In China during the Qin and Han Dynasties, how awesome was one Han soldier to five Huns?

When it comes to ancient China, people always like to mention the glory of Han and Tang Dynasties. In fact, in the history of China, compared with its contemporaries, China in Qin and Han Dynasties had unparalleled strength, ranging from soft power to hard power.

Today, we will talk about how powerful China was in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

After Qin Shihuang unified China, he began to conquer Xiongnu with the help of foreign troops, while Meng Tian, the general of Qin Jun, was 300 Li away from Xiongnu during World War I, which made him afraid to graze in the south for several years.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, because of the long-term war, the national strength was weak, and he was besieged and humiliated by Emperor Gaozu Deng Bai. However, a few decades later, the Han dynasty, which recovered its vitality, began to conquer wantonly and defeated the Xiongnu, the strongest nomadic people in Asia and Europe at that time.

In the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the number of horses officially registered in the Han Dynasty reached 600,000, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty 800 years later that they were surpassed.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the emperor could not get four horses of the same color, but by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, every household had horses. If you walk down the street with a smaller horse in Beijing, you are embarrassed to say hello to others, and you will be despised. This alone is a hundred times stronger than the Song Dynasty after 1000 years.

The strength of China in Qin and Han Dynasties was not only the strength in culture and economy, but also the unique existence in military strength.

In our impression, the soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty were afraid of the nomadic people in the north. After all, the cavalry in the northern grassland are brave and good at fighting, while the soldiers in the south are weak.

But this problem only existed after the Western Jin Dynasty, but not during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the folk customs were tough and almost all the people were soldiers. People in the Central Plains are richer in nutrition, taller and stronger than nomadic people in the north.

During Emperor Wendi's reign, Chao Cuo, the minister, wrote to the emperor that one Han infantry could resist five Xiongnu infantry.

It can be seen that the fighting capacity of Han soldiers was completely destroyed by Xiongnu if the horse factor between Han and Hungary was not considered at that time.

What's worse is the war horse. When the problem of war horses was completely solved in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Huns were only passively beaten.

In his later years, when the political situation was unstable, Liu Yuxin was afraid of losing his life, so he launched a rebellion in the capital.

Liu opened Chang 'an armory, took out weapons and armor, and distributed them to the people in Chang 'an city.

According to Liu, the son of heaven was kidnapped by a traitor in Ganquan Palace. I'll take you to save him.

As a result, Liu took tens of thousands of civilians temporarily armed in the capital and fought fiercely with the Han regular army sent by Liang Wudi for five days! Rivers of blood!

It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used offensive tactics for the last time that the people knew that the real rebel was the prince, and then left him, and the rebellion was put down.

This is equivalent to the fact that in Washington, DC, the vice president of the United States temporarily distributed light weapons to civilians in the capital, and then fought fiercely with the elite troops of the US military for five days and five nights until the President of the United States personally ordered the solution, which is almost the same in nature.

Do you think China was fierce in Qin and Han Dynasties?