Wen Duan Honggang
In ancient and modern China and abroad, in the era of cold weapons, when soldiers fight wars, they like to shout "rush" and "kill" while holding up weapons and rushing forward without hesitation.
The ancients fought wars, paid great attention to strategy, and regarded "the time, place, and people" as very important, and only by doing this could the hope of victory be greatly increased.
The time of day is to choose a favorable climate and time point to line up the troops. In many famous battles throughout the ages, examples of victories using the heavens and the hours abound.
For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang used "grass boats to borrow arrows", which was precisely to take advantage of the foggy weather on the river surface, Zhuge Liang ordered people to drive dozens of grass boats, drums of war rumbled, and sailed towards Cao Jun, while he sat on the boat leisurely drinking tea. When Cao Jun saw this, he panicked and fired ten thousand arrows at the grass boat, and in the end, Zhuge Liang did not lose a single soldier and harvested 100,000 arrows.
Geographical advantage is to occupy the favorable terrain and commanding heights on the terrain, and to attack the enemy from a commanding height. In many ambush battles in ancient times, it was often the use of geographical advantages to destroy the enemy.
The side of the ambush usually chooses a canyon with steep terrain, ambushes in advance at the commanding heights of the canyon, and when the enemy enters the canyon, then launches a surprise attack, attacking from the enemy's left and right front and back four directions at the same time, the enemy due to lack of cover, after panic, it is easy to be annihilated.
In ancient times, there were urns next to many city gates, and the main role of the urn city was to lure the enemy to go deeper, and then use the advantages of the location to "catch turtles in the urn" for the enemy.
Man and the whole army are united from top to bottom, and everyone is united in their determination to fight. In ancient wars, in many cases, people and places could improve morale and determine the victory or defeat of war more than the time and place.
In the era of cold weapons, the weapons used by everyone are similar, and who is not much more advanced than whom, so the numerical advantage is quite important. Under normal circumstances, 100,000 troops against 30,000 troops, 100,000 troops have a greater chance of victory.
But without the blessing of "people", it is not necessarily necessary to win more than less. People are like a bond that brings together the cohesion of all soldiers.
In ancient times, the two armies were opposed, unlike the current war, which could be a long-range attack, and it was necessary to face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, because there were cavalry, archers, infantry and other arms participating in the battle, so the battlefield would generally choose to be in a relatively empty place. After the two sides set up their formations, they waited for the military order, and as soon as the military order was issued, everyone charged into the battle and killed each other.
When rushing toward the enemy army, the soldiers shouted, on the one hand, in order to create a killing sound and a huge momentum, to create an illusion that thousands of troops were unstoppable, so that the enemy would have a sense of uneasiness and fear in his psychology, causing psychological shock. When the gaps in the enemy's psychological defense line are opened, it is easy to win them.
On the other hand, the soldiers shouted loudly and rushed forward, but also to improve the morale of their own comrades, to raise the morale of their comrades-in-arms, so that everyone could fight a quick battle.
In many cases, not only wars, but also when people do anything, they must hold their breath, seize the time, and complete it with a single blow. If you are discouraged in the middle of the way, it is easy to extinguish the desire to fight that has been ignited, and there is a situation of self-destruction, which is a big taboo when fighting.
There is an article in the "Ten Years of Zuo Chuan Zhuang Gong" called "Cao Jiao Controversy", which has a famous saying: One drum is angry, then it declines, and three are exhausted. It shows that the ultimate battle relies on the courage to see death as a homecoming, and that courage is the most exuberant in the beginning, and we must seize the opportunity.
When the two armies are fighting, when you charge harder than the enemy, shout more kill, morale is stronger, more efficient, and you can overpower the enemy in momentum, then the chance of victory will be greater.
The ancients not only relied on brute force and numerical superiority in combat, but also relied on strategy and wisdom, and famous military books such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, Thirty-Six Plans, and Sun Bing's Art of War are the best witnesses.