Chapter 424: Cannon Fodder, Pacification of Heyang_2
When Lu Yuan first rose to power and was fighting in Dongting County, every time he conscripted civilian workers as cannon fodder, barely any would be left by the end of the battle.
At that time, the mortality rate of cannon fodder basically soared above eighty or ninety percent.
Nowadays, having it at thirty or forty percent is already quite good.
Other nations have been waging war in recent years, and every time they conscript civilian workers, the death rate is also very high.
Otherwise, why do you think Liang, which has been stable in most of its territories for thirty years of war, has not only failed to increase its population.
Instead, the total population decreased from the peak of over eighty million to less than seventy million, a reduction of over ten million people.
Where did the population that should have grown naturally each year go?
It was consumed as cannon fodder on the front-line battlefields, that's where.