1In March, 894, the Dongxue Party uprising broke out in North Korea, and the Han Palace requested the Qing government to send troops to suppress it. This incident was heated by Japanese media, among which expansionist Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito, Foreign Minister Lu Aozongguang and Ambassador to North Korea Keisuke Oshima strongly advocated that "China will send troops and Japan will send troops to maintain the balance of power between the two countries". So the Japanese formally sent troops to North Korea, and allowed Oshima Keisuke to act on camera and invade China at any time.
Sure enough, on July 23 of that year, the Japanese army suddenly invaded the Korean Palace in Seoul, abolished the king, set up a puppet government, and instructed the new king to authorize the Japanese army to expel the Qing army.
A big war broke out immediately!
Soon, the Japanese army attacked the strategic location-Pyongyang. The Japanese artillery bombardment of the city gate had little effect, and the two armies were at loggerheads. After a long time, some generals in the Qing army opposed the active attack and demanded to retreat. "Save your strength and attack the invading enemy again." He is the general Ye Zhichao who is afraid of death. Because commander Zuo was killed, he was in charge of all the major events in the army. At that time, although the patriotic general Ma Yukun opposed it, it was not adopted. That night, when Ye Zhichao led the army to retreat, he was pursued by the Japanese army, and most of the Qing army was damaged as a result.
At this time, the sea was also full of luck. Zhenyuan ship slammed the enemy "Gao Qianhui" ship, making it lose its combat effectiveness and the enemy major general was killed; Dingyuan Ship violently collided with the enemy "Qiu jinzhou area" ship, and also seriously injured it. However, the Japanese elite "Yoshino" and other four warships sank two warships, "Chaoyong" and "Yangwei". Finally Zhenyuan and Dingyuan were badly beaten because they were outnumbered. More than 1,000 soldiers, including Ding, Deng Shichang, died heroically.
China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, because the decaying Qing Dynasty had only aging and backward ships, but no strong national strength. You will be beaten if you fall behind. Therefore, we should study hard and serve the motherland with advanced scientific and cultural knowledge, so that the humiliating era of aggression will never return!