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Anonymous users2024-02-07After the Battle of Changping, 200,000 Zhao troops were killed, and Zhao had no power to fight back, so he could only be captured. The state of Qin established its prestige in the Six Kingdoms. No one dares to compete with it anymore.
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Anonymous users2024-02-06After the Battle of Changping, the Zhao State could no longer dominate, and the Qin State was also beaten to the emptiness of the country, and it took decades of rest before it became strong again!
The record of the Battle of Changping in the "Historical Records" is not credible!
The Battle of Changping did not hurt the foundation of Zhao State, Zhao State did not lose its combat effectiveness and its strength was still very strong, and the Qin army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Changping!
In the Battle of Changping, the losses of Zhao and Qin were comparable, Zhao died more than 100,000 in the end, and Qin also died more than 100,000!
A few months after the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi did not dare to fight Zhao again, because Bai Qi thought that if he fought again, he would be defeated, which also showed that Zhao Guo was not fundamentally injured in the Battle of Changping!
In fact, after the Battle of Changping, the Qin State fought the Zhao State again and again and lost again and again, and tens of thousands and tens of thousands of Qin troops died, proving that the losses of the Zhao State in the Battle of Changping were not too big!
In the Battle of Changping, it was impossible for the Zhao army to die 450,000, and the total strength of the Zhao State could not have 450,000.
There are also a lot of history books that are fake!
There are really a lot of stories made up by Sima Qian in "Historical Records", and many people's psychological activities have been written, how can Sima Qian know what others are thinking?
"Historical Records" is only more reliable than later history books, that is because later history books are more rubbish, and later history books are all rulers beautifying themselves and hacking others!
Although the Historical Records is more reliable than later history books, its credibility does not exceed 50%!
After the Qin State captured most of China, the total number of troops was more than 600,000, and there were certainly no 600,000 before, and the entire Qin State may not have 45 troops during the Battle of Changping, not to mention how could a Zhao State, which was half smaller than the Qin State, have so many troops? Obviously the numbers are fake!
During the Battle of Changping, Zhao still had more than 100,000 yuan of troops to defend against the Huns! Handan, the capital of Zhao, also has more than 100,000 troops, if the Zhao army in the Battle of Changping really has 450,000, then the total strength of Zhao has 700,000, how is this possible?
During the Three Kingdoms period, the total strength of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu was only 700,000, how could a Zhao State have 700,000 troops?
In the Battle of Changping, the Zhao army died at most 10 tens of thousands! The Qin State also died more than 100,000 people, and the logistics losses of the Qin State were even heavier!
Zhao Kuo attacked and was surrounded by Bai Qi may only have 2-30,000 people, if Zhao Kuo has many soldiers, what will Bai Qi use to surround him? Encirclement is definitely possible only when the number of troops is several times that of the enemy!
If Zhao Kuo's 450,000 troops are surrounded, Bai Qi must have at least 1 million to 2 million troops to do it, how can the same force be surrounded?
In fact, after the Battle of Changping, Zhao still had 20-30 troops, and the total strength of Zhao should be more than 300,000, so Zhao lost a maximum of 100,000 people in the Battle of Changping!
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Anonymous users2024-02-05In the fifty-third year of King Zhou (262 BC), the Qin army completed the siege of Shangdang in Korea (now the area east of the Qin River in Shanxi), and Feng Ting, the commander of Shangdang County, offered the party to Zhao in order to use the Zhao army to resist Qin, causing Qin and Zhao to fight in Changping (now northwest of Gaoping, Shanxi).
At first, King Zhao ordered Lian to be a general, and Lian Po relied on the dangerous terrain to increase the fortification, adopted the strategy of fortifying the wall without fighting, and held Changping for three years, and the Qin army could not attack it for a long time. Due to the small area of Zhao State and the low productivity in ancient times, Lian Po has not been able to hold out, and the logistics in the treasury of Zhao have been very difficult due to the large consumption of the army, and Zhao has been unable to support Lian Po's war of attrition. On the other hand, the Qin State, due to the support of the large granary of the Chengdu Plain, the Qin State can still afford to fight, but at this time, it is already very difficult.
In the fiftieth year of King Zhou (260 B.C.), the Qin State used the anti-intermediary strategy, and the Zhao State could not afford to fight such a war of attrition, so the King of Zhao decided to replace the generals, at this time, the famous general Zhao Hao of the Zhao State had died of illness, and there was no way to replace the veteran of Lian Po in the country, so Zhao Hao's son Zhao Kuo was used to replace Lian Po, and the King of Zhao enabled Zhao Kuo not only because of the anti-intermediary plan of the Qin State, Zhao Kuo had been fighting with his father for many years in his early years, and he had rich combat experience, courage and strategy, and it was not as useless as the idiom on paper. The state of Qin also sent the famous general Bai Qi to replace Wang Yi as the main general. After Zhao Kuo took office, he was very aware of the lack of food in the Zhao army, and if he still held on like Lian Po, Zhao would eventually be dragged to death, so he decided to take the initiative to attack and kill the living force of the Qin army.
The Qin army had already been prepared, and the Zhao army could not attack it for a long time. At this time, Bai Qi sent two surprise troops, detouring from the left and right flanks to cut off the retreat of the Zhao army. The Zhao army was besieged and had to build a fortress to wait for reinforcements.
When the King of Qin heard this, he personally went to Hanoi (the area north of the Yellow River in present-day Henan) to recruit men over the age of 15 to participate in the Battle of Changping, intercept the reinforcements of Zhao, and cut off the grain route. In September, Zhao Kuo divided the Zhao army into four teams, which took turns to attack, but finally failed to break through. Zhao Kuo was shot dead when he led his troops to break through, and more than 400,000 soldiers were forced to surrender to Qin.
Bai Qi was afraid that the Zhao army would rebel in the future, so he only let the young and frail 240 people return to Zhao, and all the rest were killed in Changping. The Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao ended in a crushing defeat for Zhao, with 450,000 Zhao soldiers killed and more than half of the Qin army killed. As a result, the strength of the Zhao State was greatly weakened.
Zhao Kuo was not wronged, because of Zhao Kuo's wrong command, the Zhao army was defeated, but even without Zhao Kuo, the Zhao army would be defeated, but it would not be like the ending of the Battle of Changping, where 400,000 people were killed, so Zhao Kuo couldn't get rid of responsibility.
The Changping battle between Qin and Zhao was more likely to win in any way, and Lian Po adopted a defensive policy, which was indeed a good method when Qin was strong and Zhao was weak, but it was not a long-term solution; Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin State rewarded cultivation and warfare, and both the quality of soldiers and grain and grass reserves far surpassed that of Zhao. In this war, both sides invested a lot of troops, and after the end of the war, the number of soldiers killed by Zhao alone reached 400,000, and the daily consumption of these 400,000 people was not a small amount. Lian Po has adhered to the defensive policy for more than a year, and Zhao can be said to have tightened his belt to live, Zhao is not as good as Qin, and its geographical location itself is not rich in food, and it is very likely that Zhao will be consumed to death first in a defensive war. >>>More
Because Zhao Guojun at that time fell for someone else's counter-plot, he didn't trust Lian Po very much, so he used Zhao Kuo. Although Zhao Kuo was very talented in military affairs, he had no experience in leading troops to fight, and the main reason for the defeat of the Battle of Changping was because Zhao Guojun replaced Lian Po.
The main reason is that Zhao Kuo talks about the army on paper and has no experience, in addition, the victory of Qin and the defeat of Zhao are also historical inevitability.
Because at that time, in the chaotic time, people only thought about how to resist the invasion of the enemy, and did not have time to ask for help.