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I've come to notice that a lot of battles in Chinese history seems to have involved over hundreds of thousands of soldiers.Some battles in the Three Kingdoms period supposedly had over three hundred thousand soldiers when the size of the opposing armies are combined,and the kingdoms actually had more soldiers than what was actually committed in those battles.Cao Cao's supposed army of 800,000 in particular sounds ASB as hell.I then noticed that the population of China at the start of the Western Jin dynasty was only around 16 million.The Romans for example had tremendous difficulty just maintaining 400,000 soldiers in their empire despite having a population around 50 million at it's height and the battles generally involved less than 100,000 for both sides.So how feasible are the Chinese numbers?
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