"If we hadn't killed all the non-combat members of the Long Family back then, but instead forced them to disperse, the vast majority of the Long Family's combatants would have returned to their non-combat family members. That way, the Long Family would have found themselves in a very passive position."
"Fighting them at that point would have been much easier."
"Now that we've killed all the non-combat members of the Long Family, their combatants have no worries left behind."
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