125. Digging a pit

This edict was long, but it was still spoken in Nurhachi's usual tone, and everyone was not surprised to hear it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Nurhachi's words were full of anger and incomprehension, and in his opinion, he was the conqueror of this land, and he had the right to kill all the Han people in this land, and he did not do so. Not only did he not kill anyone, but he also gave these conquered slaves the status of freedmen and allowed them to farm for service, but the result was that the Han people rebelled against him again and again, not understanding his tolerance and kindness, which seriously hurt the feelings of Houjin Khan...... In this case, Nurhachi announced that he would not be so polite to the Han people, and first decided to kill the intellectual class of the Han people, that is, the Ming Dynasty officials and scholars who had not surrendered to Dajin as officials before, this is the intellectual class of the Han people, and they will be killed as soon as possible. Then it was announced that the people without grain would be killed, and the latest khan edict on the 27th was very clear and very simple: on the 27th, select people to go everywhere and kill the Han people without grain.

The old file record is: go separately, meet the village fort, that is, dismount and kill.

Niu Lu here because of its proximity to Kuandian and Changdian, along the Taizi River to the pine mouth here is considered a war zone, so the selection of personnel has not been the first time to this, in fact, in October everywhere began to kill Han people and former Ming officials, to the twenty-seventh day of the year, there was an official decree to kill all the Wu Gu Han people, everywhere there are sent soldiers and Yu Ding along the Guanzhuang village fort to kill, sent to Songshukou and Taizi River here is a small number of soldiers and Mongolian left and right wing soldiers and horses, Niu Lu Ezhen Tabai has long known about this, after receiving the order, he did not dare to slacken, This time, the Shengren and the Wugu Han people were killed together.

The announcement of the Khan's edict, of course, was not to explain to the Han people, but only to let these soldiers and bannermen know why they killed the Han people, after all, there are many Han people who are already Guanzhuang Zhuang Ding, responsible for heavy labor, and in the eyes of some people, they are already like donkeys, mules and horses, which can be regarded as a kind of property.

Immediately after the announcement, a group of bannermen walked up to the selected students.

Huang Juren looked directly at a blue-flag-clad Yu Ding who walked towards him, the other party was holding a ladder knife in his hand, and his face was full of evil.

In Huang Juren's eyes, the other party was just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, and his face was still childish.

In a trance, he actually remembered his son, who was about the same age, when Yuan Yingtai passed through Liaodong, led 30,000 soldiers to fight with the prisoners outside the city of Liaoyang, the cannon rumbling at the head of the city and outside the city, and the sound of killing shook the sky, at that time the soldiers led by Yuan Yingtai were known as elite, and they had always been above the top, and the equipment and armor were quite sophisticated, but the people in the city did not have much confidence, after all, the east was vicious, and the war was victorious, and the Liao people were not very confident at that time, in fact, Huang Ju and a group of people who could speak were persuading Yuan Yingtai to hold on to the city, There are more than 1,000 large and small Francophone machines and various small cannons at the head of the city, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers, there are 60,000 or 70,000 reinforcements outside, and there are only 60,000 soldiers and horses in Jianyu, no matter what, it is impossible to capture the city, as a result, Yuan Yingtai is too confident, and after leaving the city, it is a fiasco...... Huang Juren's son was shot in the face by a stray arrow when he was helping in the city, and he was out of breath when he was carried home, Huang Juren still remembered the huge arrow wound on his son's childish face, and the blood that kept flowing out......

The Yu Ding with the blue flag was very strange, when he walked over, the old man with gray hair and braids had no intention of dodging, and stared at himself with his eyes, he avoided the other party's eyes, and with a bite of his teeth, the ladder knife had already stabbed in. The other party is very thin, Yu Ding stabbed straight to the chest according to the practice he has been having, the sharp blade easily pierced the skin and muscles, deep into the muscles, Yu Ding stirred the handle of the knife, saw the blood gushing, the other party's eyes lost concentration, the complexion quickly changed from yellow to white, and then lost concentration in the eyes...... The last action of this Ming Guoju was to stretch his arms forward, as if he wanted to come over and hug this Yu Ding, this action startled the young Yu Ding, and he staggered and jumped back half a step.

The rest of the bannermen waved their knives and moved their hands, and at this time, the families of the scholars cried on the periphery.

Tabai ordered the slaughter of the Wugu Han people again.

This time the movement was even greater, and many young men who were still brave began to resist, but they were unarmed and quickly killed under the wielding of knives and guns.

The rest of the men finally lost the confidence to resist and began to be pinned to the ground, and the flagmen slashed off their heads with swords.

The surrounding area was soon filled with a strong bloody atmosphere, and more than 100 of the Han people who were arrested were Wugu Han people, and they were not the coats of any household, and their fate had already been decided when Nurha Chi issued an edict.

The ground was littered with headless corpses, and some had been stabbed to death by the remnants with knives or ladder knives, blood splattered on the snow covered with stray footprints, staining the ground red.

Li Mingli has been looking at the crowd, even if such a killing scene makes him tremble all over his body and makes him extremely afraid, but he still stares at everything in front of him, he has already made up his mind, if the eldest girl is also facing the fate of being killed in the crowd, he will immediately draw his knife to resist, even if he only kills a Jurchen, he will resolutely resist. His whole body was trembling, but there was an unprecedented determination and will, Li Mingli has always admitted that he is afraid of death and greed for life, if he is not greedy for life and afraid of death, he should die in battle when he was in Sarhu, he should also die when he opened the plain, and he should die even more after being captured, when he saw the old Pao Ze brothers in the Thirteen Mountains, he did not choose to throw himself there, and he was not afraid that the Thirteen Mountains would not be able to hold it, and he would have to face another life and death decision, and he might be killed or captured and come back again? And at this moment, in front of hundreds of Jurchen armor, there is no partner around him who dares to draw a knife, but he can make up his mind that as long as his family is here, he will resolutely draw a knife.

At this moment, the last valve on Li Mingli's body was broken, and the final node was opened, and his trembling was not fear, but an irrepressible impulse.

It was then that he realized that what he had been afraid of was just that...... No man will watch his pregnant wife being tortured and killed, the so-called fear of death does exist in everyone's heart, that kind of pressure and fear make a man a slave to others, but if parents, wives and children face butcher knives, no matter how cowardly people will see life and death out of the way.

Fortunately, Li Mingli never noticed the figure of the eldest girl and his mother-in-law, when the massacre was carried out, there was a sound of Manchu laughter all around, and he felt that his ears were buzzing, so he could only hold down the handle of the knife with his right hand, pinching the palm of his palm with his thumb, and trying to calm down as much as possible.

"Li Mingli," Tabai said to Li Mingli after the massacre, "You take someone to carry the corpse and throw it away, and we have to go to the next official village." ”

"Yes, master." Li Mingli woke up in shock, bowed down, and agreed with a dry voice.

"Very good." Tabai showed a satisfied face, and said to Li Mingli: "You are good at fishing, shooting, hunting and farming, you can also go into battle, you are a good slave, you are good at doing things, I will take care of you in the future." ”

"Thank you, master." Li Mingli half-knelt down this time.

The soldiers stared at the remaining Han soldiers for a few moments, and then rushed to the next Guanzhuang under the leadership of Niu Lu Ezhen, only a small number of soldiers and some Yu Ding remained, supervising the survivors on the Guanzhuang to carry the corpses and dig pits to bury people.

Li Mingli walked slowly towards a corpse, he was anxious to go home and take a look, but at this time he understood that he still couldn't act rashly, those knives in Yu Ding's hands were not collected, just waiting for the opportunity to kill again, and these people must not be given excuses and opportunities.

Some Han soldiers went back and rushed over with shovels and wooden shovels, and people came forward to receive tools and began to dig a large pit in a wasteland near the river on the west side of the official road in the west of the village.

The surviving women carried the dead bodies together with the Han soldiers, and no one dared to cry, not even to shed tears, all of them were stiff, but no one dared to stop the movements of their hands.

A group of bannermen stood aside with knives smiling, most of the people who did these things were teenagers under twenty, they were the most wild at this time, most of them didn't even have wives and children, so they didn't even have the slightest sympathy, and most of the older bannermen were watching from the outside, and they were not very interested in what was in front of them.

Some of the Jurchen women in the village also came out with their children to see the excitement, and they were not very resistant to these things, but a few Jurchen women with gold rings on their noses were talking in a low voice, after all, it was still a pity that these Han people killed, if they were all distributed to each family as a coat, at least their own men would not have to work so hard to farm. It's just that it is the old Khan's idea to kill the Wugu Han people, and there is a very clear Khan edict, and they are afraid that they will be recorded and reported to Niu Lu Zhangjing, so they only whispered a few words and stopped their mouths, watching with interest as those low-level Han people were carrying and burying the bodies of their companions.

Li Mingli and another Han soldier were digging the ground, they spat in the palms of their hands, and without saying a word, they quickly dug up, first pulling out the snow, then shoveling away the yellow turf and digging out the roots of the shrubs, and then began to dig down, and soon a large pit as deep as more than one person appeared in front of them, and then the bodies of the slain were also moved.

Li Mingli looked around, no one in the Jurchens spoke, a Bashiku in iron armor was chatting with the people around him, not caring about the affairs here, Li Mingli said: "Throw it away, people in troubled times are not as good as dogs, there is no difference between dying here and dying elsewhere, don't cry, don't fold yourself into it again." ”

The crowd listened to him and began to throw the body into the pit.

Said that he couldn't cry, but someone sobbed in a low voice.

In the midst of low wailing, corpses were dumped in the pit, old men, men, women, and children.

Since this time he ordered the killing of all the people without grain, almost all the Wu Gu families among the Han people were hunted down and killed, including the elderly and children.

The corpses were still bleeding, and after being thrown into the pit, they were mixed with the black soil, gray-white residual snow, withered yellow bush roots, and broken grass, and the faces of people were lying on their backs and on their stomachs, and many people's eyes were still wide open, and there seemed to be unwillingness, anger, and boundless panic and fear in their eyes.

Who can believe that just because there are no five buckets of food at home, they are not only reduced to a coat first, but after a few months, they will simply be completely wiped out?