Special forces are a very special branch of the modern army, they are well-equipped, specially trained, and organized by squads to carry out mission objectives, they can be called the strongest soldiers in modern warfare.
In fact, such troops have a large number of special forces in china's ancient dynasties and dynasties, so how is their combat strength compared? Can the thirty thousand modern special forces return to ancient times, and without the use of modern firearms and weapons, can they rely on martial arts to be invincible? Except for the late Qing Dynasty, there is basically no going back.
Although the current special forces are very strong, but China's ancient is also a generation of elite soldiers, especially in the era of cold weapons to fight mainly, modern special forces fighting is not necessarily comparable, to the Warring States era of hundreds of years of strife among nations, each country has its own elite troops.
Among them, the State of Qi has the soldiers of skill, the State of Chu has the army of Shen Xi, the state of Wei has the soldiers of warriors, the state of Zhao has the soldiers of mounted archery, and the state of Qin has sharp soldiers, all of whom have been killed and are famous in the world, and they are also proficient in shooting and brave and good at war. Modern special forces are still mainly infantry in combat, and the odds of fighting these are small.
Moreover, in the feudal dynasties of the past, the cavalry was used as the elite unit, especially the heavy armored cavalry was an invincible presence on the battlefield, and the more well-known ones were the Tiger and Leopard Horse of the State of Wei during the Three Kingdoms Period, the armored horse of the Northern Wei during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the heavy cavalry of the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty, and the Jingsai Army of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Although these heavy armored cavalry are small in number, they are all composed of veterans of hundreds of battles, and when they wear heavy armor against infantry, they are almost slaughtered, which can be seen from the Northern Song Dynasty against the Western Xia Iron Harrier Cavalry and the JinGuo Iron Floating Massacre, and modern special forces meet heavy armored cavalry, and there is almost no chance of victory.
If in the case of equal equipment and supplies, the ancient Chinese Central Plains Dynasty has adopted a large number of military formations, the most important way of warfare in ancient warfare is to fight in formation, and the strongest ability of modern special forces is the outstanding ability of individual soldiers, which is not suitable for large-scale military battles.
In addition, there were many squads in ancient army engagements with the tactics of fighting and killing, the most typical of which was the Ming Dynasty Mandarin Duck Formation, which was difficult to deal with with the array squads with orderly attack and defense in the case of equal equipment and strength.
However, everything has special circumstances, in the late Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness has been very low, and the use of large-scale guns and weapons is close to modern warfare, once 50,000 foreign troops will defeat hundreds of thousands of late Qing soldiers, not to mention the special forces with better military quality.