Whether the Chinese Navy could defeat the Japanese Navy in the First Sino Japanese War

Can't beat it. 1.Although the ships of the Beiyang Fleet were still quite advanced at that time, due to the poor accuracy of the cannons and torpedoes on the ships, the targets were often not accurately hit.

Although the Japanese ships were inferior to those of China at that time, they were very accurate and could hit targets more accurately. This is the main reason why the Chinese Beiyang Fleet cannot defeat Japan.

2.Another reason was that the navies of the Beiyang Fleet at that time were too corrupt and lazy. Some officers and soldiers even took a nap in front of their superiors, and some smoked big cigarettes. The morale of the army is sluggish, the fighting spirit is low, and military discipline is ignored.

3.The corrupt policies of the Qing Dynasty at that time also made most of the Qing soldiers feel that the rise of the empire was hopeless, and the Qing Empire would sooner or later be occupied by Orientals and Westerners.

There is not much difference in equipment between the two sides, and China is slightly stronger than Japan.

However, corruption has led to many problems, such as mistakes in command, unusable ammunition, lax combat readiness, serious decline in the morale of the troops, and low quality of individual soldiers.

Therefore, I believe that even if we did not avoid war and seek peace, but fought with all our might, the final result would be a complete defeat.

You can't win a battle just by relying on good **, what matters is people.

Remember these two sentences: science and technology are people-oriented!

History can never be repeated!

The military expenses before the Yellow Sea War were used by Cixi's old lady to repair the Summer Palace for her birthday!!

The Beiyang Naval Division has two of the largest battleships in Asia, Dingyuan Zhenyuan, and other armored cruisers were also purchased from Germany and Britain, mainly because the funds were misappropriated, the fleet training and atmosphere were not good later, and the ammunition reserves were insufficient. In terms of equipment and individual quality alone, we are no worse than the fleet of the Japanese Ito Yuhiro.

The Japanese army is strong. The Qing Beiyang Fleet was strong in tonnage and firepower. For example, the gun diameter of the main battleship reached 300 mm, and one shot hit was enough to make the average Japanese ship directly ** break. Even the capital ships of the Japanese could not withstand a few shots.

But the Beiyang Fleet at that time was generally only adapted to long-range warfare.

Most of the warships of the Beiyang Fleet are light ships with wooden clad iron, and they can only form escort firepower against the main warships in close combat. And a small number of capital ships are large tonnage and can only fight from afar. The lack of firepower of the medium-sized ** formation system was exploited by the Japanese army.

In the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Japanese first camouflaged non-Japanese ships to approach the Beiyang Fleet, and then quickly penetrated the Beiyang Fleet array with the help of their fast ship speed, equipped with fast guns. Therefore, the advantage of the Beiyang Fleet in long-range combat could not be brought into play at all, and the light melee ** was powerless under the rapid artillery bombardment of the Japanese army. The main battleship looked at the Japanese ships that were attacking closely, and they couldn't get out of the distance, how could this battle be fought!

The flaws of the Beiyang Fleet are clear to Li Hongzhang. But it takes a lot of money to upgrade the fleet configuration. At that time, the military funds of the Beiyang Fleet were misappropriated to repair the Summer Palace, and the fleet was so poor that even the cost of daily maintenance and training was tight.

Look at the battle in the Yellow Sea for a few hours, did our main battleship hit a Japanese ship with a single shot? No, not a single shot. Even the torpedo boat that comes with it can pass through the bottom of the Japanese ship!

In fact, the defeat had already been decided before the war, which is why Li Hongzhang strictly forbade the Beiyang Fleet to go to sea to fight the Japanese army easily. At that time, there was only one flower shelf left in the Beiyang Fleet to bluff people, and in fact, the inside had long been rotten.

To add: there was a saying that at that time the Beiyang Fleet was the first fleet in Asia. In fact, it was decades before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese Naval War.

By the time the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the world's naval equipment and technology had developed a lot. At that time, Li Hongzhang also wanted to supplement and upgrade the Beiyang Fleet in line with the development of the world's navy, but the military expenditure was reduced and misappropriated, and he could only maintain an empty shell of "deterrence."

At the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, of course, Japan was strong, and China was weak, and that was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was corrupt, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was corrupt and incompetent, and the army was not good.

At the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese and Japanese navies were stronger, because the Chinese navy had only two ** ships at that time.

The day is strong and weak. Because China's navy suffered a defeat, it directly destroyed the formation.

In the Sino-Japanese naval battle that broke out in the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan was much stronger than China, and China at that time was too weak to be compared at all.

On paper, the Qing army was slightly stronger, but in reality, the Qing army was already lagging behind in terms of artillery, firepower, tactical thinking, and even gunpowder, and defeat was inevitable.

The Sino-Japanese navy at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. Japan's navy is much stronger than China's!

Japan's strength was stronger, and the Qing ** at that time was relatively weak, and there was no way to win.

First of all, it is necessary to make one point clear: The First Sino-Japanese War was composed of two parts: the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and the First Sino-Japanese Land War.

The First Sino-Japanese War was defeated, mainly in the First Sino-Japanese Land Battle.

In the Battle of Pyongyang, the army battlefield was still on the Korean Peninsula at this time, but Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Qing army, abandoned the city and fled, ran 500 miles, and fled all the way back to China.

Relying on the materials captured by the Qing army, the Japanese army became more and more nourishing, stronger and more courageous the more it fought, and it can be described as a model of nourishing war with war. And the Qing Dynasty Army can be called the captain of the transport brigade.

The Qing army in the Pyongyang campaign even had a Gatling machine gun. (However, the training of the Qing army was very problematic, the equipment was also very mixed, and the factions within the military were very chaotic, which led to the low combat effectiveness of the Qing army, and the escape of the commander Ye Zhichao became the last straw that crushed the Qing army).

When the Japanese army attacked Lushunkou, the army defender Wei Rucheng and other generals took the lead and fled, forcing the Beiyang Naval Division to withdraw from the Lushun Military Port and move to Weihaiwei Fortress.

The Weihaiwei fortress was captured by the Japanese army, and the Beiyang Naval Division was blocked in the port of its own home, with the Japanese Navy outside, and the Weihaiwei fortress fort behind it, which was attacked from both sides and annihilated.

Even, because Japan attaches great importance to naval construction and does not attach importance to the relationship between army construction, the Japanese army will not use the captured Krupp fortress gun, this gun is too advanced, so the Japanese army captured the Qing army prisoners, let the prisoners operate this artillery, and bombarded the Beiyang Naval Division.

Therefore, the subject's question is clear: there is no possibility of winning.

If you want to win:

1. Reform of the Qing Army.

In the first battle of the First Sino-Japanese Land War, after the defeat in the Battle of Asan, Ye Zhichao lied about his exploits, "Asan's great victory", and then was rewarded by the Qing Dynasty.

The "million army" (960,000) of the Qing Dynasty, including 250078 soldiers of the Eight Banners, 440413 soldiers of the Green Battalion, more than 690,000 people of the national standing army, and more than 200,000 troops participated in the First Sino-Japanese War. The Qing Dynasty invested not a low number of troops, but of the 690,000 troops, more than half were waste, and what could really be fought was the regimental militia, less than 300,000. Therefore, it is conceivable what the military quality of the 200,000 troops invested in the First Sino-Japanese War was.

2. Reform of the Qing Dynasty.

The reason why the "million-dollar army" of the Qing Dynasty was useless; Ye Zhichao's "lying about the victory" and the strange things that can still be rewarded will appear; This also has a lot to do with the rot of the Qing Dynasty itself.

And these two points were impossible for the Qing Dynasty to do, so the First Sino-Japanese Land War was bound to be defeated.

If the land is defeated, the Beiyang Naval Division will definitely be defeated.

When the Japanese Army could use the fortress guns of the Qing Dynasty port to bombard the Qing Dynasty Navy anchored in the Qing Dynasty port, how could the Qing Dynasty Navy win? The navy could not go ashore again.

War is inevitable and contingent, and everything is possible. It's just a pity for General Deng Shichang, who is full of tears in the world on this day, and has a strong navy!

There is no possibility of winning!

Our navy at that timeNot subordinate to the Qing, but to the local warlords。It was the Huai army under Li Hongzhang plus part of the Northeast training army. It is impossible for this kind of non-directly subordinate army to be fully cared for by the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention the all-round backwardness of the command system, reserve forces. The only thing that can be done is the tonnage and the degree of equipment on paper.

So at the beginning, the land battle that took place in North Korea appeared to be clearly evenly matched, and Ye Zhichao took the lead in retreating--- because he wanted to leave a bottom for his boss Li Hongzhang. After that, the naval battle will be lost, of course, too.