The Qing Dynasty is now almost an undefended country, and the reason why it is not defended is because they know that they can't beat the two countries on the left and right, the Russian population is too fierce, the will to fight is too strong, and the Chinese Empire is too powerful, too powerful, and too big a territory to beat.

Nowadays, the Qing Dynasty has also carried out a limited army reform, with 450,000 troops, which is still divided into eight banner armies, the domestic patrol battalion, the battle is the Eight Banner Army, the Han Flag Army, the Mongolian Flag Army, and the Black Flag Army composed of the indigenous army left over from various tribes, the Batru Flag Army composed of Russian Maozi prisoners and British, Sweden and other fugitives, and the four banners of the Manchus, the Yellow Flag, the Yellow Flag, the Blue Flag, the Blue Flag, and the four Manchu Flag Army.

Among them, there are 100,000 people in the patrol battalion, in all the land, the yellow flag is the imperial forest army personally controlled by Kangxi, the yellow flag is the cavalry army, the blue flag artillery, the blue flag is pure regular infantry, and the other flag army is infantry plus artillery, but compared with the Manchu flag army, these armies are inferior in terms of equipment or horses, and some are even dissatisfied with the formation, and the military salary is often not in place.

The Qing Dynasty still couldn't change their style of being similar to the warlord troops of the Republic of China in later generations, and they were greedy.

Therefore, after the assessment of the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is still low, and due to the fact that the Qing army was drunk and dreamed of death, mismanagement, and did not believe that any soldier who was not Manchurian, all the overall control needs to be improved.

But the combat effectiveness of the four Manchurian troops is still good, at least they have a cavalry, although in the era of muskets, the cavalry is not very useful, but the mobility is still good, with mobility, even if it is an infantry unit, it can play a big role at a critical moment.

There is also an artillery unit that has been tempered by artillery fire, plus their overall quality is not bad, which means that the combat effectiveness of the Manchu troops of the Great Qing State is still gratifying, at least comparable to the garrison of the Chinese Empire.

Of course, that is in the case of similar weapons and equipment, but the weapons and equipment of the Qing army have long been much different from those of the Chinese Empire, how can they be compared, with their weapons and equipment, as well as the establishment, and the command ability of some officers, their overall combat effectiveness may only be similar to the elite garrison of the Chinese Army, that is, the garrison used by the police force of almost later generations.

Compared with their cavalry armies, garrison armies, field armies, and guards in the Chinese Empire, such troops were simply the difference between giants looking at dwarves, adults and three-year-old children.

Not in the eyes of the Chinese Empire, and their strength is also very limited, except for a large number of patrol battalions of 100,000 people, each other army is about 40,000 troops, and there are only 10,000 infantry, 10,000 artillery, 10,000 cavalry and carriages with the blue flag; The other troops are 50,000 troops, which are equipped with 40,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 5,000 artillery, for a total of 50,000 troops; The same is true of the yellow flag, the yellow flag is pure infantry, only the officers have their own goshha and some cavalry of two or three hundred, the total strength is less than 40,000, and the blue flag has 50,000 infantry, and some cavalry.

There were about three or five thousand guards in the court, but these guards were armed with swords, armor, bows and arrows, and rode horses.

These guards are the emperor's favor for some clan relatives and courtiers, they are all their children's soldiers, as well as the grace of Han officials, these Han descendants are collected by the emperor's side, have a good future, in the future, they are the Han army flag or other officers who are not suitable for the full flag, and the same is true for other guards, which is equivalent to Kangxi raising a group of fancy officer reserve regiments around him, and there are guard troops, such people on the battlefield are fancy people, good looking and not easy to use.

The yellow flag guards the capital, the blue flag and the batlu flag guard the Chinese Empire, the Mongolian flag guards the border of the Chinese Empire in Kazakhstan and the Russian border, the black flag guards the coastal border above, and the other three flags, the Han army flag, the blue flag and the yellow flag guard the Russian border.

It seems that the defense against Russia is greater than the defense against the Chinese Empire, which can be understood, the military strength of the Chinese Empire is too strong to resist, and the dominant terrain has no way but surrender, the defense is just a showcase, and after all, the Manchu Qing and the Chinese Empire are from the same place and are in the same ethnic community.

The Russians look different at first glance, and at the same time, Russia often creates friction and is aggressive, so of course it has to focus on the Russian side.

Although Russia was defeated, although it had reconciled with the Great Qing Dynasty, they also lost 10 million people and millions of soldiers, and it took a few years to recover, and of course their attitude towards the Great Qing State was not so friendly, just because they wanted to fight with several Western countries on the one hand, and on the other hand, they wanted to recover, so they did not go to trouble the Great Qing State, and they were afraid that the Chinese Empire would intervene.

The Chinese Empire has already scared them, especially the incomparably deep material and population potential of the Chinese Empire, and now the Russians, with a population of more than 100 million, do not want to confront the Chinese Empire with a population of 600 million, a Great Qing State with the material support of the Chinese Empire, with a population of 60 million to 70 million, directly retreated the Russian and Western coalition forces to the border area, defeated, if it were not for the fact that there were many rebellions in the middle of the Great Qing Kingdom and the cold in Siberia, Russia may have been beaten into the cold palace, It became another catastrophe of Muscovy after the Yuan Dynasty.

The Russians don't want to provoke the Chinese Empire, they just want to toss and occupy a lot of territory in the west, but compared to the vastness of Siberia, it is somewhat laborious and narrow, no matter how you fight, it is impossible to have the kind of empty land in Siberia that is uninhabited.

In addition to the fear of the Chinese Empire, Russia has only envy of the Chinese Empire, railways, steam engines, telegraphs, cavalry troops, luxurious carriages, a lot, a lot of money, a lot of people.

In recent years, Russia's war money and materials, food, weapons and equipment were purchased from the Chinese Empire, and even the food eaten by the domestic population was purchased from the Chinese Empire, and the money that Russia owed to the Chinese Empire was much more than that of the Qing Dynasty.

Russia can't do it, these years of war, the country's gold, silver and jewelry, a lot of the country's materials have been sold out, the weapons manufacturing industry can still cope at the beginning, and then these backward weapons and equipment are not enough for agriculture and animal husbandry, so they can only import another batch of retired weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire through the Chinese Empire.

At first, there was money to buy, but then there was no money, and the reserve funds of the royal family were used, but the royal family was not a good person, did not do charity, and was no longer willing to lend money, so it could only borrow money from the Chinese Empire, first almost like the Qing Dynasty, borrowed tens of billions of Chinese yuan, and then borrowed hundreds of billions of Chinese yuan, and finally borrowed tens of trillions of Chinese yuan. Now even if the Russian Empire is sold, it will not be enough to repay the Chinese Empire.