In 1883, the Sino-French War broke out, and the French invaders sent troops to Vietnam, a Neighboring State of China, intending to use Vietnam as a springboard to invade the hinterland of southwest China; On the one hand, it sent the Far East Fleet to the east and west coasts of our country to provoke. Taiwan's geographical location is important, rich in products, mild climate, has long aroused the covetousness of the French invaders, especially keelung in the north, is not only a good harbor, but also high-quality coal, once the French army occupies this place, it can solve the problem of the Far East ship manpower, therefore, the French invaders attacked Taiwan, taking Keelung as the first target of attack.
On August 5, 1884, the French ships blockaded the port of Keelung, destroyed the Qing fort, forcibly landed in October Zhantun Keelung, threatened Taiwan to be complete, and severed Taiwan's ties with the mainland, the situation was very grim, Liu Mingchuan, who supervised Taiwan's military affairs, asked the Qing court for an increase in the number of pounds, but at that time, the generals of the Beiyang Huai Army were afraid, and only Nie Shicheng stepped forward and took the initiative to ask for war.
In January 1885, Nie Shicheng chartered the British steamship Willie, and took the lead in more than 800 soldiers crossing the sea by boat from Shanhaiguan, experiencing many difficulties at sea, bypassing the French blockade line, landing in southern Taiwan at the end of the month, and then arriving in Taipei in early March to meet Liu Ming's troops.
Under the command of Liu Mingchuan, the Nie Army and the Hewan army and civilians cooperated closely and launched a fierce battle with the French army. Nie Shicheng became a master of what he had done, and adopted the tactic of luring the enemy's deep people, leading the invading army from the sea to the sea and from the sea to the inland, and then attacked back and forth with the local civilian army, severely defeating the French army, and after many battles, finally drove the invaders out of Taiwan itself.
In the summer of 1894, the Japanese landed in Seoul from Inchon and began a blatant invasion of Korea, after the Qing government sent Ye Zhichao and Nie Shicheng to lead 2,000 Qing troops to garrison Asan County, Korea, at the invitation of the King of Korea.
The Japanese established a puppet regime in Korea and dispatched more than 4,000 men to prepare to surround and annihilate the Qing army. Nie Shicheng knew that the situation was critical and urged Ye Zhichao to retreat to Cheng Huan's defense, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. After the Qing army arrived at Cheng Huan, Nie Shicheng decided to use the favorable terrain to fight an ambush. He divided his forces into front and left and right wings, leaving more than 400 people as reserves, and after the arrangement was completed, Nie Shicheng carried out pre-war mobilization, and the whole army "generously swore an oath" and was willing to fight with the Japanese Kou to the death.
After July 28, 1894, after the Japanese army retreated to Chenghuan after the Ming and Qing armies retreated, they took the initiative to come to Chenghuan in two ways to seek battle; On the 29th, Japanese right wing troops crossed the river bridge. Nie Shicheng ordered the ambush troops to attack the enemy, "the array of guns knocked down dozens of people, the Japanese army was ambushed, did not know the Qing soldiers, scrambled to retreat, the river bridge was too narrow hundreds of people were squeezed under the bridge and drowned, the Qing soldiers won a victory."
However, when the Left Wing Japanese army arrived, the number of Qing troops in Facheng was not large, and immediately launched a fierce attack, Ye Zhichao saw that the Japanese army was fierce, hurriedly led the Qing troops to flee all the way north, Nie Shicheng took cover after the residence, although he could not suppress the momentum of the Qing troops fleeing, but because he was behind the Attack on the Japanese Army, the Qing troops did not suffer heavy losses, and finally escaped the Yalu River.
After the Japanese army defeated the Qing army, it won the battle of Pyongyang and the Yellow Sea, occupied all of Korea, and then mobilized 30,000 troops to gather in the area north of Pyongyang, preparing to cross the Yalu River from Uiju and invade the Liaodong region of China.
Liaodong was the birthplace of the Qing court (known as the "Land of Longxing"), and the invasion of this place was tantamount to digging the graves of its ancestors, and the Qing government urgently dispatched 28,000 garrisons from various provinces to Liaodong to strengthen the defense of northeast China, and appointed Song Qing, the governor of Sichuan, as a deputy, to lead his troops to defend JiulianCheng, and ordered the Heilongjiang general Yi Ketang'a to lead the Eight Banner Army to JiulianCheng to assist Song Qing in defending. Nie Shicheng was ordered to garrison Tiger Mountain with the general soldier Jin Xu. At that time, Nie Shicheng's army was only two thousand people.
On October 24, 1894, the Japanese army launched an attack on Liaodong, and Yiketang'a, who was stationed at the mouth of the Anban River, took the lead in abandoning the position and fleeing north, and the Japanese army easily occupied the mouth of the Anping River and began to attack Hushan and Jiulian City. Nie Shicheng, who was stationed at Tiger Mountain, resisted the Japanese attack with 2,000 men, while Song Qing, who was stationed at Jiulian City and Andong, had more than 10,000 soldiers, but they were defeated, and the Hushan garrison was surrounded by Japanese troops. Nie Shicheng fought hard, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army, and then led his army to break through and retreat to the dangerous terrain of Moquan Ridge.
After the Japanese army fought the Yalu River, they saw that the Qing soldiers were about to collapse at the touch of a touch, and they were arrogant and arrogant, claiming that they would go to Fengtian for the New Year. The Japanese soldiers divided into two routes, one of which tried to open the right way and lead directly to Fengtian; All the way back from the area of Jianmu City and Haicheng, forcing it to Fengtian. The location of The Sky Ridge in Liaodong is the throat of Andong to Fengtian. Nie Shicheng led more than 2,000 people from his headquarters to garrison The Sky Ridge, while the enemy attacked more than 10,000 troops.
In mid-November, the enemy approached Skyscraper Ridge. Nie Shicheng did not passively hold out in the situation where the enemy was already strong and weak, but used artillery attacks, clever ambushes, wisdom and doubt, combination of virtual and real, and both offensive and defensive use to maneuver with the Japanese army. He planted flags all over the mountains and forests, so that the Japanese army did not know the number of troops on the mountains; A small detachment was also sent forward to ambush, which caught the Japanese army by surprise and did not know where the Qing soldiers' positions were. Nie Shicheng held his position for more than ten days, eliminating hundreds of Japanese troops and resisting the Japanese attack.
After frustrating the Japanese army's vigor, Nie Shicheng turned to attack, and on November 25, Nie Shicheng led his troops to attack the mouth of the Caohe River, attacking the enemy on both sides, annihilating one enemy and killing a lieutenant. The next day, heavy snow fell in the sky, Nie Shicheng led the cavalry to attack Lianshan Pass on the snow, the Japanese army did not know the truth, abandoned the pass and fled, the Qing army reverted to Lianshan Pass. The Japanese army's dream of capturing Fengtian a thousand years ago was shattered.
Due to the tight direction of Haicheng, the Qing government transferred a large army to the sea, and only Nie Shicheng was left alone in The Sky Ridge. Although the strength of the troops was single, Nie Shicheng fought with the enemy and fought with wisdom and strategy, and he adopted the strategy of setting up a clever ambush and luring the enemy to go deeper, defeating the Japanese army many times, annihilating more than a hundred enemy each time, and achieving gratifying victories. Nie Shicheng held firm at The Sky Ridge for nearly four months, fighting more than ten fierce battles every day, annihilating the enemy and successfully blocking the frontal road of the Japanese army attacking Fengtian.
However, due to the defeat of other Qing soldiers, Nie Shicheng's troops of less than two cadres could not become a climate, and soon after, the invaders came in from Shandong, and Beijing was tight, and Nie Shicheng received an urgent order to "star into the pass" and go to defend Beijing, ordering his troops to withdraw to the northeast and defend Lutai in Tianjin. The orders of the imperial court were difficult to violate, Nie Shicheng said goodbye to the northeast with tears, and the Skyscraper Ridge guarded with blood was lost, and then the Liaodong Peninsula was also lost to the Japanese.
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion was launched like a fire in Beijing, Tianjin and the north of Zhili, and the Eight-Power Alliance used this as an excuse to launch a war against China.
In June 1900, Seymour led more than 800 invading troops, carrying artillery, and Marched to Beijing. Along the way, they were attacked by the Boxers and Qing forces. The Boxers bravely resisted the invading forces at Langfang, Luofa, Yangcun and other stations, forcing Seymour to retreat to Tianjin. When retreating to the area around Yangcun Beitai, it was heavily shelled by Nie Tucheng's army. Nie Shicheng personally commanded the battle, and the invading army was seriously injured, daring not to march during the day and desperately fleeing at night. In the battle to defend Tianjin, Nie Tucheng's army was ordered to attack the concession from the southwest.
On July 6, Nie Shicheng placed cannons on the earthen platform of the Xiaoximen Wall and bombarded the concession. Five or six hundred members of the coalition army were forced to run to the horse field to hide, and later returned, and were scattered by Qing artillery fire. That night, Nie Shicheng led his army into Balitai, Racecourse, and other places, and the next day attacked the area around Xiaoyingmen on the outside of the southern part of the concession, putting great pressure on the coalition forces in the concession.
In order to relieve the threat of artillery fire from nie shicheng's army at the Southern Machinery Bureau, racecourse, balitai, and other places, the coalition forces decided to concentrate their forces to launch a counterattack against Nie Shicheng's troops. At 3:00 a.m. on July 9, the Coalition infantry of 1,000 men, 150 cavalry, two companies of artillery, carrying 9 cannons, with the Japanese 500 as the vanguard, attacked the Boxers around Jijiazhuang to the south, and then attacked the Nietucheng Balitai position from south to north At the same time, the British, Russian, and American troops launched a frontal attack on the Racecourse, Balitai, and Nanjitong, and the French fired artillery assists in the concession.
At about 5:30, the coalition forces captured the racecourse. The overseers retreated to Balitai. At about 7 o'clock, after the coalition forces occupied the racecourse, they concentrated their forces and attacked from the east to the Balitai Nieshi army. At the same time, the Japanese army that had captured Jijiazhuang also attacked the Balitai Nie Shicheng troops from the south to the north.
Under the fierce artillery bombardment of the coalition forces, Nie Shicheng did not retreat from the battle, and was wounded in seven places on his body. His subordinates pulled on the reins of the horse and persuaded him to withdraw, but Nie Shicheng struggled to break free, determined to die and martyr the country. The subordinates knew that it was irreparable, and followed Nie Shicheng to rush to the enemy position, and Nie Shicheng was hit by shells in many places, and his abdomen was split, and he died heroically. Five days later, Tianjin fell.