We all know that after the defeat of the Battle of Changping, 400,000 young and strong people in the Zhao Kingdom were killed by Bai Qi, and it can be said that a country is basically finished at this point. However, from 260 BC, when Changping was defeated, to 228 bc, when Handan broke the city, what was The Zhao State doing for 32 years? 32 years is not a big deal in the long course of history, but if you are about 30 years old, think back to what happened in the year you were born, and now it seems quite "long". For a country, thirty years can do a lot of things, during which Zhao Guo cannot honestly wait at home for Qin to destroy the Six Kingdoms.
The reason why the Qin state did not continue to deepen after the Battle of Changping was because its own losses were not small, and the time to fight was too long and supplies were scarce, and it was necessary to withdraw to the country to slow down. So the two countries entered the negotiation stage, and the Zhao state agreed to cut off the land to the Qin state, but the Qin state lion opened its mouth, and the tough Zhao guo resolutely refused to accept it. So after two years of restoring the State of Qin, he gathered 500,000 men and horses and drove all the way to handan City. The vast majority of the young and strong people who can fight in the Zhao Kingdom are in changping, let alone two years, twenty years may not necessarily recover as before, and the next Battle of Handan is even worse for the Zhao State.
At this time, Zhao Guo's remaining troops included: 100,000 regular troops who did not participate in the Battle of Changping, 20,000 palace janissaries of King Zhao, more than 300,000 militias composed of over 40 and 18 years old, 1 commander Pingyuan Jun, and 1 veteran general Lian Po.
Originally, there was no comparison between the two sides, but because of what Bai Qi did, almost every family of the militia had fathers, brothers, and children being pitted, and the fighting spirit of the anti-Qin resistance was not generally high-spirited, and it was really completely from the heart to put their own lives and deaths aside to defend Handan, at that time there were no human bombs, otherwise it was estimated that they would all sign up for the death squad. Even so, the Zhao army was still able to follow Lian Po to stand on the city tower during the day to defend the city, and at night a group of stormtroopers sneaked into the Qin army camp outside the city, these sneakers could hardly come back alive, but still went forward and set off, not only caused heavy damage to the Qin army, the key was that the Qin army had no time to rest, the Qin soldiers had to face the fortified city and the Zhao army that was desperately defending during the day, and at night they had to tire of dealing with the Zhao state death squad, and after a month, both sides suffered heavy losses, one was that the grain and grass in the city were exhausted. One is that the supply line is too long and tired.
King Zhaoxiang of Qin asked Bai Qi to reinforce, but Bai Qi could not go, so the King of Qin sent other generals to reinforce the front line with 50,000 troops, and later killed Bai Qi. As soon as the reinforcements arrived, Zhao Guo could not bear it, because it was not easy to hold out until now, not only the militia suffered huge casualties, but even the 100,000 regular troops had already been sent in the process of the raid. Seeing that Handan was in a hurry, Wei and Chu, who did not trust the Zhao state at the beginning, finally could not see it anymore, the State of Wei sent Xin Lingjun and reinforcements of 80,000 troops, the State of Chu sent Chunshengjun and reinforcements of 100,000, of course, the single combat ability of the Soldiers of the State of Chu was equivalent to about 70,000 of the State of Wei, and after the confluence of the two large armies, they were under the unified command of the Xin Lingjun, in front of the Zhao Nationalist soldiers led by Pingyuan Jun, behind them were the coalition forces led by Xin Lingjun, the Qin army collapsed and retreated again and again, and the coalition army chased out more than 600 miles and recovered most of the territory of the Zhao State.
Many people will ask, why didn't the coalition army take advantage of the victory to attack the Qin mainland? Readers with strategic vision may also think, why didn't the coalition forces use the strategy of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" to "attack Qin and save Zhao"? At a time when the State of Qin was constantly sending its domestic troops to handan City, wouldn't it be possible for the coalition forces to take the State of Qin directly? No, because there is Hangu Pass. All the warring states are constrained by geographical reasons, not that the Qin state is how powerful a shang martingale transformation method is, but the other six countries except for Yan, the national strength is not weak, but only the terrain of the Qin state is a "trumpet mouth", "small mouth" towards the six countries, if you want to go in, you must ascend to the sky. The terrain of the first strong Qi state in the east is also a "trumpet mouth", but the "big mouth" is outward, and soldiers from either direction can come. Your coalition army has 180,000, the Qin army only needs 30,000 to defend at the pass, not to mention this small coalition army, even if the six-nation coalition army set out together later, there was only one time that the State of Qi took the lead in capturing the Hangu Pass, not to mention that there was still a mouth behind it.
After this battle was won, Zhao Guo entered the ZTE period. Here I would like to add that history is logical, although the historical data records ZTE, but we have to see clearly why, can not say that ZTE is ZTE, which is so easy? Just experienced the two great armies of Changping and Handan, both of which were critical attacks on the exterminating nature of the Zhao state, and even population recovery is a problem. The answer is that Yan Guo sent charcoal in the snow.
The State of Yan is the country with the least sense of existence among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States and the country that likes to brush up on existence the most. Although Le Yi is famous, but it was the King of Yan who first tricked the King of Qi into destroying the Song Dynasty, and then used this as an excuse to jump on the Five Kingdoms and cut down qi, if Le Yi alone took the Yan army, I am afraid that even the gate of the State of Qi would not be able to enter. If you use the professional division in today's game, Yan Guo is a thief, his body is very weak, and he also makes sinister moves everywhere, if he is a thief with strong attack power, he is not good at his own kung fu, so he slips farther and farther on the road of "inviting disasters and causing trouble".
In the process of the Qin state's large-scale invasion of the Zhao state, the Yan state sent troops behind Zhao to "make a tripwire", and during the critical period when the Zhao state's military strength was extremely scarce, the Yan state still failed to take advantage of anything. Moreover, after the end of the Handan Defense War, the angry King Zhao sent the veteran general Lian Po to lead an incomplete militia to teach the Yan state a lesson, and easily surrounded the Yan capital, which is today's Beijing, and the Yan king began to lick his face and cut the ground to seek peace. At this time, Zhao Guo urgently needed to recover his physical strength, and he was also afraid that Qin Guo would send troops to attack again, so he agreed to Yan's request for peace and warned not to stab the knife in the back in the future. Just as the so-called Jiangshan is easy to change and difficult to move, after Lian Po stepped down, the Yan state once again sent troops to the Zhao state, and the result was a major defeat, losing 20,000 troops and a large area of land.
The war in the era of cold weapons is very "reputational", and I heard that the commander on the other side is LeYi, Lianpo, and Baiqi, and his own "heart" has dropped by one-third. The same is true for a country, and the warring states often hear that which country is newly defeated, and other countries will fall into the well, and when they hear that which country wins new, other countries will temporarily go around it. Zhao Guo's reputation, which was about to perish, regained face under the wonderful interpretation of Yan Guo's two consecutive "sending food". The so-called skinny camel was bigger than Ma, and from then on, the Zhao state was still a strong country in the eyes of other princes, but at this time, the strength was only for Yan.
Until Qiang Qin eased up, after destroying Korea, he began to send waves of troops to "smash" zhao guo, and at first he could still top it, but the comprehensive national strength was there. After several rounds, he finally could not hold on, and in 228 BC, Handan was broken and the Zhao state died.