Tougou Heihachirou was born in Kagoshima, Samoa on127 October. The name is Shiliang, and the young one is Nakagoro. At the age of fifteen, he was renamed Hiragoro, the fourth son of his parents. Saemon, Hirashiro's father, is proficient in civil and military affairs, familiar with the customs of overseas countries, and full of enthusiasm for the navy, which played an important role in Tougou Heihachirou's joining the navy in the future. Tougou Heihachirou began to study literature and martial arts at the age of eight. At the same time, learn modern popular fencing. After Samoans established a new water army in 1856, his father often warned him to "strive for loyalty" and engage in naval career. Later, he devoted himself to the research of artillery. Tougou Heihachirou spent his boyhood in the strict training of "holding a gun and making a sword". 1866, Samoans established the navy, and Dongxiang Hubalang realized his wish, joined the navy and began to enter the military field.
During the civil war, Tougou Heihachirou supported the emperor, advocated reunification and established an imperial government. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/868, he took the Satsuma warship Springfield as the naval palace and fought a decisive battle with the shogunate Kaiyang warship in Abochong. The Abochong naval battle is the beginning of the war between Japanese and European warships, which has an important page in the history of Japanese civil war. Tougou Heihachirou followed the Springfield Expedition to Hokkaido, and traveled all over the country, making great achievements for the Meiji government.
187 1 year, Tougou Heihachirou went to England to study and majored in naval technology for two years. Travel around the world by warship. In order to further study naval technology and cultivate the "character" of soldiers, he honed overseas for eight years.
After the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, in this unjust war launched by Japan, Tougou Heihachirou planned the attack on Goldman Sachs, and commanded the battle of the Yellow Sea as a fleet commander. Because of his active aggression, he was promoted to vice admiral and became the president of the Naval University. When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, he also served as commander of the Japanese fleet and commander of aggression.
After the Russo-Japanese War broke out, Tougou Heihachirou was appointed as the commander of the Japanese joint fleet. As a Japanese general, he fired the first shot of this unjust war for the colonial sphere of influence.
1On the night of June 9th, 904, Tougou Heihachirou commanded the Japanese fleet, and like the shelling of Goldman Sachs in the Sino-Japanese War, he opened fire on the Russian fleet moored at Lushun Port in China by surprise attack. Two Russian armored ships and a cruiser were immediately destroyed. At the same time, the Russian warships "Varyag" and "Kolez" were also attacked in Incheon, North Korea, and the Russo-Japanese War began. On the second day after the war broke out, several Russian warships were destroyed, which greatly weakened Russia's naval strength in East Asia, and Japan quickly gained the right to control the sea, thus ensuring the freedom of transportation and action of the Japanese army. After he commanded the fleet to successfully complete the surprise attack mission, he immediately pointed his finger at the Russian Pacific Fleet. Dongxiang believed that only by destroying the Pacific Fleet, or at least blocking it in Lushun Port, could the Japanese army land in Korea and Liaodong Peninsula, and even outflank the Russian main force in Nanman.
Starting from the surprise attack on February 9th, Tougou Heihachirou launched eight fierce attacks on the Russian fleet in Lushunkou. In April, Tougou Heihachirou commanded the Japanese fleet to defeat the Russian fleet, and even Admiral Makagov, commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, himself was buried in the fish belly. This battle gave the Japanese high command an absolute advantage at sea. Tougou Heihachirou's "meritorious military service" promoted him to admiral on June 6th, 1904. 1in June, 905, Tougou Heihachirou commanded the Japanese fleet to cooperate with the Japanese Third Army to capture Lushun and wiped out the Russian fleet there.
1905 On May 27th, Tougou Heihachirou organized a naval battle against Ma Haixia, which was the last decisive battle of the Russo-Japanese War. In this campaign, Tougou Heihachirou had only 63 mine ships, while the Russian Second Pacific Fleet under the command of Admiral Rogge Stevenson had only nine warships of the same type. Under the slogan of "Emperor Guoxing abandoned this war", after 24 hours of fierce fighting, 30 of the 47 Russian warships were sunk or captured, with a total tonnage of 1 37,000 tons, 6 106 naval officers and soldiers were captured together with their commander, Roger Stevenson, and more than110,000 people died. The Japanese navy only lost three torpedo boats, and only 1 15 officers and men died.
The success of Tougou Heihachirou's great naval battle in the Sea of Japan decided Japan's final victory in the Russo-Japanese War. 1905 In September, Japan and Russia signed the Portsmouth Treaty. According to this treaty, in the final analysis, China was the only declared victim in the Russo-Japanese War, while Japan became the master of Northeast China and Korea.
Japanese militarists trumpeted Japan's victory in Ma Haixia War and praised Tougou Heihachirou as "invincible general" and "military god". Emperor Meiji gave him an admonition of 10 to praise his "meritorious service". 1905 15 in February, Tougou Heihachirou was appointed as the Minister of Naval Military Affairs and a member of the Admiral Meeting, becoming the fourth head of the Japanese Navy. During the Taisho period, 19 13 was awarded the title of Marshal of the Empire and later promoted to Marquis.
In the Showa era, Tougou Heihachirou has ended. 1934 died in Tokyo on May 30th at the age of 87.