In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were constant wars in various places, which meant that many battles and generals would be remembered, but the way they were remembered was different, some generals led the army to win more with less and was rumored to be a good story, but there were also some people who talked on paper about being defeated and returned home, and today we want to talk about Zhao Kuo in the Battle of Changping. In the Battle of Changping, Lian Po could not retreat, so why did Zhao Kuo have to fight when he knew that he would lose?
Zhao Kuo is a very famous person, because the idiom "talking about soldiers on paper" is evolved from him, Zhao Kuo as the general of Zhao Guo has been scolded for thousands of years, everyone thinks that Zhao Guo is because he is depressed, but the actual situation may be the opposite.
First, the Zhao Army's combat methods were incorrect
At that time, the State of Qin attacked the State of Zhao with a large number of troops, and the State of Zhao discharged Lian Po, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States, to meet the enemy, but the general of the State of Qin was Bai Qi, and Lian Po lost several battles in a row when fighting with the Qin Army, so Lian Po could not retreat, but the territory of the State of Zhao was in the name of flat and open, so the best offensive method of the Zhao Army was to attack and surprise attack, and the more powerful army in the Zhao Army was cavalry, and defense was the aspect that the State of Zhao was least good at, and Lian Po could not fully exert the strength of the Zhao Army.
The Qin army, on the other hand, was known for its defensiveness and steadiness, and after seeing the Zhao army retreat, it took it step by step, laying out the trenches and camps, and gradually expanding its advantages. And the state of Qin was strong, and the subsequent supplies were also very sufficient, and the Battle of Changping was fought for a total of fourteen months, so the supply of the State of Zhao gradually could not keep up, and the disadvantage of the Zhao army was getting bigger and bigger.
Second, Zhao Kuo's mistake
Due to the Qin army's insistence on fighting, the Willpower and supplies of the Zhao Army had been exhausted, and even if it did not attack the Zhao Army, it would collapse. The original good combat opportunities were wasted in vain, and at that time, Zhao Guo had no choice but to replace Lian Po, and wanted to use Zhao Kuo, who was good at attacking, to find a glimmer of life, although after Zhao Kuo took office, the new army and generals needed time to run in, but at that time, Zhao Guo's national strength had no time for him to run in, so he could only drive ducks to the shelf and treat dead horses as live horse doctors.
After Zhao Kuo took office, he inherited the consciousness of the state and began to choose to take the initiative to attack, and when the Qin army saw that a young general had changed, it would naturally increase its confidence and do its best to resist. Zhao Kuo's move can be said to be a dead sheep to make up for the prison, but this is also a very tragic and tragic sheep to make up for the prison. Although Zhao Kuo dared to take the initiative to attack, he also knew in his heart that this battle was more lost than won, and he could only desperately consume the qin state's troops and leave some opportunities for the zhao state.
In the face of the white rise of the four major generals, Zhao Kuo did not choose to retreat, and under the difficult circumstances at that time, he dared to stand up and fight against the Qin army, no matter what, he was a man.
In the end, the Qin army defeated the Zhao army, but the Qin army also suffered heavy losses, and Bai Qi killed all the surrendered Zhao troops. Although Zhao Kuo lost, Zhao Kuo consumed a lot of the Qin army's troops, and it took the Qin army twenty years to recover. Although Zhao Kuo lost, we cannot use the theory of success or failure to determine the hero, and Zhao Kuo's spirit of standing up in the face of a strong enemy is also worth learning.