How strong was the fighting capacity of the peasant soldiers in the battle of Gaolouzhai? Far higher than the grassland soldiers of the Qing government.

The Battle of Gaolouzhai was a famous battle in April (1865) of the fourth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, in which the Nian army annihilated the Qin and Sangbu in Gaolouzhai (now Gaozhuangji) in Heze, Shandong Province.

The Qing government forces were commanded by monk Qin. SengQin: The 26th grandson of Habutu Hasal, the second brother of Genghis Khan, the first generation of Zasakdi 10 in Horqin Left-wing Rear Banner, the king of Zasakdoro County in Horqin Left-wing Rear Banner, a famous soldier in the late Qing Dynasty, and a native of Horqin Left-wing Rear Banner (now Shuang Sheng Town, Zuokehou Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). He is the adopted son of sister Daoguang. Daoguang five years (1825), attacked Horqin County, served as commander and commander.

Monk Qin received systematic military education from an early age and grew up in the army. He was a senior professional officer and was highly valued by the Qing government at that time. In charge of the main force of the Mongolian Eight Banners. 1858 in may, in the second opium war, the Qing government dealt the most effective blow to the British and French allied forces.

The commander-in-chief of the Nian Army is Zhang Zongyu, a farmer in Zhang Dazhuang, north of Luohe set in Yang Guo, Anhui. Halfway to becoming a monk, 1852 participated in the Nian Army Uprising, followed the leader of the Nian Army, Zhang Lexing, as a tout, and was in charge of Mo Wen. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), at the beginning of the first month, after the Nian army was assembled in Luohe, Zhang Zongyu was already the yellow flag and led the yellow flag, and he moved to Huaibei with Zhang Lexing. After years of combat practice, he has grown into a leader with excellent military literacy.

Sanggelinqin was born in 18 1 1 year, 1865 at the age of 54. Zhang Zongyu's date of birth and death remains to be verified. According to limited data, it is unscientific to speculate that he should be under 20 years old when he took part in the uprising in 1852 and under 33 years old in 1865.

The troops participating in the war, the Qing government army: 6000 cavalry and 24000 infantry. Nian Army: Lai Wenguang and Qiu Yuan had two or three thousand Taiping troops, while Ren Huabang had two or three thousand Nian troops. There is not much information about weapons, which I found online: the Qing army has rifles, spears, sabres, bows and arrows, and there should be cannons.

Nian Army and Taiping Army are contemporary, and their equipment lags behind Taiping Army. In the later period of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Li Xiucheng were all equipped with foreign guns, and there were a large number of them. The Nian army is still dominated by cold weapons, mostly knives and guns. Spears are eight to eight feet long, and cavalry also use long knives. Later, foreign guns were updated, but not widely used.

Battle result: Nien Army wiped out more than 7,000 people below Sengqin and captured more than 5,000 war horses. At that time, someone witnessed it and wrote, "The Year Horse Team ran twenty miles at full speed." After the battle, the Qing government panicked and quickly transferred Zeng Guofan as an imperial envoy, ordering him to lead the Xiang army and the Huai army to attack and twist in the north. This battle is of great significance in the history of East Asian War: it marks the elimination of East Asian grassland cavalry who have galloped across Asia and Europe since the Song Dynasty.

This battle played an important role in the collapse of the Qing government: from then on, the ruling clique of the Qing government no longer trusted the fighting capacity of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers. After this battle, the local militia and peasant armed forces no longer regarded the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers in the Qing government as effective fighting capacity, while the central government of the Qing government did not check and balance the local Hanyong armed forces, but only relied on limited financial and political means to check and balance the local Hanyong armed forces.

Looking up the age of Zhang Zongyu, we can see the age data of military talents in the late Qing Dynasty. Zeng Guofan was born in 18 1 1, Zuo was born in 18 12, Li Hongzhang was born in 1823 and Li Xiucheng was born in 1823.

These great military talents in China's modern history, the leaders of the Nian Army in the mortuary, obviously have an age advantage. If the Qing government could recruit these excellent professional officers at that time, no one would be available during the Sino-Japanese War.

It can't be that bad! In addition, it can also be used as one of the checks and balances between Xiang Army and Huai Army. How many outstanding military leaders of our nation have been found in the civil war! But it was exhausted in the civil war, leaving behind a group of inferior ones. Jiang Guiti (born in 1843), a member of the Nian army, took refuge in the monks and performed in the Sino-Japanese War. He went to Beijing to command the guards at 1900.

19121215 was awarded to the army general. 1965438+approved by General Zhao on June 30th, 2004). Dong Fuxiang (born in 1840, 1864) surrendered to the left in northern Shaanxi and died heroically in the battle of 1900. After the war, foreign invaders demanded the death of Dong Fuxiang, but the Qing court refused, declared that he was dismissed and imprisoned at home. 1908 died in Jinjibao, Gansu (now Wuzhong, Ningxia).