In ancient times, whenever there was chaos, there would inevitably be large-scale wars. At that time, the war mainly relied on manpower, and many times it was a row of people, real knives and real guns. It's different from what everyone sees in the TV series, most of the time it's me slashing you, you slashing me. You're dead I'll cut down one. In the end, he was hacked to death by other enemies.
Such a confrontation of cold weapons, often a big battle will lose a lot of people, and sometimes a serious defeat on one side is likely to be driven out by the victorious side, in history such a battle is not only even.
In the earliest recorded large-scale war in history, Bai Qi designed a pit to kill a total of 400,000 people of the Zhao Army. This number is a large amount of money in modern times, not to mention that it is a head count. After the Warring States, such a number of casualties were not few battles, so where did so many corpses go? Why have later archaeologists never discovered the presence of a large number of bones?
There is an idiom that everyone must have heard, that is, "ma ge shroud", which means to use horse skin as a coffin to wrap the corpses of dead soldiers. It is used to describe the spirit of ancient non-commissioned officers who regard death as a homecoming, but many times not all effectively loyal non-commissioned officers can have the qualifications of horse-clad corpses, after all, there are not so many war horses.
But it is not what everyone thinks, just expose the corpse wilderness, one is that it is easy to spread the disease, and the other is also to prevent the soldiers who survived from chilling. After all, maybe the next one will be yourself. Two of the most common ways to dispose of corpses on the battlefield are usually the most common.
The first is "burning", large-scale war, the dead will be very many, if the accumulation will produce plague regardless of decay, so many times in order to avoid the production of plague, sometimes these corpses will be cremated, so these cremated bones are turned into dust, posterity will naturally not find the existence of corpses. But this is generally not the mainstream, because there is a more traditional way.
That is buried, this is the most commonly used way, but it has to be said that the burial pattern is also very special, some are honestly digging a big pit, and then putting the body in, filling in the soil is finished. Others are buried in the shape of a pyramid, and some are buried directly on both sides of the road, which probably means that the souls of these dead soldiers can find their way home.
Buried but is a more civilized practice. Of course, there are also some that are simply abandoned. After the field battle, there are more such things, and anyone who sees the bones everywhere will not lament that the war is too cruel. Therefore, the ancients often said, "I would rather be a peaceful dog than a chaotic person."