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Chapter 711: The massacre lasted ten days and was dyed red with blood. Why did it take the Qing army ten days to massacre the city?
[Do you know why it took the Qing army ten days to massacre Yangzhou? ]

The appearance of this line of words immediately caused a lot of discussion among the crowd.

"The Qing troops massacred Yangzhou? What does this mean?"

"What did Yangzhou do wrong to deserve such a disaster?"

"Could it be that the people of Yangzhou did something evil?"

"Ten days of massacre in the city, how many innocent people must have been killed!"

"Does the Qing government intend to raze Yangzhou to the ground?"

It is really unbelievable that the Qing court wanted to wipe out all the people in a city.

Did Yangzhou really commit some unforgivable mistake?

Or was it just a whim of the Qing soldiers to start a massacre?
The ancients were very confused, but could not find the answer.

As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned tightly when he saw this scene.

Yangzhou, isn’t this the city he conquered with his own hands back then?

When the Ming Dynasty was first founded, Yangzhou was just a small county town, desolate and dilapidated, with its people displaced.

It was because of his personal supervision of water conservancy construction, reclamation of wasteland and resettlement of refugees that Yangzhou gradually became a prosperous place.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very pleased to see Yangzhou prospering day by day and the people living and working in peace and contentment.

Unexpectedly, a hundred years later, Yangzhou would suffer such a disaster.

It is really heartbreaking that such a wealthy place was massacred by Qing soldiers for ten days.

But now I can only watch everything happen, and I feel so bitter and burning in my heart!

In Yangzhou city, a group of ordinary people gathered together.

"We work hard to pay taxes to support the emperor, and we hope that the emperor will treat the people well."

"But why do those emperors always want to massacre the city? Can't they just let us go?"

"Yeah, we didn't do anything wrong, why do we have to suffer this?"

"The emperor only knows how to collect taxes, but doesn't know how to care for the people."

"I think it's better to resist than to live in disgrace!"

"Resist? Are you crazy? How can we do that?"

"That's right. We are just unarmed civilians. How can we resist?"

"But if we don't resist, can we just sit there and wait for death?"

"It's better than dying, right? At least I can live a few more years. Instead of lingering on, I might as well fight back!"

It is undeniable that the seeds of resistance have taken root in their hearts.

Faced with the threat of death, no one is willing to sit and wait for death.

Even though they know resistance is hopeless, they still fight for their dignity.

This is a war that must be fought, no matter how many sacrifices are made.

Because they are not just fighting for themselves, but for future generations.

They cannot let the next generation live a life worse than death.

Under this rebellious trend, the people of Yangzhou in the late Ming Dynasty were even more unwilling to sit and wait for death.

Even though the Qing Dynasty had not yet entered the country, they began to flee Yangzhou one after another.

I would rather leave my homeland than stay in this city where I might be slaughtered at any time.

[In ancient times, did massacring a city mean finding everyone and executing them? Many people think so.]

[But if this is really the case, it would actually be a relief for the people. ]

[But the real massacre of a city is far more cruel than just hacking to death.]

[The real massacre in history was a brutal looting and ravage.]

[The soldiers not only killed people, but also robbed property. ]

[They would knock on doors from house to house, demanding gold, silver and treasures.]

[If the people do not hand it over, they will be killed on the spot.]

[It took the Qing Dynasty ten days to massacre Yangzhou. Before the massacre, there were a million people in Yangzhou, and there were 100,000 Qing soldiers entering the city.]

[That is to say, each Qing soldier only needs to kill ten people, and it doesn't take ten days at all.] [In fact, massacring a city is a reward for soldiers. Killing people is meaningless to soldiers, but robbing money is meaningful!]

[So at the beginning, the Qing soldiers went door to door in groups and demanded money and property.]

[According to historical records, the Qing troops were relatively restrained when they first entered the city.]

[They will search house to house, but they will not kill people at will.]

[As long as the people hand over their property, they can save their lives. ]

[But this situation did not last long.]

【From the second day, the situation began to deteriorate.】

[The Qing soldiers became more and more crazy and brutal.]

[They began to kill indiscriminately, regardless of age.]

[If the people showed any resistance, they would be killed on the spot.]

[Some people even handed over all their belongings but still could not escape death.]

[The Qing soldiers began to burn, kill, loot, and commit all kinds of evil.]

[The entire Yangzhou city was engulfed in a sea of ​​blood.]

[According to historical records, the situation on the second day was completely out of control.]

[The Qing soldiers began to slaughter people crazily, not listening to the people's pleas for mercy.]

[As long as you see a living person, you will kill them without mercy. 】

[Some people hid in their homes, but could not escape the fate of being killed.]

[The Qing soldiers would set fire to the house or simply break down the door and enter.]

【Then drag everyone in the house out and kill them on the spot.】

[It is said that some people would rather commit suicide than fall into the hands of the Qing soldiers.]

[Because they knew that if they fell into the hands of the Qing soldiers, they would die.]

[And it is an extremely painful and humiliating dead end.]

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

Those people who escaped were considered lucky.

At least they saved their lives.

But those who failed to escape could only be slaughtered.

Countless innocent people died at the hands of the Qing soldiers.

How many ordinary people have experienced inhuman torture and humiliation.

It was more of an inhumane massacre than a city massacre.

The soldiers did not regard the civilians as human beings at all.

In their eyes, the people are lambs to be slaughtered and playthings at their mercy!
How can such atrocities not be outrageous?
Humanity was completely destroyed at that moment, leaving only animal madness and brutality.

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[No matter whether the common people's money was buried or hidden, as long as the Qing soldiers said a number, you had to give it.]

[If you don’t give it, you will die. ]

[When the Qing soldiers killed all the family members and still failed to get the money they wanted, it means that the family was indeed out of money. ]

【But since the person has already been killed, they don’t care. 】

[In this way, the people of Yangzhou City were harvested and exploited one round after another.]

[When the exploitation is almost complete and most people have died, the ten-day deadline will be up.]

【According to the record in "Personal Experience of the Massacre in Yangzhou" by Wang Xiuchu of the Ming Dynasty: The number of corpses burned was no less than 2.6 million. No one in the city was old or young, not even a chicken or a dog was left alive.】

[One hundred thousand Qing soldiers, all killed eight people, and the killing continued for dozens of days. The terrifying thing is that these people did not die all at once, but died in endless torture and terror! ]

[The term "hell on earth" could no longer describe Yangzhou at that time! ]

[The massacre of a city has happened many times in history and has never stopped.]

[The fate of the people who have experienced the massacre is not good! ]

(End of this chapter)