When we watch film and television works, we often see a general who is like chopping melons and chopping vegetables when he faces ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, many people wonder, is the general really that great in the face of ordinary soldiers?
Of course, most generals in history have been better than ordinary soldiers, but not as exaggerated as on TV.
Ordinary soldiers are also divided into three, six, and nine, and the same ordinary people are born, and the experienced veterans on the battlefield are much stronger.
Generals are also divided into three, six, and nine grades, including Xiang Yu of the fierce general type, Han Xin of the type of wise general, and low-level generals of all levels such as ten fu chiefs and centurions. Not all generals can hang ordinary soldiers. But the general has an absolute advantage over ordinary soldiers, that's for sure.
Why? Because there are several reasons.
When you become a general, you will have a weapon that is good for you, and you will even build it for the characteristics of the general's personal characteristics.
Therefore, we can see that many famous generals have their own representative weapons. Xiang Yu's Fang Tian painting sword, Wei Chi Jingde's hammer, Yue Fei's gun. And as a general, the level of training is much better than that of ordinary soldiers.
Ordinary soldiers, can only be people to give you a knife you use a knife, give you a spear you use a spear, no choice.
The training level of ordinary soldiers is also far inferior to that of generals.
The training level of most ordinary soldiers is far inferior to that of generals.
If there is a sudden war in a state of emergency, the soldiers are not enough to be temporarily recruited, or the soldiers on the front line have died of the temporary conscripts. In these cases, the soldier's training level is even worse.
The quality of the general battlefield is much higher than that of the ordinary soldier.
Ordinary soldiers collapse with a little wind, while generals are ordinary enough to face unexpected situations rationally.
The general also has advanced protection! For example, a sturdy helmet, a well-made armor.
Don't underestimate this, this is an overwhelming advantage for ordinary soldiers without armor.
Due to the high cost of making armor, it was only allocated to a small number of generals and important troops. You can take a look at some of the famous troops in history, all because the protection is in place. For example, Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army is fully equipped with heavy armor. There is also the Iron Floating Massacre during the Jin Dynasty, which made the Southern Song Dynasty army suffer great losses, which is also the truth.
Armor is too important for soldiers! How important is it? In ancient times, tibetan knives, hidden guns, hidden axes, could not be regarded as rebellion. But hiding armor is definitely a crime of rebellion! For example, Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, sent some armor to his henchmen, but he was denounced and almost deposed by Emperor Li Yuan!
In ancient times, the importance of armor to this extent was because armor was too important for the improvement of the combat strength of the army.
In fact, in ancient times, except for some special forces and generals, ordinary soldiers did not have the opportunity to wear armor. Therefore, when the general faces the soldiers, the advantage of the general is obvious, and the heavy armor is difficult! The soldier slashed the general a few times, the general was fine, the general slashed the soldier, and the soldier stopped cooking.
It is also important to note that a heavily armored general can achieve almost zero damage when facing the arrows of the bow and arrow.
Soldiers, on the other hand, are very vulnerable to being hit by arrows in the face of the enemy's arrow rain.
The importance of armor is self-evident.
Generals generally have war horses!
With war horses, in the face of ordinary soldiers, there is an advantage of condescension and mobility.
In summary, the general's weapons are well-armed, well-trained, well-protected, and have the advantage of condescending and mobile, and it is not too simple to defeat ordinary soldiers.
Under such circumstances, if an individual is a little more courageous, or is strong in his own body, or is superior in martial arts, it is entirely possible to cut dozens of people and a hundred people.
In history, there are indeed some famous generals who can kill ordinary soldiers like chopping vegetables, and have done a hundred people!
Historically recorded generals who beheaded the hundred are:
Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu, was the first person to be able to do a hundred blocks. At the beginning of the army, in the Taishou Province, hundreds of people were killed alone. The second time was when the soldiers were defeated and at the end of the road, they killed hundreds of Han troops alone.
Ran Min, The Founding Emperor of Ran Wei. He once killed more than 300 Yan troops with the strength of one person (the Yan here is the Great Yan founded by Murong Fu's ancestors in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon).
Shaluqi, a general of the Later Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Once, when defending Tang Zhuangzong, he killed more than a hundred people with the strength of one person.
Yang Zaixing, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Battle of Xiaoshang River, he rode into the enemy line alone, trying to capture Jin Wushu alive and kill hundreds of people!
It can be seen that these generals can slash and kill ordinary soldiers like chopping vegetables.
Of course, this is a rare special case in China for thousands of years, and it is still quite difficult to be able to cut a hundred people!
But it can also be reflected that the advantage of the general over ordinary soldiers is great!
Here, let me give some ordinary examples.
During the Ming Dynasty, there was an incredible general who could slash and kill dozens of people by one person. He was a famous anti-Qing general in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng.
He was a civilian official, and he was born into a soldier. Because Emperor Taiji attacked the capital, he was a big prefect, and he did not know where the appeal came from, and organized 10,000 troops to go to Beijing to serve the king. Subsequently, he was reused by the Chongzhen Emperor and changed from a civilian official to a military general.
In the final battle, in the face of the powerful Qing army, he was shot three times, shot four arrows, and still slashed and killed dozens of people alone.
Isn't that incredible? How did he, who came from a civilian background, do it?
Could it be that an ordinary person, after becoming a general, suddenly opened the hanging?
Yes, open and hang!
According to the previous paragraph, Lu Xiangsheng will be equipped with weapons that are good for his hands, give him the best armor, and give him better war horses.
This alone could give him a huge advantage over many ordinary soldiers.
And he himself is a general, paying more attention to his own training, so that he can better serve the public.
Therefore, he was a man of civilian origin, and he had to build himself into a fierce general.
The Ming Dynasty used literature to control the military, and many famous generals were civilian officials at the beginning.
For example, Wang Yangming, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengzuo, Sun Chuanting, etc., were all civilian officials who were born into the army.
But they can all eventually become the warriors who charge the battlefield.
The physical fitness and personal strength level of these people have no advantage over ordinary soldiers, and the status of a general brings these people the hardware and software conditions (hardware-based) that can crush ordinary soldiers.
Let me give some more examples, Liu Bang's subordinates Zhou Bo, Lu Xie, and Cao Shan, zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates Xu Da, Tang He, Li Wenzhong, Zhu Wenzheng, and so on, these people were just ordinary people at the beginning, and I did not hear of anyone who was particularly powerful in Kong Wu, nor did I hear of anyone who was a martial arts master. But one by one, they lived until the end of the war.
It shows that after becoming a general, the advantage of a general is too obvious! Especially fierce, you can do it to cut melons and vegetables, destroy the decay. Almost a little, cut a few, make some merit, there is still no problem.
Do you think I'm right?