Although Jiading City was breached, jiading's disaster had just begun. At the time of the siege, Li Chengdong sat in command in the Xiaowudang Temple outside Dongguan, and since Jiading City was broken, Chengdong entered the city and ordered the slaughter of the city

Although Jiading City was breached, jiading's disaster had just begun.

At the time of the siege, Li Chengdong sat in command in the Xiaowudang Temple outside Dongguan, Jiading City was broken, Chengdong entered the city, that is, ordered the slaughter of the city, a cannon sounded, and the Qing soldiers began to kill.

Every family could not escape the search, and the small streets and alleys were not spared, and when they encountered dense grass and grain piles, the Qing soldiers stabbed indiscriminately with long guns to determine whether there were Any Tibetans among them. Every time he caught a person, he shouted: Barbarian sacrifices! If you carry your belongings and offer them with both hands, the Qing soldiers will release people when they are satisfied, and if there are not many goods to offer, they will continue to extort after the knife is cut, and they will inevitably wait until all the extortion is clean before killing the people. Therefore, the corpses lying on the road are all scarred, which is the result of cutting first and killing later.

When the first knife went down, the people could still loudly ask for forgiveness, and when the second knife went down, the voice gradually weakened, and by the third knife, it was silent. The streets and alleys are filled with the sound of knives and begging for forgiveness. At a glance, they are all corpses, some hanged, some thrown into the well, some with broken hands and feet, full of blood, after being cut off, the upper position is still twitching, there are no less than thousands of people who commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river, and Jiading City has become a hell on earth.

Three days later, when we took a boat from Xiguan to The town of Gelong, there were still corpses everywhere on the river, and the boatmen had nowhere to get off.

By the fourteenth day, rumors came that the general Zuo Liangyu had regained Nanjing, That Li Chengdong had fled to Yangzhou, and that the Qing troops around Kunshan and Jiading had been disbanded. By the twenty-third day, Zhu Ying, a native of Jiangdong, claimed to be a guerrilla general, led fifty men into the city, and again ordered the people to defend the city, but at this time, after the Qing soldiers killed, no one was willing to listen to his orders.

It just so happened that there was a student named Zhang Youguang, who returned from Nanjing after shaving his hair, was arrested by Zhu Ying, and was pulled to the street to be killed for the crime of shaving his head. After this killing, the news that the enlightened army had arrived spread among the people, and the people's will to resist was rekindled. Rumors spread that the Ming army had regained Jiading, and the township soldiers in the villages and towns outside the city began to gather again, but the target was not the Qing soldiers, but the people who had shaved their hair in the countryside.

People who have shaved their heads are killed indiscriminately, and robberies occur from time to time. Hearing the sound of the wind near and far, they were even more resistant to shaving their heads, and if they did not shave their heads, they were killed by the Qing army, and their shaved heads were killed by the township soldiers.

The news of Jiading's rebellion reached Li Chengdong, who was furious and sent the general Wan Guochang and others to lead troops to the Weaver Girl Temple in Gelong Town outside the city. The townspeople Liu Ao, Wang Xian, and others gathered more than a thousand township soldiers, slaughtered cattle and swore an oath, and did not hesitate to act in righteousness, and met with the township soldiers of Waigang Town to camp at Xueshimen Bridge to engage the Qing army, and the townspeople had been ravaged by the Qing army before, many of them had lost their relatives, and they hated the Qing army, and the Qing army that came was a general who was demoted and demoted, and the combat effectiveness was much worse than that of Li Chengdong's headquarters.

In this battle, the township soldiers gained the upper hand and repelled the Qing army, and everyone cheered and thundered, thinking that from now on the Qing army did not dare to spy on the town of Gelong. Under the victory, the township soldiers relaxed their guard, who knew that at five o'clock on the twenty-sixth day, Li Chengdong personally led the elite qing army to kill by night, most of the township soldiers were still sleeping, and it was too late to even assemble the whole team, and the Qing army slaughtered in a burst of slaughter, killing blood all over the ground, and in some places blood even drowned ankles.

The Qing army took advantage of the victory and slaughtered the towns of Waigang and Gelong, and his subordinates advised Li Chengdong that although Jiading had been slaughtered the day before yesterday, there were still survivors, and now that he heard that Jiading had rebelled again, if he did not take advantage of the situation to suppress it, I am afraid that he would have left another trouble. Li Chengdong listened to the advice and led his troops straight into Jiading overnight, and all the returning people and Zhu Ying in the city were slaughtered, and Jiading was tragically slaughtered for the second time.

Jiading was originally a rich land in jiangnan, with merchants and merchants like clouds, and the population was dense, but after these two massacres, no matter whether the city and countryside were already a wither, the property population was empty. When the news came out, everyone in Jiangnan was in danger, but it also angered those who were willing to resist.

Wu Zhifan, who was the former commander of the Southern Ming Jiangnan Land Camp, was a military family, and his father Wu Dounan died in the Chongzhen Dynasty in the war against Liu Kou, and Wu Zhifan often used this to motivate himself. However, the infighting in the Southern Ming Dynasty did not stop, the Qing army fell apart in the south, Wu Zhifan was a small general, naturally difficult to support, even a hundred households under the Hands of Haber Zhang also surrendered to the Qing army, hearing that Jiading was slaughtered again, Wu Zhifan cried and decided to raise an army.

On August 16, Wu Zhifan re-raised the banner of righteousness in Jiangdong, gathered thousands of people, and landed from Wuxiang Bridge by water, intending to restore Jiading.

At this time, Li Chengdong had left, and what remained in Jiading City was Feng Jiayou, a Ming Dynasty martial artist who had descended to the Qing Dynasty, and his commander was hundreds of Elite Soldiers of Li Chengdong's old battalion, and Feng Jiayou knew that if it fell into the hands of Wu Zhifan, Ling Chi would be considered light, and he summoned his soldiers to mobilize: Wu Zhifan hated us with his teeth and hated us, and threatened to cut our eyes and stomachs, cramp our skins, and if the war was unfavorable, we would all die and die!

Boosting morale, Feng Jiayi led the crowd into battle and secretly sent people to burn Wu Zhifan's fleet. Wu Zhifan's troops only had a small number of regular troops, the rest were temporarily recruited townspeople, the combat strength was originally inferior to Li Chengdong's elite troops, seeing the fire in the rear, morale began to collapse, Wu Zhifan could not even kill several people to prevent his men from escaping. he

Crying to the sky, he wanted to charge the gun, but begged for death. There was a subordinate named Wang San next to him, who persuaded him to return, and the two retreated to the water's edge, and Wang San suddenly pushed Wu Zhifan into the water and captured him and offered him to the Qing army.

The Qing army captured Wu Zhifan, trapped him in a prison cart, hung the head of Zhifan's men who had been captured in the battle on his chest, and insulted him in every way, Wu Zhifan scolded him incessantly, and the Qing army blocked his mouth with dung, dissolved him into the city, and killed him.

After the battle, the Qing army killed Liang Andong one after another, more than 20,000 people died in the war inside and outside the city, and the people who survived after the Second Massacre were almost killed again, for the three Tu Jiading.

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