Needless to say, the French army was the most humiliating.
The Qing army failed in two battles, but did not surrender! French officer Girard described it this way in "France and China": "In the Battle of Bali Bridge, the Chinese army confronted the allied forces with rare courage... They shouted forward and charged bravely,... It is better not to take a step back, to persist bravely, and to die on the spot. Paul Varan writes in The Tale of the Levy of China: "... The Tatars showed themselves especially well in the final stages of the battle, not a single of them retreated, and all of them were killed in the line of duty".
Therefore, the defeat of the Qing army is not shameful, and your French European Army surrendered in more than 40 days......
As the old saying goes, whether to fight or not is a matter of attitude, and whether to win or not is a matter of technique and tactics. You France, let's not mention it, so much so that I don't know if Louis and the emperor were angry when they surrendered.
A little we must praise the Qing army, whether it is the Opium War or the Second Opium War, all the Qing army officials were killed in battle, the Battle of Humen, the commander of the Guangdong Navy Guan Tianpei killed himself.
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In September 1841, in the Second Battle of Dinghai, Ge Yunfei, the chief soldier of Zhenhai Town, Wang Xipeng, the chief soldier of Shouchun Town, and Zheng Guohong, the chief soldier of Chuzhou Town, were killed in the battle.
In October 1841, in the battle of Sha Crab Ridge, Xie Chaoen, the chief soldier of Langshan Town, was killed, and Yu Qian, the governor of Liangjiang, committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.
In March 1842, in the battle of eastern Zhejiang, the guerrilla Huang Tai, the garrison Wei Qiming, the general Gu Dejing, and the foreign commissar (additional low-level military attaché) Wang Baoyuan, Jiang Weishu, A Musui, Zhu Gui, Ha Keli, Suo Wenmao and others were killed in bloody battles.
In April 1842, in the Battle of Wusong, Chen Huacheng, the governor of Jiangnan, and Wei Yinfu, the garrison, were killed.
In May 1842, in the Battle of Zhapu, the deputy commander Xi was seriously wounded and died.
In July 1842, in the Battle of Zhenjiang, Dutong Hailing committed suicide by throwing himself into the fire.
In August 1860, the Dagu Fort, the commander of Zhili, led the people to resist, but finally could not support it, committed suicide with a waist knife, and died heroically.
Delison, the French interpreter, wrote: "Some of the men did not have time to run before we captured the battery, they gathered in a corner, stood motionless, and they threw out their weapons and piled them up. Oh my God! What kind of weapons are these? Some of them are arquebuses, which are strange, very inconvenient to use, and non-lethal. Then there are bows, javelins, and ring knives, and we often ask ourselves how they can do us so much harm with such weapons? It is not their weapons that are fatal to us, but their spirits. ”
In the Manchu army, we see the blood and integrity of the soldiers.