During the ancient Warring States period, there were countless famous battles. There was the Battle of Handan, the Battle of Maling, and the Battle of Changping, and what we are more familiar with is the Battle of Changping, after all, the Battle of Changping shocked the world at that time. The Battle of Changping was a war fought between the Qin state and the Zhao army in the Changping area of the Zhao state. For the Battle of Changping, it was a strategic decisive battle between the Qin and Zhao states.
In this battle, the Qin state won several battles in a row, resulting in heavy losses to the Zhao army, and the situation on the battlefield was extremely unfavorable to the Zhao state. At that time, king Zhao saw that the war had been lost one after another, so he wanted to ask the State of Qin for peace, but in the end he was teased by the State of Qin, and at this time, Lian Po also adopted the strategy of sticking to the war and not fighting, which humiliated the State of Zhao.
However, the State of Qin could not attack for a long time, and seeing that the Zhao army was stubbornly holding out and the strategic losses were serious, the State of Qin threatened the State of Zhao that Qin was not afraid of incorruptibility, and that it was Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao Hao, who was afraid. Therefore, King Zhao did not listen to the advice of Yu Qing and Lin Xiangru, and insisted on replacing Lian Po with Zhao Kuo.
As soon as Zhao Kuo went to the front, he changed his incorruptible combat strategy and changed his defense to attack. The State of Qin secretly appointed the famous general Bai Qi as commander,and in view of Zhao Kuo's weakness in his eagerness to win, Bai Qi adopted the operational policy of pretending to be defeated and retreating, luring the enemy out of the position, and then dividing the encirclement, cutting off the zhao army's grain route, and annihilating it, and finally winning the war.
After the victory at Changping, Bai Qi finally killed 450,000 Surrendered Zhao soldiers, so the Zhao army was completely destroyed in this battle. However, it should be noted that for the Qin army, it also paid a casualty price of about 250,000. So, the question is, in the Battle of Changping, the Qin state also suffered heavy casualties, why did it have to fight, can not compromise and retreat?
As we all know, in ancient warfare, "wounding a thousand enemies and inflicting eight hundred self-inflicted losses" was a relatively common situation. In the Battle of Changping, although Zhao Kuo caused the total annihilation of the Zhao army, in repeated battles, the Zhao army also caused heavy casualties to the Qin army. Although at that time, the State of Qin had become the most powerful vassal state in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. However, the 250,000 casualties can still be called the heaviest casualties in the previous battles of the Qin State.
Moreover, most importantly, in the Battle of Changping, King Zhaoxiang of Qin handed over almost all the elite troops of the Qin state to Bai Qi, so this battle was almost the strength of the Qin state and the Zhao state. Moreover, for the State of Qin, there was obviously a risk of being attacked by the princely states of Korea, Wei, Yan, Qi, and Chu during the Battle of Changping. So why is there so much immortality between the two countries?
This has to start from the battle between Fu and Him, after which Fan Ju, a Wei man, came to the Qin state and proposed to King Zhaoxiang of Qin the strategy of "long-distance and close attack". King Zhaoxiang of Qin, based on the strategy of "long-distance and close-range attack", first attacked the state of Wei and then turned to Korea. In the 53rd year of the Reign of Zhou (262 BC), the State of Qin attacked and occupied Yewang of Korea (present-day Qinyang, Henan), completely cutting off the connection between Shangdang County and the mainland.
King Huanhui of Han was very frightened, and sent Yang Chengjun to the Qin state to apologize for his sins and asked for the sacrifice of the shangdang land in order for the Qin state to stop the army. However, for the Shangdang County Shou Feng Ting in Korea, as well as the people of Shangdang County, they were unwilling to surrender to the Qin State. Therefore, they plotted to use the power of the Zhao state to resist qin, and dedicated the seventeen cities of Shangdang County to the Zhao state. In the end, King Cho Hyo Sung coveted immediate benefits and chose to accept the Shangdang County, which had accepted Korea. And this naturally became the fuse for the Qin State to launch the Battle of Changping.
Moreover, for the King of Qin, the geographical location of Shangdang County was too important. Once the State of Qin obtained Shangdang County, it could directly threaten the hinterland of the State of Zhao and the State of Wei, such as the capital of the State of Zhao, Handan. Moreover, at that time, except for the State of Zhao, no country could threaten the State of Qin.
Naturally, the Qin and Zhao kingdoms would not die endlessly. What do you think about that?