On February 3, 1895, the Japanese fleet filed in a single file and provoked outside Weihai Port. In the early morning 10, the Japanese fleet sailed to the south exit of the seaport, and first fired at the Donghong Fort on the Liu Gongdao. At this time, the seven cannons destroyed by the Qing army on Nanbang Fort have been repaired by the Japanese army and used by the Japanese army to bomb Donghong Fort in Liu Gongdao.

The coastal battery and the Japanese fleet launched an attack on Liu Gongdao. Although the war situation was extremely unfavorable to Beiyang Navy, Beiyang Governor Ding and his men were fearless and fought to the death. A day after the artillery battle between the two sides, the Japanese warship could not get close to Ahava Port, and finally had to retreat.

The Japanese failed to attack Liu Gongdao by sea and land, so they decided to attack by torpedo. But torpedoing beiyang fleet is not an easy task. On February 3, the Japanese torpedo boat failed to sneak attack and had to retreat and escape.

On February 5, the Japanese ship attacked again, hitting the tail of Dingyuan ship, and the hull was seriously damaged. Dingyuan ship ran aground on the beach on the south bank of Liu Gongdao. On February 6, Japanese ships fired torpedoes and hit distant ships.

More than 30 people on board were all killed. At the same time, the training ship Weiyuan and the poor ship Dingfu were also sunk. In the afternoon, the Japanese joint fleet launched a sea attack on Liu Gongdao again. After fierce fighting, the Japanese fleet was repulsed again. On February 7th, Ito Sukeyuki, commander of the Japanese joint fleet, was determined to capture Liu Gongdao and adowa beiyang fleet.

Beiyang fleet's ships fought back with Liu Gongdao and Erdao Fort. The flagship ships of the Japanese army, Matsushima, Li Qiao, Qiujinzhou and Su Lang, were all shot and injured, which was one of the setbacks for the Japanese joint fleet. Just then, beiyang fleet torpedo boat captain Wang Pingping wavered and plotted to escape.

The flight and mutiny created by Wang Ping and a group of national scum not only weakened beiyang fleet's strength, but also affected the morale of the Qing army, causing extremely serious consequences for the war in Liu Gongdao and committing unforgivable crimes.

Liu committed suicide in grief and indignation.

The situation in Liu Gongdao is deteriorating because there will be no reinforcements for a long time. In order to prevent the injured warship from falling into the hands of the Japanese army, Ding had to sink Dingyuan ship on February 9, and scattered cotton powder in the middle of Dingyuan ship to blow it up. 10 In February, Liu, the right-wing company commander who vowed to live and die with the warship, committed suicide in extreme grief at the age of 44.

Beiyang navy was completely annihilated.

At 8: 30am on February 17, the Japanese joint fleet headed by Matsushima, followed by other ships, set sail from Bai Chi Cliff in a single vertical formation. All the ships filed in from the north entrance and slowly sailed into Weihai Port. 10: 30, Beiyang Navy 10 lowered the national flag of China and replaced it with Japanese. Beiyang fleet, once a megatron in the Far East, was completely annihilated.

Small fishing boat inspection

1950 In March, the People's Navy was founded less than a year ago, and the new naval commander arrived in Weihai, Shandong Province. In order to cross the sea to Liu Gongdao for fortifications inspection, the entourage rented a boat from local fishermen. On the way, the fisherman saw that his entourage called him "commander" and asked curiously which commander this was.

When he learned that this was the commander of the new China navy, the fisherman said inexplicably, "Is the commander of the navy going to rent my fishing boat?" In a small tone, he said to his entourage: "Write it down, in March 1950, 17, the naval commander visited by fishing boat!" Therefore, Xiao was greatly stimulated. At that time, he secretly made up his mind to show it to people all over the world.

Extended data

Liu Gongdao is located in Weihai Bay, the easternmost part of Shandong Peninsula, with rich and unique cultural landscape. There are sites of the Warring States thousands of years ago, beautiful legends of Gong Liu and Liu Mu in Han Dynasty, sites of the Sino-Japanese War, such as Beiyang Navy House, Naval Academy, ancient fort in Qing Dynasty, and many European-style buildings left over from the lease period by British businessmen. It is known as "ordinary in the east corner" and "unsinkable warship".

Its northern sea cliffs stand upright and steep, and its southern part stretches gently, with a forest coverage rate of 87%, so it has the reputation of "fairy mountain on the sea" and "Xanadu".

Liu Gongdao is steep in the north and gentle in the south, with a length of 4.08km from east to west, a width of 1.5km from north to south, a narrowest of 0.06km, a coastline of 14.95km, an area of 3. 15km2 and the highest elevation of153.5m. The island has dense vegetation, mainly black pine, reaching more than 2700 mu.

Liu Gongdao has a continental climate with monsoon in the northern temperate zone, with obvious seasonal changes and monsoon advance and retreat. However, due to the complex terrain surrounded by the sea, there are obvious regional differences: although it belongs to continental monsoon climate, it has the characteristics of maritime monsoon climate. Compared with the inland areas with similar latitudes, it has the characteristics of warm winter and cool summer, chilly spring, small temperature difference in autumn, heavy wind and fog and abundant rain. Best travel time: summer and autumn.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Gongdao