What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Some netizens asked: What is the real cold weapon war? Is it really hundreds of thousands of troops fighting together? In ancient wars, in most cases, there would be no situation in which the whole army was entangled, and often after the defeat in the initial battle, the whole army collapsed and was chased and killed by the enemy, and most people were actually chased and killed on the road to rout and escape.
For example, Lu Xiangsheng, the younger brother of Lu Xiangsheng, the former governor of Xuanda in Shanxi, organized tens of thousands of people to resist and counterattack Yixing when the Qing army was moving south. As a result, the Qing army crossed the river to cross the counter-attack, tens of thousands of people collapsed, only 300 elites insisted on resisting, and the Qing army was on all sides, and finally died in battle.
For example, the Ming military Guoan, with 100,000 troops as the main force, gathered other Ming troops to defend the Qiantang River. However, the Qing artillery bombarded day and night, and the morale of the Ming army was low. Subsequently, the Qing army crossed the river, and at that time it was recorded that "brave and even more; the body was heavily armored, the bearer was three hundred arrows, and the long and short knives were all equipped." And has crossed, Zhejiang soldiers abandoned the weight of the countless. ”
Zheng Chenggong made a 100,000-strong Northern Expedition, and at that time recorded that the military rong was strictly reorganized: "former captain of the regiment, the second regimental card; the second line of the Wu Zhen." Behind the first team of five-color flags, the second team of centipede flags, the third team of wolf smoke, the fourth team of the big knife at the end. ”
However, outside the city of Nanjing, 4,000 Qing troops suddenly counterattacked, galloping horses to shoot arrows, and the Ming general Gan Hui was hit by more than thirty arrows, unable to support it, but walked. Zheng Chenggong's army of 100,000 collapsed. It is recorded that "the brave and sharp threw more than one river to the dead; lifted their armor, weighing forty pounds." For the autopsy, four thousand five hundred people were examined." That is to say, 4500 ming heavily armored infantry drowned in the river alone.
Whether tens of thousands of people fight, or hundreds of thousands of people fight, basically it will not happen, and everyone will fight. Most of them are a quick collapse of one party and an end. All that remains is to pursue all the way, easily pursue and kill, has a psychological breakdown, unorganized opponent, this is the most obvious in the Battle of Tumu Fort, the Sui Dynasty millions of troops to conquer Goguryeo and the Battle of Shuishui, the most obvious.