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Yu Qian, formerly known as Yu Tai, was a man with a yellow flag and an outstanding patriotic general of the Mongolian ethnic group in the Qing Dynasty. Born in the Shomen family, the great-grandfather Bandi, the official to the Bingbu Shangshu; the grandfather Balu, the official to Suiyuan City; the father Qinglin, the official to the deputy capital of Jingkou, are all meritorious ministers of the Qing court. Yu Qian himself was a jinshi of Jiaqing for twenty-two years, and successively served as the chief of the ceremonial department and the governor of Liangjiang.
During the Opium War, Yuqian guarded Dinghai and died in the Battle of Dinghai. But is the historical Yuqian really a heroic martyrdom in the end? What does the process look like? He died in the Battle of Dinghai, so how did he get involved with Dinghai?
In June 1840, during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the British broke out into a war over the smuggling of opium from the British to the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Opium War. In July of that year, in July of the same year, Yu Qian took charge of the post of governor of Liangjiang, in charge of the three major administrative affairs of Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Anhui, namely, The Salt, Cao, and He, and his local administrative power and military affairs such as coastal defense were all under his control, and he could be said to have been highly valued by the Qing Dynasty at that time.
In 1840, the British invaded Dinghai, but due to the fierce resistance of the people of Zhejiang and the shortage of supplies from the British side, they had to withdraw from Dinghai to Guangzhou. At this time, Iribu, the minister of Chincha who was in charge of the military affairs of jiangsu and Zhejiang coastal defense, was mediocre and incompetent, blindly compromised and surrendered to the British invaders, and neither took charge of suppressing it, nor did he advocate the recovery of Dinghai. The Daoguang Emperor was disappointed with Iribu for not following his orders to suppress the British army, so he dismissed Iribu from his post.
Yu Qian was thus transferred to serve as the minister of Chincha, and as soon as he arrived at the Zhenhai military camp in Zhejiang to preside over military affairs, he immediately proposed a plan to recover Dinghai. At the end of March of the same year, he regained Dinghai, and the Qing court went all out to use him to preside over zhejiang military affairs. As soon as he took office, he dispatched more than 1,800 officers and men to the sea, allocated fifty cannons, tens of thousands of kilograms of iron shells, and tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder, and built forts on the east and west sides of Dinghai, and built a five-mile-long earthen city in the coastal area south of the city to strengthen the defense forces of Dinghai and Zhenhai.
In September of the same year, in order to expand the war of aggression against China, the British first sent 30,000 troops and 29 warships to invade Dinghai. In this campaign, Yu Qian personally commanded the three general soldiers of Dinghai (Ge Yunfei, Zheng Guohong, and Wang Xipeng) to lead more than 5,000 troops, and fought a bloody battle with the British invading army for 6 days and 6 nights, annihilating more than 1,000 British troops. In the end, the three general soldiers of Dinghai died heroically.
On October 2, Yuqian reported that Dinghai had lost his position again in Zhenhai. On October 8, when more than 40 British invading warships and warships had approached the mouth of ZhenhaiHaihai, the Minister of Chincha, Yu Qian, held the determination to swear to die to serve the country, did his best to reward the soldiers, and prepared to carry out a deadly resistance. In the early morning of October 10 (August 26), the British invading fleet, divided into two routes, each with thousands of people, attacked Jinjiling and Zhaobaoshan respectively. Qing soldiers were bombarded by artillery fire and absconded, and in this battle, Yu Qian was killed.
According to Yu Qian's family Ding Yusheng, who was also a general in the war, Yu Qian, who was watching the battle on the east wall of Zhenhai County at this time, seemed to have been in a trance, and retreated from the city wall in a daze and retreated towards the city. On the way, he may have suddenly realized that he might be cornered in the future, so he bowed his head to the north and committed suicide by throwing water. After being rescued by his family's ding relatives and soldiers, he rescued him out of the city, and there was still a breath on the road, but he died on the way to the provincial city.
Judging from the situation at that time, although the Qing army had been defeated, the battle was not yet over, and as the supreme commander of the Qing army, he committed suicide without any concern, making the Qing army leaderless and irresponsible; then his family took him out of the city, although Yu Qian was unaware in a coma, but it was basically equivalent to escaping from the battle.
The British then occupied Zhenhai County.
When Yu Qian's death reached the Daoguang Emperor, it had been distorted many times, and he was portrayed as a patriotic general who was heroically martyred, and he was born glorious and died great. The Battle of Dinghai was finally defeated by the Qing Dynasty, Yu Qian died, Yu Busheng was still alive, there was always a need for someone to pay the price for this failed war, Yu Busheng became a substitute ghost, and later was sentenced to be beheaded, becoming the only Qing general in the Opium War to be beheaded due to unfavorable battles. [Data expansion: How did the Qing Dynasty hussars who immediately won the world become Yuan Shikai's private army? 】
This battle is both sad and ridiculous, sad that the Qing army is at a loss in the face of the British army's hasty escape, and the funny thing is that a general escaped from the battlefield and finally left his name in history. [Data expansion: Why did the Qing Dynasty not have particularly powerful eunuchs like the Ming Dynasty? 】
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