From outside the city, the walled wall is solid, and there is no difference, even Huang Ting, Ke Chenshu, Gan Hui and others have not been able to see too much. However, after offering a reward, soon people who knew the situation inside came to offer advice, and Huang Ting and the others didn't have to make much effort to find the seven-inch place in the city that was not conducive to the "snake head" and "snake tail" support!

After a day's rest, Huang Ting and others did not bother to persuade them to surrender, and sent troops to attack the village early the next morning. The army was fully rolled out, and the people guarding the village were all village warriors organized by Chen Junge, and in the face of these regular troops with relatively rich combat experience, they felt tremendous pressure.

Chen Junge shouted a fierce battle on the wall, but the battle was fierce on this side, but there was a sudden loud noise at the wall on the other side, and then the rammed earth and masonry of the wall splashed in all directions, and when the dust settled, it was a breach of more than ten zhang in front of everyone.

Exploded the wall, Gan Hui took the lead, rushed into the town from the right, and the township Yong still had some courage to defend the village with danger, and followed Chen Junge to bully and bully the businessmen with their own prestige and domineering, but in the face of the regular army that entered the village, the courage suddenly dissipated, one by one, even if they turned into birds and beasts, they all fled home with a small scream, as a good citizen, and also protected the family, who cares what the owner of the village, Xiucaigong, these have not.

The battle soon ended, and the entire Outing Village was quickly controlled by the Ming army, and the villagers who had not had time to flee home were held in a large open space in the stockade by heavy soldiers, and Chen Junge and his family, clansmen and his cronies were also specially detained.

"Huang Shuai, what is the intention?"

"Chen joined the army, what the country's surname said before the army was dispatched, you also heard it, and you are going to give this Ou Ting Village a solid lesson with a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood!"

There were no less than hundreds of imprisoned villagers, and the Ming army on the left was eyeing them, as if they were waiting for Huang Ting's order to take the lives of these people.

From the beginning when Zheng Chenggong sent Huang Ting, Ke Chenshu and Gan Hui to attack this Outing Village, Chen Kai made up his mind to participate in this battle in person, because he remembered that in history, Zheng Chenggong broke through the Outing Village, because Chen Junge plundered and mutilated the maritime merchants, attacked Zheng Hongkui, killed Chen Bao's generals, resisted the loss of the army, etc., he simply did a massacre of the village as revenge.

Because Chen Kai changed Zheng Chenggong's strategic direction, Chaozhou was no longer a collection place for grain, grass and personnel, but as the main occupation area, Zheng Chenggong was far more tolerant of the local people of Chaozhou than in history. However, no matter how much tolerance there is, there is a limit, Chen Junge has disrupted the normal trade order, and is still wantonly attacking the Ming army, which Zheng Chenggong absolutely cannot tolerate. However, in Chen Kai's opinion, the evil of Chen Junge alone is nothing more than counting his cronies at most, but most of the others obey orders, and they really should not become Chen Junge's funeral objects.

Hearing Huang Ting's answer, Chen Kai turned to look at Ke Chenshu and Gan Hui, the former was expressionless, and the latter was taken for granted. They are all Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, and they are unwilling to disobey the boss, but there are some things that Chen Kai has to do, whether it is for these people or for Zheng Chenggong.

"Since it is a tooth for a tooth and blood for a blood, the lower officials have nothing to say. However, according to the opinion of the lower officials, the people of this village will also need to be paid for food in the future, and it is really a waste to kill them. Otherwise, only punishing the chief evil and his cronies and coercing them, and letting the people in the village personally observe the punishment, can also have a deterrent effect. ”

Huang Ting is the boss of this battle, Chen Kai is just idle to come over to join in the fun, but Chen Kai's identity and status are there, as Zheng Chenggong's mastermind, Huang Ting does not dare to hold it up, let alone be as arrogant as Shi Lang. At this moment, Chen Kai made a suggestion, and Huang Ting also fell into deep thought. In contrast, Chen Kai's method of killing many fewer people than he planned on the road, but it is also in line with Zheng Chenggong's statement, watching the punishment in public, the deterrent effect should not be small. It's just that this responsibility, he doesn't dare and doesn't intend to take it on, especially when it may cause Zheng Chenggong's dissatisfaction.

"Huang Shuai, the lower officials think that this method is enough. As for the country surname, the lower officials are willing to bear it even if they say this! ”

That's it. Huang Ting got down the stairs and turned to look at Ke Chenshu and Gan Hui, who did not express any objections, and did as Chen Kai wished.

The people in the stockade were driven out of the house by the Ming army, and when they arrived in the open space of the stockade, Chen Junge and his cronies were escorted to the Xingxing platform where Chen Junge killed maritime merchants on weekdays, and the executioners brought by the Ming army served them.

Under the wall, the people of Wuyang and Wuyang seem to have about 2,000 people at first glance. Looking away, Chen Junge, his family members, and cronies, regardless of gender, were all stripped naked. Immediately afterwards, Chen Junge's son was pulled up and tied to a pillar, and the executioner held a sharp blade in his hand, and with a knife he slashed open his belly, and in the scream of pain, his left hand went in and out, and his colorful intestines were dragged out.

The scene was cruel, but it was just a replacement for the person who was tortured and killed. The people in the village watched all this in horror, especially when there were a large number of Ming soldiers around, even women and children were all covering their mouths by themselves, or by their family members, lest they would make too loud noises, arouse the attention and dissatisfaction of the Ming army, and thus cause death.

The punishment continued, the screams on the stage continued, but they gradually became hoarse, but those around them who had not yet been executed, there were those who wept, those who scolded, and even Chen Junge was even more embarrassed by the and urine, which caused the Ming army to laugh for a while.

"This kind of scene, let those old people and children see too much, it is not a good thing, especially those pregnant women, if they have fetal gas, if they don't get it right, they will be a corpse and two lives. It's better to let them go back, leave only those strong men and women, give them a good memory, and let them know that good and evil will be rewarded in the end. ”

"What Chen Senjun said is very true, and the last general also thinks so."

Huang Ting has not yet answered, Ke Chenshu has already spoken to help, since this is the case, Huang Ting also readily agreed, and then conveyed the order, those old men, pregnant women and children were all like amnesty, hurriedly retreated, only a pregnant woman was supported by a man who looked like her husband, in the direction of Chen Kai, bowed, and then turned to leave.

This scene, in Chen Kai's eyes, did not have too many other thoughts. It's just that he didn't know that the woman's surname was Guo, a local, and her husband's surname was She, and he lived not far away, so there was nothing strange about the couple, but the child she was pregnant with would be admitted to my Qing Dynasty Jinshi in history and serve as a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, and this child was called She Zhizhen.

In history, the Outing tragedy occurred on November 23, the 14th year of Shunzhi, and there are still eight years to go, of which She Zhizhen is one of the witnesses of this tragedy.

According to She Zhizhen's description, because it was the Outing Race that day, people from all over the country came. The young She Zhizhen also went to Ou Ting's grandmother's house to watch the excitement. The child is not used to staying up late and goes to bed early. He didn't know anything about the murder outside. When he got up early in the morning, he went outside to see the corpses all over the ground and rivers of blood, which frightened him so much that he hurriedly hid in the house. Many people died in his grandmother's house.

She Zhizhen is Kangxi's favorite minister, even the word Zhizhen is given by Kangxi, from lifting people to Jinshi are all admitted to the imperial examination of the Qing court, and later She Zhizhen gained power, built a mansion in Chaozhou City, and the west road in the city is east of the uprising on An'an Road, west to the west of Xiping Road, which is commonly known as Shefu Street.

Such an experience, coupled with the fact that many people in my grandmother's family died at the hands of the Ming army, it is absolutely impossible to say good things for Zheng Chenggong. However, She Zhizhen not only said, but also clearly recorded that the number of victims at that time should be about 10,000, and there were no more than 70,000 people recorded by the Qing court in the official historical materials such as "Chenghai County Chronicles".

Eight years earlier, this child has not yet been born, so he can't be used as a witness, but Chen Kai took a closer look, the village was so big, and there were about 2,000 people in it, and the number of 70,000 people didn't know how it came out.

"Earlier, I heard that Outing Village can hold sixty or seventy thousand people, I originally thought it was a big village, but now it seems that it is not very big."

Chen Kai suddenly came out with this sentence, and Huang Ting, Ke Chenshu, Gan Hui and others all laughed when they heard it. Among them, Gan Hui said directly to Chen Kaiyan: "Chen joined the army and joked, you have taken Chaozhou City, and there are only 50,000 or 60,000 people living in a city, why should such a broken village pretend to be 60,000 or 70,000?" ”

Yes, in feudal society, the population density is so low, if it is not for the giant cities of Liangjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Guangzhou, it is normal to have 50,000 or 60,000 permanent residents in a capital city. For example, Outing Village, a 0.49 square kilometer village, the size is equivalent to a park, and it cannot be a particularly large kind, there is no lack of fertile land and idle land inside the village, and it is extremely difficult to accommodate two or three thousand people.

To put it bluntly, Shantou City, a provincial municipality and a special economic zone, was only 10,000 people per 4 square kilometers on average. The population density of this Outing village in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was 56 times that of the industrialized society, such a figure is really incomprehensible.

In this regard, Chen Kai only has one thing to say, that is, the brain is a good thing, I hope that those guys who have a mouth is Zheng Chenggong slaughtering 70,000 people in Ou Ting Village really have it.

Of course, whether it is 70,000 people, or 10,000 people, or even 1,000 people, the nature of Zheng Chenggong's slaughter of Ou Ting Village cannot be changed, because among the victims of that tragedy are not only butchers with blood-stained hands, but also unarmed goodness who have suffered unjustified disasters. This was the biggest stain in his life, compared to fighting the national oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and recovering Taiwan from the colonial rule of the Dutch, this was an inevitable choice for a maritime merchant out of a class position, but it was also the most undesirable choice.

Fortunately, now that Chen Kai is involved, he has finally turned it around. As for Chen Junge and his cronies, the murderers died, how they tortured and killed the merchants all these years, and today they want to return it in earnest.

"If you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later."