Ancient War

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  I prefer the parts that describe ancient wars and battles: thousands of horses and soldiers, or advancing in a roundabout way; the martial arts competitions between generals, fighting for life and death, etc., which make people's blood boil with excitement, how refreshing!

  As I watched, I summed up an experience. No matter in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", or "The Legend of Yue Fei" and "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties", when two armies meet, it is roughly the same formula:

  The two sides lined up in a certain formation, such as the "long snake array", and then each sent out a general. When one side's general was defeated, the other side would launch a surprise attack and win the battle. In other words, the side with the better martial arts skills of its generals would always win, while the side with weaker martial arts skills would lose.

  Is it really like that? I have always been suspicious.

  Unfortunately, in all the movies and TV shows I've seen, war scenes are still similar, only with more special effects and chaotic scenes between the two armies on screen.

  Were ancient wars really fought like this?

  So I fantasize, if Lin Chong, the Panther Head, leads a group of old and weak people against Gao Qiu's strong and powerful Imperial Guards, can Lin Chong win?

  Common sense tells me that Lin Chong is bound to lose.

  Later, in the materials I found, I discovered many drastically different ways and scenes of war: there were siege warfare, assault warfare; cavalry vs. cavalry, cavalry vs. infantry, infantry vs. infantry; small units encountering each other, large units encountering each other, small units encountering large armies; daytime battles, nighttime battles; ambushes, surprise attacks; as well as naval battles, artillery battles and so on, varied and colorful, flexible and changeable, magnificent and dazzling. It completely overturned my previous experience and impression.

  For example, in the Song Dynasty's war against Liao:

  Because the Song army lacked cavalry, they could only resist with infantry, often adopting a defensive stance. Heavy shield troops were placed at the front of the formation to block and obstruct, with multiple long spear troops on either side thrusting forward, behind them were short swordsmen preventing cavalry from breaking into the formation, and further back were large numbers of archers killing the enemy. The number of archers often exceeded 60% of the entire army.

  The Liao army, being strong and powerful, with a large number of fine weapons (mainly sabers), adopted a strong breakthrough approach, using cavalry to collide head-on with the Song Dynasty's iron shield defensive formation.

  If only relying on cavalry to break through, the casualties would be too great. Therefore, the Liao army often used warriors with high martial arts skills (generals) to charge and break through the defensive lines first. Once a gap was opened, the main cavalry force would then charge through the gap.

  The Song army also sent out strong warriors (generals) in front of the formation to resist the impact.

  This is what is called one-on-one, soldier-to-soldier

  It was also during the Song-Liao war that the commanders engaged each other not in the center of the two armies' formation, but rather in a location extremely close to the Song army's formation.

  I will write well various war scenes in "The Legend of Wu Shen: Yue Wu Mu" and let all readers appreciate.