The fiasco of Zhao in the Battle of Changping, was it a mistake by Lian Po in the use of troops?

No, Lian Po's unstable tactics are successful, but due to the influence of Zhao's national strength, it will lead to the passivity of the Battle of Changping, but if it is fought head-on with the Qin army, it will be even more disastrous.

It's not that Lian Po made a mistake in using troops, Lian Po at that time had already been replaced, and the general at that time was Zhao Kuo, and he would only talk on paper.

No, Lian Po's stubborn policy is effective, and it has caused the ** of 200,000 Qin troops, and the fiasco of Zhao State was caused by Zhao Kuo later.

Lian Po's arming is not wrong and it is excellent. Otherwise, the Qin State would not have used the counter-strategy to change generals, and the biggest reason for changing Zhao Kuo was to implement the operational deployment of baiqi to lure the enemy into depth. To put it bluntly, if Zhao Jun doesn't attack, Bai Qi can't do anything.

Zhao Kuo.

At that time, Fan Ju, the prime minister of Qin, used a discord to make King Zhao distrust Lian Po, and Fan Ju also praised Zhao Kuo to the sky, and King Zhao also knew that his country would be dragged down by logistics in this way, and he was about to be unable to support it, so King Zhao needed a general who could attack, and Lian Po's long-term defense had caused King Zhao's dissatisfaction, and he touted Zhao Kuo in China, so King Zhao sent Zhao Kuo to the front line to defeat the Qin army.

Introduction

In fact, Zhao Kuo also wanted to defend at that time, but because of King Zhao's order, he could only blame the initiative, although Zhao Kuo was not a soldier on paper, but there were also many shortcomings, such as treating war as a child's play, and he didn't know how to be flexible, when King Zhao asked Zhao Kuo to take Qi with him, Lin Xiangru and Zhao Hao were both blocked and stopped, but King Zhao didn't listen, he just wanted to quickly solve the battle.

After Zhao Kuo came on the field, like a trip to Changping, to see the local people, the scenery, as if the world was under their control, when Zhao Kuo replaced Lian Po's generals with his own generals, and one day, suddenly led a fierce 400,000 army to attack without reconnaissance, and finally was surrounded by Bai Qi for more than 40 days.

Zhao Kuo. King Zhao was angry that Lian Po's army was lost and defeated, and he did not dare to fight against the strong wall, but he also heard Qin's words, because Zhao Kuo would attack Qin on behalf of Lian Po. ("Historical Records: The Biography of Bai Qi Wang Jian Lie").

The Battle of Changping was a war between the 53rd year of King Zhou and the 55th year of King Zhou (one says that it was between April and September of the 55th lunar calendar of King Zhou Xun, and the other is that it was from the beginning of the 54th year of King Zhou to September 55), and the famous general Bai Qi of Qin led his army to fight with the army of Zhao in the area of Changping (now northwest of Gaoping City, Jincheng, Shanxi Province) of Zhao State. The Zhao army was finally defeated, and the Qin army won the victory and occupied Changping, and killed 400,000 troops of the Zhao state.

This battle was a strategic decisive battle between Qin and Zhao. During the war, King Zhao was ignorant of the basic situation of Qin being strong and Zhao weak in his war guidance, and was anxious to win, and mistakenly adhered to the offensive strategy. The plan of the discord between the Central Qin State was to abandon the famous general Lian Po, and replace Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, who was talking on paper; Zhao Kuo followed King Zhao's intentions and was anxious to win, changed Lian Po's defensive deployment and military regulations, changed generals, and organized an attack.

In view of Zhao Kuo's pride and weakness of underestimating the enemy, Bai Qi adopted the operational policy of feinting defeat and retreating, luring the enemy out of the rough position, and then dividing, encircling, and annihilating him, and won the war. Zhao's vitality was greatly damaged by this battle, which accelerated the process of Qin's unification of China. This battle was the earliest, largest-scale, and most thorough siege and annihilation battle in ancient Chinese military history.

In the Battle of Changping, King Zhao replaced Lian Po's military leadership with Zhao Kuo.

At that time, Fan Shine, the prime minister of the Qin State, used a discord to make King Zhao distrust Lian Po, and Fan Ju also praised Zhao Kuo to the sky, and King Zhao also knew that his country would be dragged down by logistics if he continued like this, and he couldn't support it. Therefore, the king of Zhao needed a general who could attack, and Lian Po's long-term defense had caused the dissatisfaction of the king of Zhao, and he touted Zhao Kuo in the country, so the king of Zhao sent a search to summon Zhao Kuo to the front line and defeated the Qin army.

Zhao Kuo (chain Zheng 260 BC), Ying surname, Zhao family, name Kuo, Zhao during the Warring States Period, Zhao Guojun, the son of Zhao Fujun Zhao Hao. Zhao Kuo is familiar with military books, but he lacks battlefield experience and does not know how to be flexible.

The Battle of History

During the Warring States period when the Zhou Dynasty was about to come to an end, there was a war that was considered to be a turning point in the situation in the world at that time, the Battle of Changping. And this war was also the largest of the many wars at that time, and the most tragic one, after the war, no one could stop the pace of Qin's unification of the countries.

In 262 BC, the Qin army invaded Han, Shangdang County lost contact with Korea, and the county guard Feng Ting was unwilling to obey the orders of the Han king, and surrendered Shangdang County to Qin. He sent an envoy to Zhao to express his willingness to dedicate the city of Shangdang County to Zhao, and the king of Zhao thought that this was a great benefit, so he readily agreed, and Zhao's move caused the dissatisfaction of Qin, and the king of Qin decided to send troops to attack Zhao.