War, from the game of honor to the killing fields

When it comes to war, we always have images of guns and bullets raining down on us, and blood and flesh flying in our minds.

Especially in recent years, after the authenticity of domestic movies has become higher and higher, the broken limbs and broken arms have not played mosaics, and that sense of reality has given us a deeper sense of war.

No matter who it is, after all, it is flesh and blood, and when facing the aircraft cannon machine gun, there is no difference between adults and children, they are so fragile.

Looking at the picture of the ancestors falling down one by one in the movie, every time it is very heart-wrenching, they are hit by the enemy, but also by those advanced killing machines.

It can be said that the last hundred years of war, are people using machines in the efficient killing, think of the number of deaths in World War I and World War II, you can know, the past thousand years because of the number of deaths in war, the number of people killed, is not so much.

War wasn't like that before the breech gun came along, it was more like a game of honor at that time.

Especially between the countries under the feudal system, everyone is a relative, the European royal family is a relative, and it is really going to fight, and the nobles pull up a team to fight with each other.

This style was common among European countries before the advent of machine guns.

We arrived first, the enemy has not yet arrived? Then wait, wait until the other party arrives, stand up and bow to the other party, and then discuss who will come first?

You stand in a row and shoot a shot, it's my turn, I stand in a row and shoot a shot, anyway, that kind of breech gun plug a bullet for half a day, the hit rate is extremely low, hit can only say bad luck.

Doesn't it look like a sports game? Yes, that's what they were taught at the time.

This is also why before the real start of the First World War, no country will think that it is so tragic, everyone feels that as before, fight twice to vent anger, relieve the loneliness, anyway, the war is a continuation of politics, after a fight can not talk about things can be discussed.

Who knows that those weapons in the First World War, after really exerting their power, became meat grinders on the battlefield, and also made countries want to get rid of them.

And some countries here are aware of it, and some countries are still relatively ignorant, such as the famous Battle of the Somme, the British army issued an order to ask soldiers to leave the relatively safe trenches, and instead face the involvement of machine guns in the open area and attack on foot.

The scene stunned the German machine gunners on the other side, who later described, "Their officers were walking at the front of the line, and I noticed that one of them walked particularly calmly and was holding a cane." When we started shooting, we just kept reloading, didn't need to aim, and just fired directly into the crowd. ”

This ideological unpreparedness of war has resulted in pure slaughter and death, and it also means that war begins to be dominated by machines.

The same was true of the American Civil War, when before the First Battle of the Bull River, many citizens, parliamentarians, and some foreign observers set out with the troops, and some even brought picnic cloths and prepared to go on an outing, just like a grand ceremony.

They thought that like the earliest aristocratic show wars, it was fun, who knew that when the battle was fought, everyone was dumbfounded, and the casualties and bloodshed exceeded people's imagination.

Maybe you are not right, when they were in the Opium War, when the Eight-Power Alliance besieged Beijing, they never softened their hands when facing the Boxers? Didn't you strafe the cavalry with machine guns in Beijing at that time?

Yes, this is actually a different perspective, those Western aristocrats can talk about etiquette and honor among their own nobles, but they have never been soft in the face of the people in the colonies, because they feel that they are superior.

Even in order to find a reason for this kind of looting and killing in the colonies, there are many stories, such as the legend of the cannibals, there is no real cannibal in this world, many stories are made up by Western colonists.

They portrayed the colonists of Africa and South America as cannibalistic barbarians through literary works, so that they would not feel guilty when they sold slaves and killed.

So from this point of view, they finally came to being ruled by the killing machine, thus pulling the people of the world into the water, and it became understandable, after all, the greed behind the pursuit of profits was never satisfied.

However, the war has been upgraded from an aristocratic game to a national war, and our ancestors completed it in the Spring and Autumn Warring States era, and those who cling to the concept of honor war also have prototypes in our history - Song Xianggong.

Song Xianggong fought a war, found that the other party was late, so he gave the other side time to pose, to a battle between the nobles, who knew that the other side did not want to face, and then hung up, and later generations were also described as ignorant benevolence.

This is what Confucius said about the collapse of the liturgy, but there is no way, history does not turn back, the development of weapons has lowered the threshold for participation in the standing, then the people are conscripted naturally, of course, the same is true for the national war.

If the battle is won but the prisoners cannot be raised, and the heads can be exchanged for battle merits, then the killing becomes natural, so the "ceremony" is destroyed by the war machine.

It's a pity that gunpowder is not bright in the East and bright in the West, otherwise we wouldn't have to be so bitter in the last two hundred years