Speaking of famous generals in the Warring States period, you have to mention Bai Qi. Bai Qi is the first of the four famous generals in the Warring States Period. He has made great achievements in his life. According to records, Bai Qi has been a general in his life for more than 30 years. Yuzuo, at that time, the average big country may not have more than 70 cities, which shows how powerful Baiqi is; but Baiqi's real power is not to attack the city, but greatly weaken the surrounding powers. Now it is here. Let's see how Bai Qi weakened Qin's neighbors step by step.
The first large-scale battle under the command of Bai Qi was the Battle of Yique. On the recommendation of Wei Ran, King Qin Zhaoxiang appointed Bai Qi as the main general and led the Qin army in Yique and the Yiwei general. Gongsunxi's 240,000 coalition forces, headed by Han, Wei, and Eastern Zhou Dynasty, faced off. At that time, Qin's army was less than half of the opponent's. From a formal point of view, the Qin army was at an absolute disadvantage.
But the land of Yique is very important to Qin, and it is the only way for Qin to get out of the Central Plains. Bai Qi learned from various sources that although the opponent's coalition forces are large in number, the countries are not united. In particular, the leaders of South Korea and Wei State bucked each other and preserved their respective strengths. No one wanted to fight the Qin army first. In response to this situation, Bai Qi decided to adopt a combat strategy of avoiding actual attacks and defeating each other.
There is no suspense in the result. The coalition army was defeated very miserably and thoroughly. First, the Wei army was attacked by the Qin army, and after the Wei army was defeated, the Korean army quickly attacked. The Han army learned that the Wei army was defeated, and the military spirit Mutiny happened under the instability, and the result is not to mention. After defeating the Wei and Han troops, Bai Qi pursued victories and expanded the results. In the end, he wiped out 240,000 of the Han and Wei coalition forces, killed the main general of the Wei Kingdom Gongsun Xi, and occupied Yique and the five cities; the door for Qin to enter the Central Plains was opened.
In the following ten years, Bai Qi led the Qin army to capture many cities. Among them, Wei was taken away from 61 cities. After weakening Wei and South Korea, Qin set the goal again. Aiming at the increasingly weak state of Chu; Chu was a large country at that time, with a vast territory and a large population, and in the period of King Chu Wei, its national power was extremely prosperous; but after the death of King Chu Wei, Chu began to decline, but it was thin and dead. The camel is bigger than the horse, and the powerful Chu State still cannot be bullied casually.
But if Qin is to develop and expand, it will inevitably have a battle with Chu. Before the Battle of Yanying, Bai Qi had already led the army to capture the Shangyong and Han of Chu. Water and other places, but when Bai starts to march, how can the city's gains and losses be satisfied? His military thinking is the biggest depletion of the enemy's viable force, so Bai Qi led the army to continue the offensive, and this was the battle of Yanying.
In this battle, Bai Qi led his army to break through the capital city Ying and Bieduyan of the Chu Kingdom, burned the ancestral temple and Yiling Mausoleum of the Chu Kingdom, severely inflicted the Chu army, drowned and killed hundreds of thousands of people in Yancheng of the Chu Kingdom. The victory of this battle enabled Qin to acquire a large amount of land in Chu; Chu was forced to move its capital and its national power was greatly weakened, and it no longer had the strength to compete with Qin.
Soon after weakening the state of Chu, in order to replenish the vitality of the state of Chu, the state of Wei joined forces with the state of Zhao to attack South Korea. At this time, South Korea had already surrendered to the state of Qin, so he quickly asked for help from the state of Qin; King Qin Zhaoxiang Send Bai Qi, Wei Ran and Hu Yang to help South Korea. The Qin army adopted unexpected and unprepared tactics, and carried out a long-distance attack at an average daily marching speed of hundreds of miles. It suddenly appeared on the battlefield in Huayang and defeated the Zhao and Wei coalition forces.
In this battle, the Qin army beheaded a total of 130,000 Wei army and captured three Wei generals. Wei Jiang Mangmao was defeated. General Zhao Guo Jia Yan was also defeated by the Qin army. The Qin army general Zhao Jun captured 20,000 Shen Into the Yellow River. The Qin army took advantage of the victory to capture Wei's Juan County, Cai Yang and Changshe, and Zhao's Guanjin. Wei was forced to offer Nanyang and Qin for peace. After this battle, Wei completely lost the strength to compete with Qin.
But at this time, Qin has one of the biggest enemies, that is, Zhao; after Zhao Wuling’s reform, the military strength of Zhao has skyrocketed, becoming the most powerful among the six countries in Shandong. With a powerful existence, Qin State did not dare to provoke it easily. But at this time, only Zhao was the only one of Qin's most powerful opponent, so there must be a battle between the two sides, which is the battle of Changping.
A large-scale war broke out between Qin and Zhao due to the struggle for the Shangdang. This battle took three years in total. In the early stage, Lianpo was not Wang Lu’s opponent and was forced to defend only.After defending for more than two years, Zhao’s background is far inferior to that of Qin. The country is already trapped and the people are already lacking. Zhao Xiaocheng and Wang Qiang ordered Lian Po to attack, but Lian Po dare not; in fact, the State of Qin could not support it at that time, but King Qin Zhaoxiang King Zhao Xiaocheng was able to bear it. After learning the news that King Zhao Xiaocheng couldn't bear it, he quickly sent a spy to the country of Zhao for activities, so that King Zhao Xiaocheng replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo.
In fact, Zhao Kuo’s ability is also considered good. If the leader of Qin is still Wang Lu, Zhao Kuo may still have some chance, but Qin Zhaoxiang replaced the leader with the killer god Bai Qi. So Zhao Kuo was in a tragedy. Under Bai Qi’s strong offensive, Zhao Jun was finally defeated and Qin won the battle to occupy Changping. In this battle, Zhao Jun was beheaded and killed about 450,000. Zhao's warring power was extremely exhausted. There is no strength to compete with Qin.
Of course, the battles that Bai Qi has commanded in his lifetime are far more than these, but the above four wars have had a profound impact on Qin and even the entire history of the Warring States Period; what is sad is that Bai Qi is fighting here. Later, because of the grudge against King Qin Zhaoxiang and offending Fan Ju, he refused to attack Handan and was gifted by King Qin Zhaoxiang to die in Duyou. In fact, at the age of Bai Qi, he should still be able to serve Qin for more than a dozen years. In ten years, with Bai Qi's ability combined with Qin's ability, maybe the task of dominating the world does not have to wait for Qin Shihuang to do it.
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