On Liu Kunyi’s Military Thought And Military Activities During The Sino Japanese War

Liu Kunyi (1830-1902), who was from Hunan Xinning.In Xianfeng six years, he participated into the army as a scholar to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant revolution, after ten years of go on an expedition become Hunan Amy’s brave generals. He became a lifelong resident governor, though he was from other workside.Liu Kunyi is one of the current academic research characters who still somewhat known but shallow research, especially his military thought and the actual war combined with the direction, has not yet caused academic attention.A military thought of Liu in the Sino Japanese War maily includes, serious military army management, improvement treatment, the unilied command, the policy of lasting war with Japan.Liu Kunyi formed both strict military discipline and clearly reward and punishment in troops during the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895. He also taking care of the soldiers, promoting talent. He made specific plans to solve the amy’s fee, edit a new troops from the whole, strengthen deployment, which embodies the unity of command of the attention, emphasizes the wide set of forces, and strive to achieve few people to win much people strategy.In the practice of Jianghai defense, the outbreak of the Sino Japanese War accelerated the Liu Kunyi concept change from emphasis on the Cypriot to attach importance to the coastal defense. He cut the Changjiang River naval forces, outfitted Western ships and cannons, and actively organize Nanyang defense and the national defense. His thought has become more and more mature and conformed that the modern country pay attention to the trend of sea power. As governors,he participated in the frontline command process,from the overall defensive, offensive sequence, battlefield discipline,logistics, personnel and other aspects of planning,whatever efforts for the war from the front to the logistics organization.Even after the signing of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", he still insisted on positive battle attitude, firmly opposed to the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. After its defeat in the Sino Japanese China Sea army, Liu Kunyi esteemed self-improvement army -- the new army,the accord with the actual adjustment, and puts forward the new idea of West of training, arms production and rectify the army and so on.Based on Liu Kunyi can not be truly implemented the imperial Commissioner’s real power, did not grasp the fighters, and soldiers in combat ineffective factors in complex control and the progress of its military thoughts in the Sino Japanese war has not been effectively implemented, resulting in war increasingly sinister, and ultimately failed to complete delivery of the Qing government responsibility.