The new army was a new army compiled by the Qing government according to Western standards after the Nail War to the 1911 Revolution. It was the earliest modernized army in China and the most important defense force in the late Qing Dynasty. Mao Zedong once spoke highly of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty, Accurate historical positioning: 'The modernization of the Chinese army can be divided into three stages. The first generation was a new army in the late Qing Dynasty. The second generation was the Huangpu Army. The current Chinese People's Liberation Army is the third generation.' The new army in the late Qing Dynasty was the most prominent achievement in the early modernization of the late Qing Dynasty.The Xinhai Revolution, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the formation of the Beiyang warlords, and the early history of the Republic of China.