Nowadays, everyone's understanding of history comes from the adaptation of film and television dramas, and in many costume dramas, we often see such a picture: when the two armies are fighting, they will always send the generals of the two sides to conduct a head-to-head contest, and the soldiers in the field will wave their flags and shout for them in the back to cheer up the military might. As the generals of the two sides fought for dozens of rounds, one of the generals was beheaded, and the morale of the winning generals was greatly boosted, and the advantage in the whole battle was even more obvious.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is such a story, when the Eighteenth Road princes were fighting Against Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo sent Hua Xiong to fight, when Hua Xiong single-handedly killed the three generals in front of the battle, just at this time, Guan Yu stepped forward and defeated Hua Xiong with only one move. At that time, the morale of the coalition army was greatly boosted, and Guan Yu was also famous in the world.
In ancient times, when fighting wars, did the generals on both sides really have to go ahead and single out? In fact, this has long been recorded in the main history, so let's take a look at it!
Single-handedness did exist before the war, but most of them appeared before Former Qin, and most of the generals who led the troops to fight at that time were from the nobility, and before the two armies fought, they would send generals to make a single challenge to show respect for their opponents. After the Former Qin, the Northern Xiongnu attacked the Central Plains, because the Xiongnu were good at riding and shooting, so the nobles of the Central Plains could not adapt to it, and from then on, the situation of the warriors going it alone disappeared.
In ancient wars, the reason why the generals on both sides would go head-to-head was mainly to boost morale. Before the war, the two sides have no way of knowing each other's strength, if the war is directly started, it is bound to fight for a long time, even if it is finally won, the loss will be very heavy. In ancient times, many soldiers who participated in the war were captured strong men, so it was difficult for them to fight hard. At this time, the pre-war generals went head-to-head, and the victory of that side would boost the morale of their soldiers and the chances of victory would be greater!
It can be seen that in ancient times, when fighting wars, the way of single-handed combat between the two sides did exist, but this way of fighting, the situation was very rare, after the Qin Dynasty was basically canceled, after this, the generals often commanded the battle in the rear of the team, and did not fight on the scene, so the real history of the war, is not as grand as the costume TV series shown!