Ancient armor was so hard, why did so many soldiers still die?

Because after all, it's a creep,Their treatment is not enough to give them the best armor, and the best quality armor is for those high-ranking generals, plus small soldiers need to operate flexibly on the battlefield, if they are given too heavy armor,They couldn't move, because the minions were running around, and the generals didn't need to run if they were one-on-one.

All know on the battlefield in ancient times,Soldiers often wear heavy armor, because this thing can protect themselves from weapons, and the bad equipment often affects the victory or loss of this war, but on the battlefield, there are also many small soldiers who have died on the battlefield, and many people feel strange, they have already brought such heavy armor, how did they get hurt?

First of all, the armor worn by minions is often not of very good qualityAfter all, they don't have any outstanding martial arts, and the best quality armor is often for those generals with high martial arts, and there are so many small soldiers, everyone uses the best armor, where do they get so many resourcesSo the armor worn for minions is often the most ordinary,In addition, small soldiers need to be flexible in combat, and the armor they wear is relatively light and thin, if they are given too heavy armor, on the contrary, it can't have the effect of killing the enemy quickly, and the generals are one-on-one and immediately go head-to-head, which is relatively better.

Why did the soldiers die in large numbers on the battlefield in the endIn fact, many of them were not killed on the spot, but they could not come back after being wounded, and slowly died on the battlefield, because they had to heal their wounds when they were brought backIn fact, if you treat your wounds carefully, the injuries of these soldiers can be cured, but if so many people are injured, if they have to be healed one by one, it will also cost a lot of moneySo the rulers thought that these soldiers were not worth it at all, so let them fend for themselves, so there was a phenomenon that these soldiers died on the battlefield.

The other layers of the main answer are almost the same, and another point is that the main ** on the battlefield is the spear, not only the hand length penetration is also strong (the action area is small and the pressure is strong).

There are various reasons, the biggest threat is bacteria, the proportion of direct killings in ancient wars is not high, more are wounded soldiers, a large number of wounded people die of wound infection due to the limitations of medical conditions, and the deterioration of wound infection is the main cause of attrition.

Because ancient medicine was not good, it was possible to die even if you killed your legs.

This is very easy to understand, because although the armor is very hard, it is normal for the two armies to fight to the death, and there are countless casualties, and don't forget that no matter how hard the armor is, there will still be gaps, which is also a weakness, and the dagger is easy to get.

Because the soldiers in ancient times were very strong and would not stop fighting until they died, no matter how hard the armor was, it could not reduce the number of soldiers sacrificed, it would only make the battle more tragic.

Although the ancient armor is hard, but due to the backward technology in ancient times, the armor is limited, and not every soldier can wear armor, and generally only those with relatively high official positions can wear armor, so there will be a lot of soldiers sacrificed.

Because not all soldiers can have a set of armor, it is generally the generals who can wear the armor, and the cost of armor is very high.

You must have watched too much of the relevant film and television debutants! In fact, the ancient soldiers wore armor, and the effect was still very large.

On the one hand, in the era of cold weapons orange, bows and arrows were popular. Leather armor alone can effectively weaken the lethality of the enemy's bow and arrows. If it is iron armor, plus keeping a certain distance from the enemy, it can basically be said that it is "immune" to bows and arrows!

Secondly, in the case of armor, if it is slashed by the enemy with a knife, unless it is cut to the vital part, if it is cut on the armor, it is generally injured at most, not dead. But if you don't have armor, once you get slashed by a knife, the consequences are very serious! It's like modern warfare.

The helmet has the same protective effect on the soldier.

In addition, as for guns and spears (suspected of killing people), the defensive effect of general armor is really not large. But that's a different story

First of all, don't be misled by film and television dramas.

1. The leather armor and good shirts that ancient soldiers in our country were mainly equipped with friendly defense against bows and arrows, and limited defense against knives and guns in close combat.

2. Elite iron armor, we take the six standard iron armor of the Tang Dynasty, such as Mingguang and Shanwen, and the step armor of the Song Dynasty as an example, all of which belong to heavy iron armor, which is basically immune to the attack of bows and arrows, and only the siege-level long-range ** like the bed crossbow can cause damage. In the face of close-range attacks, unless directly hit the seam of the armor or the opening of the eye, it is basically not fatal.

3. The main death in ancient wars was not direct battle death but the death of wounded soldiers, and the fatality rate of wounded soldiers was as high as 8%.

4. It is very difficult to directly hack people to death with a knife, and stabbing to death is the basic common sense of ancient weapons. Except for heavy knives like Tang Mo Knife and Ming Yanyue Knife.

5. The main ** of the nomads against the iron armor is not the knife but the bone, that is, the hammer, mainly to cause internal bleeding.

No, it is very difficult to cut through the front of the armor at once, unless it is cut into the connecting gap of the armor piece.

You are misled by film and television dramas, the war in the era of cold weapons, as long as you are not cut to the point, you will basically not be hacked to death.

Zhang Liang, known as the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty", his grandfather and father were both prime ministers of South Korea, and he is an authentic "second generation official". After Qin annihilated Korea, in the face of the cruel reality of the country's ruin and family ruin, the young Zhang Liang took out all his family wealth to recruit a strong man in Dongyi, and made a 120-pound big iron spine for this strong man, telling him to ambush in Bolangsha and wait for the opportunity to assassinate Qin Shi Huang ("Historical Records: Liuhou Family"). One pound in the Qin period was equal to 253 grams now, and one hundred and twenty pounds of large iron vertebrae was equivalent to 60 pounds today.

Why did Zhang Liang make such a heavy big iron spine? The reason is very simple: Qin Shi Huang traveled, there must be a lot of guards with him, and the assassination must be at a certain distance, if the iron vertebrae are not weighty enough, first, they can't form inertia and can't throw them away; The second is that even if it is thrown into the place, it has become the end of the crossbow and has lost its striking power.

Although in the final result, Hercules threw the iron vertebrae off and hit Qin Shi Huang's side car, but it was enough to see the power of this big iron vertebrae.

Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms had a general Dian Wei under him, who was very brave. He was good at using double halberds and broadswords, so the soldiers in the army made up such a ballad for him: "The strong man under the tent has a gentleman, and he carries a pair of halberds for eighty catties."

expressed praise for his brave spirit ("Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Dian Wei"). One catty at the time of the Three Kingdoms was equal to 220 grams now, and eighty catties at that time was equivalent to thirty-five catties today. In 197 AD, Zhang Xiu rebelled and attacked Cao Cao's camp, Dian Wei waved his halberd to rush left and right, and when he forked down, more than a dozen spears were immediately broken.

The weight of weapons and the heroic spirit of people complement each other! In particular, before Zhang Xiu's rebellion, Cao Cao had a banquet to entertain Zhang Xiu, Dian Wei followed Cao Cao with a big axe, Cao Cao every time he toasted in front of people, Dian Wei raised the big axe and looked at that person, Zhang Xiu and his entourage did not dare to look up. How much does the big axe that Dian Wei wield?

The historical data is unknown, but the blade width of the big axe reaches one foot, and its weight must not be light, perhaps because of this, Zhang Xiu and his entourage will be daunted, right?

The infantry armor of the Song Dynasty in China is the heaviest armor in Chinese history, and according to the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the Northern Song Dynasty Buren armor is made of iron armor leaves connected with leather strips or nails, which is a typical armor. Its protection range includes the whole body, and in terms of protection range, it is the closest Chinese armor to European heavy armor, but it has not reached the airtight protection level of European heavy armor.

According to the regulations of the fourth year of Song Shaoxing (1134), the Buren armor is composed of 1825 armor leaves, with a total weight of 29kg, and the protection can be improved by increasing the number of armor leaves, but the weight will increase further. For this reason, the emperor personally gave an order to limit the armor of the infantry. After that, the weight of the armor of the pikemen was set at 32-35 kg; Since the archers were often involved in melee combat, their armor was set at 28-33kg; And the armor of the crossbow shooter was set at 22-27kg.

About forty or fifty pounds.

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In the Battle of Guangqumen, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, took the lead in the battle with Houjin, resulting in several arrows in his body, and he was fine because he was wearing good armor.

If the armor is really useless, then how did Inspector Yuan survive several arrows under the firepower of the clear bow known as the "short spear projector" and "the middle is killed". In the Battle of Hitotori Bridge, the Date army faced an enemy four times its own and fought hard, and even the main general, Date Masamune, personally took the battle.

Thanks to the "Sendai chest", the one-eyed dragon himself did not become the second Yama County Changjing. So not only the bow and arrows were guarded, but also the arquebus. Where does the useless argument come from?

In 978, in a duel between Badas Phucas, the Byzantine Empire's first brave general, and his colleague Badas struck the latter in the neck with his terrible mace, the latter was able to escape, taking advantage of the darkness of night to wash the wounds and blood on his neck, and fled to the court of the Arab Baiyi Dynasty in the East.

The reason is that the latter was wearing two or three layers of chain mail and neck guards at that time, and saved his life. If Bardas Scoleroru wasn't wearing equipment at the time, the chances of being cool were basically 100 percent.

Page hammer or Morning Star mace, during the Battle of Broheath in the War of the Roses, the Jocker army and the Lancastrian army threw arrows at each other across the river with longbows. However, to the well-armed knights and hoplites on both sides, it was thunderous and rainy, and basically useless.

However, it was different for the other miscellaneous soldiers and the main fire output, the longbowmen, many of whom were shot down. This situation also led to a change in attrition tactics by the Yorkist commander Salisbury.

The reason is simple, the Yorkist army is inferior to the Lancastrian army in terms of strength and equipment: the number of people is only half of the opposite one, and it cannot afford to wear it down. At the end of the campaign, the Yorks lost 1,000 men, about one-eighth of which were lost in the opening of the battle.

Of course not. Most do not have armor. Only at the peak of the Ming and Qing feudal dynasties, more than half of the soldiers could have armor.

For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, only nobles and warriors had armor, and soldiers who were qualified to wear armor were called armorers.

One ride, there is a chariot, three soldiers, and seventy-two foot soldiers. [Nine wells are wells, four wells are yi; Siyi is a mound. Qiu 16 wells, out of the Rong horse, three cows.

Four hills are Dian, Dian sixty-four wells, out of the long hub one ride, four horses, twelve oxen, three soldiers, seventy-two foot soldiers. - Zhou Li].

Kill a soldier can get a knight, a hectare of good land, and a mansion [the first one who gets the knight, the first class, one hectare of Yitian, nine acres of Yizhai, one except for the concubine, is the official of the soldier and the officer - "Shang Junshu, Domestic Chapter"]. The head of a soldier who can wear armor is naturally not so easy to take.

Ancient soldiers should have armor, especially when they go to battle.

Armor is of particular importance, which plays the role of not only defense, but also deterrence of the enemy.

In ancient times, sharp steel weapons were used in actual combat, and warriors wore hard armor to protect themselves.