More than 30,000 soldiers attack less than 100 men, killing and maiming them, along with their families, including infants. The survivors were a few women and kids. The heads of the victims, including the infants, were taken as trophies to a tyrant ruler.
It is sentimental due to the brutality of the assailing army and the gory fate of the victims. I, the author, cried while writing, reviewing, and revising.