Does the subject have any wrong understanding of modern weapons? If the six northern towns were guarding the city in the late Qing Dynasty, the Mongols would be worried about how many people could come back alive. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing government found that the Qing army was decadent and useless in the war, so it began to build a new army with reference to the western model. One of the most representative is Yuan Shikai's new station army, which later developed into six towns in Beiyang.
By 1906, six towns in Beiyang had basically taken shape, each town had more than12,000 people, and the total population of the six towns was almost 75,000. Due to the weak industrial base in the Qing Dynasty, the weapons of Beiyang Six Towns were imported and produced by themselves, so the equipment was different. The details are as follows: 1 The town used a 30-year-old 6.5mm carbine made in Japan and was equipped with 54 75mm Shan Ye guns made in Germany and Japan.
Town 2 also used a 30-year-old 6.5mm carbine from Japan and 54 75mm Shan Ye guns made in Japan. The 3rd Ma Zhen rifle has German Mao Se rifle and Hanyang rifle made in China, equipped with 54 75mm Shan Ye guns made in Germany. The rifle in Town 4 is a Mao Se rifle, while the carbine is purchased from Japan, equipped with 18 domestic 57mm mountain guns and 36 British and German 75mm wild guns.
Due to the hasty editing training in Town No.5, the horse rifles used are all pieced together from the materials stored in the warehouse, so the style is responsible, and the guns are all German-made 75mm Shan Ye guns. The 6th town also used the Japanese 30-year-old 6.5mm carbine and 54 French-made 75mm Shan Ye guns. Although the equipment of the six towns in Beiyang was mixed, the number of guns was still sufficient, which was basically the advanced level in the world at that time.
Take the rifles used in six towns in Beiyang as an example, their effective range can reach more than 400 meters, which has exceeded the range of many slingshots and bed crossbows in Xiangyang War, not to mention the crossbows used by individual soldiers. As for the artillery used in Beiyang six towns, the effective range is longer, reaching thousands of meters away.
Therefore, the six towns in Beiyang can easily destroy each other by virtue of the range advantage that Mongols can attack beyond their own distance. And the Mongols can't form any effective attack on them at all, which is not a gap that the Mongols can make up with any tactics and courage. Even though Mongolian cavalry was the best army at that time, Beiyang Six Towns were not the strong army of their own time, but the technical gap was enough to offset everything, and the Mongols still had to face the result of fiasco.
Speaking of Left, he became famous in his early years, so he was quite arrogant. However, his luck is not good. Since he was recruited, he went to Beijing for the exam three times, all of which ended in failure. Later, although Zuo made a contribution to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he directly achieved fame. However, it has always been a thorn in the left heart that he was frustrated repeatedly in the imperial examination and failed to be an official in the traditional correct way.
Perhaps it was because he became famous when he was young, but the failure of the imperial examination had a great influence, which led to Zuo's sensitivity. Coupled with his talent, he was somewhat unconvinced by the officials who came from the imperial examinations. He insisted that others should listen to him, which made him a difficult person to get along with.
Zuo became the governor of Zhejiang, which was originally recommended by Zeng Guofan. Plus Zeng Guofan's qualifications are much older than Zuo. Traditionally, Zuo should pretend to be a protege, but Zuo insisted on being commensurate with the Zeng Guofan brothers. Zeng Guofan didn't care because of Left's talent.
However, Zuo was ungrateful at all. When Zeng Guofan's younger brother Ceng Guoquan conquered Tianjing, he reported that Hong Xiuquan's son died in the city. But in fact, Hong Xiuquan's son was taken out of the city. When Zuo learned about it, he reported it directly to the imperial court without informing Zeng Guofan, which seriously damaged the Tseng brothers and made a complete break from then on.
And like Shen Baozhen, Shen Baozhen had a bad relationship with Zeng Guofan, and Zuo also regarded him as one of his own. They were once called friends by Zeng Guofan. When Zuo left office as governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he specially entrusted the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau he founded to Shen Baozhen, which shows the good relationship between them. However, Zuo did not know much about the modern navy.
When Fuzhou Shipping Bureau was established, it was put forward that the construction of warships needed to take into account commercial purposes and required the establishment of warehouses, which led to the decline of the protection of gunboats built in Fuzhou Shipping Bureau in the early days and could not be used for maritime operations. After Shen Baozhen found the problem, he proposed that warships should be dedicated. Zuo learned that Shen Baozhen's move was undoubtedly that he didn't understand the navy and regarded Shen Baozhen as an enemy. He flew into a rage and the two broke up.
So Zuo became an official, and he was guilty wherever he went. In the late Qing Dynasty, many officials worked with Zuo. Speaking of it, Zuo was very good to Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.