As soon as the glass of water was drunk, the fungus immediately knelt on the ground with a thud, and said to Shen Liang with a handful of snot and tears: "Brother, big brother, father, you keep talking, I want to learn." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

At this moment, Zhengwen looked at the fungus with disdain, and said: "I really despise you, look at your appearance, you are really a dead person, even your father was called, do you still have a chance?" ”

At this moment, the stipe retorted: "You know what if the general takes me out, it will be the person I recreated, my reborn parents, and my father!" ”

Shen Liang suddenly couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Okay, I'll continue to talk about it." ”

The stipe immediately studied hard and pricked up his ears to listen.

Shen Liang continued: "The Qin army captured Yewang in Korea and cut off the connection between Shangdang County and the Korean mainland. Helpless, South Korea wanted to offer the party to seek peace, but the military and people of the party regarded Qin as a "country of tigers and wolves" and turned to Zhao. Shangdang 17 cities are a "hot potato" for Zhao State: receiving it is equivalent to declaring war with Qin State and setting himself on fire; Refusal, apparently self-severing of both arms. Moreover, the real goal of the Qin State is the Zhao State, which is not necessarily related to whether or not it accepts the Shangdang.

After consulting with his ministers, King Zhao Xiaocheng finally decided to accept Shangdang County. To this end, Zhao sent 450,000 troops to help, and the leading figure was Lian Po, who was able to attack and defend well, and had outstanding military achievements. Lian Po, who was unfavorable in the initial battle, began to retreat, and formed a holding situation with the Qin army on the other side of the Changping Dan River, and closed the door without a fight, which was three years in a flash. The Qin army from afar could not attack for a long time, and it was difficult to supply grain and grass, so in order to get rid of the passive situation, Fan Sui's counter-strategy was implemented.

As a result, the first problem arose: King Zhao Xiaocheng, who listened to slander, was ready to remove Lian Po, but it was unanimously approved by the decision-makers. Lin Xiangru, the only one who raised a different opinion, did not support Lian Po, but was not optimistic about Zhao Kuo! Why is the Lian Po veteran so unpopular?

You must know that the Qin army attacked with an army of 600,000, and the Zhao State defended with 450,000 elites, and the equilibrium value of the offensive and defensive sides in the era of cold weapons was generally 2:1, and the Zhao army did not suffer a loss in the comparison of military strength; However, the national economy of Qin was strong and the strategic material reserves were sufficient, and King Zhao Wuling's "Hufu cavalry shooting" only improved the combat effectiveness of the army, and the comprehensive national strength was obviously at a disadvantage, unable to support a large-scale continuous war. Obviously, a war of attrition was not the best strategy for Zhao.

From this point of view, Lian Po's three-year "tug-of-war" was too conservative, the Qin army's vital strength was not weakened much, and "waiting for work at ease and striking later" was too empty. After the war, the Qin army admitted that more than half of the 600,000 troops died, mainly due to the active impact and desperate fighting after Zhao Kuo took over. Although Zhao Kuo talks on paper, he is bloody after all.

The highly respected Lian Po never formulated a clear and positive strategic plan, nor did he put forward a strategic vision and supporting measures to completely defeat the Qin army, so he did not win the trust and support of his boss (Zhao Wang). Why didn't Lian Po, who was able to attack and defend, take the initiative to retreat to gather strength and take the initiative to attack after stretching the enemy's battle line? Or through flank attacks, cut off the enemy's food and grass, or from the 450,000 army to divide part of the vital forces to attack Qin, or even implement the same anti-plots, beauty schemes, etc.?

In a certain sense, the old and honest man really lacks an enterprising spirit, and although he will not harm himself, he will objectively mislead the country after all. Furthermore, Qin was determined to destroy Zhao, and after careful planning, he mobilized the strength of the whole country to attack Zhao, and used all kinds of means, both frontal and flank, legitimate and illegal. Before the attack on Zhao, the king of Qin sent Han and Wei to use both soft and hard measures so that the two countries did not dare to save Zhao. When Bai Qi divided and surrounded Zhao Kuo's army, King Qin Zhao went to Hanoi to recruit all local men over the age of 15 to form reinforcements, and gave them the rank of Minjue. It was this improvised patchwork militia force that forcibly cut off the connection between Zhao Kuo and the capital Handan, so that the field army of Bai Qi successfully completed the "catching turtles in the urn" against the Zhao army.

Looking at Zhao again, due to the lack of understanding of Qin's strategic ambition to destroy Zhao, he rushed to the war and lost the strategic place in the southwest of Shanxi, so that there was no danger to defend and passively avoided the war. The initial battle was unfavorable, and the ruling group of Zhao sent an envoy to Qin to try the possibility of peace, which was simply a conspiracy with the tiger, and at the same time showed the repeated hesitation of the alliance to resist Qin. The Qin State treated the Zhao envoys favorably while stepping up the attack, firstly, to slow down the resistance of the Zhao State, and secondly, to make the illusion of Qin-Zhao peace talks, so that the other five countries were indecisive and gave up aiding Zhao.

It can be seen that Qin's attack on Zhao is a long-planned strategic plan that is bound to be won, and it is a systematic attack from the monarch and the people to the people, from national strength to diplomacy; The resistance of Zhao State is a battle arrangement that looks forward and backward and is lucky, whether it is Lian Po or Zhao Kuo, they are basically resisting Qin's national heroes with the strength of one general. In the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese Naval War in 1894, the Qing Dynasty's Beiyang Naval Division was completely annihilated. Japanese evaluation: The Qing Dynasty was Li Hongzhang who started a war with the whole of Japan alone, how could he be undefeated?

Why did Bai Qi refuse to take on the heavy responsibility of destroying Zhao again

In the First Battle of Changping, Zhao Guo's family went to funeral and every household mourned, and the war force was irreparably damaged, and the comprehensive national strength collapsed. Bai Qi, who was killed, advocated taking the Zhao capital Handan directly and destroying Zhao in one fell swoop. Zhao Guo, who was forced to a dead end, also remembered the "anti-intrigue scheme". In the month of B.C., Su Dai, a generation of Hezong masters, was entrusted by Zhao and Han to go to Qin to lobby, and Qin Prime Minister Fan Ju suggested to King Qin Zhao that he negotiate peace with Zhao and Han conditionally out of consideration for maintaining his own status and containing Bai Qi. The king of Qin agreed and then ceased war with Zhao and Han on all fronts. Bai Qi was naturally very dissatisfied with Fan Ju's proposal to strike the army and recuperate, and the generals began to disagree.

After the Qin State withdrew its troops, there was a fierce controversy within the decision-making level of the Zhao State over whether to cede the land as agreed. In the end, King Zhao realized that the truce of Qin was due to the exhaustion of the army, and the heart of Zhao did not die, so how could he cut off six cities to strengthen the enemy? So he sent an envoy to Qi to negotiate the matter of cooperation, signed an offensive and defensive alliance with Wei, gave the land of Lingqiu to Chu Xiangchun Shenjun to win over Chu, and sent envoys to Yan and Han with generous gifts to make friends between the two countries. The monarchs and ministers of Zhao knew that once they broke the treaty with Qin, it would inevitably lead to a large-scale retaliatory attack by Qin, so the whole country actively prepared for war, and their morale was high and they swore to fight Qin to the death.

When King Qin Zhao learned that Zhao had blatantly broken the treaty and actively organized resistance, he felt deeply ridiculed and decided to order Bai Qiwei to attack Zhao in a big way. Surprisingly, this time Bai Qi refused to accept the order, the main reason is: Zhao Benqiangguo, although Changping was defeated, still has considerable strength; Moreover, at present, the whole country is united, internal government affairs, and diplomatic cooperation, and the Qin State will be defeated when attacking Zhao.

In September 259 BC, the Qin army attacked Zhao on a large scale, but the Zhao army shrank on all fronts, and retreated to the capital Handan. The army and people of Zhao State shared the same hatred for the enemy, and Pingyuan Jun even destroyed his family and was in trouble, thwarting the Qin army's crazy attacks again and again. By the middle of summer the following year, the Qin army suffered heavy casualties, and the Zhao capital Handan was still standing. King Qin Zhao began to be angry, believing that Fan Ju had misled the country and brought shame to the Qin state, and Bai Qi was arrogant and would not be used by the king, so he decided to reappoint Bai Qi to replace Wang Yi as the commander of the Qin army. What is surprising is that Bai Qi once again refused to take office under the pretext of illness, and moved out of the statement that King Gou of Yue was lying on his back and tried his courage, and strongly persuaded King Qin to end this fruitless war as soon as possible.

King Qin applied both soft and hard, but Bai Qi disobeyed his orders to the end. Annoyed and enraged, the King of Qin decided to strip Bai Qi of all official positions and titles and drive him out of the capital. Subsequently, under the instigation of Fan Ju, the king of Qin, who had not yet finished his hatred, gave the sword to order Bai Qi to cut himself. Poor generation of famous generals known as "masters of sports warfare" are in a different place. The cause of Bai Qi's death was that he challenged the boss's bottom line. No matter how successful the manager is, after all, he must put the interests of the boss and the interests of the enterprise first, especially when the enterprise encounters difficulties and crises, and cannot care about the undefeated performance and market reputation of the individual. Bai Qi fought invincible opponents all over the world, but died of his short-sightedness and stubbornness.

In the last years of the Warring States period, the powerful Qin State continued to annex eastern countries through wars. The first target was neighboring South Korea.

That is, in the second year of Zhao Xiaocheng's reign, the Qin army attacked King Hanye. Yewang surrendered to Qin, the party said goodbye, the whole of Korea was greatly panicked, and it was proposed to offer the party to rest the Qin soldiers, and the county guard Feng Ting was unwilling to enter Qin, so he sent a messenger to Zhao to ask for surrender, and the king of Zhao gladly accepted the party. Qin Jun was furious and ordered Wang Di, the chief of the left house, to lead the army to attack the party again. The Qin army attacked eastward, and King Zhao sent the veteran general Lian Po to defend Changping. The Qin army continued to challenge, but Lian Po could not hold out, and the two sides held each other for a long time. The Qin army spread rumors that Lian Po was going to rebel, with the aim of getting King Zhao to replace Lian Po. King Zhao was really fooled and sent Zhao Kuo to replace Lian Po. Zhao Kuo only knows how to talk on paper, and does not have much experience in actual combat, so he attacks lightly. Qin general Bai Qi set up an ambush to surround Zhao Kuo's army, and cut off the Zhao army's grain road, Zhaoxiang Prince personally to Hanoi, Xifa adult men to Changping to help the war, Zhao army was besieged for 46 days, grass and grain were cut off, desperately broke through, Ma Fuzi Zhao Kuo was shot to death, Bai Qi collected more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers, Bai Qi thought that Zhao soldiers were disloyal, and killed them at night, and Zhao then declined.

Process and consequences

King Qin Zhao listened to Fan Sui's strategy of "long-distance and close attack", and first launched a continuous attack on Korea.

In the forty-second year of King Qin Zhao, he cut down Han and took Shaoqu and Gaoping. Forty-three years to capture Han's Chen. In the 44th year, he captured Nanyang Land south of Han Taihang Mountain, in an attempt to cut off the connection between Han's Shangdang and the mainland. In 45 years, he captured 10 cities including Yewang in Korea, and completely cut off the connection between the Shangdang in Korea and the mainland. King Han asked Shangdang County Guard Feng Ting to dedicate Shangdang to Qin in order to ask Qin to rest his soldiers. Feng Ting didn't listen, but decided to dedicate the 17 counties of Shangdang County to Zhao Guo. At this time, King Huiwen of Zhao had died and was succeeded by his son King Xiaocheng. King Xiaocheng wanted to get this land and asked for the opinions of his subordinates, but Zhao Bao, the king of Pingyang, advocated not accepting it, because it would cause the Qin state to attack, and Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yu, the kings of the plains, advocated accepting. As a result, Zhao Guo accepted Feng Ting's land, Zhao Feng Ting was Huayang Jun, ate 3 10,000-household cities, sealed 3 thousand cities, and gave the officials and people the third level. Zhao then sent an army to take the party, and sent Lian Po to lead an army to garrison Changping in case the Qin army attacked. In this way, the fuse of one of the largest and most brutal wars of the Warring States period was ignited.

The Qin State severed the connection between the Shangdang and the Han mainland, with the aim of seizing the Shangdang, just as Zhao Chen and Zhao Bao pointed out, "Qin encroached on the Han land, and the Chinese never communicated with each other, and they thought that they would sit and accept the land of the Shangdang". Now that Shangdang has entered Zhao, Qin is of course unwilling, so he immediately sent Zuo Changchang Wang Yu to attack Zhao Changping. Zhao Jianglian knew that Qin was attacking from afar, and if he wanted to fight quickly, he adopted the strategy of waiting for the Qin army to be tired and then counterattacking. Lian Po held on for 3 years without attacking, and the Qin army could not enter. King Zhao Xiaocheng sent people to let Lian Po fight many times, and Fan Sui sent people to Zhao Guo with a lot of money to counter the plan, saying that the Qin army was only afraid of Zhao Kuo, the son of Ma Fuzi, and Lian Po was easy to deal with, and he was about to surrender to Qin. King Zhao planned in Qin, so he sent Zhao Kuo to replace Lian Po.

Zhao Kuo is the son of Zhao Hao, and he has read some military books, but he has no actual combat experience, and he is a soldier who can only talk about soldiers on paper. When King Zhao wanted to appoint him as a general, Zhao Kuo's mother disagreed, and King Zhao did not listen. Zhao Kuo's mother asked King Zhao to ensure that after her son failed, she would not be implicated. King Zhao also agreed. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Liang really couldn't speak, his throat was almost dry, and he immediately got up and left, and hurriedly left with a glass of water in his hand.

Stride away.

It's just that the stalk hasn't come back to his senses yet, and if the stalk comes to his senses, he will definitely drag Shen Liang to continue explaining. (To be continued.) )