A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 101 Changping
Five hundred and twelve years of the Bai Kingdom

Because Qin had completely captured the north bank of the Yellow River, the Shangdang area of ​​South Korea became an enclave of South Korea. In order to prevent Qin from attacking him, the King of Han decided to give Shangdang County to Qin.

Immediately afterwards, the King of Han ordered Feng Ting, the governor of Shangdang County, to immediately dedicate Shangdang County to Qin. However, Feng Ting had a grudge against Qin and was unwilling to surrender to Qin. After planning with the village elders in Shangdang County, he decided to use The forces of the State of Zhao fought against the State of Qin and prepared to dedicate seventeen cities in Shangdang County to the State of Zhao.

Feng Ting sent an envoy to inform Zhao Guo of his intention to donate soil. After King Zhao learned about it, he hurriedly discussed the matter with Zhao Bao, Lord Pingyang. Zhao Bao said: "Your Majesty, how can you get benefits without paying for them? This time the governor of Shangdang County dedicated Shangdang to Zhao Guo, it must be There is a conspiracy,
I think that he did not hand Shangdang over to Qin but to Zhao. He must have wanted to put the blame on Zhao and let Zhao fight Qin. I thought that the disaster it would bring would be greater than the benefits. many. "

King Zhao again summoned Pingyuan Lords Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yu for discussion, but both of them advised King Zhao to accept Feng Ting's Shangdang County. They said: "Your Majesty! We have mobilized millions of troops to fight. After months and months of attacking, we may not be able to do it. Captured one city. But now you can enjoy the success and get 17 cities. This is a huge benefit!
The ministers believed that this was a reward from God for seeing the king manage the Zhao Kingdom to be prosperous and strong! If you don't accept it, I'm afraid God will blame you, so I ask the king to accept it. Besides, Zhao State cannot lose this opportunity to rise, otherwise it will be more difficult for us to resist Qin State. "

King Zhao was very happy after hearing this and applauded him repeatedly, but he was worried about the Qin army coming to attack, so he asked Pingyuan Lord Zhao Sheng: "If you accept Shangdang's land, Qin will definitely send Wu'an Lord Bai Qi to attack. Who in the country can resist him?" "

Pingyuan Jun replied: "It may be difficult for others to compete with Bai Qi. But the veteran general Lian Po is brave and good at fighting and cherishes his soldiers. He is not as good as Bai Qi in field battles, but he is fully capable of defending the city."

Therefore, King Zhao Xiaocheng followed the plan of Pingyuan Lord Zhao Sheng, named Feng Ting Lord of Huayang, and sent Pingyuan Lord Zhao Sheng to Shangdang to take over the land. At the same time, he sent veteran general Lian Po to lead his army to garrison Changping to prevent the Qin army from attacking. .

Zhao State's acceptance of Shangdang really aroused the dissatisfaction of Qin State. King Qin decided to send troops to attack Zhao and seize the land that should be his.

early February

King Zhao of Qin ordered Wang Lu, the chief of Zuo Shu, to lead an army to attack and occupy Shangdang. Shangdang was soon defeated, and the people of Shangdang fled to the territory of Zhao. Zhao's army met the people of Shangdang in Changping.

April
Wang Lu launched an attack on the Zhao army in Changping. King Zhao ordered Lian Po to fight, and Lian Po led his army to fight against the Qin army. With their excellent riding and shooting skills, the Zhao army killed a large number of Qin army's scouts, while the Qin army's scouts killed Zhao army's generals.

At this time, King Qin wanted to use this battle to interrupt the rise of Zhao State, so he issued an order to never withdraw his troops if it failed, and sent out almost all the troops from the country, totaling 600,000, while Zhao's army had 400,000.

June
The Qin and Zhao armies fought in the field, and Zhao General Lian Po was not good at field fighting. The Zhao army was defeated, and the Qin army successively attacked the Zhao army's positions. Duwei City and Gugu City, two important strongholds of the Zhao State, were both captured by the Qin army. Not only that , the Qin army also captured four lieutenants of Zhao State.

July
Lian Po ordered the Zhao army to build a high fort, and ordered the Zhao army to build a wall outside the barracks. He ordered those who stayed in the fort not to go out to fight, and those who went out to fight would be killed. Seeing that Zhao Jun had no response to several invitations to fight, the Qin army launched a strong attack, but only captured Zhao Jun's western camp and captured two Zhao Jun lieutenants.

Lian Po was prepared to wait for work to first defeat the Qin army's strong momentum, and then wait for a favorable opportunity before attacking. But soon his plan failed. The Qin State actually summoned millions of young people to clear the channels so that the Qin State could transport grain directly by water. Its grain transportation was even faster and smoother than that of the Zhao State.

On the contrary, Zhao State did not expect it to turn into a protracted war from the beginning. Shortly after the war started, there was a shortage of food and grass. Lian Po delayed it for two months. However, farming was imminent and a stalemate would cause Zhao State to fall into a situation where there was no food to eat.

At the same time, the Zhao army, which was originally good at field warfare, was used in defensive warfare, allowing the Qin army to successfully outflank Zhao's rear and constantly harass Zhao's grain roads, making Zhao army worse and completely losing the initiative.

However, Zhao Jun's several battles were unfavorable, and Zhao's general Lian Po was defeated several times. However, the King of Zhao was quite dissatisfied with Lian Po and Lian Po's long-term delaying tactics, and sent people several times to blame Lian Po. quite.

The Zhao army has been on the front line for a long time, and the country is in short supply of food and grass. So the King of Zhao discussed with ministers such as Lou Chang and Yu Qing, hoping to personally lead the army to fight the Qin army as soon as possible. Lou Chang said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, even if your Majesty goes to the front line in person, you may not be able to defeat the Qin army. It is better to send envoys with high status in the country to negotiate peace with Qin."

The minister Yu Qing said: "Your Majesty, I think that if Qin is determined to attack Zhao, it may be difficult to achieve peace. It is better to send envoys with treasures to Chu and Bai to make Qin fear the joint resistance of all countries. Qin, only in this way can the peace negotiation have a chance of success!"

King Zhao thought Lou Chang's proposal was better and planned to send minister Zheng Zhu to Qin to negotiate peace. But Yu Qing still refused to give up and said: "When Dr. Zheng comes to Qin, King Qin and Fan Sui will give him a grand reception to show the world. But Chu and Bai will think that Zhao has made peace with Qin, and they will not send troops to rescue him." Zhao. If the Qin State knew that the princes in the world would not save the Zhao State, the peace negotiation would not succeed. If the peace negotiation fails, our army would be in danger! Please think again, your Majesty!" King Zhao finally did not accept Yu Qing's advice and sent Zheng Zheng. Zhu went to the country to seek peace.

In order to paralyze the Zhao State, prevent all countries from collaborating, and buy time to strengthen military preparations in order to deal a serious blow to the Zhao army, the Qin State took advantage of Zhao's opportunity to sue for peace and cordially received the Zhao envoy Zheng Zhu. Propaganda that Qin and Zhao had reconciled to prevent other countries from sending troops to rescue Zhao.

The State of Chu said that Qin and Zhao were already negotiating peace, but as expected no troops were sent. Bai Guo, on the other hand, was still licking its wounds due to too many losses in the past few years. When it heard that Zhao Guo had sent people to Qin State, it no longer paid attention to Zhao Guo and was still trying its best to restore its military strength and national strength.

Here, because King Zhao was becoming more and more dissatisfied with Lian Po, it happened that at this time, there was news in the capital of Zhao that "Lian Po is easy to deal with. In fact, what Qin fears most is Zhao Kuo, the son of Ma Fujun Zhao She."

So King Zhao decided to change generals before the battle. At this time, Zhao's famous general Li Mu stayed away from the court because he had been stationed in Yanmen County, Daidi for a long time to guard against the barbarians in the north. Not long after the famous general Le Yi abandoned Yan and defected to Zhao, he was granted the title of Guanjin. King Zhao thought that he was not attached to him.

King Zhao She was afraid of King Zhao because of his reputation for defeating the Qin army before. Therefore, King Zhao was going to appoint Zhao She's son Zhao Kuo as his general, so he immediately called Zhao Kuo and asked him if he could defeat Qin. military.

When Zhao Kuo heard that he could take charge of hundreds of thousands of troops, he happily said: "Your Majesty, King Rongzhen, if the Qin faction becomes white, I have to think about how to deal with it. And now it is Wang Lu who is here, he is just Lian Po’s opponent. If I were to replace him, defeating him would be a piece of cake.”

Because Zhao Kuo was the son of Zhao She, he learned the art of war and discussed war strategies since he was a child. He thought that no one in the world could compare with him. Once, he discussed with Zhao She how to set up battle formations. Even Zhao She couldn't trouble him.

But Zhao She didn't think that he knew the art of war because of this. Zhao Kuo's mother asked about the reason. Zhao She said: "War is a major matter that affects the life and death of soldiers, but Kuo'er actually made it so easy. In the future, Zhao will not need Kuo'er as a general. If he is really used, he will be used." He must be the one responsible for Zhao’s disastrous defeat.”

So this time King Zhao decided to appoint Zhao Kuo as the commander-in-chief of the army. Lin Xiangru and even Zhao Kuo's mother came to dissuade him, but King Zhao said: "We must give young people some opportunities!"

So King Zhao ignored the dissuasion of Lin Xiangru and Zhao Kuo's mother and insisted on sending Zhao Kuo to replace Lian Po as general.

Soon, Zhao Kuo led 50,000 reinforcements squeezed out by King Zhao from the country to Changping to replace Lian Po as general. After Zhao Kuo took office, he changed the army generals according to the actual situation, changed the military system, changed Lian Po's combat policy, and prepared to take the initiative to send troops to attack the Qin army.

On the other side, the State of Qin learned that the general had been replaced by Zhao Kuo. In order to completely defeat Zhao State and to settle the matter in one battle, they secretly appointed Bai Qi, Lord Wu'an, as the general and appointed Wang Lu as the lieutenant general. He also ordered the army to strictly keep secrets, and anyone who leaked the information would be killed.

Soon, Zhao Kuo began to mobilize his troops and prepare to attack the Qin army. However, Bai Qi ordered the Qin army to pretend to be defeated and retreat. Zhao Kuo thought that it was Wang Lu who was facing him, so he confidently ordered the Zhao army to pursue the victory. Chased to the Qin army's camp.

Zhao Kuo ordered the army to attack the Qin army's camp. The decisive battle was at this moment, but the Qin army's camp was very strong. Zhao Jun's repeated attacks were repelled. When Zhao Jun stopped, Bai Qi ordered an army of 25,000 people. Raid to the rear of Zhao Jun's attacking troops and cut off Zhao Jun's retreat.

He also ordered a cavalry force of 5,000 people to insert between Zhao Jun and Zhao Jun's camp, dividing the main force of Zhao Jun into two isolated troops, and cutting off Zhao Jun's food road. Not only that, Bai Qi also sent out lightly-armed elite troops to launch multiple attacks on Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun failed in several battles and was forced to build barriers on the spot and turn to defense to await rescue.

When the King of Qin learned that the main force of Zhao's army had been cut off from its food route and was surrounded in Changping, he went to Hanoi County in person and ordered that all the local people be given first-level titles, and all young men over the age of fifteen from all over the country were recruited to the Changping battlefield. In this way, Zhao Guo’s reinforcements and food shipments were intercepted.

September
The main force of Zhao's army had been without food for forty-six days, and the soldiers were so hungry that they killed each other for food. Zhao Kuo organized the remaining Zhao troops into four breakout troops, and after four or five attacks in turn, they still could not break through.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Kuo decided to lead his elite troops to break out of the encirclement, but was shot to death by random arrows from the Qin army. The Zhao army was leaderless, and the remaining soldiers had to surrender to Qin general Bai Qi. In this battle, the Qin army also suffered heavy losses, with more than 200,000 casualties.

(End of this chapter)