"The stones need to be cut, the thatch needs to be cut, and the natives need to be replaced!" It was created by some middle and low-level officers in the Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Army without authorization, because their troops were attacked by the chieftains who were stubbornly resisting. Therefore, under the mentality of revenge, this sensational slogan was put forward and put into practice.

There are several counties in the core area, soldiers from villages, swords from every family, and blood from every village. The tragic level is no less than that of the sixth town in Jingzhou. According to statistics, after the 13th year of Yongli, more than 100 Tuzhai were slaughtered, and more than 60,000 local people were killed.

During the process of the suppression, some brigades, mainly surrendered by the green camp of the Qing army, were particularly crazy during the execution process, and several brigades adapted from the chieftain armed forces also acted as pioneers of the slaughtering villages, and their ferocity made the rest of the troops feel inferior.

Under the guidance of this crazy slogan, the armed forces of the chieftains who did not surrender to the west of Xiangxi were defeated, and most of the bandits entrenched in Xiangxi were destroyed. Although there were still disabled people in Xiangxi, the remaining chieftains and armed forces refused to go down the mountain to surrender to the south, and many of the disabled soldiers of the Qing army's green camps stationed in Xiangxi were still fighting stubbornly, but the military commander's office and the bandit suppression army had no doubt that the bandits in Xiangxi would be completely wiped out.

Mobilizing the people, using them, encouraging them, and giving them benefits is the key to the success of the bandit suppression in western Hunan. This people, regardless of ethnicity, are willing to accept the leadership of the Taiping Army and be willing to be sinicized, will be the people of the Ming Dynasty and the people protected by the Taiping Army.

Zhou Shixiang copied the experience of the People's Liberation Army in suppressing bandits in western Hunan in the future in this era. Whether in this or later generations, the nature of the bandits in western Hunan is the same, and the activity mode is the same, so there is naturally no problem of water and soil inconsistent. Facts have proved that no matter how cunning or treacherous the enemy is, he is a paper tiger in front of the masses, and is vulnerable.

When the mobilization of the masses and the massacre of massacres were combined, the local troubles in Xiangxi that had plagued China for thousands of years were completely over.

A large number of combat heroes and heroic troops have also emerged in the bandit suppression army in western Hunan. The military commander's office has awarded the flag honors of "Five Villages Heroes", "Phoenix Overcoming Heroes Team", "Mayang Sharp Knife New Brigade", etc.; the hero titles awarded by the Xiangxi bandit suppression command yamen include "Fifteen-hole Special Battle Hero Model Fleet", "Migongzhai Mass Work Model Camp", "Brave and Tenacious Fangjiatun New Sixth Brigade", etc.

The former chieftain of the Military Commander's Office was Liao Lanqi, who was awarded the title of "The Warrior of the Han Dynasty" and was awarded the position of General Baojing; Wan Ma, the former local official of Huangdaoxi, was awarded the title of "The Loyal Guardian of the Ming Dynasty" and was awarded the position of Deputy General of Yuanzhou.

There are more than 60 personal medals issued by the Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Command Office. The medals are made of two materials: gold and silver. The front is the word "Ming Dynasty" and the reverse is the word "Honor Han people". There are 4 Han people, 6 local officials, and 14 local people. There are 9 Han people, 12 local officials, and 28 local people.

On the seventh day of the second month, Zhou Shixiang himself went to Mayang County to award medals to a hero's mother, which made the first case for the Taiping Army to award medals to women.

The hero's mother was a Miao woman, and when the Taiping Army arrived in Mayang, she wiped out the Tusi armed forces and called on the natives to go down the mountain to return to the Han Dynasty, Yu Jinghua took her six sons and two daughters across dozens of miles of mountain road to Mayang County. After that, she responded to the call of the government and sent her three sons to join the Taiping Army. After the eldest and second sons died in battle, she signed up for the three youngest sons around her.

When Mayang County was attacked by several nearby bandits, Yu Jinghua resolutely led his two daughters to defend the city and help to treat the wounded. His heroic deeds were widely circulated in Mayang. After Mayang's garrison of the New Fourth Brigade, the bandit suppression yamen was reported to the bandit suppression yamen. Zhao Sihai, the commander-in-chief of the bandit suppression, specially reported to the military commander-in-chief. Zhou Shi went to Mayang to meet Yu Jinghua on a blind date. In addition to commending him, he personally named Fan Hanjie. His children were all named Fan. In addition to giving honors, he also gave a certain political status and material rewards to encourage more natives to learn from Fan Hanjie.

Zhou Shixiang said to local women such as Fan Hanjie in Mayang: "From now on, you will be Han women, and your children will be Han children. You no longer have to worry about being bullied by the chieftain, nor do you have to worry about your daughter being occupied by the chieftain, nor do you have to worry about your son being killed by the chieftain, because you have me and Taiping Army!"

After the meeting, Zhou Shixiang said to the generals of the bandit suppression army coming in Mayang County: "A while ago, the bandit suppression was killed in more than 20 counties in western Hunan, and more than 4,600 local bullies were killed. The bandit suppression office was preparing to kill another group of them this year. The general thought that this disposal was necessary and must be implemented resolutely. Only in this way can the enemy's flames decline and the people's spirit be greatly enhanced. If we are indecisive, tolerate traitors, and do not completely resolve the bandits' troubles, and cannot completely sinicize Xiangxi, it will harm the Han people and descendants."

Zhao Sihai reported on the next stage of the task on behalf of the bandit suppression yamen. He said: "There are about 100,000 people in the core and marginal areas. There are nearly 10,000 bad elements such as bullies in the village, pseudo-Qing local officials, scattered soldiers and gangsters, green forests and local gentry with hidden evil intentions. After several discussions, we decided to divide and disintegrate the enemy. Under this general policy, a budget of killing another 50,000 people was made. These 50,000 people include bandits and the group of people in the village."

Zhou Shixiang readily recognized it, and he said: "This budget military commander's office recognizes that only when the bandits are completely eliminated and only if there are no natives, can we consider not killing people. Otherwise, we still have to kill people. The best way to eliminate the enemy is to ** news. No matter who they are, as long as they are our enemies, they should be eliminated ruthlessly."

In order to more effectively eliminate bandits and let the people of the Han dynasty in western Hunan know who is the bad guy and who is the good guy; who is infringing their rights and interests, and who is protecting their rights and interests. Zhou Shixiang suggested that various places could hold a public trial of the Grand Duke widely, and the conference should be held with great fanfare. The public trial of the criminals was a chieftain, a bandit and the pseudo-Qing officials. The number of people participating in the conference could range from hundreds to thousands or tens of thousands. The people should be organized to take the stage to accuse the criminals of the criminals, and then publicly pronounced the sentence, and cut off the heads of these criminals in front of the people.

With the approval of the Military Commander's Office and the deployment of the bandit suppression yamen, the New Eighth Brigade of the Bandit suppression Army stationed in Yuanling held a public trial of Qiu Wu, Wujilangda and Guo Wankui in the Xuechangping Square.

Qiu Wu, a native of Yongshun County, served as the chief general and Qianzong in Sun Kewang's army. Later, he surrendered to the Qing army as the garrison of Yuanling of the Qing army. After the Taiping Army attacked Hunan, Qiu Wu surrendered and actively cooperated with the Taiping Army to eliminate the remnants of the Qing army nearby. Because of his loyalty, he was entrusted with a position of Qianjia. Unexpectedly, not long after, when the Taiping Army "advised grain" to the large gentry families in various places, Qiu Wu was worried that his family would be entrusted to feed, so he was in the pseudo-Qing official.

The official, the head of Jishou, Guo Wankui, persuaded and instigated the subordinates to lead their troops to rebel, and bloodied the Yuanling County, and killed more than a thousand people in the Han territory. Later, the Taiping Army who was rushed to the news was driven out of the Yuanling County, and joined forces with the nearby chieftain Wujilangda to continue to attack the Taiping Army, creating an uninhabited area, resulting in the innocent killing of three thousand Han territory. After heavy troops in the bandit suppression yamen, the three major bandits were defeated and captured on January 21, 13, 1999.

After the trial, Qiu Wu, Wujilangda, Guo Wankui and his 254 subordinates were collectively beheaded. The heads were hung at the gate tower of Yuanling County and were taken down after three months of wind and rain.

At the same time, a public trial of Li Yongquan was held in Zhijiang, with representatives from six counties including Zhijiang, Huaihua, Qianyang, and Huangxian.

Li Yongquan became a bandit when he was young, and was later recruited by the government of Xiangxi in the Ming Dynasty. He served as the Qianzong General and General. After his Ming army was defeated by the Qing army, Li Yongquan fled back to his hometown to continue to be a bandit, rushing around the countryside, and expanded his power by developing gang organization methods, becoming the double leader of the "revival of the Tang Palace". On March 18, 12th year of Yongli, he participated in the "bloody baptism of Qiancheng" incident and soon surrendered to the Qing army and was awarded the position of deputy general of Yuanzhou. In June of the same year, Hong Cheng, the governor of five provinces of the Qing Dynasty.

When Chou came to Zhijiang, he praised Li Yongquan and gave him 3,000 taels of silver. After the Taiping Army entered Hunan, Li Yongquan devoted himself to serving the Qing Dynasty and led his troops to attack the Taiping Army several times. At the end of December last year, three brigades of Taiping Army stationed in Zhijiang launched an encirclement and suppression of Li's troops. Li's troops were quickly defeated, but Li Yongquan himself was able to escape. He hid everywhere, and finally put on makeup and became a bride and fled in a sedan chair. He was captured and captured and captured. On the day of the public trial, he and 18 confidants were publicly executed.

Because of Li Yongquan's request to harm the people, Li Yongquan himself was punished for splitting the body. That is, he used a few horses to cut off his corpse, and then allowed the people to take the corpse to eat each other to vent their anger.

According to the opinions of the Military Commander's Office, the command yamen of the Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Army also held officer training classes in various places. Half of the trainees were Qing army officers who surrendered because they were defeated in the early days of the Taiping Army's entry into Hunan, and the other half were some chieftains and local officials who were forced to surrender during the process of the suppression.

These training classes did not have barbed wire or alert, and those with family members could go home to reunite every seven days. The Taiping Army gave the greatest trust of these surrendered Qing army and local officials. However, the fact is that many people in the training class expressed their training, but secretly contacted reactionary local officials and local gentry, and were determined to welcome the Qing army. Especially when the members of these training classes knew that Luo Keduo, the prince of Ping of the Qing Dynasty, was attacking the Taiping army, the activities of these people became more intensive. After repeated weighing, Zhou Shixiang issued an order to suppress.

Under the order of the Grand Marshal, 356 pseudo-Qing officers and local officials from six training classes in western Hunan were killed.

Senior officers and chieftains were unstable, and the lower-level lieutenants were also unstable. Just like holding senior officer training classes, the Taiping Army also established low-level training classes in some places. Most of the members were ordinary Qing soldiers and bandits. On the premise that the ideological work was not going smoothly, the bandits in the Bandit Suppression Office reported to the Military Commander's Office and decided to execute them.

After receiving the order, all localities immediately took action. First, they chose a valley place, arranged a execution ground in advance, and set up alerts at both ends of the valley. The bandits who were about to be executed were escorted over in the name of a transition, and then they were executed in batches immediately.

Similar to these executions, the bandit suppression yamen wrote: "Some places have mass killings, such as Zhijiang, Chenxi, and Yuanling, who once killed thirty or fifty people a day. In some places, when the garrison was ordered to move to defend, they acted in a hasty manner, so that some bandits were killed on the official road and not buried."

For reactionary pseudo-Qing officers, the large-scale executions of chieftain officials and the thieves who remained unchanged in the lower class were only less than a month. Due to the tense war, the Military Commander's Office ordered the bandit suppression yamen who were healthy and not guilty were exempted from the death penalty and instead sent various troops to serve as Masters. These people were truly regarded as Masters, not as auxiliary soldiers, with a population of about 10,000. Although they were dressed in red, they were not military uniforms and they were all extremely hard work. During the subsequent large-scale battle between the Taiping Army and the Yunnan-Guizhou and Qing Army, many of them died in the formation. Some were very brave, while others were very unbearable.

When various places executed bandits on a large scale, there were different opinions in the Taiping Army, especially in the bandit suppression army in western Hunan, which had a lot of debate. Some believed that some bandits might be wronged, and some were forced to go to Liangshan, which was not bad in nature and should be given a chance to correct their mistakes. Some said that chieftains and local officials were unique to Xiangxi and other places for two thousand years. Their oppression of their tribesmen did not harm the interests of the government, so they should not just wipe out and kill them, but should use gentle means. Some were in the mountains and forced them to come out to change their Chinese names, learn Chinese, wear Han clothes, and be subject to Han orders.

Some different voices from the Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Command Yamen and the Military Commander's Mansion reached Zhou Shixiang's ears. He did not express any explanation or opinions on this, but instead wrote six books in hand to the Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Command Yamen.

These six words "I would rather kill the wrong one than let it go."

"The successful experience of Xiangxi must be promoted to the world in the future, especially the Manchu and Mongolian tribes, and they must follow this example. Those who have opinions can retain it, but must implement it. Those who do not implement it will discuss it with the thief."

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