In ancient times, the soldiers in the first row of the war had the highest death rate, so why would they rather rush forward desperately than lie down and pretend to die? Pi Sauce believes that when you watch the film and television works of ancient wars, you must have doubts, and even think that how the ancient soldiers were so stupid, they would not even lie down and pretend to be dead, and the soldiers who charged in the first row were really unlucky.
In fact, the ancients have already answered this question, the Book of Wei said, "Those who are strong and forget their bodies, who touch the white blade without fear, one seeks glory and fame, two is greedy, three is afraid of punishment, and four is to take refuge."
In some of the "crushing rounds" of ancient wars, many soldiers actually wanted to stand in the first row of charge. The first soldier to enter the city and his subordinate troops were often rewarded with more generous rewards after the war, and even changed their personal trajectory, completing di si's counterattack and marrying Bai Fumei. As the saying goes, the prime minister will rise from the state department, and the fierce general will rise from the pawn.
If a soldier standing in the first row is afraid of the enemy, or even lies down and pretends to be dead, once he is discovered by his own people, he will be severely tortured and punished. Ancient marching wars, not at all like in the film and television dramas of all the people rushed directly over, the role of the formation is very important. So where every soldier should stand and where he should go, the people around him will be clear, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to escape or lie down and pretend to die.
Although the military systems of successive dynasties and dynasties were different, they all had a strict organizational structure. During the non-war period, the Shiwu system that the State of Qi had implemented was ten for the sake of the five, and the Shi had the length of the shi and the wu of the wu. Shi Chang and Wu Chang are responsible for the security of Luli, and once they find suspicious people, they must report them in time, so that "the runaways have nothing to hide, and the migrants have no room." "When the war began, five people in the Shang and Zhou armies were one, two in the army, four and two, five in the brigade, and five in the division.
In ancient times, when marching and fighting, there was a reward for the crown in front of it, and a ban on axes and axes in the back, unless the whole army was defeated, otherwise the choice to be a deserter could only be corrected by their own people on the spot. In the Ming Dynasty's defense of Beijing, when the Wala army approached the Beijing Division, Yu Qian once ordered, "When the front is in the front, those who retreat first will be beheaded; the army will ignore those who retreat first, and the rear team will cut off the front team."
The survival rate of soldiers lying down and pretending to die is also not high, especially in the process of charging, it is easy to be trampled to death by teammates behind them. If you are lucky not to be trampled to death by your teammates, after the war, the winning party will be responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, and the ancient military feats are generally registered as the first level or ear of the enemy that has been captured, and even the first level of all enemy corpses will be cut off to build a Jingguan, which is used to show off force and intimidate the opponent.
The Sui Dynasty Emperor marched on Goguryeo three times, and the first expedition was due to the light enemy's adventurism, which led to a major defeat, and the heads of hundreds of thousands of Sui soldiers who fell were cut off by Goguryeo soldiers and made into a Jingguan, which was not buried until the time of the Tang Dynasty's battle against Goguryeo.
Moreover, the soldiers who rush to the first row in the first row will not always rush to the first row, and will rotate. The people in the front row will be rotated down to rest when they are almost beaten, and the people in the back will rush over and play again, and so on. As long as there is no rout, the number of casualties in a battle in the era of cold weapons is not too high.
On the whole, although the soldiers who charged in front of the ancient war were very dangerous, the chance of death when lying down and pretending to die or being a deserter was higher, and the narrow road met the brave to win, and only by moving forward, the chance of surviving in the war was greater. War is cruel, not a child's play.