Zeng Guofan slaughtered the city, the red mist was filled, and the ship was difficult to travel
Zeng Guofan, Zhuge Liang, Pei Du, and Wang Yangming in Qing history manuscripts? In fact, in the process of pacifying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he once committed heinous atrocities, slaughtering cities, killing people, and shedding rivers of blood.
Today, let's take a look at this history.
When Zeng Guofan was besieging Anqing, Zeng Guoquan led his troops to build a fortress under Anqing City, dig trenches, and do a long-term siege. Chen Yucheng led the rescue army in Tongcheng, and there is an important place called Chigangling between Anqing and Tongcheng.
Only when the Hunan army occupied this place and cut off the connection between Tongcheng and Anqing could it be regarded as completely encircling Anqing. In such an important place, Chen Yucheng arranged 4,000 people to guard here, although the number of defenders is not large, but they are all veterans who have followed Chen Yucheng for many years, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.
Zeng Guofan sent people to attack this, the Taiping army was defeated, and a total of 3,000 people in the third base surrendered, but Liu Xuanlin's first base swore not to surrender. After Zeng Guofan learned that the basic surrender of the army had been killed, he wrote in his diary: Bao and Chenger Town surrounded the four thieves of Chigangling, and they did not collect the team for eight days.
On the 29th, three bases were dropped and all of them were killed. However, at this juncture, there are eighteen Taiping military barracks on the north shore of Linghu Lake outside Anqing City, and the Taiping army has run out of food, and its fighting spirit has begun to waver.
Zeng Guofan decided to strike a further blow at this, so he sent 8,000 Hunan troops to attack these eighteen camps. However, the Hunan offensive did not go well, and the Taiping army put up stubborn resistance.
In the end, 8,000 Taiping troops chose to surrender. However, for these 8,000 captives, Zeng Guofan chose to kill them all. How did he kill him? It is said that Zeng Guofan took the captives outside the city of Anqing one by one, and then made them wait in line to die.
Zeng Guofan's decision caused countless Taiping soldiers to end their lives at gunpoint of the Hunan army. This brutal action also raised questions about Tsang's humanity and conscience.
Zeng Guofan's massacre of the three cities of Jiujiang, Anqing, and Tianjing fully demonstrated his brutal nature. In this **, both the old and the young will inevitably die, even even.
Two and three-year-olds are also treated as a game**.
* After that, the air was dyed red, and the once prosperous city became a purgatory on earth. This tragic ** is unforgettable.
Zeng Guofan killed people like hemp, did he foresee that future generations would be accused of thousands of people? Of course he understood, but he didn't have much qualms about it. He once said: "In order to eliminate banditry, even if it is called cruel and harsh, there is no regret." ”
I have led my army, and I have made it my duty to destroy the thieves, so why should I feel remorse for killing too much? These remarks are shocking, and they can be described as murderous maniacs. In war, the annihilation of enemy forces is a normal war, and it is the war itself that is hated by the world, although it is violent.
However, the indiscriminate treatment of innocent civilians, even children and the elderly, is an act of extermination. In 1864, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was about to fall, and there was a food shortage in Tianjing City.
Li Xiucheng couldn't bear the funeral of ordinary residents, and suggested that Hong Xiuquan open the city gate and allow the residents to escape, but Hong Xiuquan scolded Li Xiucheng. Li Xiucheng used military rations to help ordinary people many times, but still secretly let some residents out of the city.
The people who left the city could not escape, and they were intercepted and killed by the Hunan army shortly after leaving the city. Regarding this large-scale **, Zeng Guofan's subordinates once wrote: "Since the war, there has never been such a cruel thing.
I heard that on the day of the siege, the city was broken at the fifth watch, and the killing lasted until Tatsumi, the city was dark, and everyone walking on the road needed to light the lamp, and the eerie atmosphere still did not dissipate, and the corpses were rotting, and the smell was foul, and it was impossible to approach.
Alas! Who is responsible for this boundless catastrophe? When I heard this, I didn't feel sad or sad, I just felt a lot of noise in my heart. Alas! Who is responsible for this boundless catastrophe?
The Hunan army bravely attacked the city.