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As long as you are not intimidated by the new weapons, you can theoretically have the power of a war!
Time and space span 2000 years, if the war with the Eight-Nation Alliance at the beginning was not the Qing Dynasty but the Qin Dynasty, then will history be reversed? Here we may wish to make a hypothesis, but before making the assumption, we need to figure out the hole cards between the two sides.
In other words, what kind of cards did the Eight-Nation Alliance have at that time? And what kind of bottom card does qin jun have?
With the national strength of the Qin Army, can it eliminate the Eight-Nation Alliance, or be counter-killed by the Eight-Nation Alliance? We need to look at all this from the beginning.
What kind of cards does the Eight-Power Alliance have?
What is the Eight-Power Alliance? When we think of the Eight-Power Alliance, the first thing we may think of is the eight-nation alliance invasion of China, and this eight-nation alliance invasion of China is the 26th year of Guangxu, that is, 1900 AD. This war was a direct invasion of China through military action, the Qing Dynasty at that time, and changed from a single national representative of the previous single force to a multi-country representative of multiple units.
The countries involved include, but are not limited to, the United States, the Russian Empire, Japan, the Italian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
And the Eight-Power Coalition in the early days, yes
Led by British Admiral Seymour
On this point we need to review the historical time and the international status under the historical time. Britain is still a big brother in theory, at this time the two world wars in Europe are still in a reclusive posture, and the United Kingdom recently experienced the baptism of great navigation and control of a large number of countries and lands, with a large number of colonies and a super high foundation.
So the British admiral Seymour led the army in principle was not too much of a problem, and italy was a very special country among the eight-power alliance at that time, and the number of people he sent was only 80 people. So Italy is a negligible country, after all, 80 people were really not enough to see among the Eight-Power Alliance at that time.
So which country in the Eight-Power Alliance has the most troops? The answer is Japan. The total number of troops sent by Japan reached more than 20,000, and the army alone had 20,300 people, and the main force was the 5th Division.
In addition, there are about 12,000 to 13,000 people in Russia, more than 12,000 people in the United Kingdom, and more than 3,000 people in France and the United States. In the course of this campaign, the Japanese army had the greatest advantage at the beginning.
Because he directly stole the silver of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the total amount reached was 3 million taels.
This war was fought in a vacuum, and the Qing Dynasty was also considered to be beaten. But when we gather all the troops together, it is not difficult to find that the size of the eight-nation coalition army at this time is at best more than 50,000 people.
As for the war, the treasures they snatched included but not limited to the many treasures in the Imperial Palace and the Summer Palace. We can only use countless examples, because according to the values at that time, more than 3,000 gilded bronze Buddhas were lost in this place alone, and the losses in other places can be imagined.
A certain Owner of France stole 1 million taels of silver from an official's home.
To interject here, I did a detailed study of the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance in the early days. There are probably two things that really make me feel sorry and heartache.
The first is the Yongle Canon, which was destroyed by the British and French coalition forces during the 2nd Opium War, and damaged by the Eight-Power Coalition in the course of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China
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As for the Siku Quanshu, which was also compiled during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, tens of thousands of copies were damaged, and the historical status and significance of the Siku Quanshu may be far less than that of the Yongle Canon, but in any case, the different ways of these two different types of books are damaged.
The bottom card of the Qin Army
How many armies were there in the Qin Dynasty? Until now, we have not been able to come up with an exact number, which is also reasonable, after all, ancient wars can really count the number of single digits, it is a very difficult thing.
But if we come up with a historical time node, that is, the troops of the Qin Dynasty when they attacked the Chu State, it is not difficult to find the terrible points of the Qin Army. In addition to the number of people, there was also a super mobilization ability, and the general of the Qin Dynasty, Wang Qi, directly mobilized 600,000 troops when attacking the State of Chu.
Although these troops had already hollowed out the belt of the Qin state to a certain extent, it could be seen that the Qin army already had such a fierce military strength and such a strong dispatching ability when it unified the world.
Then the state of the army after the unification of the world can naturally not be ignored.
And when the unfortunate child Qin II in our opinion let the two Brothers of Meng Tian mengyi commit suicide, although the Great Qin Empire at this time seemed to be in danger, the Qin army still had 200,000 people facing the Xiongnu in the north, that is to say, the Great Qin Empire still had the strength to fight with the Northern Xiongnu after the death of Qin Shi Huang.
This battle power could not be achieved at all during the Liu Bang period, and even after the entire Han Empire had accumulated for four generations, it had the northern attack of the Xiongnu by Emperor Wu of Han.
As a military general, Zhang Handan was still able to directly lead 700,000 troops to resist the rebels in the world at that time when the Qing Dynasty was in a state of crisis, and was in a state of superiority.
Okay, let's focus on the military development of the Qin Dynasty. As a unified empire, it is inevitable that a strong army will be needed, and if there is no strong army to endorse it, then the Qin Dynasty will be just a joke.
According to the army structure of the Qin Dynasty, it is not difficult to find that the senior generals and emperors at that time needed to master a part of the secret weapons, and these two secret weapons could only be mobilized when they were combined. So what is this secret weapon, the answer is the Tiger Rune.
That is to say, under normal circumstances, the right part of this tiger rune is controlled by the emperor, and the left part is in the hands of the general.
If the general wanted to mobilize troops, he had to get permission from the emperor, which to a certain extent created an army for the Great Qin Empire that obeyed the emperor's orders.
At that time, the Qin Dynasty army was divided into three plates, namely county soldiers, border guards and army soldiers, each different class of soldiers will have a corresponding task, and it is not difficult to find the weapons excavated from the terracotta warriors:
Most of them are bronze weapons, and the number of such weapons as iron weapons is still relatively small.
Although I was relatively backward in weapons and equipment, I was already at the top of the world in terms of my state at that time. When the Qin Empire unified the world, the Xiongnu in the north also felt the crisis, twisted into a rope, and began to send an impact to the Qin Empire.
At this time, Qin Shi Huang directly ordered Meng Tian to lead 300,000 Qin troops to fight against the Xiongnu. In the process of fighting against the Xiongnu, the Qin army was in a state of conquering land while resisting, and slowly gained full control of Hetao, and the surrender of Baiyue soon after was another war.
Apocalypse of History
Okay, let's move on to a comprehensive analysis. It is not difficult to find that if the weapons and equipment and configuration of the Qin Army at that time were compared with the Eight-Nation Alliance at that time, there was no ability to fight back at all. The weapons and equipment of the Qin army are only bronzes with some iron, and when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, it already had foreign guns and cannons.
But everyone may have overlooked one point, that is, the Qin army at that time could not say that the upper and lower hearts were similar.
All the troops uniformly listened only to the dispatch of one person, and that person was the emperor. Only if the emperor appoints a great general to do something, the great general will do something, and there will be no confusion similar to the Southeast Mutual Protection Treaty of the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, although the Eight-Nation Alliance at that time seemed to have many weapons on the surface, this part of the weapons was not very advanced, after all, the times were there. Most of the weapons and shells were also very scarce, especially for some Western countries at that time, they came here from thousands of miles away, and the number of weapons and ammunition equipment itself was a confused account, and it was impossible to carry unlimited ammunition or wireless firearms libraries.
That is to say, as long as the Qin army can resist the first round of attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance and adapt to the current high-level weapons and equipment in time, it is very likely to save a game.
But if the Qin army was frightened by the various foreign guns and cannons of the Eight-Nation Alliance when it invaded China at the beginning, then there would be no power in a war.
But in any case, judging from the state of the Qin army at that time, it was not enough. After all, the army of the Qing Dynasty we make an estimate, when attacking the Chu state there are 600,000 troops, then we do a total of 1 million troops in the country, say more, more, less, less, more, then 1 million troops and the enemy's 50,000 troops to compete, that is, a 20:1 data.
Judging from the state of unity of the Qin army, there is no problem with the Eight-Nation Alliance for a while, at least it will not be as messed up as the Qing Dynasty.
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