Said by: a couplet by Zhang Erqi [poet of Qing Dynasty]. It was written by Shi Kefa, a great loyal minister in Ming Dynasty. He posted a seven-character couplet in front of Shi Kefa's grave.
In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), he was a scholar and served as an official in Xi 'an. After that, the rebellions were put down. After the fall of Beijing, Shi Kefa made the axe king emperor Hong Guang and continued to fight against the Qing army. Official of Jianjitang University in Dushi, Ministry of War History.
In the first year of Hong Guang (1645), the Qing army laid siege to Yangzhou. Soon, the city was broken, and Shi Kefa refused to surrender and was killed. It was summer, and Shi Kefa's body was beyond recognition. His adopted son Steve and Yangzhou people then changed him into Shi Kefa's clothes and buried him in Meihualing outside the city.
After Shi Kefa's death, Nanming court called it "Zhongjing". Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty pursued "loyalty". Later generations collected his works into Collection of Shi Zhong Gong Zheng.
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Shi Kefa's determination to be completely annihilated.
In April of the first year of Hong Guang (the second year of Qing Shunzhi 1645), Yangzhou was surrounded by many people. At that time, there was a rumor that the national army was going to wipe out the Gao family army, and all the people in Yangzhou smashed the gate and fled, and all the boats were empty.
Shi Kefa sent troops to save the town, and Liu Zeqing fled to Huai 'an in the north. Only a few soldiers, such as Liu, arrived and the defense was short-lived. Dourgen surrendered at this time, and Shi Kefa refused to surrender to Fu Dourgen. On April 17, the Qing army camped 20 miles away from Yangzhou and went to Enemy at the Gates the next day. Shi Kefa "sent reinforcements to towns, and none of them came".
On April 19, prefect Li Benshen led the company commanders Yang and others to surrender to Duoduo, and Prince Qing and Guangchang also led the troops to surrender. Shi Kefa wrote four suicide notes to his family in Ximenlou, Yangzhou. After his death, I hope his wife can be martyred with him and buried next to Ming Taizu's Xiaoling Mausoleum in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.
On April 2 1 day, Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu, the company commanders, led their troops to surrender, and then they were ordered by Duoduo to take part in the invasion of Yangzhou on April 24. In Yangzhou, there are only Liu Zhao, the company commander of the base, and the loyal battalion headed by He Gang, whose troops are quite weak.
Due to the high wall, the siege guns of the Qing army haven't arrived yet, so many people were sent to surrender Shi Kefa and Governor Wei of Huaiyang, but they were sternly refused. On April 21st, Li Qifeng, the company commander of Ganzhen, and Gao Qifeng, the supervisor, led 4,000 soldiers and horses into the city, but what they meant was to hijack Shi Kefa and surrender to the Qing Dynasty with Yangzhou City.
Shi Kefa said firmly, "This is the place where I died. Help yourself to do what you plan to do and how you want to become rich. " Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng saw that there was no chance, so on April 22, they led their troops to collude with Sichuan generals Hu Shangyou and Han Shangliang in order to clear the city. Shi Kefa, the reason is that if they are prevented from leaving the city to surrender, they are allowed to do so without prohibition.
On April 24, the Qing army attacked the city with red cannons. At night, the city of Yangzhou was broken, and Shi Kefa committed suicide and was stopped. After being captured, Shi Kefa refused to surrender and was killed.
After the Qing army occupied Yangzhou, Duoduo ordered the slaughter of Yangzhou people on the grounds that they did not listen to surrender. The massacre lasted for ten days and more than 800,000 people died. History is called "Yangzhou Ten Days". Bones piled up, Shi Kefa's body was illegible, and his whereabouts were unknown. A year later, Steve, the adopted son, evokes the soul with a robe and was buried in Meihualing outside Tianning Gate of Yangzhou City. Later, I wrote Plum Blossom Ridge to describe it.
After Shi Kefa's martyrdom, Nan Ming presented Zhongjing. In the thirty-seventh year of Qing Qianlong (1772), the Qing court presented Shi Kefa with Loyalty and Righteousness.