It is believed that before the start of the Sino-Japanese War, most of the Chinese people were still optimistic about the prediction of this war, even if the Qing Dynasty could not win, it would definitely cause very large losses to the Japanese army. Because most people at that time believed that the Beiyang Fleet on the frontal battlefield belonged to the relatively high-powered sea power in Asia. The Japanese Navy has many disadvantages over the Beiyang Fleet in many aspects, so when the two sides are fighting at sea, the Japanese army actually does not have much chance of winning, and can completely defeat the Beiyang Marine Division.
However, what most people did not know at that time was that after several years of hidden development, Japan's maritime combat force had become very strong, and it had obvious advantages in many local equipment, but the Beiyang Marine Division had almost been in such a state of stagnation in the past few years, in fact, the strength of the two sides had quietly undergone some changes.
And the final outcome of the war we all know, the Beiyang Marine Division was defeated, and the Japanese army won a comprehensive victory in the war at the cost of an unsinked ship, thus further increasing the ambition and appetite of the Japanese army.
At that time, a large number of Qing troops were captured by the Japanese army and captured back to the Japanese mainland, we know that the Japanese army did not have a tradition of treating prisoners of war well, so at that time, the prisoners of war of the Qing army suffered a lot at the hands of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army either beat them or scolded them, and forced them to engage in some labor.
Although the Beiyang Marine Division was defeated, some Japanese soldiers were also captured in the Sino-Japanese War, but this number was much smaller than the number of japanese prisoners, about 11 or so.
However, the Qing Dynasty took good care of these dozen Japanese prisoners of war and did not scold them corporally, which can be said to be very good compared to the Japanese army.
Later, these 11 Japanese prisoners of war were also returned to Japan by the Qing army, and they were treated like heroes after returning home.
However, compared with the treatment of Japanese prisoners of war, a large number of Qing prisoners of war were treated completely differently after some of them returned to the Qing Dynasty.
For this part of the prisoners of war sent back by the Japanese army, the Qing Dynasty did not pay much attention to it. There was not even a so-called consolation, and they were directly dismissed on the spot, and as for pensions and the like, they did not even think about it.
And from the Qing Dynasty's practice of treating the prisoners of war of its own army, we can also see the decay and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty and the end of its inevitable demise, so it is too chilling to treat the army that has lost the war, although it is not too difficult for the Qing Dynasty to dismiss some prisoners of war, but it is very fatal to the morale of its own army and the people, because it makes it impossible for both the soldiers fighting on the battlefield and the people of their own country to see too much favorable hope. If you lose the battle, there will be no above indications, but if you directly dismiss yourself on the spot, what is the use of fighting for such a boss?
However, it is obvious that the Qing Dynasty at that time did not realize the seriousness of this problem, mainly because the Qing Dynasty at that time still had too many decadent and backward thinking concepts in its bones, so it was a very natural thing for such a dynasty to be engulfed by the torrent of history.