Many people believe that the Qing army in the last years of the Qing Dynasty was corrupt and incompetent, and often lost battles, if the Qing army was replaced by a disciplined and heroic army like the Qin Dynasty army, could the outcome be changed in the battle against the Eight-Nation Alliance?
In fact, the end is still failure, which will not change the general trend of history. Next, let's take a look at the specific situation at that time.
First, the Qing army far surpassed the Qin army in terms of weapons and equipment.
Many people have the impression that the Qing army is backward in equipment, and it uses large knives and spears when confronting the Eight-Nation Alliance, while the Qin army's arrow array is very powerful, and it can even crush the Qing army, in fact, the real situation is not the case.
In terms of weapons and equipment, the Qing army is indeed inferior to the Eight-Nation Alliance, but it is also equipped with a large number of hot weapons, including guns and artillery, and the equipment of the Qing army belongs to the combination of hot and cold weapons.
In contrast, the equipment of the Qin army can only be strong bows and crossbows and large swords and spears, and the equipment gap between the Qing army and the Qin army is even far greater than the equipment of the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Qing army.
Second, the main reason for the defeat of the Qing army was not that the Qing army was not brave.
Many people believe that the Qin army is highly motivated to fight, brave enough to move forward, and more courageous than the Qing army. In fact, the Qing army is not undefeated, and many officers and soldiers of the Qing army died on the battlefield in foreign wars.
For example, Guan Tianpei, Ge Yunfei, Chen Huacheng, Hai Ling, and others who died in the First Opium War, Sha Yuanchun, Chen Yi, Leshan, and others who died in the Second Opium War, Deng Shichang and others who died in the Sino-Japanese War, and Nie Shicheng and Luo Rongguang who died in battle during the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China.
Compared with some people who surrendered as traitors during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Qing army hardly surrendered as traitors. The defeat of the Qing army in the battle against the Eight-Nation Alliance was not that the Qing army was not brave, but that there was a problem with the ruling class at that time.
Therefore, even if the Qing army was replaced by the Qin army and fought against the Eight-Nation Alliance with the historical limitations and strategic and tactical thinking of the time, the result was still failure.
Third, in the face of the general trend of history, it is useless to change only individual factors.
In the face of the general trend of history, it is useless to change only individual factors. There were problems with the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and it was impossible to change the general trend of history by changing an army, changing a few generals, or even changing a supreme ruler.
No matter which feudal dynasty army the Qing army was replaced by the Qing army, it could not change the final outcome.
What do you think about this?