War is an action that humanity has never ceased, and even now that the international community has been calling for peace to prevail, wars are being fought on a small scale in many parts of the world. In fact, not only now, but also in ancient times, wars were also frequently seen with the change of dynasties. Because the age of dynasties is not very long, the political situation is also constantly changing, so that wars are frequent. Even a peaceful year of dynastic rule will lead to a long battle on the border with foreign invaders. It can be seen that the war has not disappeared from ancient times to the present.
In ancient warfare, fighting was a "bloody" thing, and at that time there were no hot weapons in battle, only relying on soldiers holding cold weapons to fight head-on, and the most advanced ones were only bows and arrows. The scene of relying on manpower to win the battle is not beautiful, but a picture of a river of blood. On the ancient battlefield, in addition to the generals who could ride horses, other soldiers rarely fought on horseback, and the soldiers who marched with their feet must have been very good in physical strength, otherwise how could they always follow the generals on horseback without being thrown away!
There is just a question that has been lingering in the mind of the editor, if the soldiers have been relying on their feet to rush the road, then when the battle comes, will they still have the strength to fight? Just a long run is enough to choke!
We can see from many classic film and television dramas that it is generally a few generals riding thousands of horses to walk in front, and a group of soldiers are behind them, wearing armor and running with weapons. Just looking at it makes me feel tired. In fact, in ancient times, the real battlefield was not all like this.
In most cases, the ancient soldiers would have a vanguard to take the lead, he rode a fast horse to lead a group of soldiers to the battlefield quickly, and most of the troops did not arrive quickly with them, but by the real commander or real general sitting in the chariot and most of the soldiers slowly marching, not like all the people in the film and television drama are crazy. The film and television drama depicts only the vanguard lineup that starts. If everyone arrives on the battlefield as quickly as the head lineup, and then still has the strength to kill the enemy, the physical fitness of the ancients is also good...
Even if it is the vanguard of the vanguard, the combat procedures on the battlefield are very methodical, and their rules are much more complicated than we think now, and they are not random and will not stand still. Instead, when the two armies are facing each other, the vanguard of the two sides will first come to a competition, if the vanguard of the other side is defeated, then the morale of our side is an encouragement, if not defeated, large-scale regimental warfare will be officially started later.
If the soldiers are fighting on horseback, it is not so convenient, in ancient times there are many weapons for horseback soldiers, the lethality of these weapons will make the horses directly lose combat effectiveness, and then affect the combat effectiveness of soldiers, so in addition to the generals will ride horses to rush the road, the rest of the soldiers are on foot, in fact, there is no special tiredness!