How did the Governor of Liangjiang, who went to the battlefield in a sedan chair, turn victory into defeat?

The governor of the two rivers who went to war in a sedan chair turned a victory into a defeat because he was too timid. At that time, an enemy shell hit his sedan chair, and he was so scared that he quickly climbed out of the sedan chair and fled. When the soldiers saw that all the officers had fled, they felt that the war had failed and there was no point in continuing to fight, so they chose to escape, thus causing the failure of the war.

The governor of Liangjiang is called Niu Jian. Niu Jian has been reading poetry books all his life. He can write well, but in the field of marching and fighting, he is a complete amateur, which means that he is almost an outsider. After he took office, he did not actively deploy defense, nor did he have enough vigilance against the British attack on Wusong fortress. 1842, the British suddenly attacked Wusong fortress. Chen Huacheng, the prefect of the south of the Yangtze River stationed in the army, calmly responded, inspected weapons and equipment, and boosted morale. A * * * sank three enemy steamboats and a three-masted ship, destroying the road behind the British army. The British army panicked and prepared to retreat. At this moment, Niu Jian appeared.

Niu Jian appeared in a strange way. He sat in a big green sedan chair and went to supervise the war on the battlefield. Knowing that this was an enemy officer, the British shot rudely. Although the shell didn't hit the sedan chair, Niu Jian was frightened and escaped from the sedan chair. As soon as Niu Jian escaped, the soldiers thought they had lost the battle and ran away with them. So the British army quickly occupied Wusong fortress, and Chen Huacheng, the prefect of Jiangnan, held his ground and made a heroic sacrifice. Without the arrival of Niu Jian, the outcome might be different, but war is always hard to say. At that time, the British army had better fighting capacity and weapons than China.

Although Niu Jian was the key figure in the defeat of this campaign, it is undeniable that he was a veritable honest official.