Chapter 19: Whose Pot?

It was night, in the small guest room, Mingyue slept on the couch, but it was a little difficult to sleep. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In his mind, it was still the look on Zhao Kuo's face when he talked about the use of soldiers before.

Through a day's understanding, he found that Zhao Kuo is not a wine bag and rice bag, on the contrary, he does have some talent in the art of war, which can be said to be the first to be true.

But the gap between theory and practice is not ordinarily far.

Soldiers are expensive and fast, not expensive for a long time, the truth is such a truth, but if this set of theories is put into the actual situation of the Battle of Changping, there is no way to think so simple.

In Mingyue's mind, she couldn't help but think of the situation when she was arguing with her classmates about Changping's victory or defeat in her previous life......

In the Qin-Zhao confrontation four years ago, Lian Po also broke the Qin army in several battles, and he was not a stranger to the Qin people.

But five years later, the veteran, one of the "Four Famous Generals of the Warring States", performed unsatisfactorily on the battlefield of Changping. When he first arrived at the battlefield, the Zhao army had already been beheaded by the Qin people and killed the deputy general of the scout, the first line of positions was lost, and four lieutenants were killed.

In the face of this unfavorable situation, Lian Po adopted a strategy of building high barriers and confronting the Qin army. The Qin army took advantage of the Taihang Road on the side of the Zhao army to attack again, breaking through the second front, and the two Zhao army captains were captured again.

As a result, Lian Po was left with only the Bailishi Great Wall and Changping Pass as the third barrier, he stuck to the camp and adopted a defensive posture to confront the Qin army, the Qin army repeatedly challenged, and the Zhao soldiers could not hold out, but kept asking for reinforcements and food from the rear, which was intended to fight a war of attrition with the Qin State.

This strategy had a certain effect, and Qin could not break through the defense of Zhao, but Qin refused to give up and continued to increase his troops, so the Battle of Changping slowly escalated and became a strategic decisive battle between Qin and Zhao.

Later generations have had a great deal of controversy about this, with some believing that Lian Po's strategy is correct and some believing that Lian Po's strategy is negative, and so on.

However, judging from the art of war that Zhao Kuo just said, Lian Po belongs to "Qiaojiu", which is stable enough and the risk is small, but the loss of national strength is huge. However, he estimated that there was no other way, the battle was already a strategic duel, Lian Po realized that the Zhao army was not sure of winning the field battle, so he did not attack rashly, he may have pinned his hopes on the Zhao State to be able to successfully join forces and force the Qin State to retreat.

It's a pity that his king let him down.

At first, Zhao Wangdan coveted the land of the party but was not ready to fight a big war. When the war reached a stalemate, he was at both ends of the diplomatic ladder, and the war was uncertain, and he was used by the Qin state, which led to the isolation of the Zhao state.

In terms of the situation, Zhao is the weak side, the country is tired, borrowing grain everywhere to no avail, and the other five countries are also sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. At this time, even if Lian Po wanted to "Qiaojiu" again, Zhao Guo couldn't hold on, and the impatient King Zhao Xiaocheng couldn't wait.

As a result, King Zhao Xiaocheng lost confidence in Lian Po, and Zhao Kuo, who had always pursued a "clumsy speed" strategy, was sent to the front line......

In Mingyue's opinion, her cheap brother Zhao Wangdan can trust a person who has no actual combat experience to lead the national army, which is really not an ordinary big heart.

On the other side, the Qin State also replaced the main general with Bai Qi, but the difference is that Qin's strategy and tactics were established from the beginning, while the Zhao State suddenly changed two diametrically opposed strategies, and the large-scale replacement of the generals of the Lian Po family and the generals of the Mafu family led to the fluctuation of the military spirit.

But then again, Zhao Kuo's strategy of attacking on all fronts during the Battle of Changping was not without origin, not only the persecution of King Zhao Xiaocheng, but also the influence of the art of war that was expensive and fast, not expensive for a long time, and also influenced by his father Zhao Haoyan's great victory in the battle. Because he has no actual combat experience, he can only forcibly bring these absorbed things into the battlefield......"

It's a pity that Zhao Kuo didn't create the miracle of the battle again, and Bai Qi taught him a good lesson when he was a general in Changping for the first time.

His "clumsy speed" was not wrong, and in terms of politics, it was even much more correct than Lian Po's "Qiaojiu", but he underestimated his own ability, underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Qin army and their determination and courage to win this war. What's even more fatal is that because he has no actual combat experience, Zhao Kuo's tactics are too taken for granted and straightforward, and as a result, he crashed headlong into the Qin army's big encirclement.

Compared with Bai Qi's almost miraculous interspersed encirclement, Zhao Kuo's tactics can be described as lackluster, and after being surrounded, he did not choose to break through at the first time, and he was probably stunned.

Mingyue knows how history will develop, and the final outcome of Changping is extremely tragic.

"By September, Zhao was not allowed to eat for 46 days, and all of them were killed and eaten by the yin and yin. Come to attack Qin Fortress and want to come out. For four teams, four or five are repeated, and they can't come out. ”

Because the difference in strength between the two sides is not large, in this last attempt to break through, Zhao Kuo still caused a lot of losses to the Qin army, resulting in the Qin State "Although Qin broke the Changping army today, more than half of the Qin soldiers died, and the country was empty".

It's a pity that his belated epiphany and courage did not change the outcome of this battle after all.

At the critical moment, King Qin Zhaoxiang personally went to Hanoi to mobilize people over the age of 15 to support Changping, so the Qin people held on, and the Zhao army was completely trapped in the Danshui River Valley.

And Zhao Wangdan of Handan, but did nothing during this period, this battle is not only a contest between generals and national strength, but also a contest of the monarch's ability and vision. Compared with the scheming King Qin Zhaoxiang, King Zhao is too tender.

For the pot of the Battle of Changping, Zhao Wangdan has to carry at least half of it.

And the other half, Lian Po and Zhao Kuo Sanqi opened, Lian Po brewed the process, and finally Zhao Kuo completely buried Zhao Jun.

The army is plotting, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, the Zhao State is defeated in the three attacks, how can there be a reason not to lose?

And then......

"His general Zhao Kuo fought by himself, and the Qin army shot Zhao Kuo."

With the last courage, Zhao Kuo took the sharp pawn who could still fight to fight to the death, and finally fought to the death......

At last......

"The army was defeated, and 400,000 people surrendered to Anjun."

"Wu Anjun was blackmailed and killed, leaving 240 of his little ones back to Zhao. 450,000 captives were beheaded before and after......"

"Four hundred and fifty thousand...... Mingyue turned over again and sighed, no matter what era it is placed in, this is not a small number, how many people died in Nanjing? How many died in Tangshan? How many Wenchuan died?

In the world of the Warring States Period, human life is as cheap as a dog, and Zhao Kuo is just one of the 450,000 lives.

Mingyue secretly thought: "Zhao Kuo, I took the initiative to ask to go to Qi Country as a hostage, and even ordered you to go with me, for what?" Is it because you think you have the ability to protect me? ”

"No, I just want to put one of the protagonists of Changping by my side to see what kind of person you are and whether you have any use value."

"But judging from the current situation, your defeat seems to have gone to the point of no return from now on, if I let history develop, your fate, the fate of the Zhao people in Changping, is almost doomed."

"Are you worth my salvation? If you are given a chance to go out and practice, will you repeat the mistakes of history? ”

With this question lingering in his mind, Mingyue's eyelids began to fight, running from Handan to Purple Mountain, bumping all the way, the bones in his body were sore and painful, and he was tired enough, and soon, he fell asleep in the faint candlelight......

In his dream, he saw that scene again.

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In the Changping Killing Field, the scrawny Zhao army was chewing on the dried flesh and blood of his companions, while following their general, striding towards the well-defended Qin army in a trapped-like manner.

The arrogance and arrogance of the young red-robed general were gone, and all that was left on his face was shame and pain, as well as a face full of scum.

He silently recited the words "the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road", and struggled to command the last soldiers who could still fight to charge, swinging his sword forward. However, the black Qin soldiers' arrows rained down, nailing Zhao to the ground, and in the end, the red-robed general was also hit and fell to the ground......

He was unwilling, he was unconvinced, he struggled, his hands clasped in the blood-soaked dirt, and he stood up again.

He stood on top of the high post bloodily, looking up to the sky and roaring!

"Zhao Jun, Zhao Kuoye? I'm unwilling, I'm unwilling! “

The Qin people ignored his howl, and the ruthless crossbow machine was raised again, and tens of thousands of crossbow arrows let out a scream, piercing the sky, like a swarm of flying locusts that frantically pounced on food, piercing Zhao Kuo's body......

The dream came to an end, and Mingyue woke up sweaty, and he found that there was a dark figure in front of his bed.

"Who!" Mingyue was startled, suddenly took out the dagger under the pillow, and swung it forward!

The shadow also seemed to be startled by Mingyue, and almost sat down on the ground, shouting:

"Chang'an-kun, what are you doing like this!?"

It was Zhao Kuo, he looked at Chang Anjun, who was holding a dagger and looking nervous, a little at a loss, and he was followed by Shu Qi, who had already drawn half of his sword.

"Something?" Mingyue glanced out the window, it was still dark outside, it was estimated that it was still early before dawn, this sleep and this dream made him a little dazed.

"Didn't Chang'anjun say yesterday that he wanted to see the sunrise......

Zhao Kuo muttered and got up from the ground, patted the dust, and then said with a smile: "Hurry up, no matter how slow you are, you won't be able to catch up with the rising sun!" ”