We often study some things that have happened in the past, and in the process of research, we will always find some very interesting phenomena, such as some wars, if you analyze them in depth, you will even think that it is simply weird, and people can't believe its authenticity.
For example, the Battle of Kunyang was like this, when Liu Xiu's army of less than 20,000 people actually directly beat Wang Mang's 430,000 troops to the ground, it was hard to believe, the key description of this war was even more unbelievable, do not believe let me analyze it with you.
The Battle of Kunyang is the most typical war in history with few victories and more victories, the two sides are Wang Mang, who is known as the "crosser", and Liu Xiu, who wants to revive the Han Dynasty, when Wang Mang led a million (in fact, only 430,000) army to attack Liu Xiu, planning to take it directly in one fell swoop, so that Liu Xiu can no longer compete with it.
The beginning of this war is still very interesting, Liu Xiu because after all, there are too few personnel, very worried that he will be destroyed by Wang Mang's regiment, so in the course of the battle, he is very afraid, afraid of his hands and feet, he can hide and hide, as long as he can save his life, who knows that just when the two sides are fighting, suddenly the sky changes greatly, the sky falls meteorites, meteorites will kill part of Wang Mang's soldiers, and the rest of them are also very afraid of seeing the position, they all fell to the ground, no longer dare to move forward, afraid of being killed by meteorites.
At this moment, Liu Xiu saw the opportunity and immediately seized the opportunity to lead the army to advance heroically, rushing into Wang Mang's army and killing a bloody road. Originally, Liu Xiu was already very hopeful, and as a result, the heavens continued to help him, and suddenly not only meteorites fell in the sky, but also fierce winds, lightning and thunder, and torrential rains, so that Wang Mang's army could not see the direction of progress at all, and at that time, the flood suddenly rose, washing Wang Mang's army away, allowing Liu Xiu to achieve victory effortlessly, which was really strange to the extreme.
Regarding this battle, the history books record it like this:
At night there are meteors falling into the camp, there are clouds like bad mountains during the day, when the camp falls, they are scattered before the ground ruler, the officials are tired of falling, there will be thunder and wind, the roof tiles are flying, the rain is like a note, the rivers are overflowing, the tigers and leopards are fighting, the soldiers are rushing, the drowning is tens of thousands, and the water does not flow.
Judging from the historical records, we all feel that the description is very strange, just like the war between Zhu Houzhao and the Mongol army of hundreds of thousands during the Ming Dynasty, the final record turned out to be "sixteen Mongol troops killed, fifty-two Ming troops killed", "it was the later years of the prisoners, but did not dare to go deep", hundreds of thousands of troops fought fiercely for more than ten hours, and finally 68 people died, and also frightened the Mongols no longer dared to invade the Ming Dynasty, which is simply a joke. In the era of cold weapons, I think there may be more than so many people who are trampled to death on the battlefield!
In fact, we will find a problem, from these historical materials, we may easily find that in ancient times, we paid special attention to a kind of "divine right of kings" thought, people felt that the emperor represented providence, so later generations recorded the Battle of Liu Xiukunyang, there will be such a magical and feel contrary to common sense scenes.
We can analyze in depth, if there was a real meteorite falling from the sky at that time, it must be an equal situation for the soldiers on both sides, the meteorite will not hurt because people are Liu Xiu's, since Liu Xiu's may also be hurt, then he is only more than 17,000 people, less than 20,000 troops, if the meteorite kills a few, the number is not less, for them, obviously more unfavorable, want to defeat Wang Mang, it is simply impossible.
Although this war was finally completely won and laid the foundation for Liu Xiu's later recapture of Jiangshan, it is indeed not a glorious thing to over-mythologize such a history, and I think that at least from the objective point of view, this kind of behavior is not appropriate.
Why am I talking about this war? Because I think that in the reality of our lives, as well as many things in history, in fact, we can analyze them together, and many things, especially as recording these historical moments, should maintain an objective and fair attitude to do things, which is the most important meaning of recording history itself.
If the literati of an era have gradually lost some of their responsibilities and courage, I think it is undoubtedly a very unfortunate thing for an era. Mr. Lu Xun has always written many excellent works because he wants to awaken some sleeping people, and has never compromised, and I think that kind of spirit is really worth learning for our descendants.
Time has passed, with the development and change of the world, many of the shadows that once seemed to have been gradually discovered, many people have gradually deviated from the original intention, we like to talk about not forgetting the original heart, to always have to be, this is not a groundless idea, it is indeed very much should be respected, the so-called original heart, why not include kindness?
When facing disasters, when facing interests or threats, whether we can really not forget our original intentions is very precious, but it is also something that each of us is constantly learning and pursuing throughout our lives, if we want the world to become better, isn't it the best to start from ourselves? If you want to record the real thing, wouldn't it be better to be a person who does not forget your original intention from this moment?
There has never been anything weird, most of the time, the weird thing is just the human heart, because of some interests or what purpose, so it is easy to produce weird things, but when the tide fades, it is not difficult for us to find that the original so-called weird things, but someone was swimming naked.
The Battle of Kunyang can be called weird, because its record has made people feel the existence of unreality, and because of this unreality, it has cast a strange veil over a magical war of less than 20,000 people defeating 430,000 troops, so that we cannot figure out the real situation, so that this war worthy of learning from posterity is drowned in flowery rhetoric, do you say that it is their sadness, or the sadness of a group of people?
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