Yuan Shi Kai And The Modernization Of The New Army In Beiyang

Yuan Shikai is an important figure in the development of modern Chinese history.It has an important influence on the development of politics,education,military and other fields in modern China.Among them,the most influential and outstanding contribution is the military field.Since the Opium War in 1840,the Western powers have opened China’s country by force and involved China in the world system.Since then,China’s repeated war and repeated defeats have aroused the introspection of the Chinese people.Coupled with internal conflicts and wars,military changes are quietly changing under constant exploration.The Yong battalion represented by the Xiang Huai army and the national defense army represented by the training army came into being.However,these armed forces with strong localization and traditional colors were basically rooted in ancient military books,only the Western utensils were introduced unilaterally,but the reform of the modernization system was not carried out.In the war of foreign countries,the failure was also inevitable.Yuan Shikai grabbed the key to realizing the problem of military modernization and gained the military reform in a targeted manner after gaining the right to practise military power.Yuan Shikai’s reform of the new army in Beiyang mainly involves the recruitment of the army,the army system,the selection of the generals,the armaments and the training of the army and so on,and has made remarkable achievements.In addition to many malpractices of the old army,the new army of northern China promoted the development of China’s military modernization.The new Beiyang army he trained also became a model of the Chinese army at that time,which not only had an important influence on the development of the Chinese military at that time,but also had a certain reference to the military development of the later generations.