What's the impressive story of Fort Nagato?

Nagato battery is the oldest and largest battery in China. It was built in Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty, located in Guangdian Mountain in Guankouchangmen Village, Lianjiang County, and experienced several wars. In the 1884 Sino-French naval battle, the Nagato Fort owner shelled the flagship of Cuba, commander of the French Far East Fleet, which invaded China, causing Cuba to be injured and finally died in Taiwan Province. After that, China's soldiers and civilians fought bloody battles here and stubbornly resisted Japanese aggression.

Fort Nagato is a circular castle-like building with a diameter of 95 meters, which consists of city walls, barracks, playgrounds, ammunition depots and gun emplacements. The bottom and upper interior of the outer wall are made of granite boulders, and there is a playground of about 300 square meters. The whole battery is rock-solid and magnificent, facing the nearby Tairi Battery, Shema Battery, Rowing Battery, Langqi Island Gold Medal Battery and Yandun Battery across the river, forming a corner and guarding the first pass at the Minjiang Estuary.

At present, "Nagato Fort" has been rated as the city's patriotic education base, youth moral education base and provincial cultural relics protection list.

1884 on August 22nd, the French navy minister ordered Amde Courbet, commander of the China Sea Fleet, to attack the Qing navy and destroy the coastal defense facilities in Fujian.

In the early morning of August 23rd, Guba led six warships, including Volta, to signal preparations, while the Qing army had 5 1 warship and deployed two merchant ships, Yongbao and Chen Yun, each carrying 700 soldiers, but the Qing army did not notice the French army's declaration of war. At 0: 56 p.m./kloc-0: 56 p.m., the Velda gave an attack order, and the French ship Le Lynx immediately shelled seven Qing warships near the Luoxing Tower. Among them, the Qing warship Wei Zhen fired back, but soon two nearby warships Ji Yun and Feiyun were shot, caught fire and sank. Subsequently, the French warship "Torpedo 46" launched a surprise attack and sank the flagship of the Qing army "Wu Yang", but its hull was also damaged by shelling. At this point, Gu Ba led four warships into the estuary, outflanked the navy, repelled Fu Bo and Yixin, and immediately attacked Mawei Ship's political situation. However, Wei Zhen, who took the lead in firing at the Qing army, suffered too much shelling and was finally sunk by ships and boilers when trying to collide with the Ledestan. At this time, the only warship of the Qing army was Fuxing, which was surrounded by French ships. After a bloody battle, the propeller was destroyed and sank by torpedo boat 45.

The French ship Volta is about to be attacked. At 2: 08 pm, Fu Sheng, a small gunboat of the Qing army, sneaked into the rear of the French ship from Luoxing Tower but missed the target, and was immediately sunk by the French ship le Duguay-Trouin. At 2: 25, the dock of Mawei Shipping Bureau, which was heavily shelled, exploded due to the mine buried nearby. Three single-masted ships moored among them floated out of the harbor, and one of them crashed into the powder magazine on the sandbar near Luoxingta, causing a big explosion and causing heavy casualties to the Qing army fighting with wooden ships. There were 12 warships nearby trying to come to support, but they were shelled by French ships and could not break through. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the Fujian Navy was almost completely annihilated, and all the batteries on the land were also lost under the strong firepower of the French ship. So the Qing army sent several Kerong ships loaded with fuel to collide with French ships, but they were all sunk by the French army. At this point, the Qing navy had no strength to fight back, and the Qing army coaches Zhang Peilun and He Zao abandoned the ship and fled before the war.

From August 24th to 26th, the French fleet attacked the Qing fortress in Luo Tian Bay and Min 'an area. After seeing the French ship, the defenders who lost their coach abandoned their guard and fled without fighting. On August 26th, Guba led eight warships to dock at Tingtou, shelling the Gold Medal Fort and the Nagato Fort. The former was easily destroyed by French ships, while the latter fought back with the Hotchkiss, but was attacked by French commandos, and then destroyed by Digg-Touran.

At this time, the coastal defense facilities of the Qing army in Fuzhou have been completely destroyed, and the remaining Fujian navy ships have fled to Zhoushan Islands to avoid French ships. The French China Sea Fleet stayed until August 29th. After formally merging with Tokyo Bay Fleet to form the Far East Fleet, it left Minjiang Estuary and sailed for Taiwan Province Province.