In the following year, in the alliance of Qi and Chu, the state of Chu decided to send troops to attack Qin in order to seize the Shang of Qin and the fertile land of 600 li, and the general who led the army was the young general Jing Cui.

The key area of the fierce battle between the two sides was the city of Quwo that the Qin State seized from the Wei State, at that time, the main forces of the Qin State were attacking Bashu, and the southern defense was relatively empty, but the Quwo City was the tentacle of the Qin State to the east, and the strategic location was very important, so the resistance of the Qin State was particularly fierce.

Because of the high pool and deep pool of Quwo City, coupled with the death battle of the Qin army, the Chu army could not win for a while, so Jing Cui came up with the attention of diverting water to irrigate the city and captured Quwo. The defeat of Quwo, all the places where Qin State Shang Yu was exposed to the Chu State soldiers, this is also the closest time that Chu State got Shang Yu, if it was not for Qin State to deceive King Chu Huai, Chu State would have obtained this fertile land.

After King Chu Huai found out that he had been deceived, he became angry and decided to devote the whole country to send troops to destroy Qin.

Two years later, Qin and Chu fought in Danyang, and the general of Chu was defeated by Wei Zhang, a famous general of Qin, and more than 80,000 soldiers were killed, including more than 70 senior officers under the commander Qu Kuo and General Feng Hou Chou were captured, and the most fertile land in Hanzhong of Chu was lost.

In the face of the defeat and unwilling Chu State, shortly after the Battle of Danyang, that is, "Xi Guo's soldiers re-attacked Qin", this side is the famous Battle of Lantian, and the commander of the Chu army this time is Jing Cui.

In this battle, the Chu army attacked the city all the way, quickly recovered all the lost territory, and successfully broke through the most important pass in the south of Qin, Wuguan, and went straight into the hinterland of Qin, reaching Lantian about 100 miles away from Xianyang.

Lantian is the pass on the north side of the land of Shangyu, and it is also an important town for the defense of Xianyang, and it is also the place where the new army camp of the Qin army is located, which is an important place of life and death for the Qin State.

The capture of Lantian by the Chu army was like a sword hanging on the top for the Qin state, and it was facing extinction at any time.

Unfortunately, the final outcome of the Battle of Lantian was not a death on the Lantian battlefield, and the state of Chu was once again defeated by diplomatic relations.

Due to the exhaustion of the elite of the Chu army and the neglect of the defense of Nanyang, the combined forces of Han and Wei captured Zhaoling and approached Dengcheng.

The truth of Sun Tzu's Art of War, Chu Qi and Qin's three strong vertical and horizontal, Chu sent troops because of anger, no plan, self-determination in Qi and Qin, no friendship, just the male soldiers left by King Wei are useless.

The best thing for Chu is Lianqi, the benefits are large, the risk is low and the difficulty is low, because Han Wei is afraid of Qin Qin, and Lianqi is also equal to uniting Han Wei, and more importantly, Qi and Chu have had a big war, with mixed wins and losses, and they will not rush to send troops if they understand each other's strength, followed by Lianqin, the risk is high in the benefits, which is what Chen Zhen said back then, Lianqin can ensure that there is a strong alliance when Chu is in danger, but the risk is the highest because Qin and Chu have not fought much before, and Chu has no precedent for defeating Qin one-on-one.

It is difficult to unite the three Jin again, the return is low, and in the risk, the three Jin have difficulty in uniting themselves and dare not provoke the Qin State.

The king of Chu first rejected Qi, and at the same time rejected Han Wei, and then rejected Qin, which is equivalent to provoking all the countries that can fight Chu State, no less than the five countries attacking Qin, the five countries attacking Qi, and the battle of Chu, the foundation of Chu State is lost, and Qin State can survive in the joint attack on Qin in all countries, that is, it is a plan and a great deal

The Chu general Jingcui almost conquered Xianyang and destroyed the Qin state, but at this time, the Chu state faced the Qin, Qi, Han and Wei kingdoms alone, and finally the Chu state experienced a crushing defeat in the sand, and finally there was a peasant uprising in the territory, and the Chu state began to decline from prosperity to decline, and collapsed.

The battle of the weeping sand had a far-reaching impact.

The situation of the three strong states of Qin, Zhao and Chu was broken.

And the state of Qin officially rose.

After the two kingdoms of Bashu became the territory of Qin.

King Qin Yingtian reused Li Bing and appointed him as the Taishou of Shu County.

During this period, Li Bing controlled the water and created miracle skills.

He recruited migrant workers to build many water conservancy projects in the Minjiang River basin, among which the Dujiangyan water conservancy project that he and his son built was the most famous.

For thousands of years, the project has laid a solid foundation for the Chengdu Plain to become a land of abundance.

In the first battle, the state of Chu fought hard and tried to take revenge on the state of Qin.

And King Qin's ambition to win the sky is no longer satisfied with beating the state of Chu.

It's about going east to fight for the world.

A plan has been secretly drawn up to attack the Three Jin Wei Han Zhao.

Ready for the eastward departure.

However, due to the agreement with Wei Guoxinling Jun Wei Wuji.

I had to pause.

Two years later, Qin attacked Wei.

But it was a simple harassment and not a real offense.

It annoyed the King of Wei of Wei.

Moreover, King Qin Yingtian is the son-in-law of Wei Wuji, the king of Wei Guoxinling.

Once again, he was suspicious of the King of Wei.

It made the old and frail Xinling Jun Wei Wuji worried.

Knowing that the Qin State would inevitably destroy the Wei State, the Xinling monarch Wei Wuji.

Died of depression in sorrow.

Before he died, he found a way to kill Wei Yong, the secretary of the Wei State.

And the last words of Wei Yong, the king of Xinling, when he was dying, were to let the king of Qin win the sky and treat the Wei royal family well in the future.

Wei Guoxinlingjun Wei Yong collapsed!

At the same time, celebrities from all over the world who admired his name came to mourn.

Among them are Liu Bang of Pei County, Fan Hui of the Dog Slaughterer, Xiahou Ying, the county lieutenant Xiao He and other local officials of Pei County.

King Yingtian of Qin heard that Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, had died.

Naturally, it is both happy and sad.

The worry is that Xinling Jun Wei Wuji is indeed like half a son and half in front of him.

When King Qin Yingtian heard the news, he secretly wept for the first time.

The good news is that the previous agreement between King Yingtian of Qin and Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, can die with the death of a person.

There is no one in the world who can trap King Qin to win the sky.

And the next decade is a decade of nothing.

After the Battle of Lisha, the Qin state attempted to further conquer the lands of Korea and Wei, but was forced to suspend its operations for fear of Qi interference.

Later, because the son of Meng Weijun of Qi went to Wei and served as the prime minister to attack Qi, Qi and Wei became opposed.

After a series of diplomatic adjustments, Qin and Qi regained friendship, creating a favorable opportunity for Qin's eastward invasion.

In the nineteenth year of King Liewu of Zhou (296 BC), King Xiang of Wei and King Xiang of Han died in the same year, and the situation in Korea and Wei was turbulent.

In the twenty-first year of King Liewu of Zhou (294 BC), King Zhao of Qin sent troops to attack Korea, and the general of Qin State Xiang Shou captured Wushi, and Zuoshu Changbai Qi captured Xincheng.

Korea sent envoys to Wei to ask for reinforcements.

Qin was a common enemy, and Han and Wei had an alliance, and the king of Wei did not sit on the sidelines.

The king of Wei immediately ordered the general Gongsun Xi (also known as Xiwu) to gather all his men and horses and go to help in the battle.

As a result, Wei and Han Jun raised troops to counterattack Qin, and the Eastern Zhou also sent troops to join the Wei and Han coalition forces.

In the twenty-second year of King Liewu of Zhou (293 BC), King Yingtian of Qin reused Bai Qi, promoted Bai Qi to the left guard, and replaced Xiang Shou as the main general.

In the same year, the Qin army confronted the 240,000 allied forces of Han, Wei, and Eastern Zhou led by the Wei general Gongsun Xi at Yinque, and the Qin side had less than half of the combined forces of Han, Wei, and Eastern Zhou.

Yin Que is located in the south of Luoyang, and is the only way for the Qin State to go east out of the Central Plains.

Yin water (south Luoshui tributary) flows into Yin Que to the north, and in the past, Dayu channeled this mountain to pass water. The two mountains are opposite, looking like a gate from a distance, Yin water flows through the middle, and flows to the north, so it is called Yin Que.

Among the allied forces of South Korea and Wei, the Korean army was weak, and the commander of the Korean army, Storm Kite, hoped that the allied army of Wei would be the vanguard.

The commander of the Wei army is Gongsun Xi, who once followed Meng Weijun to attack King Chu Huai in the south and the western expedition to Hangu Pass, he felt that although the Han army was not very strong, the Han army was not only strong in crossbows, but also its strong armor, American shields, bronze helmets, and iron curtains were also excellent, so he hoped that the Han army would take the lead in the vanguard.

Bai Qi stood on the gentle slope of Yin Que, looking at the Han and Wei armies.

The Han army was in the front, and its friendly Wei army was slightly behind the South Korean army, and was slightly behind the side of the South Korean army.

The intelligence soldiers brought the news that the commanders of the two armies of Han and Wei looked like they were separated, and the armies passed the buck to each other and each preserved its strength, and no one wanted to fight the Qin army first.

In view of this situation, Bai Qi decided to adopt the combat strategy of avoiding the real and attacking the false, and breaking through each one.

At the beginning of the battle, Bai first set up a small number of suspicious soldiers to fight against the South Korean army, and put on a posture of attacking the South Korean army.

The South Korean army did not know the truth and was pinned down by the suspicious soldiers of the Qin State.

Bai Qi dispatched his elite main force to detour to the rear of the coalition army, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Wei army to suddenly attack the Wei army.

The Wei army was defenseless, was caught off guard, and was forced to rush to the battle in the narrow area of Yin Que Mountain in a hurry.

The South Korean army was distraught when it learned that its allies on its flank had been crushed in an instant.

The soldiers mutinied, and the commander could not control the decline.

At this time, the flanks of the South Korean army were completely exposed to the main forces of the powerful Qin army.

Without waiting for the commander to arrange, he was immediately attacked by the Qin army left and right, and for a while, the Korean army was defeated and fled.

The Qin army took advantage of the victory to pursue, expanded the results of the battle, and killed countless corpses of the Han army. Annihilated 240,000 Han and Wei allied troops, killed the main general Xiwu, that is, Gongsun Xi, and occupied Yin Que and five cities.

The Battle of Yin Que ended with a great victory for the Qin army.

After the war, the elites of Han and Wei were completely lost, and they were forced to sacrifice their land to sue for peace.

Bai Qi was promoted to national captain because of his outstanding military achievements.

In the same year, Bai Qi took advantage of the disastrous defeat of Han and Wei at the Battle of Yinque to lead his troops across the Yellow River and seize a large area of land east of Anyi to the Qianhe River.

After the Battle of Yinque, the doors of Han and Wei were wide open.

From 291 BC to 289 BC, the Qin State successively attacked and occupied Wan, Ye, and Deng in Korea; It captured 61 large and small cities in Wei (, Ha Yong (now west of Mengzhou City, Henan Province), Puban), Pi, and Hanoi counties.

Sweep the way for the Qin army to advance eastward.

292 BC

Bai Qi sent troops to attack Wei and captured 61 Wei cities in one fell swoop.

291 BC

Bai Qi and Keqing Sima Coo jointly captured the walled city.

286 BC

Bai Qi attacked the State of Zhao and captured the City of Light Wolf.

281 BC

Bai Qi attacked Chu, the Chu army was defeated, and the land north of Shangyong and Hanshui was cut to Qin for peace.

280 BC

Bai Qi attacked Chu again, capturing five cities such as Yan and Deng, and then the Qin army crossed the Qin-Chu border mountains, cut off its own support, and quickly broke into the Chu realm in three ways, directly surrounding Yingdu, the capital of Chu.

After the battle of Yin Que, King Yingtian of Qin wrote a letter of state to Xiong Lie, King of Chu, saying:

"The state of Chu betrayed the state of Qin, and the state of Qin will lead the army of princes to attack the state of Chu and fight it out. I hope you will regroup your army so that you can have a good fight. ”

Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, was very worried, so he planned to make peace with Qin.

In 292 BC, the state of Chu went to the state of Qin to greet the bride, and Qin and Chu made peace.

In 285 BC, Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, and Yingtian, the king of Qin, met in Wan and negotiated peace.

In 283 B.C., Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, had a friendly meeting with King Yingtian of Qin in Beduyan of Chu, and in the autumn of the same year, he met with King Zhao of Qin in Qin.

In 281 B.C., there was a man in the state of Chu who was good at shooting the wild geese returning to the north with a thin bow and rope, and when the king of Chu Xiang heard about it, he called him to ask about the experience of shooting.

In reply, the man said, "I like to shoot geese and birds, and this is the function of small arrows, so why is it worth telling the king?" Moreover, with the vast land of Chu and the wisdom of the king, it is not just these geese and birds that are shot...... Qin is a big bird, living with its back to the mainland, standing facing the east, close to the southwest of Zhao on the left, Yan Ying of Chu on the right, facing South Korea and Wei, and vainly trying to swallow the Central Plains alone. ”

This person's words angered Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, and Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, remembered that he had been robbed of Princess Jihu by King Yingtian of Qin and became the laughing stock of the Six Kingdoms.

Therefore, Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, sent an envoy to the vassal states to re-agree on the alliance in order to crusade against the Qin state.

When the Qin State heard the news, it decided to preemptively send troops to attack the Chu State.

The state of Chu wanted to join forces with the state of Qi and Korea to crusade against the state of Qin, and took the opportunity to plot against the Zhou dynasty.

Ji Rufa, the king of Zhou Liewu, sent Duke Wu (the great-grandson of King Zhou Ding) to lobby the state of Chu and successfully persuaded the prime minister of the state of Chu, Zhaozi.

So the state of Chu abandoned the original plan.

In 280 BC the following year, the Qin general Sima Cuo led an army from Longxi County to capture Qianzhong County of Chu, and King Xiang of Chu was forced to cede Shangyong and the lands north of the Han River to Qin.

In 279 BC, King Yingtian of Qin sent Daliang Zaobai Qi to lead an army to attack Chu.

At the same time, Yin Zhishan of the Bairong Grassland finally unified the Bairong Grassland.

Meng Tian led the main force of the Qin army to resist Yin Zhi Xiandanyu, and the 100,000 Xuanjia army of Dawn secretly lurked to protect Meng Tian.

Because the 100,000 Xuanjia army is too sharp, once it is born, it will inevitably attract the six kingdoms of Shandong to attack Qin with all their might.

After analyzing the situation of the two armies, Bai Qi decided to adopt the strategic policy of directly attacking the central area of Chu rule.

In 279 BC, Bai Qi led tens of thousands of troops to the east along the Han River, captured important coastal towns, plundered the abundant grain and grass in the Han River Valley to supply military supplies, and broke into Chu by surprise.

Bai Qi also ordered Qin's troops to dismantle bridges, burn boats, and cut off their own way back after crossing the river, as a sign of confidence in fighting to the death.

The Chu army had worries because of fighting at home, and the soldiers only cared about their own families, had no fighting spirit, and could not resist the attack of the elite soldiers of the Qin State, and were defeated and retreated.

The Qin army, led by Bai Qi, marched straight into the country, quickly attacking and occupying Deng, Chu's key position in the Han River Valley, all the way to Beduyan in Chu.

Yancheng is very close to Ying, the capital of Chu, and is an important military town to defend Yingdu, and the Chu people have already gathered heavy troops in Yancheng in an attempt to prevent the Qin army from attacking Yingcheng in the south.

The Qin army encountered the most stubborn resistance since entering the Chu realm in Yancheng, and the Qin army was alone and inadequate, and it was not suitable to last, so it took advantage of the favorable conditions that Yishui flowed out of the long valley of the Chuxi Mountain and flowed to the southeast, built an embankment to store water in the west of Yancheng, and built a long canal to Yancheng, and then opened a canal to irrigate the city, the water entered the city for the abyss, the northeast corner of Yancheng was soaked and broken by the river, and the people in the city were drowned hundreds of thousands.

The Qin army then occupied Yancheng.

After conquering Deng and Yancheng, Bai Qi rested his troops, replenished his troops and military resources, and at the same time moved the convicts and prisoners of the Qin State to Deng and Yan, which were used as bases for further attacks on Chu.

He also led the army to attack and occupy Xiling, choke the Yangtze River, and cut off the connection between Yingjun and Wujun in the west.

In 278 BC, Bai Qi sent troops to attack the Chu State again, the momentum was like a bamboo, captured the capital of the Chu State, Ying, burned down the tomb of its ancestors, and marched to the east to Jingling, after the defeat of the Chu King Xiong Lie, he fled to the northeast to Chen, and was forced to move the capital here to protect himself.

In the Battle of Yan Ying, the Qin State won a complete victory.

In this battle, the Qin State occupied a large area of land north of the Yangtze River in the west of the Chu State, and set up a southern county here.

In this battle, the victory of the Qin State further hit and weakened the strength of the Chu State, and from then on, the Chu State was even weaker.

In 277 BC, King Qin Zhao appointed Bai Qi as the main general and Zhang Ruo, the county guard of Shu County, as his deputy general, and seized Wu County and Qianzhong County of Chu, seriously weakening the strength of Chu State. Under the mediation of Chun Shenjun (one of the four princes of the Warring States), King Qin Zhao formed an alliance with the state of Chu for a truce.

In 276 BC, King Xiang of Chu gathered more than 100,000 soldiers in the east, and went west to capture 15 cities on the banks of the Yangtze River occupied by the Qin State and divided them into counties, recapturing part of the western region.

In 272 BC, King Xiang of Chu sent 30,000 men to help Zhao, Wei, and Korea attack Yan. So the state of Chu made peace with the state of Qin, and let the crown prince Xiong Wan go to the state of Qin as a hostage.

At this point, the territory of Qin has changed from a county in Tianshui to a territory larger than the six countries of Shandong.

Qu Fuzi after learning about the Battle of Yan Ying.

He once tried to find the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, the driving force behind the decline of the Chu State.

But Donghuang Taiyi never expected that Qin Guobai would dare to fight like this.

I thought that I could use the state of Chu to eliminate the state of Qin.

As a result, Bai Qi killed no less than 500,000 people in Chu during this period.

How can the Eastern Emperor Taiyi still have the face to come to Qu Fuzi to talk again.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi also realized that even those as strong as Chu could not defeat Qin.

Therefore, he completely abandoned the state of Chu, and recalled all the five spirits and Xuantong, including Yun Zhongjun, Da Sima, Shao Siming, Xiang Jun, and Xiang Lady, who had been secretly protecting Chu King Xiong Lie and Qu Fuzi.

After the capital was forced to be destroyed, Qu Yuan proposed that Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, fight again.

However, at this time, Xiong Lie, the king of Chu, had already been beaten by King Yingtian of Qin, and he had no ambitions.

Qu Fuzi was disheartened, and was attacked and slandered by the surrender faction of the Chu State.

In the same year, Qu Fuzi jumped into the Miluo River to repay the country with his death.

In 273 BC, the Battle of Huayang

Bai Qi led the Qin army to war with the armies of Wei and Zhao in the area of Huayang, South Korea.

Wei and Zhao were finally defeated, and Qin won the victory and occupied a large part of Wei's city, beheading a total of 150,000 Wei and Zhao allied troops in this battle.

In 264 B.C., in the Battle of Chengcheng, Bai Qi led the Qin army to capture 9 cities including Chengcheng in Korea, and beheaded 50,000 Korean troops in this battle.

In 263 B.C., Bai Qi invaded Han and captured the Yewang of Korea.

In the same year, Fan Ju met with King Yingtian of Qin and explained his strategy of Qin's domination of the world.

Fan Ju believes that only by achieving "the inch is the king's inch, and the ruler is also the king's ruler" can we truly digest the territory obtained, and advocates the strategy of "distant and close attack". This strategy was actively promoted by King Yingtian of Qin, and Fan Ju was appointed as the prime minister.

The strategy of "distant friendship and close attack" was to first focus the struggle on the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, which were closer to Qin, and temporarily ignore Qi Chu, which was far away.

The strategy of "long-distance friendship and close attack" not only consolidated the land conquered by the Qin state, but also undermined the "alliance of the eastern vassal states" and accelerated the pace of Qin's unification.

The Battle of Chuisha, the defeat of the Chu army, the Battle of Yinque, the victory over Han and Wei, the sweeping of the Qin army's eastward advance, the Battle of Yanying, the acquisition of a large amount of land of Chu, the Battle of Huayang, the defeat of the Zhao and Wei coalition forces, the capture of several cities of Wei and Guanjin of Zhao.

According to the strategy of "distant friendship and close attack", King Zhao of Qin first attacked Wei and then turned to Korea.

In 262 BC, the state of Qin attacked and occupied Yewang of Korea, completely cutting off the connection between Shangdang County and the mainland.

At this time, the monarch of South Korea was Han Yu, the fourth son of Han Fei, the elder brother of Han Fei, the ninth son of South Korea.

Han Yu, the king of Han, knows deeply that geographical location determines everything, as long as he dares to change the law, if Qin does not fight South Korea, Zhao will also fight.

Zhao State does not fight, Chu State fights, Chu State does not fight Qi State, South Korea can only be safe if it is weak, and the King of Han after Shen does not harm understands this truth.

Han Yu, the king of Han, was very frightened and sent Yang Chengjun to Qin to apologize for his crimes, asking for the land of the party to be sacrificed for the Qin State to rest its soldiers.

Feng Ting, the county guard of Shangdang County, was unwilling to surrender to Qin, and the people of Shangdang County plotted to use the power of Zhao to resist Qin, and dedicated the seventeen cities of Shangdang County to Zhao State.

Zhao Xiaocheng, the monarch of Zhao and Zhao Bao, the king of Pingyang, discussed the matter, and Zhang, the monarch of Pingyang, did not accept Shangdang County, and he thought that Feng Ting did not hand over Shangdang to Qin because he wanted to blame Zhao State, and the disaster it brought was much greater than the benefits.

King Zhao Xiaocheng summoned Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yu to discuss, and the two persuaded King Zhao Xiaocheng to accept Feng Ting's Shangdang County, and they said: "Launching a million army to fight, after years of attack, can not capture a city." Now sitting on its success and getting seventeen cities is a great benefit, and this opportunity cannot be lost. ”

King Zhao Xiaocheng said: "Okay. ”

King Zhao Xiaocheng asked Pingyuan Jun again: "Accept the land of Shangdang, Qin State will definitely send Wu Anjun to attack in vain, who can resist?" ”

Pingyuan-kun replied: "It is difficult for others to compete with Bai Qi. Lian Po is brave and good at fighting, cherishing soldiers, and the field battle is not as good as Bai Qi, but the defense of the city is completely competent. ”

Therefore, King Zhao Xiaocheng listened to the plan of Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, named Fengting as the king of Huayang, sent the king of Pingyuan to Shangdang to receive the land, and at the same time sent Lian Po to lead the army to garrison Changping in case the Qin army attacked.

Zhao's acceptance of the party caused dissatisfaction in Qin, and Qin decided to send troops to attack Zhao.

At the beginning of 261 BC, King Yingtian of Qin sent troops to capture the Gur and Lun clans in Korea to deter Korea.

At the beginning of 260 BC, King Yingtian of Qin ordered Wang Di, the chief of Zuo, to lead an army to attack and occupy Shangdang.

The people of Shangdang fled to the territory of Zhao State, and Zhao's army met the people of Shangdang in Changping.

The Battle of Shangdang before the Battle of Changping ended.

In the fourth lunar month of 260 BC, the Battle of Changping broke out, and the Qin general Wang Di launched an attack on the Zhao army in Changping, and King Zhao Xiaocheng ordered Lian Po to meet the battle, and Lian Po led the army to attack the Qin army. The Zhao army wounded the Qin scouts, and the Qin scouts beheaded the Zhao army's generals.

In the sixth lunar month of 260 BC, the Qin general Wang Yu led his army to attack, broke through the position of the Zhao army, defeated the Zhao general Lian Po, and killed four captains of the Zhao army.

In the seventh lunar month of 260 BC, the army of Zhao built a wall and cowered in the camp and did not dare to fight.

As a result, the Qin army launched a strong attack, captured the camp west of the Zhao army, and killed two captains of the Zhao army.

The Zhao army was defeated in a row, and the Zhao general Lian Po led the army to retreat to the east bank of the Dan River and built a barrier, and the Zhao army has since retreated without fighting.

Therefore, King Zhao Xiaocheng was quite dissatisfied with Lian Po's fear of the Qin army and his long-term indecision, and sent people to reproach Lian Po several times.

When the Zhao army lost the first battle, King Zhao Xiaocheng consulted with Lou Chang, Yu Qing and others, and wanted to personally lead the troops to a decisive battle with the Qin army.

Lou Chang thought that this would be useless, and it was better to send high-status envoys to Qin to negotiate peace.

Yu Qing believed that if Qin was determined to attack Zhao and it would be difficult to make peace, it would be better to send envoys to Chu and Wei with treasures to make Qin fear the cooperation of various countries to resist Qin, so that the peace negotiations could be successful. However, King Zhao Xiaocheng adopted Lou Chang's suggestion and sent Zheng Zhu to Qin to negotiate peace.

Yu Qing repeatedly advised, saying, "When Zheng Zhu enters Qin, King Qin and Fan Sui will definitely receive it ceremoniously to show the world." Chu and Wei thought that Zhao had negotiated peace and would not send troops to rescue Zhao. Qin knew that if the world did not save Zhao, the peace negotiation would not succeed, and if the peace negotiation could not be successful, the Zhao army would be defeated. ”

King Zhao Xiaocheng did not accept Yu Qing's advice in the end, and Zheng Zhu went to Qin to sue for peace. In order to paralyze Zhao, prevent the countries from collging, and gain time to strengthen military preparations in order to deal a serious blow to the Zhao army, Qin really took advantage of the opportunity of Zhao's quest for peace to receive Zheng Zhu, the envoy of Zhao, with the intention of publicizing that Qin and Zhao had reconciled, so as to prevent all countries from sending troops to rescue Zhao. As a result, Zhao's situation became even more isolated.

King Zhao Xiaocheng had already been annoyed that Lian Po's army had been defeated several times, and was disgusted that Lian Po was cowardly and did not fight, and Fan Ju, the prime minister of Qin State, sent someone to carry out a counter-plot in Zhao State, and spread rumors: "Lian Po is very easy to deal with, and what Qin State is most afraid of is Zhao Kuo, the son of Ma Fujun Zhao Hao." ”

King Zhao decided to change generals, and at that time, Li Mu was still defending against Yin Zhi and Dan Yu in Saibei.

King Zhao believed Qin's anti-plot to be true, and immediately called Zhao Kuo and asked him if he could defeat the Qin army.

Zhao Kuo said: "If the Qin State faction is white, I still have to think about dealing with it." Now it's Wang Di, who is just Lian Po's opponent. If you replace me, you can defeat him. So regardless of Lin Xiangru and Zhao Kuo's mother's admonition, Zhao Kuo was sent to replace Lian Po as the main general.

In the seventh lunar month of 260, Zhao Kuo led 200,000 reinforcements to Changping and succeeded Lian Po as the main general.

After Zhao Kuo took office, he changed the generals of the troops according to the actual situation, changed the system in the army, changed the operational policy of Lian Po, and took the initiative to send troops to attack the Qin army.

After King Qin Zhao learned that Zhao Kuo replaced Lian Po as the main general, in order to completely defeat Zhao and settle the situation in one battle, he secretly transferred Wu Anjun Bai Qi as a general, and ordered Wang Yi to serve as a lieutenant and deputy general.

When Zhao Kuo sent troops to attack the Qin army, Bai Qi ordered the Qin army to retreat in defeat, Zhao Kuo did not know that the Qin State had secretly replaced Wang Ji with the famous general Bai Qi, so he ordered the Zhao army to pursue the victory and chase until the Qin army's camp, but Zhao's army could not break through the Qin army's camp.

Bai Qi ordered a force of 25,000 men to raid the rear of the Zhao army's attacking force, cut off the rear route of the Zhao army, and ordered a cavalry force of 5,000 men to insert between the Zhao army and the barracks, dividing the main force of the Zhao army into two isolated forces, and cutting off the grain route of the Zhao army.

Bai Qi sent lightly armed elite soldiers to launch many attacks on the Zhao army, the Zhao army was unfavorable in several battles, Zhao Kuo found that he had been surrounded, and was forced to order the whole army to stop attacking, build a barrier on the spot, turn to defense, and choose an opportunity to break through.

When King Qin Zhao learned that the grain route of the main force of the Zhao army had been cut off, he personally went to Hanoi County, conferred the title of the local people, and requisitioned young people over the age of 15 in Hanoi County to concentrate on the Changping battlefield to intercept the reinforcements and grain transportation of various countries.

In the ninth lunar month of 260 BC, the main force of the Zhao army had been without food for 46 days, and a large number of Zhao soldiers either starved to death or died due to the failure to break through, and the soldiers began to kill each other for food. Zhao Kuo organized the remaining Zhao army into four breakout troops, and after four or five attacks in turn, they still could not break through.

As a result, Zhao Kuo personally led the elite troops to forcibly break through, but failed and was killed by the Qin army's random arrows.

The Zhao army was unable to fight again due to the lack of command of a master general and heavy casualties, and the remaining soldiers surrendered to the Qin general Bai Qi.

Bai Qi said: "The soldiers of Zhao State are capricious, if you don't kill them all, I'm afraid there will be another incident." ”

So Bai Qi ordered the Qin army to bury all the troops surrendered by Zhao alive, leaving only the 240 soldiers who were still young and released back to Zhao.

In the Battle of Changping, the Qin army killed 450,000 soldiers of Zhao and the people of Zhao Shangdang, and Zhao was shocked.

The Battle of Changping ended with a victory for the Qin state.

After the war, Zhao's vitality was greatly damaged, and he was no longer able to fight against Qin in all directions alone, and the unification of Qin after the war was only a matter of time.

King Zhao Xiaocheng regretted that he did not follow the advice of Zhao Bao, the king of Pingyang, and because of what Zhao Kuo's mother said when she stopped Zhao Kuo from going on the expedition, he did not kill Zhao Kuo's mother.

In the Battle of Changping, the Qin army achieved a great victory, which greatly weakened the Zhao state and created favorable conditions for Qin to complete unification.

After the victory in the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi divided the Qin army into three routes, expanded the results, and ordered Wang Yi to lead an army to capture the leather prison of Zhao; ordered Sima Terrier to lead an army north to capture Taiyuan; Bai Qi's army was preparing to attack Handan, the capital of Zhao, and wanted to destroy Zhao in one fell swoop.

When the Qin army took Wu'an in the east, Pijiao in the west, and Taiyuan in the north, Korea and Zhao were extremely frightened.

Zhao conspired with South Korea and sent envoys to Qin with heavy money to lobby Fan Ju. Fan Ju was persuaded by the envoys of Zhao, so he suggested to the king of Qin to accept the peace, and the king of Qin adopted Fan Ju's opinion, allowing Korea to cut Yuanyong, Zhao to cut the six cities, reached a peace agreement, and ordered a call in January 259 BC.

After Bai Qi learned of this, he had a conflict with Fan Ju.

King Yingtian of Qin did not listen to Bai Qi's advice and attacked Handan without losing the opportunity, but in the later Battle of Handan, Qin was defeated.

As a result of the Battle of Changping, Zhao Jungu's entire army was annihilated, and Qin also suffered nearly 200,000 casualties, that is, more than 600,000 casualties on both sides.

This battle became the longest-lasting, largest, and most tragic war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, just as the ancients talked about the 500-year war of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, only the two battles of Jinyang and Changping were pushed, and the so-called "siege of Jinyang, hanging the kettle and cooking; The battle of Changping, the blood flowed and drifted".

In the Battle of Changping, the Qin army annihilated a total of 450,000 Zhao soldiers and civilians before and after, fundamentally weakening the most powerful opponent of the six Kwantung states at that time, Zhao, and also giving great deterrence to other Kwantung vassal states. Due to Qin's complete victory, the situation of unification by Qin has become irreversible, and it has taken a sharp turn from then on.

The Battle of Changping marked the end of the Warring States Generation, which was characterized by a large number of countries and frequent annexation wars, and an unprecedented centralized empire was about to fall.

The Battle of Changping had a far-reaching impact.

This battle not only affected the national strength of Zhao, but also affected the national strength of Qin.

This prevented the Qin state from launching another large-scale war for the next ten years.

According to statistics, since Bai Qi went to war, no less than 1.5 million people have been beheaded.

And Bai Qi's personal ability and prestige have become the dream demons of the six countries of Shandong.

Whether it is the Battle of Changping or the Battle of Handan.

Qin's population and grain declined dramatically.

If it weren't for the King of Qin to win the sky and the country of abundance as the backing.

There is countless grains in Xianyang City.

It is estimated that it will end up in the same fate as Zhao Guo.

At this time, the six states of Shandong discussed and decided to jointly attack Qin.

The premise is that the king of Qin is not allowed to reuse Bai Qi.

At this time, King Qin Yingtian knew that Bai Qi could no longer lead the army.

As soon as he led the army, the six countries of Shandong were unusually united, and they could not achieve the purpose of attacking separately.

Therefore, King Yingtian of Qin pretended to be the contradiction between Bai Qi and Fan Ju.

Hypocrisy gives death in vain.

In fact, he enjoyed the inexhaustible wealth of Bai Qi, changed his name and surname, and lived in seclusion.

And this decision, as well as the Battle of Changping and the Battle of Handan.

laid the groundwork for the joint attack of the Six Nations on Qin.

At the same time, after the Qin State captured Bashu and captured the capital of the Chu State, Yingdu.

cut off the way for Zhuang Ji, a famous general of Chu who went to Yunnan to govern the rebellion, to return to Chu.

Zhuang Ji, a famous general of Chu State, had no choice but to establish himself as the king of Dian, which promoted the unification of China and increased the territory of China.

At this time, the six countries of Shandong were making a final desperate fight and plotting to attack Qin!

(This changed the ending of Bai Qi, the real history is that Bai Qi's achievements are high, and there is no reward, it is a dead end, but Bai Qi died, or slowed down the speed of agreeing to the Six Kingdoms!) ）

。 Lewen