Seven most brutal wars in history.

Whether because of historical grievances, money, honor or freedom, the war has never stopped throughout human history.

With the progress of human society, many stubborn diseases have been solved, and a truly global world with many metropolises has emerged. However, the dark clouds of war hanging over human beings have not dissipated, and the lethality caused by war to the warring parties has not diminished.

The seven most brutal wars in history, these examples of the most brutal wars from ancient times to the present, reveal the casualties and great harm that wars have brought to mankind.

Battle of Isus

Time: 333 BC

The warring parties: Macedonia vs Persian Achemani dynasty.

Casualties: Macedonia 7000, Persian Achemani dynasty 20000.

Results: Alexander the Great marched into Persia, which led to the disintegration of the Persian Empire. He also married the Persian royal family, further consolidating his control over the Middle East.

The Alexander family, which originated from Macedonia in northern Greece, is ambitious and bent on establishing a hegemony on the basis of the empire created by his father.

He is an out-and-out military commander, and every time he goes out, he holds the heart of winning. This made the whole eastern Mediterranean and Persian region war-torn.

The Battle of Isus kicked off the Emperor's crusade to the East, which was famous for its brutality and blood. Alexander the Great made outstanding achievements, relying on well-equipped and well-trained infantry who made good use of the terrain, while the Persian army at war with him was assembled by many tribes and had incomplete military discipline.

Alexander the Great found that the best chance to win was to send cavalry to attack the right wing of the Persian army. So he sent cavalry into the Persian cavalry, defeated the enemy, and the Persian emperor Darius was anxious for deus ex. Alexander led the cavalry to flank and cover the Persian infantry. Under the onslaught of Macedonian troops, the once heroic and invincible Persian army was defeated by spears and shields, and countless people were trampled to death and injured in the mud. The Persian emperor had to order a retreat, but his horse was cut off on the way and the morale of the army was in chaos. When the Persian army broke up, Alexander the Great once again assembled cavalry, pursued the Persians until dusk, and annihilated countless Persian troops.

Battle of Downton

Time:1461March 29th.

York family versus house of lancaster.

Casualties: about 65,438+00,000 in York family and about 20,000 in house of lancaster.

Results: This was the decisive battle in wars of the roses and the bloodiest battle ever fought in British territory. Although the York family's army was outnumbered, its leader, Lord Falcken Berg, ordered them to take advantage of the weather and shoot as many enemies as possible with powerful bows and arrows when strong winds were blowing towards house of lancaster. Because of the headwind, the arrow of Lancaster House could not get close to the army of York family, and the morale was greatly reduced.

The battle then turned into brutal hand-to-hand combat, which lasted for several hours, and the snowflakes falling in the sky were dyed red. Finally, 30 thousand people died in the cold wilderness of Yorkshire.

The siege of Baghdad

Time:1258 65438+1October 29th-February 10.

The warring parties: the Mongol Empire versus the caliph of Abbas.

Casualties: There were almost no casualties in the Mongolian Empire, including 50,000 soldiers and 800,000 civilians in Khalifa, Abbas.

Results: In A.D. 1258, Mongolian fighters swept across Persia and approached the Islamic caliphate kingdom in the Middle East. These Mongolian soldiers riding small war horses are invincible, burning, killing and looting all the way, and they are extremely cruel.

Baghdad is located in the golden oasis in the middle of the Arabian desert, and Xu Liewu, the ruler of the Mongolian khanate, has long coveted it. Xuliewu assembled the largest Mongolian tribe in history, with a total force of nearly 6.5438+0.5 million, surrounded Baghdad, cut off the supply of materials in the city, and began to build siege machines to forcibly attack the city.

Battle of Downton

Time:1461March 29th.

York family versus house of lancaster.

Casualties: about 65,438+00,000 in York family and about 20,000 in house of lancaster.

Results: This was the decisive battle in wars of the roses and the bloodiest battle ever fought in British territory. Although the York family's army was outnumbered, its leader, Lord Falcken Berg, ordered them to take advantage of the weather and shoot as many enemies as possible with powerful bows and arrows when strong winds were blowing towards house of lancaster. Because of the headwind, the arrow of Lancaster House could not get close to the army of York family, and the morale was greatly reduced.

The battle then turned into brutal hand-to-hand combat, which lasted for several hours, and the snowflakes falling in the sky were dyed red. Finally, 30 thousand people died in the cold wilderness of Yorkshire.

The siege of Baghdad

Time:1258 65438+1October 29th-February 10.

The warring parties: the Mongol Empire versus the caliph of Abbas.

Casualties: There were almost no casualties in the Mongolian Empire, including 50,000 soldiers and 800,000 civilians in Khalifa, Abbas.

Results: In A.D. 1258, Mongolian fighters swept across Persia and approached the Islamic caliphate kingdom in the Middle East. These Mongolian soldiers riding small war horses are invincible, burning, killing and looting all the way, and they are extremely cruel.

Baghdad is located in the golden oasis in the middle of the Arabian desert, and Xu Liewu, the ruler of the Mongolian khanate, has long coveted it. Xuliewu assembled the largest Mongolian tribe in history, with a total force of nearly 6.5438+0.5 million, surrounded Baghdad, cut off the supply of materials in the city, and began to build siege machines to forcibly attack the city.

Battle of red cliff

Time: 208 AD

The warring parties: Liu Bei and Sun Quan joined forces against Cao Cao's army.

Casualties: There are no exact figures, but there are heavy casualties on both sides.

Results: Battle of Red Cliffs laid the general trend of "three points in the world", but Cao Cao's ambition of dominating the world failed. Battle of Red Cliffs is a classic battle of defeating the strong with the weak, and its legendary anecdotes are widely circulated among the people, enduring for a long time. At that time, the victory or defeat of the two warring military groups will determine their respective futures.

Liu Bei and Sun Quan formed an alliance against Cao Cao. Cao Cao has a large number of troops, a vast territory and superior forces. He hopes to unite the whole country through this movement. Both Liu Bei and Sun Quan know that if they confront Cao Jun head-on, they have no chance of winning, so they can only outsmart them.

Considering that Cao Cao's water army is relatively weak, Sun and Liu joined hands to launch a water war on the Yangtze River. After a small battle with Liu, Sun and Liu pretended to surrender and sent their main warships down the river, making the other side mistakenly think that they wanted to negotiate.

But Cao Cao never imagined that Sun and Liu had no intention of reconciliation, and the ship sent was actually a fire-fighting ship. As a result, Cao Cao's warship was caught in a sea of fire and completely burned down.

Cao Cao could only watch thousands of soldiers and sailors burned alive, but he had no choice but to retreat and defeat Chibi.

Battle of Leipzig

Time:18131016-10/0/0/0/9.

The two warring sides: the French purple gold army against the multinational Coalition forces.

Casualties: 60,000 French Zijin Army and 540,000 multinational coalition forces.

Results: The battle of Leipzig involved more than 600,000 troops, the largest number before World War I..

At that time, Napoléon Bonaparte was bent on establishing his own dynasty in the German hinterland, dragging the whole of Europe into war. Against Napoleon's army was a multinational alliance determined to resist Napoleon's dictatorship, including Prussia, Sweden, Russia and Austria.

The armies of the two sides met in the wilderness near Leipzig, and the decisive battle was very tragic, with more than 654.38+ million casualties.

Napoleon's battle plan is simple and rude: to annihilate the huge Coalition forces eventually assembled by the other side, which is his usual tactic in all previous battles. On the first day, this tactic seemed to be very effective. After two bloody battles with Austrian and Prussian troops, Napoleon took control of the town of Leipzig and its surrounding villages.

However, Napoleon failed to continue the victory, giving the enemy a breathing space, allowing the allies to regroup and other troops to rush to reinforce. 10 year 10 month 18 day, 19 century's biggest battle broke out in Leipzig.

Napoleon retreated to Leipzig. At this time, the French army was in deep danger, and the flood of attacks by allied infantry made them breathless. Seeing that he was outnumbered, Napoleon ordered a strategic retreat to the bridge. Just as the French army retreated to the bridge, the allied forces began to storm the bridge, and the situation was in jeopardy.

A French corporal guarding the bridge thought it was only a matter of time before the allied forces captured the bridge. In his panic, he blew up the bridge. The explosion threw hundreds of soldiers into the air and thousands were trapped in Leipzig.

In the ensuing chaos, Napoleon fought his way out and successfully reached the West Bank, only to watch his soldiers die one after another. Napoleon suffered such a terrible defeat for the first time in his military career.

Somme R.

Time: 1 965438+July106— 165438+ 10/8.

The warring parties: Britain and France against Germany.

Casualties: 623,907 in the British Empire and France, and 400,000-500,000 in the German Empire.

Results: In terms of casualties, the Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest wars in military history. The number of participants in this battle is shocking, and the number of casualties is even more chilling.

By July of 19 16, the World War I had been bitter for nearly two years, and neither side took advantage. The positions of the Allies and the Allies are densely covered with trenches, and there is a dangerous no-man's land in the middle. Both warring sides tried their best to seize each other's positions. Marshal douglas haig, commander-in-chief of the British army, was confident that there was a way to break the deadlock in the war: to storm with artillery. In his view, the largest shelling in the history of war was enough to destroy the Germans and help the Allies win easily.

In fact, the British artillery fire did not even clear all the barbed wire on the German defensive positions, let alone destroy all the machine gun bunkers in Germany. On the first day of the war alone, the number of casualties in the allied forces reached 70 thousand, but little substantive progress was made.

The vast majority of allied casualties that day occurred when they "broke through" the no-man's land. They were violently attacked by German heavy machine guns and artillery shells, causing many casualties. In the face of such a crazy attack by the enemy, the will of the Germans is gradually being worn away, which hinders their ability to wage war on other fronts. After nearly a million people were killed on both sides of the war, this extremely wide-ranging war finally fell into a stalemate.

Stalingrad

Time: 65438+August 23rd 0942-65438+February 2nd 0943.

The two warring parties: Axis countries (Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary and Croatia) joined forces against the Soviet army.

Casualties: Axis 850,000, Soviet Union1150,000.

Results: After the Battle of Stalingrad, the German army went into decline and the Soviet army turned from defending to attacking. In the gloomy reinforced concrete building in Stalingrad, a mechanized military war was staged, and the whole city and even the whole southern Soviet Union were shrouded in ashes and smoke.

Hitler was bent on capturing Stalingrad on the Volga River in the south of the Soviet Union, but ignored its practical strategic significance. In fact, the city has no strategic value except a tractor factory named after his arch-enemy Stalin.

But in any case, Hitler insisted on taking the city first, purely to weaken the morale of the Soviet Union, thinking that this would end the Eastern War once and for all.

During most of the battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet army was in a state of chaos, and once only relied on the Volga River to control a narrow area in the city center-the Germans seemed to have won. However, the supply line in Germany was too long to be maintained, and the cold weather cut off the supply.

General George zhukov, the field commander, was ordered to guard Stalingrad. 1942165438+10, General zhukov put forward the strategic plan and put it into practice. Soviet troops in Stalingrad began to counterattack and besieged the German Sixth Army.

The Soviet army took a strategic military action codenamed "Operation Uranus", launched a counterattack from the weakest part of the German defense line, effectively surrounded the Germans around Stalingrad, cut off their contact with the rest of the Germans in the Soviet Union, and greatly weakened the strength of the Germans.

General paulus, commander of the Sixth Army, radioed back to Germany, trying to persuade Hitler to allow him to lead his troops to retreat, but Hitler ordered paulus to hold his ground. By February 1943, most of the soldiers in paulus were either starved to death or froze to death. Surrounded by Soviet troops, paulus had no choice but to surrender.

A mass rally was also held in Berlin to commemorate the fact that the Sixth Army, who died heroically for the country, did not disclose the fact that they surrendered to the enemy in Germany. Stalingrad was in chaos. To borrow the words of a German officer before the armistice, "Even animals can't stay in this hellhole ... only soldiers can stand it.