The life of ancient farmers was not rich, and most of them were poor. If nutrition can't keep up, physical fitness will be poor. Even if the later nutrition keeps up, it can't compare with the butler. Soldiers from peasant backgrounds obey the arrangement and command of their superiors when fighting. Individuals have no skills and tactics, and they are rampaging with weapons. This is unmatched by generals who have accumulated rich combat experience after years of training.
Fighting is not a fight between two groups of people under their respective leadership. It's called fighting. War is very disciplined. Now it is playing football. Playing football without discipline is called national football. Military commanders are used to talking about discipline. Those who rushed in front of the battle were brave soldiers in the army. Let the general lead the charge. Even if the general wants to, people around him have to pull hard. Who is in charge when the general runs ahead to kill the enemy? If the general dies, all his relatives and friends will suffer.
General military commanders have armor. Some will wear heavy armor, which is two layers of armor! No sword, spear, halberd, axe, hook or fork works well. Of course, military commanders are fierce. The soldier is much more pitiful. In ancient China, the armor rate was very low. 30% at most would be great. Most soldiers have no armor, and even if they have armor, their quality is not as good as that of military commanders.
In modern people's eyes, the ancient generals were brave warriors with one enemy and a hundred soldiers, because all the generals portrayed in TV dramas could fight their way out in the heavy encirclement of the enemy. For example, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Jun was surrounded in order to rescue Liu Bei's son, while Zhao Yun only rescued Dou from a tribe unscathed. Also, Xiang Yu, known as the first god of war in ancient China, can easily lift a tripod. Every time he rushes into the enemy line, he can easily cut down the enemy, and one person can cut down hundreds of enemies. Are ancient generals really that powerful? How many soldiers could a general fight in ancient times?
In ancient times, people who could become generals were not ordinary people. Generally speaking, there are not many ways to become a general. The first one is to pass the imperial examination, that is, the martial arts champion exam, and beat the masters from all over the country to become the martial arts champion. After becoming a martial arts champion, he easily took the position of general. The second is hereditary system. Generally, the descendants of generals need to practice martial arts from an early age before they can continue to be generals when they grow up. There is another person who has made great contributions. Those who have made great achievements in the battle can also be promoted to become generals through abnormality, which means that the overall quality of generals is higher than that of ordinary people. But does this mean that a general can be defeated by an enemy?
There is no denying that the general does have some martial arts. There is a saying that generals are scarce, that is, thousands of troops are easy to get, and generals are hard to find. But the scarcity of generals does not mean that generals can kill dozens or even hundreds of people in a row in the war, and they can retreat unscathed after being besieged. If the suspicion of exaggeration is ruled out, it is the limit that a general can confront five ordinary soldiers in actual situations, provided that these five ordinary soldiers don't eat for free and won't be scared by the general's momentum. In the face of five ordinary soldiers, a general can't say so much energy to confront them, because the general is human in nature and has no superhuman powers.