How did Bai Qi design a pit to kill 400,000 Zhao soldiers

First of all, our army treats prisoners preferentially, and if you want to go home, you can go home tomorrow, soften the fighting will of the soldiers of the Zhao army, and disintegrate the morale of the army. At the same time, Zhao Jun**, horses, armor, and baggage were confiscated.

set up a banquet to entertain the soldiers of Zhao State so that they were drunk and unconscious.

Sent his soldiers to attack the prisoners' tents at night, and anyone who did not have a white cloth on his face was a native of Zhao and was killed. Only 240 people were left to return to Zhao and spread the news of the annihilation of the entire army.

There is no need to design, at that time, the Zhao army had been besieged for more than a few months, and before the surrender, he had starved to death a lot, and people were eating people, so he had no strength to resist at all, and there was no **.

That night, Bai Qi ordered all Qin troops to wrap a white cloth around their heads (to prevent accidental killing), and then surrounded the sleeping Zhao captives, killing the strong ones first, and then tying up the rest and burying them.

In addition, archaeologists now estimate that there are fewer than 400,000 deaths.

How much wine do 400,000 people get?

At that time, there was no food, and if the logistics could keep up, there would be no need to bury the 400,000 people alive. Is it okay to take it back as a slave?

Let the captives dig the pits in batches, let the other group think that they are in charge of the execution, and then change them after burying one batch.

There is no design, and the Zhao Jun it killed were all put down and surrendered.

The 400,000 army of Zhao was killed by Bai Qikeng, and the reason was that King Zhao was confused, and he was provoked by the villain to replace Lian Po, which was also his own fault.

Judging from the ruins of the Battle of Changping, it is true that Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 Zhao troops, but not all the troops killed by Bai Qikeng were combat troops, and they may contain people who carried materials, and they were counted together.

However, it is recorded in the history books that Bai Qi killed 400,000 soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Changping. However, the opponent Qin also suffered heavy losses, losing a total of 450,000 generals.

No, there were only 200,000 Zhao troops killed by Bai Qikeng, and 200,000 were killed in the early stage when Lian Po led the resistance to the Qin army.

In the bloody battle of Changping for three years, Qin and Zhao poured everything they had and suffered heavy losses, so Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 troops to make up for the losses of Qin, leaving only more than 200 child soldiers.

1. The issue of prisoners of war. There were too many prisoners of war, and it was too unsafe to lead such a large number of prisoners of war back to Qin. So killing on the spot seems to be the easiest way to do it.

2. The issue of hatred. At that time, Qin and Zhao were always in a state of anxiety, and the long-term state of anxiety made the Qin State bored, and at the same time, the desire to break out of the encirclement of the six countries was also stronger. The ideal way is to let Zhao Guo no longer have any usable soldiers, so killing is a rational way.

3. Culture: Have you ever heard of Jingguan, the custom at that time was to cut off the heads of the enemy after defeating the empire, and build Jingguan to intimidate hostile forces. At the same time, due to the scale of Jingguan, the owner of the dismantling will be rewarded. The Jingguan built by Bai Qi is very large-scale.

The reason is that the grain and grass of the Qin State cannot feed the 400,000 army.

As far as Qin is concerned, although it is stronger than Zhao in terms of grain and grass supply capacity, in the Battle of Changping, Qin invested a total of 600,000 troops before and after, plus 400,000 soldiers of Zhao, this is a million army. And this will undoubtedly bring great pressure to Qin's logistical supply. In other words, the direct reason why Bai Qi killed the army of Zhao was that the grain and grass of Qin could not feed the 400,000 army.

Battle of Changping Result:

As a result of the Battle of Changping, Zhao Jungu's entire army was annihilated, and Qin Yi** nearly 200,000, that is, more than 600,000 on both sides. This battle became the longest-lasting, largest and most tragic war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, just as the ancients talked about the 500-year war of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, only the two battles of Jinyang and Changping were pushed, and the so-called "siege of Jinyang, hanging the kettle and cooking; The Battle of Changping, the blood flowed and drifted".

In the Battle of Changping, the Qin army annihilated a total of 450,000 Zhao soldiers and civilians, which fundamentally weakened Zhao, the most powerful opponent of the six Kwantung states at that time, and also gave great deterrence to other Kwantung vassal states. Due to Qin's complete victory, the situation of unification by Qin became irreversible, and it took a sharp turn from then on. The Battle of Changping marked the end of the Warring States Generation, which was characterized by a large number of countries and frequent annexation wars, and an unprecedented centralized empire was about to fall.