Zhao Bing quickly understood the reason for their dispute from the two's statements - the heads they captured were inconsistent with what they saw. After the war last night, because he was worried that the Mongolian army would go back and took the opportunity to enter the camp, Tian Zhong did not order the camp to clean the battlefield. Of course, this cannot be said to be too cautious, but the Yuan army often used the "counter-kill" tactic.

In history, wars often have the head and military merits. After all, in ancient times, the head of the enemy killed by his own hands was the best evidence to prove his military merits. Therefore, when fighting, sometimes the phenomenon of "killing one enemy, thirty or fifty people competed for it" occurred. The Mongols used the opponent's mentality of "focusing on merits" to deliberately set up a trap. They used several people as bait to lure the opponent forward to compete for merits, but their team suddenly rushed out. As a result, the opponent not only could not get one head, but would suffer losses, and even the enemy was riding through the camp.

Therefore, Tian Zhong ordered people to go out to the camp to clean the battlefield and take stock of the results. As a result, only more than 30 heads were collected, and six of them were not recognized because of serious damage. According to his report in two battles, Ni Liang defeated three thousand-man teams of the enemy and burned more than 20 vehicles of baggage, but only more than 60 heads were collected.

Wang Yinglin was very surprised after seeing the statistics of the results. The reasons why this report was inconsistent with the actual situation were nothing more than two situations. One was that the general took the blame and reported the results in lieu of the results; the other was that the officials responsible for accepting the results were forgery, deliberately missed or underreported the seizure. However, he saw it with his own eyes last night, but there were only hundreds of enemy troops who died under landmines and artillery. Therefore, it was determined that Cao Cheng, the doctor of the Ministry of War, deliberately suppressed the results, and then had a fierce debate with him.

After clarifying the whole story, Zhao Bing was left with only a hehe, because in ancient wars, there was always an increase in the number of first-level numbers and killing enemies. Not only were there debates at present, but it was even left to later generations. He had argued with many people on the Internet about this. Some people believed that historical records were incorrect; some people thought that historians were all morally honest and would never conceal the truth; some people thought that both military generals made fake achievements and emperors were very happy to do it on purpose; they even rose to political heights, which was linked to the social system at that time.

But after arguing, no one knows what the truth of history looks like. Zhao Bing still remembers that there were two examples that were most fiercely debated: one was the famous raid and defeated the Yinshan battle of the famous general Li Jing defeated the Eastern Turkic Khan Court. The "Old Book of Tang: Biography of Li Jing" records that "Jing killed more than 10,000 men and women, and captured more than 100,000 men and women." Everyone thought that it was unreasonable to attack while leading 10,000 troops, but beheaded 10,000, and there must be fakes.

Another example is that Zhu Houzhao, the Emperor Zhengde of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, personally led the expedition and achieved the "Yingzhou Victory" that the Mongols dared not go deep for many years. As a result, nearly 100,000 troops on both sides fought for a day, and the Ming army beheaded 16 people, but his own side injured 563 people and killed 25 people. Obviously, the number of casualties was awkward, so he thought that the scholars did not like Zhu Houzhao and deliberately slandered him, or used this as an example of Zhu Houzhao's failure to pretend to be.

This problem also plagued Zhao Bing for many years. It was not until he came to this world and experienced many wars that he realized that although the records in historical books may be wrong, they are not outrageous.

To answer this question, we must first clarify a concept: what kind of heads can be counted as military merits? In ancient times, most of the heads that can be counted as complete heads obtained by soldiers' hand-to-hand combat. Other corpses such as those beaten to pieces by firearms cannot be counted as military merits in theory. Those corpses that were stolen by enemies cannot be counted as such.

Considering the killing efficiency of cold weapons, unless it is an encirclement or annihilation or a defeat war, the number of enemies that can be directly killed on the battlefield is often quite limited. Even in an encirclement and annihilation and a defeat war, the number of heads that soldiers can obtain is actually quite limited. As for Li Jing's battle in Yinshan, his ability is actually quite famous. Moreover, Li Jing's battle also "captured more than 10,000 men and women" in this battle, and it also took place in the Khanate of the Eastern Turks, which was a large number of people. Therefore, the "more than 10,000" winning rate achieved by the 10,000 elite soldiers led by Li Jing was actually quite low.

The number of beheadings of the Ming army when facing the Mongols that Zhu Houzhao won was often pitifully low. Is it because the Ming army was too unable to fight? Or the Mongols were too able to fight? The fact is that there are other reasons and it is quite complicated.

Judging from Zhao Bing and his many years of experience on the battlefield, although in modern film and television dramas, the ancient battlefield is often represented as a very chaotic state of melee. However, in the history of wars between ancient and modern times, this situation rarely occurs. In most cases, the two armies formed a battle formation, and on the basis of maintaining a certain distance, they shot each other through bows and arrows, or stabbed each other with spears. Therefore, the battlefield battles in modern film and television dramas are actually difficult to occur in history.

The most likely situation to cause chaos in the battle formation is the so-called "spear pushing" phenomenon caused by the two armies' charges too fiercely, but even if it is pushing the spear, there will be no situation of mixed enemy and us in film and television dramas. Therefore, in ancient battlefield situations, when one side advances fiercely, the other side will be suppressed and retreated. In this case, soldiers who keep advancing easily capture the injured soldiers who are not in time to rescue the other side as prisoners, or cut off the heads of the soldiers who have not had time to drag away. The enemy forces forced to retreat have the opportunity to kill the opponent's soldiers even during the retreat, but under the suppression of the opponent's spear and other weapons, they have no time to harvest the heads.

Then the Mongols' combat methods were not what everyone thought were to be the main ones, and during combat, they did not run together, and they rushed forward with horses. After approaching, they suppressed the enemy with bows and arrows, and found their weaknesses, and then rushed up to break through the breakthrough, thereby breaking the formation and defeating the enemy's defense. The fact is that although the organization of Mongolian cavalry is different from that of the Central Plains dynasty, they also pay attention to the cooperation between small teams.

When Mongolian cavalrymen join the war, they often use three people as teams to fight against the enemy horizontally. Among the three people is the hook gunman, equipped with hook sickle guns and bows and arrows, responsible for charge and sprinting; on the right is the riding archer, equipped with waist swords and bows and arrows, responsible for early shooting and killing; on the left is the saber hand, equipped with waist swords and bows and arrows, and after the hook gunman breaks through the enemy's front, assists the hook gunman to follow up and kill.

If there are many enemy soldiers, the Mongolian cavalry will avoid frontal contact. They use cavalry advantages to surround the enemy and use the formation tactics to mount the enemy. During the circumference, they can mount and kill and injure them. However, because the Mongolians have heavy arrows, the distance between cavalry and fire is not far. Generally, between 2 or 30 steps, and the farthest will not exceed fifty steps. Although the distance is very close, the infantry cannot move in this situation. Once the formation is loose, the Mongolian cavalry can take advantage of the opportunity and can only persist silently. Therefore, the ancients said that hundreds of cavalry can wrap up the crowd, which is the reason.

If there were few Ming soldiers, the Mongolian cavalry would directly charge the Ming army with their strength and cavalry's dual advantages. During the charge, the cavalry held the guns in both hands, tilted forward or sprinted with a single arm; the cavalry's arm was straight in front and pointed forward, and the knife was parallel to the horse's head; the cavalry's arm was straight, and the knife was parallel to the horse's head; the cavalry held the bow with the left hand and the right hand was scattered.

Therefore, when the Mongolian cavalry attacks, it not only pays attention to the cooperation between the teams, but also not only equips with bows, arrows and scimitars, but also spears. The spears of Mongolian soldiers are also very distinctive. The hook and sickle spears are generally six or seven feet long, which is more than two meters long, and can be stabbed or cut. Another function is that they can easily hook away the bodies of their companions to death.

In fact, not only the Central Plains army paid attention to rescuing injured companions and restraining their comrades who died in battle, nomadic people also attach great importance to the remains of the dead. Mongolian soldiers usually prepare spare horses when fighting, one person with two horses or three horses, and the wealthy one person with five horses or even eight horses. In the three-person combat team, if one person is killed in battle or injured and fell off a horse during the battle, the rest of the idle people are obliged to snatch their bodies in time to avoid being cut off by the enemy's heads, otherwise they will be severely punished by military law.

Therefore, after a companion is seriously injured and falls off a horse, the Mongolian cavalry will rush the companion with a hook and sickle, throw it directly onto the extra spare horses, and it will be difficult for the infantry to catch up with it unless the corpse falls down by itself, commonly known as "picking up corpses". Of course, in addition to punishment, Mongolian soldiers will also have material rewards for rescuing companions or corpses. If you save a noble, then you will become prosperous after you go back, and the nobles will take out their armor and equipment for your horse money for you to choose from; it will not be a loss to save ordinary people. After being rescued, they will take out the things they have snatched and their property equally with their benefactor. If the corpse is retrieved, it will be even more enjoyable!

In short, strong maneuver, strict laws and regulations, and high rewards have made this system continue, and it is difficult for the opponent's soldiers to rob them in battle, so as not to be killed by the Mongols when cutting their heads, which would be less than worth the loss. Therefore, even after winning, they can only pick up the heads that they cannot take away and cut off the corpse that fell off the horse in the middle, and they still have to face the strict inspection standards of the cadet officers, so naturally they will not have many heads.

Zhao Bing thought of the reason why he often struggled for a day but could not get a few heads in historical records. The result was that he was criticized by various censors. Even the great victory of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty was recorded as such a strange and strange important reason. With the large-scale use of firearms in war, for soldiers on the battlefield, the winning rate of heads that only competed with hand-to-hand combat became lower, which was basically comparable to the probability of winning the lottery.

In yesterday's battle, Ni Liang used surprise attacks, focusing on fast advancement and retreating so as not to get caught in the siege of enemy reinforcements and be counter-killed. Therefore, even if there are many enemies killed in the battle, he basically has no time to clean the battlefield and harvest the enemy's heads. The battle in the defensive camp mainly uses the advantages of landmines and artillery. Thinking about what the corpse of the hit person will look like, I'm afraid he won't even know it anymore...
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