Zheng Chenggong in Shantou Ouding back fortress has what historical evidence for why the book has not mentioned it

In the 14th year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1657), on November 23rd, Zheng Chenggong broke through Chenghai Outingbei fortress and massacred more than 60,000 men and women. Ou Ting back to the city of outside the Sand River, Xinjin River, Meixi River, the throat, control Nangang, East Harbor, New Harbor, three sea port, the situation is dangerous. Pirates from the waterway crime Chaozhou, land crime Jieyang, Ouding for must pass through the place, which is destined to make her dedication to history. Ouding Walled City into a long strip, stretching seven, eight miles. Chen Jundinger is a Chenghai scholar, Ouding people, talented, was elected by the townspeople as the chief of the fortress. The Ouding people were not tough and aggressive by nature, but were motivated by their traditional duty to keep the place safe. Jieyang is a rice county, the main target of Zheng's food demand, and Ouding used to belong to Jieyang, although it has been separated, the umbilical cord is still not cut. Zheng Chenggong wherever he went, most of them let him gallop, only Ouding people dare to oppose his front. Zheng many times to Jieyang to raise food, Jun Dinh has intercepted and pursued. Shunzhi ten years, Chaozhou General Hao Shangjiu anti-Qing, is the year in May, the success of the troops to meet, the ship along the Han River and up, was blocked by the Junling. In July, Zheng once again led the troops to besiege Ouding, was shelled and injured his left foot, then swore to eliminate Ouding. In the 14th year, Jun Dinh died, Zheng recognized that the time had come and sent his general Gan Hui (or Huang Ting) to attack Outing. At that time, there was a traitor to offer advice: Ou-Ting is a snake fortress, to hit the snake must hit seven inches, should be attacked from the center door, so that the head and tail can not save each other. Gan according to the plan, the spy as an insider, the fruit of the broken Ou Ting, more than 60,000 people have become a turtle in a jar, fish in a kettle. More than 60,000 people, mainly Chengcheng, Nanyang, on the middle and lower outer Putu, Pengzhou, Snake River, Crocodile Pu elderly women and children, as well as the neighboring Haiyang, Jieyang County people. Soldiering chaos, displaced people with survival instincts to fortified walls of the Ou Ting refuge, not to fight with Zheng Chenggong, who knows that this time all the wrongful death of the city. Even the foreigners who came to visit their relatives a few days later were not spared. How many people were there in Chenghai at that time? History books do not have accurate population figures, only recorded in Chongzhen 15 years of the county more than 15 years old 696, 788 people. According to the proportion of the population to estimate, the early Qing dynasty Chenghai about lO million people. That is to say, Outing a battle, about nearly half of the people of Chenghai and neighboring counties died under the butcher's knife. Zheng Chenggong came from a wealthy family, 15 years old in the Candidate of the Candidates, into the Nanjing Imperial College, studied under the famous scholar Qian Qianyi, receive a good traditional education, should understand Mencius "people are the most important, the altars of agriculture and grain are second to the king as the lesser of the two" teaching, but it is a pity to read the reverse, to the people of the Chenghai to create so many disasters. Zheng Chenggong could have avoided killing innocents indiscriminately. Chen Junding had already died, Outing's defense was loosening and no longer became an obstacle, and Jieyang had also been occupied. Ouding had no provisions and was only a refugee camp, so why attack her? Even if this is not yet hate, can follow the example of the ancients, to the Sangpu Mountain Longquan Rock to dig up graves to whip the body. Even if he previously did not understand the Oudin guarding half of Chaozhou, should know that at this time Oudin gathered half of Chenghai. His gang of eyes and ears in what? Therefore, sent primus to break the gulling can only have one explanation: to revenge, venting personal anger. Even so, when the soldiers are approaching the city, as long as a little survival of the virtue, at least should be given an ultimatum: the attack on the fortress is imminent, in order to avoid burning, neighboring villages to avoid the people limited to one day to leave; abandon arms surrendered to the people free from death; resistance, the fortress breaks the day of the kill without

Amnesty. In this way, I do not know how many people were spared, he Zheng Mou can also give history an explanation. Life and suffering, should always have the heart of intolerance; people and things, can not be merciful? Compatriots have long suffered from the wind of foreigners, why can not bear to give blood rain! A few people for the enemy, take tens of thousands of living beings to take the blame, the world is outrageous! Prior to 13 years, Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself on Mount Jingshan, in the blue robe with a large book "do not hurt the people one" 6 words. Although the dead king has many not, based on this sentence alone, it will be enough to write a big book in history. Zheng Chenggong more than a decade of military campaigns, always enshrined the great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, Chongzhen Zhu Yujian, Tang Wang Zhu Iujian Zhu family of the late emperor's tablets, but it is a pity that the Chongzhen this sentence forgotten, to the people of the people to adopt the tyrannical policy of those who are against us die.

The attitude towards the people, never is we judge a person, a group, a regime is the most basic ruler of good and evil. The wanton slaughter of unarmed refugees is a crime at all times, no matter what the grand justification. A few months after the Ouding tragedy, Chenghai imposed a sea ban. 5 years later, in the first year of the Kangxi period, the people of Chenghai moved inward, and then withdrew from the county, which are not accidental events. The people of Chenghai began to flee the tragic years after the disaster. Also in the Chenghai people began to move in the first year of the Kangxi, Zheng Chenggong lost the siege of Nanjing, only to overseas development. This trip, which resulted in the recapture of Taiwan from the Dutch, did a great favor for the Chinese people. I don't want to criticize Zheng Chenggong, but I just want to return the original face of history. His title of "national hero" is well deserved. I admire him for his national integrity, but I am not sure about his strategy to pacify the people.

Annotation: According to Mr. Cheung Shu-yan, an old poet from Hong Kong, he read an account by Mr. She Chi-ching, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy in the Kangxi Dynasty (a native of Fishery Island), which said that more than 10,000 people died in the massacre at Ouding. That night, people from the four villages and six li came to the Outing Tournament. The young She Zhizhen also went to her grandmother's house in Ouding to watch the spectacle. The child was not used to staying up late and went to bed early. He didn't know anything about the killings outside. Woke up early in the morning and went outside to see the corpses all over the place, blood flowing into the river, scared him as if he was dirt, rushed to hide in the house. His grandmother's family also died a lot of people.

The article of She Zhizhen, I have not been able to see. Even if the story is true, the killing of more than 10,000 people is a big crime that is hard to cover up. The fact that they took advantage of the popular temple fair to commit atrocities is even more outrageous.

The poet Huang Yu, who lived to see Zheng Chenggong massacre his hometown of Outing, said he was saddened by the massacre. The people of Ouding still hold the belief that "there is a national name, no Ouding", and no one with the name Zheng is allowed to live there. Not even the surname Lu - the man who led Zheng's troops to break through Outing was surnamed Lu. On the day the fortress was broken, he was not only not rewarded, but also executed by Zheng Chenggong on the spot. The man who used the heads of tens of thousands of townspeople to seek riches and honor, does he, Zheng, dare to trust?