>Overwhelmingly superior force is trying to take a strategic city/fortress>Fight to the very last man but manages to deny the position to the enemy, inflicting massive, disproportional casualities, becomes pivotal to winning in the long-turnIf this happened in the west, like with some byzantine general's last stand to hold a vast muslim horde, it would be seen as an 'epic' and 'based' victory, but because it happened in China it's wacky and silly.
>>18245265China really doesn't help it's case with stories like Rottk featuring cannibalism, frankly. Overall though, yes. Pretending this is somehow noticeably barbaric is silly. Part of the issue is that the west just fundamentally has no concept of loyalty or duty nowadays. Self sacrifice is really only understood in the most broad 40K esque manner.
>>18245265>Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in youThe Abrahamic children sacrificers feasting on human flesh is epic and based because it's Holy unlike these chinks doing it out of starvation.
>>18245265Chink historiography is a meme anyway and shouldn't be taken seriously in any way
>>18245265The bigger issue is that this was pointless. It just decided who of two people who were both kinda pricks would get to be in charge, so far as I can see. Was one side so egregiously worse than the other to warrant such extreme measures?
>>18245467retard, this was literally in the An Lushan rebellion by ethnic minority barbarian subjects (yan dynasty) who were revolting against the Han Chinese emperor Tang dynasty)If the Tang troops surrendered to the Yan and let them invade southern China and win and take over, you would then be insulting China for being taken over by ethnic minority non-Han rebelsyou would be mocking the Han civilians in Suiyang for being raped by the Yan soldiers and insulting the Han soldiers for being weak and defeated by An Lushan.Instead, none of the Han civilians got raped, they slaughtered tens of thousands of An Lushan's ethnic minority troops, and the An Lushan rebellion was defeated.An Lushan's ethnicity was massacred in Fanyang (Beijing) by Gao Juren, with babies impaled on spears.
>>18246063Are you joking and agreeing with me or being serious?Is there any actual evidence that the Yan Dynasty, had it won, would have persecuted anybody?
>>18246063>>18246316I mean it's not like An Lushan declared some sort of manifesto dedicated to non-Han. So far as I am aware, it was basically all personal ambition to be in charge. It's like the Wars of the Diadochi: there's no substantive ideological or policy difference, it's just competing ambitions.
>>18245265Tangs should continue it war was Koreanic state instead shitty civil war irl
>>18246322Tian Shengong slaughtered Middle Eastern merchants in Yangzhou in 760 because everyone was hating "barbarians" due to An Lushan.Tian said he expected the Tang government to give him a commission just because he massacred a group of non-Han.
