Chapter Forty-Six: The Tragedy of Changping (II)
The news of the last battle of Changping reached Handan, the capital of Zhao State, and Ji Kang's uncle Zhao Wangdan, after hearing the news from the front, shouted: "How can this be? ”
On the spot in the main hall, he fainted.
On September 22, the King of Qin, who had returned to Xianyang. After getting a report from Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin army, who was urgently sent from the front line of the party.
King Yingji of Qin stood up suddenly in the side hall of the Xianyang Palace, couldn't help crying with joy, knelt on the ground, and prayed to the heavens: "Ancestors and ancestors of the Qin Kingdom, have you seen the spirit of heaven? My Qin army is really blessed by God, and my Qin people are really mighty! ”
Then he stood up, raised his hand, and shouted to Fan Sui of Xiangguo in the hall: "The battle of the party, three years without a victory, as soon as Wu Anjun came out, he broke the enemy and surrendered, set the world and strengthen the prestige of our country!" ”
Speaking of this, Qin Wang Yingji, who was in his sixties, looked at Fan Sui and shouted to him: "Xiangguo, in such an instant, the widow can destroy Handan, destroy this Zhao State, and unify the world." ”
Qin Xiang Fan Sui listened to Qin Wang Yingji, and praised Bai Qi like this, and his brows furrowed.
But seeing King Qin so excited, he knew that he couldn't say anything more at the moment. He bowed down to King Qin and said, "Congratulations to the king, congratulations to the king!" ”
Qin Wang Yingji was already excited, walked down the palace steps, took Xiangguo Fan Sui's hand, hurriedly walked to the Central Plains map hanging on the wall, looked at the map and said to Fan Sui: "Xiangguo, the world, the world of the widow, this is the world of the widow!" ”
Seeing this, Xiangguo Fan Sui naturally knew King Qin's inner thoughts, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, yes, this is my king's world." This Central Plains belongs to my king, and the world belongs to my king. From now on, my Qin State will be invincible in the world. Domination of the world is just around the corner. ”
Qin Wang Yingji nodded, only then did he suppress his excitement and said to Fan Sui: "This time our army won a great victory, and we also have the credit of Xiangguo. ”
Fan Sui clasped his fists again and bowed down, "Thank you for my praise." ”
Then, King Qin didn't know what he thought, his brows furrowed slightly, and after half a sound, he said to Fan Sui: "Xiangguo, how should this Zhao army's 200,000 soldiers be treated?" ”
Fan Sui was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood what Yingji meant. He said to King Qin: "King, this letter from Wu Anjun said that the Zhao army had surrendered 200,000. Weichen once said to the king, do not attack his land alone but attack his people, and now my Qin State has also lost 250,000 yuan in Shangdang, which is on par with Zhao State. ”
"At the moment, the 200,000 Zhao army has surrendered, if it is returned to Zhao, within three years, can this Changping decisive battle still be regarded as the victory of my Qin State? Your Majesty, if these 200,000 Zhao troops surrendered, they must not be let go back to their hometowns. can let Wu Anjun deal with it according to the practice of our Qin army. ”
After listening to Fan Sui's words, Qin Wang Yingji was stunned. After pondering for a moment, he said to Fan Sui: "Xiangguo, this time, I, the Qin State, treat these 200,000 Zhao army soldiers, if all of them are killed according to the usual practice." In the future, how will people in the world view widows? ”
Fan Sui laughed, bowed to King Yingji of Qin, and said, "King, as long as my king doesn't say anything on the issue of surrendering pawns." Wu Anjun, who is in the party, will handle this kind of thing, this ...... What does this have to do with my king? ”
King Qin laughed and said to Fan Sui: "Xiangguo, you are a person!" …… Haha, but few people like it. ”
On 26 September, Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin army in Guangwolf City in the Shangdang area, and his deputy general, Wang Yi, were also discussing the issue of the surrender of more than 200,000 Zhao troops.
Bai Qi looked at Wang Di and said, "General Wang, although our army killed 250,000 of Zhao's army, it also lost 250,000 of its own, and its military strength is also a big loss!" ”
Adjutant General Wang Yi said: "General, a certain general can't think about it so much now. In the past few days, the Zhao army, which surrendered 200,000 alone, has already made a certain general dizzy. These surrendered Zhao soldiers gave them a meal of gruel every day, which is also to eat and drink! We don't have much food and grass for our army now! ”
After hearing this, Bai Qi frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and said to Wang Di: "General Wang, Xiangguo has already told us that don't just think about occupying the land, and don't know how to destroy the enemy. There are two ways for the countries of the Central Plains to deal with the surrender of soldiers: one is for my use; The second is to let him take off his armor and let him return to his hometown. ”
Speaking of this, he paused, and slowly said to Wang Di: "But my Qin State treats the pawns in accordance with the convention, and there are two ways: one is for my use, and the other is to kill. ”
The adjutant general, Wang Yi, was taken aback, and said to Bai Qi: "General, in the past, our army killed the enemy, and the number of soldiers surrendered was not much, at most tens of thousands. But the Zhao army that surrendered this time was more than 200,000, and if all of them were killed, it would be ...... I'm afraid of hurting heaven and people! Can the young and strong sergeants be incorporated into our Qin army, and the old and weak can be put back? ”
Bai Qi narrowed his eyes and said to Wang Qi: "General Wang, Yan and Zhao are so generous and tragic people!" My Qin army and Zhao army have been in confrontation with the party for three years, so I said that how many of the captured Zhao troops are willing to submit to our Qin state? Not at all! Don't say that Zhao Jun, that is, the people of the party, how many people are willing to submit to my Qin State? Neither do you! ”
"And I, the Qin State, can't let the 200,000 Zhao army surrender back. If they return home, these 200,000 Zhao troops will be reinstated as soldiers of the enemy country. Even if he doesn't go out to fight for the enemy country, he will be disarmed and returned to the field, marry a wife and have children, and reproduce, which will be a great disaster for my Qin State in the future. In the eyes of my Qin State, this strategy of attacking the enemy is to destroy the enemy's body and weaken the enemy's national strength. ”
Speaking of this, Bai Qi stood up and slowly continued to the deputy general Wang Di: "General Wang, if we kill these 200,000 soldiers, there will be no more men over the age of sixteen in this Zhao State, and the national strength will be weak. General Wang Di, don't hesitate any more about these Zhao State soldiers, let's kill them all tonight! ”
Adjutant General Wang Yi sighed for a long time, clasped his fists and bowed down: "General, in the Zhao army, there are still two hundred and forty "doll" soldiers under the age of sixteen, these people, our army will let them go, right?" ”
Bai Qi glanced at the deputy general Wang Di, nodded, and said to Wang Di: "It's okay in this way, in front of the Zhao army's soldiers, put these two hundred and forty "doll" soldiers back to Handan. It's also good to let these Zhao soldiers surrender, listen to our Qin army tonight, and calm their hearts. ”
In the afternoon, in front of all the Zhao soldiers, the Qin army released two hundred and forty Zhao soldiers who were not yet sixteen years old.
And shouted to these Zhao soldiers: "Brothers of the Zhao army, our general has an order. Now return the two hundred and forty people to Zhao, and then arrange your young and strong men into our Qin army, and then put the old and weak soldiers back. ”
More than 200,000 Zhao soldiers surrendered, and when they saw Qin Jun like this, they were at peace in their hearts and didn't think about it.
Subsequently, the Qin army deceived the Zhao army and said that they would dig pits in several valleys to bury the bodies of the soldiers of the two armies who died in battle, and deceive these Zhao soldiers into several valleys in advance.
Then the Qin army blocked the exits of these valleys, and the Qin troops who had been ambushed in advance around the valley stood up together, shot with bows and crossbows, and pushed all the rolling wood and stones that had been prepared on the top of the mountain down the mountain.
At this time, the entire Zhao army knew that the Qin army originally wanted to kill them all, and all rushed to the top of the mountain with their bare hands, wanting to give the Qin army a desperate life.
But when the 200,000 Zhao troops surrendered to Qin, they all unarmed and disarmed, plus they had been hungry for so many days, and they were the opponents of the heavily armed Qin army! As a result, the more than 200,000 Zhao soldiers were all killed and hastily buried.
After killing the 200,000 Zhao soldiers, Bai Qi, the general of the Qin State, ordered that the heads of the 250,000 Zhao soldiers who died in the battle with the Qin army be cut off.
With the heads of these Zhao soldiers who died in battle, mixed with loess, a "Beijing View" was built in Changping to shock other countries in the Central Plains. Let you see, this is the end of going against my Qin army. And this "Jingguan" was named "Skull Mountain" by later generations.
So far, the 450,000 soldiers sent by Zhao State to fight in the Shangdang area have all been killed, except for the 240 child soldiers who were under the age of 16 who were released by Bai Qi.
When the news came out, the world was terrified.
After the Battle of Changping, the bones of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed in the Zhao army were cleaned by people for more than 2,000 years in Ji Kang's previous life, and they were still not cleaned when Ji Kang left that world.
All the unearthed bones are stacked and staggered, and the shapes are different. None of the bones were complete, each with blunt objects, bladed instruments, and stones, and every bone had marks of being cut or shot. The place where the bones are buried is a pit valley, and the place where the bones are buried is only a thin layer of loess.
(This is what the author saw with his own eyes when he visited the ruins of Changping, and there is no falsehood.) According to the keepers of the remains of the bone pit, every night, there is always a strange sound, which is so chaotic that people cannot sleep. )
In the Battle of Changping, the Qin general Bai Qi led the Qin army and annihilated the Zhao army of 450,000 people in one fell swoop, creating the earliest and largest example of encircling and annihilating the enemy in Chinese history. After the Battle of Changping, except for Liaodi, the six countries were terrified when they heard the name of Baiqi.
The Battle of Changping ended with the victory of the Qin State. After this battle, Zhao State, which was regarded as the head of the Six Kingdoms of Kwantung, was greatly damaged and could no longer afford to fight Qin alone in all directions. The entire Zhao Kingdom fell into a panic. Because of Zhao Kuo's mother, what she said when she stopped Zhao Kuo from going on the expedition before, Ji Kang's uncle Zhao Wangdan did not kill Zhao Kuo's mother.
As a result of the Battle of Changping, the Zhao army was certainly 450,000 troops, and the whole army was annihilated. However, the Qin state also suffered nearly 250,000 casualties, that is, more than 650,000 casualties on both sides. The Changping War, which lasted for three years, also greatly damaged the vitality of the Qin State.
The Battle of Changping, with its long duration, large scale, and tragic battle, exceeded people's imagination. Especially the degree of tragedy, since the opening of Pangu and the three emperors and five emperors, it is the rarest.
The Battle of Changping marked the end of an era characterized by a large number of countries and frequent annexation wars. An unprecedented centralized empire is about to fall. The pace of the unification of the world is moving forward faster and faster.
After the Battle of Changping, the Qin State finally saw the hope of unifying the world. In this regard, the whole Qin State, including Qin Wang Yingji, Xiangguo Fan Sui, General Bai Qi and others, and even many people in other Central Plains countries, did not have any doubts about this.
The monarchs and ministers of the Qin State, after the Battle of Changping, thought that in the future, there would be no country in the Central Plains that would be the opponent of the Qin State. This world will eventually be the world of the Qin State, and the Qin Dynasty will stand on behalf of Zhou and unify the world.
But what many people in the Qin State and even the Central Plains countries did not expect was. In the distant Liaodi, after the Qin State and the Zhao State, a new powerful opponent of the Qin State has quietly emerged, and its wings are growing.
The monarchs and ministers of the Qin State and many people in the Central Plains never thought of it. When Qin defeated Zhao and was about to unify the world, it would then face a powerful opponent whose national strength was stronger than Zhao's, whose system was more advanced than Qin's, and whose army was more sophisticated than that of the Central Plains.
What made the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State and many people in the Central Plains countries even more unexpected. In the near future, this powerful opponent of the Qin State is also about to wave his army south, step into the Central Plains, and compete for the world.
At the helm of this new powerful opponent of the Qin State, a thirteen-year-old boy, at this moment, looking at the map hanging on the wall, has already set his eyes on the Qin State, to the Central Plains, and to the entire world.
When the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State rejoiced and were complacent about the Battle of Changping. The helmsman of this powerful opponent of the Qin State, this thirteen-year-old boy, just thought that the end of the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping was just the beginning of his struggle for world domination.
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