Peng Yu-lin And The Navy Of The Late Qing Dynasty

Peng Yu-lin was a famous statesman, military strategist and painter. He is the major generals of navy in the late Qing Dynasty.He was also an important figure in the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty. He was in a poor family. In his early years, his father was lost. He lives with his little brother and mother.They often suffers from a tribe of people.He entered the Hengzhou for learning in the later time.He once joined the Hengzhou’s city army for fighting with Li Yuan-fa.When the Taiping Uprising broke out, he joined the army of Hunan, and became the major generals in the Hunan province’s navy,he make a contribution to the creation and leadership of army navy.He almost enter the major battles of the Hunan Province’s navy with the Taiping army,including the battle of Xiangtan, battle of Wuhan, Tian Jia Zhen battle, the battle of Anqing, Tianjing outside campaign. After the failure of the movement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he participated in the work of the restructuring of the Hunan Province’s navy with Zeng Guo-fan, restructuring of its created for the Yangtze River navy belong to the Qing government.When the Yangtze River navy have many defects, he was old and frail,but he always patrol the navy for many years, and get rid of the Yangtze River navy abuses,punishing illegal navy officers and soldiers.He make a continuation to the development of the Yangtze River navy.At the same time,because of his knowledge and identity’s limited.He adhered to the old army and weaponry, and hindered the Yangtze River navy towards modernization transformation.Peng Yu-lin in the late Qing Dynasty navy in the half of life.With the rich practical experience and concern for national defense that he formed the defense thought of himself.On the occasion of the China and French’s war, he was ordered to the handling of Guangdong defense, in actual combat practice and enrich his thought of river and coast defense, guard the barriers, strong against the French invaders can yet be regarded as a national hero.Peng Yulin made a splendid life in the navy in the late Qing Dynasty.His deeds, the relationship of he and the navy in the late Qing Dynasty, his Jiangfang Phong think a part of history, today is worth us to be stroked Shunhe and thinking.