Baoding Huaijun Office
Zhang Gaoyuan (1843-1913), a native of Hefei.
Zhang Gaoyuan was a famous general after the Huai Army, Xiao Yong was bold and resolute, and was one of the outstanding generals in the same period. The merits are mainly reflected in the many battles of the twist.
After the French invaded and occupied Vietnam, the imperial court sent more than a thousand generals of the Huai army and the Xiang army to the island of Taiwan and deployed them in Taiwan and Penghu, and Zhang Gaoyuan hung up the general soldiers of Penghu Town.
Keelung Seaside
01Recapture of Keelung
In July 1884, france captured the port of Keelung, and the defender Sun Kaihua was unfavorable in battle, and Keelung fell.
At that time, There were a total of 2,000 people under Zhang Kaiyuan's command, or they were divided into various places, and there were only five hundred people on hand. Hearing that Keelung had fallen, he was anxious to recover it, drew his sword and cut the table, and led his men to swear an oath to Keelung.
When it was almost time to arrive at Keelung, he warned his subordinates: "Keelung has been lost, it is a shame for us to lead the troops to fight, and today I have agreed with everyone that we will definitely recover Keelung tonight, and if I do not recover it tomorrow, I would rather commit suicide than see you again." ”
Zhang Gaoyuan, as a town general for many years, never sought personal interests for himself, and all the rewards he received were used to train dead soldiers, and these Huaijun people knew it from top to bottom, so they were more popular.
Since the order was given, Zhang Gaoyuan and his subordinates all gathered up enough courage to fight forward.
Almost reaching the artillery base, the order department divided Li Shihong and Zhang Baosheng into small roads. Zhang Gaoyuan himself led hundreds of soldiers carrying knives straight to the artillery base, on the way encountered French patrols, tied up and placed in front of the line, at this time the French army has detected that someone is sneaking attack, a burst of guns strafed over, in the sea of French warships, and then fired howitzers to bombard Zhang Gaoyuan them.
Zhang Gaoyuan's hat brim was hit by a shell, blown in half, and his left ear was shocked, and he has been deaf since.
However, at this time, Zhang Gaoyuan rolled up his sleeves, raised his arms and shouted forward, not using guns, but lifting a short knife to cut the French soldiers, the French soldiers were defeated, more than two thousand people died, the officers died two, the rest jumped into the sea to climb on the French warships, and the French warships also drove away overnight.
Zhang Gaoyuan really fulfilled what he said and seized the port of Keelung.
The other generals elsewhere were surprised to hear that Zhang Gaoyuan and the French soldiers were fighting in a short hand-to-hand battle, and after dawn the next day, they sent troops to reinforce, and saw the port of Keelung changed into Zhang Gaoyuan's banner in the distance.
In this battle, the remains of the French soldiers were built into a Jingguan, like a large tomb bag, and in the following years, the French fleet went to the port of Keelung to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, and some French people sent money to Taiwan to entrust the Japanese to repair the grave bag.
Qingdao
02 Battle of Gaiping
In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Zhang Gaoyuan had Guangwu, Songwu and the newly recruited Fuzi Army a total of eight battalions, after receiving orders from Li Hongzhang, ready to go to support Lushun, before it was pulled out, Lushun had already fallen.
Subsequently, Feng Zhi and Song Qing rushed to the front line of the Sino-Japanese war to defend the Horse Ridge.
He fought many battles with Japanese soldiers at Hama Ridge and killed many Japanese devils, because they often won, and the Japanese soldiers did not dare to come again.
At that time, Song Qing was in a deep state of twilight. Song Qing did not dare to fight, because he repeatedly retreated and lost his position, afraid of fighting against the Japanese devils, while Zhang Gaoyuan was not afraid of death, and Song Qing was worried that Zhang Gaoyuan's prestige and battle achievements surpassed his own.
If the imperial court compared the two men, Song Qing's responsibility would be greater.
Once, when Song Qing held a meeting to discuss the matter, Zhang Gaoyuan asked the two to join forces and fight against the strong enemy together. Song Qing did not agree, and also used danger to scare Zhang Gaoyuan.
Zhang Gaoyuan replied loudly, "Am I still afraid of death?" Why can't I play? ”
Why shout the chapter pedantic?
Because Zhang Gaoyuan took the lead in every battle, rushed to the front and set an example for the soldiers, just like bullets do not have long eyes, everyone regarded him as a pedantic.
According to our hometown dialect, it is called Zhang Duzi, Zhang Zizi.
Seeing Zhang Gaoyuan talking like this, Song Qing was even more jealous, so he ordered Zhang Gaoyuan to withdraw from The Horse Ridge and go to guard Gaiping.
But Gaiping had no danger to defend, it was a military Jedi, Zhang Gaoyuan knew that Song Qing harmed himself, but the tall level crushed people to death, and the orders on the battlefield still had to be carried out, so he had to go.
When it came to Gaiping, the devil's large army of tens of thousands of people surrounded from four directions, Zhang Gaoyuan asked his subordinates not to act rashly, and when the enemy approached, they shot and killed three generals of the other side, and the little devil's soldiers also died a lot of people.
This is only a small force of temptation at the head, and the enemy's large army is still behind. Zhang Gaoyuan understood, so he sent someone to Song Qing for help, but Song Qing actually did not agree.
On December 13, the enemy army circled over, and the grenades fired were as dense as hailstones, and Zhang Gaoyuan had to send people to ask for help again.
At this time, Song Qing was stationed in Jimu City, and he never moved his troops, and never sent reinforcements.
Zhang Gaoyuan they fought for a day and a night, tired, the bullets were also exhausted, had to go on the bayonet hand-to-hand assault, the japanese devil's corpses were also piled up into a mountain.
In the end, there was a huge disparity between the two, and the ministry killed Yang Shoushan, Li Rendang, Li Shihong, Jia Junlian, and Zhang Shibao.
However, fortunately, Zhang Gaoyuan ran out of ammunition and led the remnants of the army to break out and retreat to Yingkou.
This battle can be said to be a vicious battle in the Sino-Japanese war, and the Japanese devils still remember it now, although they are defeated.
Intriguingly, Song Qing repeatedly retreated in this battle, and in the end the official became bigger and bigger, and when he died, the imperial court gave him a nickname of "loyalty and diligence".
Zhang Gaoyuan was later reinstated in Dengzhou Town, the German soldiers occupied Jiao'ao (Qingdao area), Zhang Gaoyuan again requested a death battle, when the inspector of Shandong Li Bingheng did not give him ammunition, and then impeached him to retreat, the imperial court ordered that he was not allowed to open fire, Zhang Gaoyuan became ill with gas.
In 1913, Zhang Gaoyuan died at the age of seventy-one.
This article is original by Jiangnan Yizheng, welcome to pay attention to, take you along with long knowledge!
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