Although war is said to be a catalyst for cultural development, while promoting cultural progress, war has also caused negative impacts on population growth, food production and other aspects.
Of all the effects of the war, the sharp decline in population became the biggest drawback of the war.
However, after all, china's ancient wars were all cold weapons wars, and soldiers who fought with copper and iron did not necessarily cause much damage to the other side. As for why the population loss caused by the war is so large, it also depends on how many people have been wounded on the battlefield after the end of the war.
Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, five thousand years of Chinese civilization can be said to have been shrouded in war.
If we calculate the ancient history of feudalism before the official collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, in the entire process of Chinese civilization, only the early days of the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty had a peace of twenty-eight years. At other times, the wars between the various princely states never stopped.
According to the population records of different historical periods, although the population of ancient times has been growing slowly in a certain amount, it is still dwarfed by the population reduction caused by the war.
For example, at the end of the Warring States period, the combined population of the Seven Kingdoms was less than 25 million. But during the same period, the total number of troops in the seven countries reached nearly five million.
Although this data is not completely accurate, but through the comparison of this set of data, we can also roughly know the ratio between the total population and the number of military population in that period. Of course, because the ancient population calculation method was different from that of us now, the population that can be registered and recorded belongs to ordinary people who have fields in the territory of the Seven Kingdoms. If you count the students, rangers and other people outside the common people, the total population may have some room to rise. But even if there is a certain amount of growth in the total population, the ratio between the total population and the army population will not be widened much.
In this case, the number of casualties of the army has become the top priority of the population.
But after all, cold weapon wars are cold weapons wars, which are different from hot weapons wars that can blow people into pieces at any time. On the battlefield of hot weapons, as long as a high-speed flying Huang Chengcheng bullet head can easily take away a person's life. Even if this person is covered with several layers of thick leather armor, the bullet will undoubtedly die.
Unlike wars in the Cold Weapons Age, sharp swords were defended by leather armor, rattan armor, and even iron armor. In this case, the reason why the casualty rate is still so large is purely because of the lack of timely medical treatment after the war, or the lack of post-war treatment.
Don't feel that this is a fool's errand, because no matter how sharp the sword is, as long as it is not a direct penetrating wound and a "critical" part of the injury, the possibility of death from the wound is very small.
As for why the lack of timely treatment after the war was the reason for such a high level of combat attrition, it is necessary to analyze it from a biological and pathological point of view.
We all know that everyone's blood can not interact with each other, modern medicine in order to transfuse a person with too much blood loss, but also to check the blood type, find the matching blood before proceeding.
In the white-knife warfare of "soldier versus soldier, general" on the ancient battlefield, once the blood mixture on each other's weapons invaded the human body, the injured were almost 80% likely to develop pathogenic shock. And as long as this person falls into shock, in ancient times when there was no serum, antibiotics and other drugs, it was tantamount to directly issuing a "death notice" to the injured person.
In addition to the infection caused by blood mixing during battle, the archers who were the only "long-range weapons of mass destruction unit" in the cold weapons era were also the biggest factor in the wound infection of the wounded.
Without him, because in ancient warfare, as the most widely used and most suitable weapon in long-range attack weapons, the wound infection that the bow and arrow can bring is more serious than the sword wound in ordinary combat. Because in most cases, the wounds caused by bows and arrows will be deeper and heavier. For example, if a bow and arrow in a cold weapon wants to deal damage at a distance enough, it must be achieved by using "projectile". That is to say, most of the wounds caused by bows and arrows are generally blessed by "gravitational acceleration".
The battlefield environment and combat conditions in ancient times doomed the arrows of the bow and arrow to be impossible to be as "clean" as the bullets in hot weapons. Throughout history, there are also some "long-standing" enemies who will order archers to go to the pit and "enchant" the arrows before starting the battle, so as to achieve the outcome of the shortest possible time for the hitter to contract the virus and eventually die.
Therefore, don't look at the bow and arrow as a long-range weapon of mass destruction in the era of cold weapons, but the way that can really cause a large number of population attrition to the enemy is really not a "hole hole" shot by an arrow, but caused by the "virus" infection attached to the weapon.
Some of the reasons why soldiers are motionless after being hit by a bow and arrow are because the bow and arrow shoot them to death, and most of them are wound infections and it hurts when they move. Of course, some scholars say that it is because the general ancient war is a large piece of "arrow" shot over, that is, the arrow array, so even if the person is not dead, you must lie on your stomach and stand still, otherwise the chance of you moving and getting injured is greater, and it will be worse.
In general, in ancient times, there were many reasons why soldiers did not move after being shot by arrows, but many of them were fatal, so we are glad that our living conditions have become better now, we do not have to experience war, and we are glad that we live in China, the motherland is strong, and we do not have to be "bullied".
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