Throughout the ages, countless wars have taken place in the five thousand years of our country's history. In ancient warfare, people used cold weapons, and death was closer to everyone when short soldiers were engaged. However, I don't know if you have found that when we watch ancient TV dramas, there is always a column of platoon leaders at the forefront of the army, and when the two armies are fighting and charging, it is obvious that the first contact is the platoon, and in an instant they can kill and injure countless people, so why do these soldiers have to be the vanguard soldiers, and they look fierce and not afraid of death?
In ancient China, because gunpowder had not yet been invented, people still used cold weapons. In the primitive tribes of the beginning, people clashed from time to time in order to grab food and other supplies. Primitive humans do not have decent weapons for hunting, strengthened minds have not yet been fully developed, and tribes clash with each other without any order, and there is no strategic planning.
After the establishment of the Qin State, in order to unify the six countries, many wars of aggression were launched. At that time, the Qin state's conquest of the four sides was no longer disorderly, but there were many strategists and generals who had experienced many battlefields to line up and deploy troops. After the war between the two countries, it is very important to arrange troops, and a good formation can even allow the weak country to annex the strong country.
The biggest opponent of the State of Qin at that time was the State of Zhao, because the State of Zhao was the most powerful of the Six Kingdoms, and the State of Qin originally thought of destroying the State of Zhao first, and the other countries would be easy to deal with, but after several years of fighting with the State of Zhao, they still failed to capture a city in the State of Zhao.
This was because Zhao Guo had a strange person who arranged troops at that time, Li Mu, who was particularly good at platooning, especially for the planning of the front platoon. At that time, the front row of zhao guo's troops was basically elite generals of the army and had strong combat capabilities.
Li Mu believes that when the two armies are fighting, the vanguard soldiers have a vital role, he compares the platoon soldiers to the head of the spear gun, the best soldiers can form the most unstoppable head, when the two armies are engaged, they can plunge into the enemy's lineup at once, and even disperse the enemy's formation, so that the enemy panics and wins the war in one fell swoop.
For the front row soldier Zhao Guo, there is a strong selection system, of course, there is also a good pension policy. The platoon leaders were all elite generals, and each loss was a pity for the army, but if these soldiers died in the war, the army would have a generous pension for them.
For example, an ordinary soldier will directly give a hanging money when recruiting, and the pension after death is at most this hanging money, but Zhao Guo's pension to the front row soldiers at that time was three times that of ordinary people. In that era, the people's life was very difficult, and the perennial war and chaos and the years when there were no grain harvests from time to time, food was already the best for ordinary people.
At that time, a hanging of money was enough for a family to save money and spend half a lifetime, so there were so many people who were willing to become soldiers, and if they died in battle, their families at least did not worry about eating and drinking. And the vanguard soldiers who died in battle can get a total of four hanging money, which can make their families rich in food and clothing, so zhao Guo's vanguard soldiers are not afraid of death when fighting.
Moreover, this is the Zhao State for the soldiers who died in battle, if the vanguard soldiers survived when the war was won, the Banshi would return to the dynasty and become a knight, and there would be no need to fight again, and there would be no danger of being killed on the battlefield in the future. Therefore, at that time, there were still people who trained hard to let the platoon leaders go, and they did not worry about eating and wearing at home after they died in battle, and when they survived to become officials, they were more clothed and fed, and they fought a bicycle to become a motorcycle.
The platoon of the Qin state was different from that of the Zhao state, and the vanguard of the Qin state was composed of slaves. Before the founding of the State of Qin, it had gone through several wars of all sizes and harvested a large number of prisoners. The King of Qin's way of dealing with captives at that time was to divide the captives into a complete army formation, and train these captives in the army, and give the captives military food, and there was basically no difference in the treatment of Qin soldiers.
However, the real intention of the King of Qin was to use these prisoners as vanguard soldiers to send them to death, and to wear off the enemy's vigor when the two armies were engaged, which was exactly the opposite of Zhao Guo. And these slaves were willing to serve as vanguard soldiers, also because the Qin State had relevant policies against slaves.
That is, if the slave soldiers survived the victory of the war, they would order pardons to restore their free bodies, and they could settle in the Qin state as Qin people, for these prisoners, they had not wanted to live when they were captured, and now that they had the opportunity to start their lives again, they naturally wanted to give it a go, and the worst result was only death.
However, the State of Qin eventually ruled the Six Kingdoms, and such a powerful State of Zhao was also defeated at the feet of the Iron Horse of the State of Qin. After reunification, the Qin state further upgraded the equipment of soldiers, and after the fall of the Qin state, the subsequent generations of countries still began to study the equipment.
The equipment worn by soldiers initially had rattan armor, but after having weapons made of bronze and iron, rattan armor was vulnerable to thin paper in front of this weapon, and rattan armor was forbidden to attack with fire. As a result, people used iron tools to build armor, but the iron armor was very heavy, too bulky, and played a counterproductive role in the long-distance war. At the end, a new steel armor came into being.
The formation of the Tang Dynasty also experienced countless cruel wars, and the Tang Dynasty treated the vanguard soldiers the same as the Zhao State at that time. Therefore, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, but this is not only the main reason why soldiers are willing to act as vanguards.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, people's forging and smelting had been very developed, and at that time people had studied a kind of bright light armor. This armor is by far the best toughness, and the weight is relatively light, and the connection is better, and the important parts can be protected.
However, the manufacture of Mingguang armor is more time-consuming and laborious, so only generals can wear it, and ordinary soldiers are still iron armor, and only the upper body.
In order to improve the army system, the Tang Dynasty ordered that each platoon leader be awarded a complete set of bright light armor, which meant that soldiers could first get the same sense of experience as the generals. On top of that, mingguang armor's defense power is amazing, which can make it nearly twice as likely to survive the war.
Although the vanguard was the first to rush into the enemy camp as a charge, after the two armies were engaged, the threat to the vanguard was not so great, and the soldiers believed that the Mingguang armor could keep themselves safe and surviving the first wave of shock. Therefore, excellent weapons and equipment solve most of the concerns of the vanguard soldiers, and they can be brave and fierce in the conquest.
Therefore, soldiers are selected to be the vanguard, and they are not really going to die. On the contrary, it is welfare to become a vanguard soldier, and if you retire, you will die to protect the family's food and clothing, and if you enter, you will be prosperous and rich in your life.
Moreover, at some point, whether it is the vanguard or other soldiers, behind them is their own country and family, war has always been a king and a loser, for the sake of their families and the motherland, the soldiers are resolute and resolute not afraid of death.