Throughout the long, recorded history of human warfare, the value of soldiers have always been measured in their skill, not in their numbers!
Due to the need to cater to the majority's preferred style of narration, many war accounts made exaggerations about how soldiers won battles from a position of weakness.
This exaggerated writing style accustomed people to think that the troops' advantages were directly proportional to the number of soldiers they had and that to win from a position of weakness was an unbelievable feat!
However, upon reading 'Collection of Literary & Historical Thoughts & Studies', which was a statistical analysis of ancient war records by Qing dynasty historian Zhao Yi, it could be observed that…
Battles won from a position of weakness were actually not that uncommon in history!
