Weapons are a big step forward. Don't talk to me about guns. Isn't the heyday of the Ming Dynasty in Yongle? At that time, firearms were not as easy to use as palaces, but in the early Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, basically all the troops were equipped with firearms, and it was not until after the Opium War that firearms were completely surpassed by the West. Even in the late Ming dynasty, it is difficult to compare with the Qianlong period? It is impossible to reverse the previous generation of weapons. What should we fight with? What if the Qing dynasty also used bows and arrows? Didn't the Ming Dynasty lose even worse? Bow and arrow making technology has also been developing. The bow and arrow in the Song Dynasty is definitely more powerful than that in the Tang Dynasty, and can shoot farther.
In terms of the number of troops, according to Ming Taizu's records, in the three years of Hongwu, "there were more than one million soldiers guarding towns and the capital", and in the twenty-five years of Hongwu, relevant parties made clear statistics. At the right time, "the total number of domestic and foreign military forces was obtained, including 2,747 military attaché s in Beijing, 206,288 military attaché s abroad, 33,742 military attaché s abroad and 92,544 military forces". It can be inferred that the national strength of Hongwu Dynasty is about1200,000. In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, there were all health centers 17, all health centers 3, internal and external health centers 329, and health centers 65 guarding thousands of families. Since the founding of the founder, after many additions and changes, the total number of divisions has increased to 2 1 division, the number of remaining divisions has increased to 2, the number of internal and external guards has increased to 493, and the number of thousands of households guarding the wasteland has increased to 359. Twenty-six years later, the number of troops in Hongwu should be above1500,000 according to Weifang's surge. After Ming Taizu, the number of troops was about 2.6 million, which was basically the same as "The number of troops in the original government of WHO was more than 2.7 million" played by Li, assistant minister of the Ministry of War in the 14th year of Hongzhi.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the most used army was the Eight Banners, which were divided into eight banners and eight banners, totaling more than 200,000. During the Qianlong and Jiaqing years, the green camp of the Han army approached 700,000, about 1.900 years, and the total strength of the Qing dynasty reached1.20 thousand. Judging from the number of troops, the number of troops in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty was much larger than that of the Qing Dynasty, but don't forget that the development of science and technology also provided the Qing army with diversified weapons and equipment.