When the Hailanpao Massacre and the Liushitun Massacre in Jiangdong broke out, the Qing Dynasty did not want to care, but had a weak heart, and after the tragedies occurred one after another, only the local Qing troops stationed in Yaohun carried out limited assistance.
How tragic was the Hailanpao Massacre and the Jiangdong Sixty-Four Tun Massacre? The answer was very tragic, even more shocking than breaking into the eighteenth layer of hell.
Let's start with the Highland Bubble Massacre.
Located on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River and the confluence of the two rivers on the right bank of the Jingqili River, at the southwest end of the Jieya-Breya Plain, on the other side of Heihe City in Heilongjiang Province, the area of about 353 square kilometers was ceded to Tsarist Russia in 1858 by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had lost power and humiliated the country, and ceded about 600,000 square kilometers of territory north of heilongjiang and south of the Waixing'an Mountains to Tsarist Russia with a "Sino-Russian Treaty of Yaohun". Naturally, the Hyland Bubble, which was within this range, naturally became the territory of Tsarist Russia.
After the Tsarist Russia forcibly occupied Hailanpao, it was renamed Blagoveshchensk, which means "city of annunciation" in Russian, which is indeed their happy event for Tsarist Russia, but for the Chinese nation, it will forever become an indelible pain burned in the bone marrow. According to statistics, when the Tsarist Russia occupied Hailanpao at that time, there were more than 40,000 permanent residents and 15,000 overseas Chinese in the city, most of whom lived here as traders and craftsmen, and the larger businesses were as high as 240.
In the 42 years that Tsarist Russia forcibly occupied Highland Bubble, the local residents and the Russian ethnic group could get along with each other, and there was no large-scale armed friction between the two sides, it can be said that the local people have always been diligent and earnest to contribute to the development of Highland Bubble.
Until 1900, when the Boxer Rebellion arose and "Fu Qing and Destroy the Yang" became the slogan of the ordinary people at that time, the domestic situation underwent a sharp change, and the Manchu Qing rulers headed by Cixi believed that the Boxer Rebellion had a sword and gun to protect the body, and it was just around the corner to expel foreigners to reorganize the rivers and mountains, so with her acquiescence, the Boxers developed rapidly near Gyeonggi and soon spread to a large area of the country.
The boxers' daily performance art at that time was to kill foreigners, exterminate foreign religions, burn foreign consulates, and drive all things related to foreign devils out of China.
Therefore, in May 1900, more than 50,000 allied troops and 50 warships led by Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Austria landed at Dagukou to launch an attack on the city of Beijing, the Qing army was defeated by the Boxers, the city of Beijing fell, cixi fled west with the Guangxu Emperor and others, known in history as the "Invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance".
Throughout the rise of the Boxers, under the pretext that the Boxers had spread to the Occupied Areas of the Far East, Tsarist Russia sent a telegram to goorodykov, the governor of Bin Amur Province, to "closely monitor" the border areas and authorize that extraordinary measures could be taken to stop the Boxers from raging in extraordinary times.
In June of the same year, Tsar Nicholas II declared the Amur Military District into a state of war, and Tsarist Russia massively increased its troops to the region, and gathered in Boli and Shuangchengzi in a vain attempt to launch an attack on Harbin and Mudanjiang.
On July 15 of that year, the "Mikhail" and "Selenge" sailed to the surface of the Yaohun River and opened the attack mode against the Qing army, the local Qing army rose up to fight back, and the Qing and the Tsarist Russia bombarded each other, known in history as the "Heilongjiang Incident".
The day after the "Heilongjiang Incident" broke out, the Tsarist bandit leader Gribsky ordered the arrest of all Chinese citizens in Highland Bubble City, the heavily armed Cossack cavalry and the local Russian bandits, both men, women and children, and forcibly arrested and detained, even the infants in their infancy. A total of 3,500 Chinese were arrested that day, and the next day, Russian bandits brandished bayonets to drive these residents to the Heilongjiang River with sweepers and stabs.
Due to the large number of people, there are countless tramplers and drowning people, and some of the women who are about to drown throw the baby in the swaddling to the shore, hoping that the Russian bandits will be kind enough to save their children, but the Russian bandits picked up the baby in the swaddling, stabbed it through the heart, and then picked the baby on the bayonet and pounded it into meat paste.
According to a Russian soldier who was involved in the Hyranpo massacre at the time, "The Russian army armed with bayonets surrounded the crowd, opened the riverbank, and constantly compressed the encirclement. The officers wielded their knives and shouted frantically: 'Those who do not obey orders, shoot immediately!' The crowd began to fall like an avalanche into the turbid currents of the Heilongjiang River. The crowd shouted like crazy, the sound was in the blue sky, some wanted to desperately break the crowd and drill out the net, some trampled on the women and babies who had been squeezed down, trying to escape. These men were either thrown into the air by the horseshoes of the cavalry or stabbed to the ground by the bayonets of the cavalry. Immediately, the Russian soldiers opened fire in unison. Shouts, cries, gunshots, and angry scoldings mingled, and the misery was indescribable, it was a scene of hell."
According to Yang Jigong, then the deputy governor of the Imperial Household Bureau, Yang Jigong wrote: "On the twenty-first day (the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the Seventh Month of the Gregorian calendar), at eleven o'clock in the afternoon, looking at the other shore, Russia drove countless overseas Chinese around the river, and the noise shook the wilderness. A closer glance at the Russian soldiers each holding a sword and axe, slashing east and west, breaking the bones of the corpses, sonic shock sour noses, the seriously wounded are killed on the shore, the lightly wounded are killed in the river, the uninjured are all thrown into the water and drowned, and the bones are overflowing, covering the rivers and oceans."
According to the memoirs of a Russian soldier who participated in the Holland Bubble Massacre at that time, he said: "The party that killed the murderer completely exterminated humanity, and they were either devils or animals." How can such a tragic scene be seen in the human world,... It was a nightmare. If the people killed were men who were still able to struggle, maybe it wouldn't be so miserable."
It can be said that this creepy and heartbreaking massacre of the century is almost comparable to the Nanjing Massacre of the later Japanese Kou, and even the Russian bandits have to admit: "Only those beasts who are completely inhuman can do such a thing."
The Hailanpao Massacre lasted for five days from July 16 to 21 of that year, cutting off the entire Heilongjiang River, and the history records that "floating corpses cover the river, and the river is red."
Gangdong Sixty-Four Tun Massacre
At the same time that the Hailanpao Massacre was staged in a purgatory on earth, the Amur authorities in Tsarist Russia launched the "Human Purge Plan" of Jiangdong Sixty-Four Tun.
Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun, north from the Jingqili River estuary south to Holmole Jintun, west to the left coastal area of the Heilongjiang River, an area of 3600 square kilometers, because there are 64 Tunzi Chinese people in history in this generation of breeding, so it is called "Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun", and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun Manchu han residents have more than 35,000 people.
In 1858, the Heilongjiang general Yishan and the governor of Eastern Siberia, Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov, signed the Treaty of Yaohun, and the territory north of the Heilongjiang River and south of the Waixing'an Mountains was all included in the territory of Tsarist Russia, and the sixty-four tuns in Jiangdong, which bordered the southern bank of the Heilongjiang River, also became the territory of Tsarist Russia.
However, due to the large number of Chinese residents living on the boundary of the Sixty-Four Tuns in Jiangdong, when the Treaty of Yaohun was signed, the Manchu Qing and Tsarist Russia agreed that the Tsarist Russia would enjoy territorial ownership, while the Qing government only had jurisdiction under its jurisdiction, and the Czarist Russia, which had a natural perverted appetite for land, would naturally not allow this situation to exist for a long time, and the temporary commitment was only because the Tsarist Russia had not yet established a foothold in the Sixty-Four Tuns of Jiangdong at this time, and the presence of a large number of Chinese residents could provide them with the production and living supplies needed to build a colonial stronghold.
On July 17, 1900, the Tsarist Amur authorities dispatched a multi-wave Cossack cavalry to set fire to the village in a ploughing and sweeping cave style, and the atrocities of the beasts that killed people frantically slaughtered the local Chinese residents, and even in order to facilitate the slaughter of Chinese, the Tsarist bandits drove the local men, women, and children into the big house, and then set them on fire. The burnt smell of human flesh pervaded the wilderness.
In addition to this heinous perverted method of massacre, the Tsarist bandits also drove the remaining Chinese residents to the Heilongjiang River, and for the slightly disobedient Chinese, the Tsarist Bandits directly stabbed them with bayonets, and the Chinese border people had to rush to the choppy Heilongjiang River in the frenzied slaughter of the bayonets.
A Russian colonel officer who was involved in the massacre at the time wrote triumphantly in his diary:
"On The twenty-fourth day of July, our group took a boat and continued to sail forward. The ship soon caught up with a drowning corpse. Behind it appeared a second and third corpse. In this way, on the entire wide surface of the Heilongjiang River, corpses floated, as if chasing our ships. Apparently, this was the most unfortunate of those who drowned in Hyland Bubble. On a flat sandy beach, a lot of drowning bodies rushed up at once. One hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-one, one hundred and thirty-two', Colonel Er counted softly. The shoal glowed white in the distance, and the long bands made of brown and pink corpses were set like lace on the water's edge of the beach. The air around us was so badly poisoned that we all had to cover our noses with handkerchiefs. It's hard to estimate how many bodies we caught up with that day. However, it is judged that on only one small sand mouth, we have counted a total of one hundred and fifty bodies. It is conceivable that there are many corpses Chinese."
After the Tsarist Russia created the Hailanpao Massacre and the Sixty-Four Tun Massacre in Jiangdong, it basically achieved the goal of eliminating the Chinese, and the Tsarist Russia took advantage of the situation to invade Heilongjiang and occupy Yaohun, and burned and looted all the way, razing the city of Yaohun to the ground.
Shortly after the end of the two massacres, the Russian authorities nakedly confiscated all the property of Hailanpao City and The Sixty-Four Tun Chinese in Jiangdong, and the cumulative losses of Chinese border residents far exceeded 2.6 million rubles. This atrocity of murderous, land-grabbing beasts, even the Russian Deutsch indignantly denounced: "This inhumane practice now practised in Tsarist Russia can only be compared with the inquisition of infidels in the Middle Ages and the persecution of infidels, Jews and Moors in Spain", and even Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, publicly criticized: "They killed and set fires, burned the villages, drove the common people into the Heilongjiang River and drowned alive, shot and stabbed the unarmed residents and their wives and children, The policy of the Tsarist government in China was a 'criminal policy'.
Response of the Qing Dynasty
After the Hailanpao Massacre and the outbreak of the Sixty-Four Tun Massacre in Jiangdong, the central government of the Qing Dynasty at this time had already entered a state of "anarchism", the Eight-Nation Alliance army invaded the city of Beijing, and Cixi abducted the Guangxu Emperor and other royal nobles to flee to Xi'an like dogs that lost their families.
Before Cixi fled, she ordered Li Hongzhang, Yi Xi, and others to take full responsibility for the aftermath, as long as the foreigners withdrew from the army and ensured the survival of her legitimate rule, everything was easy to say, at Cixi's behest, Li Hongzhang dragged his terminally ill body and began to negotiate with the representatives of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the "traitor" Li Hongzhang finally drew a bleak end to his life with the "Xin Ugly Treaty".
For Cixi, the death or death of Li Min and the hardships of the people are not things that she remembers, as long as I still control this empire, I am the most powerful woman in the whole Qing Dynasty, so in the process of the conclusion of the "Xinugu Treaty", this dog woman actually said with a slave face: "Measure the material strength of China, and the joy of the country", it is really unbelievable to think that the country is like this, and it is still necessary to kneel and lick the stinky feet of foreigners.
In the history of ancient China, there were many traitors and shameless people, and if Cixi were compared with them, he might be able to rank among the top three in the sequence of excellence.
Naturally, for those poor people who were tragically killed in The Sixty-Four Tuns of Hailanpao and Jiangdong, where did Cixi dare to provoke Tsarist Russia in the north at this time?
However, Yang Fengxiang, the deputy governor of Yaohun, was a bloody man, who witnessed the massacre of the Tsarist bandits on the other side of the river, so he coordinated with the commander Wang Liangchen and others to lead more than 300 people to kill the Russian army, and mobilized 30 troop carriers and 20 merchant ships to help the people cross the river day and night.
In such a difficult situation, Yang Fengxiang, Wang Liangchen and others did indeed deserve the natural duty of soldiers to defend their families and defend the country, but after all, their strength was limited, and the local garrison was still unable to stop the wanton slaughter of Tsarist Russia.
Of course, the inhumane atrocities committed by Tsarist Russia in the Far East soon spread around the world, and the Western powers, worried about the rapid expansion of Tsarist russia's power and threatening the interests and domination of various countries in China, came forward to condemn Tsarist Russia's crimes against humanity.
The slaughter of tens of thousands of people in exchange for only the dismissal of individual scapegoats, it has to be said that Tsarist Russia's move is purely to block the mouths of the Western powers, and the outbreak of the Hailanpao Massacre and the Sixty-Four Tun Massacre in Jiangdong is like a sharp blade inserted into the hearts of the people of the country, so that the muddy Chinese has since understood the truth that weak countries have no diplomacy, and since then, the Chinese people have set off a century-long road of rich countries and strong soldiers, and a heroic master is about to awaken, and he will make the world tremble for it.
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