The clever use of war troops often has unexpected value, such as the Normandy Raiders of World War II, the October War Israel's surprise attack on Egypt, etc., all of which played a crucial role in the victory of the war.
And did you know that in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Naval Battle in 1894, China also had a surprise plan that was enough to reverse Qiankun?
A Chinese used his life as a guarantee in the hope of fighting a war for the fortunes of the country.
Unfortunately, the failure of the work will eventually become a bubble...
He is a generation of strange people Song Yuren.
One
"Talking about the New Deal is the earliest, the most profound in the art of governing the scriptures, and the writings are all over the world."
Song Yuren is definitely a model of young fame, born in bashu Zun Jing Academy, and has been generally literate in the history of scripture since childhood.
At the age of 29, he entered the priesthood and officially became a Hanlin Yuan Shujishi. During this period, he actively advocated reform, advocating learning from the West and enriching the country and strengthening the army.
Especially in 1889, when the Guangxu Emperor was pro-government, he wrote more than 20,000 words of "Three Great Gifts" to congratulate the emperor and preach innovative ideas, which won the emperor's appreciation, and since then the official luck has been prosperous.
As his career turned, he wrote a book and said while touring the mountains and rivers of the motherland, deeply feeling that the country was poor and weak, and came up with the idea of going to the West to see.
Finally, in March 1894, he was appointed as the Counsellor of the Four Kingdoms of Britain, France, Italy and Other States, accompanied by Gong Zhaoyao, the Minister of the Qing Dynasty, on an envoy to Europe.
With the ambition of governing the country and the world, he vigorously examined the politics, economy and culture of foreign countries in Europe, actively exchanged views with Western politicians, businessmen, scholars, etc., and combined his own ideas of restoration to write a book called "Collecting Winds", which brought a ray of dawn of Western studies to closed China.
Unfortunately, the calm was soon broken.
Two
In July 1894, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out.
Who would have thought that Japan, a little brother who has always been obedient to China, would dare to bite his teeth at himself?
When the wave of the Western industrial revolution swept the world, the closed Qing Dynasty was still drunk in the dream of the Heavenly Dynasty;
Even the empress dowager's birthday is no safer than a country's sea frontier.
Thus, the end seems to be predestined.
Pyongyang collapsed and the Yellow Sea overturned.
The millennium powers seem to be exposed in one defeat after another, and they seem to be on the verge of extinction.
But Song Yuren doesn't think so,
Although he was far away in Britain, he still tried his best to collect relevant war reports, and he believed that after the Meiji Restoration, Japan had swept away the decline of the past, and the monarch was single-minded, reducing food and clothing to build a navy, and by the time of the war, the Japanese navy was already the first in Asia. It was difficult for the Chinese Navy to defeat the Japanese at sea.
However, Japan's "small number of soldiers and lack of money", especially the standing army of more than 60,000 people, if China can focus on land defense and strategic tug-of-war, "lasting enough to trap it."
In a word, the War Potential of the Japanese Army was depleted, and time was exchanged for victory.
At the same time, he wrote his views to the imperial court, analyzed the current situation, and insisted that "we must not fight with the sea, but from the land to the army and for a protracted strategy", hoping that the country can cooperate with the army to fight a protracted war.
Unfortunately, the moon shone in the ditch, and his bent mud cattle entered the sea.
Three
The drum music of Cixi's 60th birthday is mixed with the mourning of thousands of heroic souls in Beiyang;
The thriving prosperity of the Heavenly Dynasty is covered with countless decay and decline.
Watch him get up the tall building, and then — the building collapses.
The weakness of the Manchu Navy's combat effectiveness stunned almost everyone, not only the Japanese, but also Song Yuren.
This is really a paper tiger.
The Japanese attack can be said to be overwhelming, and after the Battle of Pyongyang, it quickly seized all of Korea, and then broke through the Yalu River and entered Lushun.
Song Yuren's so-called land defense strategy became a failure in the defeat of the Qing army.
In the crisis, he even had the idea of defending the country.
But the letter was again rejected by the imperial court.
Far away in London, he could only sigh and bury his head in thought.
How to save you? My country!
Song Yuren thought bitterly.
Four
Watching the national situation deteriorate step by step, Song Yuren, who was far away from home, did not want to sit still.
He suddenly thought to himself--Since the Japanese soldiers are small and wealthy, if they raid the Japanese mainland by surprise, will they have an unexpected effect when they attack the enemy's place?
In particular, the bridgehead nagasaki garrison facing China is relatively weak, and the surprise attack does not seem to be without hope.
But how to surprise it?
It should be known that China's existing warships have almost fallen into action, and it is not enough to break the Japanese army's sea supremacy in the Yellow Sea, which has been proved in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
There is no chance of a frontal hardness, but the surprise attack lies in a strange word.
What if it's from the south or east?
Would Japan, with its winning streak and preoccupied defense of the Yellow Sea and mainland China, think of a fire in its backyard?
Probably not,
I have to say that in the era when traditional Lu Quan thought prevailed, this was indeed a genius idea.
The next step is how to implement it — first and foremost, to find some warships that will not be discovered by the Japanese.
Coincidentally, the visit of Song Yuren and the legation, in addition to the normal visit, also has the secret mission of purchasing warships.
Beiyang had already ordered several warships from the British Amoszhuang Shipyard and Chile, but could not deliver them because of the Sino-Japanese War. (Britain had a decree refusing to sell warships to the belligerents.)
It was a leak in the house that rained overnight.
However, on the other hand, there was good news - when the ambassador Gong Zhaoyao was ordered to return to China to report for duty, Song, as the minister counselor, became the actual head of the embassy.
You know, Gong Zhaoyao, who has always followed the rules, is most opposed to Song Yuren's wild ideas, as a half-life official, he only wants to be a peace and stability as a peace and stability, and let him flood the sky.
Now the biggest obstacle is gone.
Song Yuren's opportunity also came--on the one hand, he contacted Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, to expound his surprise attack plan, hoping that he could help implement the plan, and on the other hand, he consulted with Yang Yizhi, the interpreter Wang Fenghao, and others, trying to find someone to dredge up relations and buy warships.
It took several days, and things finally came to an end - after being introduced, Song Yuren found a retired AMERICAN admiral named Jia Fushi, who had been engaged in commercial comprador business since his retirement, and his relationship was very good.
Here he learned that it was inconvenient for the British mainland, but that its vassal state, Australia, could buy and sell warships.
You know, Australia is in the south of Japan, and its geographical location is definitely in line with Song Yuren's requirements.
This way, the two sides hit it off.
Under the elaboration of JiaFushi, Song Yuren learned that there were many British merchants in Australia who were affected by the Sino-Japanese War and hoped to establish an escort fleet to protect the safety of merchant ships.
If they wanted to buy a fleet, they could also use the name of Australian merchants to avoid the British restriction order.
The name doesn't matter, as long as it is done- so Song Yuren entrusted the Jiafushi with full authority to order 5 warships, 10 torpedo boats and other ships.
The money for the purchase of warships was not allowed by the imperial court, and he could only borrow 3 million pounds from foreign banks in the name of the imperial court.
This is almost an unsuccessful approach.
In order to save this stormy country, he gambled half his life on honor and his life — after all, he cut first and played later.
But he didn't have time to think about it.
With a ship, he also found the former Beiyang Admiralty chief in Australia, Xi Langweili, and asked for help training the 2000 Navy...
Everything is carried out in an orderly manner, and it can be said that everything is ready only to owe the east wind.
Unfortunately, the sky is not the way anyone wants.
Five
On September 17, 1894, China and Japan fought again in the Yellow Sea, in which the Chinese sunk 5 ships and Deng Shichang and other patriotic generals were martyred.
At the end of January 1895, the Japanese army attacked the Beiyang Marine Division Base in Weihaiwei, Shandong, and by the beginning of February, the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed, and The Governor Ding Ruchang was martyred.
In just two months, China lost all its naval combat capabilities, and under such circumstances, even if Song Yuren's surprise attack was successful, China would never have the opportunity to cooperate with the attack on Japan.
But Song Yuren did not want to give up, he had already gambled all of it and could not stop.
Maybe he also wanted to win the last chance for that country's victory.
Soon, though, there was none.
Gong Zhaoyao, who had returned to China to report for duty, returned.
He stopped all of Song Yuren's plans and reported them to the imperial court.
Cixi and Li Hongzhang, who were already preparing for peace, were even more shocked to hear this news--there were such "vain trouble" courtiers?
He was relieved of his position as counsellor, stopped all purchases of ships and recruited troops, and summoned to return to China.
Song Yuren, who returned to China, was removed from the second pin top and demoted to four pins. There are even people who want to punish them severely, but they are finally shelved because they implicate many important ministers and foreigners.
"Weeping privately, sighing at the ocean"
Even after being demoted, he never wept, and when he learned that the great empire was forced to enter into a contract with Japan, he wept.
Such a large divine state cannot tolerate a patriotic new.
100,000 sons and daughters of Lang Qi unloaded their armor, and none of them were men.
On April 17, 1895, the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Maguan was signed, and the Qing court compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver.
The empire sank, and from this day on.
PS: Like the brothers and sisters to ask for a concern Ha, Xiaobian is motivated to continue to work hard!