Introduction: How powerful is the equipment of the Qing army? The Eight-Power Coalition opened the arsenal and discovered 3 world-class weapons
The Qing Dynasty was our last feudal dynasty, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, due to the greed and incompetence of the Qing government, the military expenditure was repeatedly reduced, the fighting strength of the army was greatly weakened, and the deducted military expenses were used for eating and wearing, and finally our country was slaughtered by others and reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. In fact, in the early and middle period of the Qing Dynasty, the power of the Qing army was still very strong. At the end of the period, although it decayed and perished, the Qing army once had very strong equipment, which can be seen from the equipment seen when the Eight-Nation Alliance opened the national treasury.
1. Krupp cannon: The Krupp cannon is made by the Krupp family in Germany, and its reputation is almost universally known in the modern world, and its reputation in China is particularly large. When Li Hongzhang visited Germany that year, he imported 320 weapons. In terms of the technology at that time, it can be said that the power of this cannon is very strong, even the steel plate can be shot through, and the effective range is actually more than 19,000 meters.
2. Makqin heavy machine gun: At that time, the Qing government's treasury stored more than a dozen Maxim heavy machine guns, and the Maxim machine gun was the world's first truly successful automatic weapon with gunpowder gas as an energy source. Before that, the battlefield was full of manual rifles, and the rate of fire was very slow. And this automatic weapon, the powerful firepower can easily harvest the enemy army. For example, in the Battle of the Somme during World War I, 50,000 British troops were harvested by Maxim machine guns in less than a day, which showed its power.
3. Gatling Gun: Gatling's power is very strong, like the previous Maxim is a fierce automatic weapon, with a powerful continuous firepower, the bullets fired are as dense as rain. The Gatling machine gun is a manual multi-barrel rotation, is the world's first practical machine gun, its rate of fire can generally reach more than 1000 rounds per barrel per minute. At that time, Li Hongzhang once went to the imperial court and introduced dozens of machine guns, but unfortunately, the demise of the Qing Dynasty was not something that could change the situation with these dozen weapons.