Volume 5 The Qilin Offering the Seal Chapter 9 Breaking the Buddha Diagram

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According to the records of the Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that in the summer of the second year of Dashun (the second year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, 1645), the Southern Ming Fu King Hongguang secession regime perished. In November, the Qing Dynasty used the strategy of suppressing and appeasing both He Luohui and Dingxi to invade Sichuan, and on the other hand, sent people to issue an edict to lure Zhang Xianzhong to surrender and persuade him to submit to the Qing Dynasty. The edict said: "Zhang Xianzhong's previous disturbance is all a matter of the Ming Dynasty", expressing understanding, "Zhang Xianzhong is like a judge of the heavens, leading the people to return, since he should be promoted to the next generation, and the descendants of the future generations will always enjoy wealth and wealth." He also threatened, "If you wait and see, and do not surrender early, the army will come, and there will be no regret." However, Zhang Xianzhong ignored it, but strengthened his determination to resist the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the Qing army led by He Luohui was pinned down by the rebel army in Shaanxi, so it never entered Sichuan. Zhang Xianzhong's Onishi regime and peasant army, in addition to confronting the remnants of the Ming Dynasty army in Sichuan, also had to fight against the landlord forces in Sichuan. The former governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fan Yixing, still held his original post, and the Nanming regime appointed Wang Yingxiong, the former scholar, as the military governor of the military department of Shangshu Chuanhu Yungui, and gave Shang Fang a sword to act cheaply, stationed in Zunyi, and presided over the battle against Zhang Xianzhong. In March of that year, Zeng Ying, the deputy general of Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to capture Chongqing. Then, the king of the cabinet should be Xiong Huibing Zunyi, and the deputy generals Yang Zhan, Tu Long, Mo Zongwen, Jia Denglian and others invited him to return to southern Sichuan. "Gan Liangchen was the president, and the vice was Hou Tianxi, Tu Long, Yang Zhan, the guerrilla horse was examined, and Yu Chaozong was defeated, and 30,000 people were killed. ”

After reading the Northern Barbarian spy report, Zhang Bingzhong re-examined the Manchu forces. It turned out that in order to survive, the Jurchen people, who were few and weak on the prairie, could marry at the age of twelve or thirteen. At the age of fourteen or five, they have their first baby, and at the same time, their spouses can also die and their brothers will not forget the family motto of the interchange. Therefore, it is common for people of Bingzhong's age to have a large number of children and grandchildren. It is most normal to think that Nurhachi is a few years older than him, and that he has a child who is twenty-five or six years old; but every time he thinks of invading my great China, I can't help but feel a little panicked. He was still troubled by the grace of teaching, didn't he also start from the military, how to be humane?

So he found the former generals and courtiers, and only said countermeasures and nothing else. But everyone argued for a long time, but there was still no result. Zhang Bingzhong listened to it very humbly, and suggested from many experiences, and decided to study Li Chuangwang, who was studying in Tubei, to see what he thought about this matter.

After waiting for more than ten days, Zao'er replied to the letter, and what was said in the letter coincided with Bingzhong's own views. Invisibly, it gave Bingzhong great support, and the rebellion between the brothers and the rebellion of the family and the country was finally concluded. I think this is also a good teaching from Mr. He in the private school, otherwise how could there be such a result?

Bingzhong decided according to the letter that the soldiers of the Great Western Kingdom should carry out the strategy of breaking through the west and welcoming the north, and at the same time, they could also expand their own territories and include Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi, which they often missed, into their territory. Of course, to break through from the west, first of all, the first pass is necessary to take the Buddha Pass, the Buddha Pass is located in the west of the old city of Chongqing, the terrain is dangerous, the water is surrounded on both sides, the cliffs on three sides, since ancient times, there is 'the danger of four stops, a in the world'. It is steeply inclined from both sides, and it is a fortress for the ages. Chongqing Peninsula is surrounded by water on three sides, when the ancient water season can not be crossed, entering and exiting Chongqing must pass through the Fotu Pass to the Erlang Pass first-line road. "Ba County Chronicles" recorded: "Yucheng hugs the river on three sides, the land route is only the first line of Futu Pass with ten thousand walls, the two rivers are like a belt, it is really a throat area, and the whole city can be kept safe." "Fotu Pass, out of Chongqing City in the old days, along the East Road Chengdu, this is the only land pass, out of the Futu Pass to count out of Chongqing City.

Because there was a night rain temple built in ancient times, it is one of the twelve scenic spots of Cuba and Chongqing, and it is a scenic spot of "Buddha picture night rain". Because there are a variety of memorable inscriptions such as "Buddha Tu Guan Ming", "Buddha Tu Guan", "Honest and Honest", and the rock wall is carved with a Buddha statue carved on the rock, so it is called Futu Pass, and later changed its name to Buddha Tu Pass. "Buddha Tu, Futu" originates from Chu language "Yu Tu (wu tu): tiger," Futu, Fotu Pass is "Yu Tu" pass, "Tiger" pass, this place is in the mountain ridge, the cliff is precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, similar to the tiger guard. In ancient times, one of the three seedlings traced the Yangtze River to the west and arrived at the present-day Futu Pass, and named this place after 'Yu Su'. Later, the ancient Chu people conquered this place and named it 'Yu Su', which means 'Tiger Prison Pass'.

Speaking of Tiger Pass, it can't help but remind people of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms. I think that Dong Zhuo personally led an army of 150,000 with Lu Bu, Li Ru, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji to the east of the Tiger Pass, and sent 50,000 troops to Li Dao and Guo Yan to reinforce Bishui Pass. In the Tiger Pass, Dong Zhuo ordered Lu Bu to lead the leading troops of 30,000 and camp in front of the pass. The coalition decided to divide half of its troops to meet Dong Zhuo's army. The princes of the Eighth Road, Wang Kuang, Qiao Mao, Bao Xin, Yuan Yi, Kong Rong, Zhang Yang, Tao Qian, and Gongsun Zhan, each led their headquarters to march into the Tiger Pass under the command of Yuan Shao. Wang Kuang arrived first, and the general Fang Yue took the initiative to fight Lu Bu alone. Less than five times, Fang Yue was killed, and Lu Bu rushed into Wang Kuang's army and killed some of the routs. Fortunately, Qiao Mao and Yuan Yi rushed to the rescue of Wang Kuang. They decided to retreat to Xiazhai, thirty miles outside the gate. Soon, the rest of the princes of the Five Route Alliance also came to the camp and discussed that Lü Bu was invincible. At this time, Lu Bu's army lined up outside the wall, and the princes of the Eighth Route met the battle. Zhang Yangbu killed Mu Shun on his horse and was killed immediately. Kong Rong's army killed Wu Anguo to challenge Lu Bu. When the battle reached Shihe, Lu Bu cut off Wu Anguo's wrist with a halberd. The coalition forces rescued Wu Anguo, and the two sides returned to their respective camps. Cao Cao believed that the princes of the Eighteenth Route should collectively defeat Lü Bu, and once Lü Bu was defeated, Dong Zhuo would be easy to get rid of.

At this time, Lu Bu went out again and laughed at the coalition forces. Gongsun Zhan personally fought against Lu Bu, and he was defeated and left. Lu Bu chased him, but was stopped by Zhang Fei, who called him "a family slave with three surnames ("three surnames" refers to Lu Bu's original surname and the surnames of his two fathers)". Lu Bu fought Zhang Fei fifty times, regardless of high or low. Guan Yu danced the green dragon glaive knife to help Zhang Fei fight. The three of them fought for about thirty more battles, and Liu Bei also joined the battle with a male and female double-strand sword. The three sworn brothers surrounded Lü Bu in the center and took turns attacking Lü Bu from different directions. Lu Bu was unable to defeat the three, so he feinted against Liu Bei, and when Liu Bei dodged, he escaped from the gap and ran back to the Tiger Prison Pass. The three brothers chased Lu Bu, but the red rabbit horse that Lu Bu rode was too fast to catch up. After they saw Dong Zhuo, they gave up the chase. Zhang Fei tried to kill Shangguan to kill Dong Zhuo, but Guanshang was raining arrows, and Zhang Fei had to go back. The alliance of the princes of the Eighth Route declared that the battle was victorious, and Liu, Guan, and Zhang celebrated the victory, which is the story of the historical battle of the Three Heroes and Lu Bu.

After Dong Zhuo's new defeat, he asked Li Ru for advice. Li replied that the whole army should retreat to Chang'an in the west, and take the citizens of Luoyang and the imperial court with them. Dong Zhuo was very happy about this, and despite the strong opposition of some people, he carried out the relocation of the capital. He forced the imperial court and the citizens of Luoyang to move with him to Chang'an, where the army monitored them. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo sent troops to seize the property of the wealthy in Luoyang and raze Luoyang to the ground. Zhao Cen, who was the guard of Dong Zhuo Bishui at the time, learned that the lord had withdrawn, so he abandoned the pass and fled alone.

Presumably, this Buddha Tuguan is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, so before tackling the problem, he loyally ordered all the soldiers to take it seriously, and issued an order to defeat it.

Now the most fierce war in history is staged on the Fotu Pass, that is, in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant rebel army, attacked Chongqing, and almost wanted to break the story of Tubei.

Under the suggestion of the big bird camp advocating Yu Niang, due to the tight defense of the waterway of the Causeway Gorge at the east gate of Chongqing, Zhang Bingzhong ordered all the soldiers to secretly cross Chencang, feint to attack the Causeway Gorge, and secretly personally led the elite troops to land from the south bank of Daxingchang, take the small road to bypass Chongqing and gallop more than 100 miles, and use the fast horse strategy of long-distance running to seize Jiangjin in the upper reaches of Chongqing, and then lead the ship down the river from Jiangjin, land at the Caiyuan Dam on the east side of Fotu Pass, go straight to the two intersections, and start a fierce battle with the imperial army on the first line of Eeling and Fotu Pass, so as to capture the pass. The next day, Zhang Xianzhong's army wanted to occupy Fotu Pass, and the Ming general Chen Shiqi was still in Chongqing, when reinforcements came one after another, all the soldiers said to them that they wanted to "fight against the water", Chen Shiqi disagreed, and said, "You want to run, right?", ordered to enter the city to defend it, and let the deputy general Bian Xianjue send heavy troops to guard the corner tower. At that time, the Bingzhong army attacked the city from all sides, dug several tunnels, dug up the graves outside the city, and held the coffin board on the head to resist the masonry thrown from the city. When the tunnels were dug under the city, gunpowder was put in, and when the gunpowder exploded, the walls collapsed. On the sixth day, Zhang Xianzhong's army burned the corner tower, the deputy general Bian Xianjue died in the fire, and the city of Chongqing was captured. After the fall of the city, Zhang Xianzhong's army began to slaughter the city, and the wealthy clans could only be killed, some died under the butcher's knife of Zhang Xianzhong's army, and some were squeezed into the Yangtze River and drowned. Zhang Xianzhong sat on the training ground and gathered hundreds of civil and military officials together. At that time, the officials had already changed into the people's clothes and were ready to escape, but Zhang Xianzhong paid a lot of money for the people to identify the officials, and in this way, the officials were identified one by one. Later, Zhang Xianzhongjun sent people to Ruiwang's mansion to arrest people, and the princess Liu committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, and Ruiwang was caught. Zhang Xianzhong pointed to the prefect of Chongqing, Wang Xingjian, and said: The country has let you wait for the villain to be corrupted, if there are guards at the thirteen passes, I will not attack Chongqing so quickly, you can also prepare more, it will not be today's ending. This kind of scum will not cut off the hatred in your hearts. Then he ordered his subordinates to kill Wang Xingzhen and others. Wang Xiliu, the county magistrate of Ba County, said: We people really deserve to die, but don't kill the people. Everyone brought King Rui to Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong walked down and sighed: Our army is stronger than Li Zicheng's army, but you know that you are afraid of Li Zicheng's army and leave Hanzhong, and you should also know that our army is going to attack Chongqing. Zhang Xianzhong also ordered that all the soldiers of the Chongqing government should cut off their right hands, and no one was spared. And some stretched out his left hand, and cut it off with both hands. As a result, the states were afraid of the brutality of the loyalty, and feared that the loyal soldiers would overwhelm the border, so they all looked to the wind and paid the silver taels to the loyalty. Xianzhong chose the head of the peasant households in each state to grant him the position of magistrate, and sent troops to send him to take office, but he still looted on a large scale. Even if the officials and the people surrendered, they were not spared, and they were still killed and robbed. After Zhang Xianzhong captured the Buddha Pass, he then launched a tragic battle with the Ming army for six days and six nights at Tongyuan Gate, and finally captured Tongyuan Gate, occupied Chongqing, and gathered the people at the entrance of the field, and beheaded Chen Shiqi and others, the official of the imperial court.