In the Battle of Jia-Wu, Fang Boqian was asked whether he was wronged or not (2))

There was a saying in the past that if people did not know unless they did nothing, it was true or false, and it was false. Yesterday we said that Fang Boqian reversed black and white, originally he ran back with the Japanese plaster flag, and said that the Japanese Yoshino hung the Yellow Dragon Flag of the Qing Dynasty before escaping. At that time, Fang Boqian was praised as a national hero who turned things around. However, it was not long before the lie was exposed, but the Qing Dynasty did not incriminate Fang Boqian for this matter, why?

How was Fang Boqian's lie exposed? This is not surprising, the Japanese sank the Qing Dynasty's Guangyi and Gaosheng, and the surviving crew of these two ships returned, can you tell the truth? The sinking of these two ships was all told, and not long after the time passed, the Japanese warship Yoshino appeared intact on the surface of the Yellow Sea, which was very different from Fang Boqian's serious injury to the Yoshino. Lies are self-defeating. Logically, this is the crime of lying about military merit and turning around! But Fang Boqian was not punished. Why? In fact, it is not that there is no punishment, to be precise, there is no time to punish his crime! One is that Li Hongzhang, the direct leader of the Beiyang Marine Division, is fighting with the opposition in the imperial court who oppose the foreign affairs movement, and has no time to take care of Fang Boqian; moreover, he is about to go to war with the Japanese army, and it is a taboo for the soldiers to change generals before the battle, even if they can't find a suitable candidate for a while, so based on these two reasons, Fang Boqian took advantage of the loophole. Didn't deal with him.

The second was the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Fang Boqian's Jiyuan and another warship, the Guangjia, were organized in a small group, echoing each other, and at the beginning of the battle, the Japanese warships launched a fierce attack on the Beiyang Marine Division's Yangwei and Chaoyong, but at this time, the Beiyang Marine Division's fleet had not yet had time to complete the battle formation, especially Fang Boqian's Jiyuan was not in place, so that it watched as the Yangwei and Chaoyong were attacked and could not be rescued. Immediately after the Japanese warships began to besiege the Zhiyuan and Jingyuan ships. Fang Boqian was sunk after seeing Deng Shichang's Zhiyuan ship crash into the Yoshino. At this time, if Fang Boqian's Jiyuan and Guangjia covered each other against the Japanese Yoshino, it would not be a problem at all, so that the Jingyuan would not be sunk, but unfortunately, Fang Boqian was frightened and did not say hello to anyone, turned the bow of the ship and ran back, because he was too anxious to run, he did not choose a path, just crashed into the Yangwei ship, and the Yangwei ship was sunk alive. As soon as the Jiyuan ran, the Guangjia did not know what was going on, and fled back to the port with them. As soon as the two ships ran, the Japanese attacked the jingyuan ship with all their might, and the jingyuan ship was sunk by shells. Counting up, the ships of the Beiyang Marine Division had already lost six. The combat effectiveness was greatly weakened, and after five hours of fierce fighting, the Battle of Jiawu ended in the fiasco of the Beiyang Marine Division. This failure directly led to the signing of the Maguan Treaty.

What about Fang Boqian? You ran back, you have to have an explanation! Fang Boqian said this, saying that the reason why the Jiyuan retreated early was because the guns on the Jiyuan were all damaged and could not strike at the Japanese army, so they were forced to retreat. It is better to be able to speak than to listen, so can Ding Ruchang just listen to you? It was necessary to go to the actual investigation, which found that the damage to the guns on the Jiyuan was not false, but it was not damaged by combat, but by man-made destruction.

Through these two battles, it is not difficult to see that fang Boqian's descendants reversed the case for Fang Boqian's two points of reasons are unreliable, the first naval battle was a lie to report the battle achievements, the imperial court did not hold him responsible because the war situation needed, did not have time, the second time is precisely because of Fang Boqian's escape from the battlefield, it made the war situation take a sharp turn, it cannot be said that Fang Boqian's escape directly led to the defeat of the Jia-Wu naval battle, at least the defeat of the Jia-Wu naval battle Fang Boqian also accounted for a certain reason. After the two battles, Ding Ruchang reported the actual situation to Li Hongzhang, and Li Hongzhang again asked the imperial court to send Fang Boqian to prison and sentence him to capital punishment. Therefore, history will not wrongfully accuse a good person, and certainly will not spare a bad person...