In 1841, the British army attacked the Jingyuan Fort where Tianpei was located, and the battle was extremely fierce from noon to late at night, and Guan Tianpei, who was more than sixty years old, was wounded in more than ten places and personally opened fire to return fire on the enemy. After the British army invaded the fort, Guan Tianpei was still fighting, and the last shell struck, and finally Guan Tianpei was shot and killed. But Guan Tianpei died and did not fall, and the British army saw that "Guan Tianpei stood up like a life, and was terrified and a servant", and was stunned and stunned, and wrote another heroic legend.
There is almost no doubt about the cause of Guan Tianpei's death, but what happened before Guan Tianpei's death is full of mysteries. In this regard, a note of the Qing Dynasty revealed the secrets, but it reflected the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty!
After Guan Tianpei was killed in battle, Yang Fang, the counsellor minister of the British army, was confronted in Guangzhou with toilets and women's urine, and told the Daoguang Emperor that Guan Tianpei's death was due to the fact that the Green Camp had become a traitor, and even deliberately let the cannon fire door penetrate the water, unwilling to open fire on the British army, resulting in Guan Tianpei's death.
Yishan (signatory of the Treaty of Yaohun), the grandson of the Kangxi Emperor's fourteenth son Ai Xinjueluo Yinyu, nephew of the Daoguang Emperor, also made a secret compromise after succeeding Qi Shan in charge of military affairs in Guangzhou, supporting Yang Fang's point of view.
The loss of the Tiger Gate, the Yi ship was close at hand, the soldiers did not put the gun position, each fled, the governor Guan Tianpei beheaded several people, can not be forbidden, is to be wounded by the Yi cannon and died.
Therefore, the Daoguang Emperor was furious and immediately ordered a strict investigation, "That is, to visit and investigate accurately, and to refuse to light cannons and soldiers who penetrate the water through the fire gate, and to strictly investigate and take it, that is, to show the head of the tyrant to the public, and punish a hundred people."
Could it be that Guan Tianpei died in battle, just like Yang Fang, Yi Shan, and so on? A note of the Qing Dynasty reveals the truth, but it reflects the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty!
Liang Tingnan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, once compiled the "Guangdong Coastal Defense Collection", Lin Zexu, who was famous for visiting, planned the situation for Lin, drew a coastal defense map to advance, and the Battle of Humen was very much, and he left such a sentence in his notebook "Yi Atmosphere Wenji".
(Guan Tianpei) burned a huge cannon in his hand, and suddenly it exploded, and the soldiers had no color, and they all left.
The artillery suddenly blew itself up, the officers and men suffered more than 500 casualties on the spot, plus there was no hope of victory, so the Green Battalion fled separately, which shows that the root cause is that the quality of the cannons is inferior, and the Qing Dynasty cannot manufacture reliable cannons. Because this point is too humiliating, it is natural that it cannot be mentioned in the song chapter, so it is said that the Green Camp is a traitor, not because there is a problem with the artillery, but because the Green Camp refuses to fire.
So the question is, in this strategic fort, why did the Qing army not install reliable artillery?
In fact, after the Qing army entered the customs, it stubbornly insisted on "riding and shooting the country" and suppressing the development of firearms, so for more than 200 years, artillery technology not only did not progress, but also regressed, and the technology was derived from the Ming Dynasty's imitation of Europe's Hongyi cannon.
In 1799, four years after Jiaqing, the Qing Dynasty transformed 160 Ming Dynasty "divine cannons" and renamed them "Victory Cannons". However, after the test firing, it was found that the new gun was not as far as the old gun.
In 1840, after the outbreak of the Opium War, Lin Zexu's friend Gong Zizhen presented Lin Zexu with an advanced secret weapon, but it was finally discovered that it was the artillery technology of the Ming Dynasty.
30 years later, when Zuo Zongtang was marching west to Xinjiang, more than 200 flowering bombs were dug up at the ruins of the Ming Dynasty's guardhouse, and he could not help but sigh: "The entry of sharp weapons into China for three hundred years made some people pay attention to this at that time.
Obviously, from this series of events, it can be seen that the cannon of Guan Tianpei's fort exploded spontaneously, which was completely the incompetence of the Qing government. For more than 200 years, firearms were suppressed like crazy, and finally only inferior artillery could be installed on strategic forts.
Why China suffered a century of humiliation in modern times may give another answer from the artillery that led to guan Tianpei's defeat and death!
It is worth mentioning that from the death of Guan Tianpei to the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, more than 70 years have passed, but the Qing government is still drunk and dreaming of death, and there is almost no change except for the limited foreign affairs movement, which is simply unbelievable. The ancients were cloudy, "poor is changed, change is general", but in the Qing Dynasty for more than 70 years almost unchanged, such a dynasty, what is there to praise now?