When the Qing Dynasty finally withered away, in fact, it still had a very powerful army in name, but in the end it still could not get rid of the fate of the country. Let's analyze this matter together.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was invaded by various great powers, and at the beginning, because the Qing Dynasty's understanding of the great powers was not so full, it thought that the problems it faced were nothing more than the things that the great powers wanted money and land, as long as they had good relations with the great powers, the Qing Dynasty would not have too much crisis, but in later history, through repeated wars with the great powers, the Qing Dynasty finally realized how backward and incompetent it was compared with others, and if it thought of itself as a heavenly dynasty again, I am afraid that disasters are coming to the door.
Under such circumstances, the Qing Dynasty's law change and foreign affairs movement took turns, although the Qing Dynasty also took many detours, but the ultimate purpose of the Qing Dynasty was actually to make itself more powerful, no longer bullied by the external powers, and unable to quell the rebellion internally.
It is also under this circumstance that the military strength of the Qing Dynasty began to move towards a modern road, perhaps in the impression of many of us, the Qing Army seems to be holding large knives and spears, the military uniform is worn, a look is not forbidden to fight the kind of situation, in fact, this situation in the last few years of the Qing Dynasty has undergone great changes, we can take a look at the real appearance of some Qing troops at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
In the navy at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the officers and men were standing in front of the main guns of the battleship for a group photo, and from this photo, we can see a very obvious modern atmosphere, and there is no sense of defeat at all, which gives people the feeling that it is actually quite unexpected.
The new type of army of the Qing Dynasty, the Maqin heavy machine gun, was still very advanced at that time, and the qing dynasty's purchase of these advanced light weapons was actually quite a lot, which is enough to show the importance that the Qing Dynasty attached to this advanced equipment, and the fresh army armed with such equipment was actually very effective.
So, since at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army has been greatly improved, why did the Qing Dynasty eventually perish?
In fact, I personally feel that there should be two reasons for this:
The first reason: the Qing Dynasty in the years of operation, has been their own people's hearts scattered almost, even in the end, the Qing Dynasty still has a large number of new troops, but the people's hearts have long since ceased to return to the Qing Dynasty, it is the "water can carry a boat can also overturn the boat" truth, in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty's royal family, Jiangshan is their own home, and in the twentieth century, this concept obviously can not adapt to the new era.
The second reason: Although the Qing Dynasty had a new army, its real control was not in the hands of the Qing Dynasty itself, and the Eight Banners, which were once considered by the Qing Dynasty to be the peak of combat strength, had long since been corrupted into mud, and the Green Camp was useless, and the six towns in Beiyang, where the fighting power of the Qing Dynasty was the strongest, except for the first town, Yuan Shikai, could not be fully controlled, and the other towns, only Recognized Yuan Shikai, who could not command anyone except him, and the new armies everywhere were infiltrated into the sieve, so the real powerful army, although on the surface it was still the armed forces of the Qing Dynasty. But in fact, the command has long been unable to move, which is also the sadness of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, no matter from which aspect we look at it, the demise of the Qing Dynasty is ultimately the result of historical choices, not because of how many elite soldiers it still has in its hands, and the world has almost always been the direction of the people's hearts and minds from now on, and it has never changed.