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Moreover, it is said that Shi Dakai's expeditionary force crossed the Jinsha River from Miliangba, broke through the Yangtze River defense line, struck by lightning and lightning, and conquered the important town of Hexi to which Ningyuan belonged, and garrisoned ZhangmuZhen and prepared to attack Chengdu.
At Zhangmujing, local resident Lai Youcheng offered advice, saying that he could cross the Dadu River through Mianning, Daqiao, Tuowu, and Tiezaizai, and attack Chengdu directly.
However, Providence tricked that May was not the flood season of the Dadu River, and when Shi Dakai arrived at the Dadu River, "the clouds of Russia were everywhere, and the day and night were pouring rain, and the river was steep and could not be crossed."
In the days that followed, the river was raging, and the Qing army not only deployed on the opposite bank, but also formed a siege from the east, south and west facing Shi Dakai.
Helplessly, Shi Dakai only waved his army to force the crossing.
The result of the rush to cross the ferry was: 5,000 people raced to cross the elite, all of them lost their lives at the bottom of the river, and none of them survived.
Since the Dadu River could not be crossed, Shi Dakai shifted the direction of attack, rushed west to cross the Songlin River, and prepared to march along the south bank of the Dadu River to Luding.
However, the Pine Forest River is also swollen, and the water and stones are agitated, and it is neither shallow nor boatable.
The soldiers had to hold long bamboo poles in their hands, link them together, and wade into the river in rows.
But when they reached the depths of the river, the water was as fast as an arrow, and people were unstable, and they were swept away by the water, hitting rocks and shattering their bones.
Shi Dakai then moved his troops to the mill ditch ten miles above the mouth of the river to cross.
Although the water of the mill ditch can be crossed, the river is flowing with alpine snow water, and the ice is cold to the bone, and the soldiers do not swim much, and their bodies freeze.
What was even more tragic was that when Shi Dakai went all out to cross the two rivers, the enemy stole and attacked the ma'anshan camp he had built on the banks of the Dadu River, setting fire to it everywhere, and the army's grain in the camp was burned into fly ash.
Shi Dakai's army has since fallen into a desperate situation.
The Dadu River in the north and the Songlin River in the west are neither crossable, while the southern side is a lofty mountain, and can only break through to the east.
After a bloody battle of life and death, the army cut a bloody road to the east and reached Lizi Fort, leaving only more than 6,000 people left in the whole army.
In Darizy Castle, there is another big river called the Old Crow Whirlpool in front of it, and the Old Crow Whirlpool is rising wildly.
Shi Dakai was inexplicably sad and indignant, and he was determined to die.
On the same day, Zaifu Zengshihe proposed a fraudulent surrender strategy to Shi Dakai: ten miles south of Lijibao to Liangqiao, and across the bridge is the washing of horses, you can surrender to the Qing troops there, waiting for the opportunity to seize the washing of horses, but you have to wash the horses to store grain, or you can revitalize the military prestige, if you fail, it is only a death.
Shi Dakai accepted the suggestion and ordered the whole army to turn south.
Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, Liu Rong, an envoy, and others were also trying to lure Shi Dakai by surrendering, and constantly conveyed orders to lower the officers and soldiers to surrender Shi Dakai.
In this way, Shi Dakai quickly reached an agreement with the Qing army: dismiss four thousand of Shi Dakai's 6,000 men, leave two thousand, not surrender the weapons, move to Dashu Fort, and wait for Luo Bingzhang's palindromes to deal with them.
In order to meet the fierce battle that followed, several of Shi Dakai's wang wives, Ma Shi, Wu Shi, Pan Shi, and Hu Shi, carrying Shi Dakai's two young sons, as well as many sick and injured soldiers who were unable to fight, refused to drag the team down, and went to the water to kill themselves, and the cries resounded throughout the valley.
Shi Dakai's five-year-old son Shi Dingzhong had been held by Wang Niang to drown himself in the river together, but Shi Dakai saved him in order to succeed in his deception and win the trust of the enemy.
The next day, Shi Dakai took Shi Dingzhong and Zaifu Zeng Shihe, Huang Zaizhong, and Wei Pucheng into the Qing camp of Magu.
Unfortunately, man is not as good as heaven!
Shi Dakai crossed the Liangqiao Bridge five times, and Tang Yougeng, the commander-in-chief of Qing Chongqing stationed on the north bank of the Dadu River, led his troops to kill and abduct Shi Dakai and others.
Shi Da's plan to surrender was thus frustrated.
After being captured, Shi Dakai made a confession explaining in detail the reason for his "surrender": "... Dakai is about to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, because he wants to surrender sincerely, or he can avoid death by chance, Dakai wants to save everyone, and he orders him to abandon his weapons and surrender. Dakai led Huang Zaizhong and three others and his son Shi Dingzhong across the river to the Tang general barracks, but they had not yet crossed the river and did not know how to fall. ”
This "Shi Dakai Self-Statement" was not actually written by Shi Dakai himself, but a confession written by a Qing court official based on some of the contents of the interrogation record of Shi Dakai, and made a lot of abridgements and a lot of tampering.
Although the confession reads, "Because you want to surrender sincerely, you may be able to avoid death by chance", Fei Xingjian, a disciple of the late Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Minyun (Fei Xingjian's father was Luo Bingzhang's staff, and he himself had many contacts with the relatives and friends of Tang Yougeng Liu Rong and others) in "The Fact that Shi Dakai Fell to the Enemy in Sichuan and Was Killed", Shi Dakai's first words when he met the governor of Sichuan, Luo Bingzhang, were: "I came to beg for death, and I also asked for the life of a soldier!" ”
On the day of his interrogation, Shi Da Kaishang was worried that "the people who had not yet crossed the river did not know how to go", and as everyone knew, he fell into the hands of the Qing army, and Cai Buzhong, the governor of Yazhou, ambushed his troops at Dashu Fort according to Tang Yougeng's arrangement, and slaughtered the two thousand Taiping troops.
Luo Bingzhang and others spared no effort to persuade Shi Dakai to surrender for a long time.
Shi Dakai has always been "not profane or humble, and does not make a wagging tail and begging for mercy."
On June 27, 1863, Luo Bingzhang and others saw that Shi Dakai was determined, and he was afraid of extraneous branches and long nights, and together with the Chengdu general Chongshi's "Six Hundred Mile Chi Song", he said, "I would like to assist Chen Yucheng's example, and immediately respectfully request the king's order to execute Shi Dakai to death." His son, Shi Dingzhong, who is now five years old, is routinely imprisoned and will be treated as usual when he is old. ”
Zhou Zhihan, who was then a dispatcher of the General Bureau of Baojia in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, witnessed the entire process of Shi Dakai's execution and described the process in detail to his son Zhou Qian, who therefore recorded the last period of Shi Dakai's magnificent life in the book "Shu Hai Cong Tan": "The place where Shi Dakai died, in chengdu, on the Lotus Street to supervise the arrow road. The three of them were tied to the execution ground, and all of them were full of vigor and did not cower at all. And it is executed with Ling Chi polarity, and until death is silent, the real strange man is also. ”
Historian Mr. Ren Naiqiang wrote in the "Record of Shi Dakai's Capture and Death": "The Stone King and Zeng Shihe were tied to the cross stake. The executioners held sharp blades, first shaving the skin of their foreheads, covering their eyes, and then cutting off their wrists. Zeng Wen was weak, overwhelmed, and cried out bitterly. Shi Xuzhi said, "Why can't you bear this?" When I think of my generation, so be it, but ears. Zeng cut his lips silently. Where there are more than a hundred knives, all of them are destroyed. At first, it bleeds, only light blood, and finally only yellow water drops. At the end of the sentence, the anger is prematurely extinguished. ”
Shi Dakai took Shi Dingzhong into the Qing camp, and Shi Dakai was brutally executed by Ling Chi, and regarding The whereabouts of Shi Dingzhong, Fei Xingjian wrote in the article "The Fact that Shi Dakai Fell to the Enemy in Sichuan and His Murder": When Luo Bingzhang interrogated Shi Dakai, he mentioned Shi Dakai's five-year-old son Shi Dingzhong: "Now that the young son you have brought, I have heard that he is very clever, although you are assured, I will never allow anyone to do harm. ”
This passage of record, combined with Luo Bingzhang's "Six Hundred Mile Chi Song" with the Chengdu general Chongshi, said above, "His son Shi Dingzhong, who is now five years old, should be imprisoned, and will be handled as usual when he is old", it can be inferred that Shi Dingzhong, the son who followed Shi Dakai into the Qing camp, temporarily escaped a disaster and was difficult not to die.
Indeed, the Great Qing Law stipulates: "If you are under the age of ten, you shall be firmly imprisoned." When he was only eleven years old, he was dismissed and handed over to the Ministry of internal affairs as usual. ”
Usually, there are two fates for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to "handle as usual": either castrated and sent to the imperial palace for service, or sent to military camps in Xinjiang and other places as slaves.
However, from 1863 to 1869, six years later, when the five-year-old Shi Dingzhong reached the legal age of eleven, the relevant archives of the Qing side did not record his whereabouts.
So, where did Shi Dingzhong go?
A generation of historians Ren Naiqiang said in "Ji Shi Dakai was captured and died": "Prince Shi Dingzhong, exempted from military service with his teeth, somehow, his person did not die, changed his name to Shi Yuhua, and entered the Mianzhou Prefecture School." Guangxu Ding You, together with Gong Bingheng of Gongzhou, and distributed to Guizhou as Zhi County, even with each other, tried to inform Gong, and the Prince of Shiyi also".
That is, Shi Dingzhong did not die, and later changed his name and surname to Shi Yuhua, enrolled in Mianzhou, and was appointed to Zhi County, Guizhou.
Ren Naiqiang swore that this secret was told to him by Le Fengming, a civil affairs inspector of the Xikang Provincial Government, and That Le Fengming was Shi Dingzhong's friend in his later years.
In the 1930s and 1940s, another historian, Jian Youwen, adopted this statement and published it in the Complete History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
However, as early as April 1905, Guangzhilu, an appendix to the Hong Kong "Chinese Character Daily", said in the "Luo Wenzhong" article: "Luo Wenzhong Gong Bingzhang, a native of Hua county, Guangdong. When Shi Dakai was killed, Yin was entrusted with his young son, and Wen Zhong, with his fellow countrymen Xu Zhi, raised his young son in the bureau, and the crown was crowned, and Wen Zhong tried one day: Ru has become an adult, who will be self-reliant? Shi Zi said loudly: I only have the ear to avenge my father. Wen Zhong was horrified, and yin made people miserable. alack! As for this, this is the case. ”
This kind of statement, which is the same as the record of Li Baojia in the "Notes on the South Pavilion" of the late Qing Dynasty, should be quoted from the "Notes on the South Pavilion".
On the eve of the Xinhai Revolution, the Shanghai "Shenzhou Daily" also published a record of Shi Ding's loyalty in Chai Cao's "Burning Heaven Lu Series": "The Wing King was captured in Sichuan, and his son was only three years old, and he was subjected to a stalk, and the next one was raised, and the two women were raised, and then they were killed." When the child is in prison, he thinks of his parents and cries, and the two women, if they are ineffective, will be annoyed: Milk stinkers will be killed. Son-in-law, crying. If it is for several months, the eyes dare to be red- and the eyes are judged to be extraordinary. Years after. Good begging, and the word revenge is endless. The officials, fearing that they would suffer in the future, hanged them in prison. ”
However, the aforementioned Fei Xingjian wrote a special article "On the Whereabouts of Shi Dakai's young son Shi Dingzhong", which recorded Shi Shouzhong's whereabouts in detail: Shi Dingzhong died only a few days after his father. Before Shi Dakai was sent to the execution ground, Shi Dakai said to Tang Yougeng, "This is the day I look forward to, and now I have fulfilled my wish." When it comes to fighting, you and I are enemies, and when it comes to friends, we are no different from brothers. The documents you received before, if they want to be destroyed, they will be destroyed, but those who can stay can stay, and those who will be left behind will be read as "The Nations" and "Three Kingdoms", and they can also know how many deeds I have done. Dingzhong naturally has no way to live, and I hope you will bury him and me together. Also known as "Dingzhong did not see his father, crying day and night, Yang Chongya suggested, with a cloth bag of lime to block his mouth and nose to suppress him, before the death of the forbidden jailer Xie Fu to tell the truth." He asked, 'Can I see my father when I die?' Xie said, 'It is seen in heaven.' He then broke into tears and smiled at the jade tablet gao Xie Yue: "This is what the King of Heaven sent on my birthday, don't take it." "He died instantly when he was killed, and after his death he was buried next to the Qingyun Temple, but he could not pinpoint it to the place."
Fei Xingjian wrote that Shi Dingzhong's death and death were vivid and vivid, and could be witnessed by Yang Chongya (The Sichuan Agent). After Shi Dingzhong's death, many people rebuked him, "Gui'an Sun Gu Chun Zhang Zeng Yi Shu Zhong Ya Yue: This child is innocent, and he also died a tragic death, Juncheng Confucian, why Mu Tu Bo listen to it!" Yang Zeyi offered advice to Luo Bingzhang for Tang Yougeng, and later became known to Tang, and the two scolded in the official hall and almost used force. ”
It can be seen that the murder of Shi Dingzhong was an open secret at that time; that is, the theory that Shi Dingzhong became an official of the Qing court after he grew up was not established.
Taiwanese scholar Huang Jiamo made a study that the so-called shi rain personnel "found a shi shou zhong from the "Mianzhou County Chronicle", deliberately alluded to shi yu, and used the deeds of shi shou zhong as a model, far-fetched, so as to fabricate the so-called shi yu to turn people into their own affairs." ”
The Qing court has always been cruel to the rebels, and pays attention to cutting the grass and removing the roots, which is quite clear to Shi Dakai, so he will frankly say to Tang Yougeng, "Dingzhong naturally has no way to live, I hope you will bury him and me together." Later, it was rumored that Shi Dingzhong survived, which was actually a kind of blindfold method supported by the government, pretending to obey the "Great Qing Law" and deceiving the people of the world, but secretly doing all the work of exterminating humanity.
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