What do soldiers do?

Soldiers make sure people don't take your belongings. Soldiers protect civilians from harm in that they make sure you don't get robbed or pirated. It is not the jobs of soldiers to protect civilians from harm. That is the law and rules, something the court does. To soldiers finders keepers losers weepers. So in qing dynasty the emperor robbed wu sangui's wife take his things. It is war. You create waste you give things away to soldiers it is war.