Firearms in the late Ming Dynasty were not more advanced than those in Europe at the same time ... The weapon of the army, Hongyi cannon, was an imitation of 65,438+08 pounds of naval guns in Western Europe ... At the same time, Europe, even the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had begun to decline, began to use 24 pounds of naval guns and siege guns, and applied light infantry guns to improve artillery tactics.
At the end of the Ming dynasty, it was not more advanced than western Europe. By the end of the Qing dynasty, it was a hundred years behind. What is 300 years behind can resist the western powers? Are you kidding?
To say the least, even if firearms technology was still used in the late Ming Dynasty, it could not resist the western powers in the late Qing Dynasty. After all, that era was not like modern wars, and the weapon decisive round was not feasible. It is impossible to have good weapons alone.
A typical example is that the Qing Dynasty later bought a large number of advanced weapons, but it was defeated by the Japanese who were still backward in weapons at that time.
When the Japanese attacked the coastal defense fort built by the Germans for the Manchu, they all felt that they were dying, but the Manchu army was in a state of collapse, and so many advanced weapons didn't work at all. ...
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To correct another mistake, the Manchu dynasty did not destroy the firearms of the Ming dynasty, but imposed a very strict ban.
In the early days, only Manchu and Mongolian soldiers were allowed to use firearms. The Kangxi Dynasty allowed green camp people to use muskets, but Han soldiers were not allowed to use guns.
This situation continued until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom turmoil and the rise of local groups, and the gun ban was officially lifted.
Therefore, Manchu only stopped the development of gunpowder weapons, not eliminated them.