Why is Zhao Kuo so stupid, he has never been on the battlefield and is still alone?

First, the temporary change of generals in the Qin State caught Zhao Kuo off guard. At first, the general of the Qin State was Wang Di, and Zhao Kuo was completely able to fight against it, but the Qin State later quietly changed generals and found Bai Qi, which made Zhao Kuo completely defeated without knowing it.

Second, Zhao Kuo's learning is basically the content of the military book, and he has no experience in actual combat, which leads to the fact that he has no way to accurately judge the rapidly changing battlefield situation.

Because Zhao Kuo, who had never been on the battlefield, fell into the tactical trap of the Qin army's general Bai Qi to lure the enemy deep, thinking that the Qin army was really so easy to fight, so he boasted to King Zhao that he could break through and win, and before that, General Lian Po had been unable to hold out, and King Zhao hoped to make a quick decision with Qin before agreeing to Zhao Kuo's offensive strategy. Zhao Kuo also went deep alone in order not to dishonor his father's wisdom and desire to win.

Because he has no combat experience and is too confident in himself, he does not know how big the gap between real war and military theory is.

Because he was very confident in what he had learned in the book of war, he thought he could win the battle, so he did it.

Zhao Kuo has been learning the art of war since he was a child, commenting on military affairs, thinking that there is no comparable to him in the world. once commented on military affairs with his father Zhao Hao, but Zhao Hao couldn't refute him, but he didn't praise him. Zhao Kuo's mother asked Zhao Hao the reason for this, and Zhao Hao said, "War is a dangerous occasion, and Zhao Kuo discusses it too easily.

If King Zhao doesn't let him be a general, if he must be made a general, the person who makes Zhao Jun fail must be Zhao Kuo himself. ”

After Zhao Kuo replaced Lian Po, he completely changed the original discipline and regulations and replaced the original officers. When Bai Qi, the general of the Qin State, heard about it, he dispatched unpredictable troops, pretending to be defeated by Zhao Kuo and retreating, while La Xizhi cut off the grain route of the Zhao army and divided the Zhao army into two, and the morale of the Zhao army could not be unified. Trapped for more than 40 days, the Zhao army was very hungry, Zhao Kuo personally led Lu Min's elite soldiers to fight, and the Qin army killed Zhao Kuo with an arrow.

Zhao Kuo's troops were defeated, and more than 400,000 Zhao troops were surrendered by the Qin State, and the Qin State buried all of them alive.

The fundamental reason for the defeat of Zhao Kuo in battle and the defeat of the Zhao army was a strategic mistake, the country's agricultural foundation was weak, although the army was strong, but the supply of grain and grass was difficult to last, and the monarch's attitude was wavering and he was about to change generals, and Zhao Kuokong was full of theory and did not understand practice. will only say that he will not do it, and his eyes will be high, so he will lead to the annihilation of the whole army. In learning knowledge, we cannot talk about theory and combine it with practice.

In 260 BC, the Qin army and the Zhao army confronted each other at Changping, and the Qin army repeatedly challenged it, but the Zhao army general Lian Po ignored it. King Zhao Xiaocheng was anxious to win, and fell into the Qin State's counter-plot and replaced the veteran Lian Po with Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuoyi reversed Lian Po's defensive strategy, changed defense to offense, and took the initiative to attack the Qin army on all fronts.

The Qin general Bai Qi divided his troops into two ways: he feinted defeat all the way and attracted the Zhao army around the Qin army's ramparts; Cut off the back road of the Zhao army all the way, and implemented counter-encirclement, so that the Zhao army's grain route was cut off and trapped in Changping. In the end, the Zhao army did not eat for 46 days, and broke through five times in four ways, Zhao Kuo personally led the warriors to break through, was shot and killed by the Qin army, and more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers surrendered, and then were killed by the Qin army.

Zhao Kuokong had unrealistic military theories that were "on paper," which led to a fiasco. It is necessary to study and apply the art of war, make decisions on the spot in light of the actual situation, comprehensively apply the art of war, plan carefully, and so on.

Talking on paper - is the best annotation of Zhao Kuo, the general appointed by Zhao State. Zhao Kuokong has military theories, but has no experience in leading the army to fight, you must know that "soldiers, treacherous ways, the safety of the country, the place of death and life must not be ignored." "In the Battle of Changping, Zhao Kuo advanced lightly against the enemy, trapped under the fortified city, the back road was cut off, the grain and grass were not continued, and he was divided and surrounded by the Qin army, and finally died in battle, which was laughed at by the people of the world.

In fact, his strength is not particularly weak, but he has not been practiced, and most of it is still on paper, so in the end it may not end well.

It's really weak, he just has no practical experience in ordinary life, so most of the things are learned from the military books.