What can the Great Wall stop when it is so short?

Don't look at its shortness, in the case of the scientific and technological environment at that time was not very developed, the effect on blocking the enemy's army was obvious.

What exactly can the Great Wall stop? Is the Great Wall so short that it can withstand foreign invasions? What is the role of the Great Wall?

These questions are also normal, and they will be dissected one by one here. First of all, the Great Wall is not short, but now I feel that it is short because I see the Great Wall after the collapse. The picture below shows the Great Wall of Jizhen, which shows its height and steep fortifications.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that "Xuanfu Jiaochang, Datong Mother-in-law, Jizhen City Wall", and the role and status of the Great Wall of Jizhen can be seen.

The Great Wall is not only a wall, as a military defense project, it is connected by the wall and the horse face as the main body to resist the enemy, and the castle garrison and beacon tower transmit military information to help improve the wall's ability to resist the enemy. The periphery of the Great Wall is a series of strongholds, which highlights the first role of the Great Wall - early warning. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a squad system, and the battlements of the Great Wall were left with alert and quick reaction troops, and in case of enemy attacks, they should be reported truthfully.

The second role of the Great Wall - to maintain the battle line, the key passes of the Ming Great Wall have hundreds of people to defend, relying on the side wall and the rapid reaction force to use the key passes to flank the attack will be very effective to hit the enemy, while blocking the enemy's route. The third role of the Great Wall - rapid transportation, the main force of the border town can quickly maneuver, enter and exit the plug to attack, and retreat can be relied on as a barrier. Another effect is the economic blockade, which may not have been taken into account at the beginning of construction, but the Great Wall was built, like a floodgate, controlling the flow of commerce, the development of **, but this was established in the case of a military balance of power with foreign races, because for the development of trade routes, a stable political and military environment is very important.

In addition, for the political aspect, large-scale military operations will inevitably cause a lot of money consumption, and at the same time, the administrative system will have to be updated, and the final compromise will also be biased towards the construction of border fortresses.

The existence of the Great Wall, so that the Central Plains Dynasty fault tolerance rate greatly improved, intercept foreign enemies, intercept risks, try to see the Northern Song Dynasty without the Great Wall, in Hebei often maintain 300,000 troops, can only rely on Hebei's water network to build a defensive line, in the face of the Liao people to the south, can only pay the New Year's coin, the Jin people cross the river, full of devastation. The loss of the Great Wall will lead to the complete collapse of the psychological defense line of the agricultural peoples in the war against the nomads. What the Great Wall stopped was an invasion, and what was built was the self-confidence and self-improvement of the nation.

In the eyes of modern people, the height of the Great Wall is relatively not too high, but in ancient times, because it was the age of cold weapons, it is said. This wall is enough to block foreign invasions, and there is a handle on the wall, so if the other party comes. It is much easier to defend Hong Kong, and the height of the Great Wall is also very high in some important places.

He may seem to be a little taller in some of the mountains, but the mountains are. One is difficult to attack, so it is said. Overall, this height is sufficient.

The Great Wall is mostly built on rugged and uneven mountains, and the terrain is dangerous. The ladder in the era of cold weapons is also out of reach; The iron horses of the northern nomads could not fly over. From the beginning of the Qin Dynasty to the end of Qinghua, almost all dynasties were building the Great Wall, which played a great role in blocking the nomadic Longyi disturbing the Qiaoli Yuan.

It can resist invasions because it can be condescending and have a defensive advantage. It is necessary to build the Great Wall because it is also strategically important for the transmission of beacon fire.

To be able to resist the invasion, it is necessary to build the Great Wall, and only after the Great Wall is built can it have a defensive effect and prevent the invasion of the enemy.

It was able to withstand the invasion, and I felt that it was necessary to build the Great Wall, which was a particularly good defensive structure, and it also had great significance in ancient times.

Yes, it is very necessary, so that you can defend yourself against foreign enemies very well, and you can also observe the situation of the Xiongnu at any time.

In fact, in addition to its military function, the Great Wall has another important function that has been forgotten: an economic blockade. The Great Wall can reconstruct the economic ecology and monopolize the ** channel by shrinking all the ** networks to a few key points, so that it can carry out an economic blow to the outside of the plug.

The main role of the Great Wall is quite a customs, there are a lot of people guarding the Great Wall, and the length is very long, and it is completely non-existent to want to walk across the Great Wall, so no one can stop it.

It can stop foreign enemies, the Great Wall is guarded, if there is a foreign invasion, you can light the beacon, and you can defend against foreign enemies at this time!

Dog Rong, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic, Jurchen, Mongolian. One ethnic minority after another has risen from the steppe, flourished and then declined. The Great Wall has always been like a security door, pinching at the joints.

At the same time, the Great Wall also assumes a certain economic role, which is equivalent to the current position of the first customs. In ancient times, there were many smuggling phenomena, and the Great Wall could eliminate such problems to a certain extent. The construction of the Great Wall can prevent some illegal transactions between merchants, so that some commercial ** must take the official road, and these official roads are guarded by some officers and soldiers.

So to a certain extent, this smuggling will be reduced. The control of the ruling class over commercial activities at that time was ensured, and the Great Wall assumed a certain economic role. In this sense, although the Great Wall was short, it played a certain role in the economy of the time, blocking those merchants who were illegally smuggling.

The Great Wall is not short, it is like a long dragon coiled on the mountain, which is the crystallization of the labor and wisdom of the ancients. For thousands of years, it has resisted foreign invasion for the Chinese people.

It can stop the attack of the ancient Xiongnu, the Huns are in the north, and the ancient dynasty can use the Great Wall as a barrier to resist the invasion of foreign enemies.

Although the Great Wall is very low, it was built as a choke point into the Central Plains, where the troops could effectively prevent the northern Xiongnu or the nomads on the other side of the grassland from advancing southward.