The Warring States Period, which lasted for more than two hundred and fifty years, rose together, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qin, the Seven Kingdoms of Constant Conquest, famous generals, the stars twinkled, and the most shining stars recognized by later generations were Bai Qi, Wang Qi, Li Mu, and Lian Po, and were called the four famous generals of the Warring States.
The four great generals will come from two countries
The mainstream of the "war" in the Warring States era can be said to be the confrontation between the other six kingdoms and the Qin state that later unified the world.
Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, in addition to the Qin State, other countries and the Qin State clashed, except for the occasional flash of inspiration, most of the time was pressed to the ground and rubbed, only the Zhao State could still resist hard, and occasionally it could win a small victory.
The four famous generals of the Warring States Period actually belonged to the two countries of Qin and Zhao. Why?
Let's take a look at the map of the Warring States period.
As can be seen from the map, Qin and Zhao, Wei, Han, and Chu bordered, and fought the most wars, while the State of Zhao, in addition to fighting with Qin, also fought with Yan, Qi, and Wei many times, and more importantly, his border also bordered the Xiongnu, and he should always be wary of and resist the invasion of the Xiongnu. The so-called Yan Zhao duo generous and tragic people, Zhao people are good at fighting.
The State of Qin annexed the Six Kingdoms, the value of force was superior, and it was not surprising that famous generals were born, and Bai Qi and Wang Qi were among the representatives.
Although the State of Zhao was weak and small, while facing the Qin State head-on, it also had to fight against the Xiongnu and other warring states, which also created a number of good generals, and Lian Po and Li Mu were the best.
The killing god rose in vain and killed himself
First of all, Bai Qi, known in history as "killing the god", Fengwu Anjun, a thousand years later, the Tang Dynasty built the Wu Temple, one of the ten zhe of the attendant, and the historical status can be seen.
The reason why Bai Qi is called "Killing God" is because he is the most murderous general in the conquests of the Warring States countries.
It is clearly recorded in the historical records that in the fourteenth year of King Qin Zhao, he attacked the State of Wei and Korea and beheaded him
240,000 people
In the thirty-fourth year of King Zhao, Bai Qi attacked the State of Wei and beheaded him
130,000 people
In the same year, he fought with the State of Zhao and general
20,000 people
Drowned in the river; king Zhao, forty-three years, attacked Korea and beheaded him
50,000
The most famous is still in the forty-seventh year of King Qin Zhao, who killed 400,000 Zhao's pawns in Changping Pit, plus those killed on the battlefield, Changping Killed in Battle I
forty-five thousand
。
These numbers are simply added up to that
eighty ninety-nine million
Man, this is not counting the attack on the Chu state in vain, the capture of the capital of the Chu state, and the capture of more than seventy cities in various countries, these conquests did not say that he killed many people, so it is no exaggeration to say that he killed more than a million people.
Bai Wei shocked the princes, attacked the city strategically, killed people in the wilderness, and laid a solid foundation for the unification of the six kingdoms after the Qin state.
Especially after the Battle of Changping, the Qin army continued to besiege the capital of the Zhao state of Handan, but the Qin chancellor Fan Sui was worried that Bai Qi's merits were too great, and he had been given the title of Wu'an Jun, and if he really let him destroy the Zhao state, the merit would be difficult to seal, so he persuaded the King of Qin to agree to the request of the Zhao state to cut the land and beg for peace, and let Bai Qi withdraw.
After that, the State of Qin sent troops to attack Handan, Bai Qi did not fight due to illness, but he was worried that Handan would be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the princes would come to the rescue, and after years of fighting, the Qin army was already tired and would lose the battle. King Qin Zhao, who did not heed his advice, insisted on sending troops, and also let Bai Qi lead the army, and Bai Qi said that he was ill and refused to go to war.
The result was really as expected, and the Qin army was defeated. King Qin Zhao, angry at Bai Qi's absence from the expedition, also spoke cold words, stripped Bai Qi of his title, demoted him to a small soldier, and asked him to leave Xianyang and migrate to Yinmi. Bai Qi was only ten miles out of the city, and the King of Qin consulted with Fan Sui, feeling that Bai Qi was resentful, and let Bai Qi leave for fear of trouble, so he sent emissaries with swords to make Bai Qi commit suicide.
Before dying, Bai Qi sighed a long time, with some regret, but remembered that he had killed Zhao Guo and reduced his pawns to 400,000, which was the punishment of god for him, and his fate should be so, Fu Jian killed himself, and a generation of killing gods came to an end.
The veteran is incorruptible and dies in a foreign country
Lianpo was basically a contemporary of Bai Qi, slightly later. Perhaps the most famous story of Lian Po in history is the story of the sin of bearing the sin of Jing, when he was already named Shangqing for his great victory in the sixteenth year of King Huiwen of Zhao.
After the story of The Guilt of Jing, Lian Po and Lin Xiangru jointly guaranteed the peace of the Zhao state for nearly twenty years, until the Outbreak of the Battle of Changping.
At that time, Lian Po was already a sixty-seven-year-old veteran general with great prestige, and was ordered to command the Zhao army to engage the Qin army.
At the beginning of the war, the Qin army was brave, and the Zhao army suffered several defeats. Lian Po changed his strategy and built a fortification to hold on, but the Qin army had no choice but to hold each other.
Later, the King of Zhao was caught in the divisive scheme and replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, who could only talk about soldiers on paper, and the Qin army quietly changed to kill the god Bai to lead the army, and the result was that the Zhao army was defeated miserably, and 450,000 soldiers were killed, and Zhao Guoqingzhuang was almost empty.
A few years after the Battle of Changping, the State of Yan took advantage of the fact that the State of Zhao had not yet eased up and sent troops to invade Zhao. King Xiaocheng of Zhao remembered Lian Po, who had been removed from his post, and reinstated him.
The veteran general, who was over seventy years old, re-emerged from the jianghu and not only repelled the Yan army, but also attacked the capital of the Yan state, and the Yan people had to cut the land and seek peace, and Lian Po was awarded the title of Xinping Jun for his merits.
However, the good times did not last long, the old King of Zhao died, the new King of Zhao took the throne, and a dynasty of heaven and a courtier replaced Lian po with a happy ride. Lian Po was angry because of his exclusion and attacked Le Cheng, and after driving Le Cheng away, Lian Po also defected to the State of Wei.
Later, the new King zhao, who was constantly bullied by the Qin state, remembered the veteran general LianPo, and wanted to use him, and sent someone to comfort him, and by the way, to understand Lianpo's physical condition.
However, the emissary accepted the bribe from Guo Kai, the enemy of Lianpo, and when he saw Lianpo come back to resume his life, he said lightly, "Sit with the subject, and go to the toilet three times", that is, Lianpo went to the toilet three times in a while, which also made King Zhao cut off the idea of asking Lianpo to come back.
A veteran general who has fought for the country for decades has no way to serve the country because of the rumors of villains, and a year later Lian Po died in The Chu State of Shouchun in a foreign country.
The famous general Li Mu was unjustly killed
After Lian Po, Li Mu, the last famous general of the Zhao Kingdom, ended even worse than Lian Po.
Li Mu can be said to be a brilliant and invincible wise general. He was originally a defender of the border defense of the State of Zhao, and as can be seen in the map at the beginning of this article, the State of Zhao had a long border defense line close to the Xiongnu, and Li Mu was the defender of Yanmen.
When Li Mu first became the guard of the Yanmen Gate, he did not allow the soldiers to fight the Xiongnu for several years, and as soon as the beacon of the Xiongnu attack was ignited, he immediately asked everyone to withdraw to the city and close the city gate.
The Huns thought he was timid, and even his soldiers felt cowardly. The result of this is that at least I have nothing to lose.
After that, King Zhao couldn't help but order Li Mu to go to war, but Li Mu was determined not to fight the Xiongnu. King Zhao withdrew Li Mu and replaced him with someone else to lead the troops.
The result was repeated engagements over the course of a year, with heavy losses. King Zhao had no choice but to plead with Li Mu again to come out of the mountain and agreed to Li Mu's request not to go to war.
In the next few years, Li Mu was still the same, and the Xiongnu looked down on Li Mu very much. Li Mu secretly accumulated strength, and the soldiers of the border army were increasingly eager to fight a war with the Xiongnu.
Li Mu felt that the time was ripe, selected elite soldiers, and after secret training, let people put cattle and sheep all over the mountains, waiting for the Xiongnu to grab, and then pretended to fail, and finally the Xiongnu attacked in a large scale, Li Mubu sent a surprise army, defeated the Xiongnu, beheaded more than 100,000 people, and from then on the Xiongnu never dared to approach the Zhao kingdom again.
Li Mu became famous in the First World War, and then defeated the State of Yan. A few years later, when the State of Qin was attacking in a big way, King Zhao transferred Li Mu back from Yanmen, appointed him as a general, and led his army to meet the enemy.
Li Mu built a fort and never went to war, and the Qin army saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, and the Qin general Huan Yi turned to attack Zhao Guofeixia, wanting to lead the Zhao army to rescue and take the opportunity to annihilate the Zhao reinforcements.
Li Mu saw through Huan's calculations, and when the Qin army went to attack Feixia, he occupied the base camp of the Qin army in one fell swoop, and arranged for curious soldiers to take a frontal blockade on the way back to the Qin army's reinforcements, and the method of attacking on both sides greatly broke the Qin army, which is known in history as the "Battle of Fei".
Li Mu was given the title of "Wu An Jun" after this battle, and like Bai Qi's title, these two people were indeed distinguished in battle.
In the following year, Li Mu once again repelled the qin army's attack, and after another three years, the Qin army general Wang Qi led the army to cut down Zhao, and Li Mu led his troops to resist.
However, at this time, King Zhao was again caught in the divisive scheme, and really thought that Li Mu was going to surrender to the Qin state. In the Battle of Changping, only the removal of Lian Po caused 450,000 soldiers to be killed, this time the King of Zhao directly arranged a trap to kill Li Mu, three months later, the Zhao army was defeated, the King of Zhao was captured, and a few years later the State of Zhao was destroyed.
Destroy the king, the only good ending
Wang Qi, who defeated the Zhao army with a counter-plot, was the general who destroyed the most countries during the Warring States period. Of the Seven Warring States Heroes, in addition to the other six kingdoms of the Qin State, five were destroyed by him and his son.
Wang Qisheng played a huge role in the process of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms at the right time. After the efforts of successive Qin kings and the pioneering of the Qin people, by the end of the Warring States period, the Qin state was already the only one, the six kingdoms were weakened, and the ambition of Yingzheng to annex the world, Wang Qi's father and son led the army to conquer the east and the west, and completed the wish of Yingzheng.
As mentioned above, Wang Qi destroyed Zhao, and then in the twentieth year of the First Emperor, because of the incident of Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin, Wang Qi was ordered to cut down Yan, defeat the army led by Prince Dan at the Yishui River, and take advantage of the situation to capture the capital of the Yan state, Jiji, although the King of Yan fled, but the Yan state survived in name only.
In the twenty-second year of the First Emperor, Wang Qi's son Wang Ben flooded the city of Daliang, and the King of Wei surrendered and Wei died.
Wang Qi's most famous achievement was the annihilation of Chu. When Qin Shi Huang asked his subordinates how many people were needed to destroy Chu, Wang Qi replied with 600,000 and Li Xin with 200,000. Qin Shi Huang thought that Wang Qi was old and had lost his vigor, so he asked Li Xin to lead an army to attack Chu.
Li Xin won the victory at first, but soon the plan was defeated, and Qin Shi Huang immediately knew that he was wrong, and personally went to the door to ask Wang Qi to come out of the mountain.
Wang Qi insisted on the need for 600,000 people, and Qin Shi Huang agreed to his request, raising the strength of the Qin state to let Wang Qi lead the way to destroy Chu.
Before Wang Qi had even set out, he asked Qin Shi Huang for various things, "please have a lot of people in the Garden of Mitian", and Qin Shi Huang agreed.
On the way out, Wang Qi also asked for the field house five times, so that his men felt that he had gone too far, and Wang Qi replied: The King of Qin has a suspicious personality, and now the soldiers of the whole country of the Qin Kingdom are handed over to me, and if I do not ask for more treasures to let the King of Qin know that I have nothing else to ask for, it will not be possible to eliminate his doubts.
Wang Qi spent more than two years destroying the Chu state, after which the rapids retreated. Although there is no record in history how he died, but his grandson Wang Li, who also fought for Qin II as a general, then the Wang family was a high-ranking official throughout the era of the First Emperor and Qin II, and Wang Qi should have received a good death.
Of the four famous players, only one of them died well, and their experience really corresponds to the proverb: not afraid of god-like opponents, afraid of pig-like teammates.
They are not afraid of any kind of enemy they face, but they are often victimized by their own people.
Fan Sui's death was inextricably linked to Bai Qi's death, and Lian Po and Li Mu were abandoned or even killed by their own kings.
Wang Qi was able to survive, in addition to qin shi huang's heroic talent, there was also his own good at guessing the emperor's thoughts, self-defiling in advance, and avoiding the end of the cunning rabbit death and the lackey cooking.