Lin Yongsheng, also known as Lin Yisheng, was a native of Fujian (present-day Fuzhou). Vice Admiral of the Left Wing Of the Beiyang Navy, "Jingyuan" ship pipe belt. Born in 1853, he was shot and killed in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Naval Battle on September 17, 1894, at the age of 42.
Through the far ship pipe belt Lin Yongsheng
In 1867, Lin Yongsheng was admitted to the Fuzhou Ship Administration School and studied navigation. In 1871, Shangjian Wei practiced ship training; in 1875, he was transferred to Yangwu to train ships, and served as a teacher in the School of Ship Administration; in 1877, he entered the British Naval School, studied the strategy of the battle front, and the following year he was sent to the Manado ironclad ship probationary and toured the Mediterranean; in 1880, he returned to China, was promoted to garrison, and was promoted to the rank of Gadu Division, and the following year, he was transferred to Beiyang, where he successively served as a gunboat in the town and a ship pipe belt in Kangji. In 1887, he and Deng Shichang and four others went to England and Germany to take the four ships of Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan and Laiyuan. The following year, the four ships arrived in Taku. Lin Yongsheng and others have "traveled tens of thousands of miles to the ocean, driven back to China, and are extremely hardworking", and have recommended guerrilla attacks on merit. The Beiyang Navy became an army, and Lin Yongsheng still managed to take the belt far away. In 1891, Li Hongzhang went to Weihai to inspect the Beiyang Fleet, and Lin Yongsheng "contributed to the navy" and was promoted to vice admiral.
Passing through the distant ships
Lin Yongsheng is a pure and kind person, "sex and ease, connect with people, but fear of hurting their intentions", and care for his subordinates. When the Beiyang Fleet was first established, foreigners were used as the chief instructor, and the punishment of soldiers was brutally corporal, and the British lang Weili was the most serious, so the sailors spread the saying that "if you are not afraid of Ding Junmen, you are afraid of Vice Admiral Lang". Lin Yongsheng, on the other hand, opposed corporal punishment, believing that those who were in charge should lead by example and teach by example, with the principle that "treating soldiers with grace and not insulting people in front of the public, so his sense of composition is so deep that Xian Le died for it."
When the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle broke out, Lin Yongsheng was "the first to supervise the soldiers, practice in Xinxi, pay attention to the art of war and defense, and use the great righteousness to know the subordinates and soldiers, and the people who heard it were touched." In the face of war, he ordered "the wooden ladder of the cabin" and "hung the dragon flag on the mast" to show that he would fight to the death. After two hours of artillery battle, the super brave and Yang Wei on its right side were incinerated, and the Japanese ships concentrated on besieging Jingyuan and forcing them out of the line. Lin Yongsheng commanded the entire ship, struggling to destroy the enemy, "firing cannons to attack the enemy." The water is stirred up to put out the fire, and it is still in good order." When he discovered that an enemy ship had been wounded by a bullet, he ordered that "the drum wheel should be chased and wanted to sink it"; the Japanese ship hurriedly fired a platoon of guns to block it; Lin Yongsheng unfortunately "suddenly hit the shell and died in a brain split.", and the first mate Chen Rong and the second deputy Chen Jingying were also killed by the guns one after another, and the "Jingyuan" ship was heavily shelled, and finally "sank in the flames." After Lin Yongsheng's death, the naval officers were deeply deplored. The Qing government, for its "scramble to advance in naval battles, with the most intense deaths", followed the rules of the Governor and posthumously awarded the crown prince Shaobao.
Battle of the Yellow Sea
After the Sino-Japanese War, the people near the sea battlefield built a temple (demolished after liberation) in front of the Xiyang Palace Temple on Heidao (in present-day Heidao Town, Zhuanghe City) to enshrine Lin Yongsheng. In the spring of 1994, the people's government of Heidao Town raised funds to build a spectacular statue of patriotic general Lin Yongsheng on the front slope of Aotou Mountain for posterity. In September of the same year, the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and the Dalian Municipal Government listed the statue of Lin Yongsheng as the patriotic education base in Dalian. In August 1998, the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and the Dalian Municipal Government erected a statue of Lin Yongsheng in the Dalian Heroes Memorial Park, praising his patriotic spirit of fighting heroically against imperialist aggression.