May I ask the great masters of history, how many people died in Dorgon’s massacre in China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties?

The rulers of the Qing Dynasty, from Nurhaci, Huang Taiji to Dorgon, are all famous in history for their fierceness and cruelty. When they encounter resistance, after breaking the city and gaining territory, they will massacre or plunder them all into slaves, regardless of whether they are participating in the resistance or not, regardless of whether they are soldiers or civilians. In April of the second year of Shunzhi, the Qing government sent troops south to massacre the Han people and staged scenes of brutal massacres. Dorgon once issued the "City Massacre Order" on behalf of the Manchu nobles and led an army to slaughter Jiangnan and Lingnan. Tu Jiangyin, Tu Kunshan, Tu Jiaxing, Tu Changshu, Tu Haining, Tu Guangzhou, Tu Ganzhou, etc., even colluded with the Dutch colonists to attack Xiamen. At that time, the Qing army almost wiped out the Sichuan people, and later had to "fill Sichuan from Huguang", a large-scale immigration.

When the Qing army massacred Kunshan, thousands of women hid on the top of Kunshan. There was a child who couldn't help crying and was discovered by the Qing army, so he was "searched and killed, and blood flowed like water from a stream."

In April 1645, the Qing army besieged Yangzhou, and the governor Shi Kefa defended the isolated city. The Qing army took the opportunity to induce surrender, but Shi Kefa sternly refused. Duduo, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, wrote five times, but Shi Kefa never opened his seal. The Qing army attacked the city, and Shi Kefa led the soldiers and civilians in a bloody battle that lasted seven days and nights. The city was broken on the 25th, and the soldiers and civilians fought hard from lane to lane, and most of them died heroically. The Qing army launched a massacre and "did not seal the sword for ten days." More than 800,000 Han people were brutally killed. Shi Kefa was captured when the city was destroyed. Duduo persuaded him to surrender. Shi Kefa was righteous and awe-inspiring: "I, a Chinese man, can only live in Anken! If the city survives, I will survive; if the city falls, I will perish! My head may be cut off, but my will is unyielding!" He died heroically.

In 1645, after the Qing Dynasty issued an order to shave their heads, the people of Jiangyin (in today's Jiangsu) staged an uprising against the Qing Dynasty. The Communist Party of China elected Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu as leaders. "The head can be cut off, but the hair must not be shaved." " to carry out the anti-Qing struggle. The Qing government mobilized 240,000 troops to attack the city. The people of Jiangyin fought bloody battles and defended the city for 81 days, killing three Qing kings and eighteen generals. The Qing army suffered more than 100,000 casualties. But in the end, due to the disparity in strength, the food ran out, and all the defenders died heroically. After the city was broken, it was brutally massacred by the Qing army, and the bustling streets were in ruins.

After 37 years of fighting and killing, the Qing troops had just begun to pacify China. In just over thirty years, China’s population dropped from 51.65 million in the third year of Qingqi to 19 million in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi. Reduce it by two-thirds!