在收复新疆过程中,左宗棠本人一直非常重视近代化武器的配备,使清军战斗力明显增强,也使运输规模和运输难度大为增加。当时,军械、军火的采运非常艰辛,具体事宜由设在上海的采运局委员胡光墉负责。“各营军装、军火向系自行购办,由陕、甘沿途州县派车运送,毋庸由粮台豫为备办”。后来,又先在西安后在兰州创办过制造局,就地生产。使军火补给较以前近便一些,各军子药适有缺乏,可以随时借领。后者对收复新疆的军火补给起过重要的作用。这些近代化的武器装备在西征中发挥了巨大威力。军械、军火运输作为西征过程中军需运输的重要组成部分,支撑了在这条原始交通线上进行的近代战争。 During the process of recovering Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang himself has always attached great importance to the equipping of modernized weapons so that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is significantly enhanced and the difficulty of transporting and shipping greatly increases. At that time, the acquisition of ordnance and arms was very difficult and the specific issues were handled by Hu Guangtao, a member of the mining and shipping bureau based in Shanghai. "All the battalion battalion and military department purchased their own weapons from the department of Shaanxi and Ganshang and sent them by road to Chengzhou County. Later, they also set up manufacturing bureau in Lanzhou after Xi’an, and produced it locally. Make the supply of arms more convenient than before, and there is a shortage of various military drugsticks that can be borrowed at any time. The latter played an important role in recovering the arms supply in Xinjiang. These modern weapons and equipment have exerted great power in the Western Expedition. Ordnance and arms transportation, as an important part of the transport of military supplies during the Western Expedition, supported the modern warfare on this primitive route.