"My generation defended the country from the army, and they put their lives and deaths outside the degree, and today's events are only dead!" —Deng Shichang
The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, and the prosperity of Kangqian was admirable, and the defeat in the late Qing Dynasty was lamentable. The late Qing Dynasty has always considered itself to be a heavenly kingdom, adhering to the concept of closing the country to the outside world, and disdainful of learning from the reform and development of other countries.
This led to the fact that when the ships of the Japanese invading army went to war with the Qing government in the Yellow Sea, Deng Shichang, a naval commander who was powerless to save the country, resolutely chose to crash into the ship and martyr the country. It was only a hundred years before the shipwreck was salvaged, and the truth is saddening.
First, it is gradually defeated
During the Opium War, imperialism discovered that in China it was possible to obtain high reparations and huge profits, and a large number of raw materials could be used for industrial development and production in China, which undoubtedly became the greatest temptation of the great powers. At the same time, the Qing government's development plan for the army was not clear enough, coupled with the weakness of the military force, it was like a child with a huge treasure.
Because of the above attractive conditions, the great powers have the idea of dividing up China and destroying the Chinese from the most fundamental point, and there is no more convenient way than to introduce opium.
Gradually, the number of people in the old China who began to smoke opium began to multiply, from the elderly with limited mobility to the young and strong young adults, the bodies of the Chinese people were poisoned by opium, and even the officers and men of the army were smoking, so that even the guns could not even be lifted.
The will of a large number of Chinese people was consumed, even if Lin Zexu's vigorous Humen cigarettes were useless, so imperialism began the strategy of attacking China, and the Qing government was forced to tolerate signing unequal treaties with the great powers, which was undoubtedly an encouragement to imperialist acts of aggression, so the ambitions of the great powers of various countries became greater and greater, and the unequal treaties of the Qing government were signed more and more.
Even if the Qing government was in a passive state for a long time, it also had the idea of learning from advanced Western technology, so the vigorous foreign affairs movement arose, and this movement did greatly improve China's industrial and military aspects, especially the successful growth of the Beiyang Naval Division of the naval force, so that the Qing government also had a seemingly strong support in the navy.
2. Determined to join the army
There was a famous patriotic general in the Beiyang Marine Division, and he was Deng Shichang. During the Daoguang years, Deng Shichang was born in Guangdong, and because he was born in a coastal city, Deng Shichang's water quality was not bad. Deng Shichang's father was a businessman in the tea business, and it was naturally difficult to do uneven business in the world, and wars and chaos occurred frequently, and Deng Shichang's family suffered from war.
However, his father was in business, so his family was still relatively well-off, and his parents were also very strict about Deng Shichang's education, and they sent him to school early. After so many years of business experience, my father believed that Deng Shichang was very necessary to learn foreign languages, because no matter what he did in the future, he would deal with foreigners. It was precisely because of his father's foresight at this time that he laid a good foundation for Deng Shichang to enter the Beiyang Marine Division.
When the School of Shipping Politics began to enroll, the clever Deng Shichang decided to enter the academy, and his father was very supportive of his son's decision. The Navy needed to verify what they had learned through practice, so Deng Shichang and his group of cadets began their journey of studying and practicing through the mountains and rivers from the moment they boarded the battleship.
Later, in one examination after another, Deng Shichang's performance was very prominent, and he successfully graduated, and he entered the Beiyang Marine Division. Deng Shichang's outstanding performance was naturally noticed by officials with hearts, and soon he rose all the way from the last level of officers and soldiers.
3. Heroic sacrifice
In 1894, there was a coup d'état within North Korea, and the North Korean government, which was unable to resist, asked the Qing government for help, and Deng Shichang was sent to aid North Korea. However, when Deng Shichang arrived near the Yellow Sea, he was accompanied by the Japanese Navy, which wanted to aid Korea in the name of aiding Korea, but in fact wanted to provoke war with crooked eyes.
The war was put down, but Japan was reluctant to withdraw, and with advanced weapons supported by imperialism, the Japanese army constantly provoked the Beiyang Marine Division. Deng Shichang looked at the Japanese army from a distance and understood in his heart that this time the Beiyang Marine Division was afraid of being more fierce than ji.
Sure enough, the Japanese side took advantage of the beiyang water division's lack of preparation, and attacked from the rear in a front-and-forth attack, and in such a situation of being attacked from the belly and back, the beiyang marine division finally could not resist the attack, and at the last moment, Deng Shichang manipulated the Zhiyuan ship to crash into the Yoshino. At the same time, Deng Shichang also jumped into the sea.
The soldier hurriedly threw a lifebuoy at Deng Shichang, who fell into the water, but at this time Deng Shichang was already discouraged and unwilling to live in the world, and he used the only strength he had to wave the lifebuoy, allowing the sea to submerge himself, and a generation of famous people would die forever in the most tragic way.
Today, a hundred years later, the Zhiyuan ship was salvaged, and there was still a torpedo on the ship, perhaps because of the backward equipment, this torpedo could not play its greatest role, and there was a scene of the Zhiyuan ship hitting the Yoshino.
epilogue:
Deng Shichang, who jumped from the boat and drowned, was desperate, he could not see the future and hope of the Qing government, the collapse of faith was the most powerless, there was no ambition but no power to return to heaven, and finally Deng Shichang chose to liberate himself in the most tragic way.
These tragic scenes are all caused by the arrogance and short-sightedness of the Qing Dynasty rulers, which also tells us that we should always examine ourselves and not breed pride and complacency, otherwise if a country is still like this, how can a person avoid the ear.