The Duke of Jin | Sima Zhao's Intent Let's Talk Lore E01 

You dig a big pit, put them in and then throw the dirt back on top of them. On Cao Cao’s case, he barely had any food left for his own troop so that was probably the only option aside from releasing them

Yes I am waiting for them to actually announce a release date and also share some more info about the game

Bai Qi did multiple ways of killing off enemy soldiers. During one battle against Wei and Han he had the captured soldiers drowned. At the battle of Changping, he had the nearly all of the captured Zhao soldiers buried alive.

​@@historian252 Ah. Was it seen as a legitimate military tactic or a crime? The obvious intent is to scare the survivors into not fighting and to cripple the enemy's capability to muster strength in the future, but it's also a very cruel tactic to use.

I keep getting my comment censored by RU-vid...but in short, the concept of war crime is a modern invention. It is largely created for the victorious side to have a moral standing when punishing the defeated side. Yes, people argue that it governs over things that are deemed excessively cruel in ongoing wars, but you have literally no enforcement and you have people breaking war crimes all the time on all sides. By the end of the war, if your side won, then you just throw the war crime in the loser's face and give them "just" punishment. Meanwhile, the winning side did just as much if not more things that would qualify as war crimes. With that aside, you think people, who tried to kill each in the actual war, worried about if burying people alive (just another form of killing people) after the war is a crime. Like you are trying to look at it from a morality standpoint which is just too naive. You buried prisoners alive because it was a relatively efficient and clean form of mass execution. You get them to dig their own graves and then after you are done, there are no bodies or disease that you have to worry about. Like building a mountain of skulls out of executed civilians from razing a city that was under siege was accepted practice and you are here questioning burying people alive...at the end of the day, people just need to stop applying extremely trivial modern day concepts that is not even respected today to events of the past and judging the past off of that.

@@SeriousTrivia I look at it from a morality standpoint because it's kind of brought up fairly often whenever people like the Sima clan want to gain or keep power. Sima Zhao spares the Eastern Wu soldiers to look good in the context of his own power accumulation; it makes joining his side very attractive for defectors. He doesn't accept Cao Mao's proposals of nobility titles because it makes him look like a potential usurper, with Cao Cao's own Duke title and thereafter Cao Pi's usurpation not being very long ago. It makes him look terrible. There's Sima Yi's mass execution of his rivals, which lost him a lot of credit and was exceedingly cruel. Sure, they won out but it doesn't change the fact their cruelty lost them a lot of support early on and the Wei-Jin transition wasn't very smooth. Yes, war crime is a modern concept, and yes they are committed by all sides until the winner takes all and forces a "just" punishment on the losing side for their crimes but never really do anything about the ones they did. I was just curious if it was looked down upon because from what I've observed in this videos, being cruel didn't win the Sima clan any credit or favor. Becoming too strong for the emperor to resist and gradual takeover of the court did.

I'd suspect that mass murder has always been considered a dick move - in all places in all times of human history. Which is why Sima Zhao didn't want to do it, despite the fact that it was the simplest and easiest thing to do. But they had no conception of a "war crime."

its from a tv series called advisor's alliance (it tells the story with Sima Yi being the main character)

yep! but keep letting me know and I will get them fixed!