Tougou Heihachirou1848 65438+/KLOC-0 was born in Kagoshima, Samoa on October 27th. Height 1.59 m. When he was young, his name was Nakagoro, and when he was fifteen, he was renamed Hirayama Lang Shiliang. His father, Dongxiang Kizaemon, was keen on the navy and had a great influence on Tougou Heihachirou.
Biographical notes
Against the shogunate
1863 joined the Samoan army and participated in the Samoan War (the war against Britain).
1866 joined the newly established Samoan navy.
1868 In Chen Wu War, as a naval petty officer, he participated in the Abochong naval battle on the Samoan battleship Springfield and fought a decisive battle with the shogunate battleship Kaiyang.
From 187 1 to 1878, he studied military affairs in Britain and later became the construction supervisor of a light cruiser. Among them, in 1877, students studying in Britain who were born in Satsuma were urged to return to China to participate in the Southwest War against the Meiji government (see Saigō Takamori).
Against China
From 65438 to 0884, he served as the captain of the "Tiancheng" ship and visited Shanghai, Fuzhou and Keelung to observe the Sino-French war.
1894 On July 25th, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894, as the captain of the Su Lang, he sank the Qing troop carrier Goldman Sachs, killing more than 700 people.
1September, 894 17, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, he commanded the Su Lang.
When Japan invaded Penghu on 1894, it commanded the First Guerrilla to support the infantry landing with fire.
From 65438 to 0895, he was promoted to vice admiral and became the president of the Naval University.
1900, when Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, he was the commander of the Japanese standing fleet.
Against Russia
General Tougou Heihachirou commanded the oil paintings of the naval battle in Ma Haixia on the bridge of the flagship Li San +0904, and served as the commander of the Japanese joint fleet in the Russo-Japanese War. On February 8th, it raided the Russian fleet at Lushun Port in China. Two Russian armored ships and a cruiser were immediately destroyed. At the same time, Russian warships "Varyag" and "Kolez" were also attacked in Incheon, North Korea. Japan soon gained the right to control the sea. In April, the Japanese fleet defeated the Russian fleet, and Admiral Makagov, commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, was buried in the belly of a fish.
/kloc-0 was promoted to general on June 6, 904.
On August 1904, 10 organized a naval battle in the Yellow Sea and defeated the Russian navy in Lushun.
1905 On May 27th, he commanded the naval battle against Ma Haixia, which greatly disintegrated the Baltic Fleet which had been raided by Russia for a long time. This battle decided Japan's final victory in the Russo-Japanese War.
1905 12 Ren Haijun's military commander and member of the general officers' meeting became the fourth head of the Japanese navy and participated in the formulation of Japanese militaristic foreign expansion policy.
old age
19 13, was awarded the title of Imperial Marshal in Taisho period.
1934, Marquis was sealed when he was critically ill during the Showa period. He died in Tokyo on May 30th at the age of 86.
other
Like his compatriot Saigō Takamori, Tougou Heihachirou was deeply influenced by Yangming's mind. According to Yao's book "Famous Yuyao", the words "I bow down and worship Yangming all my life" are engraved on a seal that I carry with me.
After winning the naval battle against Ma Haixia, an American ship is visiting Japan. At the Japanese celebration dinner for Tougou Heihachirou, several visiting American sailors invited Tougou Heihachirou to drink, and Tougou Heihachirou agreed to their request. One of the American sailors was impressed by his behavior. This sailor is Nimitz, commander of the US Pacific Fleet.