Is Fang Boqian, the coach in the Sino-Japanese War, a bad man in history?

For a long time, Fang Boqian's collateral descendants still tried to "rehabilitate" Fang Boqian according to Fang Boqian's forged report on the Toshima naval battle and some false reports at that time. Let's take a look at the situation of the Toshima naval battle at that time:

1, Fang Boqian Jiyuan Journal:

Anchor at four in the morning and set sail with Guangyi. Walking along the mountain, the direction is uncertain. At half past five in the morning, I saw smoke in the distance.

At seven o'clock in the morning, I saw three Japanese ships coming. 7 o'clock 15 substation is at the gun position, ready to meet the enemy.

At 7: 43 in the morning, the Japanese governor fired an empty gun. Guangyi will drive by himself.

At 7: 45 in the morning, Japanese Minlang elegantly put real marbles together and bombed our ship. Our ship immediately fought back until 10, calling each other a truce.

10/5: 00 15: 00, Cao Jiang came, and the flag told our ship to go to war with the Japanese and told them to go back. When Cao Jiang saw the flag, he turned around at once. When the enemy ship saw Cao Jiang, it was too slow to catch up.

At eleven o'clock, I saw the Japanese governor's boat coming to chase. Arrive at twelve o'clock, on the left side of my ship. Our ship fired four shots in the background, all of which hit the key, killing the Japanese (prefect) and dozens of officials. He knew it was difficult to contact the enemy, so he hung up my dragon flag and ran away. I broke the rudder, did not chase, and turned back to Wei.

The above paragraph is taken from Documentary of the Japanese-Qing War published by 1894.

According to Fang Boqian's diary, Guangyi went his own way as soon as he went to war, giving people the feeling that Guangyi didn't take an active part in the war, but Jiyuan was alone. In addition, killing the Japanese ship's prefect, wounding the Japanese ship, and forcing it to hang the dragon flag and flee, gives people a deep impression of turning defeat into victory. The damage to the steering gear explains why there was no pursuit. After detailed inquiry, the prefect of Beiyang Navy made a report to the court. According to the reports and news in this field, Shanghai Shenbao intends to portray Fang Boqian as a hero.

However, after that, a series of irrefutable evidence appeared, which proved that Fang Boqian's report had great problems. "

At that time, British troops were sent to Gao Shenghao and were brutally sunk by Japanese ships. Fortunately, the captain and Hannagan, a foreign member of Beiyang Navy, were rescued from danger. According to Von Hanneken's memory, "... at nine o'clock, we saw a Japanese flag and a white flag hanging on the boat in front. The ship came to us quickly, lowered the flag once when passing by us, and then raised it to show respect. " Captain Gao Shenghao witnessed all this with his own eyes ... passing by a warship with a Japanese navy flag and a white flag, this is the China warship Jiyuan. "

The above is taken from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and published in 1957.

3. At the time of the incident, Wang Fengzao, the ambassador to Japan, reported in Japan: "Without saying that the prefect is dead, Yoshino is sinking."

4. Cao Jiang is a light gunboat, which was mainly used as a transport ship in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894- 1895. Captured by North and South Japan in the Toyota naval battle, it was on board.

5. At that time, China warship Guangyi was launched together with Jiyuan.

-Excerpted from the Sino-Japanese War, Volume 6, Shanghai People's Publishing House, published in 1957, pp. 19 and 22.

Cao Jiang is a light gunboat. During the Sino-Japanese War, it was mainly used as a transport ship. At that time, the Danish foreigner Muehlens on board was also brought to Japan. /kloc-in August, 2004, she wrote a long letter in the detention center in Nagasaki, Japan: "... at 9: 00 on the 23rd, I saw the Gao Shenghao ship stopped by Japanese Armored No.3, which was about a distance from Jiangcao. Cao Jiang's duct tape immediately turned the rudder and sailed west for about one o'clock. He saw the warship Jiyuan suddenly sail out from the shore behind an island and exchanged fire with a Japanese warship ... At 1 1 30 in the morning, the ship approached Cao Jiang and suddenly turned north about half a mile at the bow of Cao Jiang. Jiyuan hung a white flag, which is a Japanese flag, and the tax on the deck came in a hurry ... Jiyuan's warships could have helped control the river, but they didn't help, and they didn't hang a flag to inform ... "

The above is taken from Dang Sheng. Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1982, p. 145- 146.

4. At that time, there was a China warship, Guangyi, which was escorted with Jiyuan. Fang Boqian reported that Guangyi left on his own as soon as he started fighting, giving people the impression that he was not active in fighting. Fang Boqian also said: "If the enemy attacks with two guns and the ship is evil from the outside, I don't know if it can be guaranteed." 1894 At the end of July, Xuan Shenghuai, who gave priority to logistics, received an English letter and got the news of Guangyi for the first time after the Toyota naval battle. According to this letter, Guangyi was injured in the battle and moored at the North Korean beach. More than 65,438+00 crew members arrived in Yashan and may have returned to Yantai by British ship. At the beginning of September, his duct tape Lin Guoxiang finally appeared. His report said: "Jiyuan was in front, but he crossed the side of the Japanese ship." The Japanese ship didn't raise the flag and walked across from it. Suddenly a shot was fired on the ship to hit Guang Yi, and Ji Yuan was ahead. He saw it and didn't turn back to help. He just added coal to burn the gas stove and fled back to China ... "

5. Tougou Heihachirou, the captain of Japanese Su Lang, also recorded in detail when chasing Jiyuan: "Our ship is chasing Jiyuan, and he raised and lowered the flag on the Little Bora Sea. Then I met an English ship, and our ship fired a blank gun to stop it. The ship stopped at once. Our ship chased the Jiyuan even tighter and fired at the bow more than 3 thousand yards away. At this time, Jiyuan raised the Japanese navy flag and hung a white flag to show its surrender. At this time, the commander ordered our ship to approach the flagship, so we stopped chasing and waited for the commander's order. "

These evidences, no matter which side they come from, are strikingly similar. All the evidence shows that the logbook and report of Fang Boqian "Jiyuan" in Akio Toyoda's naval battle were forged. Afraid of death, it escaped by itself soon after the war. On the run, it even hung a white flag and a Japanese flag one after another without warning to Jiang Cao and Gao Shenghao. Hard evidence is like a mountain.