In ancient times, when two armies fought, there were often heavy casualties, and for the soldiers who charged into the battlefield, every battle was nine deaths, so if the soldiers pretended to be dead, could they escape the disaster?
There was a team in the ancient army called the "Overseer Team" who was specifically responsible for monitoring the movements of soldiers on the battlefield, and if a soldier accidentally dropped something and wanted to pick it up when charging, it would be considered a deserter by the soldiers of the Overseer Clan and then killed by the Overseer Clan.
If you are lucky enough to escape the reconnaissance of the Overseer, then you will come to the second level, to avoid the attack of bows and arrows and catapults, most of which are mainly long-range attacks and cold weapons in ancient times, if you can dodge the bows and arrows and rolling stones in the sky. Then you can survive to the next level. Don't be trampled to death by later teammates.
Ancient warfare was not a soldier's single-handed battle, but a focus on formations and formations, accompanied by the sound of war drums, marching forward in an orderly manner. For example, the famous formation of ancient warfare ,"Fish Scale Array", soldiers are like scales on fish next to each other, if a soldier wants to lie down and pretend to be dead at this time, then it will be trampled into meat by thousands of feet behind him. Soldiers on the battlefield have no time to care whether there are still living people under their feet, and if this level can be avoided, then it is time to clear the battlefield.
In the pre-Qin period, under the influence of Zhou Li, after the two armies fought, the winning side would clean up the battlefield, because the materials on the battlefield could be used again, and the corpses of dead teammates could also be collected, since the Qin Shang martingale transformation method began to be implemented, the reward for soldiers was calculated according to the number of heads killed, and later evolved into cutting off the left ear to calculate military merit, if this time pretending to die is equivalent to giving away heads in vain. Create conditions for others to get promoted and get rich.
Therefore, in the era of cold weapons, the probability of trying to pretend to die and survive on the battlefield is very small.