Chapter 86 Chapter 39: Human flesh as food

Almost all the people had been killed, Zhang Xianzhong began to retreat.The down-and-out are more attached to their hometown than ever before.He said to his subordinates: "Abandoning Shu and leaving Qin, once Chang'an was obtained, the leader of the Central Plains took possession of himself, and Guanzhong is my hometown, and most of the generals and soldiers are from Qin. The strong soldiers and horses are all produced in Qin. If you want to plan big things, It's still Shaanxi." At this time, however, there were again supply problems.As the population is wiped out, natural food becomes more and more difficult to find.Hundreds of thousands of troops, no food or drink, how to march?Zhang Xianzhong thought of massacring his subordinates.Of course, if you want to kill, you must first kill those captives from Sichuan. Although they were drafted into the army, they didn't have a heart, and some people often deserted.

"Shu Bi" contains: "To show loyalty and want to enter Shaanxi on this trip, he hates too many parties, and he wants to stop (retaining) only the old people when the disaster happened." He and Wang Zhaoling discussed in secret how to implement it. "Zhaoling encouraged him and said: 'What's the point of making noise first if you're afraid of the soldiers? If you don't legislate first, you'll be responsible for the generals and governors, and you'll have to put more logic in place, so that you can watch out for those who gossip and make minor mistakes in the camp. If you sit together, you will be killed if you are not aware of it." The secret discussion has been decided, and it will be treated."

As a result of the secret discussion, there are three kinds of people who want to be "admitted" in the rebel army: One is from Sichuan, some enlisted in Sichuan, and some are Sichuanese but enlisted in other provinces.The other is people from other provinces who enlisted in the army in other provinces, and those who were from other provinces but enlisted in Sichuan.The three groups of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who surrendered, some were captured before the battle, and some were bandits from various places who joined the gang, all should be punished. Among them, especially the Sichuan Rebel Army, Zhang Xianzhong believed that they were all "violent and desperate, unpredictable and unruly people", so "hate to the bone", he must want to get rid of them quickly.

The method of massacre is similar to that of killing scholars.According to "Shu Police Records": First, he lied that he would pick out capable soldiers from among the soldiers and set up a naval battalion.Therefore, the troops were ordered to line up in front of Zhang Xianzhong and other officers. Those who passed were alive, and those who were "picked" were waiting to die.First, a Muzha city was built by the river, and tens of thousands of soldiers were picked out and imprisoned in the city. When they started to kill, they first bombarded inward with guns and artillery, causing most of the casualties, and then they sent troops in to hack and kill.

As a result, the CCP killed "200,000 men and women", accounting for half of the entire army. The massacre terror created by Zhang Xianzhong in his own army made the survivors fear that they would be slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong, and fled in large numbers to the "Thirteen Shaking Yellow Family" rebel army . Zhang Xianzhong also believed that the women accompanying the camp were a burden to his army and fought. After killing his own soldiers, he pointed his butcher knife at the women in the army.In the third year of Shunzhi (AD 1646), when he left Chengdu, he first killed 280 of his 300 concubines, leaving only 20 to serve him.and command:

"All the women from each battalion gather in one place, surrounded by soldiers, and choose another group of soldiers to serve as sword and axemen. With the sound of an order, they hacked and killed indiscriminately, and the sound of crying and crying moved the world. The corpses of women were piled up like a mountain. , Blood flowed like a river." There are also historical records that due to the lack of military rations, Zhang Jun once "cut up the corpses of these dead and made them into bacon to fill the army rations." After tidying up, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to set off.At the founding of the country, more than 1,000 civil servants were killed, leaving 25 of them loyally by their side.Only one-third of the number of soldiers remained.Zhang Xianzhong was still full of pride.It's a pity that when I traveled to Phoenix Mountain in Xichong, I encountered Qing soldiers.He then:

Riding out of the camp, without armor or spears, there is no other team except short spears, with seven or eight small troops and one eunuch, rushing out of the camp to find out the truth about the soldiers.On a small post, when he was looking around, suddenly an arrow flew in, right under Xianzhong's shoulder, and shot from the left side, piercing his heart, blood flowed all over the ground immediately, Xianzhong was rolling in the blood, Died in extreme pain. At that time, Zhang Xianzhong was 41 years old.