In 257 BC, in the fifty years of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Bai Qi, known as the "God of War", was given a sword by the King of Qin, causing him to commit suicide. Bai Qi picked up his sword, wiped his neck and looked up at the sky with a long sigh:
"Why did I sin against heaven and come here?"
After a while, he said:
"I deserve to die. In the Battle of Changping, hundreds of thousands of Zhao pawns descended, and I deceived them all, which was enough to die. ”
In this way, Bai Qi committed suicide, and a generation of "gods of war" fell.
From what Bai Qi said before his death, it can be known that the reason why Bai Qi fell to such an end was, on the one hand, because he had killed too many people in foreign wars, and the people of the world were hostile to him.
However, the main reason was that he had done a great job of covering the lord, and he also openly quarreled with the King of Qin Zhaoxiang, which made the King of Qin Zhaoxiang very unhappy.
At that time, the situation was that the State of Qin asked the Fifth Doctor Wang Ling to attack the Zhao state of Handan, and at that time, Bai became ill and did not go out on the expedition.
In the first month of 258 BC, Wang Ling attacked Handan, but the results were unfavorable, and the Qin state increased its troops to help Wang Ling, resulting in heavy losses for Wang Ling.
The King of Qin could not sit still, let Bai Qi take the place of Wang Ling to lead the army, Bai Qi thought that Handan was not easy to attack, although the Battle of Changping Zhao army destroyed a lot, but the Qin army also lost a lot, the princes have long resented the Qin state, and now the Qin state to attack the capital of the Zhao state, the Zhao state and the princes should cooperate with the army, the Qin army will definitely fail.
So, it can't go in vain.
The King of Qin asked Ying Hou Fan Sui to persuade Bai Qi, and Bai Qi said that he was sick or did not go.
The King of Qin could only send Wang Gong to replace Wang Ling to command the army, and in August and September he besieged Handan, but failed to capture it, and the State of Chu sent Chun Shenjun and the Wei prince Xin Lingjun to lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers to attack the Qin army, and the Qin army was lost.
At this time, Bai Qi began to speak cold words, thinking that the King of Qin did not listen to him, so there was such a tragic situation, the King of Qin heard this and was furious, and forced Wu Anjun to take up his post, but Bai Qi was not interested, and at this time he was still fighting against the King of Qin, saying that he was sick and could not go.
The attack of the princes' army on the Qin army was more urgent, the Qin army repeatedly retreated, and the emissaries who reported the war situation came every day, and the Qin king had nowhere to vent his anger, so he let Bai Qi drive out of Xianyang.
Bai Qi went on the road, but only then did he walk out of the Xianyang Ten Mile Road and reach Du You, and the King of Qin sent someone to give him a sword and make him commit suicide.
The reasons are:
"The meaning of the white rise is still unconvincing, and there are more than enough words."
The King of Qin thought that when Bai Qi left, he showed a look of disbelief and looked complaining.
But in fact, the King of Qin did not want to admit his mistakes in military decision-making, but Bai Qi not only did not help him to recover his mistakes, but instead made sarcastic remarks, and there was no reverence and submission of a human subject to the "monarch".
In this way, Bai Qi became a thorn in the eyes of the King of Qin, a thorn in the flesh, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly.
The reason why Bai Qi was called the "God of War" was because he fought four battles in his lifetime, annihilating more than one million troops of the Six Kingdoms. Such a record was almost unmatched at that time.
These battles laid the foundation for the later unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin State, and also left hidden dangers for Bai Qi himself.
1. Battle of Yique: 240,000 Wei-Han allied forces were annihilated
In the thirteenth year of The reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, in 294 BC, the King of Qin, on the recommendation of his uncle Wei Ran, appointed Bai Qi as the commander of Zuo Shu and led an army to attack the new city of Korea.
The King of Han requested the King of Wei to send troops to support Korea in accordance with the Covenant of the Wei-Han Alliance. The King of Wei did not make a watch from the sidelines, and asked Gongsun Xi to order qi men and horses to go to battle and form a joint army of Wei and Han.
The combined forces of Wei and Han were huge, but they only deployed troops at the junction of "Yi Que".
The dangerous terrain of Yiqu is the only way for the Qin state to want to go out to the east, and Bai Qi saw that although Wei and Han were allied, they were reluctant to send troops first, so they restrained the powerful Han army and defeated the Wei army, making the Han army scattered.
In the end, the Qin army won a great victory, and the Wei and Han coalition forces were completely annihilated by 240,000, and the road out of the east of the Qin state was smooth from then on.
2. Battle of Yanyin: Chu Duyin was captured
In 281 BC, King Xiang of Chu, remembering the humiliation of his father's death in his hometown, decided to launch a combined alliance to attack the State of Qin together, and the King of Qin gathered an army to prepare to crush the State of Chu in order to cause tragedy.
In order to use troops against the Chu state with confidence, King Zhaoxiang of Qin knocked king Zhao in advance, hoping that he would not interfere, so there was a "meeting of the pond" in the textbook.
In this meeting, Lin Xiangru showed extraordinary courage in order to maintain the dignity of King Zhao and let the King of Qin fight.
Before attacking Chu, Bai Qi analyzed the situation of the two armies, and then adopted a strategic policy of directly attacking the central area of Chu rule. He sent the Qin army through the Chu army's defense loopholes, down the Han River to the east, and directly pounded the land of YanYin in the Chu state.
The capital of the Chu state of Yingcheng, Deng Cheng, and Yancheng were successively lost, and then baiqi was given time to supply, and in 278 BC, Bai qi once again sent troops to attack the state of Chu and capture the capital of the state of Chu.
This battle further weakened the strength of the Chu state, and the prestige of Bai Qi was enhanced.
3. Battle of Huayang: 130,000 enemy annihilated
In 273 BC, the State of Wei and the State of Zhao jointly sent troops to attack Korea and besiege Huayang, an important Korean city.
South Korea asked the State of Qin for help, and the State of Qin asked Wei Ran and Bai Qi to lead troops to rescue Korea, and the large army set out from Xianyang and arrived at Huayang City in only 8 days, giving the unprepared Wei-Zhao coalition a fatal blow.
In this battle, Bai Qi annihilated 130,000 enemy troops and captured the generals Zhao and Wei.
4. Battle of Changping: 450,000 pit kills
The Battle of Changping needless to say, everyone should be familiar with it.
The general experience is that King Zhaoxiang of Qin asked Wang Gong to attack and occupy Shangdang County, and the people of Shangdang fled to the territory of the Zhao State, and the Zhao army received the people of the Shangdang at Changping.
Wang Gong launched an attack on the army of the State of Zhao, and the State of Zhao asked Lian Po to meet the battle, but Lian Po was defeated several times and could not hold out.
Lian Po originally wanted to wait for a favorable opportunity to fight again, but at this time, King Zhao was quite suspicious of Lian, and Fan Sui of the Qin State went to the Zhao State as a counter-plan, saying that Lian Po was easy to deal with, and that the Qin State was afraid of Zhao Kuo, the son of Ma Fujun Zhao Hao.
King Zhao then brought Zhao Kuo and replaced Lian Po.
When King Zhaoxiang of Qin knew that Zhao Kuo had replaced Lian Po as the main general, he immediately summoned Bai Qi to secretly make him a general. Zhao Kuo was anxious to win, and pretended to be defeated and retreated, inducing the Zhao army to pursue.
After Bai Qi cut off the Zhao army's retreat route and cut off the Zhao army's grain route, Zhao Kuo led the elite troops to break through, only to be shot dead by the Qin army.
In the Battle of Changping, the Qin army killed 450,000 Soldiers of the State of Zhao before and after, and the whole State of Zhao was shocked!
These four battles have achieved baiqi's prestige, but at the same time, king Zhaoxiang of Qin has some jealousy of him, if baiqi can be smooth and can know the truth of "too rigid and easy to bend", it will not fall to the end of being in his seventies and being given death.