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The Blood Tiger War.

On February 26, 1841, the National Hero Guangxian Development Department was brutally sacrificed in the battle between Tiguan and the British invaders.

Guangzhou, Jiangsu Jiangsu, Yuan County, was appointed Admiral of Guangdong Water Division in 1834. At this time, foreign invaders saw the Qing government's decay, and tried to open the doors of China and expand the aggression against China. After Guangzhou took office, Guangzhou personally looked at the naval defense fortress, decided to rebuild and strengthen the Tiger Gate cannon, and accelerated the training of the army. In 1839, Lin was appointed Minister of Chingsu, and went to Guangdong to ban smoking. Guangzhou became Xu's powerful assistant. He actively assisted Lin Xu to collect foreign opiums, seriously deployed the sea defense, built barracks, set up chains, prepared to resist aggression.

In July 1840, the British sailors in the strait of Shenzhen mouth, killing an innocent villager, Lin then Xu put forward a protest, to the law of British business oversight in China handed out the murderer, law not only not handed, instead of the plane to expand the aggression, several times in a row to Guangdong coast armed invaders.

The law saw the military force led by Guangzhou was strong, did not dare to arbitrary provocation, and the British opium traffickers are still continuing to smuggle opium. Guangzhou actively cooperated with Lin then Xu, searching for the opium smuggling ship. After the Opium War broke out, Guangzhou under the leadership of Lin then Xu, led the heroic counterattack of the British army, the British army could not invade Guangzhou, only to divide the army to the north, and enter Tianjin.

Xi Jinping to Guangzhou, on the opposition to the practice of Lin Xu and关天培, ordered the removal of the marine defense that Guangxi has been operating for many years, the water division was dispersed by two-thirds, and the strongest fighting force was dispersed by all the courage, which was meeting the needs of the British army.

In January 1841, the British army entered and stumbled on the sandy corner and the big corner two cannons, so that the Tiger Gate lost the barrier. At this time the Tiger Gate cannon was only defended by a small number of troops, and the situation was critical. Guangzhou was sitting on the front line of the town, asking for reinforcement from Qigong. However, the shameful treasurer Guangzhou only feared to prevent "compromises" and did not dare to send troops. Guangzhou was extremely angry and decided to die. He took out his money to supplement the army, encouraged the army to kill the enemy, and sent several teeth and some old clothes to his family, expressing his determination to survive with the cannon.

On the 26th of February, the British army attacked Tiger Gate. The enemy broke down the river chain, seized several artillery stations, and bombed the Yuan Long Artillery in Guangzhou. Guangzhou led the captain, swallowed the knife, commanded the soldiers to persevere. The battle from noon to late at night, was extremely intense. The enemy was relentless, the captain of the guard's artillery was mostly heroic and sacrificed, Guangzhou was also wounded in more than 10 places, and the blood flowed around him, but he still stood in front of the battle, shooting with his own hands. At this time, the enemy burst from the back of the artillery, and a soldier would shut down the back of the sky

Keywords: February 26, 1841,关天培, Tiger Gate, Blood War


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