I was watching the raid 2 and this character beat the shit out of like actually 30 dudes on his own in hand to hand combat and it really had me thinking. I mean I know that is almost impossible irl but like there has to have been at least one dude in history that skilled/lucky. I mean theres gotta be but are there any documented cases? All these snipers like “yeah I have 200 confirmed kills” but thats lame cuz its from really far away and away from actual danger. I want to learn about some badass who killed/incapacitated hella attackers face to face (not killing random innocent people. actual fights with people that intended to harm the person)
There are a few extremely rare and exceptional cases of single warriors killing several enemies, but I've previously written about why this would not normally happen in premodern warfare. Simply put, battles between even halfway organised armies allow no room for individual heroics, and anyone who tried it anyway would meet a swift end. The notion of the one-man army is as ancient as storytelling itself, but it doesn't have much bearing on the way that historical battles were actually fought.