From the perspective of a military expert, bai qi made a statement and took advantage of this opportunity to attack Handan, which is a high probability event. Most of the zhao state's living forces were destroyed, so that when the emissaries of the Yan state came to the Zhao state, they felt that the Zhao state was exhausted, and when they returned home, they immediately took advantage of the fire to rob the Zhao state with 600,000 troops. While Bai Qi had already killed 400,000 people, he also had to release 240 soldiers, and his malicious intention was to let these frightened Zhao Jun spread a terrifying atmosphere. Before the Qin soldiers arrived, they first destroyed people's hearts and minds, which was similar to the practice of slaughtering the city during the later Mongol Western Expedition.
Zhao Guo's new army was lost, and Handan was empty, so in the last days when Changping was besieged, Zhao Guojun did not actively rescue the Zhao Kuo heavy army group that hoped to "blossom in the center", but abandoned all the cities and pools outside Handan, cleared the field, and concentrated all manpower and materials to Handan, and the Zhao state was no longer able to divide the troops and refuse to defend. But even so, the only thing that Zhao Guo could get his hands on at this time was a force of 200,000 troops, and this was already the limit of Zhao Guo.
At this time, if the Qin army "should chase the poor and the poor with courage", give play to the spirit of hard fighting and continuous combat, and do not give the Zhao State the opportunity and time to organize resistance, the so-called "defeat of the army is like a mountain", the Zhao capital Handan will definitely be broken.
Pang Juan
However, the capture of Handan and the destruction of the Zhao state were two different things—the Zhao state had three political centers, namely Handan, Jinyang, and Dai. For some time, the State of Zhao was still set to be in Zhongmu. Therefore, the capture of Handan was still a blow to the Zhao State, but it was not fatal. In the middle of the Warring States period, the Wei general Pang Juan once led troops to attack the State of Zhao, conquered Handan, and occupied it for three years; in the nineteenth year of the Reign of the Qin Dynasty (228 BC), the Qin army conquered Handan, and the Prince Jia of the State of Zhao fled to Daidi with hundreds of people, which lasted for another 6 years.
This was still speculated from the perspective of zhao guo, and looking at the international community at that time, the qin state did not dare to rush to rise up a war to destroy the country. The State of Qin may not lack such strength, but it lacks the confidence to fight a great war to destroy the country. The State of Qi had previously organized two battles to conquer Qin in the third year of King Shenliang of Zhou (318 BC) and the seventeenth year of King Zhao of Zhou (298 BC), causing the state of Qin to fall.
In the seventeenth year of the Zhou Dynasty (298 BC), the State of Qi, the State of Wei, and the State of Korea once again joined forces to prepare for the second invasion of the State of Qin, the king of Qin at that time was still the King of Qin Zhaoxiang, qi general Kuang Zhang led the combined forces of Qi, Wei, and Han to attack Hangu Pass, and later the State of Zhao and the State of Song also joined in the attack on Qin, and the Five Kingdoms finally broke through Hangu Pass, and the Five Kingdoms occupied Hangu Pass for three years. At the last moment, the State of Qin confessed, returned the lands of the three states of Han, Zhao, and Wei that had been invaded, and ceded the land of Hedong, and the State of Qi accepted the State of Qin's request for peace.
Map of the Warring States situation
The most recent war of subjugation took place in the twenty-ninth year of King Zhao of Zhou (286 BC), and the consequences were extremely tragic. During the Warring States period, these two were great powers and powers (the Song State was known as the eighth strongest of the Warring States), but the result was that the Song State collapsed and the land was divided among the three kingdoms; and the State of Qi, because of its ugly eating, attracted public anger and attracted the five kingdoms to cut down. The State of Qi, once rich in the world and known as the "Eastern Emperor", was destroyed by the First World War, and although it was later restored, its national strength was no longer what it used to be.
Both of these wars took place during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, who had seen and experienced it with his own eyes, and if he had also destroyed the country at this time, it would not have caused public anger. The State of Qin had previously threatened the Six Kingdoms not to help the State of Zhao, and did not leave any good impression on the Six Kingdoms, if the State of Zhao was captured, the State of Zhao was not dead, but it triggered the Six Kingdoms to attack Qin, and with the situation that the State of Qin had been starving for many years in the Great Warring States, could the State of Qin still be able to make peace like the Battle of Hanguguan 30 years ago? It is certainly impossible, because the tiger and wolf appearance of the Qin state has been revealed, and there is a great vendetta against Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, and Qi, and once the Qin state has a wrong move, it will inevitably lead to the disaster of destruction.
Therefore, after the Battle of Changping, it is true that it is possible to continue to attack Handan militarily, but politically it is necessary to take great risks. This kind of risk, at that time, the Qin state was really not sure that it could resist. In fact, in the Battle of Handan after the State of Qin rested for 2 years, the State of Qin was defeated by the Five-Nation Alliance led by Xin Lingjun and forced to cede the lands of Jinyang, Shangdang, and Hedong.