Chapter 27: The Battle of Changping (Qin Wan)
In the forty-seventh year of King Qin Zhao (260 BC), the number of participants on both sides exceeded one million, and the two countries of Qin and Zhao were equal in terms of comprehensive national strength, although Bai Qi was the top level general in the Warring States Period, and he beheaded no less than 100,000 in each war, and did not taste a defeat, which made the six countries of Shandong frightened, but in the face of Lian Po's high-level fortifications, and the talent of the defense general, as well as the natural danger in the Shangdang area, Bai Qi still had no way to get the results!
Both Qin and Zhao have prepared war reserves for at least ten years, and it is an unprecedentedly large protracted war, and the experienced and steady Zhao Lian Po has never taken the initiative to attack, and Lian Po decided to adopt the strategy of holding the camp and waiting for the Qin soldiers to attack according to the situation that the enemy is strong and weak, and the first battle is lost.
Bai Qi led the Qin army to challenge many times, but Zhao did not send troops.
King Zhao repeatedly blamed Lian Po for this. There were few major battles before Zhao Kuo took office, and the Zhao army was defeated by Bai Qi several times, but the main force and foundation were not damaged in the slightest.
In the forty-seventh year of King Zhao (260 BC), Bai Qi discussed with Fan Ju, the corresponding Marquis of Qin at this time, and finally decided to send someone to bribe Zhao Guoquan's ministers with his daughter, and spread rumors with discord: "What Qin hates and fears is Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao Hao, the king of Ma Fujun; Lian is easy to deal with, and he is about to surrender. ”
King Zhao was angry that Lian Po had suffered defeats and heavy casualties, and he was tired of Lian Po's stubborn refusal to fight, so he listened to the rumors and sent Zhao Kuo to replace Lian Po as a general, and ordered him to lead his troops to attack Qin.
Bai Qi looked up at the sky: "The fighter plane is finally here, God help me." "Bai Qi's 'Wangyang sighs (referring to soldiers)' war between countries, how small is the power of one person? At this time, it was a turning point in the war, and it was also the fighter plane that Bai Qi often said, after Zhao Kuo took office, he reversed the deployment of incorruptibility, not only changed the system of the troops before the war, but also replaced a large number of generals, so that the combat strength of the Zhao army declined.
Seeing that Zhao Zhong had a plan, he ordered Bai Qi to be the general and Wang Luo to be the deputy general.
Although Zhao Kuo was arrogant and arrogant, he was afraid of Bai Qi as a general, and the king of Qin ordered that "those who dare to vent the marquis of An will be beheaded." In this atmosphere, Zhao Kuo began a battle to lay a solid foundation for China's first reunification, and Bai Qi also began his killing talent, and the Battle of Changping was not the biggest battle that Bai Qi won, but the hardest battle; Taking advantage of the opponent's recklessness and arrogance, Bai Qi decided to adopt the tactics of retreating to lure the enemy and divide the encirclement and annihilation.
Bai Qi: "Order the forward troops to take on the task of luring the enemy, and when the Zhao army attacks, they will feign defeat and retreat!" The main force was deployed in depth to build a bag-shaped position, and another 5,000 elite soldiers were wedged between the enemy's vanguard and the main force, waiting for an opportunity to cut off the Zhao army. ”
In August, Zhao Kuo rashly took offensive action without knowing the truth and truth.
The Qin army pretended to be defeated, and secretly opened its wings to set up surprise soldiers to coerce the Zhao army, and the Zhao army took advantage of the victory to chase the Qin army to the Qin army's barrier.
Bai Qi: "Order the two wings to attack quickly and cut the Zhao army into three sections." ”
The Zhao army was separated from the end to the end, and the grain route was cut off.
Bai Qi sent light cavalry to constantly harass the Zhao army.
The battle situation of the Zhao army was critical, so they had to build a fortress wall and wait for rescue. When the king of Qin heard that Zhao's grain route had been cut off, he personally went to Hanoi to supervise the war, conscripted men over the age of fifteen to join the army, and rewarded the first rank of civil lord to block Zhao's reinforcements and grain and grass, and poured the strength of the whole country into fighting against Zhao.
In September, Zhao's soldiers had been without food for forty-six days, starving, and even killing each other' General, is our army attacking? ’
Bai Qi smiled and said: "No, strengthen the encirclement!" ”
Zhao Kuo was cornered, regrouped his troops, divided his troops into four teams to break through in turn, and finally could not get out, Zhao Kuo personally led the elite soldiers to battle, and was shot by the Qin army - Zhao Kuo's army was defeated! In several major battles in the war, Qin Zhao suffered huge casualties and lay dead for hundreds of miles! A river of blood...
By the time the Zhao army surrendered, there were only about 200,000 of them......
Bai Qi thought for a while: "200,000 people, if you want to eat, the national strength that the Qin State has already consumed in the war is not small, and providing them with food for a long time is a suicidal act, it is better to use it for cultivation, Hehe!"
Bai Qi first determined three arrangements: "First, the garrison of the soldiers was set in the Wangbao Valley, which was conducive to guarding from a high place and had water to drink, and Huan led 100,000 Qin troops to garrison the Tunshan Pass and the mountains on both sides to prevent accidents; second, immediately distribute 30% of the military rations from each battalion, transport them only into the valley mouth, and hand them over to the soldiers to cook themselves; Third, all the clothes and tents discarded by the Zhao army were collected and transported into Wang Bao Valley to make military tents to protect against the cold. ”
Bai Qi wrote to the King of Qin, and the King of Qin replied with only eight words: life and death, listen to the monarch's decision, Prime Minister Fan Ju also avoided this question, in fact, they wanted to express only one meaning "kill and surrender", but "killing and surrendering ominous" is the rule of the Warring States......
It's hard to get up in vain! But what can be done to let them go? Self-harm!
Integration into the Qin State? Dream!
Qin Zhao's hundred years of hatred!
Bai Qi led the army, and he had already created an unheard of great feat - the first battle completely destroyed the 580,000 army of Zhao State, beheaded more than 300,000, and surrendered more than 200,000!
But all the famous generals of the soldiers, how could they have such a brilliant record, the king's order not to do the army, and the general's order to be outside the monarch's life has always been what the generals wanted.
Before the war, the king of Qin did expand Bai Qi's military power and battlefield decision-making power to an infinite extent, and the part of the military power that should have been in the king's hands was handed over to Bai Qi, and he also added a sentence "You have to resist the king's order to act (you can disobey the king's order)." ”
Before the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi had never actually asked the King of Qin for orders on military affairs and battlefield problems, and if the King of Qin was disorderly on the battlefield, he would not hesitate to follow the principle of "not being subject to the orders of foreign monarchs".
All this, however, is for the sake of fighting wars, for the sake of defeating enemy countries.
Bai Qi was vague and irritable about this, and thought to himself: "Now that the war is over, the disposal of the soldiers is related to the affairs of all parties, but the king of Qin and the prime minister are noncommittal, and let him have full authority, isn't it funny?" However, how sharp are the King of Qin and the Prime Minister, why are they so vague? It is also a clear fact, because I am afraid of touching that word - "kill and surrender" is really killing and surrendering, and in one fell swoop, there are more than 200,000 people, and the world will sacrifice the banner of heaven and humanity, and will forever bury itself in a terrible curse, that's it, how can he! No one carries this black pot!
At that time, the famous general will become a hideous butcher, and the god of war will become a demon from which he will never recover!
Where is the eternal deed?
Where is the reputation of history?
However, if he doesn't take this step, he must carry this black cauldron! If you don't release the captives, Bai Qi will have a good reputation in history, but who will manage the rise and fall of the state and unify the world? How to break through? The path of cultivation never ends! The loss of chance will not come again! ”
Bai Qi knew that there was no other way but to start deploying, and the Qin army used a lot of food and wine to anesthetize the Zhao soldiers at night. Arrows rained down, fireballs flew into the valley, and the valley was calm after the night!
began to bury it...... After the winter, the news of the Qin army's "pit killing 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao army" swept the world like a storm, and all countries were frightened and discolored!
There is no joy of victory, according to tradition, the Qin State has achieved such a great victory in ancient times, the princes of the world with the "city road" as the criterion of diplomatic relations should rush to send special envoys to celebrate, Luoyang Zhou Tianzi will "reward" the Son of Heaven chariot uniforms and all kinds of "on behalf of the heavens" axe and Yue honor guard, Xianyang bento is the great celebration of the carriage and horse Yingcheng, but this time there is nothing, Qin has become the public enemy of the world!
And what ensued, there had never been such a concerted effort!
Bai Qi refused the order of the King of Qin and refused to fight, because he thought that this was a war that must be lost, and the only way was to give up all the territories outside the Hangu Pass and retreat to the Hangu Pass, you must know that the Qin State had fought hard for a hundred years to open up a large territory outside the Hangu Pass, and it was impossible to give up the large territory outside the Hangu Pass easily, and it was impossible to get the consent of the King of Qin, not to mention that the six kingdoms of Shandong had never won the Qin State, so the King of Qin began to resent, he thought that it was Bai Qi's cowardice, and Bai Qi actually did not continue to play with them because the realm was about to break through!
slaughtered more than 500,000 enemies, and the essence devoured was transformed into spiritual power all the time, so he resigned and left, and traveled all over the world to find a place to practice!