In 229 BC, Guo Kai widely publicized the news of Li Mu's rebellion in Handan. Zhao Qian As Zhao Wang , he cannot leave the palace city without authorization. So, he decided to send his most trusted generals, Zhao Cong and Yan Jutong to the front line to replace Li Mu and Sima Shang, to lead troops against Qin.
At that time, Ying Zheng 's strategy of annexing the six countries was in full swing. Li Mu was tough and had long been regarded as a thorn in his side by Ying Zheng. At this time, Zhao Qian sent Zhao Cong to replace Li Mu, which seemed to be in line with the rules. In fact, Zhao Qian was exactly the counter-espionage plan of Ying Zheng and Wang Jian.
After Zhao Cong and Yan Ju arrive at the military camp, Deputy General Sima Shang immediately suggested that Li Mu hand over the military power to avoid causing trouble. However, Li Mu was very stubborn and did not do so. He confronted Wang Jian for more than a year and knew that Zhao Cong and others were definitely not Wang Jian's opponents. When Zhao Cong kept urging him to leave, Li Mu suddenly said:
"They are away, and you will not accept the order. After I drive away the Qin army, I will return to the court to take the crime."
Before Li Mu finished speaking, the killer lying outside the tent rushed into the tent and captured him on the spot. It turned out that Zhao Qian and Guo Kai had already predicted that Li Mu would not hand over the power, so when Zhao Cong left the palace, he decided to kill Li Mu.
After Li Mu's death, Zhao Cong and Yan Ju were hit by Wang Jian one after another. After only three months, the Zhao State , which had lasted for nearly two hundred years, disappeared, and the king of the devastated country, Zhao Qian was also thrown into the deep mountains and forests by Ying Zheng, suffering all his hardships. So why did Wang Jian, a famous general in the Warring States Period, implement a counter-espionage plan against Li Mu? Can he defeat Li Mu on the battlefield? What kind of impressive achievements did this last famous general of Zhao State have that made Zhao Qian so afraid?
drive Huns Thousand Miles
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, talents from all countries left their own country and went to other countries to become officials. The enlightened monarch is even more willing to attract talents from all over the world and use them for his own purposes. For example, Li Tan , a native of Zhao at that time, was born in Zhao State, but he was appointed as a doctor in Qin State. In his later years, he was named the Marquis of Bairen of Zhao State.
When Li Tan left Qi and Qin State, his eldest son Li Chong remained in Qin State as an official and constructed the Longxi Li family , which had been prosperous in China for more than a thousand years. Li Tan's youngest son Li Ji reproduced and grew up in Bairen and evolved into another prosperous aristocratic family in later generations: Zhaojun Li family .
At the end of the Warring States Period, the Li family in Longxi was born to the famous general Li Xin . Zhaojun is not far behind. Li Mu, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, is Li Ji's son.
Li Mu, Bai Renren. Li Mu has been skilled in archery and horse since he was a child, and has a good understanding of military tactics. His abilities and character are far superior to his brother Li Yun and his younger brother Li Qi . According to Li Ji's idea, Li Mu can take over the Li family's great cause when he becomes an adult. However, Li Mu, who loved to make trouble, was not interested in family affairs. Instead, he used his family relationship to run to Yanmen in the north and fought with the Huns.
At that time, the Huns were a nightmare entrenched in the north of Zhao State. Whenever the harvest season comes, the Huns will go south and plunder the food in Zhao. In his spare time, Yanmen County, the north is not peaceful, and he is harassed by a small number of Huns' military and horses all year round, and is suffering from miserable suffering.
After Li Mu arrived in Yanmen, he quickly climbed to the position of the governor of Yanmen County with his personal abilities and family relationships. As a local chief, Li Mu changed his predecessor's style. He set up officials at all levels based on his personal preferences, encouraged border residents to trade with the Huns, so as to earn rent and tax from it and serve as military expenses.
, and Li Mu is extremely generous in his attitude towards soldiers. He slaughtered cattle and sheep every day to reward the soldiers. After the troops were full of food and drink, Li Mu would conduct targeted training for them. In addition, Li Mu also organized soldiers to build beacon towers and frontier fortresses everywhere, and even sent elites among the generals to the borders of various ethnic groups to spy on the news.
Therefore, when the Huns were about to go south to plunder, Li Mu, who was in charge of Yanmen, had already received news. He ordered people to collect supplies, food and grass, hide in the fortress, and not meet the Huns.After many years of success, the Huns who came to the fortunately returned not only did not receive any material supplies, but instead caused a large amount of consumption due to long-distance raids.
Li Mu's strong walls and clearing the fields and unable to retreat, saving the people of Yanmen County who were deeply in distress, but also annoyed the officers and soldiers of Zhao State with strong self-esteem. In their eyes, Li Mu was timid and afraid of things and depleted his national prestige. The same idea as them was the Huns, who were timid, cowardly, and only defending but not attacking, and did not enter the Huns' vision.
Not long after, Zhao Dan, the King of Xiaocheng who could not bear the criticism of the court and the opposition, summoned Li Mu back to Handan, and sent a brave and brave general to take Li Mu's position to fight against the Huns. However, the world is impermanent, the light, fierce, fierce, skillful, and skillful in riding and shooting. The Zhao army killed by the Huns who came and went without a trace, and tens of thousands of elite infantry became the souls of the Huns' cavalry.
What made the people of Zhao even more distressed was that Yanmen County had become the back garden of the Huns. They came whenever they wanted, left whenever they wanted, burned, killed, looted, and did everything they wanted, and no one could stop them. Border trade has become a false talk, and farming and animal husbandry have also been stopped one after another, and border residents have not been able to feed themselves.
html In a desperate situation, Zhao Dan had to lower his head and ask Li Mu to come out of the mountain. Li Mu also offered the conditions at the right time:"The king must use his ministers, and he must use it before he dares to be ordered."
Li Mu knew very well that only by breaking away from Zhao Dan's constraints can the troubles in the north be solved once and for all. Although Zhao Dan was very reluctant, he had no good general inside and strong enemies outside, so he had to agree.
Li Mu, who returned to Yanmen, continued his "retreatment strategy". The officials and civilians of Yanmen lived a life of "living in vain", and the lives of the Huns were not peaceful. They could not grab supplies and had to extend their tentacles to other areas, annoyed many former allies.
A few years later, Zhao Dan, who liked to restrain Li Mu, died of illness. Zhao Yan, who succeeded to the throne, only had the powerful Qin State in the West, and ignored Li Mu. So, Li Mu, who had excellent soldiers and sufficient food, used the large amount of taxes and fees collected from his hands to purchase crossbow machines, war horses and various military supplies, trained soldiers every day to prepare for the future war with the Huns.
Li Mu's confidentiality measures are very good. Not only did the Huns not know about all the efforts he made in Yanmen, but even the officials of Zhao State who were in Handan knew nothing. In the eyes of these people, Li Mu is still the timid and cowardly general.
However, as the Huns became more arrogant and arrogant, Li Mu, who had been "showing the enemy as weak" for many years, finally moved. He carefully selected 13,000 cavalry, 50,000 heavily armored infantry, 100,000 elite crossbowmen and 1,300 chariots to prepare for the fight against the Huns.
At that time, the Huns were invincible on the grassland, and the horses of Mercedes-Benz came and went like the wind, unstoppable. Li Mu took advantage of the Xiongnu's desire for Zhao's materials and sent thousands of cavalry to escort herders pretending to be soldiers to drive cattle and sheep to the border to graze the Huns. As expected, a small group of Xiongnu troops rushed forward in an instant, and the soldiers of Yanmen followed Li Mu's plan. After the battle, they fled and left thousands of cattle and sheep.
For many days, the Huns plundered tens of thousands of cattle and sheep. However, in the face of the greater "trophy" given by Li Mu, the greedy Huns finally decided to go out and plunder a wave of Yanmen County to repay the hatred accumulated over the years.
As the saying goes, "Cowardice is the most reliable guarantee for avoiding temptation." Li Mu's move to "tempt the enemy deeper" can be regarded as a model in the history of Guda War. He first showed the enemy as weak and cultivated the arrogance of the Huns. Later, he used the Huns' desire for materials to lure the Huns into his encirclement step by step.
After 200,000 Hun cavalry entered Li Mu's encirclement, the 100,000 crossbowmen of Zhao State, which occupied the favorable terrain, lined up in a row, and hundreds of thousands of feather arrows soared into the sky and shot towards the Huns. However, the archer , who is not good at melee combat, is still Li Mu's "bait". He captured the bravery and cruel heart of the Huns and his contempt for the archers, and tempted the Huns' cavalry to charge forward.
As the Huns deepened further, Li Mu's joint combat of multiple arms appeared. The chariots and 50,000 heavily armored infantry hid behind the archers, holding long spears, faced the rushing iron cavalry.Although the Hun cavalry were brave and good at fighting, they could do nothing to face combat chariots and heavy armored infantry. Not long after, more than half of the Hun cavalry were injured, and the Huns who barely escaped the killing of infantry fell in front of the last powerful crossbowman.
During the battle, Li Mu sent cavalry and some archers to go around the enemy from the two wings of the Huns to build a line of defense, completely cutting off the retreat of the Huns. Therefore, when the Huns cavalry found that the front line was unfavorable and the rear route was cut off, the morale of the army was disintegrated and they rushed to escape. After this battle, the Huns suffered more than half of their losses and had to flee to the northern desert area, surviving.
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5 years of resistance to the tyranny of Qin
When Li Mu became famous in Zhao State, a discord happened in Handan. Zhao Yan forced the general of the court, Lian Po to desperately escape and fled to Wei State . After Lian Po left, Li Mu became the only general in Zhao State. He attacked everywhere and swept away enemies such as Yan State.
However, the good times did not last long. Zhao Yan passed away. The young Zhao Qian was extremely dissatisfied with Li Mu's own actions. Not only did Li Mu not reuse him, he also drew more than 200,000 troops from Li Mu who guarded the north, leaving only more than 76,000 people for his power.
In 234 BC, King Qin Ying Zheng sent Huanqie to raise 150,000 troops to conquer Zhao State. At that time, the troops in various parts of Zhao were the strongest of the border troops in Li Mu's hands and the permanent troops guarding Handan. However, Zhao Qian, Guo Kai, Pang Qin and others were optimistic about , Hu Zhe and placed 100,000 permanent troops under his command.
However, Hu Zhe is not Huan Qi's opponent at all. In the battle of Dongwu City, Huan Qi killed 100,000 Zhao troops, and even the general Hu Zhi died on the spot. This battle was the battle that the Zhao army suffered the most after the Battle of Changping, and Huan Qi was also named "Xiao Bai Qi".
Not long after, Huan Qi followed Bai Qi's practice of dividing South Korea, bypassed Handan, and attacked the central part of Zhao from the Northern Shang Dynasty. Zhao State was in danger, and Zhao Qian no longer cared about his personal preferences and hurriedly transferred Li Mu back and appointed him as a general to block Huan Shi's offensive.
Before Li Mu went south, Zhao's standing army had lost everything, so he had to command more than 63,000 border soldiers to fight Huan Shi. After Li Mu arrived at Feilai, he played the tactic of not being able to stick to it. No matter how the Qin army scolded him, he was still unmoved.
However, Huan Qi was not a Hun. He knew the soldiers and horses well, and he maintained a complete victory in his battle records with the Zhao army, and knew how to restrain the Zhao army. After learning that Li Mu had only more than 60,000 people, Huan Qi decisively divided his troops, personally carried half of his troops, and attacked Ganquan City, step by step towards Handan, forcing Li Mu to fight him.
Huan Qi's approach is exquisite, but he still underestimated Li Mu. Li Mu knew the power of the cavalry for decades in Yanmen. Shortly after Huan Qi left, Li Mu launched an attack on the Qin army camp and swept the Qin soldiers with lightning speed. Even Huan Yi, a famous general in a hundred battles, never expected that the arrogant Qin soldiers in his hands would be so vulnerable in front of Li Mu. Therefore, Huan Qi, who was hidingly returning to the rescue, fantasizing that he would attack Li Mu from both sides and left, fell directly into the encirclement of the Zhao army, with heavy casualties.
After this battle, Li Mu was awarded " Wu'an Jun " for his merits. It is worth mentioning that before Li Mu, the two Wu'an Jun winners, Bai Qi and Su Qin, both of whom died in destruction. After Li Mu, the Chu State general , Xiang Yan, was also named "Wu'an Jun", but soon after, they died in the battlefield.
In 232 BC, Ying Zheng divided his troops into 300,000 and launched the war of destruction of Zhao again. This battle was led by two famous generals, Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe. Wang Jian went from north to south, and Yang Duanhe attacked Zhao from south to north. At that time, people in Handan City were panic and there were endless calls for rebellion.
At the critical moment, Li Mu was appointed as the commander in the face of danger. He posed the name of going south, forcing Yang Duanhe not to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly. Then, after advancing north to the Zhao army, he suddenly appeared in the army, suppressed Wang Jian's troops and repelled the Qin army one by one.When the news of Wang Jian's withdrawal reached Yang Duanhe's ears, Ying Zheng's plan to attack Zhao State from both sides was also declared bankrupt.
Li Mu died, Zhao State destroyed
Li Mu proved his loyalty to Zhao State in the two battles of defeating Huan Qi and Wang Jian. However, in Handan City, Zhao Qian still regarded him as his arrogant "opponent". The powerful minister Guo Kai even disliked him and always tried every means to cause trouble for Li Mu. If Li Mu hadn't been away for many years, he would have probably died in the power struggle.
In Zhao, various factions are undercurrents, and Zhao Qian is incompetent in governance, so the originally dead Zhao State becomes even more hopeless. Natural disasters and man-made disasters followed one after another. The respite that Li Mu tried his best to win for them not only did not bring the prosperity that the people of Zhao State longed for, but instead made it fall more and more to the bottom.
Three years later, Ying Zheng saw the opportunity to destroy Zhao State, and he sent Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe to the front line again. However, for Wang Jian, if Li Mu does not die, it is a fantasy to destroy Zhao State. In the past year of Jingxing against Li Mu, Wang Jian not only did not gain any advantage, but was a little embarrassed.
So, a strategy was born. During the Battle of Changping in the past, Fan Ju made a counter-espionage plan, and Zhao Dan replaced Lian Po, thus killing more than 400,000 Zhao troops. Nowadays, the Qin people are still bribed Guo Kai, the powerful minister who framed Lian Po, and still framed the Zhao army as the general. This time, Zhao Qian still dismissed Li Mu without hesitation and replaced him with Zhao Cong.
The only difference is that Lian Po is familiar with the officialdom and knows how to adapt, and Zhao Dan respects him. Li Mu was away all year round and was used to taking control of himself, and Zhao Qian hated him. Therefore, Lian Po was only removed from military power, while Li Mu died on the spot.
Li Mu's killing was beyond Wang Jian's expectations. He could not have imagined that this famous general of the Warring States Period who had resisted the Qin army for five years died at the hands of his own people. However, Li Mu's death created a once-in-a-lifetime fighter opportunity for him. While the soldiers of Zhao State were still immersed in the grief of Li Mu's murder, Wang Jian launched a fierce attack on the Zhao army. Three months later, Zhao Cong, who succeeded Li Mu, died in battle, and Yan Juqi's army fled. The initiator Zhao Qian also became a prisoner of Ying Zheng.
Li Mu's killing was a major loss in ancient military history, but it also accelerated the unification of the Qin Dynasty. With the powerful Qin State and the weak Zhao State after the Battle of Changping, three large-scale battles failed to win, which is enough to prove how powerful Li Mu is. Later generations often say that Li Mu's death ultimately lies in his own personality. In fact, it was not the case. In the late Zhao State, the tyrant rulers were in power and had no way to perform their abilities, as was Tian Dan, Lian Po, and Li Mu.
782, Tang Dezong adopted the suggestion of Yan Zhenqing and posthumously conferred the title of 64 ancient generals, including Li Mu's name. On the list, there were only five people who were in the same era as Li Mu: Sun Bin , Tian Dan, Lian Po, Zhao She , and Wang Jian. Interestingly, Tian Dan, Lian Po, Zhao She and Li Mu were all generals of Zhao State. Zhao She died early, Tian Dan and Lian Po abandoned it, Li Mu was killed, and the kings of Zhao State all dynasties would rather believe in slander ministers than reuse famous ministers.
