"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!"
One sentence vividly embodies the military soul of the soldiers of my Yangyang Huaxia, which is the last encouragement of the national hero Deng Shichang to more than 200 soldiers of the Zhiyuan. As soon as the words fell, he commanded the Zhiyuan to approach the Japanese warship, and then was shot down, and more than two hundred soldiers on board, including Deng Shichang, were heroic and righteous in this war!
Join the Beiyang Marine Division
Deng Shichang was clever and clever since childhood, and when the general environment thought that Western dialects were not necessary to learn and regarded as barbarian languages, Deng Shichang thoroughly studied barbarian languages and Western languages, not only to talk to foreign language teachers, but also to watch foreign books. From this point of view alone, Deng Shichang is much stronger than ordinary people, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were still people who looked down on foreigners and western technology, even if they were beaten and wept bitterly, they did not admit that China's technology was backward compared with foreigners.
Jump out of such bizarre ideas and embrace the culture of Western countries. When the Fuzhou Mawei Ship Administration Bureau recruited naval cadets, Deng Shichang stood out, and every course had good results. He was deeply loved by Shen Baozhen, minister of fuzhou Mawei Ship Administration. As if in his heart, Deng Shichang entered the earliest naval base to train himself after graduation, and he became a warship pipe belt (captain) as early as the age of twenty-four, one of the earliest admirals in China.
The outstanding Deng Shichang was appreciated by Li Hongzhang and brought Deng Shichang to the Beiyang Marine Division, the most advanced naval organization in the Qing Dynasty at that time. Li Hongzhang not only added China's most advanced technology to this Beiyang marine division, but also spent a lot of money to buy four advanced warships from the West, namely the Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan. This Beiyang Water Division was integrated into all the painstaking efforts of the Foreign Affairs Movement, and was placed on the expectations of all the famous courtiers and imperial families in the late Qing Dynasty, hoping to use this Beiyang Water Division to save the situation in which the Great Qing Dynasty Building would fall.
In the Beiyang Marine Division, Deng Shichang won several meritorious awards. On behalf of daqing, he went to England and Germany to receive the four most advanced warships, and trained the most loyal, capable, and bloody war for the Beiyang Marine Division. Under the leadership of Deng Shichang, the combat strength of the Beiyang Marine Division was raised to exceed the expectations of Li Hongzhang and others.
The defeated Sino-Japanese War
Because of its poverty, Japan opened the prelude to the Sino-Japanese War. In order to seize more resources and force the Qing dynasty to hand over a large amount of money and silver, the Japanese army sent troops to advance to China and Korea. In the Battle of Pyongyang, due to the command mistakes of the generals, the military was gradually defeated. Japan took the opportunity to approach the waters of China's Yellow Sea and triggered the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
During this battle, the Beiyang Marine Division sent twelve warships to compete with the Japanese Navy, and the Dingyuan fell into disrepair, and just after entering the battlefield, the main gun turret caught fire, and the battleship Guan Ding Ruchang was burned. But even so, he insisted on commanding the warship on the deck. Many battleships were already damaged in many places before they even approached the Japanese warships, but through the admiral's control of the fighters, the Japanese Navy was still severely damaged and did not completely lose.
However, in order to preserve his strength, Li Hongzhang still asked the Beiyang Marine Division to temporarily withdraw, and the Japanese Navy occupied the waters of the Yellow Sea.
Backward technology, heroic national heroes
The fire coverage of the Japanese warships was wider than that of the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the firepower was also more powerful than the latter, and before it was close to the attack range that the Beiyang Naval Division could cover, it was scaled by the other side with powerful artillery. Therefore, the warships of the Beiyang Marine Division who can approach the Japanese warships are all admirable, and many of the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division are damaged by their guns before they get close to the Japanese warships, and they command the warships to retreat, perhaps this is also the reason for the final defeat of the Beiyang Naval Division.
But the Japanese warships have all hit the doorstep, as long as they take a step back, the Japanese can lead the sergeants into The Chinese territory, and the sergeants can not retreat! Deng Shichang thought so and did the same. As the pipe belt of the Zhiyuan, like other Beiyang Marine Division warships, it was partially damaged by the fire of the other side before it was close to the fire coverage.
The ferocious fire did not make Deng Shichang have the slightest idea of retreating, because taking a step back, the person facing such fierce firepower was his own compatriot! As a soldier, it is to protect your compatriots! Seeing that his own combat strength was gradually decadent, Deng Shichang shouted on the ship: "My generation defended the country from the army, and long ago put life and death on the outside, today's matter, there is only death!" ”。 After saying that, he stood on the deck to supervise the battle and commanded the soldiers to continue to resist bravely.
It was hard to get close to the Japanese warship, and the Zhiyuan was already in ruins. In fact, at this time, it is still too late to abandon the ship and take a lifeboat to ask for help from other warships, and the probability of survival is still very high. But the self in front of you is likely to bring a heavy blow to the enemy ships! The belief in repelling the Japanese Navy drove Deng Shichang to let the warships rush towards the Japanese naval warships.
There is one theory that Deng Shichang wanted the ship to hit the enemy warship, but the author believes another theory! When salvaging the wreckage of the Zhiyuan, it was found that the Zhiyuan had a torpedo that was ready to be launched, and according to calculations, as long as the Zhiyuan was a little closer, it could reach the range of the torpedo and bring a heavy blow to the Japanese warship. Just get a little closer! This may be Deng Shichang's last thought before he was martyred, even if he died, he would bring heavy damage to the enemy!
Postscript: In the Battle of the Yellow Sea, as long as the Beiyang Naval Division is a little more courageous, it may be able to force the enemy ships to retreat and survive for another period of time for the Great Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, it can also prove that Yangyang Huaxia is not afraid of war, and those who offend China will be punished from afar. In order to preserve his strength, Li Hongzhang was defeated in this most promising battle, which eventually led to the complete defeat of the Sino-Japanese War and the complete bankruptcy of the foreign affairs movement. Deng Shichang's determination and spirit of being brave and righteous are exactly what Li Hongzhang lacks.
Incidentally, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Empress Cixi was more concerned about whether her sixtieth birthday could be more beautiful and extravagant.