Why would famous generals such as Shi Dakai of the Taiping Army rather be captured than commit suici

Because they are all people who are afraid of death, and they will think of all kinds of ways to keep themselves alive in the face of death.

Because they can't commit suicide, they still want to have a chance to turn the tables, and they are unwilling to give up their achievements and the country they have laid.

The history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom includes people like Shi Dakai, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, Li Kaifang and others who were tortured to death by Ling Chi after being servedOn the other hand, the generals of the Qing army, when they were defeated, in order to avoid humiliation, they chose to commit suicide. Therefore, some people wonder why these generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would rather be captured and tortured to death than commit suicide.

The first is to protect his subordinates, and the other is that because the generals of the Taiping army were framed or captured by surprise, so that they lost the opportunity to commit suicide. So it's not that I don't want to, it may be that I don't want to be in the situation at the time, and I don't allow myself to make a choice.

Shi Dakai once wrote in a begging letter to Luo Bingzhang, who appointed the governor of SichuanSince the eldest husband can't open up the territory to serve the country, if death can save the whole army, then how can he be afraid of this death. Later, Shi Dakai let the five wives and concubines of the army and the two young sons commit suicide by throwing themselves into the water, and he and his generals Zeng Shihe, Huang Zaizhong, Wei Pucheng and his five-year-old son Shi Dingzhong went to the Qing army camp to surrender.

After the surrender, Shi Dakai and his generals were tortured by Ling Chi in Chengdu, and they were cut thousands of times and lost their lives, and they did not make a sound from beginning to endHis uprightness and strong will shocked those officers and soldiers.

Therefore, if there is any other choice, no one wants to be a prisoner by themselves, and then be tortured by Ling Chi, which is actually a great humiliation for themselvesBut according to the circumstances at the time, they had no way to choose for themselves, and in order to protect their families or their subordinates, they had to sacrifice their lives to become prisoners.

Shi Dakai is notoriously backbone, he committed suicide and couldn't save his family.

These are generals, they are ambitious and courageous, and they can't die so boldly.

It may be said that the circumstances at that time did not allow him to make his own choices and commit suicide.

Because of the religious background of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, suicide cannot be committed.

Because he was arrested too suddenly, he didn't have time to commit suicide, and he couldn't kill himself.

It's not that I don't want to, maybe it's the situation at the time, and I don't allow myself to make a choice.

Maybe they wanted to kill themselves, and then they didn't have the opportunity to kill themselves.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period,Shi Dakai is known as the "Wing King Shi Dakai".And Li Kaifang was one of the five tiger generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and was named King Jing。They were all very famous people at that time, and until the time of their death, for the sake of their subordinates, the reason why they chose to surrender was a kind of oneA manifestation of sacrificing one's life for righteousness, in order to keep their brothers alive, they did not hesitate to exchange their own lives for it.

Shi Dakai wanted to negotiate with the Qing army and get the Qing army to let his men go, but the Qing army did not fulfill their promise and killed nearly 4,000 of Shi Dakai's soldiers, and only a few escaped. Later, when Shi Dakai and his two subordinates were tortured together, the two subordinates couldn't help screaming because of the painAnd Shi Dakai has always been silentAnd Shi Dakai also said to the torturer, just give us a good time, there is no need to waste time.

Before Li Kaifang was arrested, it was the monk Greenqin who wanted to arrest Li Kaifang alive, so he deliberately spread the news, hoping that talented people could come to assist him. And Li Kaifang also wanted to kill Monk Greenqin at that time, so he deliberately went to Monk Greenqin. But what he didn't expect was that the scheming monk Greenqin saw through Li Kaifang's thoughtsLater, Li Kaifang's vanguard troops were all annihilated, and Li Kaifang himself and nearly a hundred Taiping troops were captured alive.

Li Kaifang was initially prepared to go on a hunger strike and not surrender, but was later forcibly fed, and when Li Kaifang died later, he showed the same spirit as Shi Dakai.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, once the Qing army captured the leaders of the Taiping army, they would rarely let them get out aliveUnless the person who is captured is willing to surrender and reveal the secret, but the ending is not very good.

Because they have more backbone, they don't want to end their lives by themselves, maybe they still have a chance to live.

I think Shi Dakai and Li Kaifang should be thinking about surviving first to see if they can find a chance to turn the tables later.

They didn't choose to commit suicide, probably in search of an opportunity to make a comeback, but in the end they were caught.

Why commit suicide, suicide means complete defeat. They refused to admit defeat, so Li Kaifang and Shi Dakai chose to surrender, which is a manifestation of sacrificing their lives for righteousness, the vigorous feat of treating death as home, and the unyielding spirit of preferring death to this day is admired by us!

Being captured shows that they fought to the end, and they still had a glimmer of hope for their victory.

Because even if they are captured by the enemy, they may still find a chance to escape and continue their Taiping Rebellion.

Because the old saying says that it is better to die than to live, they may think that they still have a chance to turn the tables, and then they will make compromises.

The reason why they didn't commit suicide was because they wanted to find an opportunity to rebel, but in the end they were found and killed.

Because these bandits all have a fluke mentality ...... survival

"Lingchi execution" is commonly known as "a thousand knives", and there is a limit to the number of knives that can be punished, but it varies with the times. In the Song Dynasty, there were only 8 to 120 knives, and in the Ming Dynasty, it often exceeded 1,000 knives, and there were 1,000 to 3,000 knives. If the number of cuts is too much or too little, the executioner may be punished.

The great eunuch Liu Jin was chopped, according to the routine, he should be cut 3357 knives, every ten knives and a rest and a drink, 357 knives were cut on the first day, and he was given some porridge to drink to maintain his life at the end of the period, a total of three days. Later, Zheng Man was chopped, and when he heard the holy decree read, he should be chopped 3,600 knives, which shows that the number of knives is not absolutely fixed, but both cases are above 3,000 knives. Shi Dakai, the famous leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was defeated at the Dadu River and surrendered to Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan, but was not treated leniently.

On June 25, the second year of Tongzhi (1862), Luo Bingzhang led the Qing soldiers to tie Shi Dakai and Zaifu Zeng Shihe, Zhongcheng Huang Zaizhong and others to the execution ground. Shi and Zeng were tied face to face on two cross wooden rafts. When Ling Chi was executed, the executioner first cut Zeng Shihe for the first time, Zeng Shihe was in pain, screaming and screaming, Shi Dakai reprimanded him and said:

Why can't you tolerate this time? Zeng Shihe gritted his teeth and stopped shouting. When Shi Dakai was tortured, he was cut more than 100 times, and he was silent from beginning to end.

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More than 100 knives.

On June 27, 1863 (the second year of Tongzhi), Shi Dakai was tried in the Chengdu Public Court, and he made a generous statement, which made the presiding judge Chongshi and speechless. Luo Bingzhang led the Qing soldiers to tie Shi Dakai and Zai Fu, Zeng Shihe, Zhongcheng Huang Zaizhong and others to the execution ground. Shi and Zeng were tied to two cross stakes facing each other.

When Ling Chi was executed, the executioner first cut Zeng Shihe with the first knife, Zeng Shihe was in pain, screamed and screamed, Shi Dakai reprimanded him and said: "Why can't you bear this time? Zeng Shihe gritted his teeth and stopped shouting.

When Shi Dakai was tortured, he was cut more than 100 times, and he was silent from beginning to end. Shi Dakai's awe-inspiring righteousness and strong will shocked the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and the audience was all moved and sighed as a "strange man". Even Liu Rong, the political envoy of the hostile forces in Sichuan, had to praise him like this: "The strong spirit of the owl overflows on face, and the words are neither arrogant nor humble, and he does not wag his tail and beg for mercy."

When he was about to be executed, he looked pleasant, and he was the most ugly of the worst. ”

Once the rulers captured the leaders of the peasant revolts, they were always executed. For example, when the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed, Shi Dakai was cut more than 100 times when he was tortured, and he was silent from beginning to end. Shi Dakai's awe-inspiring righteousness.

Of course I thought of it, but the reason why I went to the Qing camp was to save the lives of his soldiers. Trapped in the Dadu River, there is no food and grass inside, and there are no rescuers outside. In order to save the lives of thousands of his subordinates, he went to the Qing camp to negotiate and was detained.

is not a surrender faction, if you know that you will die so miserably, it is better to fight to the death, the general dies on the battlefield is the best destination, is the real hero.

must have thought of it, the Taiping Army general (Wang) level of arrest is Ling Chi execution, and there is Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang's experience in front of him, how could he not have imagined that Shi Dakai is worthy of being an iron man, and when he was executed, he reprimanded him as a general of the Taiping Army, why shout in pain, it is his turn to die with more than a thousand knives without saying a word, and he is worthy of my Chinese iron bones.

At that time, Shi Dakai was in a dilemma, Tianjing couldn't go back, there was an interception in front of the Dadu River, and there were chasing soldiers in the back, so he had to surrender, and what he said before was that Shi Dakai surrendered, so that Shi Dakai's subordinates could save their lives, at that time Shi Dakai knew that he must be dead, but maybe he didn't expect to die in such a cruel way.

Shi Dakai left Beijing in May 1857 to avoid trouble, and successively fought in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places. In the process of establishing the Sichuan base area, Sichuan has been established. In May 1863, the Taiping army reached the Dadu River, there was no Qing army on the other side, Shi Dakai ordered to prepare more rafts, and crossed the river the next day, but it rained heavily that night, and the river swelled, making it impossible to sail.

Three days later, the Qing army arrived one after another to set up defenses, and the Taiping army was blocked by the early rising water of the Dadu River, which had not been encountered in a century, and failed to rush to cross the river many times, and the grain and grass were exhausted, and they fell into a desperate situation. In order to establish the miraculous feat of "capturing Shi Dakai alive", Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan, sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender, and Shi Dakai was determined to sacrifice his life to the whole three armies, and after negotiations between the two sides, the Taiping army dismissed 4,000 people by itself, and most of these people were able to escape. The remaining 2,000 people were retained**, and entered the Qing camp with Shi Dakai, after Shi Dakai was escorted to Chengdu, the Qing army was treacherous, and all the 2,000 soldiers under Shi Dakai were killed.