The fortune teller said I had 100,000 soldiers and horses _ What did the fortune teller mean when he said I had 100,000 soldiers and horses?

The fortune teller said that I had 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Ancient people liked to fool people when fighting. They dare to say that there are hundreds of soldiers and horses at 50 thousand, which just shows that many people scare the enemy. So their military forces may mean that there are so many soldiers, or that there are so many military forces, or even not enough military forces to scare people.

In ancient China, there were hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn. I remember historical records that more than 200,000 people killed Zhao Jun in Tian Lei. In the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu crossed the rubicon and defeated 300,000 people in Qin Jun. Liu Bang assembled 800,000 troops from various countries and was defeated by Xiang Yu's 654.38+ 10,000 troops. Battle of Red Cliffs and Cao Cao are also known as millions of troops. Were there really so many troops in China at that time?

The population of early China may be only a few million. How can so many people be recruited as soldiers? In fact, there are many millions of troops, and hundreds of thousands of troops are all water. For example, a hundred thousand troops are not purely combat troops. You know, under the terrible logistics support system in ancient times, the loss of food on the light supply line was a huge expense. So, is this 100,000-strong army the sum of combat troops and logistics personnel? There were usually three kinds of people in the ancient army: soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and strong men. But for different purposes, commanders often count auxiliary soldiers and people who can't fight.

Even if there were hundreds of thousands of combat troops, it was very difficult to arrange these hundreds of thousands of troops in a unified way in ancient times when communication was extremely poor.

In addition, history books are written by people, and what people write may be fake. Just like the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty attacked Vietnam, it claimed that its troops reached 800,000, and Vietnam directly claimed that its troops were 5 million. In fact, the two sides add up to less than 300 thousand.

Moreover, how to calculate the number of people in ancient times, it is difficult to count so many people completely. Maybe the ancient counting methods were all multiplied by 10. There should be hundreds of thousands of troops fighting in ancient times, but not many. In most cases, there are only tens of thousands of troops.