80,000 Boxer soldiers besieged 200 foreigners for two months, and the outcome cannot be explained. Is this the case?

When it comes to the peasant movement in our country, the Boxer Rebellion is undoubtedly a focus. The significance of the Boxer Rebellion mainly lies in the spiritual level. It encouraged later benevolent people to devote themselves to the cause of saving the country and the people. This role is not insignificant.

But the Boxers themselves did not change much. It neither attacked the feudal rulers nor caused too much losses to the great powers. The reasons are mainly two-fold. First, their purpose was to support the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries, and they had no intention of resisting the Qing Dynasty. Second, their feudal superstitious ideas and backward equipment harmed themselves. In other words, scientific ideas and science and technology became the Boxer Rebellion. Defeat the natural barrier of the foreigners. Therefore, although the Boxer Rebellion had a commendable spirit, its combat effectiveness was very limited.

The Boxer Rebellion's slogan of "supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreign countries" made Empress Dowager Cixi merciless and did not do much to suppress it in the early days. The scale grew rapidly. The miraculous power of "invulnerability" actually convinced Yuxian, the governor of Shandong, so he continued to preach to the Empress Dowager Cixi that the Boxers' "magic skills could be used", and even the Empress Dowager Cixi was convinced. The absurd move of asking all embassy personnel from Western countries to leave China within 24 hours is something that would be unthinkable today. It only shows that a backward feudal government that is weak to the core dares to do such a shocking thing. Two problems: one is that the Empress Dowager Cixi hates foreigners too much, and the other is that the Empress Dowager Cixi declares war on eleven countries overnight. As a result, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and other heavyweight officials later refused to save him. When the Boxers besieged the Xishiku Church, the Qing army also dispatched a large number of brave troops, with a total of nearly 80,000 troops. The funny thing is that the one who walked in the front was. An eminent monk holding incense and candles, while muttering something, should be offering sacrifices to heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals who will come down to earth to ensure that the soldiers are "invulnerable". But all this is just a joke in the eyes of foreigners. Since the Opium War, the late Qing government Their equipment and combat consciousness had already been seen through. Therefore, although the foreigners only had one or two hundred people, they did not lose sight of it and built fortifications in the limited time before the war. At the door of the church, foreign machine guns rang out, and mourning was everywhere outside the church. Boxers and Qing soldiers fell to the ground. At this time, there were only 45 real Western soldiers in the church, plus dozens of makeshift groups made up of believers.

Tens of thousands of Boxer Rebellion members and Qing army generals besieged a church guarded by a mere hundred foreigners for two months. It was not until the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing that they still failed to capture it. I'm a little embarrassed.

According to reports, in order to win the victory, the Qing army vigorously encouraged all the people to kill the enemy. The Qing government also publicly offered a reward: "For every foreigner killed, there will be a reward of fifty taels; forty taels for a foreign woman; and forty taels for a foreign child." Thirty taels." From the regulations announcing the killing of anyone on sight, it can be seen that the barbarism and cruelty of the feudal rulers also reflects its backwardness.

Conclusion: The scale of the Boxer Rebellion is not small. , Empress Dowager Cixi’s determination is not small, but the objective reasons are there, backward technology and backward thinking cannot be solved in a short time. The true lesson of "falling behind will be beaten" is vividly reflected here. .