In his report to Li Hongfei, Zhang Chao only mentioned that he had defeated the cavalry of the Qing army and killed countless enemies, but he did not know that in just one hour of firefighting, Guo Sheng's troops who broke through the encirclement, plus Zhang Chao's reinforced battalion, killed more than 7,000 Qing troops in total. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among them, under the blow of the "fire dragon out of the water" alone, more than 4,000 Qing troops died on the spot, and the number of people who were injured by the war horse is incalculable.

"Rice buckets, all rice buckets! The 60,000-strong army was crippled by 2,000 routed soldiers, hundreds of reinforcements, and even the commander was killed in battle, why didn't you accompany the funeral together! Prince Yu Duoduo walked back and forth in the camp tent, and pointed at Bolo's generals and scolded.

No wonder Duoduo was so angry, and the heaviest casualties among the troops of Bolo were the ones who had suffered the heaviest casualties since the army marched south.

The 100,000-strong army landed on Chongming Island, and in just one day, it lost 40,000 and was driven back, and among the remaining 60,000 troops, more than 3,000 were wounded by firearms and died of wind and cold (wound infection).

Because the army was in a hurry to attack Yangzhou City, Duoduo did not take back the military power, as a result, the remaining more than 50,000 troops were killed in the attack on the south gate, more than 4,000 were killed in the battle, and then in the battle with the new army in Suzhou, 7,000 were killed again, and more than 5,000 soldiers were wounded by firearms, and it is estimated that they will not survive for more than a month.

100,000 troops, two battles, sharply reduced to less than 40,000, the commander was killed, the army was disabled, this is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the most serious loss.

The most ironic thing is that the 300,000 troops went down to Yangzhou, and so far, the number of all the enemies killed has not exceeded 60,000.

Han Dai saw that Duoduo lost his temper, so he cautiously came to Duoduo and said respectfully: "Lord Wang, you are angry, there is still resistance in Yangzhou City at the moment, in addition, there are generals who have entered the city to report, Zhu Yousong, the blessed king of Nanming, and the three cabinet ministers, how to deal with it, and ask the prince to show me." ”

Han Dai understood that now that the armies were still in a state of battle, it was inevitable that the army's morale was unstable, and it was not appropriate to deal with the generals.

"Is there a history in the cabinet?" Dodor asked.

Shi Kefa is the overseer, and he is also the commander of the Yangzhou garrison this time, and even the regent Dolgon is very respectful of this person.

"No, it is rumored that Shi Kefa broke through from the south gate." Han Dai replied.

"Take King Fu and the three cabinets into custody, send someone to escort them to Jingshi, and hand them over to the regent." Duoduo thought for a moment before he spoke.

"Lord Wang, this blessed king is still useful, this person is also the prince of the Southern Dynasty, so he can appease the resisting army in the city." Handy suggested.

"This king once said that on the day the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs, so why should a prince of the Southern Dynasty persuade him to surrender? Tell the order to go down and slaughter the city! ”

Duoduo's words were like the magic sounds of hell, making all the battle-hardened generals around him shudder.

On April 24 of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen (1645), the defense of Yangzhou City completely collapsed after dark, and the residents of Yangzhou City had to resign themselves to fate.

Some of the inhabitants were busy burning incense, preparing to welcome the city's new owners, while hiding their gold and silver treasures in abundance.

Ordinary people have no concept of the state, in their hearts, whoever is the emperor and who governs the city is the same, even those scholars who read poetry and books also hold this idea.

Hiding the property was just a careful preparation, and the people had no intention of resisting the Manchus, Mongols, and Han Chinese who had already taken over the city.

In another time and space, Wang Xiuchu, who wrote "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou", once wrote: "Everyone is on standby, and they are willing to be bound at the first thought."

The meaning is: everyone gave up resistance, and some even took the initiative to contact the Qing army and ask for refuge.

Some traitors led the Qing soldiers, and in this commercial city, they went from one rich household to another, and the Qing soldiers first demanded silver, and then they wanted everything.

Until the first half of the night of the 24th, there were no personal injuries.

But after the second half of the night (after the order of Dodor) was heard, the sound of slamming doors, whipping people, and howling of the wounded was heard.

In the early morning of 25 April, a notice assured that those who had gone into hiding would be pardoned if they were able to turn themselves in, and many of those who had hidden in their homes came out.........

But when they came out, they were divided into groups of 50 or 60 men, tied up with ropes under the supervision of three or four soldiers, and then began to stab them with spears, killing them on the spot, even if they fell to the ground.

The women were tied around their necks with long ropes, and they were as tired as beads, falling step by step, and covered in mud.

The ground is full of babies, or lined with horses' hooves, or by human feet, the liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and the crying is full of wilderness.

Yangzhou has become a slaughterhouse, with a bloody stench of corpses and mutilated corpses everywhere, and all social norms no longer exist.

The women of Yangzhou City, who were famous for their beauty, were willing to sacrifice themselves to the Qing soldiers, and the most important thing was to redeem their lives with their bodies.

Gradually, a wave of madness swept over the intruders, and any woman, willing or unwilling, could be caught and tarnished by hordes of soldiers in turn.

Some of the townspeople served the Qing soldiers like slaves, cooking and cleaning for the invaders, and since the lives of such people could be pardoned, the rest tried to join in, but were refused.

At the same time, the massacre continues........

"When a death comes, no matter how many or few people in the south, they all bow their heads and bow down, leading their necks to be stabbed, and no one dares to escape." ――"Ten Diaries of Yangzhou"

Those who jumped from the walls and tried to flee either broke their thighs or fell into the hands of scoundrels and stragglers, who took them and tortured them to hand over their treasures.

In the city, some people hid in garbage heaps, smeared themselves with mud and dirt, hoping to avoid people's attention, but the Qing soldiers stabbed the garbage heap with spears from time to time until the people inside squirmed like animals and blood flowed from their wounds.

The fire spread, and those who were still alive because they were hiding in their houses or basements were either consumed by the merciless fire, or ran out into the streets in fear, and were killed by the Qing soldiers who were still slaughtering the city.

Even the lonely and helpless women who had been let go by the regular Qing army and wandered naked in the streets were stopped and beaten to death by hordes of stragglers ("I don't know whether they were Qing soldiers, town soldiers, and rebellious people").

By the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the tenth day of indiscriminate killings and looting, the massacre finally ended.........

The Qing army received an order from Prince Yu and sealed the sword.

The monks were ordered to begin collecting and burning the bodies.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, the Qing army began to provide rations. Another day passed, a heavy rain fell, scrubbing the entire Yangzhou, the blood and water gathered into a river, flowing into the Yangtze River, the entire river near Yangzhou, was dyed red.

After the final estimate, 600,000 people died in this massacre, which was the result of Li Hongfei's early warning and the transfer of more than 200,000 civilians.

On the second day of the massacre, Liu Zhaoji, the governor of the left capital, also led the remaining 500 soldiers to burn the enemy's jade, and after killing more than 400 Qing troops, Liu Zhaoji was finally killed by a random arrow through the heart, and his head was hung at the city gate for three days..........