Wuwei Corps

Empress Dowager Cixi held supreme power at the Qing imperial court after she placed the Guangxu Emperor under house arrest.

Differences in the prowess of the divisions became apparent during training, even though the entire Guards Army had the same modern weaponry.

[2] Dong Fuxiang (Tung Fu-hsiang) led an army of Muslim warriors, dubbed "the 10,000 Islamic rabble" in the West at the time.

[7] In China, Dong's troops were familiarly known as the "Gan army" (甘軍[c]) which used the abbreviated name of Gansu Province where many of these soldiers originated.

From March 1899 onwards at the height of the Boxer conflict, Ma Yukun (馬玉崑) and Jiang Guiti became co-commanders alongside Song Qing at the head of the Left Division.