Chapter 28 Zhao Ming's Awakening
Outside Kunshan City, the beheaded corpses were neatly piled into cylinders. It was obviously done by the Qing army to show off their military achievements and intimidate the people of Jiangnan.
In Kunshan City, the streets were covered with layers of dead corpses. A man with arrows all over his body knelt in the pile of corpses with a knife and a slough lying beside him with spears and broken swords. It was obvious that after a bloody battle, he was not a match for the Qing army, and all died in the city.
In the yard next to the street, she was naked and suffered great suffering before her death, and had a twisted female corpse.
The corpses of the elderly, weak, women and children in the city were one by one, and there was no place to take their feet.
Zhao Ming had only heard of this word before. He knew that the Qing army slaughtered Yangzhou and killed hundreds of thousands of people, but after all, he had not seen it with his own eyes and had no idea in his heart.
Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Zhao Ming's heart was completely shocked.
Before, he was just disliked the Qing Dynasty and could not say that he hated him much, but at this moment, seeing the barbarity of the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Ming felt endless anger.
To deal with these barbarians, any kindness and morality are useless. Only violence can one eliminate the hatred in his heart by returning it to his own way.
At this time, He Wencheng looked at the tragedy in front of him and saw the bodies of tens of thousands of righteous people, which were exposed to the sun and rotten in the sun. He suddenly knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
Zhao Ming suddenly turned around and lifted him up, with a ferocious face and roared angrily: "Chang Geng, I don't allow you to cry, you should be angry!"
He Wencheng was stunned and stopped crying.
As he said that, Zhao Ming stared at Wang Deshun, who was vomiting wildly on the wall, and slapped his back: "Even if you want to vomit, swallow it!"
Wang Deshun's face was so painful that his mind was blank. He came back to his senses. He felt angry and covered his face with one hand, with a resentful expression. He was confused, "Why did a man surnamed Zhao do evil, Jiannu beat me?"
At this time, Zhao Ming looked around everyone and shouted in a deep voice: "It is not uncommon for the two armies to confront each other, but what is Jiannu doing? They put the corpse in this shape and killed the people of the whole city without letting go of the women and children. They just wanted to intimidate us and make us surrender. So, put away your fear and cowardice and fight with them!"
Wang Deshun, who had slapped her in the face, was stunned after hearing Zhao Ming's words.
"Ah!" He suddenly roared like a beast, venting his anger in his heart, roaring, "Fight with Jiannu!"
The country of Chinese etiquette was moral, and the Qing Dynasty was born out of barbarians and had no faith and righteousness.
At the beginning of entering the pass, they tried to implement the shaving order in Northern Zhili, but the resistance was fierce and they couldn't stand firm even when their heels were standing. So Dorgon immediately ordered the shaving order to cancel the shaving order and said that they would never force the gentry and people to shave their hair.
But when the Qing army stabilized Beizhi and gained a foothold, they changed their minds and implemented the policy of shaving martial arts and not shaving civilians and not shaving soldiers and people.
The gentry and people in the world did not be wary of this, because in the past understanding of the people of the world, the court kept its word, and the emperor even spoke in a golden manner, and it was impossible for him to change his orders every day.
Central Plains culture is about a person who has no faith and no one can stand. No one expected that a regime could be so shameless. The Qing Dynasty severely damaged Chinese culture and lowered its moral bottom line and civilization level.
Therefore, when the Qing army went south, Duoduo issued a manifesto, "The matter of shaving the head has become a custom. Nowadays, when the soldiers arrive, they will shave their martial arts and not shave their civilians, and they will not be able to shave their own laws and regulations, and they will shave them by themselves. Before, there were shameless officials who shave their heads and ask for their own eyes, and their country has already cursed them. Special instructions." The gentry and civilians believed it again, so the Qing army successfully accepted Jiangnan.
But before the ink was dry, the Qing court overturned all the previous guarantees and asked the people in Jiangnan to shave their heads and change their clothes, "leaving their heads without leaving their hair, and leaving their hair without leaving their heads."
This is really shameless!
When the Qing court believed that the Han gentry and people could no longer pose a threat to their rule, they finally tore off their disguise and revealed their original appearance of barbarism and shamelessness.
In response, it was too late to find that the deceived Han gentry and people rose up to resist.
Jiangyin made righteousness, nearly 100,000 righteous people were trapped in the city, Kunshan gentry and people fought against the Qing Dynasty, and more than 40,000 were massacred. Although the gentry and people in Jiangnan rose up to resist, the general situation collapsed and were no longer the opponent of the Qing army.
This made Zhao Ming feel extremely sad and angry. Looking at the tragic situation in front of him, a voice kept echoing in his mind, "This is just the beginning. After Kunshan, there are Jiading, Huizhou, Jiangyin, Nanchang, Guangzhou, Datong..."
"Boan, what should we do now?" He Wencheng looked at Zhao Ming and asked with a hiss.
Zhao Ming waved his hand and looked resolute, "I'll take you to save people!"
"Go to save people?" He Wencheng asked.
Zhao Ming focused his attention, "Yes, go and save people."
Under the afterglow of the sunset, the earth was bleak, and Zhao Ming and his group ran eastward. The smoke from Kunshan City was rolling behind him, and the smoke pillars soared into the sky.
In the distance, a group of people wearing headscarves and wearing cloth clothes walked out of the woods with a embarrassed expression and looked towards Kunshan.
"Brother Gui, is this?" a scholar asked, pointing at the smoke.
Another Confucian scholar said: "Brother Gu, let's go back!"
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Jiangnan, Jiading County.
Outside the city, the Qing army camps were connected, and torches were spotted in the camp, and they were on high alert.
In front of the city gate, there were trenches, surrounding the city. More than a dozen people rushed out of the city gate under the night. Arrows were whizzing on the low wall behind the trenches, and bird guns were roaring. The people who were helping the elderly and young were all shot to death by the Qing army before they could break out of the door.
The Qing army issued a hair shaving order, and the people of Jiading, like the gentry and people in Jiangyin, refused to obey orders.
The local gentry Hou Dong once led the Jiading gentry and people to revolt against the Qing Dynasty. Li Chengdong, the general of Wusong in Qing Dynasty, immediately led 5,000 troops to attack.
During the battle between the two armies, more than 100,000 villagers from all over Jiading gathered, but they were all civilians, bustling, crowded and blocked, and were a mob, without discipline, let alone organization and combat effectiveness. Although Li Chengdong only had less than 5,000 troops, they were all well-equipped and well-trained elite soldiers. More than 100,000 righteous people were killed by Li Chengdong and defeated into Jiading City.
At this time, the villagers who fled to the city after the defeat were all over the city, either standing, standing or lying, no longer had the morale he had just begun to be righteous. Many villagers were sitting against the city wall with guns in their arms, their eyes dull and their expressions were miserable.
There was a huge difference in combat power between the village soldiers and the Qing army. After a big battle, tens of thousands of people were massacred by the Qing soldiers, which made the villagers who were defeated into the city feel despair and fear.
In the early morning, before dawn, the Qing army camp began to move and prepare to line up to attack the city.
In the city, Hou Dongzeng sat in his ancestral home with a pale complexion, his lips were dry and chapped. He had a lot of wounds on his body dyed his Taoist robe black. He did not sleep all night, making his eyes red.
At this time, a man with broken armor and hanging his left arm was holding a bowl of steaming soup to him, "Sir, the Qing army is going to attack the city, you can drink a bowl of hot soup!"
Hou Dongzeng stood up silently, faced the tablet of his ancestors, suddenly knelt down, and bowed: "Dongzeng is not talented, and he is righteous to resist the Qing Dynasty. However, the enemy is strong and we are weak, and we may not be able to defend. I am ashamed of my fellow villagers! I am ashamed of my ancestors! If the city is broken today, I will only die with all my loyalty."
After speaking, he kowtowed again, then stood up resolutely, took a sword, and said to the man: "Let's go, go up to the city to kill the enemy!"
Chapter completed!