Chapter 57: The Battle of Changping

Bai Qi led the army to choose the best time to send troops and the route of march, and gained the strategic initiative to attack the state of Chu. The Qin army fought alone in the Chu realm, which can be said to be born after death. ”

In this battle, Bai Qi took advantage of the fact that the city of the king of Chu was not repaired, and the opportunity of the waste was prepared, and he adopted the tactics of digging out the heart to attack the Chu State, and adopted the tactics of breaking the water to attack the city to conquer the capital of the Chu State, Yancheng, and then went down the Yangtze River east into the Chu realm, captured the capital of the Chu State, and burned the temple and Yiling of the Chu State, and achieved the final victory. In this battle, the Qin State obtained a large amount of land in the Chu State, and the Chu State was forced to move the capital, and the national strength was greatly weakened. ”

After King Xiang of Chu moved his capital to Chen, he gathered the armed forces of Chu Dongdi, and only got more than 100,000 people, although he recaptured 15 Yiyi by the river occupied by Qin to the west, but he could no longer compete with Qin. After a series of blows from the Qin state, the state of Chu collapsed until it was finally destroyed by Qin. ”

"In the forty-third year of King Qin Zhaoxiang, Bai Qi began to attack Korea, all the way unstoppable to seize many cities, cut off the Taihang Road in Korea, and the road to the capital of Shangdang was cut off, who doesn't know Bai Qi's prestige, this is going to hit him, King Han wants to dedicate the party to Qin at this time, in order to ask Qin to rest his army."

But at this time, the county guard Feng Ting was unwilling to surrender to Qin, the road to the outside world of Shangdang has been cut off, and it is no longer the Korean people, the Qin soldiers are approaching day by day, and South Korea cannot be saved, so it is better to attach Shangdang to Zhao State, if Zhao State accepts, Qin State will attack Zhao State angrily. Zhao must be close to Korea when he is attacked by the enemy. Han and Zhao united, they could resist the Qin State, and when they had an idea, they met with King Zhao. ”

"If it were another country, he would definitely not dare to take over, but Zhao State is not afraid, he launched a million army to fight, and after years of attack, he can't capture a city. Now sit back and get seventeen cities, this is a big benefit, can not lose this opportunity, others are difficult to compete with Bai Qi, Zhao Guo's Lian is brave and good at fighting, cherish the soldiers, the field battle is not as good as Bai Qi, but the city can be fully competent. ”

"So Zhao State took over the party, and Zhao State sent Lian Po to lead the army to garrison Changping to prevent Qin from attacking, and this cooperation between Zhao and Han became the fuse of the Battle of Changping."

In the forty-seventh year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the general of Qin State, Wang Di, attacked Han, captured Shangdang, and then attacked Zhao.

"The general of Zhao Guo, Lian Po, was quite scheming, and arranged three lines of defense in Changping: the first is the Kongcangling defense line, the second is the Danhe defense line, and the third line of defense is the Bailishi Great Wall. The three lines of defense are dozens of miles from east to west, dotted and connected to each other. The first encounter between the Qin and Zhao armies took place in the valley west of the first line of defense. In the melee, the Qin army killed the advance of the Zhao State, broke through the Kongcang Ridge, and captured the Zhao army's frontline town of Guangwolf City.

Perhaps Lian Po also saw that the offensive of the Qin army was unstoppable, and the Zhao army was unfavorable in successive battles and suffered great losses. Lian Po re-analyzed the situation of the enemy and us, and saw that the terrain factors were not conducive to the Zhao army, and the supply line of the Qin State was much longer than that of the Zhao army, and the logistics support was more difficult than that of the Zhao State, and he was determined to abandon the position on the west bank of the Dan River, which was not easy to defend, and the whole army shrank to the second line of defense east of the Dan River, and built a barrier. ”

"At that time, the general of the Qin army was Wang Di, and he really didn't have the slightest way to stick to Lian Po, or in the face of this kind of defense, no one could make it, and it was convenient for both sides to fight for national strength and materials!"

"From the point of view of the tactical purpose of sticking, Lian was quite successful, no matter how the Qin army attacked, it could not break through the Danhe defense line, the two armies of Qin and Zhao formed a confrontation situation, the war lasted for three years, and the Qin army lost troops and lost generals."

"The first stage of the Battle of Changping was a three-year war of attrition."

"In the Battle of Changping, Lian Po's strategy is to hold on, and the difference between the forces of Zhao and Qin is not very big, but this also caused a problem, the grain and grass on both sides is an astronomical amount every day, and it is also thanks to the fact that the national strength of Qin and Zhao is very strong, if some other small countries are already starving to death, at this time Qin is in a hurry, at this time, Fan Ju, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, launched a counter-plot, he bribed the ministers of Zhao to secretly say bad things about Lian Po, and Qin's spies in Zhao also exerted their strength, they trumpeted Zhao Kuo and suppressed Lian Po, Spread rumors. ”

"At this time, there was also a great hero of the Qin State......"

"This counter-strategy is indeed useful, the strategic stalemate Zhao can not continue to support, Zhao's grain output is only one-third of Qin's, the war has lasted for three years, and the huge consumption of 200,000 troops has completely exposed the weakness of Zhao's economic strength, and he is more anxious to end the war. Coupled with the battle of stasis and chaos, Zhao Hao defeated the Qin army, which made Zhao Guo have a fluke mentality, if he concentrated his forces to fight to the death, maybe Qin was not invincible, so he changed his strategy of sticking to it, and added Lian Po's rumors, and directly replaced Lian Po with "talking on paper" Zhao Kuo. ”

"At the same time that Zhao changed its main general to fight against the Qin army, King Zhaoxiang of Qin also secretly sent Wu Anjun Bai Qi as a general to lead the army on the front line."

Xu Da: I didn't fight a battle, so I went to the battlefield?

Liu Che: This counter-plot is so good that because of rumors, the general was replaced by a guy who "talks on paper".

Qin Shi Huang: This Lian Po is indeed a ruthless stubble, it's a pity!

Cao Cao: Rumors stop at the wise, King Zhao's brain is really not good, I also said that I like wives, look at my subordinates, none of them will believe it.

Liu Bei: Hehe!

Yuan Shao: Hehe!

Dian Wei: Lord, didn't you say to see Zhou Yu's wife?

Zhou Yu: Cao thief, you wait for Lao Tzu!

Cao Cao: ......

After the Qin Dynasty replaced the main general with Bai Qi, he also ordered the news to be kept strictly secret, so in Zhao Kuo's eyes, the commander of the Qin army at this moment is still Wang Di, why Zhao Kuo is called "talking on paper" is also because he has only read the book of soldiers, this is the first time to go to the battlefield, and he will only fight according to the idea of King Zhao Xiaocheng, and it is hard steel to go up, and as soon as he comes into contact, the Qin army is defeated and defeated, which makes Zhao Kuo very happy. ”

"This is the newcomer who just came out of the novice village, and he wants to fight the boss, so he is tragic, and the bitter tea that was deceived by Bai Qi is gone."

"Bai Qi led the Qin army to run all the way, looking extremely soft, and Zhao Kuo was chasing after the victory, he chased desperately, and was led to the mountains by Bai Qi, but after the reform of the Zhao State, it relied on the elite cavalry under his command, but in the mountains, the advantage of the cavalry was undoubtedly not played, the result was obvious, Bai Qi won a big victory, Zhao Kuo was also killed by the Qin army's ten thousand arrows in a desperate situation, this battle killed 200,000 enemies, and captured 400,000 Zhao troops!"

"But here, Bai Qi encountered a problem in his life, that is, how to deal with the 400,000 Zhao army?"

"400,000 captive troops, three years of consumption of grain and grass is not much, and even the Qin army itself can't eat enough, let alone prisoners, so what should be done with these 400,000 troops?"