Qin Shi Huang swept through Liuhe, destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the four seas, and created the first great unified dynasty in Chinese history, which can be described as a feat of eternity!
At that time, the power of Qin Shi Huang was great, and the princes were trembling.
From the destruction of Korea in 230 BC to the destruction of the State of Qi in 221 BC, the unification of the land of the Six Kingdoms and the creation of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang only took a short period of 10 years, although it is said to be "The Sixth Emperor Yu Lie", but if the First Emperor is not capable, let alone the Sixth, even the Sixtieth Dynasty may not be able to do this ancient feat.
Qin Shi Huang's vision, pattern and strategy, placed in that era, can be said to be unique and unique!
Thinking that the Qin army crossed the Yellow River and conquered the Korean capital xinzheng, and then destroyed Korea, it can be said that the first war was decided, which shocked the princely states.
However, when it came time to attack the other family of the "Three Branches of Jin", the State of Zhao, the Qin army had obviously eliminated hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Zhao army in the Battle of Changping, and hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops were beheaded and killed by the Qin army in this battle, why did they not take advantage of the situation to attack the State of Zhao in one fell swoop, but did not destroy the State of Zhao until 222 BC?
Why was the State of Zhao able to continue to advance to 222 BC in the face of a fiasco? From the end of the Battle of Changping in 260 BC to the complete destruction of the Zhao State in 222 BC, the Zhao State survived for 38 years after the Battle of Changping, which is not a miracle.
Map of the situation of the Battle of Changping
The reason why zhao guo can be so tenacious should be attributed to the "plateization" of zhao guo, and the so-called plateization is actually the triad of the political and military center of zhao.
Due to historical factors and geographical factors, the Zhao State formed three "plate" areas, that is, three political and military centers, which was the reason why zhao Guo's life was saved after the Battle of Changping.
These three central plates, one is the core plate centered on the capital city of Handan of the Zhao Kingdom, one is the second plate centered on Jinyang, and the other is the third plate centered on Dai County.
A plate is a political center!
One plate is a military defense center!
A plate is an economic and cultural center!
Therefore, for Zhao Guo, every plate is a life.
This is also the reason why after the Qin army conquered Handan, the Zhao state was still able to continue to resist the Qin army in Dai County, if the Qin army failed to capture The Dai County in one fell swoop, the Zhao state was likely to continue to last for a few years.
Although Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, Nanjing has always been the capital of the Ming Dynasty, with a complete ruling body, that is, three provinces and six ministries, as long as Zhu Youjian can put down his face and move south, if he can change his employment in Nanjing, there is no possibility of regaining the mountains and rivers.
Even if you can't regain the mountains and rivers, you can still be in a quiet corner like the Southern Song Dynasty.
For the Ming Dynasty, the existence of the Southern and Northern Erjing actually indirectly divided the Ming Dynasty into two plates, one was the core plate centered on Beijing, and the other was the second plate centered on Nanjing.
Even if the core plate centered on Beijing has been lost, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops belonging to the Ming Dynasty, so can't we retreat to the second plate?
This is completely feasible, and the Southern Song Dynasty is a typical case.
The capital of the Northern Song Dynasty was Fenjing, and what was The name of Fenjing? Tokyo! Because the Northern Song Dynasty also had Nanjing, Xijing and Beijing Sanjing, this means that the Song Dynasty also had three other central plates, which existed as the political, economic, cultural and military centers of the Song Dynasty in addition to Tokyo.
After the shame of Jing Kang occurred, Emperor Gaozong of Song ascended the throne as emperor in Nanjing, thus preserving half of the Song Dynasty!
The reason why Zhao Guo is so hard is also that he has three political, economic, cultural and military central plates, which have extraordinary national defense strategic significance.
The reason why the Zhao State can become a "plate" is inseparable from the history and geographical factors of the Zhao State.
Zhao Guo is the "three families divided into Jin", the other two are Wei Guo and South Korea, from the zhao, Wei, Han three families of the territory, Zhao Guo is the biggest winner of this "sharing of booty" action.
When the State of Zhao had not yet separated from the State of Jin, Zhao Xiangzi destroyed the State of Dai in 475 BC and incorporated the State of Dai into the territory of the Zhao Clan, in order to be able to better control and rule the Land of the Dynasty, so that the Land of the Dynasty could give back more soft power and hard power to the Zhao Family, then the Zhao Clan had to increase the investment in the Land of the Dynasty, so that the Land of the Generation was completely integrated into the Zhao Group.
With the increasing investment of the Zhao clan in the Dai land, including political, economic, cultural and military fields, especially after the Zhao Wuling King set up the Dai County, the Dai County naturally became an emerging "city circle" of the Zhao clan in the north, and it was also another central plate in addition to the core plate centered on Handan.
Dai County thus became another political center and military defense center of the Zhao State.
In addition to the two plates of Dai County and Handan, in fact, the geographical environment in which zhao guo is located makes zhao guo have to re-divide a central plate, that is, the third plate with Jinyang as the core.
This is also the helplessness of the Zhao State, the Taihang Mountains almost run through the center of the Zhao State, the Handan Plate is on the right, and the Jinyang Plate is on the left.
In that era of extremely backward transportation and communication, if Zhao Guo wanted to better rule the land on both sides of the Taihang Mountains, he could only divide them into two plates, so as to rule each plate more directly and effectively through the "central city" in the plate!
In this way, Zhao Guo also has three central plates, as long as any one plate still exists, then Zhao Guo can continue its rule in that plate through "strategic transfer".
If the State of Qin wanted to destroy the State of Zhao, it must destroy the three plates of Handan, Jinyang, and Dai County at the same time, otherwise the State of Zhao would be able to continue to confront the State of Qin with other plates.
These three central plates of the Zhao State can actually be regarded as three "military regions" of extremely important military and national defense strategic significance from today's point of view.
Although these three plates made the Zhao state form a "political center triad", in the final analysis, the capital of the country, Handan, is the political, economic and cultural center of the entire Zhao state, the Jinyang plate and the Dai County plate are "sub-political centers", and in terms of political status, Jinyang plus Dai County is not as good as a Handan.
However, if we look at these three plates from the perspective of military defense, although Handan is still heavier than Jinyang and Dai County, Jinyang and Dai County also have indispensable.
The Handan "Military Region" was responsible for defending against the States of Qi and Wei.
The Jinyang "military region" took into account the Wei state, Yidi and Qin states.
The Dai County "military region" could block the Yan state and the Xiongnu from going south, and the second could contain the state of Qi.
These three "military regions" formed horns with each other and defended the Zhao state together.
Therefore, even if the Zhao State lost the Handan Plate in the Battle of Qin and Zhao, or handan and Jinyang were lost together, the Zhao State could still save the Zhao State by shifting the political center.
If the "sub-political center" of the Dai County Plate was turned into the "main political center", just as Zhao Zhuo moved the political center of the Song Dynasty south at the request of the Emperor of Tianfu after the shame of Jing Kang, then the Zhao State could naturally continue to continue, and the Zhao State did indeed do so later.
As a military defense center of the Zhao State, a "military region" that was crucial to the Zhao State, the Dai County Plate not only supported the Zhao State after the Battle of Changping, but also assumed the responsibility of the zhao State's main "military output" in terms of national defense.
The Dai County Plate can really assume the role of a military defense center, which should be said to be absolutely inseparable from Li Mu's efforts.
Who is Li Mu? He was another famous general of the Zhao Kingdom after Lian Po, and the reason why the Zhao State was able to stand up for nearly 40 years after the Battle of Changping was precisely because the Zhao State had to send down the "divine general" Li Mu one day! After the Battle of Changping, Zhao Guoyuan was already in danger, but unexpectedly there was a Li Mu, which almost allowed Zhao Guo to complete the turnaround and counterattack.
In the hands of Li Mu, Dai County gradually developed from a backward place to the military pillar of the Zhao State, even economically, Dai County also had an obvious rapid development, and it was precisely by relying on economic development that the Zhao State had a hundred thousand elite northern legions in Dai Di.
The strength of Li Mu's army could fight the Xiongnu upwards, block the State of Qi on the right, and conquer the State of Qin downwards, and this legion was also saved in the Battle of Changping because of geographical factors and the time of its formation.
Therefore, Li Mu's army was the military pillar that could continue to be maintained for decades at the end of the Zhao State, and it was also the military force that allowed Dai County to truly become a military defense strategic center of the Zhao State.
As long as the Zhao monarch can continue to reuse Li Mu, even if he cannot fight the Qin state back to his hometown, he can continue to maintain the Zhao state, but unfortunately, the Zhao state monarch Zhao Wangqian murdered Li Mu because he was caught in the qin's counter-plan, which is equivalent to self-destruction of the last strong Great Wall of the Zhao state.
No wonder historians will issue an exclamation of "Li Mu died, Zhao Guo died"!
Li Mu died unjustly, so that Handan fell, and the Prince Jia of the Zhao State had to flee north to Dai County, and from then on, the center of the political, military and other fields of the Zhao State was completely moved north to Dai County, and the Dai County plate thus saved the life of the Zhao State.
After Gongzi Jia fled to Daidi, although he claimed to be the DaiWang, in the end he continued the legal system of the Zhao State, just like the Jin Dynasty's Yiguan Nandu and the Song Dynasty's Jianyan Nandu, so it can also be called "Northern Zhao" after the political, military and other fields of the center moved north.
From the fall of Handan in 228 BC and the escape of Gongzi Jiabei to 222 BC, when the Qin army captured Daidi and captured Gongzi Jia, the Zhao state continued to exist for 6 years in the situation of "Northern Zhao".
If the Zhao state had not been "plated", as early as the moment when the Battle of Changping ended, the Zhao state would have been determined by the Qin state like Korea.
It was precisely because of the "plateization" that the Zhao state was able to become three political centers and three military defense centers, so that it could still have hundreds of thousands of elite divisions after the Battle of Changping, and after the fall of Handan, it was able to easily "strategically transfer" the political and military centers of the Zhao state to daidi, so as to continue to maintain its own legal system.
This is the fundamental reason why Zhao Guo was able to lose hundreds of thousands of main forces in the Battle of Changping, but still be able to survive for another 38 years.
Unfortunately, King Qian of Zhao lost the family foundation that Li Mu had accumulated by using "plateization" for Zhao Guo overnight, and although there was still Dai County as a way out, Zhao Guo, without Li Mu, was just a lamb to be slaughtered.
After the Changping War, zhao guo was able to continue to breathe for nearly 40 years, in addition to the factors of Zhao guo's own "plateization", of course, there were also reasons for the qin state.
Although the State of Qin beheaded and killed more than 400,000 Zhao troops in the Battle of Changping, the State of Qin itself also had nearly 200,000 troops damaged, perhaps because of this nearly 200,000 troop losses that the Qin army killed so many Zhao troops in a rage.
Therefore, although the Battle of Changping was a battle for the Qin State to open the prelude to the attack and destruction of the Six Kingdoms, because of the problem of attrition, the Qin State had to stop and rest, take a good breath, and wait for the recovery of strength.
The rest and panting of the State of Qin after the Battle of Changping, combined with the "plateization" of the State of Zhao, also gave the State of Zhao the opportunity to breathe and recover, which was naturally one of the reasons why the State of Zhao was able to continue to persist for 38 years after the Battle of Changping.
However, if General Nengchen Liang wants to play a role, he must also have the cooperation of The Emperor Mingjun, otherwise he will be powerful and nowhere to go, and Li Mu's fate and zhao Guo's end are like this.
Li Bai once wrote the verse "Li Mu is not here now, and the border people feed the jackals", but without Li Mu's Zhao Guo, it is not only the border people who feed the jackals, but also the people of one country feed the jackals.