Chapter 18: The Ambition of Human Slaughter
The Battle of Changping, in history, was the last battle of Bai Qi.
In this battle, Bai Qi defeated Zhao General Zhao Kuo (this everyone should also know, the famous paper soldier Zhao Kuo. Yu Changping, killed 400,000 Zhao troops, which can be said to be the most famous annihilation battle in history.
It was also because of this battle that Bai Qigong was the main one, and was suspicious of King Qin Zhaoxiang, and was given a sword by King Qin a few months later.
According to legend, before Bai Qi died, he held a sword and asked the sky, what was wrong with me.
In the middle of the sound, he said to himself again, too, killing 400,000 prisoners in a pit deserves death.
After Bai Qi's death, some people said that none of his family members were spared, and all of them were connected. Some people also say that Bai Zhong, the son of Bai Qi, did not die, and was later divided into Taiyuan by Qin Shi Huang.
Battle of Changping······
Hearing these four words, Gu Nan's heart skipped a beat, and the hand holding the long sword was stiff and numb.
At this time, she realized that she had overlooked one of the most important things, in history, Bai Qi did not die normally, but died in vain.
Gu Nan, who knows history, knows that after this battle, Bai Qi will die 100%.
This battle cannot be fought!
A few thoughts flashed by, and Gu Nan had already made up his mind.
Gritting his teeth, he said, "Master······"
Before she finished speaking, Bai Qi waved his hand and interrupted her.
"Nan'er, do you want to say that this battle can't be fought?" Bai Qi's voice was gentle and calm, but it also carried an indescribable tiredness.
The hand holding the sword tightened, Gu Nan lowered his head and said solemnly, "Yes." ”
"Huh." Bai raised his hands behind his back, chuckled a few times, turned to look at Gu Nan, who was standing nervously in place, and sighed.
"Nan'er, you are a smart child, sometimes I am also very strange, you are a messy child, you have never read, why are you so wise. Could it be true that there are people who are born to know? Gave birth to a seven-trick exquisite heart? ”
"Division..."
Gu Nan wanted to speak, but was stopped by Bai Qi again.
"The teacher knows what you want to say, and the merit is high, right?"
As he spoke, Bai Qi walked to the seat in the room, sat down and said funny.
"You don't want to think about it, you can see it clearly, why can't you understand it as a teacher?"
After speaking, he was silent for a long time before he asked slowly: "Calculate the season, it's already winter, Nan'er, do you know how many people died of famine and cold in this winter?" ”
Bai Qi's question didn't answer the above, it was like he suddenly wanted to ask, so he asked, Gu Nan couldn't react for a while, and when he reacted, he didn't know the answer.
Bai Qi stretched out three fingers: "My Great Qin alone, it will never be less than this number, 30,000 people." ”
"How many people are there in Daqin?"
Gu Nan was speechless for a while, she didn't know why Bai Qi suddenly said this.
During the Warring States Period, people's living houses were very mediocre, a heavy snowfall, a cold winter, and 30,000 deaths, which has been said to be very few.
Bai Qi glanced at Gu Nan and continued: "For the teacher, I will ask you again, do you know how many people have died in battle, how many people have been displaced since the Warring States Period, and how many people have been destroyed?" ”
Gu Nan still couldn't answer, so he had to lower his head and be silent.
"I'll tell you for the teacher." Bai Qi smiled lightly and raised his head slightly, but his voice trembled a little: "Millions of people died in battle, families were ruined, and people were displaced, and chaos like you abounded." ”
"As a teacher, I have also seen more ruthless, some people cannibalize each other, some people burn themselves because of freezing, and some people beg to death by grabbing the ground with their heads."
Bai Qi's voice has always been very flat, but every sentence says the most terrifying truth in this world.
Gu Nan's eyes looked at the ground in a daze, and only after half a sound did her eyes regain some weakness, she seemed to have understood what Bai Qi was going to say.
But she pursed her lips and continued to ask.
"Master, what does this have to do with us not fighting Changping."
Bai Qi added a cup of tea to himself, shaking the teacup, and the water in the cup was rippling.
"Zhou, in name only, Qi is strong and middle-class, Han is small, Yan is useless, Wei, the king is jealous of his ability, Chu, Wu Qi and Chu Huai have lacked national strength. Compared with the Qin State, it can fight a war, and there is only one Zhao family in thirty years. ”
"Since Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu rode and shot, Zhao Jun was prosperous, and the guerrilla was quite strong."
"In the first battle of Changping, my Great Qin led 600,000 troops, Zhao 400,000, hundreds of thousands of people, and hundreds of thousands of grains and grass."
"It's a battle for the nation."
"Changping, Lintaihang Mountain, after Taihang, it is Handan, the capital of Zhao."
"The east is close to Anyi, Anyi is taken, cross the Qinling Mountains, cross the Yellow River, and you can directly hit Xianyang, the capital of Qin."
"If Changping wins, the Zhao State can be destroyed, that is, if it is not destroyed, there will be no power to fight within twenty years, and within fifty years, the Qin State will be able to pacify the six countries and determine the world."
"If Changping is defeated, the Qin State is in danger but there is still strength left, and it will no longer be a hundred years of strife."
After saying this lightly, Bai Qi put down the teacup and did not take a sip.
"For the master's meritorious service, after Changping, I am afraid that there will be nine deaths and one life, but what if it is ten thousand deaths?"
"I'm tired of being a teacher, in this troubled world, human life is very cheap, as cheap as mustard, and there is still a person to die?"
"But if this troubled world is pacified and the world is governed, how will the world be in this situation?"
"Have you ever thought that one day there will be no more war in the world, and the people will live in peace and have no worries about food and clothing? Men plough and women weave, children frolic in the fields, and old men like teachers sit under the trees drinking tea and playing chess. ”
"In that kind of world, I'm afraid people can be regarded as truly alive."
Bai Qi muttered, his voice was very soft, as if he was talking to himself, and his eyes flashed vaguely, as if he saw the stability of the world in his mouth.
Since he was born, he has lived in war all his life, and it is peaceful, which even makes him feel luxurious.
"Nan'er." He raised his eyes, but there was a burning gaze in his eyes: "For the teacher, ask you, Changping, to fight or not to fight?" ”
“······” Gu Nan's lips trembled, but they closed tightly, she didn't know what to say.
Could it be that she knows history and knows that you will definitely die after Changping?
I'm afraid that's what she said, and it doesn't make sense to say it for nothing.
He himself was determined to die.
For Gu Nan, the things in the concept of the righteousness of the world have always been just words.
If she is allowed to choose, this long peace will not be beaten.
What is for the world, what is for peace, that kind of person is either hypocritical, or has a problem with his brain.
But when she looked at Bai Qi as an old man in the twilight, she felt ashamed of herself, and she couldn't say that kind of thing.
She could feel that Bai Qi was really looking forward to that kind of future, that kind of peaceful and prosperous world without war.
It is hard to imagine that as a famous person in history, he slaughtered the generals, but what he looked forward to in his heart was that there was no war to fight.
"The teacher knows that you hate war, and it is because of this troubled world that you are like this." Bai Qi had guilt in his eyes.
"But you have to understand that this war can only be pacified by war."
After saying that, he stood up and walked slowly outside, the figure of the old man looked thin and weak.
"If there is nothing to do after this battle, if the teacher is about to die, I will send a book to the king, begging for your life. You can rest assured. Nan'er, I just hope so, you don't blame you for being a teacher. ”
"In a few days, I will send Changping with my soldiers."