First of all, the first Maxim heavy machine gun was born in 1884, and as early as 1893-1894 in the war between the British army in Rhodesia in South and Central Africa and the local Mactabilis-Sulus, a British unit of more than 50 people repelled dozens of charges by more than 5,000 Mactabili people with only 4 Makqin heavy machine guns, killing more than 3,000 people. This was the first time that the Maxim heavy machine gun took part in actual combat.

After the successful design of the Makqin heavy machine gun, Li Hongzhang also arrived at the scene during the global promotion, and was frightened and shouted that it was too fast and too expensive, but in the end he still bought some.

In addition, during the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance, not only the Eight-Nation Coalition was equipped with heavy machine guns, but even the Qing army was also equipped, some of which were copied by themselves, with only 30 units. Together with the purchased original machine guns, the number was no less than that of the coalition forces.

However, the horror was not limited to this, the Qing army was also armed with 40,000 German-made 11 mm Mauser rifles, 1,400 Austrian Manlisha repeating rifles, officers armed with revolvers, British Winchester rifles, and Russian Hatch Chase rifles.

However, there are even more terrifying ones in the back, 100 Krupp cannons and more than 80 German-made Norfeden machine guns.

Seeing so many lists of terrifying weapons of the Qing army, although the equipment of the foreigners is not as good as that of the Qing army, the difference is not as big as imagined, but the difference in quantity is particularly obvious.

The coalition forces only have a total of 90 guns, and the heavy machine guns that have long been equipped with troops have actually appeared on the battlefield, but the number is not particularly large. Moreover, at that time, the coalition army attached great importance to the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, which was also the reason for the increase from the initial 20,000 troops to 50,000 troops.

Whether it is from some photos or other documents, it can be proved that there are heavy machine guns on the side of the Eight-Nation Alliance.