Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we know that it was the end of Qing Dynasty rule, a very large-scale peasant uprising that broke out also had a great impact on the Qing government's rule. However, after all, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was only a peasant uprising. Although the impact was large and large, it also had its own limitations. The Taipingtian State had a massacre operation, which meant to slaughter Manchus. Why did they do this? How many Manchus did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally kill?
1. As we all know, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regards the Manchu dynasty as its mortal enemy and the banner people as monsters. In the war, it is always proud to kill the man. This gave rise to a strange phenomenon. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had trouble with the Manchus and carried out a series of killing policies.
As early as when Hong Xiuquan founded his education, he already pointed out: "I teach people, and their intention is to take Manchuria as their enemy." In the famous Yang Xiuqing's "Fighting Heaven and Protecting Sui", Yang Xiuqing publicly declared: "An Jiuyou".
In Hong Xiuquan’s Tianwangfu main hall couplet, there is such a slogan: Weihuang Dade Risheng, use Xia to change barbarians, wait to drive the people of Europe, America, Africa and Austria, and all of my territory is unified; Yu Wenzhi Ge is military , Set out the chaos, there is no blue, white, red, yellow and eight banners, and all the vassals have served for thousands of years.
There is another pair: the sky alone, rebuild the new atmosphere of Ming Dynasty. Serve the country with loyalty and wipe out the foreign races and clothes. It can be seen that massacre is an established policy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and a basic military norm.
2. After the Taiping Army captured Yuezhou, it besieged Wuhan in a large scale. After the capture of Wuhan, the Taiping Army searched and killed Man Qing officials in the city and massacred the entire family of Man Qing officials. In February of the third year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army besieged Jiujiang and Wuhu. The Qing officials resisted desperately and the city was broken. "Only in Manchuria city, no matter how tragic the killing, there will be no men, women and children."
In March, the Taiping Army besieged Jiangning. Jiangning General Xianghou saw that the city was weak, and died of suicide. The deputy governor Huo Longwu was killed in the chaos. Xianghou's family members were all slaughtered. After the Taiping Army occupied Manchuria, they "killed all the people and left nothing." The entire Jiangning "over 40,000 banner people, 3,000 boys, all were killed, no one stayed."
Every time the Taiping Army captured a city, the city was full of people. Carry out a search, all Qing officials caught and killed. For ordinary people, they ask "Is it a demon?" and "Is it a hidden demon?" In addition, rewards are offered for the capture of a banner citizen, and a banner citizen will be rewarded with 5 taels of silver.
After the Taiping Army invaded Jinling, they searched and killed Manchu officials and people in the city. Hong Xiuquan ordered to show no mercy to the monsters in the city, so the followers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shouted that God loves the world while praying to lock the prisoners into the building, and then set them alight to death.
3. In Jinling, the Taiping army slaughtered the Manchus to death, and the whole city "sacrificed more than 60,000 men and women, killing all, leaving only 4,000 young children, all castrated, even the kidneys were swept, and the body Ten of the dead are nine out of ten.”
In the eleventh year of Xianfeng, Hangzhou was besieged by the Taiping Army. The Manchu General Ruichang who guarded the city set himself on fire. There were more than 8,000 in the fire. People were burned to death. More than 20,000 people from the other banners were slaughtered, and the river water was dyed red.
In addition, in previous battles, incidents of the Qing army being slaughtered by the Taiping army often occurred. For example, in the five years of Xianfeng, the deputy chief of Jingzhou Guisheng fought against the Taiping Army in Xianghe, but the whole army was wiped out. Guisheng and his more than 300 people were killed in battle, and all his family members were slaughtered. During the siege of Jinling, the over 2,000 banner soldiers urgently allocated by the Qing government were all massacred in the first battle of Shamanzhou, and none remained.
During the Northern Expedition, the Qing government gathered more than 178,000 people to resist. Most of these people were also wiped out, with only a few remaining. In previous battles with the Taiping Army, the Qing government dispatched Manchu ministers and generals, such as Saishanga, Dahonga, Baqingde, Xiang Rong, Xianghou, Fuzhu Honga, Hechun, Ulantai, and Tuo Minga, Dexinga, Gilhanga, Seng Gelinqin, etc. were mostly killed by the Taiping Army, and the rest were demoted.
In the 14-year war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, under the policy of the Taiping Army's massacre. According to conservative estimates, about 300 to 500,000 Manchus were slaughtered.
