Heroic Chronicles of the Three Continents - Vol. 2 Ch. 9 - The Winner and The Loser

[Autismonaut]

Alright, this is too stupid. If you look at any rebellion or insurrection that gets crushed, the leaders are hanged. The citizens of the empire would be furious that the beast-folk that trampled over the elven locals were let off so easily. I hate the "bad guy joins good guys" trope, as it's almost always poorly done and I still dislike the bad guy because we don't know anything about him other than he did shitty things.

Edit: I notice that some people refer to the American treatment of the Germans post-WW2. This ignores the fact that the Americans also aided in executing German war criminals and mainly took technicians and specialists. There was no desire to make Adolf Hitler a cabinet member.

 

[DeathDonut]

@DaDingo:
Well, here's first introduction of the "retainer"
https://mangadex.org/chapter/1217892/9

I believe the author ignores previous portrayal of the character for the sake of... I don't know? Making MC look clever? Doesn't seem to be very convincing...

 

[wow4tr5]

His thinking is similar to Cao Cao, Cao Cao also often uses tactics like this to recruit enemy generals & in the end he succeeded in controlling China.

 

[Tatsuya-Kai]

@Autismonaut
As much as i hate this development, this is not a uncommon tactic in history, dallos is a skilled tactician and warrior, killing him when you can control him in a situation where you NEED soldiers isn't unheard of, but it's also not a great choice either, if they weren't needing soldiers this wouldn't make sense (and next volume will show that he's planning ahead if i read it right).

What however this manga failed to do (not sure on the novel, this is my knowledge of military history) is point out that dallos and his men are now essentially permanent prisoners of war/war slaves aka meaning they are on a tight leash, if dallos rebels or runs away, his men and their families will be eradicated and vice versa, not only that but by the mc showing his ability dallos now knows that in a 1 on 1 fight, he would lose, so basically, the mc is willing to overlook a few things and give dallos a chance to fix some of his mistakes, and dallos now has to worry that if he messes up, him and his soldiers are all in for a fate worse than death.

Someone pointed out cao cao, this is actually similar to other soldiers from the three kingdoms era, such as gan ning of the wu kingdom, a former pirate that was pacified into military service, the flip side of this was lu bu, a man who tried to pull this but cao cao remembered he had betrayed his former master and had him executed, the difference here is dallos knows he can't win, so he either does his job or accepts execution, and the mc is being nice only because him and his men are going to have to work their asses off to fix the bs they caused in the first place.

 

[Yumi_Sakigami]

THANKS SO MUCH!!

 

[StellarIceberg]

Dude has enough magic power to make the enemy commander shit his pants.
"I'M MoRE SUIteD tO bE tHE EmPERoR."

 

[kaito]

by brilliant tactician you mean having his men charge a few hundred meters whilst wearing armor and not in formation into stakes and into a hail of arrows a great tactic then I worry for the soldiers

 

[herShie_4ever]

Wow. The enemy commander have a side spot for his soldier? Look like mc is using them as hostages to control him.