纪念伟大的民族英雄阎应元殉国360周年

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<p><strong>纪念伟大的民族英雄阎应元殉国360周年</strong></p><p>江阴,与扬州、嘉定这些重镇比,不过是一座小小的要塞,全城仅九万多人。被百姓们推举为守城统帅的阎应元既无一品大学士史可法的十万大军,又无三品通政使侯峒曾的地位显赫,但他居然应全城百姓重托,于二十四万清兵的大炮、强弩之下,担当起了九万平民百姓的指挥官。在八十一天的血战中,阎应元与全城百姓同仇敌忾,击毙鞑靼七万五千余人,其中三位王爷、十八位大将。阎典史几乎使用了三十六计中的所有计谋,诈降、设伏、火攻、草人借箭、装神弄鬼、声东击西、夜袭敌营、城头楚歌,居然连人体炸弹也用上了。阎应元招募自愿老者出城诈降,将炸药放在装银两的木桶夹层中,献纳时引燃导火索,几位须发皆白的老者与清军王爷一、上将三及三千贼寇玉石俱焚,清军不得不三军挂孝。破城之日,阎应元身中数箭投水自尽,被清兵拉出水面后刺断胫骨令其下跪,他倒地后膝盖不弯直至气绝。有人统计,江阴小城,城内被屠者九万七千余人,城外被杀者七万五千余众,江阴遗民仅五十三人躲在寺观塔上保全了性命。阎应元临终前一日,在江阴城楼上留有一首绝命联,说的就是“宁愿留忠发,不肯剃女干头,穿戴汉服死,不做旗袍奴”的夙愿:<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/>  八十日带发效忠,表太祖十七朝人物。<br/>  十万人同心死义,留大明三百里江山。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/>   让我们来重温360年前那惊天地泣鬼神的英雄事迹吧!<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   1645年(南明弘光元年).江阴降清,清知县方亨继任,循例颁布剃发令。阴历六月二十八日市民请愿留发留衣冠。方亨破口大骂。众人大怒,骂道:“你身为中国进士,头戴纱帽,身穿圆领,来做鞑靼知县,不知道羞耻吗?”方亨羞愧不已,暂停所议。此后,方亨召集诸生百余人及乡绅、百姓会于文庙。众人问道:“现在江阴已尽归顺,应该没有什么事了吧?”方亨道:“只剩下剃发了。”众人道:“发可不剃吗?”方亨道:“这是大清律法,不可违背。”说罢就回衙了。诸生许用等人聚集不去,在明伦堂共同立誓道:“头可断,发决不可剃!我中国男儿岂可失身!!”正在这时,常州府发来严令剃发的文书,其中有“留头不留发,留发不留头”的话。方亨叫书吏把府文写成布告张贴,书吏写到这句话时,义愤填膺,把笔扔到地上说:“就死也罢!”消息很快传遍全城,立刻鼎沸起来。方亨见士民不从,秘密报告常州府请上司派兵“多杀树威”。这封密信被义民搜获,于是在初二日擒住方亨,斩杀清差,推陈明遇为首,以“大明中兴”为旗号,江阴义民正式反清复国。江阴百姓起义的消息传开后,鞑清常州知府宗灏派兵丁三百人赶来镇压,被江阴义民歼灭于秦望山下。江阴军民在陈明遇的带领下又多次打退小股清军的进攻<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   闰六月二十一,鞑清贝勒博洛命汉奸奴才刘良佐统重兵包围江阴城,二十四日,刘良佐作招降书一纸,从东城外射进。江阴军民公议后,回书拒绝。刘良佐见劝降无效,便四处捕杀城外义兵,企图断绝城内军民外援。七月初一日,开始攻城。城中严密防御,清兵箭如雨注,城上的人一手拿锅盖遮蔽,一手接箭,每天能得到箭三四十万。江阴形势的日益严峻,陈明遇虽忠肝义胆,却自感缺乏军事组织才能,于是想起了智勇双全的前典吏阎应元。陈明遇专门委派十六人连夜出城,到阎应元住所请他出山,应元道:“你们能从我则可。不然,不为你们主持。”众人道:“敢不惟命是听?”九日,阎应元带领江阴城祝塘少年六百人,执械入城。入城后,阎应元立即把全城的户口分别丁壮老幼详加调查,挑选年轻力壮的男子组成民兵,每个城垛十名,按时换班。由武举人王公略守东门,汪把总守南门,陈明遇守西门,应元自任守北门。他和陈明遇兼负昼夜巡查四门的责任。对城中过往行人严加盘诘,肃清内奸。在阎应元的领导下,很快就做到人尽其才,物尽其用,各方面的工作做得井井有条。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   十一日,清寇攻打阎应元镇守的北门,城上矢石如雨注,清寇不敢接近。主帅刘良佐大怒,命令上将九员先驾云梯上城,城上以长枪刺之,上将五死四伤,有的身中三箭,有的被劈去头颅,有的堕下摔成残废,有的被火箭烧死。主帅更怒,传令十营内选猛将几员,步军三万,扎云梯十张,来日分十处上城,如有退者立斩。次日,清寇仍攻北门,城外放炮呐喊,三万军造浮桥十条,一齐渡过外城河,分十处登云梯上城。阎应元指挥城上用砖石掷下,以长枪拒敌;一时间乱石纷飞,炮火连绵,双方死亡不计其数。某满人大将自恃勇猛,穿着三层甲,腰悬两把刀,背背两把刀,手执双把刀,亲登云梯,跨上城垛,执刀乱砍。城上守军用棺木抵挡,以枪刺其身,竟不能入。有人喊道:“刺他的脸。”于是众人纷纷刺其面,一汤姓童子,持铁钩镰,用力钩断其喉管,竹匠姚迩割下他的头,满将身子堕落城下。清寇齐来抢尸,城上梆鼓齐鸣,砖石小箭如雨点,清寇又伤亡千余人。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   刘良佐命令军士索那满将的头,阎应元不允。刘良佐愿意用银赎买,命人将银当面装入银鞘吊入城。又命军士于城下哀号:“还我将军的头!”阎应元让人以蒲包裹一黄狗头,掷还之,将满将的头悬在城上。刘良佐亲自带人在城下苦苦哀求,方把头扔下。清寇拿了头回去,与身缝合,挂孝三日。阎应元击退了北城的攻击,但知道不日清兵必有更大规模的攻击。于是积极铸造守城工具,招青阳弩王黄鸣岗等千余人,入城造小弩千张、小箭数万枝,分派给守城军士。又用季从孝所合火药敷在箭头上射人,见血立死。弩长尺余,箭长五寸,百步之外,皆可命中目标。又从狱中放出陈瑞之子,令他制造火砖、木铳。火砖广三四寸许,着人即烧,木铳类银鞘,长三尺五寸、广二三寸,木制,中间藏有火药,敌人到来时,投下,机关暴发木壳崩裂,铁菱角飞出,触人即死。阎应元还亲自制造挝弩,用一块铁,边上造几个钩子,后面栓着棉绳,抛出勾住敌人,近前斩之。又模仿旧制,制造火球、火箭之类,无不精巧绝妙。所以清寇虽多,每每望城兴叹,战栗无人色。即使是满洲兵将也闻之胆落,每次攻城下来都要为幸免不死而大肆庆祝。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   清寇攻城不利,又起劝降之念。刘良佐亲作《劝民歌》,希望江阴投降,阎应元不从。于是清寇在城下搭建牛皮帐篷,做好长期作战的准备。十五日,清兵攻东北城,刘良佐命西南放炮,东北掘城,皆用山爬攻城,城内以火球、火箭抵抗。清寇不敌欲退,良佐严令方止。阎应元继续命城内投下砖石,清兵不及闪避,数百人死于城下。良佐惭愧、惶恐。于是搭设三层牛皮帐,守而不攻。帐内有九梁八柱,矢石投在上面,都被反弹起来,不能进入。阎应元下令用人粪,掺上桐油,煎滚浇下,牛皮烫穿,浇在清寇身上,肉烂而死。没被烧着的清寇惊惶散去,城内用挝弩射向逃散的清寇,钩中者,即入城中袅首。清寇手足无措,纷纷逃散。敌营以为守城者杀下,命令发射木铳以御,反伤自己的马步卒无数。无奈之下,刘良佐命令移营至邓墓。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   在坚守的同时,江阴向四方请求援助,黄蜚、吴之葵领兵至太湖,与清贝勒博洛大军相遇,二人兵败被俘后,投降清朝。海寇顾三麻子因敬慕阎应元的为人,率舟师来援,苦战三日后失败,扬帆远去。此外,义阳王来援,败于砂山;秀才金矿会集精勇四百余人来援,被刘良佐以铁骑三千截在周庄左右,全军俱没。外兵屡败,江阴沦为孤城。即便如此,刘良佐心有余悸,不敢再攻城,只用火炮攻击北城,彻夜不息,城垛在炮火的轰击下塌陷数丈。阎应元命石匠砌墙,匠危惧不前,阎应元言辞恳切,动之以情,石匠深受感动,于是冒死登城修葺城垛,使之牢固如初。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   十四日,阎应元利用清寇劝降之机,派出百余名壮士,以奉送“降礼”为名,暗携火器进入清寇营帐,炸死清寇两千余人。十七日夜,阎应元挑选勇士千人出南门劫营,或执板斧,或执短刀,或用扁担,突入敌营,伤千余人。及他营来救,应元兵已返回城中。此役之后,刘良佐再次后撤,扎营在十方庵。十八日,刘良佐令十方庵的僧侣向城跪泣,陈说利害,劝江阴军民早降。城中皆愿以死报国,要他速去。当晚,僧人又来劝降,再次被众人遣走。十九日,刘良佐策马来到城下,劝应元道:“宏光已北,江南皆下。若足下转祸为福,爵位岂在良佐下,何自苦如此?”阎应元从容道:“江阴士民,三百年来食毛践土,深戴国恩,不忍望风降附。应元是中国典史,深知大义所在,绝不服事鞑靼。将军位为侯伯,掌握重兵,进不能恢复中原,退不能保障江左,有何面目见我江东忠义士民乎?”良佐惭愧不已,又以清廷召谕相示,劝江阴士民接受招安。应元怒道:“有降将军,无降典史。”一声梆响,火箭齐发,良佐连跨三四马逸去,叹息道:“江阴人没救了!”鞑清亲王多铎(屠扬州之禽兽)闻知江阴久攻不下,极为震怒,他先派汉奸走狗孔有德(多年后被李定国军围于桂林,畏罪自杀)“率所部兵协攻”,接着又派贝勒博洛和贝勒尼堪(多年后被李定国将军击毙)带领满洲兵携红衣大炮前往攻城。贝勒博洛平定松江后,统率所部二十万大军来到江阴城下。贼首博洛登山而望,巡视江阴城防后,对手下讲:“此城舟形也,南首北尾,若攻南北,必不破。惟攻其中,则破矣。”他命人绑缚降将黄蜚、吴之葵到城下,命令他们做书劝降,黄蜚道:“我在城中没有相识,写了劝降书又有何用?”吴之葵涕泪交横,仰头劝阎应元投降,情词悲楚,应元叱道:“大臣被缚,当速就死,何必喋喋不休!”之葵再拜泣下,蜚默默无语。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   贼首博洛见阎应元义不可动,发起总攻,分兵先抄断各镇救兵,以竹笼盛火炮,鼓吹前迎,炮手披红挂彩,限三日破城,二十日至二十七日,清兵轮番攻城不息,阎应元指挥防御,浴血奋战,终保江阴城池不失。八月初,江阴民兵昼夜守御,甚感疲惫。开始有人出城投降。清兵在城外四处杀掠,民不聊生,为江阴百姓不齿,那些剃发投降的人,被城上看见,必然痛骂,即使父子相见,兄弟相逢也像仇敌一般。阎应元见城防吃紧,遍取民间乱发,投城下诱敌。清兵惊喜,报告刘良佐。良佐道:“还不能相信,去观察一下守城的人剃发了吗?”清兵察探后,方知是诈降。博洛久攻不下,心中焦急,于是重新劝降,称只要拔去大明中兴的旗号,四门悬挂大清旗号四面,只杀斩首事者数人,其余一概不论,即使不剃发,也会撤兵。阎应元看出博洛的缓兵之计,遂道:“只斩我一人?我没有罪,凭什么杀我!”议不决而止。博洛又称只要在四城竖起大清旗四面,也会立刻退兵。阎应元情知有诈,仍不应。前吴军门督军王海防至江上,宰牛杀羊与诸将起誓,称江阴归顺后绝对不许杀掠。他自恃在江阴素有恩信,请缨来劝降,但临城招抚,却无人应和。此后清二酋多尔衮晓谕招安,博洛命人用箭射入城中,言明已亡,何苦死守?阎应元命人在书后补上:“愿受炮打,宁死不降!”射还给清兵。清廷多次劝降,城内已经开始有人犹豫,但因阎应元镇守的北门誓死固守,众意遂绝。被困既久,江阴城内伤亡惨重,战斗力日减,城中石灰断缺,不能乘夜修城。饭米越来越少,只能靠征集民间的米以备缺乏,阎应元下令两日领一次米,不得预先领取。中秋前后,百姓携壶提觞登上城楼,举杯痛饮,诸生许用模仿楚歌,作《五更转曲》,让善歌的人登高传唱,以笙笛箫鼓相和。当时天无纤翳,皓月当空,清露薄野,剑戟无声,黄弩、师鼓、胡琴于西城之敌楼,歌声悲壮,响彻云霄。清兵争着靠前倾听。或怒骂,或悲叹,甚有泣下者。歌中唱道:“宜兴人,一把枪。无锡人,团团一股香。靖江人,连忙跪在沙滩上。常州人,献了女儿又献娘。江阴人,打仗八十余日,宁死不投降。”刘良佐针锋相对,命人作劝降词,让士卒相倚而歌,自己与幕僚在帐中饮酒,不一会儿,城上炮、箭齐发,遂散去。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   二十一日,博洛令数百人,把二百余座大炮全部搬到花家坝,专打东北城。炮弹入城,穿透洞门十三重,树亦穿过数重,落地深数尺。当日雨势甚急,外用牛皮帐护炮装药,城头危如垒卵。城上因敌炮猛烈,见燃火,即躲到围墙后面。炮声过后,再登上城楼。清兵看到这种情况,故意放空炮,并让炮中只放狼烟,烟漫障天,咫尺莫辨。守城者只听炮声霹雳,认为清兵不能很快进入,而不知清兵已潜渡城河,从烟雾中蜂拥突上,众人来不及防御而崩溃。江阴终于被攻陷了。当清兵上城时,一队队民兵对城列阵。清兵怕有埋伏,僵持半日不敢进攻。到黄昏时,城中鼎沸,民兵阵脚散乱,清兵才敢下城。城破之时,阎应元端坐于东城敌楼之上,要了一支笔,在城门上提到:“八十日带发效忠,表太祖十七朝人物,十万人同心死义,留大明三百里江山。”题讫,带着千人上马格斗,杀死清兵无数,欲从西门突围而不得。他环顾从者道:“为我谢百姓,吾报国事毕矣!”自拔短刀,刺胸血出,投在前湖中。义民陆正先想把他从水中扯起,正赶上刘良佐遣兵来擒,良佐自称与阎应元有旧,要生擒他,于是清兵把他捞起绑住,没有杀他。良佐踞坐在明佛殿,见应元来了,跃起,两手拍应元背而哭。应元道:“有什么好哭的,事已至此,只有一死。速杀我!”博洛坐在县署,急索应元至堂上。阎应元挺立不屈,背向贝勒,骂不绝口。一卒以枪刺他的小腿,阎应元血流如注,不支倒地。博洛命人把他关到栖霞庵。当夜,寺中僧人不停听到“速杀我”的声音,天明时,终遇害。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   阎应元死后,家丁犹存十余人,皆因不降而被杀,陆正先也一同殉难。江阴县衙,男女大小共四十三人举火自焚,典吏陈明遇自己持刀与清兵血战,身负重创,握刀僵立,死时,身子倚在墙边,屹立不倒。训导冯厚敦自缢于明伦堂,妻与姊投井死。中书戚勋、诸生许用举家自焚而死。诸生许王家,被清军拘押时,“或劝曰:‘君故明一诸生,未食天碌,何以身殉?’王家曰:‘君臣之义,岂论仕与不仕?公等复言。’”书生笪某,被清军抓获之后,“刑前叹曰:‘我一介小人,今日得之士大夫之烈,为忠义而死,死之犹生也。’临刑神色不变。”<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   呜呼!中国军民这视死如归,以身殉国之精神,真可谓“惊天地,泣鬼神”矣!八月二十二日,清寇开始屠城,百姓或力战到底,或坦然就义,都以先死为幸,妇女多贞烈,投河而死。七岁孩童毅然就义,无一人顺从。清军屠城两日后“出榜安民”,城内百姓仅剩“大小五十三人”而已。“有明之季,士林无羞恶之心。居高官、享重名者,以蒙面乞降为得意;而封疆大帅,无不反戈内向。独阎、陈二典史乃于一城见义。向使守京口如是,则江南不至拱手献人矣。”此言甚当,沧海横流方显英雄本色,在江南各地望风披靡之时,阎应元以微末下吏凭借江阴百姓的支持,面对强敌,临危不惧,坚持了近三个月,击杀清寇数万人,重挫了清寇锐气,钳制了清寇主力南下,推动了各地的抗清斗争。在城破以后,仍拚死巷战,“竟无一人降者”。以阎应元为代表的江阴士民抗击满清的英雄事迹,凛凛气节在中华反侵略史上留下了光彩夺目的一页。若我国人还有明人之气节。何叫300年后日寇亲华,伪军大盛?<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span></p><p><strong>纪念伟大的民族英雄阎应元殉国360周年</strong></p><p>江阴,与扬州、嘉定这些重镇比,不过是一座小小的要塞,全城仅九万多人。被百姓们推举为守城统帅的阎应元既无一品大学士史可法的十万大军,又无三品通政使侯峒曾的地位显赫,但他居然应全城百姓重托,于二十四万清兵的大炮、强弩之下,担当起了九万平民百姓的指挥官。在八十一天的血战中,阎应元与全城百姓同仇敌忾,击毙鞑靼七万五千余人,其中三位王爷、十八位大将。阎典史几乎使用了三十六计中的所有计谋,诈降、设伏、火攻、草人借箭、装神弄鬼、声东击西、夜袭敌营、城头楚歌,居然连人体炸弹也用上了。阎应元招募自愿老者出城诈降,将炸药放在装银两的木桶夹层中,献纳时引燃导火索,几位须发皆白的老者与清军王爷一、上将三及三千贼寇玉石俱焚,清军不得不三军挂孝。破城之日,阎应元身中数箭投水自尽,被清兵拉出水面后刺断胫骨令其下跪,他倒地后膝盖不弯直至气绝。有人统计,江阴小城,城内被屠者九万七千余人,城外被杀者七万五千余众,江阴遗民仅五十三人躲在寺观塔上保全了性命。阎应元临终前一日,在江阴城楼上留有一首绝命联,说的就是“宁愿留忠发,不肯剃女干头,穿戴汉服死,不做旗袍奴”的夙愿:<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/>  八十日带发效忠,表太祖十七朝人物。<br/>  十万人同心死义,留大明三百里江山。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/>   让我们来重温360年前那惊天地泣鬼神的英雄事迹吧!<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   1645年(南明弘光元年).江阴降清,清知县方亨继任,循例颁布剃发令。阴历六月二十八日市民请愿留发留衣冠。方亨破口大骂。众人大怒,骂道:“你身为中国进士,头戴纱帽,身穿圆领,来做鞑靼知县,不知道羞耻吗?”方亨羞愧不已,暂停所议。此后,方亨召集诸生百余人及乡绅、百姓会于文庙。众人问道:“现在江阴已尽归顺,应该没有什么事了吧?”方亨道:“只剩下剃发了。”众人道:“发可不剃吗?”方亨道:“这是大清律法,不可违背。”说罢就回衙了。诸生许用等人聚集不去,在明伦堂共同立誓道:“头可断,发决不可剃!我中国男儿岂可失身!!”正在这时,常州府发来严令剃发的文书,其中有“留头不留发,留发不留头”的话。方亨叫书吏把府文写成布告张贴,书吏写到这句话时,义愤填膺,把笔扔到地上说:“就死也罢!”消息很快传遍全城,立刻鼎沸起来。方亨见士民不从,秘密报告常州府请上司派兵“多杀树威”。这封密信被义民搜获,于是在初二日擒住方亨,斩杀清差,推陈明遇为首,以“大明中兴”为旗号,江阴义民正式反清复国。江阴百姓起义的消息传开后,鞑清常州知府宗灏派兵丁三百人赶来镇压,被江阴义民歼灭于秦望山下。江阴军民在陈明遇的带领下又多次打退小股清军的进攻<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   闰六月二十一,鞑清贝勒博洛命汉奸奴才刘良佐统重兵包围江阴城,二十四日,刘良佐作招降书一纸,从东城外射进。江阴军民公议后,回书拒绝。刘良佐见劝降无效,便四处捕杀城外义兵,企图断绝城内军民外援。七月初一日,开始攻城。城中严密防御,清兵箭如雨注,城上的人一手拿锅盖遮蔽,一手接箭,每天能得到箭三四十万。江阴形势的日益严峻,陈明遇虽忠肝义胆,却自感缺乏军事组织才能,于是想起了智勇双全的前典吏阎应元。陈明遇专门委派十六人连夜出城,到阎应元住所请他出山,应元道:“你们能从我则可。不然,不为你们主持。”众人道:“敢不惟命是听?”九日,阎应元带领江阴城祝塘少年六百人,执械入城。入城后,阎应元立即把全城的户口分别丁壮老幼详加调查,挑选年轻力壮的男子组成民兵,每个城垛十名,按时换班。由武举人王公略守东门,汪把总守南门,陈明遇守西门,应元自任守北门。他和陈明遇兼负昼夜巡查四门的责任。对城中过往行人严加盘诘,肃清内奸。在阎应元的领导下,很快就做到人尽其才,物尽其用,各方面的工作做得井井有条。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   十一日,清寇攻打阎应元镇守的北门,城上矢石如雨注,清寇不敢接近。主帅刘良佐大怒,命令上将九员先驾云梯上城,城上以长枪刺之,上将五死四伤,有的身中三箭,有的被劈去头颅,有的堕下摔成残废,有的被火箭烧死。主帅更怒,传令十营内选猛将几员,步军三万,扎云梯十张,来日分十处上城,如有退者立斩。次日,清寇仍攻北门,城外放炮呐喊,三万军造浮桥十条,一齐渡过外城河,分十处登云梯上城。阎应元指挥城上用砖石掷下,以长枪拒敌;一时间乱石纷飞,炮火连绵,双方死亡不计其数。某满人大将自恃勇猛,穿着三层甲,腰悬两把刀,背背两把刀,手执双把刀,亲登云梯,跨上城垛,执刀乱砍。城上守军用棺木抵挡,以枪刺其身,竟不能入。有人喊道:“刺他的脸。”于是众人纷纷刺其面,一汤姓童子,持铁钩镰,用力钩断其喉管,竹匠姚迩割下他的头,满将身子堕落城下。清寇齐来抢尸,城上梆鼓齐鸣,砖石小箭如雨点,清寇又伤亡千余人。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   刘良佐命令军士索那满将的头,阎应元不允。刘良佐愿意用银赎买,命人将银当面装入银鞘吊入城。又命军士于城下哀号:“还我将军的头!”阎应元让人以蒲包裹一黄狗头,掷还之,将满将的头悬在城上。刘良佐亲自带人在城下苦苦哀求,方把头扔下。清寇拿了头回去,与身缝合,挂孝三日。阎应元击退了北城的攻击,但知道不日清兵必有更大规模的攻击。于是积极铸造守城工具,招青阳弩王黄鸣岗等千余人,入城造小弩千张、小箭数万枝,分派给守城军士。又用季从孝所合火药敷在箭头上射人,见血立死。弩长尺余,箭长五寸,百步之外,皆可命中目标。又从狱中放出陈瑞之子,令他制造火砖、木铳。火砖广三四寸许,着人即烧,木铳类银鞘,长三尺五寸、广二三寸,木制,中间藏有火药,敌人到来时,投下,机关暴发木壳崩裂,铁菱角飞出,触人即死。阎应元还亲自制造挝弩,用一块铁,边上造几个钩子,后面栓着棉绳,抛出勾住敌人,近前斩之。又模仿旧制,制造火球、火箭之类,无不精巧绝妙。所以清寇虽多,每每望城兴叹,战栗无人色。即使是满洲兵将也闻之胆落,每次攻城下来都要为幸免不死而大肆庆祝。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   清寇攻城不利,又起劝降之念。刘良佐亲作《劝民歌》,希望江阴投降,阎应元不从。于是清寇在城下搭建牛皮帐篷,做好长期作战的准备。十五日,清兵攻东北城,刘良佐命西南放炮,东北掘城,皆用山爬攻城,城内以火球、火箭抵抗。清寇不敌欲退,良佐严令方止。阎应元继续命城内投下砖石,清兵不及闪避,数百人死于城下。良佐惭愧、惶恐。于是搭设三层牛皮帐,守而不攻。帐内有九梁八柱,矢石投在上面,都被反弹起来,不能进入。阎应元下令用人粪,掺上桐油,煎滚浇下,牛皮烫穿,浇在清寇身上,肉烂而死。没被烧着的清寇惊惶散去,城内用挝弩射向逃散的清寇,钩中者,即入城中袅首。清寇手足无措,纷纷逃散。敌营以为守城者杀下,命令发射木铳以御,反伤自己的马步卒无数。无奈之下,刘良佐命令移营至邓墓。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   在坚守的同时,江阴向四方请求援助,黄蜚、吴之葵领兵至太湖,与清贝勒博洛大军相遇,二人兵败被俘后,投降清朝。海寇顾三麻子因敬慕阎应元的为人,率舟师来援,苦战三日后失败,扬帆远去。此外,义阳王来援,败于砂山;秀才金矿会集精勇四百余人来援,被刘良佐以铁骑三千截在周庄左右,全军俱没。外兵屡败,江阴沦为孤城。即便如此,刘良佐心有余悸,不敢再攻城,只用火炮攻击北城,彻夜不息,城垛在炮火的轰击下塌陷数丈。阎应元命石匠砌墙,匠危惧不前,阎应元言辞恳切,动之以情,石匠深受感动,于是冒死登城修葺城垛,使之牢固如初。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   十四日,阎应元利用清寇劝降之机,派出百余名壮士,以奉送“降礼”为名,暗携火器进入清寇营帐,炸死清寇两千余人。十七日夜,阎应元挑选勇士千人出南门劫营,或执板斧,或执短刀,或用扁担,突入敌营,伤千余人。及他营来救,应元兵已返回城中。此役之后,刘良佐再次后撤,扎营在十方庵。十八日,刘良佐令十方庵的僧侣向城跪泣,陈说利害,劝江阴军民早降。城中皆愿以死报国,要他速去。当晚,僧人又来劝降,再次被众人遣走。十九日,刘良佐策马来到城下,劝应元道:“宏光已北,江南皆下。若足下转祸为福,爵位岂在良佐下,何自苦如此?”阎应元从容道:“江阴士民,三百年来食毛践土,深戴国恩,不忍望风降附。应元是中国典史,深知大义所在,绝不服事鞑靼。将军位为侯伯,掌握重兵,进不能恢复中原,退不能保障江左,有何面目见我江东忠义士民乎?”良佐惭愧不已,又以清廷召谕相示,劝江阴士民接受招安。应元怒道:“有降将军,无降典史。”一声梆响,火箭齐发,良佐连跨三四马逸去,叹息道:“江阴人没救了!”鞑清亲王多铎(屠扬州之禽兽)闻知江阴久攻不下,极为震怒,他先派汉奸走狗孔有德(多年后被李定国军围于桂林,畏罪自杀)“率所部兵协攻”,接着又派贝勒博洛和贝勒尼堪(多年后被李定国将军击毙)带领满洲兵携红衣大炮前往攻城。贝勒博洛平定松江后,统率所部二十万大军来到江阴城下。贼首博洛登山而望,巡视江阴城防后,对手下讲:“此城舟形也,南首北尾,若攻南北,必不破。惟攻其中,则破矣。”他命人绑缚降将黄蜚、吴之葵到城下,命令他们做书劝降,黄蜚道:“我在城中没有相识,写了劝降书又有何用?”吴之葵涕泪交横,仰头劝阎应元投降,情词悲楚,应元叱道:“大臣被缚,当速就死,何必喋喋不休!”之葵再拜泣下,蜚默默无语。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   贼首博洛见阎应元义不可动,发起总攻,分兵先抄断各镇救兵,以竹笼盛火炮,鼓吹前迎,炮手披红挂彩,限三日破城,二十日至二十七日,清兵轮番攻城不息,阎应元指挥防御,浴血奋战,终保江阴城池不失。八月初,江阴民兵昼夜守御,甚感疲惫。开始有人出城投降。清兵在城外四处杀掠,民不聊生,为江阴百姓不齿,那些剃发投降的人,被城上看见,必然痛骂,即使父子相见,兄弟相逢也像仇敌一般。阎应元见城防吃紧,遍取民间乱发,投城下诱敌。清兵惊喜,报告刘良佐。良佐道:“还不能相信,去观察一下守城的人剃发了吗?”清兵察探后,方知是诈降。博洛久攻不下,心中焦急,于是重新劝降,称只要拔去大明中兴的旗号,四门悬挂大清旗号四面,只杀斩首事者数人,其余一概不论,即使不剃发,也会撤兵。阎应元看出博洛的缓兵之计,遂道:“只斩我一人?我没有罪,凭什么杀我!”议不决而止。博洛又称只要在四城竖起大清旗四面,也会立刻退兵。阎应元情知有诈,仍不应。前吴军门督军王海防至江上,宰牛杀羊与诸将起誓,称江阴归顺后绝对不许杀掠。他自恃在江阴素有恩信,请缨来劝降,但临城招抚,却无人应和。此后清二酋多尔衮晓谕招安,博洛命人用箭射入城中,言明已亡,何苦死守?阎应元命人在书后补上:“愿受炮打,宁死不降!”射还给清兵。清廷多次劝降,城内已经开始有人犹豫,但因阎应元镇守的北门誓死固守,众意遂绝。被困既久,江阴城内伤亡惨重,战斗力日减,城中石灰断缺,不能乘夜修城。饭米越来越少,只能靠征集民间的米以备缺乏,阎应元下令两日领一次米,不得预先领取。中秋前后,百姓携壶提觞登上城楼,举杯痛饮,诸生许用模仿楚歌,作《五更转曲》,让善歌的人登高传唱,以笙笛箫鼓相和。当时天无纤翳,皓月当空,清露薄野,剑戟无声,黄弩、师鼓、胡琴于西城之敌楼,歌声悲壮,响彻云霄。清兵争着靠前倾听。或怒骂,或悲叹,甚有泣下者。歌中唱道:“宜兴人,一把枪。无锡人,团团一股香。靖江人,连忙跪在沙滩上。常州人,献了女儿又献娘。江阴人,打仗八十余日,宁死不投降。”刘良佐针锋相对,命人作劝降词,让士卒相倚而歌,自己与幕僚在帐中饮酒,不一会儿,城上炮、箭齐发,遂散去。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   二十一日,博洛令数百人,把二百余座大炮全部搬到花家坝,专打东北城。炮弹入城,穿透洞门十三重,树亦穿过数重,落地深数尺。当日雨势甚急,外用牛皮帐护炮装药,城头危如垒卵。城上因敌炮猛烈,见燃火,即躲到围墙后面。炮声过后,再登上城楼。清兵看到这种情况,故意放空炮,并让炮中只放狼烟,烟漫障天,咫尺莫辨。守城者只听炮声霹雳,认为清兵不能很快进入,而不知清兵已潜渡城河,从烟雾中蜂拥突上,众人来不及防御而崩溃。江阴终于被攻陷了。当清兵上城时,一队队民兵对城列阵。清兵怕有埋伏,僵持半日不敢进攻。到黄昏时,城中鼎沸,民兵阵脚散乱,清兵才敢下城。城破之时,阎应元端坐于东城敌楼之上,要了一支笔,在城门上提到:“八十日带发效忠,表太祖十七朝人物,十万人同心死义,留大明三百里江山。”题讫,带着千人上马格斗,杀死清兵无数,欲从西门突围而不得。他环顾从者道:“为我谢百姓,吾报国事毕矣!”自拔短刀,刺胸血出,投在前湖中。义民陆正先想把他从水中扯起,正赶上刘良佐遣兵来擒,良佐自称与阎应元有旧,要生擒他,于是清兵把他捞起绑住,没有杀他。良佐踞坐在明佛殿,见应元来了,跃起,两手拍应元背而哭。应元道:“有什么好哭的,事已至此,只有一死。速杀我!”博洛坐在县署,急索应元至堂上。阎应元挺立不屈,背向贝勒,骂不绝口。一卒以枪刺他的小腿,阎应元血流如注,不支倒地。博洛命人把他关到栖霞庵。当夜,寺中僧人不停听到“速杀我”的声音,天明时,终遇害。<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   阎应元死后,家丁犹存十余人,皆因不降而被杀,陆正先也一同殉难。江阴县衙,男女大小共四十三人举火自焚,典吏陈明遇自己持刀与清兵血战,身负重创,握刀僵立,死时,身子倚在墙边,屹立不倒。训导冯厚敦自缢于明伦堂,妻与姊投井死。中书戚勋、诸生许用举家自焚而死。诸生许王家,被清军拘押时,“或劝曰:‘君故明一诸生,未食天碌,何以身殉?’王家曰:‘君臣之义,岂论仕与不仕?公等复言。’”书生笪某,被清军抓获之后,“刑前叹曰:‘我一介小人,今日得之士大夫之烈,为忠义而死,死之犹生也。’临刑神色不变。”<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span><br/><br/>   呜呼!中国军民这视死如归,以身殉国之精神,真可谓“惊天地,泣鬼神”矣!八月二十二日,清寇开始屠城,百姓或力战到底,或坦然就义,都以先死为幸,妇女多贞烈,投河而死。七岁孩童毅然就义,无一人顺从。清军屠城两日后“出榜安民”,城内百姓仅剩“大小五十三人”而已。“有明之季,士林无羞恶之心。居高官、享重名者,以蒙面乞降为得意;而封疆大帅,无不反戈内向。独阎、陈二典史乃于一城见义。向使守京口如是,则江南不至拱手献人矣。”此言甚当,沧海横流方显英雄本色,在江南各地望风披靡之时,阎应元以微末下吏凭借江阴百姓的支持,面对强敌,临危不惧,坚持了近三个月,击杀清寇数万人,重挫了清寇锐气,钳制了清寇主力南下,推动了各地的抗清斗争。在城破以后,仍拚死巷战,“竟无一人降者”。以阎应元为代表的江阴士民抗击满清的英雄事迹,凛凛气节在中华反侵略史上留下了光彩夺目的一页。若我国人还有明人之气节。何叫300年后日寇亲华,伪军大盛?<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><a href="http://sonicbbs.eastday.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#00319c">www.sonicbbs.com</font></a><br/></span></p>
<strong>巴顿将军的战前动员讲话(中英对译)</strong><br/>弟兄们: <br/>         最近有些小道消息,说我们美国人对这次战争想置身事外,缺乏斗志。那全是一堆臭狗屎!美国人从来就喜欢打仗。真正的美国人喜欢战场上的刀光剑影。你们今天在这里,有三个原因。一,你们来这,是为了保卫家乡和亲人。二,你们来这,是为了荣誉,因为你此时不想在其他任何地方。三,你们来这,是因为你们是真正的男子汉,真正的男子汉都喜欢打仗。<br/>              当今天在座的各位还都是孩子的时候,大家就崇拜弹球冠军、短跑健将、拳击好手和职业球员。美国人热爱胜利者。美国人对失败者从不宽恕。美国人蔑视懦夫。美国人既然参赛,就要赢。我对那种输了还笑的人嗤之以鼻。正因如此,美国人迄今尚未打输过一场战争,将来也不会输。一个真正的美国人,连失败的念头,都会恨之入骨。 <br/>         你们不会全部牺牲。每次主要战斗下来,你们当中只可能牺牲百分之二。不要怕死。每个人终究都会死。没错,第一次上战场,每个人都会胆怯。如果有人说他不害怕,那是撒谎。有的人胆小,但这并不妨碍他们象勇士一样战斗,因为如果其他同样胆怯的战友在那奋勇作战,而他们袖手旁观的话,他们将无地自容。真正的英雄,是即使胆怯,照样勇敢作战的男子汉。有的战士在火线上不到一分钟,便会克服恐惧。有的要一小时。 还有的,大概要几天工夫。但是,真正的男子汉,不会让对死亡的恐惧战胜荣誉感、责任感和雄风。战斗是不甘居人下的男子汉最能表现自己胆量的竞争。战斗会逼出伟大,剔除渺小。美国人以能成为雄中之雄而自豪,而且他们也正是雄中之雄。 <br/>  <br/>         大家要记住,敌人和你们一样害怕,很可能更害怕。他们不是刀枪不入。在大家的军旅生涯中,你们称演习训练为“鸡屎”,经常怨声载道。这些训练演习,如军中其它条条框框一样,自有它们的目的。训练演习的目的,就是培养大家的警惕性。警惕性必须渗透到每个战士的血管中去。对放松警惕的人,我决不手软。你们大家都是枪林弹雨里冲杀出来的,不然你们今天也不会在这儿。你们对将要到来的厮杀,都会有所准备。谁要是想活着回来,就必须每时每刻保持警惕。只要你有哪怕是一点点的疏忽,就会有个狗娘养的德国鬼子悄悄溜到你的背后,用一坨屎置你于死地! <br/>         在西西里的某个地方,有一块墓碑码得整整齐齐的墓地,里面埋了四百具阵亡将士的尸体。那四百条汉子升天,只因一名哨兵打了个盹。令人欣慰地是,他们都是德国军人。 我们先于那些狗杂种发现了他们的哨兵打盹。一个战斗队是个集体。大家在那集体里一起吃饭,一起睡觉,一起战斗。所谓的个人英雄主义是一堆马粪。那些胆汁过剩、整日在星期六晚间邮报上拉马粪的家伙,对真正战斗的了解,并不比他们搞女人的知识多。 <br/>         我们有世界上最好的给养、最好的武器设备、最旺盛的斗志和最棒的战士。说实在地,我真可怜那些将和我们作战的狗杂种们。真地。 我麾下的将士从不投降。我不想听到我手下的任何战士被俘的消息,除非他们先受了伤。 即便受了伤,你同样可以还击。这不是吹大牛。我愿我的部下,都象在利比亚作战时的一位我军少尉。当时一个德国鬼子用手枪顶着他胸膛,他甩下钢盔,一只手拨开手枪,另只手抓住钢盔,把那鬼子打得七窍流血。然后,他拾起手枪,在其他鬼子反应过来之前,击毙了另一个鬼子。在此之前,他的一侧肺叶已被一颗子弹洞穿。这,才是一个真正的男子汉!<br/>         不是所有的英雄都象传奇故事里描述的那样。军中每个战士都扮演一个重要角色。千万不要吊儿郎当,以为自己的任务无足轻重。每个人都有自己的任务,而且必须做好。每个人都是一条长链上的必不可少的环节。大家可以设想一下,如果每个卡车司机都突然决定,不愿再忍受头顶呼啸的炮弹的威胁,胆怯起来,跳下车去,一头栽到路旁的水沟中躲起来,那会产生什么样的后果。这个懦弱的狗杂种可以给自己找借口:“管他娘的,没我地球照样转,我不过是千万分之一。”但如果每个人都这样想呢?到那时,我们怎么办?我们的国家、亲人甚至整个世界会是怎么一个样子?不,他奶奶的,美国人不那样想。每个人都应完成他的任务。每个人都应对集体负责。每个部门,每个战斗队,对整个战争的宏伟篇章,都是重要的。 <br/>         弹药武器人员让我们枪有所发,炮有所射。没有后勤人员给我们送衣送饭,我们就会饥寒交迫,因为在我们要去作战的地方,已经无可偷抢。指挥部的所有人员,都各有所用,即使是个只管烧水帮我们洗去征尘的勤务兵。 每个战士不能只想着自己,也要想着身边一起出生入死的战友。我们军队容不得胆小鬼。 所有的胆小鬼都应象耗子一样被斩尽杀绝。否则,战后他们就会溜回家去,生出更多的胆小鬼来。老子英雄儿好汉,老子懦夫儿软蛋。干掉所有狗日的胆小鬼,我们的国家将是勇士的天下。 <br/>         我所见过的最勇敢的好汉,是在突尼斯一次激烈的战斗中,爬到电话竿上的一个通讯兵。我正好路过,便停下问他,在这样危险的时候爬到那么高的地方瞎折腾什么?他答道:“在修理线路,将军。”我问:“这个时候不是太危险了吗?”他答道:“是危险,将军,但线路不修不行啊。”我问:“敌机低空扫射,不打扰你吗?”他答:“敌机不怎么打扰,将军,你倒是打扰得一塌糊涂。”弟兄们,那才是真正的男子汉,真正的战士。他全心全意地履行自己的职责,不管那职责当时看起来多么地不起眼,不管情况有多危险。还有那些通往突尼斯的路上的卡车司机们,他们真了不起。他们没日没夜,行驶在那狗娘养的破路上,从不停歇,从不偏向,把四处开花的炮弹当成伴奏。我们能顺利前进,全靠这些天不怕地不怕的美国硬汉。这些司机中,有人连续开车已经超过四十小时。他们不属战斗部队,但他们同样是军人,有重要的任务要完成。 任务他们是完成了,而且完成得真他娘的棒!他们是大集体的一部分。如果没有大家的共同努力,没有他们,那场战斗可能就输掉了。只因所有环节都各司其职,各尽其责,整个链条才坚不可破。 <br/>         大家要记住,算我没来过这里。千万不要在信件里提及我。按理说,我是死是活,对外界要保密,我既不统率第三集团军,更不在英国。让那些狗日的德国佬第一个发现吧! 我希望有一天看到,那些狗杂种们屁滚尿流,哀鸣道:“我的天哪!又是那挨千刀的第三集团军!又是那狗娘养的巴顿!” 我们已经迫不及待了。早一日收拾掉万恶的德国鬼子,我们就能早一日掉转枪口,去端日本鬼子的老巢。如果我们不抓紧,功劳就会全让狗娘养的海军陆战队抢去了。 是的,我们是想早日回家。我们想让这场战争早日结束。最快的办法,就是干掉燃起这场战争的狗杂种们。早一日把他们消灭干净,我们就可以早一日凯旋。回家的捷径,要通过柏林和东京。到了柏林,我要亲手干掉那个纸老虎、狗杂种希特勒,就象干掉一条蛇! <br/>         谁要想在炮弹坑里蹲上一天,就让他见鬼去吧!德国鬼子迟早会找到他的头上。我的手下不挖猫耳洞,我也不希望他们挖。猫耳洞只会使进攻放缓。我们要持续进攻,不给敌人挖猫耳洞的时间。我们迟早会胜利,但我们只有不停战斗,比敌人勇敢,胜利才会到来。我们不仅要击毙那些狗杂种们,而且要把他们的五脏六腑掏出来润滑我们的坦克履带。我们要让那些狗日的德国鬼子尸积成山,血流成河。战争本来就是血腥野蛮残酷的。 你不让敌人流血,他们就会让你流。挑开他们的肚子,给他们的胸膛上来上一枪。如果一颗炮弹在你身旁爆炸,炸了你一脸灰土,你一抹,发现那竟是你最好伙伴的模糊血肉时,你就知道该怎么办了! 我不想听到报告说,“我们在坚守阵地。”我们不坚守任何见鬼的阵地。让德国鬼子坚守去吧。我们要一刻不停地进攻,除了敌人的卵子,我们对其它任何目标都不感兴趣。 我们要扭住敌人的卵子不放,打得他们魂魄离窍。我们的基本作战计划,是前进前进再前进,不管要从敌人身上身下爬过去,还是要从他们身体中钻过去。我们要象挤出鹅肠或小号的屎那样执著,那样无孔不入!<br/>          有时免不了有人会抱怨,说我们对战士要求太严,太不近情理。让那些抱怨见鬼去吧! 我坚信一条金玉良言,就是“一杯汗水,会挽救一桶鲜血。”我们进攻得越坚决,就会消灭越多的德国鬼子。我们消灭的德国鬼子越多,我们自己人死得就会越少。进攻意味着更少的伤亡。我希望大家牢牢记住这一点。 <br/>         凯旋回家后,今天在座的弟兄们都会获得一种值得夸耀的资格。二十年后,你会庆幸自己参加了此次世界大战。到那时,当你在壁炉边,孙子坐在你的膝盖上,问你:“爷爷,你在第二次世界大战时干什么呢?”你不用尴尬地干咳一声,把孙子移到另一个膝盖上,吞吞吐吐地说:“啊……爷爷我当时在路易斯安那铲粪。”与此相反,弟兄们,你可以直盯着他的眼睛,理直气壮地说:“孙子,爷爷我当年在第三集团军和那个狗娘养的乔治·巴顿并肩作战!”<br/>
"Be seated." <br/>  <br/>  "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. <br/>  <br/>  You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.<br/>  <br/>  When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players.<br/>  Americans love a winner.<br/>  Americans will not tolerate a loser.<br/>  Americans despise cowards.<br/>  Americans play to win all of the time.<br/>  I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American."<br/>  <br/>  "You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are.<br/>  <br/>  The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. <br/>  <br/>  Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen." <br/>  <br/>  "All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling". That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a **** for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit!" <br/>  <br/>  "There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily, all because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did." <br/>  <br/>  "An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about ****ing!"<br/>  "We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do." <br/>  <br/>  "My men don't surrender, and I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That's not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!" <br/>  <br/>  "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. <br/>  <br/>  What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly bastard could say, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like?<br/>  <br/>  No, Goddamnit, Americans don't think like that.<br/>  Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. <br/>  <br/>  The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. <br/>  The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal.<br/>  Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. Shits'."<br/>  <br/>  "Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. <br/>  <br/>  One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, 'Fixing the wire, Sir.'<br/>  I asked, 'Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?'<br/>  He answered, 'Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed.' <br/>  I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?' <br/>  And he answered, 'No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!' <br/>  Now, there was a real man.<br/>  A real soldier.<br/>  There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds.<br/>  <br/>  And you should have seen those trucks on the rode to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. <br/>  We got through on good old American guts. <br/>  Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable." <br/>  <br/>  "Don't forget, you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be here in England. <br/>  Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans.<br/>  Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, 'Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-****ing-bitch Patton'." <br/>  <br/>  "We want to get the hell over there." The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit." <br/>  <br/>  "Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin", he yelled, "I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!" <br/>  <br/>  "When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. <br/>  <br/>  We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. <br/>  We're going to murder those lousy Hun cock suckers by the bushel-****ing-basket." <br/>  "War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours.<br/>  Rip them up the belly. <br/>  Shoot them in the guts.<br/>  When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!" <br/>  <br/>  "I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing.<br/>  Let the Germans do that.<br/>  We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls.<br/>  We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. <br/>  Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy.<br/>  We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!" <br/>  <br/>  "From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. <br/>  I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that." <br/>  <br/>  "There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again.<br/>  You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say,<br/>  'Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' <br/>  No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say,<br/>  <br/>  'Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a <br/>  Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!' " <br/>  <br/>  "That is all."<br/>
<p>自由是用同志们的鲜血换来的.</p>
西西来啦?哈哈,欢迎。
<p>蓬壁生辉啊</p>[em05][em05]
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 棚壁生尘
<p>阎应元是强人,是英雄。</p><p>我就是想破了脑袋也想不出为什么他的名气就是不如史可法大——英雄比不过废物点心,这大概也是我们民族心理中很大的缺陷吧。</p>
<p>应该是因为官不够大,影响力不够充分。</p><p>阎应元是什么职位,史可法又是什么职位?</p><p>也许官职越大,影响力就越深刻吧……</p><p></p><p></p><p>此外,这篇文章是转自汉网吧?</p><p>因为有“鞑清”、“头可断,发决不可剃!我<strong>中国</strong>男儿岂可失身”这样的字眼,而且文革气味浓厚。</p>
参与扬州、江阴屠杀的刘良佐,他的名气也比不上吴三桂等四人。
汉网上有这篇文章,汉网等总喜欢说些“若我国人还有明人之气节。何叫300年后日寇亲华,伪军大盛?”之类的语言,似乎完全无视明人的伪军也是大盛。
如果抗洪救灾,某些战士死了,那么可能就是介绍一下,XXX名战士在XXX中牺牲。而如果是某一个大官死了,那肯定是XXX因公殉职,然后大肆宣扬……
史可法与文天祥地位相称,宣传史可法可以给人"宋有文天祥,明有史可法"的印象.阎应元没有功名,和金庸小说里面郭靖守襄阳差不多,这种人一般没有高官名士受史学家待见.
[此贴子已经被作者于2006-7-24 13:08:09编辑过]
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>zhuilang</i>在2006-7-24 11:55:00的发言:</b><br/>汉网上有这篇文章,汉网等总喜欢说些“若我国人还有明人之气节。何叫300年后日寇亲华,伪军大盛?”之类的语言,似乎完全无视明人的伪军也是大盛。</div><p></p><p>小时候读书,看到清军攻打某某城伤亡多少的时候,总觉得很奇怪:清军满蒙汉八旗加上辽东降军不过20万,能这么死么?</p><p>后来才知道,中国历史上灭亡的政权,一多半是内部矛盾比外部矛盾更激烈的。</p>
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>云烟过水</i>在2006-7-24 13:07:00的发言:</b><br/><p></p><p>在汉网见过.</p><p>汉网小气的很,不提乾隆给阎应元谥号“忠烈”。道光时又给阎应元修忠烈祠.其实来自敌对势力的评价才是最有说服力的</p><br/></div><p></p>——没用。早说了。可你猜他们怎么说?他们说:死人的文章谁都会做。这不过是假情假意……
当然是假情假意、收买人心。<br/>你当日本人尊敬赵尚志、杨靖宇是希望中国人都这样抵抗到底吗?!<br/><br/><br/>
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>godgod</i>在2006-7-24 16:35:00的发言:</b><br/>当然是假情假意、收买人心。<br/></div><p>当然是真情实意。因为希望自己的臣民能和明朝忠臣一样忠于清朝。</p><p>利益和标准不是一回事。</p>
毕竟一忠烈义士!
希望自己的臣民能和明朝忠臣一样忠于清朝没错,但是以为表彰对手的忠臣是出自“真情实意”,那就未免忒幼稚了些。<br/><br/>
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>godgod</i>在2006-7-24 16:35:00的发言:</b><br/>当然是假情假意、收买人心。<br/>你当日本人尊敬赵尚志、杨靖宇是希望中国人都这样抵抗到底吗?!<br/><br/><br/></div><p>呵呵,如果你把阎应元对应为杨靖宇,赵尚志,汉网在这里就该对应中国政府,中国历史教材宣传杨靖宇就义的时候都提到了日本军队对其的佩服,用敌人的敬意来衬托英雄的精神.汉网就只字不提清朝政府对阎应元的评价,不是小气是什么呢?不单是小气,还有那么点愚蠢</p>
<p>汉网缺少自信。总是在内部清洗叛徒,即使是在大家看来是民族分裂分子的我,在他们眼里却成了满遗。</p><p>不禁觉得好气又好笑。</p><p>我就觉得,怕甚么?</p>
汉网的文章多半逻辑上莫名其妙 看他们写的东西 一谈到历史问题 只要有讲不通的 一律以满蒙混蛋来做解释原因&nbsp;
<p>至少那个网不象中国某个岛上的某些人,妄图独立,还说自己是日本人!</p><p></p>
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>中国闪电</i>在2006-7-25 15:29:00的发言:</b><br/><p>至少那个网不象中国某个岛上的某些人,妄图独立,还说自己是日本人!</p><p></p></div><p>“至少”这个词用得妙——比煤更白,比雪更黑,比白痴更聪明,比台独更好。 </p><p>大家笑吧。[em02]</p>
<p>那么楼上的老兄赞成台独了???</p><p></p>
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>中国闪电</i>在2006-7-25 16:56:00的发言:</b><br/><p>那么楼上的老兄赞成台独了???</p><p></p></div><p>这智商 算完了 </p>[em01]
<p>某些人爱给别人扣什么“妨碍民族团结”的帽子,就不许别人给你扣帽子???</p><p></p>
<div class="quote"><b>以下是引用<i>中国闪电</i>在2006-7-26 11:57:00的发言:</b><br/><p>某些人爱给别人扣什么“妨碍民族团结”的帽子,就不许别人给你扣帽子???</p><p></p></div><p>这个帽子扣得很可笑,不仅不能给自己涂抹正义的油彩,反而说明自己理解能力低下。</p><p></p>
纪念阎应元???不利于民族团结~
<p>嗬嗬,在某些人的逻辑里面,阎应元的行为就是在阻碍祖国统一,制造分裂。</p><p>他们的逻辑是,要让阎应元投降清朝,早日结束战争……</p>