湘军水师的战术,清代官书和史家对其评价甚高。王闿运《湘军志·营志篇》称其为“江湖水战之恒”。王定安《湘军记·水陆营制篇》称其“百船虽败,一舟可全,全船伤死,一人可战。故水师之强,一时无敌”。杜文澜《平定粵寇纪略》卷3中称颂它是:“极水战之妙”。对于太平军水营战术的评价,却很少有人涉及。本文拟就二者作一简略比较,探求他们战术的优劣。太平军水师建立初期,还没有形成自己的水战战术,船只不分炮船、坐船、辎重船,凡船均为战船。作战时各船齐出,且“船只大小不一,未经训练,其实不能接仗”,专 Xiangjun Navy’s tactics, the Qing Dynasty officials and historians rated it very high. Wang Yun “Hunan Zhi Zhi Ying articles” called it “constant war of all corners of the country.” Wang Ding’an “Hunan military record of land and water battalion articles,” said “a hundred ships failed, a boat can be full, the whole ship died of injury, one can be war. Therefore, the Navy’s strong, sometimes invincible.” Du Wenlan “Pingdingshan Guangdong Kochi” Volume 3, praising it is: “the polar water warfare wonderful.” Few people involved in the evaluation of the Taiping Water Camp tactics. This article intends to make a brief comparison of the two to explore the pros and cons of their tactics. In the early days of the establishment of the Taiping Navy, it had not yet formed its own water-war tactics. The ships were not divided into gunboats, ships and heavy ships, and all ships were warships. When the ships were in combat, the ships were all different, and “the vessels are not the same in size and size. They can not actually take the battle without training.”