1894年甲午战争爆发后,清政府有感于清军战斗力的衰弱,决定仿西洋之法编练新军。起初,派广西按察使胡燏棻在天津附近的小站组织实施,所练新军命名“定武军”,聘请德国人为教官。次年改派袁世凯督率训练,更名为“新建陆军”。戊戍政变后,直隶总督兼北洋大臣荣禄奏设武卫军,将袁世凯之新建陆军改编为武卫右军。1901年,袁世凯署理直隶总督兼北洋大臣,人们也就把他的武卫右军改称“北洋新军”。 After the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1894, the Qing government felt the weakness of the combat capability of the Qing army and decided to imitate the Western law to compile the new army. Initially, Guangxi was dispatched to conduct investigations and prosecutions to make Hu 燏 棻 implement a small station near Tianjin. The new army was named “Ding Wujun” and the Germans were hired as instructors. In the following year, he reorganized Yuan Shih-kai’s rate training and renamed it “New Army.” After the coup, the Governor of Zhili and Rongbei, the Northern Minister, set up the Wuwei Army and adapted Yuan Shikai’s new army to Wuwei Right Army. In 1901, Yuan Shikai acted as Governor-General of Zhili and Minister of the Northern Ocean, and people renamed his military commander Wu Wei as the “Northern New Army.”