There were four famous generals in the Warring States, two of whom were in the Qin State, and they were Bai Qi and Wang Qi.
The other two were in the Zhao Kingdom, namely Lian Po and Li Mu.
Bai Qi's merits were basically made during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and likewise, Lian Po was also the most famous general of the Zhao State at that time.
Wang Qi was mainly a meritorious service during the Yingzheng period, and his counterpart was Li Mu of the Zhao State. Obviously, the two famous generals of the Zhao Kingdom did not have the great merits of Bai Qi and Wang Qi in terms of historical merits.
This is not to say that Lian Po and Li Mu were inferior to Bai Qi and Wang Qi, mainly because the king of the Zhao Kingdom was too faint. Without a good king, no matter how great the skills of the courtiers, there is no way to play.
Bai Qi and Wang Qi were relatively speaking, they served the Qin state, and they were luckier to meet a good king.
However, compared with Bai Qi and Wang Qi, their merits were also different. The person who helped Ying zheng destroy the Six Kingdoms was Wang Qi, and it was obvious that Wang Qi's credit was greater.
In fact, we all know that compared with Wang Qi, Bai Qi's military ability is not worse than Wang Qi's, but he ended up with a fate of being killed by the King of Qin, which is still very sad.
Wang Qi was much better, compared with Wang Qi, where was bai qi worse than Wang Qi?
They all fought against General Zhao Guoming and won the victory with the counter-plot
Bai Qi won the Battle of Changping
Bai Qiren gave him the nickname "Human Slaughter", which means that he was one of the most murderous generals in the Warring States period. According to a statistic, the total number of people killed on the battlefield in the late Warring States period was more than 1.1 million, and more than 900,000 were killed by a single person.
This is also easy to understand, in the Battle of Changping alone, he killed more than 400,000 people in the Zhao Kingdom. The peak of Bai Qi's career was also because of the battle of Changping.
In this battle, he defeated Zhao Kuo, and the Zhao state, which was not inferior to the strength of the Qin state, quickly weakened. Of course, he was able to win this battle because of the use of counter-calculations.
Originally, Zhao Guo let the veteran general Lian Po deal with the Qin army, and Lian Po coped with it very beautifully, at least the Qin army failed to capture the inch of the Zhao state for three years.
Such consumption would be detrimental to the Qin state. They simply used the anti-plot to replace Lian Po and the incompetent Zhao Kuo.
After Zhao Kuo came up, the generals of the Qin army were replaced by white.
White is invincible and invincible. In the end, he defeated Zhao Kuo and won the battle. Imagine if Zhao Guo hadn't replaced Zhao Kuo, what would have been the outcome of the campaign?
Wang Qi destroyed the State of Zhao
When Wang Qi destroyed the Zhao State, his biggest opponent was Li Mu. Originally, before the State of Zhao was destroyed, Li Mu led his generals to defeat the Qin army.
When Wang Qi came to destroy Zhao, he chose not to fight with Li Mu. Because death is not good for anyone. It is not easy to say whose hand the deer died.
In the end, Wang Qi also chose to use the counter-plan, at the lowest cost in exchange for the demise of the Zhao State!
This counter-plot was to bribe Zhao Guo's ministers and make them say bad things about Li Mu. In the end, it was a courtier named Guo Kai who persuaded King Zhao.
King Zhao secretly killed Li Mu. Killing Li Mu was tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall, Liu Mu was gone, and Wang Qi's Qin army arrived in Handan and destroyed the Zhao state.
Whether it is Wang Qi or Bai Qi, their military ability is not inferior, and they are very flexible with their illness, they can fight when they can win, they will not fight if they can't win, and they will not fight if they can't win, and they will choose other ways to win the battle.
Of course, they have also fought a lot of victories, and we will not say more here. Having said the above, as long as it is clear that the difference between their two abilities is not large.
Let's go on to say where the gap between the two of them is.
Wang Qi contrasts with white, can flex and stretch, and has great wisdom
Bai Qi disobeyed the order and was given death
Why is it said that Wang Qi has great wisdom than Bai Qi?
This has to start with the fact that He was given death from the white, so why was he given death?
To put it bluntly, he disappointed King Zhaoxiang of Qin, who asked him to lead his troops to destroy the State of Zhao, and he would rather die than go. As a general, if he did not listen to the king's dispatches, he would not be far from death.
Bai Qi also had a reason not to go, the best time to destroy Zhao was missed, originally when he won the Battle of Changping, it was the best time to destroy Zhao.
However, King Zhaoxiang of Qin did not do so. After Zhao Guo rested and his strength came up, King Zhaoxiang of Qin asked him to destroy Zhao Guo, and of course he did not want to go.
What's more, the rescue troops of the State of Wei and the State of Chu had already come.
Without going to get up, King Zhaoxiang of Qin revoked his title and drove him out of the capital. In the process of being driven out of the capital, another villain falsely accused him, saying that he was dissatisfied with the King of Qin and cursed.
King Zhaoxiang of Qin ordered him to commit suicide.
Wang Qi is brilliant and can bend and stretch
Wang Qi destroyed the Chu state and gave Yingzheng an army of 600,000. These 600,000 troops were the entire strength of the Qin State. There is a question here, how to make Ying Zheng feel at ease with Wang Qi?
Wang Qi was very clever, and he gave Yingzheng conditions, asked Yingzheng to give him the title of official, gave his son the title of official, and gave their family gold, silver and land.
He had to get his hands on it before he was willing to send troops.
Even on their way out, Wang Zhai urged Ying Zheng to whether the things promised to him were in place.
One of the soldiers didn't understand Wang Qi's approach, and Wang Qi told them that he was doing this to protect himself. Because people who are greedy for money and profit are often unambitious.
The more greedy he was, the more reassuring The Qin King would be. This shows that Wang Qi's control over the king's mind is very well in place.
Looking at Bai Qi in turn, he is far behind in this regard.
Why is it said that Wang Qi can flex and stretch?
Because when chu was just destroyed, Yin Zheng humiliated him. At that time, Yin Zheng asked Wang Qi how many people he would need to destroy the Chu state, and Wang Zhai said that it was necessary to have 600,000 people.
Yin Zheng asked Li Xin, and Li Xin said that 200,000 yuan was enough, and Yin Zheng said that General Wang Qi was old and could not fight. As a result, Li Xin fought a defeated battle.
It was after Li Xin's defeat that Wang Qi re-led an army of 600,000 to destroy Chu.
Wang Qi was able to look at this matter calmly and not to mention the old things again. If you don't get up in vain, the king's orders he doesn't listen, let you destroy Zhao you will go, if this is true, you will not lose your life.
Even if you lose a battle, it will not affect Bai Qi's reputation, and winning or losing is a common thing for soldiers, not to mention such a famous general as Bai Qi.
Bai Qi was different from the king Wang Qi had encountered
Bai Qi met the less confident King Zhaoxiang of Qin
Bai Qi encountered The King of Qin Zhaoxiang, who killed Bai Qi because he listened to the rumors of the prime minister Fan Ju. Originally, Bai Qi had fought the Battle of Changping, and it was still easy to destroy Zhao Guo.
However, in the end, King Zhaoxiang of Qin did not let him go, because the chancellor Fan Ju would not let him. It is said that qin bing should rest and recuperate, and then go to destroy Zhao after a while.
In fact, Fan Ju did this because he was afraid that if Bai Qi destroyed the Zhao Kingdom, his merit would exceed Fan Ju's as the prime minister. Therefore, he wanted to prevent Bai Qi from destroying the Zhao Kingdom.
In the end, it also led to a tragic life of whiteness.
The tragedy of the white rise can be caused by his encounter with an unconfident king. If King Zhaoxiang of Qin did not ask Fan Ju, he would have identified the road of destroying Zhao, and without asking anyone, he would have destroyed Zhao. I'm afraid that Zhao Guo has long been destroyed. Bai Qi could not have been executed.
Wang Qi met a good king
Yin Zheng is a person who knows his mistakes and can change them, just like after Li Xin lost the battle. Yin Zheng realized that it was his own mistake that led to the humiliation of the Qin army.
Therefore, he took the initiative to find Wang Qi and apologize to Wang Qi, saying that if he had listened to Wang Qi's words and given Wang Qi 600,000 troops to destroy the Chu State, he would not have suffered today's humiliation.
It was Wang Qi's honor to meet such a king. On the contrary, King Zhaoxiang of Qin did not have this realization, could he apologize to a general after making a mistake?
Even such an important general as Bai Qi was wrongfully killed. He was also kept in the dark, which was the misfortune of Bai Qi.
summary
The main reason why Wang Qi was able to help YingZheng destroy the Six Kingdoms was that he was born in a good era and met a good king. It is precisely because the times are good and the kings encountered are good that Wang Qi can start and end well.
To put it bluntly, Yingzheng is more confident, no matter who it is, he can handle it. Not afraid of these generals rebelling, you must know that Yingzheng is an emperor who has not killed heroes.
On the contrary, Bai Qi was different, and his merits were not even worse than Wang Qi's. However, he ended up with a fate of death, because he met a king who did not have the self-confidence to win the government, and liked to be used by the prime minister.
Reference: History