Why did Zhang Xianzhong massacre Sichuan people?

1 It is a fact that the population of Sichuan decreased sharply in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. 2 Zhang Xianzhong did not systematically massacre the Sichuan aborigines. The aborigines were the source of money, food and soldiers. Who would be stupid enough to kill all the aborigines?

So what does the army eat? 3 The so-called Seven Kills Monument and Zhang's non-stop killings are basically nonsense. 4 What really led to the extinction of Sichuan's population is: successive years of melee and the invasion of the Qing army. The source of the current Sichuan people 1 Huguang refugees 2 Zhang Xianzhong, a local ethnic minority

Where was he from? Why did he kill all the Sichuan people at that time?! What kind of official was he? In the leap month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu at Gouping Pass and led his troops to break into Sichuan.

On the way into Sichuan, they were attacked again by Zheng Chongjian and Zuo Liangyu at Manao Mountain in Taiping County, causing heavy casualties.

Then they were pursued and intercepted by the Huguang Army, Sichuan Army and Shaanxi Army. The rebel army suffered heavy losses and retreated to the mountains of Guizhou, Xing'an. They were also surrounded by Zuo Liangyu and other troops, and the rebel army was in trouble.

For this reason, Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the conflict between Yang Sichang and Zuo Liangyu and sent someone with a heavy treasure to bribe Zuo Liangyu, saying: "Xianzhong is here, so the public is respected. Many people in the public office kill and plunder, but the government department guesses and specializes. No Xian

"Zhong, that is, the Duke has been destroyed not long ago." Zuo Liangyu's fighting spirit slackened, and Zhang Xianzhong took the opportunity to gather the scattered people. With the help of the mountain people, he walked out of Xing'an and joined Luo Rucai and other troops.

Zhang Xianzhong also took advantage of the contradiction between Sichuan Governor Shao Jiechun and Yang Sichang to concentrate his forces and stormed Xinning (today's Kaijiang, Sichuan) defended by Shao Jiechun.

Shao Jiechun never expected that the rebel army would be so fast, and the official army would collapse at the first touch.

After breaking through the Xinning defense line, the rebels successfully entered Sichuan.

The rebel army's entry into Sichuan broke Yang Sichang's encirclement and suppression plan, and the military also shifted from defense to offense.

Yang Sichang was stubborn and thought that the army had surrounded Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other troops in the border area of ??Hubei, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, and victory was within grasp.

But in fact, "the governor's orders cannot be carried out by the general, and the general's orders cannot be carried out by the soldiers."

Zhang Xianzhong tried his best to avoid positional battles with the officers and soldiers, and adopted the strategy of "conquering the enemy by walking". He could travel more than 300 miles a day and night, and moved quickly. He often made the officers and soldiers worry about one thing and not the other, and they were attacked from both sides and were exhausted from running for their lives.

In December of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang saw that he could not destroy the rebels, so he adopted the method of "appeasement" in an attempt to divide and disintegrate them.

He announced that Luo Rucai would be pardoned and those who surrendered would be given official positions. However, Zhang Xianzhong would not be pardoned. Those who could capture Zhang Xianzhong would be rewarded with tens of thousands of gold and be granted the title of marquis.

But the next day, a notice appeared on the wall of Yang Sichang's residence, "Anyone who can kill the governor will be rewarded with three coins of silver."

The tit-for-tat counterattack by the rebels made Yang Sichang very frustrated and suspected that both the left and right were connected to the rebels.

In the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), Zhang Xianzhong had been fighting in Sichuan for nearly half a year.

At this time, the rebel army was pursued by the official Zuo Liangyu's troops in Huangling City, Kaixian County. The left commander Liu Shijie and the guerrilla Guo Kaili immediately went to fight. The rebels were waiting for work, and Zhang Xianzhong sent a group of elite troops to go around and attack behind the official army.

Zuo Liangyu escaped, Liu Shijie and Guo Kaili were killed, more than half of the officers and soldiers were killed or injured, and the rebel army won a complete victory.

How many Sichuan people did Zhang Xianzhong kill in Sichuan?

The Qing army couldn't even take back a piece of Shu, which was completely deserted by Zhang Xianzhong. Isn't it too incompetent?

Besides, all the Shu people were killed by Zhang Xianzhong. Are those tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers and hundreds of thousands of former Ming Dynasty troops fighting against ghosts?

The first explanation for why Zhang Xianzhong massacred Sichuan people: Lu Xun once said in the article "Record of Talks": "Previously I saw the record about Zhang Xianzhong massacring Sichuan people, and I couldn't figure out what he meant; later I saw another

After reading this book, I understood: He originally wanted to be the emperor, but after Li Zicheng went to Beijing and became the emperor, he wanted to destroy Li Zicheng's throne. How to destroy it? To be an emperor, there must be people. He killed all the people, and the emperor.

No one can do it. When Zhang Xianzhong was a child, he drove a donkey to Neijiang, Sichuan to sell jujubes. When he came to the market, he tied the donkey to a stone archway in front of a wealthy family until it was sold out.

When Zao came back to fetch the donkey, he found that the squire's domestic slave was beating his donkey with a whip. Father Zhang stepped forward to stop him. When he saw that his donkey had pooped and urinated on the squire's stone archway, he made it very dirty.

I apologize quickly. But the slave refused to give up. Under the force of the slave, Zhang's father had no choice but to clean up the donkey dung and urine. Zhang Xianzhong watched this humiliating incident from beginning to end.

It was deeply engraved in his young heart. So before he left, he swore: When I come back, I will kill you all to vent my hatred! In addition, there is a very folk version: Once, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were stationed in Hubei and

At the junction of Sichuan, one day Zhang Xianzhong walked out of the military camp to defecate on the ridge. After defecating, Zhang Xianzhong pulled a handful of grass in Sichuan to wipe his vagina. Unexpectedly, what he grabbed was a cluster of nettles (also known as nettles).

He screamed in pain, so he reached out to Hubei and pulled out another handful of grass to wipe his vagina. This time, the grass in Hubei was soft and relaxed. From then on, Zhang Xianzhong became friends with Sichuan people.

There was a grudge: the Sichuan people were as ferocious as grass, so I started killing them from here. So, when Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan, we could only laugh at the folk legend.

There is no evidence that Lu Xun said that Zhang Xianzhong massacred Chuan in revenge for Li Zicheng. But through these two stories, we can still make two points clear: first, Zhang Xianzhong did have a strong desire for revenge and a perverted psychology; second, Sichuan.

People have long felt unreasonable about Zhang Xianzhong's cruelty.