Chapter 31 (11) Holocaust

After killing all the soldiers and civilians in Jiangyin, Li Chengdong started the Jiading Three Massacres. It was Huang Chunyao, a former Ming scholar, who led Jiading to launch the war of resistance.He, his younger brother Huang Yuanyao, and Hou Dongzeng, the former envoy of the Ming Dynasty, organized a folk volunteer army and launched an attack on Li Chengdong's troops by surprise.At that time, Li Chengdong was sleeping in the house, got up, jumped on his horse and fled.Unexpectedly, the saber fell to the ground, and the volunteers picked up the knife and slashed at the horse's butt, causing the horse's tail to fly all over the sky. Li Chengdong's own brother was stabbed to death by the volunteers' dung fork.

Li Chengdong was furious, and he led 5,000 cavalry back to take revenge. The cavalry broke into Shutang Bridge in the north of Jiading City, and 10,000 people died. A few days later, it rained heavily, making it impossible to see from the city.Li Chengdong ordered people to dig a tunnel under the city root, bury gunpowder, wait until dawn, and then use cannons to ignite the gunpowder. With a bang, the Jiading city wall collapsed.But Huang Chunyao and Hou Tong Zeng would rather die than retreat.At this time, one of Li Chengdong's subordinates put a table on top of his head, roared, and jumped to the city.It was raining heavily and the night was dark, so they could not see clearly. The people guarding the city saw such a big-headed monster leaping onto the city, and they all ran away in horror.

So Li Chengdong rushed into the city, and the people shouted loudly, trying to get away, but Li Chengdong stopped him head-on and killed them all. More than 20,000 people died. Hou Dong once sank his family into a pond and died. Jinshi Huang Chunyao and his younger brother Huang Yuanyao came to a temple and were about to commit suicide. At this time, the monks in the temple stopped him and said, "You are not an official of the Ming Dynasty, and you have no responsibility to guard the land. You shouldn't die." Huang Chunyao said: "The city is broken and people are dead, how can I not die?"

So he left a suicide note: On the fourth day of July in the first year of Hongguang, Jinshi Huang Chunyao committed suicide in the monk's house in the west of the city.Alas!If you advance, you cannot proclaim the dynasty, and if you retreat, you cannot cleanse yourself.There is little benefit in reading, no success in learning, and insomnia, that's all! Huang Chunyao's suicide note reveals a scholar's lament for Wang Zuozhiye's terrifying state. A few days later, more than 2,000 people returned to the city to collect the corpses, and executed the officials sent by Hong Chengchou along with them.Li Chengdong arrived with a roar, and once again killed all the people in the city.

Another 20 days later, tens of thousands of people gathered in Jiading again to drive and kill the demoted officials appointed by Hong Chengchou again, so Li Chengdong attacked Jiading three times and massacred more than 20,000 people.