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Armed escort is a social need and a normal phenomenon, but in armed escort, shotguns are used to escort cash, and Chinese-style 95-style rifles are used for the special security task of escorting college examination papers, why is this so?
The origin of armed convoys.
The term escort originates from ancient times, when the country did not have the conditions of a modern society, so everything was based on merchants, and merchants were also responsible for regional exchanges and material exchanges.
Merchants would ask some of their relatives and friends before they set out, and if these people set off at the same time, the possibility of robbery would be greatly reduced, so everyone would set off one by one.
This departing caravan is called a "caravan" or "caravan caravan".
When many groups of merchants came together, they often established "towns" in order to take care of each other.
The essence of the word "town" is to protect the merchant team, in the special location, the traffic is particularly busy in the area often has several "towns", such as Chang'an and Xianyang such areas with a large number of merchants, there are even 11 "towns".
Is there even a division of "towns"? Only by dividing the scope of the "town" can each "town" have its own share, so as to ensure that all the merchant teams have someone to help and no one can not have enough to eat.
However, the regular protection of the merchant team is still the country's soldiers, each dynasty has a soldier to protect the merchant team, until the Tang Dynasty was officially named "escort soldiers", specifically responsible for escorting the merchant team.
However, these soldiers who protect the merchant team only protect the merchant team and do not participate in other battles, and their weapons are mainly some melee weapons such as spears and daggers.
In the Song Dynasty, merchants were prosperous, but the traffic was blocked quite frequently, so the Song Dynasty set up a special "Deposit Bureau" and "General Judgment Bureau", the operation is to escort, escort money and grain, and at the same time can also serve as a certain police force.
In the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers who escorted money and grain in various places were uniformly distributed with muskets, and finally this escort team was simply called "dart game".
In modern times, the concept of escort has expanded, not only to escort money and food, but also to escort weapons, documents and other important items, and at the same time it is no longer only to protect it from robbery, but also to avoid the threat of being attacked by the enemy.
Therefore, in order to cope with this, the escort team no longer only used melee weapons, but began to use free-fire weapons.
Why use a shotgun to escort cash.
Different shooting weapons have different uses, and spears and daggers are defensive weapons that are more inclined to melee weapons.
The musket is a bit of a melee weapon, and shooting dozens of meters outside the range is indeed a great threat to the broadsword player, and shooting outside the range can also be quite threatening.
However, the domestic escort team generally does not use muskets, because most of the Chinese-style muskets declined during the Bingxie period, and because gunpowder has not yet been popularized, so this is actually only a very short-lived effect on bandits, and when the gun is out of bullets, there is no threat to invulnerable bandits.
Guns with a wide range of pellets, such as shotguns, not only have a short range, but also have considerable power in the range, and are also suitable for escort missions.
And for example, when a retired escort soldier encounters a bandit who wants to seize a gun during the escort process, as long as the magazine is an empty charge bag, no one can grab the gun.
In addition, the escort teams that escort cash and food are usually escorted in the city, most of them are small alleys, and the characteristics of the shotgun to widely distribute projectiles will have a very large range, and the possibility of injury will be much smaller, which is conducive to reducing the harm of innocent people.
Why do you use a rifle to escort the exam papers.
The problem of using a rifle to escort the high school exam paper is actually quite simple, because the number of escorts is relatively small, and if you really encounter an attack, you can completely deal with it with a shotgun.
But the shotgun is a melee weapon after all, if you consider the safety of the escort team, then the long-distance escort team should use a longer range weapon to escort, muskets and pistols are good choices, but the difference in firepower between the two sides is too large, only the escort team uses a shorter range of weapons, in order to balance the firepower with the enemy.
Then the escort team uses Chinese-style Type 95 rifles.
In fact, the use of this weapon is only against the enemy, for the escort, the enemy and the escort team are too far away, generally a business escort, generally will not encounter the attack, in this case the escort team can also choose to use a shotgun.
Therefore, the Type 95 rifle used to escort the high school examination papers, which is more just the lighting of the escort.
The escorts of the escort team are police officers, and do not consider danger, whether it is a musket, a shotgun or a modern firearm, the police need to be trained to use it, and the detailed situation also needs to refer to the regulations of the police shooting.
epilogue
However, these weapons are weapons after all, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, no matter what situation you encounter, it is best to be able to solve it yourself, it is best not to encounter this situation, whether it is a robber or an armed policeman, it will be a huge loss.
It is hoped that none of these weapons will be used in the right place, so as not to harm the innocent.