Why didn't soldiers in ancient wars lie on the ground and play dead?

The first scenario: your own people won the battle! Comrades will gather the bodies of their own people together and either burn them in a single fire or bury them on the spot, or see if they can be saved if there are any who are not dead. This is when you suddenly blow up your body, so guess what your buddies will do with you?

The second situation: the enemy won! You're in for a rude awakening.

First, the enemy examines the bodies of the enemies, and if any of them are not dead, they stab them! Well, you were successful in playing dead, and the enemy thought you were dead, so do you think the enemy will let you go?

Of course not! The enemy will strip off your armor, and if your clothes are intact, they will strip them off, and search your purse for money! Can you keep playing dead?

This is not the worst of it, some armies fought on the basis of the head, even if you are dead, the head will be cut off, pickled in lime and sent to the capital, which is the silver and the military ah!

There is a more powerful, do you believe that some of the army vicious, in the exhaustion of food, you will be eaten as a "two-legged sheep"? Play dead? The first thing you need to do is to run for your life, or you can just pick up your sword and fight it out!

When you see your comrades being killed, your teammates become cold corpses, in the sound of drums, killing sound, you will certainly be boiling blood, angry hair, pick up the weapon to kill the opposite side of the grandson!

People who haven't experienced that kind of atmosphere won't understand that kind of feeling, that's why comrades in arms are the greatest and strongest feelings in the world.

Of course you can lie down and play dead! When a war occurs, those new recruits who have just gone to war, which have seen what bloody scenes, basically scared to pee. The only thing on their mind is to escape from the battlefield and survive.

Especially in ancient times, many soldiers were ordinary people who were captured, and were dragged to the battlefield after a little training. That's why there were cases of soldiers running away, playing dead, and surrendering on the battlefield.

But if you want to survive by playing dead, you have to pass these three hurdles at least.

The first hurdle: the relentless decimation of the several supervillains.

From ancient times to the present day, whenever a deserter is caught, he or she will be punished with the harshest penalties. Armies are generally set up to deal with deserters, called supervisors in ancient times and supervisory teams in modern times.

The main responsibility of these soldiers is not to kill the enemy, but to patrol the area, but whenever they find a soldier who is cowardly, retreating or escaping, they will be arrested, and if they are found, they will be killed on the spot.

For example, the warlord Zhang Zongchang set up a White Russian army to supervise his soldiers. In the War of Resistance against Japan, the National Army also had supervisory teams, and a large number of them existed, in order to prevent soldiers from fleeing on the battlefield. There are also like the Soviet German Stalingrad defense war, the Soviet army every time in the charge, will be behind the soldiers set up machine guns, and its role is to force the soldiers to charge, and shoot to kill the soldiers who escaped and retreated.

Of course, lying on the ground and pretending to be dead and escaping is actually a nature, but wherever it is found, it is difficult to escape death.

2. Being trampled to death by the soldiers coming at you.

In the ancient times belonged to the era of cold weapons, the two sides of the war are close to the courtesy of me to cut each other with weapons, coupled with the larger scale of the war, often the number of both sides of the tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people.

So, when you lie down on the ground to play dead, either by people stepping on or horse stepped on, you after all, is not a copper body iron bone, not to say that by the horse stepped on, was stepped on two feet may be broken arms and legs.

3. Clean up the battlefield after the war was killed

Even if you avoided the last two passes, there is still a pass to be passed, generally after the end of the battle, the winning side will clean up the battlefield.

One is to collect the loot, recycling useful supplies and weapons. The second is to make up for the missing fish, wounded not dead, lying on the ground pretending to be dead after the discovery of the general will be put to death. In ancient times, there is no preferential treatment of prisoners, take care of the wounded said.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu fought with the Qin army and captured 200,000 Qin soldiers alive. In the end, fearing a mutiny among the captives, he directly ordered the 200,000 soldiers to be killed in a pit.

In summary, although it is feasible to pretend to be dead while fighting, the probability of surviving is very small.

The answer is impossible.

As long as we know how ancient soldiers were promoted, we will know that it is impossible.

In ancient times, it was based on the number of enemy heads you got after killing the enemy and the number of prisoners you captured.

A lot of history records that a lot of people were decapitated after a war, and the more heads a soldier turned in after a war, the bigger the reward he got.

With the passage of time, the scale of the war to expand, has developed into more than 100,000 people of the big melee, the more heads you beheaded, then the more rewards, so many soldiers began to use a small smart, every time the war is over, the surviving soldiers began to a large number of collection of heads, regardless of whether it is the enemy's or their own friendly troops, as long as it is the head of the dead people are scrambling to snatch.

So pretending to be dead on the battlefield is not feasible, what is the point of pretending to be dead when the soldiers cleaning up the battlefield after the war will decapitate the heads of all the fallen soldiers?

Playing dead if you can survive, that ancient war on the battlefield all lie down. The battlefield pretending to be dead to survive is a fluke, the probability is not live, either by the cleanup of the battlefield to solve, or by their own Governor on the ground, in short, can not escape death.

Ancient costume drama, people often see, the two sides of the warring parties to fight you to death, rushed in the first line of soldiers fell in a row, the sand field above the wolf smoke everywhere, the blood flow into a river. Then, some of the partners will have a whim, if the battlefield play dead, can not dodge a bullet, and so on the end of the war can bugger off.

This idea is too ideal, in ancient times is unlikely to appear, if there is that is similar to the luck of the lottery. In the ancient battlefield, if you want to pretend to be dead to escape, you have to pass through these hurdles.

In ancient times, there were supervisors like this in the army, just to prevent the existence of deserters. Once the Supervisors found that you have not yet how to fight it, you lie on the ground first, then you must be pulled up and chopped.

During the Warring States period, Duke Hui of Qin led 500,000 Qin troops to attack Wei, and Marquis Wen of Wei panicked and invited Wu Qi to fight against him, and the two armies pulled off against each other in Yin Jin. When the battle was about to be fought, Wu Qi promised to reward the generals if they defeated the Qin army, and if the generals died in battle, their wives and children would be supported.

On the contrary, if there are any fleeing generals, Wu Qi will kill them on sight. Wu Qi set up a team to supervise the battles and stood at the end of the line with a big, shiny sword, so that if any soldier escaped, he would be cut down immediately. Under Wu Qi's favor and authority, the 50,000 Wei soldiers will all charge desperately, and the 500,000 Qin soldiers will run away in all directions.

If you think you're going to be able to get past the big, shiny swords of the army, there are still a few more hurdles waiting for you.

On the battlefield, quite a deserter is not easy, lying on the ground playing dead, may not even escape the danger of stray arrows. It is not easy to find a flat place, lying down comfortably, surely the next second will be arrows shot at you.

In the ancient battlefield, it was too difficult to escape by pretending to be dead! The first thing you need to know is that in ancient times, most battles were fought in an array, with a large group of teams moving forward in groups.

Walking, if you suddenly pretend to be dead lying down, either will be pulled up by his companions, or will be stepped on by his companions. You should know that in ancient times, wounded soldiers on the battlefield would be trampled if they did not pay attention, not to mention the people who lay down motionless and pretended to be dead.

If the war is won by your side, then the soldiers will take back the body for burial, and if you are found lying still and pretending to be dead, the probability is that you will be pulled out and chopped up, and if you continue to pretend you will be buried deep.

But if the enemy victory, then the enemy will come out to clean up the battlefield, encountered gasping one by one to make up. So, the most dangerous situation on the battlefield to pretend to be dead, is to meet the enemy to clean up the battlefield, escape is not continue to pretend is not.

In summary, playing dead on the battlefield, if you are found by your own side, it is to be treated as a deserter, and if you are found by the enemy, it is a knife. Let's take a look at how desertion has been treated throughout the ages.

During the Qin Dynasty, Shang Yang changed the law to stipulate that a deserter would not only be punished by the law, but also by his comrades in the same team. In such a case, if you play dead and run away, your comrades will definitely expose you to save yourself. It is understandable why, when Liu Bang conquered the levies, there was escape, and Liu Bang could only tell everyone to disperse, because of the guilt-by-association system.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Laws categorized desertion on the battlefield into two types, one is desertion on the verge of battle, and the other is desertion on duty. Desertion refers to, has carried the sword on the battlefield but escape, if the escape one day to catch back to do the sentence of one year, if more than 15 days directly to hang. If you run away while fighting, then you will be caught and chopped directly.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Zhu Wen put his army generals face all the stabbing words, so that escape is easy to be caught back, escape full day directly beheaded. In the early Song Dynasty, has been followed by Zhu Wen's "full one day at the beheading", Song Renzong period of leniency for "full three days at the beheading", Song Shenzong period is even more lenient to the "full seven days at the beheading". This is also understandable, but also what the late Song Dynasty military capabilities continue to decline, is because the rule of the army more and more relaxed.

Ming and Qing dynasties, for soldiers fleeing on the battlefield, either beheaded or hanged, in short, it is difficult to escape death. The Qing Dynasty, but also on the desertion of soldiers added three words "decapitation", even if the surrender will be executed, which shows how much the cost of escape.

In the ancient battlefield, pretending to be dead is just a different way to die, and it's better to fight than to do so, and perhaps even build a career.

The reason why soldiers didn't lie on the ground and play dead in ancient times was because the situation on the battlefield was so fluid that what you thought was playing dead could very well turn out to be true death.

We from the TV series will come up with such an impression, in the ancient war, everyone with a knife and gun fighting in a mess, the enemy in me, I in the enemy, we are in a mess, who's martial arts is high, who will be able to win. And if you can't beat it, you can lie on the ground and play dead, but is that actually the case.

And the grueling nature of ancient battlefields is by no means something that those of us who have not seen battle can imagine.

And you play dead on the battlefield, it is very likely that you will encounter the following situations:

In the ancient battlefield, everyone in addition to swords, guns, swords, spears, the use of the most is the crossbow and arrows, arrows, refers to the bow and arrow, by human power to shoot. And the crossbow, it is those who increase the shooting power of the crossbow through the mechanical, and the crossbow gap is also very large, small crossbow, a single soldier can be manipulated.

For example, this crossbow, a soldier through the waist force can pull, and then shoot crossbows to kill the enemy.

In addition, there are some giant crossbows, such as bed crossbows, some huge bed crossbows can often shoot a few meters long, the front like a shovel crossbow. For example, the Song Dynasty's nine ox crossbow, you need nine oxen to pull, such a crossbow shot out, often horses and men can be shot into two.

In addition, there are stone throwers, it can be said that in the entire battlefield, there is no place is safe, perhaps you hide in the ground to play dead, either by a large area covered by crossbow arrows to the death, or to do not know where to throw the boulder smashed to death, but also by the horses and men trampled and stepped on the death.

In short, no matter what kind of, lying on the ground playing dead, the danger is very big.

After a big battle, no matter which side won, the winning side will be cleaning the battlefield.

On the one hand, it is to carry out some recycling of usable materials, such as arrows, armor, flags. On the one hand, it is also checking whether there is any living among the soldiers, and if they are from the already side, they will be rescued; if they are from the enemy side, they will often cut off the head for counting the credit. Or rather, just make up for it.

For example, Qin during the Warring States period, since Shang Yang changed the law, rewarded plowing and fighting, and as long as there was enough battle merit, you could be knighted, and one of the ways they recorded military merit was by the head. Therefore, the soldiers of Qin were so demoralized that they often went into battle bare-chested, hacked their enemies to death, cut off their heads, hung them on their waists, and continued to hunt down their enemies. That's why they were called the "Tyrannical Qin".

In addition, many dynasties in China have the situation of counting the merits of the first rank, even to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is this practice, so there are a lot of killing innocent people, and then their first rank to fill up the number of the merits of the vice of the emergence of the generation.

So, you think you can escape by lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, but you don't know that your rounded head, in the eyes of the enemy soldiers, may be the future, is the battle, is the merit. Even in order to fight for your head, it will cause a brawl.

In the unearthed tomb of the Qin state "Xi", once found a case.

From this, we can see the importance of the head on the ancient battlefield, so lying on the ground and pretending to be dead is not a way to escape.

In addition to this, there was also the phenomenon of the enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

At the time of cleaning up the battlefield, encountered the enemy is gasping for air, there are signs of life of the soldiers, if the injury is too serious, there is no cure possible, the probability is that the direct mending knife.

In ancient times, after a big battle, corpses everywhere, if no one cleaned up. There is also the phenomenon of being gnawed by wild dogs.

Far from it, let's say the modern era, this half of the month, the Indian epidemic has been from the horrifying figures of the scandalous into the daily transmission of more and more like the drama of the extreme thriller story, crematorium around the clock, the people in poor areas such as the animals generally die ...

In today's foreign media and reported a horrible news in India, just look at the headlines Let people incredibly shocked - India's Ganges River is now floating hundreds of suspected new crown deaths, the scene is horrible.

The most people sucked in a breath of cold air, no more than this floating corpse in the water, actually appeared a wild dog, this do not know where the wild dog half squatting in the corpses rotting odor strong smell of the shore of the water, and so on someone close to the body calmly stood up and ready to leave.

After more and more onlookers on the shore, the wild dog left the scene of the crime at the right time, but also high-pitched yells.

The villagers suspected that the stray dogs had come to eat the carrion of the corpse...

From this, you can imagine the ancient times, when a battle was over, the silence of the battlefield, a group of wild dogs gnawing on the corpse, if you are playing dead, it is estimated that you can not escape the wolves gnawing on the end.

Of course, there are exceptions to the rule, for example, in the World War II battlefield, there are soldiers pretending to be dead to escape a special case.

During the Normandy landings of World War II, a U.S. paratrooper parachuted down and got stuck on the roof of a church. He chose to keep playing dead, while all the other American paratroopers who landed nearby were shot by the Germans on landing.

In fact, the paratrooper was able to see the battle below as he hung from the church. He hung limbless for a full two hours before the Germans captured him, during which time he played dead and dared not move. After his capture, John escaped without incident and rejoined the American camp. He attacked the German village, capturing 30 Germans alive and killing 11 enemy soldiers. If he hadn't pretended to be dead at the time, he wouldn't have gotten the war credit he got later.

And the paratrooper who got stuck on the church was actually John of the 505th Division Parachute Regiment, and there is still a statue of him and a parachute hanging from that church.

In short, it's risky to play dead, and you have to be careful, not everyone is as lucky as he was.

There are a handful of soldiers who have faked their own deaths in the midst of a chaotic army, but countless others have lost their lives as a result.

First of all, pretending to be dead is an art, and if you think you can easily escape in a battle of thousands of soldiers, you are wrong, because both sides of the battle, no matter which side is victorious, will always clean up the battlefield at the end.

If you can't escape before organizing the battlefield, the probability is that you will eventually be captured. If captured by the enemy, they may be able to survive by selling information, but if captured by their own army, it's a dead end.

From ancient times, there was no difference between playing dead and deserting on the battlefield.

Secondly, playing dead also requires courage. In ancient times, the chaos of the army once fell, it is inevitable that the trampling, and the battlefield soldiers and horses are sometimes equipped with excellent equipment, if one person may be trampled on, then by the countless people trampled on the after it? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

Furthermore, playing dead is essentially an act of chance. As the saying goes, it's not as easy as it looks, but it's all in the timing and the way you dispose of the body.

Although playing dead and running away is not an honorable thing to do, it's not entirely wrong to want to escape in the midst of the chaos and the horror of it all.

Although pretending to be dead is a means of escape, but in ancient times all the soldiers who had a little bit of brains would not choose this next step.