The slaughter of the city is absolutely contrary to the humanitarian spirit. However, war is about the national interest, and in many cases it is immoral, and the amount of profit obtained far exceeds moral right and wrong. Therefore, war is almost only about the stakes, and for the victorious side, it is necessary to maximize and optimize the pursuit of advantages and avoid harms. So, let's talk about why the victorious side of the war in ancient times sometimes chose to slaughter the city?
From our point of view, the act of slaughtering the city is very immoral, and can even be said to be a perverted behavior. However, if we do not stand in the moral point of view, only from the perspective of the interests of ancient war, sometimes the victorious side chooses to slaughter the city, which is not only not a perverted act, but a rational act in war.
First of all, ancient transportation lagged far behind modern times, and ancient warfare was very inefficient in terms of logistics and replenishment. Therefore, in ancient times, sometimes the victorious side chose to slaughter the city, which was actually an important means of rapidly replenishing its own strategic materials, that is, the so-called "war to feed the war".
To put it bluntly, the war is about money and resources, the victorious side will naturally choose to deprive the captured areas of a large number of materials, at this time, if the defeated side chooses to obediently hand over without reservation, then it is better to say, if it is to choose to resist and die than to pay, then the plot of killing people and crossing goods has a high probability of being staged.
The second reason is also related to cost control. After the enemy city is captured, it is natural that many more people will open their mouths and wait for dinner. If it is in the case that their own army can not guarantee a full meal, then the extra people will become a burden. Moreover, people are alive, and if these people have eaten enough, and then take up arms and make a small rebellion, then they will not be worth the losses?
Therefore, if their own troops allowed, they would choose to leave some personnel to manage the occupied areas, and if these managers could not be assigned, they would probably slaughter the city. The fact that the general Bai Qi killed 400,000 Zhao troops in the Battle of Changping should contain such a reason. However, the reason why Bai Qi pit killed 400,000 Zhao Jun is definitely not as simple as not being able to afford to raise it, so let's find an opportunity to make a separate video in the future, and talk about why Bai Qi wants to destroy 400,000 Zhao Jun, remember to pay attention to you.
Let's talk about another reason for slaughtering the city, which is said in "Sun Tzu's Art of War": A soldier who yields without a fight is a superior strategy in the plan. The practice of slaughtering the city, although immoral, has a very powerful deterrent effect. For the city that has not yet been captured, seeing that the previous city was slaughtered by the whole city because of resistance will inevitably cause psychological deterrence. Therefore, the usual trick used by ancient warriors was to slaughter a city first, and then shout to other cities that had not been captured: surrender now, Paul's life. If it is too late to surrender, the result will be the same as seen earlier, and it will be destroyed. Therefore, this is a kind of psychological warfare of "slaughtering one city and descending ten cities."
There is another reason for the slaughter of the city, that is, the soldiers are simply emotional venting, not to mention that they are not a nation with themselves, then there is no need for their subordinates to be merciful.
So then again, is this act of slaughtering the city after victory still applicable in modern warfare?
Obviously very inappropriate. Modern human rights consciousness and national consciousness have awakened. Moreover, as far as the cost of modern warfare is concerned, it is relatively cheap, and weapons and equipment are relatively easy to obtain, otherwise there would be no terrorists armed with rocket launchers.
Therefore, in this case, it is also necessary to choose to slaughter the city, that is, it is equivalent to two fools doing a loss-making business.
Born in peacetime, war is very far away from us, but there is such a situation, which is more similar to war, that is, playing battle games.
When playing battle games, there is a situation that is also very similar to Tucheng, that is, the "abuse of the spring" behavior, I don't know what the partners have on this kind of "abuse of the spring" behavior, the comment area let's talk together, and then give me a little praise by the way.
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