Dirty Old War Tricks From History (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)
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“People riding around in a g e e p”
Ikr
G E E P
I remember the times when me and my dad rode around in a *G E E P*
Its a Geep thing you wouldn't understand
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GEEP
3:14 “but the smoke bombs weren’t followed by gas but the Australians” Never been prouder of my country
If you feel too proud some day, just remember the emu war :-)
@@Lorian667 rip proud moment
@@bruhmoment1196 Well... every nation surely has its ups and downs. Or is it upside down in down under?
I imagine Austalians being loaded into cannons and fired at the enemy.
There's a reason we have a university named after Sir John Monash: he was a bloody intelligent man in both peacetime and war.
"Let's make peace!"
[Fingers crossed behind the back]
Oh frick
Galaxy brain tactician
That's perfidy, a war crime that typically nets you the death penalty if you ever end up in the Hague.
@@ab-oj9wv The Hague doesn't dish out death penalties, the worst you can get is life in Vught Supermax, also in the Netherlands.
source: I live there.
@@DarkWarchieff It doesn't, until it does. Wait for a big enough war, or a conflict affecting developed nations, and the death penalty will magically reappear on the menu, just like it did in Nuremberg.
I heard that (not sjre if this is actually true) during the war between Egyptians and Persians, Persians brought cats to the frontlines as their first line of defense. The Egyptians, who considered cats sacred animals, refused to attack and surrendered
I heard they carved cats on their shields, causing the Egyptians to not attack in general.
@@joshrosenfield6546 probably that's the true...if it happened
@@freakda96 The shield one's true.
@@joshuagross3151 ok thanks :)
this is true! but i believe it was cesares army, as he was dragged and stoned in egypt for kicking a cat. thats where the idea came from lol
Less of war trick, more of a postwar one.
After the landslide victory in Battle of Kleidion, Byzantine Emperor Basil II grouped up 100 Bulgarian soldiers and blinded 99 of them, and the only remainder? One eye gouged out; for he has to lead his friends back to their commander. Bulgarian Emperor just f*cking scared to death by this.
This happened to 15,000 POWs. One of the biggest dick moves in human history.
Oh I saw that once haha imagine how hard it wuuld be, they were probably killing eachother
I am bulgarian and this is true but there are people that are saying that are 38.000 too
The Afghans did a similar (but far worse) thing to the British during The Retreat from Kabul in 1842. A column of 16,000 was attacked and slaughtered except for an army surgeon who, when asked on his return where the army was, replied: "I am the army!"
@@gojim2429 Are you saying that killing 15,999 people is the same as blinding them?
@@arthurjarrett1604 Killing the enemy in battle is war. Mutilating POW is a crime, since they didnt fight anymore.
When your chilling in your trench trying to avoid a gas attack but some Aussie hops in there and cranks off 6 shots into your chest
You'd be one sour kraut
I hate when that happens...
Yea some Aussie's going to jump into a trench with a bolt action rifle and spend 30 seconds shooting the same guy with six powerful cartridges at point blank range.
@@ufc990 It might have been a Webley revolver. Although, at that range, more than 1 round is overkill.
@@ufc990 he's talking about the Winchester 1897 slam fire shotgun
Not dirty, but clever as all hell.
During China's War of the Three Kingdoms, a General well known for his intelligence and cunning was resting at a town with only a token force when an enemy army approached. The general ordered his men to open the gate and hide while he sat above it playing his flute. When the enemy saw the general sitting in front of a defenseless town they immediately suspected a trap and retreated.
Oh, it was Zhuge Liang vs Sima Yi.
@@johnbrownsville9054 thanks I knew the story but couldn't remember their names
This was later proved as false though
A lot of the 3 kingdoms were romanticized, lol. (Like I'd believe Zhao Yun took an entire army head on)
Another smart trick they use was when Zhuge Lianh challenged Zhou Yu when Wei and Shu had an alliance agaisnt Cao Cao of Wei when they had a naval battle.
Zhou Yu was able to spread discontent and lies into the enemy camp which the 2 main naval commander was executed by cao cao
While Zhuge Liang stole 100k arrows from cao cao disguising his boats in fogs tricking Cao Cao army to shoot arrow at Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang covered the boats with hays so they could collect them all.
8:03
Normal person: Sun Tzu
Computer: SON TEE-ZET-ZU
a yes famous Son-Tea-Zet-Jew
Every time the Russians destroyed their cites and let winter do their job for them.
That1RussianDude I know all this but the question asks for dirty tricks and it is a dirty trick since their nation is the only one where one can pull such a strategy
It's called "Scorched Earth" tactic, pretty famous on my country during Indonesia Independence War (Bandung Lautan Api)
They used winter to their advantage because invaders are dumb enough to keep fighting in the winter
It's not a dirty trick, it's a pro gamer move.
Not really a Russian original tactic either. One of the oldest strategies when retreating is to burn farmland, and destroy the bridges and railroads so your opponents can’t use them for troops and supply lines.
General shepherd did all of us dirty😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
'' that's one less loose end ''
*N o s t a l g i a*
*Sadness*
Ghost 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
"Everybody died, men, women, and children. The children were tortured four days on end. The men were hung in the streets as decoration. And the women were set on fire"
*In the background*
Dun da da da dun dun da da dun dun dun dun
4:41 fun fact! 'Majnoon' means Madman in Arabic. The battle was literally called the battle of the madman.
SleepyDoopy 1 thank you for the information. That makes it a hundred times crazier.
Before I watch, my favorite is either barbarians peeing on spikes, infecting people,
Or marines storming panama while blaring the song Panama, while they lost coordination, we won
omg a kurt fan!!! HAVE YOU READ HIS JOURNAL? it's really interesting!
Reddit Said It bruh I wrote it
Reddit Said It it was like a diary, stop reading it, it is mine
my mom was involved in that she was a listener she losr part of her hearing thanks to it
Oh the Pungi sticks from the Vietnam War were sharpen bamboo shoots that were covered in feces and place in pitfall traps.
"the smoke bombs were not followed by gas, but by the Australians"
The germans fell for a classic blunder, expecting gas, getting australians. Really need to think harder
In terms of the event at the time, it was more than likely considered a dirty trick but maybe not now. During the Hussite Wars (if you’re unaware, the Hussites were from Bohemia, the modern day Czech Republic, and were deemed heretics by the Catholic Church due to ideology. Imagine proto-Protestants, one things they did being preaching in Czech. This launched wars to “cleanse” Bohemia from heresy but they eventually gave up until a thing called the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 where the Czechs threw an Austrian diplomat out a window because they didn’t like the Holy Roman Emperor’s policies he was trying to enforce which then sparked a happy little thing called the 30 Years’ War where 8 million people were killed. After this, the movement died out due to Catholic influence and more Protestant churches.), Bohemians would use wagon forts. When outnumbered, they would set up wagons usually in square formations and put all of their forces in them.
Riflemen (arquebuses in terms of this period, “primitive” muskets.) would fire at incoming infantry while Bohemian halberdiers, spearmen and other infantry would follow up with a counter attack by charging out of the fort with assistance from artillery. Behind said infantry were the cavalry that were also in said wagon fort and you can see how despite being so simple, it was so effective.
And so I conclude my essay on this note: Wagenburg >>>>
Also, don't forget that they set up the wagons usually on hill or somewhere where they had terrain advantange, which usually caused the enemy cavalry to slow down and let the Bohemians attack.
Oh, and let's not forget about their singing. It is said they sang so loud and clear the enemy thought there were thousands of men instead of a few hundreds. I believe they once scared the enemy away with the singing :D
Actually told to me from my uncle who worked on an airbase during the war.
During Vietnam, to get information from the Vietnamese war prisoners, US troops would take two prisoners up into a helicopter on base. They would fly the heli straight up a hundred feet up or so. A higher up would have a translator on stand by before, without notice or hesitation, kick one of the prisoners out of the hovering copter. They would make the other prisoner watch his ally fall and die before asking them "give us some info or you'll end up like him". Even if they were given info, they would kill them the same way anyway. Once that was all said and done, they move onto the next pair. My uncle just watched in fear.
Haunts him to this day watching the cleaning crew scrubbing the blood and bits off the helipad.
I thought that was ARVN.
Sherman during the civil war tearing apart Railroads in the South to permanently ruin their means of transportation.
He also burned a miles wide swath through Georgia, looting the crops and cattle he needed and burning the rest. When he came across a textile mill or similar building, the workers (including young children) would be rounded up and shipped to the north so they couldn’t make stuff for the Confederates. Also, only the mill workers were shipped out, so if mom was a mill worker and you weren’t, you were taking care of yourself. Same goes for the opposite scenario, where you’re a mill worker and mom isn’t.
The Germans droped food packs on starving Stalingrad when opened they would explode
In hunger games I believe the rebels dropped support packages with parachutes and a friendly tinkling tune on the fleeing aristocrats which exploded on contact. I think that scene was based off this.
Haunting really
K9tron Malevolence didnt that kill prim? I forgot
This isn't true/fake news
There's the classic trick of stabbing your arrows into a rotting corpse before a battle to make wounds be more likely to get infected (and to deal extra poison damage).
I love how you can complain that poisoning wells and water sources is a war crime. It's so civil considering that two forces are killing thousands of people of the other faction.
It reminds me of games where people complain about cheating and stuff.
The African campaigns were actually pretty civil. At least compared to the clusterfuck going on in Germany at the time. The stakes were a lot lower in the colonies, and it was still a war of movement. The German commander mostly just wanted to evade the British, tying down troops so they couldn't go fight on the western front.
Because poisoning wells was easily reversible? /s
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 I don't understand your point.
@@huuamai8151 Poisoning water sources, especially in arid area, usually aren't really reversible, at least not in short term. That shit legit caused legendary blood feud. You won't win locals that way.
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 However, pointing out that it's your sign, dipping a cup, and taking a drink while saying "Don't let the Germans see you doing this".....
The one that I know of was Operation Mincemeat.
The British in WW2 dressed up a dead Welsh homeless man as a intelegence agent and sent him to the shore of Italy with a briefcase of falsified information for tactical deception.
Although the relative success of the trick is disputable, Sicily was saved much faster than anticipated with fewer casualties.
I remember seeing this purple haired lady turn her capital ship around at the enemies mobile fob and engaging the hyperdrive without the inhibitors activated resulting in the fob being torn in half and the debris from the crash destroying the entire enemy fleet. It’s like the one thing that everyone in the entire galaxy had agreed to never do.
I don't know if this actually happened or not, but the dirtiest trick I ever read about was the strategy of the empty castle. This was Ancient China, mind you. Basically what happened was that this one general inside a palace was warned that an opposing nation was coming for his palace, now seeing that he lacks the force to defend his castle he had the insane idea to open all the gates make a lot of loud noise to generally make it seem like they were having a festival. The reasoning behind this was that if the enemy saw that they were celebrating, then that must mean that they're REALLY confident that then can defend their castle.
As the enemy general was approaching the castle, he heard the music, saw all the gates were open and thought to himself, "hmm, this is either a trap or they're really confident that they'll win this skirmish" so he turned back.
I might not have brought the story any justice it deserves, but the story is brilliant and ballsy as hell regardless.
This was a story in Sun Tzu's art of war. The gates were opened but they weren't having a festival, rather the general, who was well known to be a great and devious tactician, welcomed the enemy with open arms. The enemy general, fearing a trap in lieu of the reputation of the general before him, chose not to attack.
@@jjy941 Now that I read up on it again, I fucked up the story, lol. It was a battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu. Cao Cao being the devious tactician in the story.
Another tactic was simply to open the gates and *invite the invaders in.* Congratulations, all your troops are hidden in your palace and can strike at any time, and the enemy thinks you're surrendering.
idk if this counts but bush invaded iraq after 9/11 and they recently found out that the evidence bush used was faulty, so therefore bush invaded iraq for no reason becides oil :P
I mean, that wasn't an old war trick. That was a lie. We knew it was a lie, we just didn't have any proof to corroborate the claim.
Well he had a reason tho, oil..
Smh the real dirt move was when lee Harvey Oswald 360 no scoped Nixon
REKT
Yup it was definitely Nixon.
@@rabbit3734 of course it was smh😂
Um not sure it was Nixon but lol
@@aidenlaw6688 smh it totally was Nixon
>play Three Kingdoms Total War
>see poor faction with little to no food
>trade food for money/land
>cancel food trade once money/land has been received
laughingCaoCao.scroll
During Operation Phantom Fury, insurgents would jack their men up with adrenaline, so it would take half of a U.S. Marine's clip to kill 1 insurgent. I have a friend who fought there, and he said he had to stab an enemy 4 times in the skull to kill them.
Phantom fury😆
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@@keksoslav1743 ?
Vinyl ridge is my favourite where the Canadians literally dug underground almost right up to the German defences and popped in front of them
Battle of Pelusium was a war between Egypt and Persia where Egypt is defending and Persia is attacking. At that time Egyptians believed some animals were sacred (e.g. cats) and would never hurt them in any way shape or form. The Persians knew this and abused it, the 7000 Persians were equipped with cats for Shields against 50000 Egyptians. The Egyptian soldiers were worried they would harm the cats and did not attack. The Persians won.
They didn't mention the trench gun.
Good to know.
You know that iconic *DING!* sound the M1 Garand makes once you empty the clip? The ones you hear in FPS games?
Germans soon figured out that the *Ding!* sound meant the US soldier was out of ammo and used it in their favor to advance or retreat once they hear it.
The US soldiers soon realized this and began to intentionally makes the *Ding* sounds on their rifles to trick the Germans into moving from their cover.
I’ll add one. Tom Barry, genius guerrilla leader in the Irish war of independence, had his small flying column under siege in a small village in the south of Ireland by the British. He knew the Brits were short of resources, so he blew a trumpet as if a huge army was about to storm out of the village. The Brits then retreated, expecting a bloodbath. Then the few Irish troops were able to sneak out and regroup. Genius.
Convincing the American population that they’re the good guys
7:57 That is why I send the surviving Red Army soldiers to the Gulags, so they see it as a lose-lose situations.
Nobody gonna mention Caesar just throwing up walls everywhere? Man was ancient Trump
The Narrowwater bombings in the Troubles in 1979 was also extremely devious. On a regular British army patrol, a 227kg fertiliser bomb exploded at the roadside, destroying a British truck and killing six soldiers. The IRA had studied the way the brits responded to incidents like this and correctly predicted that the British reinforcements would set up an Incident command post on the other side of the road, by a gatehouse. In the gatehouse was an 800kg fertiliser bomb that exploded and killed 12 soldiers. This was the single most deadliest bombing by the IRA in the troubles
“Geep”
Nicolas sean Whitman “Jengas Khan”
France: *Makes maggot line*
Germany:What if we went through Belgium?
you want a dirty trick, RUclips wants you to pay to end ads or they can keep getting that ad revenue regardless
Romans during conquest of Spain
Romans: "Come discuss peace terms"
Barbarians: "Ok"
Romans: "stab stab stab"
Also the King of Romania in their war of independence ordered his troops to dress up as Janissaries and went out to kill the Ottoman patrols. He then sent out people with the plague towards the Ottoman army to slow them down, and finally he had thousands of people impaled with stakes to make a forest and this finally stopped the Ottoman army. The King is called Vlad the Impaler/III
vald the impaler aka dracula
10:35 its called double envelopment Hannibal used it at the battle of cannae with beautiful results 50,000 dead romans
No one:
Not me:
Not you:
People who are early: *fIrSt*
First reply lol
Best one I know, ancient China. City under siege by overwhelming odds, city wants to surrender but the commander doesn't want to give up, so he sends a message to enemy general saying "our ancestral burial mounds out side the city walls, plz don't desecrate them or we will lose hope and surrender" sure enough enemy general takes the bait and digs up all the graves, now the ppl in the city are pissed off and vow to never surrender. City commander then tells all his male soldiers to hide inside the city while all the women go to the walls and cry and scream for days, enemy army gets super drunk anticipating surrender any minute. City commander orders holes in walls to be dug, and one night when enemy army is partying, sends out 10 thousand oxen painted like dragons and with oil soaked cloth tied to their tails set on fire and stampede enemy camp followed by 5 thousand men dressed in black and gags in mouth to be quiet, almost all enemy army killed. Sneaky af.
My grandpa told me that in Vietnam Vietnamese sappers would turn their claymores around at night so when they were detonated they hit us instead of them. In response they had to start putting reflectors on the backs of claymores so that you could tell which way they were facing but then the Vietnamese just starts bringing their own reflectors.
I'm amazed this video didn't mention Cambyses II and the fact the literally threw loads of cats at the Egyptian armies, who worshipped the hell outta them, so they'd be too distracted to fight. And it worked.
When us army cant take down taliban snipers from mountain. They called an airstrike.
Toasty
One dirty trick: during the guerrilla war in the early 2000's, the Colombian army decided to literally "scare the life out of tymochenko", they launched a full on attack on his main bases in guaviare (name of the state) which lasted for several hours, it included artillery, 40 mm cannons and helicopters, this eventually worked and it resulted in tymochenko having a heart attack (he had really bad cardiac condition) and eventually most of the F.A.R.C EP surrendered
I was listening to the son of a WWII vet tell his dad's story. He said that when his father (American btw) was stationed in France, they used to raid the cellars for wine. One cellar in particular was being used by both the Allies and the Germans. During the day, the American troops would go down there and get their fill. During the night, the Americans would come out and give the all clear so that the Germans could come get their fill as well. One night however, he was supposed to move out to a new position. His squad waited all day in the cellar without drinking any of the wine. When night fell, they waited for the Germans to enter the cellar. They waited until the Germans were nice and drunk and then threw a grenade down there. Afterwards, there was complete silence, and they moved out.
The Battle of Itter Castle:
Wehrmacht soldiers fighting alongside US Soldiers against the Waffen SS. Good prank on the real villains of WW2.
The Whermacht killed and starved to death civilians and prisoners by millions on Eastern Front. Not better than the SS (which became a large force later).
@@gengis737 And allied soldiers raped hundreds of thousands - couple million german women. There is no true good guys in a war like that.
Operation Mincemeat: During WWII, the British took a dead homeless person, dressed him as a high rank officer, gave him a briefcase with fake papers about an allied invasion in Greece (when in reality it was going to be in Sicily), and then proceeded to drop him near the coast of Spain (Neutral, but with connections with Germany). The Spanish found the body, took the papers and sent all the info to German spies. The plan was a success
Not sure which idea came first but at 1 point, the US wanted to nuke Tokyo.
Some ambassador stopped the president by expressing its cultural significance.
Hence America decided to firebomb it instead...
*America 100*
When Great Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland, and then later became allies with the USSR who coordinated with Germany to invade Poland which is what caused them to declare war on Germany in the first place. And then to top it all off the Polish who made it to Great Britain would later go on to fight the Nazis in the battle of Britain and become highly decorated would also be excluded from the victory parades when ww2 ended and then they were given short notice to either stay in Great Britain or get deported back to Poland where they would often times get sent to prison because it was under Soviet control.
(The treaty that Great Britain and France had with Poland only protected them from a German invasion) those cheeky bastards
Sir Arthur Currie. Canadian General in WW1. As far as I know, he invented the “creeping barrage” and much of the concepts currently used in modern infantry tactics
I would not say the Art of War said getting surrounded was a GOOD idea, but rather that a cornered and desperate fighting force should not be underestimated.
In WW2 the Germans attached explosives to their guns, when they had to leave them behind. When an allied soldier tried to fire the gun, it would explode in his hands.
Some of Napoleon's officers tricked the Austrians that a peace treaty had been signed even though there hadn't been one. They needed to capture a bridge and were worried the Austrians would destroy it if they attacked normally. So a few of the officers just casually start walking across the bridge and tell the sentry the war is over and that they should celebrate. The Austrian officers were so convinced that when a lower ranking officer tried to say it was a lie they threw him in the brig for trying to start a war. After this Napoleon's officers drew there guns and took the Austrians prisoner.
This worked because in those days peace treaties were often signed seemingly out of no where for the troops so it was actually a plausible thing that they simply hadn't heard yet.
i don’t know if it counts, but during the Falklands war, some Argentinian troops surrendered. The 3 British para officers came to take them prisoner and were shot by one, and he turned to his comrades for thanks or praise or something, but what he got was a Bren gun butt to his face and thirty rounds into his stomach.
If you could sneak something into hitlers food why would it be estrogen loool
In theory, anything fatal would be found before it made it to hitler. But Estrogen could be snuck in no problem. Though it making Hitler more agreeable just seems kinda like an 11th hour thought.
@@NEEDbacon It would fuck up his hormones though... at least more than they already were.
I forgot who it was but back in the times of the Romans, one army didn't even lift a bow or sword. Gifted the enemy troops some wine, poisoned it with cyanide and watched their entire military die.
My favorite has got to be during WW2 when the British were storming a German base in occupied France. The British Expeditionary Force were massively outnumbered, so their leader "Mad Jack" Churchill (no relation to Winston) had his troops all line up around the base as spread out as possible. Then, under the cover of night, he had them all charge while screaming "Commando".
The entire base surrendered and his group of less than 100 soldiers took over 1500 Germans prisoner.
Oh, and he also killed a Nazi with a bow and arrow and played bagpipes during the battle, because why not?
During the Gallipolli campaign on the 3rd day(im not sure) Turkish army used 90% of their ammo and the restocking could only happen at night because the stockpile were coming from far away.They were down to 25 guns and one operational machinegun nest. Ataturk improvised and told his soldiers to cut trees and make gun shaped wood pieces for everyone which they painted black to make it look like a gun. Before the battle all of the soldiers had wood guns in their hands and rocks in their pockets. English army didn't had stockpiles either but they expected no resistance from the Turkish army so they sent whatever is left. But when machinegun nest fired at them they panicked and they started running away when they see Turkish army charging at them with weapons (since they panicked they confused the black wood guns to real ones and the rocks thrown at them to bullets) They ran away and the campaign stretched by 3 more days (again im not sure)
US Marines fighting in the second world war were documented throwing rocks instead of grenades during night fighting the Japanese. This would happen during bonsai charges until the Japanese figured out that the grenade being thrown at them weren't exploding and were rocks. Then once they started ignoring the rocks the Marines would begin throwing live grenades into the middle of a charge. This maximized casualties and caused untold psychological damage to the Japanese soldiers.
An exceptionally dirty trick was perfected by the Vietnamese Communists (Viet Cong), it was called "Gravedigging", as they were nicknamed, this tactic involved digging a cavern under a road (the Vietnamese Cong made thousands of little tunnels, used to pop out and troll the enemy), the cavern would often be wider then the road, and was specifically made so that anything over several tons would fall through, if a Patton drove over, the road would literally collapse inward, also the cavern was usually 8-15 feet deep, meaning that the crew would be trapped, hence the name, as the tank would literally go into its "grave", then, Viet Cong troops hiding in nearby tunnels would enter the cavern via entrances dug in the sides, and would slaughter the crew
genghis khan took inspiration from saint olga of kiev with the lighting animals on fire thing
one time Ghengis Khan was having trouble breaching a walled city, so he ordered a full retreat of his army before dawn, but that they were to leave all of their supplies behind. When dawn broke and the soldiers saw all that shit lying around unguarded, a bunch of people came out to take it. Once those gates had opened up to let the looters out the army came riding out from where they had been hiding just beyond the nearby hills and sacked the city.
British confirmed dirtiest fighters
Obviously
rwdplz1 At least our ships did not fire while under a white flag
Any time Ceasar builds a wall he is about to do a general dirty
The Turkish Turan was very similar to the tactic Hannibal used in the battle of Cannae during the second Punic War. He set his strong troops on the outside and weak in the center. As the center retreated his small army of 50,000 surrounded the larger Roman army of about 86,000.
Sun T Zed U
7:57 was the tactic used in D-DAY. Basically, allies forced their troops to the beach. Imagine being stuck there.
>On their front was the "impregnable" wall full of mines, barbed wires, and german machine guns raining down on them.
>On their back was the rough seas of the English Channel.
>Staying put was out of the question, they're being continuously bombarded by coastline artillery and mortar defenses and strafed by German Lutwaffe. Other boats are also continuously arriving and soon the beach will be crowded.
2 choices: turn back and swim across the cold waters back to england or Move forward and kill the enemy.
Not a dirty trick, but still a trick.
I forgot the names, but I read this story where there were two famous Chinese generals. General 1 was an expert in ambushes and surprise attacks with lesser men. General 2 was an expert of storming with soldiers, like an old fashioned blitzkrieg minus the tanks etc. Now one day, General 1 has to defend a city, but he doesn't have enough soldiers. When he learns General 2 was the one attacking, General 1 set up a plan. When General 2 arrives with his army, he sees General 1 sitting down playing the flute or something. Suspecting a trap, General 2 flees.
There was no ambush waiting, just General 1 playing a flute. That was the whole strategy. Had anyone else be less cautious, the city would have been stormed easily. General 1 just had to "defend" against General 2.
A fishing net
South Korean fisherman caught a North Korean mini-sub in his net.
The SK Coast Guard tried to tow it to harbor but then (out of shame or guilt) the sub sunk with all crew on board.
Legend says that it was Admiral Yi's soul resonating within that fisherman.
" (out of shame or guilt) ".... or out of being a North Korean submarine.
most likely explanation would be that it's official protocol to scuttle the sub in that sort of scenario to prevent capture.
Ah the good old "make them think you're retreating but really not" been used for ages. Also about the Tokyo firebombing, I remember reading a bit about that, massive parts of the city burned and a lot of civilians died in the fires. I'd say war is hell but war is probably worse.
During the Siege of Gassantoda Castle in Japan in 1565, when several Amago soldiers deserted to surrender to the Mori army, the daimyo Mori Motonari had half the men executed and sent the others back with word that any defectors would be killed. This was to ensure the castle's defenders would deplete their food supplies as fast as possible. After several months of siege and with the defenders' morale flagging from starvation and the unjust execution of one of their own generals by their daimyo, Motonari then lifted his ban on accepting defectors and huge numbers of the Amago army deserted the castle, whereupon the Amago daimyo shortly after surrendered to the Mori forces.
This led to the unfortunate side effect of some of the deserters then dying as they gorged themselves on the food offered, as their shrunken stomachs could not handle so much food forced into them at once and ruptured.
6:37 the Canadians did the walking by multiple times thing a lot in the war of 1812
Post war trick: The italians after ww1 were promised great swaths of land, Czech land, but only received a fraction, which led them to join Germany in the second war. Also, not war, but the US absolutely busted Japans economy in the late 1800s and screwed them out of great spheres of influence in Asia.
Towards the end of the first would war Germany was running out of raw materials. They melted all the Church Bells, Mortar and Pestles, Window Leads and Copper Roof Guttering to keep the their War Machine going. They got to the point where their Shrapnel Shells were loaded with nails, bolts, nuts, screws, clock springs and glass eyes. Can you imagine going to work on a casualty, lifting his bandages and having his wound staring back at you? Or telling your Grand kids you were hit in the ass with a glass eye?
In the Vietnam War, the North and South Vietnamese made an agreement to not attack each other during the days of Têt (Vietnamese New Year). The North Vietnamese didn’t stick to the agreement and attacked the South Vietnamese while they were celebrating, killing a lot of people.
oh, i just remembered a story in a book, "cloak and cipher" about how codes and cryptography have changed history:
during the siege of Dunkirk, someone noticed that the Germans were using a simple strategy: first, they would use several different colors of "very" signal rockets to signal the artillery to fire, then sued a different set of rockets to signal "stop firing", then their troops would advance.
so he used HIS "very" rockets to MIMIC the "fire" command, causing the German troops to get hit by their own artillery! he did this several times, and the Germans stopped attacking AT ALL for the rest of the night!
Not really a war trick but it was an attempt at assassination and usually worked, but back in the Vietnam war they used to do this thing called fragging where someone would throw a live grenade in the middle of the battle onto someone’s feet (usually a sergeant that was abusive or annoying) and it would explode usually killing them, they did this a lot surprisingly, and this was considered a war crime and you could be court-martialed or something I don’t remember but if you were caught doing it then you’d be sent to jail
In the 1973 war, Israeli forces were pushed back on the southern border, and the Egyptians managed to cross the Suez canal and set up positions there, preparing for a large counterattack across the whole border. The Israelis, instead, focused their attack on a single spot, breaking through and crossing the Suez canal as well. Once their armor was on the other side, they deployed their forces for an attack against the Egyptians, who were so focused on stopping the counterattack they just didn't realize they were getting surrounded. The Egyptians more or less surrendered and ran back to Egypt.
Another story was during the Six Day War, when the Egyptian forces were trying to get out of Sinai in the thousands, and Israel, rather than attacking them directly, instead raced past them and captured the passes across the Suez canal. The unorganized and panicked Egyptians ran right at them, completely oblivious to the ambush. Over 10k Egyptian troops were killed on just a few hours.
i’m friends with Robert McNamara’s grand daughter, the man who fire bombed japan knowing most of their architecture was wooden; even he regretted it after he saw bike much damage it caused.
“The smoke bombs were not followed by the gas, but by the Australians”
it wasn't fully effective but during the Crimean war, russian troops taught pidgeons to expect to be fed by men in red coats... And then unleashed them tied to grenades to hopefully take out enemy (british) officers.
Germany in WW2, complaining about war crimes... About drinking water..
10:40 fun fact Ramses 2 did the same thing retreating the middle force so the enemy push them then flanking with the sides
My dad told me about an old Vietnam vet from the 90s that would talk about his stories one that stuck out was that they’d put grenades in mason jars and drop them from there helicopter, so when the grenade exploded and the glass broke glass would fly everywhere
Listen a little more closely to your father. You stick a grenade in a mason jar and it holds the spoon closed. You then pull the pin and nothing happens, leaving you to drop the thing from the helicopter and the jar breaks when it hits the ground, releasing the spoon and starting the fuse on the grenade.
It was a safe way to use a grenade from a helicopter without it exploding mid-air, too close for comfort.
Not really that dirty but hilarious and brilliant moment during the period of war in ancient China known as the "three kingdoms" Era. Zhuge Liang, strategist of the Shu forces, was tasked with acquiring 10,000 arrows in 10 days for an upcoming assault on Wei by their Wu allies(story goes that Wu expected him to fail and would use his failure as an excuse to have him removed or executed). He told then he'd have their arrows in 3 days. He had been watching the weather and predicted a heavy fog on the third day. He spent the first two days preparing a large number of boats made of straw. On the third day, during the heavy fog he had correctly predicted, he sent out these boats across the river towards the Wei forces. Wei troops thought it was an attack, and sent volley after volley of arrows into the advancing straw boats. Zhuge Liang then pulled the boats back and collected all the arrows.
Mw2 when Shepard killed Ghost 😪😪
normal people: jeep
me, a genius: *geep*
I feel like the Viet Cong had a TON of examples... Pitfalls into bamboo spikes covered in feces (so as to cause an infection), swinging ball sort of traps that would hit ppl again with feces covered spikes, and they'd also use various explosive tricks like for example they would sneak into American bases and place cigarette lighters that exploded when used...
There's also snipers with the Soviet Union... Snipers were seen as dishonorable (kinda like how some kids feel in Call of Duty), but Joseph Stalin had no problem using it to great effect at Stalingrad where the Nazis had bombarded it so much before advancing that it was very much in ruins with plenty of new hiding spots for snipers...
Also there's Archimedes and how according to legend he invented a giant claw that was like those claw games where you get plushies and such at arcades... Except this claw was much bigger, hung from the walls of Syracuse and instead of plushies it grabbed the ships of the invading Romans, lifting them up before dropping them (causing the crew to fall off and the ship to sink or perhaps even break)... But y'know, he also supposedly invented the heat ray with a bunch of mirrors that could focus light on Roman sails to cause them to catch fire (Mythbusters Mythbusted this though)
The first one about Jeeps is correct, thats why if you see any jeep from the time with a large piece of metal wielded on the front that has a notch in it was put there to cut those wires.
The Soviet’s decided to bait the Germans and dragged them along in the southern Russian step. The Wehrmacht only realized at the end that Stalingrad was a trap cage. ( the equivalent of a gunfight going from outside a house and drags into the back rooms only to realize after having the enemy at gunpoint that the house is suddenly surrounded by enemy tanks and artillery. They were slowly building up as your enemy baited your deeper into the house)
i won a game of nerf by using ancient tactics. i tilted the table, then charged into their rear. nerf guns dont shoot far but my enemy was the best of my club and had long range guns. i got rid of their range advantage and fought them basically with a sword. ahhh commanding an army in such close proximity while wearing armor and holding a sword. feels like classical warfare. commanding like i did, felt good
Not actually during a hot war, but during the cold war: Operation Tamarisk
One that stands out for me is the goodwill visit of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein on 1st September, 1939. It was docked in Gdansk, being a friendly visit, and then let forth a barrage that took out the port's defences. It signalled the start of the invasion of Poland.
Edit: Footage of the attack
ruclips.net/video/L7v9iUvyIMk/видео.html
LOL@11:27 "Where can I get this honey?"
Pretty sure some guys threw snakes in glass jars onto others ships and when it broke there was an angry snake on your ship
In the Crimean War (the 19th-century one, not the Putin one), the Russian army trained a bunch of birds to associate men in red coats with being fed. Then they strapped grenades to their feet and set them against the British soldiers.