Keep a low profile if you can't beat it.

The next day, Lu Shunde personally led 40,000 troops to ambush in the dangerous place outside the village, and then sent more than 100 people into Baocun to lure the war. Bao Bao was caught and killed more than 30 Taiping rebels. Liu Shunde suffered another fiasco and had no choice but to quit again.

/kloc-in February of 0/5, after full preparation, Lu Shunde led tens of thousands of troops to storm Baocun again, determined to solve it in World War I. In this battle, he was wounded by stray bullets and was defeated. However, Bao also helped. After returning to Baocun, he invited Chen Chaoyun, a civilian group in gutang Village, Wuxie Town, to help and defeat the Taiping Army again. On the way back, the Taiping Army was ambushed by the Second Wharf Regiment, with more than 5,000 casualties.

Lien Chan lost in a row, and the Taiping Army was in a dilemma. Baocun is too small and invincible. What's more, at this time, the overall situation of the main battlefield in Tianjing is already very tight, and the battlefield in Fujian, which is under the responsibility of Zhejiang Taiping Army, is also under great pressure. Of course, I am extremely unwilling to die for a Baocun village. However, Baocun Yingyong repeatedly defeated the Taiping Army and became the benchmark of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's resistance. Forcing Taiping Army to devote energy to seriously deal with it.

After several discussions, the Taiping Army decided to compromise, and then appealed again, with a view to solving the problem at the least cost: "... if you can go against your wishes, you can ask the nobles in heaven to divide the land, and the old chapter will win the honor." That was a long time ago, and it's close to your city. Don't you smell it? " In this solicitation letter, the Taiping Army lowered its posture to the point of begging for peace, and also moved out the case of Zhuji countryman He who surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in an attempt to persuade Bao to stand on his own feet.

I just want to defend my home.

He, the leader of Peng Lian Party, a local party organization in Zhuji, first organized a group training against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later surrendered. In contrast, Bao's position against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is extremely firm. Interestingly, Bao seems to have no intention of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty. When someone compared Bao with Zhao Jingxian, an official guarding the court, Bao replied that he was the ear of the Qing Dynasty. He was responsible for guarding the land, the country and the people of Baocun, but had no responsibility to defend the land of Manchuria. Bao Li Shen means that he is only responsible for guarding Bao Village's homeland, but has no obligation to work for the Manchu Dynasty.

It is such a farmer who has no intention of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, but fights to the death with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

American sinologists pointed out that at the turn of the century, China's traditional state power showed some signs of collapse, which led ordinary people like Bao to stand up and fight for the maintenance of traditional life and social order. This awareness is stronger than the loyalty of any regime, because the purpose of organizing armed forces is to defend their homes.

This time, Bao chose to refuse, and wrote back accusing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of endangering the country and people, seeking personal gain, and his words were fierce.

In this case, there is no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides, only a dead end. This time, Lu Shunde was so angry that he even shouted, "I would rather abandon Tianjing than break Baocun!" Slogan.

Liu Shunde integrated five kings and sixteen generals, and the soldiers claimed to be millions of villages. In fact, there are about100000 people. The political and military significance of Taiping Army's fatal move has been questioned. However, some historians believe that from the perspective of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is reasonable to eliminate the Baolishi Rebel Army. This is because Bao was still under the religious regime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and established a religious system opposite to the worship of God.

In addition, the strict organizational form of the Bao clique seriously hindered the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime's efforts to establish rural ruling order.

The superposition of two bad political demonstration effects may be the fundamental motivation for Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to pay an unprecedented heavy price, or even be forced to put down the military posture of the main battlefield and destroy Baocun.

At this time, the main force of the Qing army has entered Zhejiang, Ningbo and Jinhua have successively fallen, and the Taiping Army's Zhejiang war situation has deteriorated sharply. However, the gathering of Zhejiang Taiping Army in Baocun had a bad influence on the Shanghai campaign in the east, the Tianjing campaign in the north and other battlefields in Zhejiang in the south. The most direct consequence is that the counties and cities in Zhejiang Province on the southern line have successively fallen.

When the Taiping Army attacked Baocun for the sixth time, Zhejiang Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ruled 9 states and 70 counties, 22 counties fell, and there were three states: Ningbo, Taizhou and Chuzhou. Because the main forces of Taiping rebels in these places have been transferred to attack Baocun.

Giving up escape and human survival

1in April, 862, 10, more than ten thousand Taiping troops arrived in Baocun one after another, and besieged Baocun for the sixth time in the form of general battle.

The Taiping Army first swept through the villagers' groups outside Baocun with absolute superiority. In May, the Taiping Army stormed gutang Village, which was hundreds of miles away from Baocun. Baocun was helpless and could only sit back and watch gutang fall. Then, in order to vent their anger, the Taiping Army slaughtered all the people and burned villages and towns wherever they went. For a time, the whole Zhuji was like a city of hell.

After clearing the periphery, in early June, the Taiping Army occupied Laling in the east of Baocun and Jiaoling in the north. These two mountain roads are the external supply lines of Baocun. On June 9, Mamian Mountain, the eastern gateway of Baocun, fell. As a result, Baocun became a Jedi under siege.

On the occasion of life and death, the Qing court observed sending people to sneak into Baocun, telling Bao that he could break through to the river 100 km away, one could station troops and the other could cross the sea, so that he could get in and out. This is the bag's lifeline. Bao agreed without hesitation.

As a result, the two sides agreed to send a boat to meet them, including selecting the elite to take the lead, and other troops to protect the old, weak, women and children who have no fighting capacity and meet at the designated place.

However, when Bao Li reached the finish line, he unexpectedly gave up the breakthrough. Shizai gave up because he came to Baocun from all directions to join his people, hoping that he would stay and protect them, because the chances of survival were very low. In the face of people's cries, Bao Li Shen finally relented, changed his mind, stayed, and Bao Cun survived.

dead?end

This decision cornered Bao and the Dongan Rebel Army. At this time, there was no foreign aid in Baocun, and although it was able to repel the Taiping Army's attack, the personnel were not rested and supplemented, and their combat effectiveness was declining day by day.

In July, Zhou Wenjia, the general of Taiping Army, found a water vein on Mamian Mountain behind the village, cutting off the water source of the village. He also threw many dead bodies into the stream, which made the water flowing to Baocun smelly and could not be quoted. This summer, there was another drought, and it never rained. Baocun's food, water and foreign aid have all been cut off.

What's more, at this time, tens of thousands of people gathered in Baocun, and the village was so full that there was no place to rest. In the hot summer, water is cut off and the population is dense, which leads to the epidemic of plague in the village.

All this is getting worse every day, and it is only a matter of time before Baocun is breached.

1On the morning of July 27th, 862, Taiping Army successfully opened the tunnel that broke into Baocun, and then fought our way out in the noise of smoke coming from the ground exit, and Baocun became Shura hell. The Taiping soldiers who have been wronged for half a year are now facing the Baocun people who have become fish on the chopping block, and they are killed without forgiveness.

After Bao Li Shen and Bao Meiying led thousands of pro-army soldiers to break through, the Taiping Army followed closely and finally surrounded them in Mamian Mountain. In history, after a deadly war, Bao was shot dead, Bao Meiying exhausted himself, and everyone else died. At the same time, the Taiping rebels who killed the red eye continued to hunt down the villagers everywhere. Finally, there are tens of thousands of weak women and children in Baocun, almost none of them are spared.

Mass graves-mass graves

After the war, there were 14077 victims who could only confirm their names. The remains were buried in five huge mass graves. The original site was in today's central square of Baocun Village, which was called "the tomb of 100,000 people".

Therefore, according to the old legend, the bodies of the victims in Baocun were scattered in and around the village for a long time after the war, and no one collected them. It was not until the survivors returned home that they rearranged their burials and donated nearly 400 mu of land and thousands of pieces of silver to build a Sanjin ancestral hall called "Loyalty Hall" on this once bloody land.

There is also a rumor that they found that the land here could not grow crops for many years, not because the land was too barren, but because it was so fertile that crops burned seedlings. In addition, it is said that there is an old camphor tree in Baocun, which died a few years ago. The villagers are going to cut it down and clean it up, but they can't cut it down because it is full of arrows and shrapnel.

There is no way to verify the truth of the rumor, but it is very certain that the battle of Baocun has spread to the whole Zhuji, and at least half of the men in almost every big family died in the battle of Baocun. For example, there is almost a sentence at the end of Luo Jia's genealogy, "Biography of Men" in Xianfeng and Tongzhi years: he died in the Tongzhi Baocun rebellion.