even wanted to smear Zhu Yuanzhang. But objectively speaking, this matter has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is purely Chang Yuchun's own misdeeds.
Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang is right that in the years of war, soldiers will lose their nature in killing, but no matter what, military orders must still maintain their sacred status. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did a good job of restraining anyone, but he could not restrain his best subordinates, so he could only watch Chang Yuchun fall and die violently before the age of 40. Maybe it's also a kind of historical sadness, just poor soldiers and civilians who were killed.
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