As the leader of the Black Flag Army, although Liu Yongfu did not have too many men and horses under his command, when the enemy invaded, he dared to fight in the field, performed very well in the Sino-French War, won a great victory in the paper bridge, and became a national hero praised by everyone in history, and posterity spoke highly of him. To express his admiration for Liu Yongfu, and the president of the Republic of China, Li Yuanhong, once praised Liu Yongfu as "really a superior person, and the commanders are beyond recognition!" Therefore, Liu Yongfu's image has always been great in Chinese heart.
But it was such a national hero who everyone praised, and the French army was also his defeated general, but he was defeated at the hands of the Japanese in Taiwan, and finally had no choice but to run back to Xiamen. In fact, the main reason for Liu Yongfu's failure was that the other side was "large and powerful", and it should be known that Liu Yongfu was facing not only enemies from the outside, but also needed to fight against the internal high-level rulers.
Foreign enemies: Japan and France
The French invading army is Liu Yongfu's first enemy, Liu Yongfu has developed a deep friendship with the Vietnamese for more than 20 years in the Vietnamese garrison, so when France invaded Vietnam, he agreed to the Vietnamese request, helped the Vietnamese government resist the French invading army, defeated France in the western suburbs of Hanoi, took the opportunity to recover Hanoi, in 1883, the French invaders occupied the province of Nanding in northern Vietnam, and wanted to invade Guangxi, but Liu Yongfu led 3,000 troops to fight in France around the West Paper Bridge in Hanoi City, and won the victory. And this incident was also widely circulated, and because of his meritorious combat, the Vietnamese king also promoted him to a position, made him a first-class baron of righteous courage, and let him manage the three provinces of Xuanhua, Shanxi, and Xinhua. At this time, the French army attacked Vietnam, occupied the Red Delta, and later invaded the port of Keelung in Taiwan, when the Qing government launched a rebellion, sent Liu Yongfu to lead the army to fight, the Sino-French War broke out, and at the same time the veteran general Feng Zicai also inflicted heavy wounds on the French army in Zhennanguan, at this time the form of the war began to reverse, and also let the French Fare cabinet that provoked the Sino-French war step down, but at the time of victory, the Qing government issued an armistice order, promised to sign a treaty with France, and also recognized Vietnam as a French protectorate. Reluctantly, Li Youfu returned to his homeland with his 3,000 people, but was laid off by the Qing government, and his people also became 1,200 people, and only 300 people remained in the end. The national hero Liu Yongfu was very dissatisfied with this and always waited for the best time to fight for the defense of the motherland.
In 1895, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government signed the "Maguan Treaty" with Japan, in which the Qing government ceded Taiwan and its affiliated islands to Japan, but in early June of the same year, the Japanese army broke the treaty, and the Japanese army was registered by the three sable points to attack the mainland through Taipei And also expressed his loyalty to the country and his determination to defend the country through "" and his determination to defend the country. So he led the people of Taiwan to resist Japan together, under the leadership of Liu Yongfu, the mainland won successive victories, and he recovered many of the land he had lost before, and the people's hearts were rejuvenated, which also made the Japanese army trend.
Even when there was no rescue outside and no food at home, he was able to heroically fight against two modernized divisions and a naval fleet of the Japanese army, and also achieved good results, so that the number of casualties of the Japanese invaders reached more than 30,000, and the Japanese invaders were hit hard, and even the head of the Japanese invaders, the head of the Guards Division, the army lieutenant general Kita Shirakawa Norihisa, and the commander of the second brigade, Nobunari Yamane, were also killed by the people of Taiwan. At the time of victory, the Qing government made another bizarre decision to refuse to continue to aid Taiwan, so the Taiwan War of Resistance led by Liu Yongfu also ended.
2. Internal enemies
Liu Yongfu's third enemy is the Qing Dynasty army, that is, the Qing government, in these two wars we learned that every time at the time of victory, the Qing government made a retreat, Liu Yongfu used his life to fight tenaciously against the enemy, but the corrupt Qing government refused to continue fighting because of its own incompetence, but because of greed for life and fear of death, this is also the main reason why Liu Yongfu failed to take back Taiwan, brought to the Japanese, and the main reason for the fall of the Qing government.
However, such a national hero Liu Yongfu, who dedicated his life to defending the motherland, bravely went to the battlefield to fight against Japan even in his old age, and although he died in battle, he was deeply remembered by future generations, this national hero.
All the material in this article is a reference to books such as the Covenant, which is true and has no political content.