荷蘭使臣約翰·紐霍夫在《An embassy from the East-India company》記述：「韃靼全軍入城之後，全城頓時是一片悽慘景象，每個士兵開始破壞，搶走—切可以到手的東西；婦女、兒童和老人哭聲震天；從11月26日到12月15日，各處街道所聽到的，全是拷打、殺戮反叛蠻子的聲音；全城到處是哀號、屠殺、劫掠……在冬月的六日，總督及清軍統帥下令，即日起不得再從事如此殘酷的殺戮。我得到確切的消息，18天內，被韃靼人殘忍屠殺的，在八千人以上」。[5]
^ 4.04.1Martini, Martino. De bello Tartarico historia. Antwerpen. 1654: 178. （原始內容存檔於2016-07-28） （拉丁語）. Eſt Quangcheu [...]. Altera verò die vrbem ſpoliare cæperunt, & ad quintam vſque Decembris deprædatio tenuit, in quâ infantes, mulieres, ac obuij omnes necabantur crudeliſsime; vnaq́ue audiebatur vox, Occide, Occide hos rebelles barbaros. Artificibus tantum aliquibus vita permiſſa eſt, ad conferuandas artes, & iis quos ad ſpolia portanda milites Tartari robuſtiores videbant. Sextâ demum die Decembris Regulus diploma publicauit, quo ſæuiri vltrà vetuit, poftquam ſupra centum millia hominum occiſaſunt, præter eos qui obſidionis tempore vario mortis genere prærepti ſuerant.
^ 5.05.1Nieuhof, Johannes. An embassy from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperour of China. : 39. （原始內容存檔於2016-02-24）. The cry of Women, Children, and Aged People, was so great, that it exceeded all noise of such loud distractions ; so that from the 26 of November, until the 15 of December, there was heard no other cry in the Streets, but Strike, Kill, and Destroy the Rebellious Barbarians; all places full of woful Lamentations, of Murder, and Rapine: Those that were able to ransom, bought their lives at dear rates, and so escaped the hands of these Inhumane Slaughterers. At last the Viceroys, and chief Commanders of the Army, upon the sixth of Winter month, did strictly forbid any such cruel Murder to be committed hereafter: And I was credibly informed that during .the space of eighty days, above eight thousand were killed in cold blood by the Tartars. Others (amongst which the Jesuite Martinus is one, in his Book of the Tartar War) say there were slain above one hundred thousand, which is not altogether improbable, in regard of the great number there penn'd up.
^Duffy, Christopher. Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660. Psychology Press. 1996 [1979]: 237 [2020-08-11]. ISBN 978-0-415-14649-4. （原始內容存檔於2020-09-18） （英語）. They took Canton in 1650 after an eight-month siege, cutting down 100,000 of the citizens in the process, and they went on to capture the heroic stronghold of Kuei-lin.請檢查|date=中的日期值 (幫助)
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