The meaning of beiyang fleet.

Beiyang fleet generally refers to Beiyang Navy (the naval fleet of China in the late Qing Dynasty). Beiyang Navy, or beiyang fleet and Beiyang Navy, was formally established in 1888. It is a modern naval fleet established by China.

At the same time, it is also the strongest and largest of the four modern navies established in the Qing Dynasty. There are 25 main warships, 50 auxiliary warships, 30 transport ships and more than 4000 officers and men.

1888 (14th year of Guangxu) 17 In February, Beiyang Navy was formally established in Liu Gongdao, Ahava, Shandong Province, and the Qing government allocated 4 million taels of silver for naval construction every year.

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Major battles:

1, Akio Toyoda's naval battle

The Battle of Toyoshima took place in the early morning of the 20th year of Guangxu (65438+July 25th, 0894). The Japanese navy attacked the South Korean naval vessels in the southwest waters of Toyoshima at the mouth of Yashan Bay in northern China. This was the first battle provoked by Japan and the first battle of the Sino-Japanese War in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, so the Qing Dynasty and Japan formally declared war.

2, the Yellow Sea naval battle

The naval battle in the Yellow Sea is a battle-scale naval battle between the Chinese and Japanese navies in the northern part of the Yellow Sea during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Also known as the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Dadonggou naval battle.

In this battle, Beiyang Navy suffered heavy losses, * * * lost five warships, and several warships of Japan's joint fleet suffered heavy losses, but none of them were sunk. After that, beiyang fleet retreated to Ahava, which made the sea control of the Yellow Sea fall into the hands of the Japanese joint fleet and had a decisive impact on the war situation in the late Sino-Japanese War.

3. Ahava naval battle

The naval battle of Ahava was a battle of the Qing army against Japanese Lu Haijun's invasion of Ahava (now Weihai, Shandong Province) during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1895.

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