In what year did the Zhao Kingdom perish?
The demise of the Zhao kingdom is relatively special among the six kingdoms. Because how to calculate this account, Sima Qian will not calculate. Therefore, Sima Qian's "Zhao Shijia" in the "Records of History" is recorded as follows:
King Zhao moved for eight years, and Handan became Qin.
This means that in the eighth year of the Zhao Dynasty (228 BC in the Western Calendar), the capital of the Zhao state, Handan, was occupied by the Qin army.
The reason why Sima Qian recorded the history of the Zhao state in such a vague way was because after the Qin army invaded Handan, Zhao Wangqian's brother Gongzi Jia fled to Dai County, established the Dai State, and called himself Dai Wang Jia. Dai Wang Jia was also captured by the Qin army in the sixth year after Handan was occupied by Qin.
The six years of kingship of Wang Jia have left historians with a difficult problem: that is, these six years, is it counted as the history of the Zhao Kingdom? If you count, then, from the end of the Battle of Changping to the defeat of Wang Jia's "anti-Qin" period, during this period, the Zhao state continued to exist for thirty-eight years, which is about forty years.
As we all know, the main force of the Zhao army in the Battle of Changping was wiped out by Qin, and after the Battle of Changping, Yan Wang Xi also took advantage of the fire to attack the Zhao state, but even so, the Zhao state still waited nearly forty years before it was completely destroyed by Qin?
Personally, I think:
On the qin side
Although Qin annihilated the main force of the Zhao army at the Battle of Changping. However, the attrition of war is two-way. While Qin severely damaged the main force of the Zhao state, the Qin army and even qin's economy were also seriously affected. And because wei guoxin lingjun timely integrated the forces of other princes, Qin was suppressed. Because of the weakening of strength and the suppression of the Xin Lingjun side, the Qin Eastern Expedition to zhao guo was affected.
In addition, shortly after the Battle of Changping, the situation in the State of Qin fell into a state of turmoil: after the death of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, King Huiwen and King Zhuangxiang of Qin reigned for a shallow period of time, and King Zheng of Qin was succeeded by children, which limited Qin's ability to go out and expand, so Qin stopped for many years, and the State of Zhao was able to breathe.
In addition, Han, who was more worried about the Eastern Crusade of the Qin State than the State of Zhao, sent people to the State of Qin to coax Qin into building the ZhengGuo Canal in order to delay the Eastern Crusade of Qin. Qin spent a lot of manpower and financial resources on repairing the ZhengGuo Canal, and there was less power to free up the war. Han's method, while buying time for himself to live for a few more days, also allowed Zhao Guo to exist for a few more years (according to the following: After the construction of the Zheng Guo Canal, the benefits brought by its water conservancy projects increased countless capital for Qin to sweep through the Six Kingdoms, so it is said that the Zheng Guo Canal was a strategy for Han to drink and quench his thirst).
Zhao Guo
After Qin captured Handan, it occupied almost the entire territory of the Zhao state except daidi, and then the target of the Qin army turned to the rest of the princely states, temporarily abandoning the pursuit and killing of the daiguo, which was a six-year situation.
The reason why Qin did not move the daidi for the time being was because for a long time, the daidi was in a remote and barren state, and it was difficult for daiwang Jia to rely on the daidi, so when there were other princes who could pursue and kill, the dai was not within the priority of Qin.
When the Qin army was preparing to destroy the Dai state, the remaining five kingdoms except the state of Qi were either dead or disabled (according to the situation of the Yan state of Yan Wang Xi and the State of Zhao, after Qin attacked and occupied Yan mainland, Yan Wang Xi fled to Liaodong to hide for many years), so Qin began to consider taking over the regimes of Dai and "Liaodong Yan".
In the end, under the iron hooves of the Qin army, the Daiguo soon died.