Dr. Sun Yat-sen once said: "Yu Shaoxiao admires Liu Yongfu, the national hero of our country." ”
Dr. Sun Yat-sen is known as the "Father of the Nation", and his life's achievements are few and far between, and those who can be "admired" by him are naturally not ordinary people.
Then, what great deeds did this "national hero" Liu Yongfu, who was "admired" by Sun Yat-sen, have?
Liu Yongfu was born in 1837 in Qinzhou, Guangdong (now part of Guangxi), and when he was 17 years old, his parents died, and he could only work alone to survive, and he was poor.
One day, when Liu Yongfu was collecting firewood on the mountain, he fell asleep on a rock because he was too tired. In a dream, an old man said to him, "Isn't this General The Black Tiger?" Why do you still collect firewood in the mountains and forests and don't go out to make meritorious achievements? ”
Liu Yongfu woke up, thinking about the words of the old man in his dream, as if he had a sudden epiphany, immediately threw down the dry firewood, ran down the mountain, and joined the Heaven and Earth Society.
Because of his bravery in fighting and his strategy, Liu Yongfu soon became a leader of the rebel army, so what is the name of the rebel army? Liu Yongfu once found Zhou Gong holding a black pennant in his hand at the Northern Emperor Temple, and as soon as he moved, he named the troop "Black Flag Army" and used the black pennant as the military flag, with the Big Dipper Seven Stars on it.
In 1867, due to the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, Liu Yongfu led his army to retreat into Vietnam, at that time, Vietnam was being invaded by France, Liu Yongfu was recruited by Vietnam and led the army to fight against the French army.
Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army was brave and good at war, and successively won the Great Victory of Luo Chi, the Great Victory of Paper Bridge, the Great Victory of Xuanguang, etc., which dealt a heavy blow to the French invaders, and was promoted by the Vietnamese royal family to the title of Viceroy of San Xuan, and was awarded the title of Baron of the First Class.
At the same time, because Liu Yongfu blocked the French army outside the gate of the country, the Qing court also gave him the honor of "three generations and one pin seal".
In 1885, at the invitation of the Qing court, Liu Yongfu led the Black Flag Army back to China. At this time, 18 years have passed since he left his motherland!
This is the story of Liu Yongfu's aid to Vietnam in resisting the Law, and the Qing Dynasty's military department Shangshu Peng Yulin praised: "For the protection of Vietnam and the strengthening of the barriers of China, its merits are also great!" Zhang Zhidong also praised Liu Yongfu as a "righteous and courageous man" who "breathed for thousands of years of China".
In addition to aiding vietnam and resisting the French, Liu Yongfu also had a major event of winning glory for the country, that is, to resist the Japanese army in Taiwan.
In 1894, Liu Yongfu was appointed military deputy of Taiwan and led the Black Flag Army into Taiwan.
At that time, it was the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, which ended in the fiasco of the Qing Dynasty, and signed the Treaty of Maguan with Japan, ceding the Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan Island and its affiliated islands to Japan.
This strange shame and humiliation made Liu Yongfu bite his steel teeth and issue an order in the whole army: "For the ministers of the Great Qing, guard the land of the Great Qing, divide the internal affairs, and never give up!" For a thousand years, even if there is a piece of soil left, a line of extension, it should be rushed, not to make it easy! ”
Soon, Japan sent Prince Nohisa of Kita shirakawa to lead elite troops to attack Taiwan in two ways.
At that time, in order to resist the Japanese Kou, the people of Taiwan established the Taiwan Democratic State, and elected Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, as president and Liu Yongfu as a great general, leading the Taiwan people to resist Japan.
At first, Tang Jingsong showed great national righteousness, and wrote to the Qing court: "In the land of Sangzi, righteousness and survival, I am willing to swear to the emperor with Fuchen, and if the battle is not won, wait for the subject to die, and then cut off the land." However, after seeing that the japanese army's combat effectiveness was very fierce, Tang Jingsong was afraid, forgot his anti-Japanese oath, and even fled back to the mainland with all the belongings of his family.
Tang Jingsong ran away, what to do? Don't be afraid, and Liu Yongfu! The Taiwanese also elected Liu Yongfu as the president of Taiwan's democracy, but Liu Yongfu refused.
Later, Taiwan's squires twice elected Liu Yongfu as president, but Liu Yongfu also refused.
Perhaps in Liu Yongfu's view, he was a subject of the Qing Dynasty and was no longer suitable to be the "president", and he still had a clear distinction in this title.
Of course, even without the title of "president", Liu Yongfu still shouldered the heavy responsibility of leading the people of Taiwan to resist the Japanese Kou, and in the Battle of Bagua Mountain, the elite of the Black Flag Army and the elite of the Japanese army clashed hard, and at the cost of sacrificing more than 300 people, they finally annihilated more than 600 Japanese troops and won a big victory!
After repeatedly being defeated, the Japanese Kou sent Liu Yongfu a letter of persuasion, xu Yi, a high-ranking official Houlu, and Liu Yongfu was not at all moved, and wrote a "Letter of Refutation", which read: "Yu was ordered to garrison Taiwan, and when he coexisted and died with Taiwan, once he was entrusted with it, why would he be underground for me?" ...... Yu did not dare to forget the intention of not dying, and why did he bear to see the pain of Li Shu's downfall? Reorganize the armored soldiers, protect this people, success or failure is blunt, and it does not matter! ”
However, like many national heroes in history, Liu Yongfu did not lose in defending against foreign humiliation, but lost to the cowardice of the emperor!
Because of Liu Yongfu's anti-Japanese feats, it has won the praise of countless people in China, many of whom have donated money and materials to support Liu Yongfu in fighting against the Japanese Kou, but the Qing court shamelessly seized all these materials, and even ordered the blockade of the coast and forbade anyone to go to Taiwan to support!
Such a traitorous act is really a sigh!
After Liu Yongfu learned of this, he also sighed in vain, and could only look up to the sky and sigh: "The princes of the interior have misled me, and I have misled the people!" ”
On October 19, 1895, Liu Yongfu's troops had run out of ammunition and had to retreat under the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese Kou, during which Liu Yongfu tried several times to go back to fight again, but was held back by his subordinates.
Liu Yongfu looked at the soaring artillery fire in the city, hid his face and cried, and under the strong persuasion of his subordinates, he had to take a British merchant ship and left Taiwan Island regretfully.
This incident also made Liu Yongfu completely disappointed in the Qing court, and after contacting Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries, he began to gradually turn to the revolutionary party.
In November 1911, after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Liu Yongfu was invited by Hu Hanmin to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Provincial Militia Regiment, commanding an army of more than 100,000 militia regiments. The following year, after the official establishment of the Republic of China, Liu Yongfu also returned to his hometown and returned to Qinzhou for the elderly.
On January 9, 1917, a generation of national heroes Liu Yongfu died in his hometown in Qinzhou at the age of 80.
In addition, Liu Yongfu is also very commendable in his personal conduct.
Liu Yongfu's wife was Liu Shi, the two met at the time of suffering, after Liu Yongfu flew Huang Tengda, many people advised him to take a concubine, which was also very popular at the time, but Liu Yongfu refused at all and stayed with Liu Shi for a lifetime.
Moreover, Liu Yongfu also stipulated that future generations of descendants are not allowed to take concubines unless their wives cannot have children.
In the Book of Commandments, Liu Yongfu wrote: "In life, if you encounter something that is extremely difficult, why bother to see it; that is, if you encounter something extremely difficult, it should not be difficult to see." Ru Cao should remember not to forget. ”
In Liu Yongfu's house, there were also 10 huge barns, which were usually piled up with grain, and when they encountered a famine, they opened the barns to help the victims, so at that time, people said: "Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and close neighbors are not as good as Liu Daren." ”
In the Liu Yongfu Memorial Hall in Qinzhou, Guangxi, there are these sentences summarizing Liu Yongfu's life's achievements: "A well-deserved national hero, a patriotic general with outstanding military achievements, a patriotic hero with a strong heart, and a glorious banner of China's modern anti-aggression struggle." ”