From ancient times to the present, both In China and abroad, there has always been an unwritten rule of "those who surrender do not kill", and most generals will also abide by this by default, but a general during the Ming Dynasty was a person who "preferred to kill and descend", through his hands, there were several "Tucheng" massacres, the most incomprehensible thing is that once he returned from a great victory, the people were cheering for him, and as a result, he turned around and let his subordinates "slaughter the city", who is he? Why? How did he end up?
This person's name is Chang Yuchun, born in 1330 AD in a poor peasant family, because he was born at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, class contradictions are quite prominent, the people do not have a good life, watching the family endure hunger and hunger all day, Chang Yuchun decided that in the future he must get ahead and change such a life.
So he insisted on exercising and learning martial arts, and by the time he was in his 10s, Chang Yuchun had already trained a muscle, and he was tall, proficient in various martial arts, the best at riding and shooting, and was famous in the eight townships of Ten Miles. But Chang Yuchun believes that it is not enough to be strong, he must do something big. But Chang Yuchun chose a crooked path - to defect to Liu Ju, the leader of the green forest bandits.
Since then, he has followed Liu Ju to rob the house, robbed everywhere, and the robbery targets are the same poor people as Chang Yuchun, who looks down on liu ju and other people's behavior while enjoying this life of big fish and big meat and bullying people, until the appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang.
That day, Chang Yuchun followed Liu Ju to the hezhou area to commit crimes, and just happened to encounter Zhu Yuanzhang leading an army to attack Hezhou, which was very powerful, so Chang Yuchun mixed with the common people to observe him. Chang Yuchun saw that Zhu Yuanzhang treated his subordinates with a clear distinction between public and private, strict military discipline, and at the same time was very gentle and approachable to the people, chang Yuchun immediately decided - this person I followed!
So Chang Yu chun mao introduced himself, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang would take him in, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was tall and upright, and his attitude was sincere, and he was indeed a good seedling, so he took in Chang Yuchun, and from then on, Chang Yuchun completed the counterattack from a mountain thief to a general like "opening and hanging". He first outwitted Quzhou and fought a great battle against Mount Jiuhua, and then he broke Chen Youyi, captured the capital of Yuan, and made great military achievements, which Zhu Yuanzhang often praised.
However, Chang Yuchun was tainted with too many vices in the bandit nest when he was young, and at this time he could not change it, often venting his anger and energy on innocent people, "slaughtering the city" is a common thing for him, let's take a look at his terrible record:
In 1360 AD, Chang Yuchun broke Chen Youyi's army, buried more than 4,000 troops alive, beheaded and demoted more than 10,000 troops; in 1368 AD, Chang Yuchun captured Taizhou and slaughtered the city; later went north to pursue the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, killed the Yuan army in 1 county, and killed all the innocent people in the local area... These are just the tip of the iceberg of the frequent spring slaughter.
If we want to force an explanation for Chang Yuchun's actions, we can say that he killed the yuan dynasty because he was not accustomed to the Army of the Yuan Dynasty, so why did he return from a great victory and the whole city cheered for him, and he still slaughtered the city?
It is said that Chang Yuchun was preparing to capture Henan, his team soon came to the gate of Huaiqing City in Jiaozuo, Henan, of course, the people in the city had heard of Chang Yuchun's name, for a while everyone was in danger, at this time they did not know whether the Yuan army won, or the rebel army won, so someone thought of a good way to survive, that is, to prepare a sign, write "Congratulations to the Yuan Army" on the front of the sign, and write "Congratulations to the Rebel Army" on the reverse side, no matter what, they can guarantee that nothing will go wrong.
However, these common people really "underestimated" this bloody general, and at first when Chang Chun entered the city, he was really satisfied to see the people holding up signs to welcome him, but how vicious were his eyes? Soon he found the cat grease of the brand in the hands of the people, and immediately sneered, so that his subordinates prepared to slaughter the city, and overnight, Huaiqing City was stained red with blood.
Although everyone knows that Chang Yuchun is too bloody and cruel, because he is indeed capable and has made countless meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang can only acquiesce in his actions, and even later formed a family with Chang Yuchun, and this former farmer also became the Duke of Eguo.
I don't know if god opened his eyes, this strong and powerful general who killed countless enemies actually died in the army at the age of 40 because of a small wind chill.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty