The reason why the Jurchens were able to establish the Qing Dynasty and successfully enter the customs, replaced the Ming with the Qing Dynasty, and ruled the Central Plains for nearly 300 years, the qing army's contribution to it is irreplaceable. If there were no Manchu Qing Eight Banners, the Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan really would not necessarily be able to fight down.
Therefore, for the Great Qing, the Eight Banners are their biggest reliance, and they feel that as long as there are a million Qing troops, the Great Qing Will be able to sit back and relax. The Qing army is all the children of the Eight Banners, but what we often say now about the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Generally refers to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, in addition to which there are actually eight banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of han army, which together constitute the size of a million Qing troops.
But the later results are also known to everyone, even if they have three Eight Flags forces, they still can't resist the foreign guns and cannons of the Western powers, and even in many battles in the late Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners are really of little use, and in the later period, they basically rely on regimental training in various places to support the scene. Now let's take a look at where these Qing troops went after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
The first is to say that the main body of the Qing army, the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Eight Flags Manchuria is the most core force belonging to the Qing Army, the members of which are also known as the Eight Flags Disciples, and Dolgun, who originally led the Qing army into the Pass, was the banner owner of the Eight Banners Manchuria White Banner. However, after the Qing Dynasty stabilized, these Eight Flags Manchurians could not leave the fixed territory due to regulations, and the Qing government also subsidized each of the Eight Banners, which made them start to do nothing and only play birds and dogs every day, and eventually became a drag on the Qing Dynasty.
The Eight Banners Han Army was mainly han Chinese, and was the lowest status of the three teams of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which slowly lost its voice in the middle of the Qing Dynasty; the status of the Eight Banners Of Mongolia was higher than that of the Eight Banners Han Army, and a large part of the reason for the Manchu Qing entry into the customs was due to the use of the strength of the Mongol cavalry.
This is also why looking at the harems of the early Qing emperors such as Nurhaci, Huang Taiji, and FuLin (the Qing Dynasty officially called the emperor began with the Emperor Taiji), it can be found that Mongolian noblewomen account for a large proportion. However, like the Eight Banners Han Army, they gradually lost their voice after the Qing Dynasty stabilized.
These Eight Banners disciples can be said to have basically abolished it later, and when the Qing Dynasty fell, some of the family's assets could continue to be squandered, and the family's declining nature became ordinary people. In addition to the Eight Banners, the Qing army in the middle and late Qing Dynasty mainly came from the Green Camp, which was the standing army of the Qing Dynasty state, scattered throughout the country, almost 600,000 people, two to three times that of the Manchu Qing Eight Banners.
However, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Green Camp Army was no longer able to fight people, and they could not fight people at all, and when the Qing Dynasty fell, they could only be lost in the crowd. In the late Qing Dynasty, the main strength of the Qing Dynasty was still in the local regiment training forces and the Beiyang Marine Division. However, in a Sino-Japanese war, the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed.
And Zeng Guofan's Xiang army was also disbanded because Zeng Guofan did not want to do high to the lord, and took the initiative to disband, leaving only a few tens of thousands of people. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, some of the more well-known regimental training forces were incorporated into the army of the Republic of China government, and some became local forces, and even many joined the warlords in the melee.
Among these Qing troops, there is one of the most special Qing troops, that is, the Qing army stationed in the Kowloon City Wall. Due to the problem of unequal treaties before, most of Kowloon was temporarily divided into Britain, but Kowloon City was not within this range. After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, this Qing army remained stationed in Kowloon City until it was demolished in 1993.