The heyday of the Roman Empire was from 98 to 1 17, when Emperor Trajan ruled. Its territory spans Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea has become its inner lake, with a population of over 40 million, and it is constantly expanding outward. Trajan was the only Roman emperor who reached the Persian Gulf and the farthest emperor in the crusade.
Roman legion VS dahan army
The heyday of the Han Dynasty was from the reign of Emperor Han Ming in the Eastern Han Dynasty to Zhang Han in 28-88 AD, which was only a few decades away from the heyday of Rome. In the heyday of the Han Dynasty, the whole East Asia was a sphere of influence, with a population of more than 60 million, and the control area and population were not much different from those of the Roman Empire.
One of the reasons for the continuous expansion of the Roman Empire was the strength of the Roman Legion. The Roman legion is the name of the Roman army. In terms of legions, a legion ranges from 4,500 to 6,000. The main force of the legion is heavy infantry, supplemented by some cavalry, archers, javelin soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.
Roman legion
After Marius' reform, the Roman Legion became a professional army, with fighting as its only occupation, and its combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment were improved. The characteristics of the Roman Legion are: the ability of individual combat and overall formation combat is super strong, mainly heavy infantry, and the main operational strategy is to defeat opponents with absolute strength and endless fighting. Disadvantages are: the Roman army lacks flexibility and strategy, and its combat mode is relatively simple.
The army of the Han Dynasty was not a professional army, but most people were farmers. When there is war, they take up arms; when there is no war, they take up hoes to farm. The number of troops in the Han dynasty was huge, with more than one million troops at its peak. Different from the Romans, the army of the Han Dynasty did not divide the army into legions, but into the central army, county soldiers and border guards, and they were not absolutely fixed.
Dahan army
The Han army is characterized by flexibility, diverse strategies, good cooperation between services and advanced weapons. The main operational strategy of the Han army is: using various strategies, using various tactics and destroying opponents in any way. No fixed pattern is the biggest strategy. Compared with the Roman army, the disadvantage of the Han army is that its individual combat capability is not as good as that of the Romans.
Compared with the Roman army, the advantage of the Han army is also very prominent, that is, the strategy of the Han army is invincible in the world, the style of play is flexible, the arms are diverse, and the weapon performance is much more advanced than that of the Romans, and it will not be like the Romans. The Chinese nation is fighting hard. It was hundreds of years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period.
If the Han army at its peak meets the Roman army at its peak, who is strong and who is weak?
The result is obvious, of course, the Han army is strong, and the Han army will hang up the Roman army.
Roman legion
The Romans thought that fighting was fighting on the battlefield, but the advanced thinking of the Chinese nation for thousands of years told us that even if a great man defeated Rome, Rome might not know who the enemy was. In China, every war should adopt the most favorable strategy according to the terrain, environment and various conditions. For example, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to beat the Huns, he planned a Ma Yili plan to lure the Huns into the encirclement and annihilate them on a large scale. Although it didn't succeed in the end, it scared the Huns into a sweat. If it succeeded, the Huns would have been beaten back long ago.
The Romans were powerful opponents, and their personal strength was very strong, but the Han Dynasty was not weak either. Shang Chen, a famous Western Han Dynasty soldier, once said that one Han soldier is worth five Xiongnu soldiers. If the weapons are the same, the Han soldiers will reach three Xiongnu soldiers. Except for weapons, Han people are as bloody as Huns. When Li Ling led a 5,000-step army, he shot tens of thousands of people in tarquin with a crossbow. If the arrows were not used up, Li Ling would not have lost to the Huns, indicating that the Han army had bows and arrows.
Jun Han
Of course, the Romans also had weapons to defend against bows and arrows, that is, they formed an iron bucket array to defend against bows and arrows. In 53 BC, when crassus, one of the three giants of Rome, went to rest in the East, the rest people strangled tens of thousands of Roman legions with only archers and cavalry. The rest of the people's strategy is to suppress the Roman heavy infantry with bows and arrows, and then surround the entire Roman legion with cavalry, and constantly shoot the Romans with a large number of bows and arrows. Although the Romans had defenses, they could not prevent no casualties. The 40,000-strong Roman legion was almost defeated by 2.
The bows, arrows and cavalry of the Han Dynasty were much better than those of other empires. Xiongnu, once the overlord of grassland, was very strong in riding and shooting. The Han Dynasty defeated the Huns with cavalry and bows and arrows, and the Han Dynasty was able to organize a cavalry force of more than 50,000 people. This was impossible in the Roman Empire. The number of cavalry in a Roman legion is only about 800, and it is also a light cavalry. The cavalry is weak. If the Chinese army used archers to suppress Roman infantry,
When Ban Chao managed the Western Regions in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guishuang Empire sent 70,000 troops to attack Ban Chao. Ban Chao's troops are few, but he borrowed from western countries for less than a month. In order to defend the city and cut off the route for providing foodstuff for the Gui people, they were defeated by 70,000 troops. Guishuang Empire is a neighbor to the east of Rest Empire, which is similar to the style of Rest People. The Han Dynasty was defeated by the Western Regions Army or Xiongnu Army several times when there were few troops in the Western Regions.
Roman Empire and Han Empire
Even the defeated soldiers of the Han Dynasty, Xiongnu hanged the Roman Empire. Xiongnu is the strongest nomadic people, and so are other ethnic groups. Rest once defeated the Roman army, and the Huns also defeated the Roman army in Alati's time, but that was hundreds of years later. Alati defeated the Roman army by riding and shooting, mainly relying on cavalry and bows and arrows. The Romans looked strong, but in fact they couldn't compare with the flexible Alati.
Besides strength, there are various reasons why the Han Dynasty was able to defeat the nomadic people. Strategy is the most important. In addition, the technology, weapons, strategy and tactics of the Han Dynasty were superior to those of the Roman army. If there is a real fight, the Roman army has no strength to fight back.