The Qing army entered Yangzhou and slaughtered 800,000 people without sealing the knife for ten days. What happened then?

After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they did not seal their knives in Yangzhou for ten days. In these ten days, the Qing soldiers ran amok in Yangzhou, killing the city. In this massacre, 800,000 people died in Yangzhou. The 10 day that happened in Yangzhou city in that year was called Yangzhou Ten Days in later history books.

In fact, in this 10 day, what the Qing soldiers did in Yangzhou was also very simple, that is, slaughter. In A.D. 1645, a general of Aisingiorro family personally led hundreds of Qing soldiers all the way south from Mizhou and Xuzhou. It can be said that they all went well before they arrived in Yangzhou, but when they arrived in Yangzhou, Shi Kefa, the garrison commander of Yangzhou, swore not to surrender, and asked the Nanming court for help in bloody script.

At that time, there were 65,438+million Qing soldiers, and the total number of Yangzhou defenders was only 65,438+million. Yangzhou defenders were completely insignificant in front of the Qing army, so after several days of siege by the Qing army, Essien Cholo surrendered to Shi Kefa in order to reduce the casualties of the Qing army, but Shi Kefa refused. But it's a pity that in the face of powerful Qing soldiers, Shi Kefa finally failed to hold Yangzhou City.

1645 On May 20th, Yangzhou fell and Shi Kefa died heroically. However, after the Qing soldiers captured Yangzhou city, because the Qing soldiers suffered heavy losses in the besieged city, they launched a series of massacres in Yangzhou out of revenge. In this massacre, 800,000 people died in Yangzhou. However, although the Qing soldiers carried out such a terrible massacre in Yangzhou, the people of Yangzhou did not succumb to the ravages of the Qing soldiers.

Some of them fought the Qing soldiers to the end, and some hanged themselves because they felt unable to fight. It can be said that the Manchu people in Yangzhou met the only obstacle for them to go south, but although the city of Yangzhou was finally breached, the spirit of Shi Kefa is always worth remembering.