Chapter 194: Martyrdom
Shang Kexi's shouting made the Qing army prisoners behind him a big mess, and those prisoners in the carts really couldn't do anything, but those who followed on foot blew up their nests......
That's when they saw what was ahead.
A deep trench was dug around the huge mound of Chongzhen's mausoleum, which surrounded the mound like a moat, and the earth dug up on the edge of the trench was piled up, and countless soldiers and laborers with shovels were waiting there. What is this going to do, basically you can guess if you are not stupid, in other words, these Qing soldiers are estimated to have done it before, and now they are buried alive, so why don't you run away?
More than 8,000 captives, strung together with ropes, struggled to flee like madness from front to back.
But it's hard to do.
Because they were surrounded by Ming troops on both sides, a bird gun with good bullets did not hesitate to spew flames, and the fleeing Qing prisoners were constantly knocked down, and these Qing soldiers were tied with ropes and their hands were strung with each other, and those who were knocked down dragged others could not run at all. Some tried to ram the soldiers who held them, and then snatched their knives to cut the ropes, after all, these captives were not weak in combat, and this desperate time also broke out. But they were flanked by the Sixth Army, which had just been reorganized, with a full corps of 20,000 men, more than twice as many as them, and all of them were fully armed. This army was originally under Gao Jie's department, and then some of the officers who were transferred from the three armies of the original Beijing camp were reorganized, and they were all veterans who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and it was not simple to pack up these prisoners with their hands tied up in full armor?
Bullet.
Gunstock.
Even the Yanling knife.
After a slash, the captives were bleeding profusely.
Thousands of dead bodies made the captives lose the courage to flee again.
"What's all the fuss?"
Yang Qing rode his horse and roared arrogantly.
The captives looked at him with fearful eyes, there were actually many people who had seen him, and the figure of him throwing dozens of pounds of explosives during the Tashan Blockade was still imprinted in his memory.
"Burying you alive is cheap, according to the rules, you should be cut with a thousand knives, you are honest in the past is death, and making trouble is also death, why do you find guilt for the last part of your journey? You are all former subjects of the Ming Dynasty, betrayed the Ming Dynasty, you are sorry for the first emperor, and now you are giving you a chance to atone for your sins to the first emperor, go underground to serve the first emperor, and be a slave to the first emperor. Originally, you should have thrown the underworld to receive that punishment, now go to serve the first emperor, and you can follow the first emperor to heaven to enjoy happiness in the future, this is a good thing for you, don't know what to do, now you resist and die is also in the underworld! ”
Yang Qing continued to roar.
I have to say that he has a lot of crooked reasoning.
But the effect is really there, some of the captives are obviously resigned to their fate and deflated, sitting in a pool of blood and crying, after all, there are still the old Han soldiers who surrendered to our Qing Dynasty with Shang Kexi before, and the Koreans who have always regarded the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain.
Yang Qing was right to say that they betrayed the Ming Dynasty.
They gave Chongzhen a martyrdom to atone for their sins, and then died and followed Chongzhen to heaven, otherwise if they died, they would also go to the underworld to be punished, as for whether it was true or false......
There's got to be a fantasy about this thing.
It's at least better to lie to yourself.
There were even captives who began to hang their heads again and prepared to walk towards the trench.
"Don't listen to his nonsense, fight with them!"
He Luo would scream.
Because he was still in the cage, he could only use this way to regain his morale.
However, the next moment, Yang Qing jumped up from the horse, landed in an instant, and then came to him in a blink of an eye at a speed faster than the galloping of the war horse, and before He Luohui could react, Yang Qing had already slammed his fist on the wooden cage. The arm-thick log didn't hold his brute force after all, and the nail that fell from the fist flew out of the whole upside down, and Yang Qing's right hand grabbed He Luo and dragged it out......
He Luo would let out a heart-rending scream.
Just smash a piece of wood, how big can the gap be?
The head barely came out.
Yang Qing's hard tugging made his head blur in the squeezing friction of the two logs, and even the two ears were squeezed out, and then his body was also dragged out of this gap. He Luohui, who was also quite strong, was covered in blood under the friction of the rough logs on both sides, and then struggled in severe pain and was lifted into the air by Yang Qing with one hand.
"If you listen, you will die, and if you don't listen, you will die!"
Yang Qing roared with a cruel smile.
Immediately after that, he threw He Luohui to the ground like a dead dog, the latter convulsed, and blood immediately gushed out of his mouth, Yang Qing picked up a leg and dragged He Luohui bloody forward, dragged him to the edge of the trench and threw it down under the trembling gaze of those captives.
Then he walked to Shang Kexi's prisoner car......
"Shang Kexi, the former deputy general of Phidao Town, is willing to follow the first emperor and serve the first emperor to atone for his sins!"
Shang Kexi said while lying in the prisoner car.
"Open the prisoner's cart and give him a knife!"
Yang Qing said.
The soldier next to him opened the prisoner's cart and gave Shang Kexi a knife, because he could no longer walk, and dragged him to the trench.
"The sinner knocks to your majesty!"
Shang Kexi knelt there, kowtowed to the mound in front of him, and then looked sadly at the magnificent mountains and rivers in front of him, it is estimated that he was recalling his life, he was indeed forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but then followed the Qing army to fight for the tiger, and he deserved to die. He was not the only one who was forced to surrender, Zu Dashou also surrendered, but no one in later generations scolded Zu Dashou for being a traitor, because after he surrendered, whether he was not trusted or for other reasons, he never appeared on the battlefield against Daming again. But Shang Kexi is different, not to mention that he slaughtered millions of Guangzhou in the original history, even before entering the customs, he always followed the Qing army as a thug and worked diligently for our Qing Dynasty.
This can be said to be a real traitor.
"Alas!"
Shang Kexi sighed.
He then put the knife on his neck and pulled it down hard, his dead body tumbling down the trench as the blood spurted from the severed artery.
Yang Qing then walked in front of Tun Qi.
"I am a soldier of the Qing Dynasty, and there is no surrender if I die!"
Tunqi said proudly.
"Chopped!"
Yang Qing said very simply.
"I, I, the grandson of the sin slave Shuerhaqi, Tunqi, am willing to serve the emperor underground!"
Tun Qi instantly woke up and lay in the cage and shouted.
"It's late, drag it out and chop it, you must cut enough three thousand six hundred knives, as for whether you are willing to chop or are you willing to bury the first emperor? Don't say that I, Yang Qing, is unreasonable, I can give you a chance to choose for yourself, and those who are willing to give the first emperor a funeral will come and jump down by themselves, and the reason will stay there and wait for the three thousand six hundred knives! ”
Yang Qing shouted.
The captives looked at each other.
This choice is very easy to make, Ling Chi has to suffer at least half a day's sin, and he will be buried alive for a while, not to mention that Ling Chi has no bones left, and his bones have to be crushed and ashes, since he has to die early and die late, why not choose a whole corpse?
Soon the Qing prisoners made a choice, and then the soldiers next to them untied the ropes, escorted to the front of the trench, first kowtowed to Chongzhen to explain that he was willing to use martyrdom to atone for the crime of betraying the Ming Dynasty, and then went down to the trench and waited. Soon the captives went down in the form of voluntary burial, and it didn't take long for the vast majority of the captives to make a choice, and within half an hour all the captives chose to serve Chongzhen, and soon the trench around the mound was full of people, and all that was left was to fill in the earth.
On the wooden frame erected next to him, Ling Chi's Tunqi screamed, and watching this scene, his screams could be regarded as accompaniment.
"The first emperor can finally look away!"
Yang Qing said with emotion.
Chongzhen was angry with Jiannu all his life, and after his death, 8,000 Jiannu were martyred, which is also the best consolation for him, this emperor doesn't have much ability, but he does want to cheer up, he does have a hard time during his reign, but he does want the people to live better. It's a pity that his ability is limited, and in the end he didn't do anything, he was exhausted after eighteen years of tossing, and now he can be regarded as truly resting.
"It is indeed a pleasure for the loyal and brave marquis to act!"
Among the ministers beside him who were watching this scene, an old lady who was tall, looked no less than two meters, and was dressed in a first-class military general's uniform, said with relief.
This is Qin Liangyu.
As the commander of the army of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, of course she wants to attend Chongzhen's funeral, but her loyal marquis is Longwufeng, and at this time she has not yet been crowned marquis. Yang Qing's official reform abolished the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but the original titles of the generals were still there, but a major governor was added, and the other governors were all changed to titles similar to military ranks, and there was no longer any actual power attribute, just the standard of the general's rank and Yulu.
Therefore, in addition to the position of Zunyi Xingying Commander, Qin Liangyu's military rank is Zuo Dudu.
"It's just that it's not appropriate to kill prisoners after all."
Zhang Guowei said.
"How is this a prisoner? Didn't Zhang Gong hear them say that they voluntarily followed the first emperor? ”
Yang Qing said.
"But will Jiannu surrender on the battlefield in the future?"
Zhang Guowei said.
He didn't tell Yang Qing about crooked reasoning!
This guy has a bunch of fallacies and heresies, and he can't be taught by the way of sages at all.
"I didn't think about making them surrender, what is the root cause of the disaster of slavery? It's just that our court has killed too few of these wolf-hearted things in the past.
Jiannu originated from Huligai, and was regarded as a low-class pariah by the Jurchens during the Jin Kingdom, and Huligai was not allowed to marry the Jurchens, but after the Jurchens were killed by the Mongols, they took the opportunity to move south to live in Liaodong. They accept the protection of my Ming Dynasty, and my Ming Dynasty appoints its leader as an official, and treats its kindness as generous, but after all, the ambition of this generation of wolves does not change, and the so-called non-our race will have different hearts. What's more, there are only a few hundred thousand Jiannu clans, plus no more than one million other rebels, and only 200,000 young and strong, even if they don't kill them all, what's the difficulty?
After they were killed, their people perished.
In the future, all the rebellious and rebellious Hulu were slaughtered, men were killed who were taller than the wheels, women were not slaves, their language and writing were forbidden, their deeds were forbidden to be recorded in the history books, and all the buildings and carvings they left behind were destroyed, and even their clan names were no longer known after fifty years. ”
Yang Qing sneered.