Bai Qi and Xiang Yukeng killed and surrendered the soldiers, no one scolded them, why was Qin Shi Hu

Because killing scholars is a recognized sin, killing the enemy on the battlefield is nothing, and life and death are ruthless on the battlefield.

Because Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, many scholars were killed, which led to regression in social development and caused great harm, so Qin Shi Huang was scolded for burning books and pit Confucianism for 2,000 years.

I think the main reason is that what Qin Shi Huang did made my country's science and technology regress a lot, and what Bai Qi and Xiang Yu did compared with what Qin Shi Huang did can be ignored and the resulting result.

Ask if it's right first, and then ask why. Is there still a lot of voice in history that reprimands Bai Qi Xiang Yu?

Bai Qi was an outstanding general of the Qin State, because of his outstanding military achievements, he never lost in battles in his life, and was named the Marquis of Wu'an. In the Warring States Period, he can be called the most outstanding representative of the military family, but because he did not leave books related to the art of war strategy in later generations, he is not as good as Sun Tzu and Wu Qi among the soldiers, but it is still possible to enter the top three, because the Battle of Changping killed 400,000 soldiers in the Warring States Period, so it is called the God of Killing.

Zhao was a country that could compete with Qin at that time, both sides invested the country's resources in the Battle of Changping, originally Zhao wanted to fight quickly, but in the end it became a war of attrition, Zhao almost ran out of food, and had no choice but to fight quickly. Zhao Guo replaced the veteran Lian Po and let Zhao Kuo serve as the coach, while Qin Guo also changed the coach, and the killing god Bai Qi secretly took office.

Zhao was anxious to fight quickly, Zhao Kuo led his men and horses to attack, Qin had already premeditated, feigned defeat and retreated, and introduced the Zhao army into the set encirclement and annihilation location, and the Zhao army fell into passivity. At the same time, the Qin army encircled and cut off its grain route, putting the Zhao army in a predicament and unable to break through, and at the same time, Zhao Kuo did not break through at the first time, lost the opportunity to break through successfully, and finally failed to break through many times, and Zhao Kuo died in battle. The Zhao army had no food, and the commander was dead, and was finally forced to surrender.

And Bai Qi also simply killed all the surrendered Zhao troops, but let go of 240 people, of course, the people who let go were not because of mercy, but to let them return to Zhao State, and reveal the things here, so that Zhao Guo was jealous and disturbed Zhao State. But it is definitely not so simple for Bai Qi to kill all the people.

In fact, Bai Qikeng's killing of Zhao Guo's troops was also a helpless move, and there were many people at that time, claiming to have 400,000 people. If these people were incorporated into the Qin army, but there was not so much food, after all, after many years of fighting in the Battle of Changping, the Qin State was also able to win with the strength of the country, and the food was not enough at that time, but if the troops were not given food, the other party could not obey, and it was likely to attack the Qin army behind the back, so it was necessary to kill the pit.

In addition, it is impossible to let the surrendered troops go, because after being released, they will still meet on the battlefield in the future, and under the war of national destruction at that time, they will have to fight sooner or later, and in order to avoid hidden dangers, they also need to be killed. And at that time, Bai Qi was ready to take Zhao in one go, and he had to continue to fight, although the king of Qin did not agree to continue the attack in the end, but Bai Qi planned to do so.

Of course, many people think that Bai Qi is too cruel, but at that time, after all, it was the era of death and death, and the Qin State was also carrying out a war of annihilation, and in the future it was to destroy all the six countries in the East.

This question can lead to several other problems.

If you don't kill them, how do you settle them? Locked up? 400,000 people, 400,000 mouths, can't afford to raise.

Do labor? 400,000 people, not so many idlers escorting them. Let them go?

400,000 people, the most conservative estimate is that 200,000 people have to go back and pick up the ** and kill it back.

In other words, what are you going to do if you start for nothing?

There is indeed such a thing in history In the Battle of Changping, 400,000 Zhao soldiers were killed.

This battle brought the state of Zhao to a slump from then on.

There are two main reasons for this, one is the problem of logistics grain and grass, and the other is the problem of strategic layout.

Since ancient times, the most important thing in the war is the problem of logistics and grass, although Bai Qi won the war, but its original hundreds of thousands of front-line troops have exhausted the accumulation of the whole Qin State, these 400,000 Zhao prisoners of war are powerless, these are young and middle-aged men, eat a lot, if it is unrealistic to put these 400,000 Zhao prisoners of war back, then Bai Qi has only one way to choose, that is, kill, although it sounds a little appalling, but this is also a way to attack the brigade.

There is also the strategic layout. At that time, the 400,000 army of Zhao State was already the last fight of Zhao State, if it let go of the jujube and regretted going back, that is, let the tiger return to the mountain, at that time, Zhao State's Lian Po was still there, but it was later that Qin State used the "anti-intermittent strategy" to replace Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, if the forty rock benches were put back by the Zhao State prisoners of war, Lian Po was appointed again, and fought a protracted war with Qin State, then Qin's logistics could not keep up, and it would undoubtedly be defeated, and Qin State had no second chance, it could only fight quickly, "sweeping" Liuhe to "level" the world.

This is related to the Qin State's military merit reward system at that time, according to records: at that time, the Qin State implemented the military merit system implemented by Shang Ying, that is, the number of enemy soldiers killed was used as the standard for evaluation and punishment, "five people are one commander, and one hundred people are one general." In its battle, hundreds of generals and tun commanders were not allowed to behead; More than 33 songs, profits, 100 generals, tun chiefs give the first level ......If you can besiege the city and behead 8,000 people, it will be profitable; If you behead 2,000 in the field, you will be profitable; Officials and generals above the school will be rewarded.

The more enemies you kill, the more chances you have of military merit. In the hundreds of years in the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Changping, the bones were often exposed after the heavy rain, so that the history books left a record of "exposing the remains of a thousand steps, accumulating three feet of blood, and the place name is Shagu".

Archaeological diagram of the Spike Qinghuai piece.

Bai Qi once made great achievements in war and made immortal achievements, but he was demoted and even given death because of his disagreement with King Qin Zhao's politics. <>

Raise Bai Qi, a historical figure, and people who understand that period of history will give a thumbs up, after all, it is rare to be able to be so brave and resourceful and dare to accept orders in danger. Bai Qi is also a loyal person, dedicated to the consideration of the court, but his temper is too straightforward and is not welcomed. In order to maintain his majesty and status, Qin Zhaojun found it really difficult to accept his uprightness even if he knew that Bai Qi was sincerely assisting the government.

Bai Qi's military talent is obvious to all, but in the political world, he is indeed a veritable novice. This has been the case for all dynasties, and King Qin Zhao is also one of them, and in their eyes, the face and majesty of the royal family are much more important than the interests of the country. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why Bai Qi is a fierce general, who could have made great achievements on the battlefield, but could not escape the fate of being given death.

If Bai Qi could have figured out all this earlier, if Bai Qi had learned to obey King Qin Zhao's arrangement or "rule", and if Bai Qi's "emotional intelligence" had been higher, maybe this tragedy would not have happened, but unfortunately, there was no if. <>

In fact, it is still very sad to look back on this period of history, but there are still many historical figures like Bai Qi who have achieved fame in their lives but did not end perfectly. The kings of all dynasties have considered themselves to be a symbol of absolute power, and they do not want to hear voices that disagree with them under any circumstances, even if they have to pay a painful price for the people's misery, this is status, this is reality.

The first half of Bai Qi's life was infinitely beautiful, but it was a pity to meet such a mediocre Qin Zhaojun.

Because Bai Qi's merits were too high, and Qin Shi Huang was a person who could not tolerate anything stronger than him, Qin Shi Huang targeted him everywhere and finally gave him death.

Mainly because his merits overshadowed the emperor of Qin, opened up the territory, and he was a relatively talented person, so he was given death.

Bai Qi was finally given death, ostensibly because after the Battle of Changping, Prime Minister Fan Ju was worried that Bai Qi's high merit would affect his career, and persuaded King Qin Zhaoxiang to agree to Han and Zhao to sue for peace on the grounds that the soldiers of Qin needed to recuperate. King Zhaoxiang followed Fan Ju's advice. After Bai Qi learned of this, he had a conflict with Fan Ju, and opposed the attack on Zhao when Zhao refused to cede the land and King Zhaoxiang sent troops in anger, and was finally killed by King Zhaoxiang.

And the root cause, according to the logic of Bai Qi's life, scholar Sun Haohui once accurately refined and summarized in the history ** "Great Qin Empire": The reason why Bai Qi was given death is that he does not recognize people, whether it is the Empress Dowager Xuan or the King of Zhaoxiang, Bai Qi only seeks to obey the country, only on affairs, regardless of interpersonal relationships. Before the battle of Yan and Yan, Bai Qi did not obey the Queen Mother.

The plan to destroy Zhao was to destroy Bai Qi, and he repeatedly disobeyed King Qin Zhao. Even if it's all right in the end, the teacher doesn't dare to rely on it. Bai Qi is a national cadre, but it is not a sharp weapon that the king can use as he pleases.

Xiang Yu is even more hateful, because Xiang Yu has the ability to feed 200,000 people, but in order to save grass, all 200,000 Qin soldiers were buried alive.

I don't think Xiang Yu can be hated. Because it was a time of war at that time, if Xiang Yu did not kill these soldiers, he would leave a huge hidden danger for himself.

In fact, I don't think this kind of thing can be described at all, after all, they are not opposites, and if he doesn't die, Xiang Yu will die.

First of all, the Qin army killed by Xiang Yu was 200,000, and secondly, Bai Qikeng's killing of 400,000 Zhao Jun did not have no one to say, you can only say that you have a deeper understanding of Xiang Yu's killing of hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, so I feel that everyone has more opinions about Xiang Yu's brutality compared to Bai Qi. This idea is very one-sided.

From the real history, the practices of the two are inseparable, there is no praise or derogation here, it can only be said that in that era, in that kind of environment, even if you change people, you will not do very kind. Bai Qi killed 400,000 prisoners of war after confronting the Zhao army, and the military system of the Qin army is very straightforward, and the enemies killed are more sacrificed than your own side, which means that you have great military achievements. Bai Qi is the god of war, and he has fought more than 70 battles and has never lost.

At that time, regardless of other issues, the grain and grass consumed by these 400,000 prisoners of war alone could bring a lot of expenses to the Qin State, and it was very likely that even their own army would not be able to eat enough, and the productivity at that time was also low. Moreover, prisoners of war cannot be reused, after all, they are people from other countries, and it is not difficult to guarantee that one day there will be a rebellion. To be honest, it is understandable to kill prisoners of war in vain.

After Xiang Yu captured 200,000 Qin troops, he took them to the Qin State, and the dramatic thing was that on the way to the place where Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 prisoners of war that year, he killed them, and it was not without reason, Xiang Yu was worried that after arriving in the Qin State, these 200,000 people would turn against each other again.

Judging from some modern materials, especially TV series, compared with Bai Qi, there are more descriptions of Xiang Yu, and they are more comprehensive, which is inevitable that everyone knows Xiang Yu better, and both brutality and hero are synonymous with him. Bai Qi is relatively unfamiliar to some people who don't know history, if you want to talk about brutality, Bai Qi pit killed 400,000 is not more brutal, so to understand history, you can look at it subjectively for yourself, but if you analyze it to others, you must describe it objectively, after all, it is more real.

The importance of the Battle of Changping, which is also the reason why Bai Qi did it in the end, won this war with the strength of the whole country, just let go of hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers, and then let them recover and continue to fight against Qin? Even with the current national strength of the Qin State, it is not enough to have another Battle of Changping.

The war was over, and Zhao surrendered, but the number of people who surrendered this time was a bit large, 400,000. What is the concept of 400,000, the Qin army at that time estimated that it was not even half of this. Although they are unarmed, after all, they are 400,000 professional soldiers who have seen blood on the battlefield, and who dares to imagine how much power they can exert.

Moreover, in the Battle of Changping, the Qin army can be said to have suffered a great loss of vitality, and it took the strength of the whole country to win this war, and they no longer have enough strength to digest this batch of surrendered soldiers. As for putting it back, that's even more impossible. The greatest significance of this battle is to consume and annihilate the living force of the Zhao army, and put it back, isn't that a waste of work?

Because there is a difference between these two points in time, Bai Qikeng's killing of 400,000 Zhao pawns still belongs to the war period, which is a normal injury in the war, while Qin Jun was killed by Xiang Yukeng 5 months later.

Because Xiang Yu's character itself has more controversial points, that is, he is more famous, so he will be more brutal than Bai Qi.

Because Qin represents the real Shaanxi, it is the essence of Shaanxi, the whole of Shaanxi is black, and Chu does not have an exact place.

In fact, there is no problem with both, after the Battle of Changping, the Qin army was already short of food and grass to feed hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops, it is obviously impossible, putting it back is equal to fighting in vain, and there must be a problem with the data of killing 400,000 in the pit, 200,000 is about the same, Xiang Yu has no problem killing the Qin army, and he can't afford to raise it, but the difference between Bai Qi and Xiang Yu is that in addition to flooding the land of Yan Ying and hurting the people, the others only kill the enemy army, and the entire Qin army has no record of slaughtering the city, Xiang Yu's butcher's knife is obvious, even if he favors his Tai Shitgong, there is also a record of Xiang Yu's six slaughter of the city.