在抗击八国联军侵华战争中,清军马玉昆部在天津保卫战中的表现,史学界历来是否定的,一是认为马玉昆惧外而压内,“在背后屠杀义和团”,二是认为他在战斗中不战而逃,不仅“无功可言,而且对于天津城的过早失陷,马玉昆部应负很大责任”。揆诸史实,我认为,马玉昆在天津是遵旨与“义和团义勇”“联络一气”,共同抗敌的,在抵抗外国侵略中,马玉昆部也基本尽到了地方军 In the battle against the Chinese in the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the War of Invasion of China, the Qing Army Ma Yukun Department of the Battle of Tianjin in the performance of the battlefield historically has always been negative, first, that Ma Yu-kun fear outside, “behind the massacre of the Boxers”, the second is that he Fighting without fighting, not only “no energy at all, but for the premature Tianjin city fall, Ma Yu Kun responsibility should be”. According to historical facts, I think that Ma Yukun in Tianjin obeyed the principle of “liaising with the Yihetunyi” and jointly fighting the enemy. In the course of resisting foreign aggression, Ma Yu-kun basically did his best in the local army