Chapter 185: The Bloody Battle of the Hunhe River (3)
The Battle of the Hunhe River at this moment was completely different from what happened in history, and the Battle of the Hunhe River in history was mainly based on a group of 7,000 Sichuan troops led by Qi Jin, a soldier of the Qi family, and Qin Liangyu, a white pole soldier. They were much more powerful than Xu Xianchun, they crossed the river and directly defeated the encirclement of the Four Banners Army on Nurhachi's right flank and wiped out more than 10,000 enemy troops. This is Xu Xianchun's group of people can't compare, they are dying passive defense, and they can eliminate the post-Jin soldiers and horses who can eliminate each person and themselves.
Under the watchful eye of Xu Xianchun and them, the Later Jin people ordered the Han troops to cross the river to fight. After the surrender, there were not many generals in the late Ming Dynasty of Jin, such as the more famous first person Li Kaifang, and Nurhachi even married his granddaughter to him.
At this time, the Han people in these Manchurian ranks were like the imperial allegoed army in the Japanese at the beginning. These Han soldiers began to enter the water under the command of the Manchurians, and the biting water of the river was cold, and they did not dare to get up, so they could only swim forward.
In fact, many times we understand that sticking out the head is a knife and shrinking the head is also a knife, but why can't we lose our heads in a dignified manner? Why do so many people still surrender to the cruel enemy and become reviled traitors?
This is a false proposition, and it seems to be a thin cloud. What sticks out and shrinks the head is also a knife, but in fact, there is only one choice for personal opening, and they are all dead! Obviously, death can only be experienced once by a person, and ants are still stealing life, let alone people? From the perspective of life, there is actually no one to blame for such a thing!
There is a saying in Buddhism that the so-called all beings are equal; Equality is all for survival. It is precisely because all living beings are rolling in this mortal world, whether it is birds, beasts, insects, ants or the way of humanity. 1. Everything you do is for survival. That's why the Buddha said: All beings are equal.
This is the theory of Buddhism. In terms of survival, people and animals and insects are the same, equal! As a result, the cornerstone of Buddhism was derived: Buddha is not jealous of evil.
Buddhism advocates the principle of putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot. This is the interpretation of the equality of all sentient beings, because all sentient beings are equal in existence, so every sin is the basis for the equality of all sentient beings, it is a fact, it is undeniable, so it advocates 'repentance'. Then why do Buddhists say that Buddha is detached? Not in the five elements of reincarnation?
Judging from the above reasoning of sticking out or shrinking the head, this is a very narrow choice. The first thing we think about is why we chose to die. Why do you choose to die? Do you have to die? As long as people are apprehensive in the face of death, is it a sin to choose to live?
This is the most primitive equality in the hearts of all beings, in which a person is the same as an ant, but we know another situation, that is, there are indeed people who do not hesitate to reach out and lead to death.
All beings are equal in spirit, but they are extraordinary in their choices. This is also the supreme Zen machine that belongs to the detachment of Buddhism.
People are born with different positions or experiences; or inheritance. It is always giving us mission and direction, just like someone put a knife on the neck of the people and things we love and cherish; whether to survive and steal a living, or to choose to defend generosity and righteousness; This is not a measure of whether all beings are equal or transcendent.
In the final analysis, this is a 'for' word, and why it is born. Why to die. If we look at our lives on the premise that we will eventually die, everyone will suddenly feel that the value of sacrificing one's life for righteousness is much greater. This is the same as the Buddhist idea of emptiness. First of all, the end is the starting point, eventually people will die, and the qiē we have in our lives will become nothing, what is the difference between having and not being? Therefore, 'color is emptiness, and emptiness is color'. The four principles of Buddhism are empty and for this reason, many Buddhist teachings are to let people reach this empty realm, and to appreciate the extraordinary life in this realm, to choose to stretch out their heads and die! Buddhism is a life that brings people to this state and then makes new choices, which is called putting oneself to death and then being reborn. Nothing is extraordinary in the millennial canon, and no matter what we think of the faith, his success is unquestionable! If it can be done, then there will be no eternal life for people at this time. First, there is no eternal dream of people, and there is only realization and choice in their eyes, so the prosperity of Buddhism is a certainty!
This is the opportunity for everyone to choose the extraordinary equally; The same is true for the Buddha to cross people, the real Buddhist monk is not just sitting at home and chanting the scriptures, he should be like Tang Seng who has gone through a thousand hearts for the Dharma, and then died to fill it!
Life is extraordinary because of this, and the Buddha is detached because of the choice, which is the best Zen machine of Buddhism. In the concept of infinite possibilities, it may be too much for us ordinary people to use life and death to show their values and choices, and not everyone can do it in Buddhist terms. So what I'm advocating at least here is that as we grow and experience; No matter what we gain or lose, we always need to understand that people have to do something and not do something. Only in this way can we have a bottom line, a harvest, and an extraordinary experience among the vast sentient beings.
The Manchus drove the Han soldiers into the river and began to cross the Hun. Xu Xianchun then ordered the musketeers to shoot freely. The team sent by Li Jiancheng is the most high-end team, and the weapon outfit is naturally unambiguous, with a hundred bullets alone, at least five grenades and spare ammunition! Much richer than the ranks of the average new army!
The musket team shoots a gun, and the people who wade the river will be shot and bleed or die directly in the cold river from time to time, and life is always the most worthless in war!
The cold and biting water of the river greatly reduced the speed at which people had to cross the river, more than 1,000 people crossed the river, and more than 300 people were lost before they could pass, and a third of the mortality rate was enough to make people break down, but it was difficult to advance and retreat in the river, and some people had to grit their teeth and move forward.
Finally, someone managed to cross the Hunhe River and climb ashore, the icy river was so cold that they could barely hold the weapons in their hands, and at this time they were greeted by a beautiful woman with a hot water bottle.
I only heard You Shigong shouting: "Go on, kill all those dead traitors of the dog days." ”
More than a thousand old men with knives roared and rushed towards them, and the Chinese have a long-standing hatred for traitors. What's more, these have just lost their homes, and the culprits are still these traitors who opened the door to let the enemy in, and it is simply a matter of new hatred and old hatred together, so the knife that was cut in the past is also merciless!
Keling, those who had just gotten up from the icy river, couldn't even raise their knives before they had a hot breath, they couldn't resist at all, it was a completely one-sided massacre, and after a while, four or five hundred people were slaughtered and waited, and only a few people were killed and injured on the side of the Ming army, and at this moment there were still people in the river who collapsed, desperately swimming back!
And when these people swam back, they were greeted by Yue Tuo's angry whipping, and he roared angrily: "Who allowed you to come back, swim over for me." ”
A small leader of the Han soldiers shouted: "The master is disturbing his life." Master spare your life! The river is so cold that you can't swim past it! ”
"The is that there are too few of you in the past, this time give me all of them together!" Yue Tuo ordered that there was no way that the Han people were basically slaves in the Manchus, and they were all driven down the river in the end. This time, more than 4,000 Jin Han soldiers crossed the river together, and Xu Xianchun, who was numerous, also asked the musketeers not to save ammunition and fight more people, so the war began.
Xu Xianchun was not ambiguous here, and the musketeer greeted him with a snort, and for a while, there were floating corpses in this section of the Hunhe River, but there were indeed many of them, and the entire section of the Hunhe River was only twenty or thirty meters wide, and the deepest part was no more than a person's chest. When these people crossed the river, the musketeers probably killed thousands of people, and as soon as these people crossed the river, they lay on the ground, but they learned to be smart all of a sudden, knowing that such muskets were not easy to hit, and after a while, thousands of people gathered by the river, at this time You Shigong was ready to take people up to harvest, but Xu Xianchun said with a cruel smile: "Wait a while, let them rush up!" ”
Then he said to the musketeers: "Everyone, grenade shells ready." ”
This team of thermal weapons has a short training time, but all of them are the type who are naturally sensitive to collective cooperation and commands. As soon as Xu Xianchun said that, everyone stopped the musket and prepared the grenade bullets, leaned over to look ahead, and was ready to throw the grenade at any time! (To be continued......)