Since the establishment of the pharaonic state and Egypt have a precise system of warfare, and at the base the scribes monitor the recruitment and management of appointments and assigning jobs, and in every era was the king is the supreme commander of the army and commander of the theoretical battles
The Egyptians in the Old Kingdom did not care about imposing their influence on their neighbors and did not initiate any invasion. When they wanted to subdue the Bedouins and collect spoils from the Libyans, the Nubians and the Palestinians, the governors were ordered to collect the soldiers from the countryside from the best trained men,
In addition to the selected group dedicated to the palace guard and the desert police, there were many army units carrying out acts aimed at strengthening the Egyptian king's fear in the hearts of foreign countries and bringing the things that adorned the king
Some of the Berber languages ​​go to Byblos and to Punt and to the farthest points of Nubia to collect foreign products, and some to transport precious metals from the Eastern Desert. The old state army has permanent forces with special functions, and other forces are recruited by emergency. , Although not as fixed and not very different from the Navy
The army was a system, but a national army under strict orders and laws imposed by the government. The guard teams were divided into ten men and marched in regular queues. They moved the rock blocks after they were cut from the quarries, and the names of their units are still engraved on the pyramids to this day
The military regime in the field was strict, and no soldier was allowed to beat a fellow soldier, abduct him, steal clothes from any village, or steal a goat from anyone.
When the heads of the administrative departments in the first era of the first commotion, they recruited auxiliary troops from the barbarians for their personal use, trained them to fight, recruited young people from their provinces, and there were wooden models of the soldiers found in the tomb of a prince in Assiut. Feudal wars to militarize citizens
The army was divided into two divisions, the province's nobles and the Nubian nobility. Each section consisted of 40 men in four rows, each with 10 men, with their gears in their left hands, holding their lances on their right hand, their arms at the facilities, To the height of their baroque, and take care of the black blacks skinned system that provides the army with the greatest strength and walk these soldiers in four parallel rows, in regular steps beginning with the left foot, and in the midst of the civil war faded old system techniques and centrality, and consisted of armies of Amenhoth and Snosrt local militias and soldiers King Private
The modern state, the era of the great conquests, was the age of professional soldiers organized in an almost modern manner. If the pharaoh did not lead the military operations himself, he would participate in the war council, and the supreme command would be assigned to a great leader.
The royal delegates in the foreign countries carried out fewer operations, the soldiers were more fit in the military parade, trained to perform the military movements as soon as the trumpet was heard. Tactical unity increased the importance of fighting and soldiers involved in the fighting
The band consists of 200 men under the command of the airman. The division is divided into four sections, each with 50 men. These sections are named with great names such as "Amenhotep", "Ramses Al-Qawi Al-Ra'i" and so on. The army consists of two divisions: the infantry and the motorcyclists, and the last section is more advantageous than the first section (Amon, Ra, Ptah, 6).
And the prisoners who were stoned by the hot iron and become mercenary soldiers such as the Sudanese, Syrians, Palestinians, Bedouins, most of them Libyans and men of the sea, especially " The famous "martyrs" who were arrested by Ramesses the Second with his sword and who saved the army in the Battle of Kadesh
I found some writings ridiculing the misery of the soldier's life, including the following text: "The passenger car of the carousel because he sold his inheritance to pay for his luxury vehicle, but he fell from that vehicle and hit hard, but the infantry soldier takes a child and put in a camp, and dealt a painful blow to his stomach, And then to come to Palestine and fight in the desert, is forced to carry his food and drink on his back like a donkey, and is forced to drink water and teeth, and stops to walk only to stand Didbana to guard, even if the enemy arrived, It was like a bird caught in a trap, so he lost all strength in his body, and when he returned to Egypt, it is like a piece of wood necrosis of licorice, and he is sick and forced to walk, and is carried on a donkey, and he finds his clothes stolen and his servant fled)
That these cruel odds were not exaggerated before, but the educated and senior employees give a grim picture of the soldiers to prove to their students the validity of the old saying that the writer's luck is better than the soldier's luck, but if the young man is competent to be either a passenger or a writer, Is the administration in the colonies and the service in the court, the diplomatic missions and the functions of the high priests
In fact, the ordinary soldier has the envy of both citizens and barbarians who are appointed in the army. He is known as the "gold of courage", rewarded with spoils.
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