What is the reason why Tougou Heihachirou is called "General Good Luck"?

In the modern history of Japan, many incredible things have happened. It seems that they really have the protection of their "God of Heaven". Not only are talents endless, but they are also very lucky. They just want what they want, and they also catch up with the best time for world development. For example, when the ruler is weak, there is Emperor Meiji, and when reform is needed, there is Toshiichi Okubo. After the reform, stability was needed, and an Ito blog post appeared. It's hard not to stand up.

Japan's good luck doesn't stop there, including when they fight, they can often defeat the strong with the weak, which has great luck factors. For example, the "good luck general" to be mentioned next, whose name is Tougou Heihachirou, is Tougou Heihachirou, who is also called "modern Japanese Gemini" with ōyama Iwao; This Tougou Heihachirou's ability is still there, but definitely not to the point of death, but with luck, that's different.

This Tougou Heihachirou participated in the Sa-Ying War in his early years and was responsible for transporting artillery shells to ōyama Iwao as a gunner. Later, he joined the navy and began to enter the army. Later, the Japanese navy selected 12 of the best officers from all young officers, including cadets, and sent them to Britain for further study. Lucky Tougou Heihachirou was also chosen, and then studied at Merchant Shipping School.

After returning home, Tougou Heihachirou served as the captain of several warships in just a few years. However, before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Yamamoto Gonnohyō e, who was in charge of the navy at that time, reformed the navy and streamlined its staffing, including Tougou Heihachirou, who was mediocre. But when he saw Tougou Heihachirou's name, Yamamoto Gonnohyō e hesitated. It was this hesitation that made Tougou Heihachirou stay and became the captain of the cruiser "Su Lang". In the future, Tougou Heihachirou will be famous for being the captain of Su Lang.

In the conflict in the early Sino-Japanese War, the sinking of the British merchant ship Goldman Sachs led by Tougou Heihachirou aroused great international public opinion. Even Dr Holland, a professor at Oxford University in England, came out to speak for Tougou Heihachirou and published an article saying that Tougou Heihachirou did not violate international law. This matter, Tougou Heihachirou is safe, but it has also made a lot of noise in the international arena; 1894- 1895 After the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1895, he was promoted to major general and served as commander of the South Fleet of the Japanese Navy.

Three years later, in 1898, Major General Tougou Heihachirou was promoted to vice admiral, and two years later, Tougou Heihachirou became the commander of the Japanese navy's standing fleet. The promotion speed is amazing, which is the advantage of fame. After Japan won the Qing Dynasty, it aimed at a more powerful Russia, which was an established world power at that time, while Japan was just a newly established small local power with huge differences in strength.

Before the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian navy had 252 ships, totaling more than 800,000 tons, including more than 60 ships in the Pacific Fleet, totaling 1.9 million tons; The Japanese navy has only 138 ships, totaling about 260,000 tons, which is obviously at a disadvantage in scale. However, when choosing a general, Yamamoto Gonnohyō e chose Tougou Heihachirou, and even Emperor Meiji was puzzled, so he specially consulted Yamamoto Gongxin.

Yamamoto Gonnohyō e's answer is actually: "Dongxiang is lucky"-since it is gambling, isn't it natural to find a gambler? In fact, if we look closely at Dongxiang's chronicle, we really can't see what good luck Dongxiang had before the Russo-Japanese War, but we have to say that it suddenly occurred to him when he was about to be fired before the Sino-Japanese War.

But since then, Tougou Heihachirou's luck really seems to be getting better. According to the current words, it has become a "European emperor"; In order to ensure Tougou Heihachirou's honest obedience, Yamamoto Gonnohyō e found two people to be Dongxiang's chief of staff and former staff. Yukio Shimamura is the maker of Japanese navy's preemptive strategy, while Paul Akiyama is a disciple of alfred thayer mahan, the author of Sea Power Theory, and also the maker of joint fleet tactics.

Since there is a huge difference in strength with Russia, it is definitely impossible to meet the enemy in the traditional way, so Tougou Heihachirou chose to sneak attack on the Russian fleet, which is to declare war (this seems to be a trick of the Japanese); The war went smoothly, but it seemed impossible for the Japanese fleet to swallow the Russian fleet in one gulp. The Russian fleet tried to break through under the command of Admiral Vitigov, but the Japanese deployment at sea was full of mistakes. One turn of these two big bends brought the distance between the Japanese and Russian fleets to more than 15000 meters.

These beautiful evasive actions of the Russian fleet have successfully confused Tougou Heihachirou, who has always had the prejudice that the Far East Fleet will inevitably return to Lushun, and successfully infiltrated from the interception of the joint fleet, and the Russian army is about to escape. Unexpectedly, it was not long before the Japanese ship hit the Russian flagship with a stray bullet, and all the Russian fleet commanders and bridge officers and soldiers were killed. The formation of Russian warships was chaotic and fled in defeat. After this battle, the Japanese army completely controlled the Yellow Sea.

In the subsequent naval battle against Malaysia, Tougou Heihachirou only equipped 63 mine ships, while the Russian Second Pacific Fleet only had 9 warships of the same type. Tougou Heihachirou, who is good at maneuvering tactics at sea, divided the warships of the joint fleet into two tactical groups, interspersed with Russian fleets sailing in columns. After fierce fighting day and night, Tougou Heihachirou's joint fleet finally achieved extremely brilliant results:

Russia's Pacific Second Fleet was almost completely annihilated, with 2 1 of its 38 warships sunk and 9 captured, with a total loss of 200,000 tons. 4830 Russian soldiers were killed and 6 106 were captured. The Japanese joint fleet lost only three torpedo boats with a total of 300 tons. Only 1 17 people were killed and 583 people were injured.

After this war, Japan has completely become a world-class power, and Russia is their stepping stone, but we have to admit that there is still a big gap between the two sides in background and strength, and Japan's victory has a lot of luck; But luck is also part of strength. After all, winning is winning. With the great victory of the war against Russia, Tougou Heihachirou's official position also soared, and eventually he became the fourth head of the Japanese navy. Because of his luck, he is also called "Nelson of the East".