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The corruption and decline of the late Qing Dynasty led the great powers to look at China, which was vast and rich, and all wanted to grab huge benefits from China and develop their own strength. In 1894. Japan, which had been spying on China for a long time, sent Japanese troops to invade Korea under the pretext of the Qing army entering Korea, and the Qing Dynasty was forced to declare war on Japan, and the Sino-Japanese War began. The Battle of Jiawu lasted nearly 9 months, and the Qing army lost more than 31,500 people, including the famous admiral Deng Shichang.
The courage to regard death as a homecoming shocked the people of the world, and the Guangxu Emperor personally wrote down the link of "this day is full of tears in the world, and there is a strong naval might" of the public foot. however
▲Stills of the Battle of Jia-Wu
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Unfortunately, due to the turmoil in the DPRK, the tea business is not easy to do, no matter how hard Deng Huanzhuang tries, the business has been tepid. Deng Huanzhuang hoped for a prosperous career, so he named his newborn child Yongchang, hoping that his son's arrival would bring him good luck. However, under the country's poverty and shortcomings, how can a small family overcome the torrent of fate?
▲ Deng Shichang stills
At that time, due to the influence of the Qing government's policy of closing the country to the outside world, many Chinese people still believed that the West was a barbarian and uncivilized land, and they despised it extremely. Deng Shichang was learning advanced scientific knowledge from the West, and Deng Huanzhuang always reminded his son not to forget that he was a Chinese and not to be sublime.
▲Fuzhou Shipping Bureau overlooks the old photos
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Here, Deng Shichang and others not only learn basic techniques, but also integrate navigation, geography, English, and mathematics. Deng Shichang, who has a good foundation in English, studied very smoothly, graduated smoothly after five years of study, and became a reserve officer of the Qing Navy.
▲Recent photo of the model of the cruiser Zhiyuan
When the Battle of the Yellow Sea broke out, the well-equipped Japanese fleet defeated the Qing fleet. In order to save the situation, Deng Shichang led the Zhiyuan to continuously open fire on the Japanese army, showing great bravery.
▲Yoshino-go old light
Pointing at the Japanese Yoshino on the Zhiyuan, he scolded: "Wokou flaunts his might to the extreme, and such a situation is no longer able to return to heaven, and I can only frustrate his vigor with death." In this way, more than a hundred years later, experts salvaged the fragments of the Zhiyuan that had been sunk at that time in the Yellow Sea, and finally learned why Deng Shichang desperately hit the Yoshino.
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Originally, the Zhiyuan's torpedo launcher had an equipped torpedo, and due to the backward equipment of the Qing army, Deng Shichang could only successfully launch the torpedo by driving the Zhiyuan near the Japanese Yoshino. Such boldness and boldness cannot help but move people, heroes will not be forgotten by history, and evil wars will eventually be erased by justice.
Resources:
Sino-Japanese War