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Post by Aging Warrior on Jan 30, 2005 22:21:54 GMT -5
So his camp sustains a devastating blow to morale and YYS takes off to have it out with Kyun.  It was inconsiderate of Kyun to kill all the prisoners when he knew that YSS was looking for one. I knew the poor woman was doomed, it made for a depressing episode. I'm looking forward to the Chun-su/YSS reunion. Have we been given any clue about what nalbal has been up to over the last 20 years? |
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Post by Aging Warrior on Jan 31, 2005 22:55:13 GMT -5
52 views and nobody posts a comment. It's a nominee for the most boring OP of 2005.
YSS has been a poor leader so far. First, he plans an ambush against military policy. Then he makes promisses to his men and to the enemy that he has no way of keeping. Finally, he leaves when morale hits bottom. It's not his shining hour.
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Post by MasterCrabby on Feb 1, 2005 5:53:34 GMT -5
It's 66 views now. Chun Su is a truly wacky man. He knows he's on thin ice, but I guess he's decided he's in too deep, so just go for it.
Military rules are seldom followed in wartime. It depends on the man in charge to enforce rules. I think that it's OK to improvise, as long as the leader is right. After all, Pickett's charge was by the rules, and planned to boot.
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Post by Aging Warrior on Feb 1, 2005 9:14:43 GMT -5
I don't think were technically at war at the beginning of the episode. That's why YSS wasn't allowed to take aggressive action. The Jurchen's using Kyun's aggressiveness to start a war. Now Choson is faced with the possibility of the currently divided Jurchen tribes uniting. The war started when they fired that arrow with the note at YSS's fort.
it's implied that killing Jurchen prisoners is an exception to the rule so where are all the Jurchen prisoners? No one can find any.
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Post by florel on Feb 6, 2005 5:04:27 GMT -5
Have we been given any clue about what nalbal has been up to over the last 20 years? No clues of his past even to episode #45. it's implied that killing Jurchen prisoners is an exception to the rule so where are all the Jurchen prisoners? No one can find any. I *imagine* they had no disponible prisoners at that time because they sent them to the central government or to other regions a little while ago. During Koryo period (936-1392), Kithan and Jurchen prisoners were sent to sutherner regions for cultivation and farming. It's possible that this prisoner policy would have been retained in the Chosun era. (Perhaps... I'm not sure.) |
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Post by ID on Feb 6, 2005 11:44:04 GMT -5
That reminds me of when Emperor Taejo starved the camels of the Khitan envoys,and wrote them down as the enemies of Koryo. And a few decades later, they had an army equaling one million, compared to a Koryo frontier army consisting of untrained peasents.{It was Wang Shikryum's dream to build an army of 300,000, and relocate the capitol to Pyongnyang, which is at the front. But he died of a heart attack, when he found his forts burned down by rebels}
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It was inconsiderate of Kyun to kill all the prisoners when he knew that YSS was looking for one.