Hero Captain - Lin Yongsheng
Yin Shuxin
Lin Yongsheng, a heroic captain, led his 231 jingyuan soldiers in the Sino-Japanese Battle of the Yellow Sea 124 years ago to fight with their lives until they were martyred.
In the third year of Qing Xianfeng (1853), Lin Yongsheng was born in Houguan, Fujian (present-day Fuzhou). In the sixth year of Tongzhi (1867), the 14-year-old Lin Yongsheng was admitted to the Fuzhou Ship Administration School and entered the steamship driving major. In the third year of Guangxu (1877), Lin Yongsheng received instructions from his superiors and crossed the ocean to the Naval Academy in Greenwich, England, for further study. Lin Yongsheng was one of the first batch of Naval students in China to study in Europe, and the study supervisor commented on him as "diligent and sensitive, very well trained" and "worthy of the responsibility of a steward". In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), Lin Yongsheng was favored and promoted back to the motherland by li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang, and two years later, there was turmoil in Korea, and the Qing government intervened with troops, and Lin Yongsheng performed very well in this counter-unrest operation, and was promoted to dusi and won the top wearing of the flower plume. In the thirteenth year of Guangxu (1887), Lin Yongsheng went to Britain and Germany with Deng Shichang and others to take the four ships "Zhiyuan", "Jingyuan", "Jingyuan" and "Laiyuan" ordered by the Qing government, and Lin Yongsheng was responsible for the "Jingyuan". In the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888), the Beiyang Marine Division was officially formed, and Lin Yongsheng continued to serve as the pipe belt (captain) of the main battleship "Jingyuan".
In the 20th year of Guangxu (1894), Japan went to war without declaring it, provoking the Sino-Japanese War. On September 17, the Chinese and Japanese navies launched a fierce battle in the Yellow Sea, and lin Yongsheng ordered "the wooden ladder of the cabin" and "hang the dragon flag on the mast" to show his oath to fight to the death. The Keiyuan ships fired shells one after another to hit the Japanese ships such as Yoshino and Takachiho. By 3:30 p.m. on the same day, the Jingyuan ship had been shot in many places, and was besieged by four Japanese ships, including Yoshino, and Lin Yongsheng commanded all the officers and men of the Jingyuan ship to calmly fight and bravely destroy the enemy. Although the disparity in strength between the enemy and us was in a dangerous situation, the soldiers of the entire ship did their best to fight the enemy. Yoshino and the other four ships stubbornly bit the jingyuan ship, attacked continuously, and the jingyuan ship fought for a long time with one enemy and four enemies without fear. Due to the speed of Deng Shichang's Zhiyuan ships and the thick armor of Lin Yongsheng's Jingyuan ships, they were organized into a tactical group during the formation arrangement of the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle to complement each other's advantages. In the naval battle, the two ships were even more cooperative, side by side against the enemy, when the Zhiyuan ship hit the Japanese Yoshino ship unsuccessfully and was shot and sunk, Lin Yongsheng continued to order the Jingyuan ship to drive full horsepower to hit the enemy ship, just in the process of advancing, Lin Yongsheng was hit by enemy shells and died on the spot, at the age of 41. Lin Yongsheng was the most heroic of the beiyang marine division generals, and when he was martyred, his head was blown apart by Japanese shells. After Lin Yongsheng sacrificed his life for the country, the manchu dynasty and the admirals were deeply deplored. The Qing court, for its "courage in the face of the battle, regardless of one's body" and "rushing forward to advance first, the death was the most fierce", gave high praise to Deng Shichang, and both "gave preferential treatment according to the rules of the viceroy and posthumously awarded the prince Shaobao".
The reason why a hero is a hero is that he knows that the result is irreversible, but he is still willing to step on the thorns without fear, move forward with a sword, and rather die to preserve the last dignity of the country, and hold a glimmer of hope at the end of despair.
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