In the early feudal society, due to the low level of productivity, people often did not have enough to eat, and hunger was a common phenomenon, and even so, the phenomenon of cannibalism was rarely heard. However, by the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to social unrest and severe damage to productivity, a food called "two-legged sheep" appeared in the north at that time. Two-legged sheep are not really sheep, they refer to people, who are used as food and killed and eaten when food is insufficient. From this we can see that cannibalism should actually occur in extreme circumstances, but at that time, there was an army that never brought food and grass when it went out, but carried tens of thousands of women with the army, and when it was hungry, it killed people for food, which was cruel.
The most ruthless army in history was led by shi le. After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Qiang people entered the Central Plains, and because they had not yet transitioned to a feudal society, the Xian people, like other ethnic minorities at that time, were very brutal, entering the Central Plains to burn and loot, and doing all kinds of evil. Almost all the cities through which the Shile army passed would be slaughtered, and their combat thinking was not the same as that of the Han Chinese. The Han generals especially liked to protect the rear first, proposing that the three armies did not move, the grain and grass went first, and it was inevitable that they would need to carry a large amount of grain before going out for the army to use.
But the Qiang people are different, they never carry grain and grass, only tens of thousands of women. There were three reasons, one was that at that time, the Qiang clan was mainly cavalry, and carrying grain and grass was too procrastinating in Shi Le's view, affecting the speed of the march. Second, at that time, social production was seriously damaged, and it was extremely difficult to collect grain and grass for marching and fighting. Third, the thinking of the Karma people has not yet been civilized, with a strong sense of primitive society, so their behavior is also extremely backward, and in their eyes there is only killing. Therefore, they simply carried women on the march as "two-legged sheep" to replace grain and grass to meet the needs of the army.
And Shi Le actually relied on his own way of fighting to have a place in the north at that time, and established their own country Hou Zhao. It can be said that the emergence of this country was founded by Shi Le and his army with the blood of countless innocent women and civilians. Such a brutal ruling thinking, even if the country is founded, can not last long, although the status of women in ancient times is low, but there are few tyrants like Shi Le who do not respect women and have cruel means.
The ironic Shi Le also particularly liked the Confucian culture of the Han people, but the Confucian culture did not impress his animal nature. Even if he founded The Later Zhao, which once dominated the north at that time, it was quickly eliminated under their concept of governance. Shi Le's son Shi Hu succeeded to the throne after his death, and his son was almost a replica of Shi Le, more brutal, and Later Zhao's decline came sooner than expected, and was eventually replaced by his own Han subordinate Ran Min. What is the use of the most brutal army in history, fighting without food and grass, but bringing only tens of thousands of women?