In ancient times, soldiers fought from morning till night, so it was difficult for them not to eat or drink for a day.

In the long history of mankind, the time of war is much longer than that of peace. Where there are people, there is conflict and there is war. China's classic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" says that "the general trend of the world will be combined for a long time, and it will be combined for a long time." There were many classic battles in ancient China, which were described in spectacular literary works. The two armies often fight day and night. Don't those ancient soldiers need to eat, drink and rest during the war?

First, ancient wars

Living in the present, we can often only understand what ancient wars are like through the scenes described in film and television dramas or literary works. In ancient wars, for a long time, the weapons used by both sides were cold weapons, and cold weapons with blades such as knives and swords seemed to be full of wild beauty in the war.

In ancient times, the most commonly used tactic was "sea of people". In the case of a large number of people, using cold weapons to fight will give people a strong visual impact. Therefore, whenever there is an ancient war movie or an ancient TV series, the conditional crew will inevitably join the long shot of the war between the two armies, making people feel the violence and cruelty of the war.

But there is a saying that "art comes from life and is higher than life". Modern people's understanding of ancient wars mostly comes from artistic processing. In other words, what will happen in the real ancient war is often very different from what is presented in the film and television works.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a must-read for primary and middle school students. Many people have seen it when they were young, but they like it when they grow up. Because this book is very classic and profound, it is often adapted into TV series and movies.

The Three Kingdoms period is also a period of frequent wars in the ancient history of China, so there are also many war scenes in the book. In the process of remake, these classic war scenes will also be presented to the audience as classic memories, but the impression of ancient wars in these memories is wrong.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, if a general proposed a one-on-one fight before the two armies fought, after all, it was the two armies that led the one-on-one fight and decided the outcome of the battle. Generals who fail in one-on-one combat will dismount directly, which means the end of the battle.

But in fact, in the ancient battlefield, the two armies have already begun to prepare for war, and it is impossible to fight one-on-one. For example, the classic scene of the battle between the two armies in ancient times was that the generals with high martial arts rode on horses and led their cavalry to rush to the infantry array of the other side, where they fought back and forth with the advantage of fighting immediately.

Such a scene does seem to make people feel "excited", but it will not appear in the real battlefield. Cavalry is often a protected magic weapon to win, and their main advantage is long-range attack. Sit on horseback and shoot arrows at the enemy camp. Take an enemy's head every few hundred meters. Archers can shoot arrows on a large scale, but they are not as mobile as cavalry.

Melee is the key to winning or losing between infantry. When will cavalry kill people with sabre? Only when their own infantry camp collapses will cavalry go into battle with sabres to kill the enemy. In addition, in some film and television works, because the directors and screenwriters didn't do their homework well, the war scenes they filmed were like some people fighting in groups, and they were often disorganized.

It makes people look confused, like simply magnifying the battle of several people to hundreds of thousands of people. Some people fight all day with weapons, giving people the feeling that they have been fighting. Soldiers are like robots without feelings. They don't eat, drink or rest normally. What was the real war like in ancient times? Do soldiers have time to solve personal problems?

Second, the real ancient war.

The more you know about history, the more you feel that you can't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. What was the real war in ancient times? In ancient times, people in the Central Plains fought mainly with infantry, and cavalry often shot arrows at the enemy before fighting. Why are there so many infantry?

This is actually very understandable. There are not as many horses in the Central Plains as nomads, so war horses are very precious. Cavalry is generally a long-range soldier who shoots arrows at the enemy behind infantry. The whole combat team takes strong bow and hard crossbow as the core.

When arranging the battle, the front of the army array is to resist the horse array to prevent the cavalry from coming to fight after being defeated by the other side, making the defeat irreversible. Put the sword and shield soldiers who defend the opponent's bow and arrow in the rear, and protect their own soldiers from being shot to the maximum extent.

Lancers with spears will also be in this position, increasing their combat lethality. Behind the sword shield soldiers and spear soldiers are archers and crossbowmen, who are mainly responsible for medium and long-range lethality.

Cavalry is very precious and important, so it is usually placed at the rear or side of the infantry battalion, and there will be a corresponding gap in the infantry battalion to facilitate cavalry scheduling. In this way, each arm is where it should be, that is, the formation of the ancients in the battle.

In ancient times, when many people fought, they would have their own methods of arranging troops. Excellent generals can work out the most suitable method of arranging troops according to the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and different terrain, and finally win.

Therefore, the more large-scale engagement, the more the generals of both sides will attach importance to the arrangement of troops. When the war between the two sides enters a stalemate stage, the war often lasts for a long time. How can the soldiers of the two armies ensure that they have enough physical strength in such a long fighting time? This is related to the operation method at that time.

Third, soldiers eat and drink Lazar normally.

In ancient wars, soldiers did not fight as shown in movies and TV plays. This kind of "individual combat" is fine when there are few people, but it will be chaotic when there are many people.

In order to solve this confusion, the ancients often arranged for five people to be a "martial arts", ten people to be a "team" and fifty people to be a "brigade". In order to ensure that these soldiers can give full play to their tacit understanding after going to the battlefield, they will train together deliberately at ordinary times, get along with each other day and night, and cultivate brotherly feelings and tacit understanding in the battle.

In the training, it will be deliberately emphasized that these five people are five people who live and die together, and no one can fall behind except death. In ancient times, conscription was often composed of people from a village and a family, which ensured that people could trust each other and no one would run away when they got cold feet.

When the two armies enter a stalemate, they often rotate in units of five people and teams and brigades to ensure that each soldier's single combat time does not exceed three hours, so that the replaced soldiers can eat and drink Lazar normally.

Fourth, summary.

In ancient times, although the battle lasted for one day and one night, soldiers usually took turns to rest, so each soldier's single battle time was not too long, and the rest of the time could be carried out normally. The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated today.