Zhang's way to deal with it

In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Zhang actively responded to the anti-Ming call and led the peasant uprising in Mizhi Village. He was brave and good at fighting, and soon became the main leader of the 36 th Battalion, and he was famous for being good at fighting eight kings.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), Zhang entered Sichuan for the first time and conquered Kuiwai, Daning, Dachang, Xinning, Tongjiang, Bazhou, Baoning and Guangyuan. In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), he re-entered Sichuan with 100,000 troops, and then conquered Kuizhou, Daning, Dachang, Wushan and Bazhou. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), he attended Xingyang conference, determined to make progress, and offered loyalty and Gao Yingxiang and other * * * strategies to the East. In the autumn of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), King Zhuang was captured and sacrificed, and Li Zicheng was promoted from a warrior to King Zhuang, but at this time his influence was still small, and Zhang was the strongest in the uprising army, which actually became the main force supporting the situation. Soon, Zhang and Li Zicheng began to split up because of some trivial matters. Zhang Lingbing attacked the Yangtze River basin and Li Zicheng attacked the Yellow River basin. Ten years (1637), Zhang San entered Sichuan, besieged Chengdu, and was attacked by Zuo Liangyu, the company commander of the Ming army. Zhang uprising troops were severely damaged, and I was also injured, and my politics was shaken. In the first month of the following year, Zhang led the rebels to Gucheng (now Gucheng County, Hubei Province) and was awarded a lieutenant by the court. Resident Wang Jiahe, renamed Taiping Town, to show a truce. During the 11th and 12th years of Chongzhen, under the siege of the Ming army, many insurgents surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang also surrendered to Xiong Wencan in the old city of Huguang (now Hebei). Li Zicheng lost the battle of Zitong in northern Sichuan and retreated into Shangluo mountain area in southern Shaanxi, so the struggle of the rebels appeared a period of silence. Zhang was called up, neither demobilizing the insurgents as originally scheduled, nor taking part in fighting with the insurgents in Li Zicheng, but guarding one place, strengthening military training and maintaining autonomy.

In May of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), Zhang was dissatisfied with the endless demands for bribes and extortion from corrupt officials, and he made things difficult for him and didn't trust him. Influenced by Li Zicheng, the rebels became active again, and then rebelled in Gucheng. . The Ming government urgently dispatched a college student to supervise Xiangyang, with a rate of 100,000 soldiers, and launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign against Zhang. Zhang struggled to break through and entered Sichuan for the fourth time through western Hubei and eastern Shaanxi. Yang Sichang also led the troops to pursue Sichuan. Zhang adopted the strategy of "avoiding the real and making the imaginary" and "attacking the enemy with lines" and led the troops to gallop non-stop. From July in the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640) to January in the 14th year, he moved to Dazhou, Shanghai, Guangyuan and other places within half a year, and almost traveled all over Sichuan, making the Ming army exhausted and unable to catch up. When the elite of the Ming army assembled in Sichuan, Zhang rushed into Huguang from Kaixian, Sichuan, and worked day and night. It took only eight days, marched more than one thousand miles, suddenly appeared at the gates of Xiangyang, broke the city in one fell swoop, killed Wang Xiang Zhu Yiming and Guiyang Wang Zhu Chang Fa, and invaded Gwangju and other places, in February of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen. Angry and afraid, Yang Sichang hanged himself in the army. In the first month of this year, Li Zicheng also took advantage of the situation to enter Henan and attack Luoyang. Since then, the peasant army has formed two main forces, Li Zicheng and Zhang, fighting in the north and south respectively and winning successively. Yang Sichang, the inspector of Ming Dynasty, committed suicide for fear of sin.

After Zhang Zhongxian captured Xiangyang, after many twists and turns, he went north to Henan and was defeated by the Ming army, so he defected to Li Zicheng. But they couldn't cooperate, so they went east to Anhui to restore their strength, then went west and re-entered Huguang. In May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Zhang led a peasant uprising army to capture Wuchang (now Wuhan) and threw the king of Chu into the river, which calmed the public's anger. Zhang is called the Western King in Wuchang. Subsequently, we divided our troops and attacked Huguang and Jiangxi in multiple ways, and won many victories. The Ming court ordered Zuo Liangyu, the company commander, to lead 200,000 troops from Anqing (now Anhui), attack Zhang from the west, occupy Wuchang in July, and defeat Yuezhou (now Yueyang, Hunan) and Changsha in August, and announced that they would be exempted from money and grain for three years. The more followers. Zhang learned that the Ming army was approaching. In order to establish a base area and seek development, he decided to take the best plan and lead the army into Sichuan for the fifth time.

As for Zhang's specific behavior of killing Sichuanese, the history books have been omitted. Even so, reading through the book is still thrilling and painful. I'll just pick a few bizarre killings to see the killing psychology and methods of this "peasant revolutionary leader", or I can get a glimpse of the whole leopard, so that we can know more about him and his team.

In Zhang Zai's Sichuan Massacre, in addition to the general methods of killing, he also created several methods of killing and added them to different objects. The people, old and young, women and children, suffered the most. Every time Zhang's army fell into a trap, except for a few young women who were taken captive as prostitutes, all the other women were killed for fear of affecting the morale of the army. Later defeat, defeat, lack of food and grass. More importantly, kill women and fill them with military food after pickling. If you meet a pregnant woman, you should have a laparotomy to check your gender. For babies in your arms, throw them into the air, pick them up with the tip of a knife and watch their hands and feet dance for fun. This is called "Snow Loach". Older children or teenagers, in groups of 100 people, lit a circle with firewood, and soldiers stabbed with spears and halberds outside the circle, watching their call signs wander around to add to the fun. This is the so-called "relationship". Every time Zhang captures a city, he must first choose several beautiful women to accompany him in turn. These beautiful women wear colorful clothes on the upper part and nothing on the lower part. No matter when and where, as long as Zhang was in high spirits, she immediately ordered these beautiful women to kneel on the ground and rape young girls. When he is tired of playing, he will wash them, kill them, steam them or cook them. Sometimes he can't wait for these beautiful women to cook, so he chews with blood.

In the spring of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Zhang fell into Guangji, Heping and Qiushui. When the people fled in Huangzhou, he drove the women to shovel the city, then killed all the women in the city and filled the ditch. Zhang Dajun went from Nautilus Island to Taoist priests, and along the way, there were floating corpses all over the river. The fat on the water is several inches thick, and the fish and turtles in the water can't eat any more.

At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Zhang led 40 Wan Shuijun to go up the river from Jingzhou (now Jingsha, Hubei Province), defeated the defenders at the pass of 13 along the way, conquered Kuizhou (now Fengjie) and Wanxian, and reached Fuzhou (now Fuling). Ming Taizu Zhao fled without fighting, and Ceng Ying, a member of the army, led the army to rout in World War I and was wounded in the south. The peasant army took advantage of the situation to accelerate its advance to Chongqing and arrived at Tongluo Gorge at the east gate of Chongqing in June. In order to protect Chongqing, Chen Shiqi, the former governor of Sichuan, sent heavy troops to capture Tongluo Gorge in the east and keep Futuguan in the west. Zhang also adopted the tactics of introducing the east to the west, attacking Tongluo Gorge with a boat division, and landing his own army at Daxing Field on the south bank of Tongluo Gorge. From the small road to the west, bypass Chongqing for about 70 kilometers, break Jiangjin County and seize the ship; Let some cavalry cross to the north shore and gallop along the land to Futuguan, the southwest land gateway of Chongqing; The self-guided fleet descended from Jiangjin County along the river, landed at Caiyuanba between Chongqing and Futuguan, and went straight to the two intersections, forcing the Futuguan Ming army, which was under attack between Scylla and Charybdis, to retreat from the city hastily, and the peasant rebels seized Futuguan, blocking the land retreat of the Ming army. The Ming army stationed in Tongluo Gorge heard that the army of the Western Expedition had appeared at the gates of Chongqing and quickly dispersed. The main force of the peasant uprising army immediately crossed the canyon and surrounded Chongqing. After six days of fierce fighting, the peasant rebel army blew down the corner wall of Yuanmen on June 22 and captured Chongqing. Zhang Xiantai ordered the killing of Mingrui Wang Zhu Changhao and Sichuan Governor Chen Shiqi stationed in Chongqing.

On the fourth day of July, Zhang led his troops to southwest Sichuan and even counties along the way day and night. On the ninth day of August, he conquered Chengdu and executed Liu Zhibo, Governor Long and company commander Liu Jiayun. Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, committed suicide by throwing himself into a well, and other officials became prisoners. The insurgents entered Chengdu, claiming to be 600,000 troops, and soon took control of the counties in most parts of Sichuan. In Chengdu, Zhang Xian claimed to be the King of Qin, and later announced the establishment of the Great Western Country and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Dashun. After establishing and perfecting the system, he proclaimed himself emperor, taking Chengdu as Xijing, and ascended the throne on August 16th. In the third year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1646), the Qing army entered Sichuan from southern Shaanxi and attacked the Daxi Army. In July of the following year, Zhang left Chengdu and went north to fight the Qing army. 1 1 month, when the troops arrived at the slope of Fenghuang Mountain (now the north of Nanxi County, Sichuan Province) at the junction of Xichong County and Yanting County, Zhang was shot dead by an arrow, and the rest continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army slaughtered Sichuan, and in the 24th year of Kangxi, Huguang immigrated to Sichuan.

After Zhang's death, his Ministry, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi and Feng led the peasant army south, which was blocked by Zeng Ying's department of the Ming army in Chongqing. After the peasant army killed Zeng Ying, it continued to move to Guizhou. Later, it joined forces with Nanming to fight against the Qing army. He fought in the vast areas of southwest provinces for nearly 20 years until the early years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.