Kingdom - Vol. 27 Ch. 285 - Barrens Littered with Holes

[MangaDex]

 

[BDM130]

Damn seeing it in action really shows how fucked up that was

 

[Groceries]

Hakuki has no chill.

 

[pdonk]

I wonder if we'll ever know why Hakuhi did that? I guess Kanki is also needlessly cruel, but to tie people up and then bury them alive just seems... Time consuming. Wouldn't beheading them be quicker, if the goal was simply to eliminate 400k people? It must have been to instill terror in Zhao and get them to capitulate, but even so. Hakuhi was a real sadist. Especially since there was probably no need to kill them anyway.

But, that's the sort of thing Sei and Shin want to change. Conquering without destroying the local populace.

 

[viridescentlights]

How terrible.

 

[c0032]

"Gou-Bro"
Wow, now that's a low. Why do translators choose to be awful.

 

[maisonaustyn]

My guess is Zhao did something even worse in the past and this was revenge. The whole cycle of revenge stuff is kind of the theme of these wars. Also the main reason everyone thinks unification is a fools errand

 

[agtra]

@maisonaustyn
The historical text stated that the mass burial happened because Hakuki the general at the time are unable to feed 400k captives. Fearing that it might lead to a revolt he decided to bury all of them alive. It's honestly logical things to do tbh. Even at the war of US independence some of the British captives are held in a dysfunctional floating ship and when the US judged they can't feed the captives they just left them to die of starvation.

 

[AlwaysInTheZone]

I've read some ShiJi archives about Bai Qi (or Hakuki as referred to here) before when the Romance of The Three Kingdoms were somewhat booming in my place, and I was surprised how Bai QI's atrocities were constantly mentioned throughout this series and so far no mention about Xiang Yu (yet, hopefully). Although they practically mentioned nothing explicitly about the state of his mind at the time when ordering the captives to be buried alive, his horrendous track record and not to mention methods of executing surrendering enemy soldiers definitely speaks volumes of his cruelty and apathy.

Spoiler

However, on the verge of committing suicide as a death penalty, he admitted that he deserved such a pointless and tragic death, for essentially murdering a myriad of people in cold blood, so it may be safe to say that the illness that he harbors in the last few years of his life is a result of either Vengeful Spirits (if you believe in that sort of thing) or the amount of guilt he has come to realize and bear.

 

[phamtasmal_pen]

@AlwaysInTheZone you got your period mixed up, Xiang Yu historically appears in the next period (after the Qin unification war), so unless there's time traveling thingies, Xiang Yu's massacre won't get mention. But he might get a cameo towards the end of the manga.

 

[ryouhira]

aww.... i want to see them achieve that goal

 

[nfarotk]

Bai Qi aka. Haku Ki, the legend that would rather be executed by the the King than losing his winstreak

 

[Vertsang]

So...he want to kill innocents to make up for this? How is that making any sense you lunatic