Zuo Xizheng: East Asian Agricultural Civilization: Reverse Attacks on MilitaryTechnology

In the long history, military technology in the Northwest has often maintainedits advantage over the Central Plains, which claims to be China's UpperKingdom. That is to say, for a long time, many East Asian empires willhave to rely on continuously introduced technology and even directly hire eachother to fight for themselves. However, this phenomenon came to an abrupthalt in the 19th century, and the Eastern Army, which relied on maritimeroutes, will begin to obtain the latest scientific and technologicalachievements faster.

At the beginning of the 19th century,

as the last successor of China in East Asia, the Qing Empire also inevitablyintegrated into the international globalization system after the two OpiumWars. At the same time, due to the corruption and decline of the coregroup, the empire has completely degraded from the original compound structureto the traditional farming system. Especially after the traditional cavalrygenerals Dolonga and Zeng Qinglin were killed successively, the militarystrength of the Han Empire could only rely on the Han landlords, mainly theXianghuai system.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the Southern Landlords Group became the backbone ofmilitary forces.

Zuo and his subordinates, the Chu Army, came from the Xiang Army Group of ZengGuofan. Its combat mode is also mechanical and inflexible like amatrix. In other words, the so-called "big camp" and "darkwarfare" have basically given up large-scale tactical maneuvers andcollective tactical circuitous detours. There is always a gradual way tomake lasting consumption with opponents. Of course, this requires that wenot only have richer resources, but also have a slight advantage in weapontechnology.

Agob and his soldiers

As the most famous opponent of the left, Agob and the Red Whispering Kingdom hecreated have no advantage in either of these aspects. Due to therepositioning of the international economic industrial chain, Central Asia haschanged from a busy international logistics artery to an edge completely tornby four powerful neighbors. However, Agob's way of doing things is stilltypical of ancient Central Asia. Not only did the army use horsesprimarily for maneuver, but it also lacked the necessary artillery to occupypositions. Although light weapons can be obtained through British India,Russia, Central Asia and Persia, they are far behind the development ofmilitary technology.

The 19th century Russian empire is stepping up its invasion of Central Asia.

On the contrary, due to the presence of British troops in the south andRussia's expansion in the north, Agob almost lost most of his strategicexpansion direction. Even the relatively weak Persia has a large number ofmodern troops trained in accordance with European Code. Therefore, theweakest western region became their inevitable offensive direction. It wasin this context that Ajibo set out on the road to the East in the name ofescorting Herzog's descendant, Bosuluk.

In fact, the people of Aguber have fairly high standards.

The history of the Hao Han people often made the rulers of the Western Regionsfeel thorny. The Cuban-led Andijan also largely inherited this "goodtradition." Therefore, in the western region, there has always been asaying that "no more than 40 returning soldiers returned toAndijan." Agob himself was even more ferocious in difficulttimes. He started with a humble child sexual harasser and relied on hiscourage and fighting abilities to turn himself into a vassal. He isparticularly good at leading cavalry raids. He had led 100 people toattack the enemy at night and defeated other 7,000 troops.

Anjiyan soldiers under Ajib took a picture.

In addition, Agob is not just a warrior with well-developed limbs, but asimple-minded person. Kashgar had only 50 cavalry, but was captured byvarious tricks. In the end, the British and Russians were reluctant to godeep into the conditions of the hinterland to obtain initial recognition fromboth sides. He sent another special envoy to Constantinople to establishcontact with Ottoman Turkey. It can be seen that in addition to militaryadventures, it also has a fairly high vision of international diplomacy.

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Facing such sudden troubles, the Qing court also had considerablecontradictions and hesitations when choosing a solution. After all, the19th century is already an era of industrialization. Any large-scalemilitary operation depends on sufficient Western-style weapons, and the hugeexpenditures consumed are much higher than in ancient times. In addition,most of the financial resources come from t.

However, as an empire moving from north to south, the Qing Dynasty could notsit idly by as its northwest territories were continuously occupied. Inthe end, the Empress Dowager Cixi who did not speak Manchuria made a decision,which led to the Left West Expedition. Compared with the uncles before andafter the Sino-Japanese War, the Empress Dowager Cixi also used his andGuangxu's personal savings to support Zuo