Qing Daoguang twenty-one years (1841) August. In the battle against the British invading army's invasion of Dinghai, Zhejiang, Ge Yunfei, Zheng Guohong, Wang Xipeng and other 3 general soldiers died heroically, and posterity called the 3 national heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country "Dinghai Three General Soldiers".
Ge Yunfei (1789-1841), also known as Pengqi, was a native of Shanyin County, Zhejiang (now part of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou). When he was a teenager, he could open a six-jun hard bow, and he could use a hundred and twenty pounds of large knives to pick up a thick, two-foot-long girder, and his arm strength was amazing. In the third year of Qing Daoguang (1823), he was admitted to the Martial Arts. Initially awarded the garrison, he served in the marine division battalion, and was later promoted many times for his merits. In the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838), he was the commander-in-chief of Dinghai Town. He obeyed the motto that Yue Fei's courtiers do not love money, and the warrior will not hesitate to die." He ruled the army very strictly and kept "integrity must be fu. Rewards and punishments will be clear, feelings and falsity will be observed, and labor will be equalized." He often went deep into the barracks and shared the bitterness with his superiors. Once, his family sent him a leather coat, and he said, "Soldiers and soldiers are frosted, and I can't bear to be warm?"
Although Ge Yunfei was a military general, he loved to read, wrote good poetry, and was a famous Confucian general. In his lifetime, he wrote "Records of Famous Generals", "Important Officials of Making Machinery and Pharmaceuticals", "Water Divisions Arresting Guan Zhi", "Zhejiang Sea Danger Illustrations" and poems, all in dozens of volumes. He once made two self-made sabers, one for Chengzhong and one for Zhaoyong, and gave the "Song of the Sword" cloud: "Faster than the wind, bright and snowy, hate to behead people, thirst for the blood of enemies." Sometimes the horse kills the thief and the thief, and the destruction of this dynasty is fierce. The boy was in a state of heat. His "Forty Self-Injuries" poem Yun: "The horse does not hiss the wind and the sword does not sound, and the idle is already the body of the old athlete." Recently, I did not dare to peek into the mirror, for fear of shining on the head of the white hair. Some people believe that this poem is enough to reflect the "Mo waiting for idle, white young man's head" in Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong".
In the nineteenth year of Daoguang (1839), Ge Yunfei's father died, and according to the custom, Ding Yu returned home. After the outbreak of the Opium War, the artillery fire of the British invaders soon spread to the eastern coast of Zhejiang. Inspector Ur Gong'e of Zhejiang and Governor Zhu Tingbiao of Zhejiang believed that Ge Yunfei was "strategic and responsible" and wanted Ge Yunfei to end Ding's worries in advance, but Ge Yunfei did not say a word and quickly left the mountain, and Ur Gong'e immediately appointed him to make up for the general of the sea. After arriving in office, he used his strong troops to guard the two mountains of Zhaobao and Jinji, set up huge cannons in Guannei, built earthen castles on the banks of the river, and tree piles and rafts were piled up in the heart of the river and the alleys to deter the British army from attacking. Soon, Wang Xipeng, the chief soldier of Shouchun Town in Anhui Province, and Zheng Guohong, the chief soldier of Chuzhou (present-day Lishui) Town, Zhejiang Province, were successively transferred to Dinghai and defended together with Ge Yunfei.
In mid-August of the 21st year of Daoguang (1841), 29 warships of the British invasion fleet gathered in the area of Huangniu Reef in the Zhoushan Islands to reconnoiter the surface of the sea. The three commanders decided to divide the strongholds. Wang Xipeng was responsible for guarding Xiaofengling, Zheng Guohong was responsible for guarding the Zhushan Gate, and Ge Yunfei led his troops to defend Dinghai Tucheng, when the enemy was about to charge. After several days of reconnaissance and tentative attacks, the British invasion fleet launched an attack on Dinghai on the morning of August 17 (October 1) and engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders. Due to the huge gap in weapons and equipment between the enemy and us, the defenders were in the position of being passively beaten, and Wang Xipeng and Zheng Guohong were killed in battle one after another. In this situation, Ge Yunfei, with the determination to die, led the defenders to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and during the battle, the right side of the face was split by the enemy's long knife, and he was shot in the chest and sacrificed heroically. After Ge Yunfei's death, the Qing court ordered that in accordance with the governor's routine, he should be posthumously awarded the post of knight lieutenant and a first-class cloud knight lieutenant.
Wang Xipeng (1786-1841), courtesy name Qiao Servant, was a native of Ninghe County, Shuntian Province (now Ninghe County, Tianjin). In the fourteenth year of Jiaqing (1808), Zhongwu was raised. At first, he accompanied Yang Yuchun, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, on his expedition to Xinjiang to quell the Rebellion of Dzungar, and later participated in the suppression of the Yaomin uprising, fighting Xiaoyong, who was given the title of "Ruiyong Batulu" by the emperor, Daoguang thirteen years (1833), served as the commander-in-chief of Tingzhou Town, Fujian Province, and in the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838), he was transferred to the general army of Shouchun Town, Anhui. After the outbreak of the Opium War, he was transferred to Wusongkou in Shanghai to assist Chen Huacheng, the admiral of Jiangnan, in resisting the British army, and the Shouzhou soldiers were known for their Xiao Yong and good fighting.
In the spring of the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841), he was ordered to lead 800 officers and soldiers to reinforce Dinghai. When the British invading army attacked Dinghai, he was stationed at Xiaofengling Ridge in the west of Dinghai County. On August 17 (October 1), the 55th Regiment of the British Invading Army attacked Xiaofengling, Wang Xipeng led the officers and men of the defenders to fight back, because the enemy's fire was too fierce, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, Wang Xipeng held a knife and fought with the enemy, the right arm was shot in the battle, and the left hand was used to continue to kill, and then, hit by the enemy's shells and fell to the ground, and the murderous British army inches and bones of his body. Qing Dynasty Yigang Festival.
Zheng Guohong (1777-1841), a native of Fenghuang Hall, Hunan (present-day Fenghuang County, Hunan), was born in Shupu County. Born into a military family, at the age of 18, he served as a lieutenant in the army, and successively served as a garrison, a capital division, a staff general, and a deputy general. Zheng Guohong was proficient in "Poetry" and "Yi", and wrote "Poetry Classics Shuyi", "Bao Jing Zhi Zhi", "Changxue Chongyuan", etc., and was a Confucian general. In the twentieth year of Daoguang (1840), he served as the commander-in-chief of the town of Chuzhou in Zhejiang.
In February of the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841), he was ordered to lead 1200 officers and soldiers in the prefecture town to reinforce Dinghai and was responsible for defending Zhushan. The British invading army that attacked Zhushan was the 18th Regiment. Under the enemy's powerful artillery attack, the officers and men of Zheng Guohong's unit suffered heavy losses, and in the case of exhaustion and serious injuries, the 65-year-old veteran general Zheng Guohong rushed into the enemy position and fought with the enemy. The Qing court gave silver 500 taels of mourning, and according to the viceroy's routine, he posthumously gave the post of knight lieutenant and first-class cloud riding lieutenant, and gave it to the general Wu Xian (正二品), And Zhongjie.
In the summer of 1884, Zhejiang Governor Liu Bingzhang built a "Three Loyalty Shrine" at Banpo Pavilion on the southern outskirts of Dinghai County. In the temple are placed the tablets of Ge Yunfei, Zheng Guohong, and Wang Xipeng. The main hall enshrines the statue of the three general soldiers, and its appearance is awe-inspiring and awe-inspiring. The heroic deeds of their sacrifice for the country have been written into the textbooks of modern Chinese history, which will forever inspire the patriotic spirit of Chinese.