Did the Taiping Army use cold weapons or hot weapons in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

The weapons used by Taiping Army are mainly cold weapons, but there are also many hot weapons, and the ratio of hot and cold weapons is about 9: 16. In many literary and artistic works, the images of Taiping soldiers are wrapped in red headscarves, wearing robes with the words "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" written on them, and holding broadswords or spears in their hands. Not to mention whether the headscarf and uniform conform to the dress of the real Taiping Army, only weapons can score 50 points: Taiping Army's weapons and equipment are not only knives and spears, but also many firearms. As early as in jintian uprising, the Taiping Army had many guns. In the first year of Xianfeng (185 1), on June 27th, the general of the Qing army, Wulantai, attacked the new market and obtained 13 guns of the Taiping Army at one time, all of which were engraved with the words "Peace around the Army". Obviously, these guns were cast by themselves after the uprising, and Guiping also had Wei Changhui. In addition to guns, the Taiping Army had many other firearms in its early days. According to the captured Li Jinfu, every Taiping Army soldier in Zijingshan should bring a cloth bag containing gunpowder, which shows that the dosage is quite large. According to the March Essentials published around 1855, the "two" combat units (25 people) at the grass-roots level of Taiping Army are equipped with 2 rifles and 5 shotgun guns, and the rifles are operated by two people. According to this calculation, the proportion of Taiping Army infantry equipped with firearms and spears is 9: 16. Considering that Taiping Army generally does not allow new recruits to go into battle directly, a battalion of Xiang Army, which is an enemy of Taiping Army, is divided into four posts, each with eight teams, including four teams of spears, two teams of rifles, two teams of small guns (birdguns) and six teams of Qin Bing. Among them, there are three teams of spears, two teams of mountain artillery and one team of small artillery, and the ratio of cold and hot weapons is 1: 1. There is a gap between the two teams, but artillery is very precious to Taiping Army. 1852, Taiping Army accidentally acquired the iron cannon left by Wu Sangui in Yuezhou, Hunan Province, and it was a treasure. After entering Nanjing, heavy artillery was mostly deployed in a centralized way. For example, Guazhou, a fortress in Jiangbei, was once equipped with a bronze cannon weighing 2000 Jin. Relatively speaking, old guns, shotguns and small guns are much more popular. For the use of foreign guns, Taiping Army is not backward. 1855 During the Hukou War, the Taiping Army "Pioneer" used foreign guns for assault. 1858 During the Fanchang War, the Taiping Army of Liu used a large number of foreign guns. Later, the Taiping Army was equipped with a large number of foreign guns. For example, thousands of loyalist guards use foreign guns as weapons, and there are more than 20 thousand soldiers equipped with foreign guns in Suzhou. Regardless of the Eight Banners, green camp or Xiang Army, the Qing army is used to grouping cold and hot weapons separately. For example, in the Xiang Army, eight teams in each battalion (each team 100 people) are all equipped with knives and spears, or all equipped with muskets, shotguns and rifles are grouped separately. Early Taiping Army mixed cold and hot weapons, and the most basic "two" was no exception. The advantage of mixing cold and hot weapons is that all soldiers can learn musket technology, which is convenient for popularization, promotion and expansion, and each small unit can have independent combat capability. But in the era of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the firing rate of muskets was very slow. Only by forming a volley of brigades can we form a barrage, break through the enemy's array or stop the enemy's impact. From this point of view, the establishment mode of Xiang army is more conducive to the positional warfare of large corps. In the later period, some troops of Taiping Army also adopted the form of centralized grouping of foreign guns. For example, Chen Bingwen and Deng Guangming had 7,000 and 4,000 foreign gun teams respectively, and Yuhuatai War 1862. Li Xiucheng, a loyal soldier, led a 1.3 king, and more than 100,000 people stormed the Xiang army in Ceng Guoquan. What's more, tens of thousands of foreign guns and hundreds of new and old foreign guns were seized.