Crossover in the Anime World

Fighting wars also changed with the times. In the beginning, it was the military aristocracy, and fighting was the business of the aristocracy. The aristocracy learned the six arts: etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. Archery and charioteering were the archery and charioteering required for battle, which were combat techniques.

Moreover, the military nobles have a martial spirit and are the main force in war.

But in the Warring States Period, the military aristocracy was no longer able to fight wars, and the State of Wei used Wu Qi to reform and establish the Wei Wuzu, adopting the recruitment system. Recruiting soldiers means recruiting soldiers, and soldiers must bring their own weapons and equipment.

The selection of Wei Wuzu was very strict, and only those with excellent physical fitness and weapons and equipment were selected as soldiers. Wei State relied on Wei Wuzu to become the first great power in the Warring States Period. Wei Wuzu was a citizen soldier.

Then came Shang Yang's reform, which was the conscription system. Every Qin citizen had the obligation to farm and serve in the army. No matter how healthy you were, as long as you had no missing limbs, you had to join the army and fight. No weapons? The court gave them to you. With weapons, you went to the battlefield to chop off heads. By chopping off heads, you could accumulate military merits and get promoted.

Military aristocrats, recruiting soldiers, and conscription, the scale of wars was getting bigger and bigger, so in the Qin and Han dynasties, the aristocrats no longer pursued martial spirit, but learned military tactics. For example, Xiang Yu was extremely strong, but he said that he should not learn to defeat a hundred people, but to defeat ten thousand people. For example, Han Xin, Han Xin said that the more soldiers he had, the better.

Whether it was a great noble like Xiang Yu or a poor noble like Han Xin, the two most capable generals in the Chu-Han War were both trained in military tactics, not martial spirit, because war was completely different. Facing a huge number of soldiers, the military nobles were just mortals in armor, unable to stop an enemy that was several times their size.

Later, the military farming and military service system basically combined farming and warfare, and of course some soldiers needed to bring their own weapons. In the Warring States Period, only the Chinese had the money to prepare weapons, and the barbarians who farmed could only rely on the court to distribute weapons. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, farmers under the military service system could also prepare a set of equipment.

The difference between conscription and recruitment is whether the equipment is provided by the court or paid for by the soldiers themselves.

Of course, recruiting and conscription are not fixed, and usually occur alternately. At the beginning, recruiting must be the first step, after all, conscription requires a total mobilization, which is very costly. If recruiting can win the war, there is no need to mobilize more people.

Of course, conscription does not necessarily lead to victory, because conscription has a scope. For example, if all nobles were required to join the army at the beginning, it would be considered conscription. If all citizens were required to join the army, it would also be conscription. If all able-bodied men were required to join the army, it would also be conscription. The scope of conscription also varies.

Recruiting soldiers is to treat being a soldier as a profession, while conscription is to treat being a soldier as an obligation.

The West was the same, starting with military aristocracy, then citizen soldiers, and then soldiers. At first, Rome required citizens to serve in the military, and the welfare of Roman citizens was bread, baths, and gladiatorial contests.

Later, when citizen conscription failed, they began to recruit soldiers. After serving in the army for a period of time, one could become a Roman citizen, so freemen could join the army. Freemen were usually people who came to Rome from other places. They were not locals, but they could become Romans by serving in the army.

As for whether to recruit or conscript soldiers, different situations require different analysis. But whether recruiting citizens to fight or conscripting citizens to fight, resources should be allocated to them.

As the scale of war expands, changes must be made. The reason why the colonial system disintegrated and civil rights were decentralized after World War I and World War II was largely because the scale of war was getting bigger and bigger, and the old powers needed to recruit soldiers from the colonies and also need to conscript soldiers from the country.

The war caused a shift in resources, and the old powers could no longer maintain their control over the colonies. Domestic citizens also had more and more demands, and welfare was constantly increased.

Just like Rome, citizen soldiers need rights to fulfill their obligations, and barbarians are transformed into Romans by serving in the army. In the end, Rome was divided, and the Western Roman Empire was directly replaced by barbarians and no longer called itself Roman.

Therefore, the changes brought about by war are very important. For citizens and free people, war is an opportunity to demand their rights from the nobles.

The nobles alone cannot win the war, so citizens, freemen, and even barbarians are needed. Citizens certainly need more welfare, and freemen and barbarians also need the status of citizens.

If the nobles didn't give, they would be beheaded by the nobles of other countries. But if they gave, where would the money come from? They could only lead troops to rob and expand continuously, which put Rome in a dilemma.

By the time of World War I and World War II, the scale of the war was beyond the tolerance of the nobility, so more people who were not considered human beings before participated in the war, such as black soldiers and women working in factories, all of whom contributed to the war.

The large-scale war brought about the Second World War order, which is the decentralization of citizenship. Everyone is a citizen, so they are distinguished by money.

However, with the development of science and technology, weapons are becoming more and more powerful. Military satellites, small nuclear bombs, and war weapons are becoming more and more powerful. It seems that we can return to the era when a small number of soldiers determine the outcome of the war, and we no longer need so many big soldiers.

Military nobles can also gain powerful combat power by transforming their bodies, and perhaps return to the era of martial spirit, where a few enhanced nobles can fight against an army. No matter how many soldiers there are, they cannot defeat a high-tech mecha special forces.

This is the impact of changes in weapons on warfare.

In ancient times, nobles relied on bronze chariots to maintain their superiority. However, as the number of military formations increased, chariots were too slow and gradually became obsolete.

Then came the cavalry, a few nobles relied on the cavalry to suppress the army. Then everyone tried to find ways to deal with the cavalry, but when firearms appeared, the cavalry's advantage was gone.

If there are iron troops in the future, they will definitely be the privilege of a few nobles.

The confrontation between spear and shield has been going on, and power comes from the barrel of a gun. Whoever controls high-end weapons will have the upper hand. From chariots, armor to cavalry, mastering cutting-edge weapons can form an aristocratic regime.

As shields become more powerful, spears will need to recruit more people. Just like Rome, the Roman citizen militia was invincible at the beginning, but in the end it could not win and could only win by recruiting people from the free people.

There was also the Eastern Roman Empire, which raised the banner of monotheism during the war, which gathered more strength and improved its combat effectiveness.

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Weapons, numbers, and fighting spirit are all ways to increase combat effectiveness. Everyone wants to hold the spear, but in turn he is controlled by the spear.

For the nobles, weapons are the most important. If a few weapons can defeat the enemy, then the number of troops and their will are not necessary. To maintain the number of troops and their will is to pay an uncontrollable price.

The number of people and their ambitions are closely related to one person, so it is difficult to control them. Bread, bathhouses, and gladiatorial fights all cost real money, and it is a sin to give all that money to this soldier.

The morale of the army was to suppress the desires of the nobility. For example, the Eastern Roman Empire held high the banner of monotheism, which did make everyone's combat effectiveness stronger, but the nobility also had to accept the restrictions of monotheism and enter an era of abstinence.

Weapons are still most beneficial to the nobles. No matter the relationship between people, as long as the weapons are powerful enough to kill people, that's enough.

However, the lesson of history is that weapons can never be controlled by ourselves alone. The enemy will also quickly gain control of the weapons, and then we will still have to mobilize people one by one.

Even so, weapons must be developed, because weapons are a good way for nobles to master the martial spirit and maintain their advantages. If the advantage of weapons disappears, they will have to borrow strength from citizens and freemen, and then there will be no small trouble. The money of nobles does not come from the wind.

If you don't have money, you have to rob, and robbing requires more soldiers. More soldiers require more money, which can be said to be a vicious cycle.

So the nobles can't stop either, once the war starts, they can't stop. This is the case with Napoleon and the head of state, because they mobilized people, and these people needed more power.

The same is true in the United States, which also allowed blacks and women to become citizens. However, the nobles also had a solution. Since everyone was a citizen, they continued the division of labor using the ancient Greek method.

It can be said that this is the cyclical law of Western history. First, create a weapon advantage. When the weapon advantage disappears, mobilize citizens and absorb free people. Finally, if you can win, continue the cycle. If you can't win, split.