During the Battle of Changping, why did Bai Qi, the god of killing, not let the soldiers eat mutton?

It wasn't until 2013 that the remains of a local farmer who had been digging up the remains of a farmer in the valley near the Dan River between the East and West Liang Mountains in Gaoping City, Shanxi Province. In terms of ambushes, without ten times the number of troops, the ancients would not have dared to send ambushes to cut off the enemy's rear route. There are also cold beef and cold mutton, which are not sassy, and they can't be fragrant.

It was only 500 years after the Qin Dynasty that spices were introduced from the West.

During the Warring States Period, the Seven Heroes competed for hegemony。In the Central Plains, an epic battle between Zhao and Qin eventually became a popular tale。This battle is the famous battle of Changping in history, in the battle of Changping, the 400,000 army of Zhao was besieged by the Qin army in Changping, there was no way back, and finally the 400,000 troops were killed by the famous general Bai Qikeng of Qin, which became a shocking and touching historical story.

But why did Bai Qi make the soldiers forbidden to eat mutton during the Battle of Changping? This is actually also exquisiteThe so-called successful people will not let go of a detailBai Qi gives the impression that in addition to the ruthless "God of Killing", he is actually a person who pays attention to details.

NopeFeeding mutton to the soldiers is one of the details that Bai Qi pays attention to. To say that Qin ate mutton, it was a very common habit at that time。For example, today's Shaanxi people's enthusiasm for mutton, which is easy to understand, a region's diet also represents a region's cultural microcosm, so as early as the Warring States Period, Qin people love to eat mutton.

But the soldiers were not given mutton, and it was definitely not because of insufficient military rations。The Battle of Changping was an ambush and siege battle in which Qin occupied the terrain, Qin must have come well prepared, and Qin's reserve work was actually very good, after the annexation of Shu, Qin never lacked a grain production base, so there was no shortage of military food at all. During the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi did not allow soldiers to eat mutton, but instead ate beef.

Personally, I think this place is the valley area near the Dan River between the east and west Liangshan Mountains in Gaoping City, Shanxi Province. In terms of ambushes, without ten times the number of troops, the ancients did not dare to send ambushes to cut off the enemy's rear route.

During the Warring States period, the Seven Heroes competed for supremacy. In the Central Plains, where the heroes prevailed, an epic war between Zhao and Qin finally became a good story for people to talk about. This battle is the famous Battle of Changping in history.

In the Battle of Changping, Zhao's 400,000 army was besieged by the Qin army and had no way out. In the end, these 400,000 soldiers were killed by the famous generals of the Qin state, making it a terrifying and impressive historical story.

Not giving mutton to soldiers is one of the details that came out of nowhere. It is said that Qin ate mutton was a very common habit at that time. For example, the enthusiasm of Shaanxi people for mutton today is easy to understand.

The food of a region also represents the microcosm of the culture of a region, so as early as the Warring States Period, the Qin people were very fond of eating mutton.

Everyone who has eaten lamb must know that the taste of lamb is not as introverted as beef, and the sheep itself has a strong smell and when cooked, the taste is still strong. At that time, there were historical biographies. Although Bai Qi did not give Qin Jun mutton, there were also soldiers who secretly hid mutton and cooked meat in the middle of the night.

As a result, the taste of mutton spread throughout the barracks, and all the soldiers stood up to taste the delicious taste of mutton

Later, Bai Qi learned about this and severely punished these soldiers who ate mutton. The soldier asked Bai Qi what evidence they had to prove that they had eaten muttonBai Qi said that this is not simple, I am afraid that the smell of mutton on your body can be smelled clearly by the enemy army.

Lamb has a foul smell. If you want to get rid of the smell, you can only roast it with fire. And the smell of kebabs can be smelled within a radius of ten miles.

If their position is detected by the Zhao army in advance, then they will be at a disadvantage in the battle. Therefore, Bai Qi replaced cooked lamb with beef.

Lamb has a foul smell. The ancients did not dare to send ambushes to cut off the enemy's rear route, and neither cold beef nor cold mutton was sassy, let alone fragrant.

Bai Qi's way of governing the army tells us that what you eat on the battlefield can also affect the success or failure of the war. The word "counting" also expresses the intrinsic requirements that battlefield logistics must be carefully considered and carefully planned. In fact, no matter what you do, "actuarial" is a very important condition for success.

The ancients did not dare to send ambushes to cut off the enemy's rear route. There are also cold beef and cold mutton, which are not sassy, and they can't be fragrant.

On this side of the Qin Dynasty, the old general Wang Gu was also secretly replaced by the White Flag. In order to be unexpected, the Qin army ordered that the matter of changing the commander should be kept strictly secret, and if there were leakers, they should be killed. In this case, Bai Qi forbade the Qin soldiers to eat mutton.

Someone asked, "What does eating lamb have to do with divulging secrets?" "The main reason is that the enemy can easily notice the taste of lamb.

Lamb is known to stink. If you want to get rid of this smell, you have to roast it over a fire. The smell of kebabs can be smelled for about ten miles.

If the Zhao army had discovered their position in advance, they would have been at a disadvantage in the war situation. Therefore, Bai Qi used beef instead of cooked mutton.

The Battle of Yique eliminated 240,000 Sun Split Town of the Han and Wei coalition forces; The Battle of Yan Ying broke through the capital of Chu and drowned hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians; The Battle of Huayang beheaded 150,000 Zhao and Wei coalition troops who rescued South Korea; In the Battle of Chengcheng, 50,000 Korean troops were beheaded; In the Battle of Changping, 450,000 Zhao troops were killed by beheading. In these five battles alone, Bai Yuanxin has destroyed more than one million enemy troops.

That's about 1 million.

Bai Qi was a famous general of Qin during the Warring States Period, and according to incomplete statistics, he annihilated about 1 million enemy troops in his lifetime.

During the Warring States Period, when the Qin State was rising to the chain of things, the famous general of the Qin State of Qin Qi killed 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao State. Although it was under the instruction of the king, the heart was indeed too vicious, so it has been criticized by history.

In the Battle of Changping, 450,000 Zhao troops were killed by beheading. In these five battles alone, Bai Qi has destroyed more than one million enemy troops.

Bai Qi was a general of the Qin State, and legend has it that more than 400,000 people were killed and buried overnight.

When Bai Qi captured Zhao at that time, he was the people and soldiers of Zhao in Kunshan, a total of 300,000, which is recorded in history.

According to historical records, in the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi captured and killed 200,000 Zhao captives.

In the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, the Zhao State was defeated, and the Qin general Bai Qi killed the captured 400,000 Zhao troops.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of enemies killed by Bai Qi in his life should be conservatively estimated to be as much as 1 million, of which 240,000 were destroyed by the Han and Wei coalition forces in the battle of Yique and the battle of Stove, and in the battle of Yanying, the battle of Huayang, and the battle of Changping, Bai Qi destroyed more than one million enemy troops in these five battles! So Bai Qi Xiangxiang killed more than 1 million soldiers.

At the time of the Battle of Changping, the state of Qin.

Didn't let it get up in vain at the beginning.

There are many reasons for commanding, so let's briefly analyze them below.

The first reason is that the Qin State only regarded this war as a small-scale local conflict at the beginning, so there was no need to use such a high-level general as Bai Qi. In fact, we all know that the cause of the Battle of Changping was nothing more than the Shangdang, which was originally given to Qin by South Korea.

There was a problem with the county, and the Taishou of Shangdang County turned to Zhao in order to prevent Shangdang from falling into the Qin State.

And Zhao Guo naturally has no reason to refuse in the face of the pie falling from the sky. Therefore, at the beginning, the Qin State sent troops mainly to ask the Zhao State for Shangdang County, and regarded this battle as a small-scale military conflict. And small-scale military conflicts between Qin and neighboring countries often occur, and it is impossible to send Bai Qi to fight every time.

The second reason is that the king of Qin did not want to take stock of the military power in vain, and while accompanying other generals in combat experience and ability, he also wanted to weaken the military power of Bai Qi. Although it is a good thing for Bai Qi to be able to conquer and fight, it is not necessarily a good thing for the king of Qin, and Bai Qi, who has a high merit and is a master, is bound to threaten the authority of the king of Qin. Therefore, in order to avoid the threat that Bai Qi brought to himself, it was impossible for King Qin to rely on Bai Qi to fight alone, and he also wanted to cultivate more martial artists to restrain Bai Qi in the future, so as to consolidate his royal power.

Therefore, King Qin only used this war as a testing ground for training other generals, and wanted to give other generals more opportunities to learn and promote.

The third reason is that Bai Qi is better at itAthletic warfare, and the war around Shangdang County at the beginning was a tough battle, so it was reasonable not to let Bai Qi command. At that time, in order to avoid being invaded by the Qin army, Shangdang County hid in the city and could not defend it, so Bai Qi, who was good at sports warfare, could not play an advantage. years old, and later the chief general of Zhao State, Lian Po.

It is true that it has always been unable to hold out, so that the Qin army has no choice but to consume each other with Zhao Guo in the face of the tough battle. Therefore, after seeing Zhao Guo remove the main general and change the style of play, Qin State also sent Bai Qi to fight.

Mainly because King Qin didn't expect that the Battle of Changping would be stalemate for so long, and the whole process was planned by King Qin for a long time, so he didn't let Bai Qi command.

Because the king of Qin at that time felt that Zhao was not his country's opponent at all, and there was no need to send a famous general like Bai Qi to fight with them.

Because King Qin didn't expect that the Battle of Changping could be fought for so long, Bai Qi was King Qin Zhaoxiang's trump card, which could make the other party relax their vigilance.

Bai Qi did not kill so many people, but only exaggerated to show that Bai Qi had won a big battle to show his merits.

According to historical records, Bai Qikeng killed more than 250,000 soldiers, not the 400,000 people we now say. In the Battle of Changping, as many as 150,000 Zhao troops were killed in the battle.

There were not so many, and many of the armies at that time were imaginary in number. From the productive forces, the productive forces were low at that time, how could it be possible to raise such a huge army.

I think it should be fake, 400,000 people should be an exaggeration, maybe the number of soldiers who participated in the war is less than 400,000.

In the Qin Dynasty, Bai Qi was a very famous general, and at that time, he Lianpo, Wang Qian, and Li Mu were also known as the four famous generals of the Warring States, and Bai Qi was the first of the four famous generals. Bai Qi is known by many people as killing gods and slaughtering people, which makes many people in the Six Kingdoms frightened, and Qin has also made a lot of achievements. Bai Qi also commanded many very famous battles in his life, but the most famous one was the Battle of Changping, because in this war, Bai Qi killed a total of 450,000 Zhao people, you can imagine how huge the scale of this war was, and how cruel it was.

The Battle of Changping can be said to be the most important war between Qin and Zhao, because the two sides are fighting for a city. At the beginning, the generals of the two countries were very powerful, so the war has been facing each other for nearly three years, resulting in the consumption of manpower, material and financial resources of both countries, and Zhao State has not fought for a long time, and it is difficult to raise morale in terms of food, but Zhao State is still unwilling to give up, and finally changed a general. <>

When the two sides were fighting, Bai Qi suddenly ordered the soldiers to only eat cold food, and changed the cooked mutton that they usually like to eat very much to mature beef, after this order was issued, many soldiers were very puzzled and very angry, because the Qin army was mainly mutton at that time, and many people felt that this was making a big fuss. At that time, there was another soldier who was particularly fond of eating mutton, and secretly ate mutton at night, and many soldiers also gathered around to eat after smelling this smell, and when they were happy to eat, they were arrested by a general, saying that they had violated military orders, and they all went out to beat the military sticks. <>

These soldiers also kept begging for mercy when they were beaten, and Bai Qi was also angry at this time, and told the reason. Bai Qi said that he could smell the smell of mutton in the tent 50 steps away, and if there was wind, these smells could drift farther, and if the whole target ate mutton, the smell of mutton would spread farther, which was undoubtedly revealing his exact location to the enemy, and it was very easy to ambush. So it can be seen that Bai Qi is a very wise general, brave and strategic, courageous and wise.

I think the main reason is that the taste of mutton is relatively strong, and they were going to attack each other at that time, so Bai Qi gave such an order, afraid that the aroma of the food would spread to the other side and arouse the vigilance of the other party.

The smell of mutton is very strong, and the taste of mutton will drift far away with the wind, and it will also let the enemy know about their ambush.

Anyone who has eaten mutton must know that the taste of mutton is not as restrained as beef, and the mutton itself has a strong fishy smell, although it is fragrant after cooking, but the taste is still very strong. At that time, there were historical legends that although Bai Qi did not give the Qin army mutton, there were soldiers who hid mutton privately, and waited until midnight to cook it and eat it, and the fragrance of mutton spread throughout the barracks, and all the soldiers got up to taste the deliciousness of mutton.

In the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi forbade the soldiers to eat mutton because the smell of mutton was too strong, and it was easy to expose their position and give the enemy an opportunity, so in order to avoid letting the enemy easily know their location, the cooked mutton eaten by the soldiers in peacetime was replaced with beef, and this move may also be a factor that cannot be ignored to win the Battle of Changping, and it is also a battle plan, and Bai Qi also took this detail into account, I have to say that he is powerful.

The Battle of Changping ended in the all-round defeat of Zhao State, but to be honest, the entire Zhao State was responsible for this failure, but it made Zhao Kuo, who took over in the end, bear all the responsibility, some people say that he will only talk about the army or something, but in fact, looking at Zhao Kuo from our current perspective, he is not an incompetent person, because he can stabilize the military heart when the soldiers of Zhao State have been out of food for more than ten days, it is not easy, if Zhao Kuo falls at that time, then Zhao Guo will naturally collapse.

Moreover, they also encountered Bai Qi in the name of killing, Bai Qi is really not blown, in the Warring States Period, it was like this, if you want to fight, you can fight, and if you don't like it, you can fight, and Qin is even more so, so there is a saying that Qin is violent, and Bai Qi is one of the best, so it can't be said that it is Zhao Kuo's fault, but that the entire Zhao State can no longer compete with Qin in terms of strength in the later period, and Zhao State has also broken off in the grain and grass, and has fallen into a situation where he wants to help several other countries.

After the Battle of Changping, the state of Zhao was completely weakened and no longer had the ability to compete in the world, and although the state of Qin was said to be victorious, it was also a heavy loss, according to Bai Qi's report, the state of Qin at that time was empty. However, the Battle of Changping laid the foundation for the unification of the Qin State and accelerated the pace of the Qin State's unification of the world.