1884, the French army invaded Taiwan Province province, and Gaoyuan Zhang and Liu Mingchuan crossed the sea to defend Taiwan Province. "Practice hard on weekdays and you will be particularly desperate in the face of the enemy." At this point, the French army has occupied Keelung. Based on patriotic enthusiasm, he vowed to fight to the death and immediately led his men to "dance into the French soldier base at night, hand-to-hand combat, and the French soldiers died more." In the battle from (now Danshui), Gaoyuan Zhang led a bloody battle and won a great victory. After the war, he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Penghu Town and was awarded the brave name of "changing the year name to Chang 'abatulu". He was ordered to open up mountainous areas in Taiwan Province Province, which was "a great achievement". 1887, the main soldier of Laiqing Town. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/892, he led four battalions of Wu Song Qian Ying, Wu Song Zhongying, Guangwu Qian Ying and Guangwu Zhongying to be stationed in Jiaoao. After Gaoyuan Zhang entered Jiaoao, he built Jiaoao garrison yamen, barracks, battery, arsenal, telegraph office and Qianhai trestle wharf, and completed the main road to Jiaozhou. In recent years, Qingdao Port has become a port town with more than 70 shops and a coastal defense center.
1894, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Eighth Battalion of Song Dynasty was ordered to go to Liaodong to reinforce Lushun. At the end of the army, the brigade is trapped. "I was ordered to go with Song Qing to the former enemy, defend Maling, and fight the Japanese army many times, killing many enemies and winning many battles." . 1895 65438+1October 10, the second Japanese army invaded Liaodong peninsula. In order to support the Third Division of the First Army trapped in Haicheng, Major General Nogi Maresuke, the head of the First Brigade, was sent to the north by Pulandian. When he led the Eighth Battalion of the Song Dynasty, the Guanghe Army and Zhang Guangqian to join forces with the Fifth Battalion of the Qing Army, Gaiping. Hearing the news of the Japanese invasion, he led Song Heguang to guard the south gate and resist the enemy who attacked frontally; Zhang Guangqian, Yang Shoushan and Li Ren, the camp official, were ordered to guard the Phoenix Mountain outside the East Gate. 10 at 5: 30 before noon, the Japanese attacked Gaiping in three ways: left, middle and right. The Japanese army attacked the middle road from the front and was violently blocked by Zhang and Song in the south bank of Gaizhou River. Gaoyuan Zhang ordered his men to "concentrate their fire, send artillery to attack it, and the shells rained down". The fighting was too fierce for us to get in. The left-wing Japanese army in Longwangmiaozi, southwest of Gaiping, was also stubbornly resisted by the Qing army, killing and injuring "more than ten people under the general school". The Japanese attack on the left and right was frustrated, while on the right, they concentrated on attacking Phoenix Mountain. In the fierce battle, Yang Shoushan and Li Rendang, who were separated by the Song Dynasty, unfortunately died under the gun. Zhang Guang was afraid and led the army to retreat. The position of Fenghuang Mountain was occupied by the Japanese army. After the Japanese right-wing team captured the Phoenix Mountain, they immediately crossed the Gaizhou River and entered the city from the gap in the city wall. "After Zhang bypassed the army, he used the retreat"; In the middle of the road, the Japanese army attacked from the front, lined up eight gates on both sides of Nan 'an Avenue in Gaizhou, and stormed the positions of high military forces outside the south gate across the bank. Gaoyuan Zhang was caught between Scylla and Charybdis. At the critical moment, the 3rd Battalion of Gong Weijun of Xu Bangdao supported by Yingkou arrived and immediately launched a counterattack against the Japanese army. The Japanese army was frightened, the Qing army took advantage of the situation to shoot and attack, and the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. But at this time, the right-wing Japanese army that had entered the city had already entered the city and fired at the Qing army. Before and after the Qing army was attacked by the enemy, "the whole army couldn't stand it and lost at the same time", and the Japanese army finally captured Gaiping. According to the Japanese side's own admission, the Japanese army's battle was "36 deaths and 298 injuries", which was the battle with the largest number of casualties since the Japanese invasion of China.
Gaoyuan Zhang was famous for his bravery in the Qing army. Every time he got cold feet, he was nicknamed "Zhang Youzi". He was very tenacious in the battle to defend Gaiping. "When the bullets are gone, come back with a sharp attack." Gaoyuan Zhang inspired his soldiers with patriotism, and all his soldiers marched forward bravely. Although defeated, his "excellent military discipline is the highest among all troops" and "his subordinates dare not do anything illegal". Although the peaches were worthless, they didn't take them away without permission. Under his command, Song fought very well and caused great losses to the enemy.
After the Sino-Japanese War, he returned to Jiaoao again. 1897, 1 1 year1October, Germany sent the Far East Fleet to Jiaozhou Bay. 1 1 month 14, the Germans landed on a large scale, occupied all commanding heights in the name of "exercise", pointed their guns at the company commanders' yamen and artillery bases in various places, and issued an ultimatum to Gaoyuan Zhang, asking him to lead his troops out of Qingdao. Zhang immediately sent a telegram to the governor of Zhili and the governor of Shandong: "How to deal with it? Look at the speed to show compliance. " On the 23rd, Li Bingheng called back and said, "Although the enemy is in danger, the Qing court will never transfer troops." Gaoyuan Zhang knew it was hard to resist, and was forced by the imperial court not to take part in the war, so he ordered his soldiers to evacuate to the nearby Housifang village temporarily, and then to Cangkou. Gaoyuan Zhang was detained by the Germans on 25th after being threatened to negotiate in a German military camp. After being detained, they argued endlessly, then denounced and tried to throw them into the sea many times, but they were stopped by the Germans. 65438+February 3, was put back to the barracks. 17, ordered to leave Jiaoao completely and retreat to Yantai. Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay were finally occupied by Germany. Gao Yuan "tried again and again, but the pawn failed to arrive. He was so excited that he was hard of hearing." He called himself sick and resigned. In February of the following year, he was dismissed.