Since the early Warring States period when the State of Wei first dominated, the pattern of the Warring States has changed several times, the real advantage of the State of Qin is after the Battle of Changping in 260 BC, before which the two countries of Wei and Chu have declined, Le Yi led the Five Kingdoms to cut Qi, so that the strength of the State of Qi plummeted, plus the State of Qi was influenced by the Qin State's long-distance close attack strategy and no longer participated in the Six Kingdoms Joint Vertical Attack on Qin, so the only one who could really fight with the State of Qin was the State of Zhao, whose military strength was greatly improved after the Zhao Wuling King HuFu rode and shot.
Among the four famous generals of the Warring States, Bai Qi and Wang Qi were Qin people, Lian Po and Li Mu were Zhao Guo people, in general, Bai Qi and Lian Po were in the same period most of the time, Wang Qi and Li Mu were in the same period, it is reasonable to say that there should have been many confrontations between them, but the historical data does not mention that Bai Qi and Lian Po fought, the only battle of Changping that had the opportunity to fight was also missed because of Zhao Xiaocheng Wang's change of marshal, and the only opponent play of the four famous generals of the Warring States was the peak duel between Wang Qi and Li Mu in the Battle of Qin Zhao Jingjing. So how will the two sides win or lose this confrontation?
Especially after the five combined forces of Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, and Chu launched the last joint attack on Qin in 241 BC, but was broken by Lü Buwei, the trend of qin unification was actually irreversible; in 238 BC, after the Qin king Yingzheng eliminated Lü Buwei and the Yanyi clique, with the assistance of Li Si, Wei Zizi and others, formulated the strategy of destroying the Six Kingdoms of "destroying the princes, becoming an emperor, and unifying the world", the first of which was Korea and the Zhao state.
In 236 BC, the Qin soldiers launched the Battle of Zhao in two ways, one was to attack the Zhao State from the east by Wang Qi and Yang Yang, and the other was to take the army of Huan Yi and Yang Duanhe to capture Yi and Anyang (because after the Battle of Changping, the Qin State had completely occupied the Shangdang region of Korea, so the Qin State could attack the Zhao State from multiple directions, and Wang Qi sent troops from the Shangdang to attack the Zhao State in the east), and when he was alive and dead, the King of Zhao could only let Li Mu lead the town to defend the northern army that could not be easily mobilized in northern Xinjiang to the south, and Li Mu defeated the Qin army twice in the Battle of Fei and the Battle of Fanwu. Of course, Li Mu's opponent in these two big victories was not Wang Qi.
In 230 BC, the State of Qin destroyed Korea, and in 229 BC, the State of Zhao suffered a severe drought, and the people in the country were short of grain, and the people's hearts were floating, taking this opportunity, the Qin State once again launched a war to destroy Zhao in two ways: one route led Wang Zhai to the east of the shangdang, the other route was Yang Duan and the north to Hanoi to prepare to attack Handan, Li Mu led the main force to block Wang Qi at Jingxing, and the only peak battle of the four famous generals of the Warring States broke out in this way, and the "Warring States Policy" recorded qin to destroy Zhao as follows:
"Qin made Wang Qi attack Zhao, and Zhao made Li Mu and Sima Shangyuzhi. Li Mushu broke the Qin army and killed the Qin general Huan Gong. Wang Qi was evil, and Nai duo and Guo Kai, the favored minister of king Zhao, made it a rebellion, saying: "Li Mu and Sima Shang wanted to oppose Zhao with Qin in order to seize the seal of Qin. The King of Zhao was suspicious, so that Zhao Liang and Yan's most important generals beheaded Li Mu and deposed Sima Shang. In the following three months, Wang Qi, because of a sharp attack, broke Zhao and killed Zhao Jun, capturing Zhao Wang Qian and his general Yan Zhi, and destroyed Zhao. ”
Although there is no specific record of the confrontation between the two men in the main history, Li Mu built a fortress to block Wang Qi's army for several months under the unfavorable situation that his strength was far inferior to Wang Qi's, and the army was unstable, so that Wang Qi could only make a decision to make a divisive strategy to make King Zhao replace Li Mu, which showed that Li Mu was slightly better than Wang Qi; from another point of view, if the defending side was Wang Qi and the attacking side was Li Mu, Wang Qi might not be able to do better than Li Mu.
The Battle of Qin Zhao Jingjing was a decisive battle of unequal strength for Wang Qi and Li Mu, and Wang Qi could not win the battle under the situation of superiority, and from a purely military point of view, it was already a victory or defeat.