The State of Qin unified China's army.
They were not barbarians, they slaughtered the same warriors as them, fought in Changping, and killed 400,000 Zhao troops.
They absolutely crave war, and when they hear that there will be a war, they will be shirtless, impatient, and it does not matter whether they live or die at all...
With heads in their left hands and prisoners under their right arms, they pursued their enemies... Moreover, they are good at riding and shooting.
The strong combat effectiveness of this unit comes from:
Discipline – Strictness may not be explained in words.
There is a clear distinction between reward and punishment - no dynasty can reach the level of the Qin state.
Bigger size: 1 million, who could match it at the time?
A better line of weapons - the strongest crossbowmen in Chinese history, don't forget, the crossbow is the most effective against cavalry, they once drove the Xiongnu north of the Yellow River within a year.
Better defense - the city of the Qin State is extremely strong.
A stronger state apparatus that serves the war - in fact, this is the summary of the advantages above, 5 million people, can support 600,000 troops to fight abroad all year round, what is the concept?
More advanced productivity – without a doubt, the most powerful army in the world before the advent of muskets, could have made it possible for a child to take the world right away.
The army of the Han Empire during the period of Emperor Wudi of Han
Which sentence can be called the most deafening in Chinese history? Whoever violates my strong man will be condemned from afar.
The founding emperor of the Han Empire was very majestic, and as a result, he almost couldn't go home, and he might think that if Han Xin led the troops... However, his descendants are very angry for him (this is different from the Ming Dynasty, I want to be a Tumu fort, but later, the army of the Ming Dynasty was okay except for Qi Jiguang, it is estimated that including Yuan Chonghuan's army, got it earlier, and even the sparring wheel could not be turned), Li Guang, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing finally took the initiative to attack the Xiongnu during the period of Emperor Wudi of Han, and the Han army and the Xiongnu at that time could fight with one enemy and three!
Northern Song Yue Family Army
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitan people, the most feared opponents of the Northern Song Dynasty, circulated this sentence: the Jurchens are less than 10,000, and if they are full, they are invincible in the world. In the end, the Jurchens were unified, the Khitan people were severely defeated, the weak Song people were still humiliated by the Khitans, and the ambitions of the Jurchens to go south were stimulated, they fought all the way across the Huai River, however, they met the hero of the Han people, Yue Fei.
Yue Fei did not use the best weapon against nomads in the Cold Weapon Era: the crossbow, he used a more dangerous method: chopping the horse's leg. Only the greatest courage and the strongest discipline can do this.
The Jurchens have a saying: It is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family.
Unfortunately, Emperor Gaozong of Song killed Yue Fei, and he killed more than just a hero, he killed the backbone of the Han people.
The army of the early Tang Empire
The largest Han territory was the Tang Dynasty, which defeated the Turks and annexed Goryeo, but under the leadership of an unkind general, it was defeated by the combined forces of the Arab Empire and the countries of the Western Regions, and was no longer able to advance, and Li Longji also spoiled Yang Yuhuan, thus ruining the Tang Dynasty.
The army of the Great Tang Empire left some magical names for posterity: Li Jing, which is close to legend; Wei Chigong and Qin Shubao have become door gods for thousands of years...
Cavalry of the Mongol Empire
The army of the Han Empire only showed strong combat effectiveness when fighting with the Huns, the Mongols ran to the Danube, along the way, they defeated the army of the Arab Empire, the army of Khorazm, the army of the Orthodox Christians, and finally met with the Catholics, bags of ears, which can show the bloodthirsty habits of this army, and the destruction method of war maintenance is also different from any army.
The pace of this army stopped at the Sea of Japan, after all, the naval battle was beyond the imagination of these steppe people, more than 80 years of conquest finally ended, they controlled the whole of China for more than 80 years, and the soul of Japanese militarism was born.