What are you talking about? Zhuge Liang clearly invented fire breathing flamethrower tanks that fought tamed tigers and elephants, this is the the most accurate aspect of the whole affair.

10:35 The moment you said “those oxens are really on fire”, I gasped “oh no” and then keep watching the video. Just realised it has a similar vibe to the “oh no, anyway” meme.

Why was it so hilarious seeing a baby being cast aside like a bag of trash like that

In the novel, the idea behind capturing Meng Huo 7 times and letting him go was to make full use of Meng Huo's status as the Nanman "leader". As long as the Nanman tribes didn't replace him, dealing with the Nanman was much easier. After all, dealing with an idiot you know is a lot easier than dealing with a duplicitous jackass, which was why the Gao Ding guy was sent north into a death trap against Wei forces. I don't think the guy "Meng Huo" actually exists. I personally think that the name "Meng Huo" is actually derived from "alliance leader" and just abused as a name for someone who most likely existed but was not called by his actual name. 盟 = alliance (pronounced as "meng" in Mandarin) 王 = king (pronounced as "wang" in Mandarin) In other Chinese languages, the word 'king' is pronounced similarly to "Huo" so I wouldn't be surprised if the novelist took the name from that misinterpretation. In actual history, I wouldn't be surprised if Zhuge Liang actually captured 7 different alliance leaders in succession during his Nanman campaign because he is acutely aware of the importance of removing leadership from enemy forces. I don't know why the novelist chose 7 encounters but if that is to be believed, that probably means that there were 7 critical engagements that broke the Nanman's resistance.

Although romance of three kingdoms described nanman province as a dense jungle, actually yunnan province, where nanman tribes lived, is plateau that is around 2000~3000m height so actually it is hard to find jungle in historical nanman province.

Also, I would like to point out that Shi Xie (who was indeed still alive at this point) did play a role in diplomatically convincing Yong Kai that switching sides was a good idea. Mainly by bribing him. A lot. Because it turns out, 30+ years of relatively stable and peaceful rule of your province while everyone else is fighting up north leaves you very very rich. (Still bitter they didn't even give Shi Xie unique units when even freaking Tao Qian of all people got two unique units).

The historicity of Meng Huo's 7 captures has been questioned by historians since a thousand years ago. Also Meng Huo himself is possibly not even a local tribesman due to his government position and his role with Yong Kai

You know, Zhuge Liang may be overrated (looks at the northern campaigns) but at least he didn’t immediately try the “Burn everything and let the fire decide who lives or dies” approach. So that’s definitely a point in his favor.

5:47 "Gao Ding killed that one too.".... Goddamn it, Ding!

"King Sha Moke, not sold at Starbucks" DAMMIT!!!

4:28 That one soldier to the left is ready to do business! "I"M READY BRAH! WHAT'S UP?!"

Would love to see this in a dynasty warriors machinima. Good and educational video

Another masterpiece of information!! Love it!! Thank you~

Recreated in game scenes are really awesome and a good idea to spice the flavor and quality of the overall video

How do you not have more subscribers? Your content is so well made!

Oh, I love those funny descriptions!

Shame KZfaq decided to show me this 6 days too late! I see the views are not as great as the Warhammer lore ones but this is gold! I love your awesome mix of comedy and history, and hope you make more, sir! :D

Turns out, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, wasn’t so romantic.

"And these oxen are really on fire" China have as much respect for animal rights than for human rights, I guess ^^

Damn Zhuge Liang really be a servant of Tzeentch.

One thing I literally never heard about a day in my life though are those war elephants lol. I don’t know if they inhabited those areas once upon a time, but my entire family never once talked about it. My mom did ride an elephant but it wasn’t in our homeland puerhh

Never knew about this series, I love it.

After the end of the Southern Campaign, Zhuge Liang moved thousand Qing Qiang , Shou, Ruo, Jiong , Baipu and another ethnic groups and they households from Qingqiang to Shu area on a large scale in order to avoid another rebellion in Nanzhong region . Zhuge Liang recruited minority soldiers to join the regular army of Shu . Them form a new Shu unit called ''无当飞军'' an elite mountain warfare special forces unit that will play a huge role Zhuge Liang northern expedition & Jiang Wei northern campaign.

great video

Nice. Surprised you left out Zhuge Liang 'made the first minefield out' and a few other small bits out like a hoard of laborers carry dirt making a ramp to the wall in several hours of throwing the poor at a wall. Or when they resorted to rattan/bammboo body armor he lit them up bad. Though so much to say already. Liking your Total War history shift.

I wish they added like a mini campaign similar to Ceaser in Ghaul in the furious wild dlc where you got to play the southern campaign against the nanman or play as them against the invasion

Wasn’t that the battle all about getting revenge on the wu Because of their betrayal at fan castle and the death of guan yu and his other sworn brother

Man! Great progression in the style of storytelling here! Using the game and other related media to show the scenes you're speaking of must have been hard clip gathering and editing work! I really like the cuts to yourself for quite quips as well. Big thing I'd recommend is try and find better audio equipment in the field to better match your studio microphone setup you're recording the rest of the narration with. It's hard to pair it smooth though fo sho

We need Zhuge Liang earlier in 3K Total War!

Man when I played Dynasty Warriors a long ass time ago the lead mate of the Nanman was fatter than Grom from Warhammer. Goes to show what a diet mixed in with exercise from battle can do for ya.

"To fight a never-ending guerrilla war and get malaria in a swampy hellhole" And about 1700 years later in Vietnam ...

10:12 xD The sword

My austronesian ancestors from 🇵🇭 here ❤️ Originally they're not Tanned at all. Our native dress looks like from Southern Chinese tribes with beads red yellow sewed on dress. Our headdress head band with wings of the birds or chickens. We have tattoos in our bodies as well.

Nanman actually considered very weak army. Their tribe barely has experience in large battle, unorganised and easily defeated. Even the local governor told Zhugeliang, defeating them is easy, but to educate them not to rebel is main challenge. Zhugeliang defeated Meng Huo simply using tricks for 9 times, before finally ordered the final battle to be precise. All Nanman commanders were shocked when Shu army no longer gave them mercy and the battle took very short time.

One thing that has been passed down in nanman culture that isn’t so barbaric is that some of us don’t eat yaks/cows out of respect. Not for any religious or dietary reasons but as my mother described it, it was out of pity. Yaks were engineered into plow machines and would be worked to death. So some nanman would bury their livestock instead and refuse to eat them

Actually it was 马谡 ''Ma Su' adviced 诸葛亮'' to ''攻心为上'' which means ''conquering the heart of Nan Man people is better strategy than conquering their land and slaving their people, it would be endless war'', which result in Zhugeliang's '七擒七纵' capturing and releasing '孟获 Meng Huo' for 7 times, after all i think Zhugeliang also knew that strategy just wanted to hear it from his favorite apprentice at the time to convince himself this Ma Su is worthy of being fostered

Animals were hurt in the making of this video

Letting Meng Huo go... Thats just the ending outlaw king all over again...7 times

Good stuff man! Though the audio kinda changes volume a lot.

God, watching this really makes me wish they had this in the Three Kingdoms 2010 tv show! Good video :)

Great video as always. Still bothered by those poor buffalo set on fire for a movie...

Really really shouldn't have yeeted his son into the ground.

Someone yeeted little Liu Shan onto his head as a baby? Why wasn't that in any of the Dynasty Warriors games?

Hahaha learning knowledge from the victor is like learning God words from a man.

Young Kai was courting death!

Where did you find that Gao Ding went north on the Northern Campaigns? I don't recall that ever being mentioned.

10:50 Ah jeez... bad feels dude...

It's hard to focus on the historical facts after seeing cows set on fire.

Well kongming forgot to bring a weatherman

those goddam oxen were really one fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May you please cover Yan Baihu please?!! i beg of you

Is this a face reveal? Gotta lookin good my man! I expected more of a neckbeard sort of look, but damn.. classy

You make Liu bei sound like al bundy

Nah Zhuge Liang said I like these guys and meng hou was like leave me alone and zhuge Liang said don’t worry man I got u attack him 7 times and meng hou was like hey your pretty cool can we be friends and his wife that definitely excised was like I mean ig dude if u say so, trust me I was there

Nice machinima techniques.

Yeet the baby!

Not the oxen! 😭😭😭😭

Thous oxen are really on fire.. Animal rights people would hate that movie!

I thought this event actually didn't even existed and it was more or less, fictional.

Liu shan littery dropped as a child. Wow

10:36 wtf China???!

I love your hat.

PYROTANK PYROTANK

I just give them food.

Hmm liu bei throwing down his baby son. Shocking no doubt, since liu bei will always be my favorite character in the novel.

4:28 Is this guy is the down left corner of the screen ok?

Meng Huo was more likely either half Nanman or was culturally accustomed to them rather than being born as one. In that respect he was probably similar to Dong Zhou in that he was a Han official who was well liked and respected by the local tribes (Dong Zhou spent a lot of time with the Qiang people and even married a chieftain's daughter) and was even elected to be their leader. While Zhuge Liang's capturing him seven times was certainly fake, it may have been a fabrication of Shu forces winning seven major victories in their Southern Campaign before their enemies finally surrendered and were brought back into the fold.

We are not that much tanner lmao. I would say in between Filipino and malay definitely not as dark as Filipino or Indonesian. Unless it’s summer you can’t see a difference. One thing that’s cool and not noted is most nanman descendants have dark brownish reddish hair

I feel like sun Jian is just Going to use the tribes as a way to sharpen his sword with their bones If their Weak But if their a strong this is going to be a challenge

poor oxen

Idk, the Burma campaign went pretty well

i am a migrate south china chinese my grandparents and parents always remind me that the northern china are badjazz people, so rude and don't respect the native culture, the northern vietnam or another named for south china ( is a very confusing place to lived on because we living in the border and no peace is found in there) until today south china and north china behave very different and stereotypes each other much, we south chinese don't like the northern chinese is because they are so called themselves too civilization yet disrespect toward nature, that is why we southern chinese love to migrate for a very good reason why, that is why Southern Chinese are friendly with the Westerner and other part of the world, what we want is peace and adaptation and respect, our ancestor had suffered war, but now we prefer be friends with outside from China. You see today China economy boom like a thunderstorm is actually from Northern China power.... earth will be doom soon, gangs.... this is not your friendly average Southern Chinese that speak in Cantonese and learned to respect your culture and religion. we migrate chinese find these northern chinese is so disrespect toward with different race and culture, and religion. they want to make southern chinese a name shame for money reason...look at Hong Kong for example, it is ruin....to good named to be ruin....

Meng huo reminds me of iskandar

The Uighur joke of Nanman was dark.

The Nanman are pretty much the Bai Yue. The 100 tribes.

Sept 10th ......... what a coincidence the final borderlands 3 dlc comes it at that exact date must be cody's way of subtlety mocking gearbox over the crap story of borderlands 3 and how they wasted potential

Hyyyype ❤❤❤

Never thought that Peter Jackson would get into Chinese history.

Feels bad to be the Nanman. : /

So these are the ancestors of the Cantonese

Calling our Hmong ancestor Nanman is racist because our oral tradition never have anything to do with riding elephants, doing black magic with worms and bugs, and tattoo our foreheads and eat raw fish. 8:50 none of my ancestor want to be surrounded by hot swamp, mosquito bites. We will run away. We rather let the Chinese keep the swampy heat.

This video is if right wing and left wing had a baby. Dude criticizes the han for being imperialistic, right after making a joke about a baby being thrown in the floor. Or how about saying someone is invented because had a supposedly deity origin? So the egyptians made up their kings?

You describe ancient China and all I'm hearing is hipster Vietnam War

Zhuge Liang is soooo overrated.