"The purpose of this one was to terrify the enemy. Imagine you're in the front line of an arm, and you're amassing against the front line of another army, and the front line of the opposing army does something so extraordinary that you think, "Oh, my God, we're never gonna to beat them."
496 BC, the army of King Goujian of Yueh in Vietnam, he had convicted criminals in the front line and told them they had to cut their own heads off. You may say, "Well, why would they do that?" If they didn't, then all their families and all their children would be massacred as well."
-QI Stephen Fry
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