History is sometimes so paradoxical, and some seemingly accidental factors often inadvertently bring inevitable results, such as the two "46" days mentioned in this article, which is one of them.
I. The "46" days of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao
In 262 BC, King Xiaocheng of Zhao mistakenly believed Feng Ting's words and coveted the Shangdang land in Korea, and even annexed the Shangdang region in spite of the reality that Qin was strong and Zhao was weak. King Zhao Xiaocheng's move is tantamount to playing with fire, fantasizing and competing with Qiang Qin for the land of the party is to seek skin with the tiger!
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Sure enough, King Zhaoxiang of Qin was enraged. So he sent the general Wang Gong to lead the army to fight, and the qin army's combat effectiveness was indeed very strong, even the zhao army, which was known as a fierce army, was not an opponent.
As a result, the State of Qin not only recaptured the land of Shangdang, but also fought all the way to Changping.
Fortunately, the veteran general Lian Po was experienced, and immediately after losing the battle, he turned to the defensive, and Lian Po wanted to use the method of sticking to no war to drag down the Qin army, no matter how the Qin army called for battle, Lian Po just did not go out to fight, and the Qin general Wang Gong had no idea.
Hundreds of thousands of troops eat horses and feed every day, consuming a large amount of grain and grass materials, but they can only face off with the Zhao army in Changping? Qin Zhaoxiang could no longer sit still.
King Zhaoxiang of Qin
Therefore, the State of Qin adopted a "counter-plan" and sent people to Handan to spread rumors, claiming that Lian was old, incompetent and timid, and would be defeated by the Qin army sooner or later!
Now, the State of Qin was only afraid of King Zhao using Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao Huan, the king of the horse, as the saying goes, the father of the tiger has no dog, if Zhao Kuo becomes the commander of the Zhao Army, the Qin Army will be finished!
King Zhao really made a plan, and actually let Zhao Kuo replace Lian Po.
When King Zhaoxiang of Qin heard that the Zhao army was yi shuai, he immediately ordered Wu'an Jun baiqi to replace Wang Gong in command of the army. It is conceivable that Zhao Kuo, who was fledgling and inexperienced, was the opponent of Wu Anjun Baiqi, who had been in the battlefield for a long time?
As a result, Zhao Kuo was caught up in Bai Qi's plan to lure the enemy, and more than 400,000 troops were surrounded by the Qin army!
Zhao Kuo
The Zhao army was besieged by a company for 46 days, and the grain delivery channel had been cut off by the Qin army. Soon, the only little grain was eaten, and under the persecution of hunger, the soldiers of the Zhao Army had to kill each other and survive by killing people.
At this time, even the Great Luo Immortals had no curses to recite! If Zhao Kuo did not want the entire army to be destroyed, he could only lead his troops to break through desperately.
However, how could Bai Qi let the fat meat slip away from his mouth?
As a result, Zhao Kuo was shot dead by the Qin army, and more than 400,000 Zhao troops all surrendered to the Qin army, but they were almost killed by Bai Qi.
After the end of the "Battle of Changping", the zhao state, which was seriously injured, completely lost the ability to resist the qin state, and the six kingdoms of Shandong became more and more powerless to resist the whale devouring and encroaching of the qin state. In this sense, the 46 days that Bai Qi besieged hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops can really be regarded as the 46 days that affected the course of history!
Battle of Changping
Although it is exaggerated to say that it promoted the progress of the unification of the Qin state, the fiasco of the Zhao state in the "Battle of Changping" did accelerate the pace of the Qin state's unification of the world!
2. 46 days before the outbreak of the "Battle of the Giant Deer" in Qin and Chu
Time took the turn, and 15 years later, the last field army of the Qin State was actually wiped out by the Chu State, which was not as strong as itself.
In 208 BC, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who spearheaded the anti-Qin uprising, were crushed by the Qin general Zhang Handan, along with their "Zhang Chu" regime.
At this time, Zhang Handan and the troops he led became the fire brigade of the crumbling Government of the Qin Dynasty, and when the south was tight, it ran to the south to suppress the uprising, and the north ran to the north to suppress the uprising!
Osawa Township Uprising
When Zhang Handan successively eliminated the rebel forces of Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Xiang Liang, he thought that the south had no power to threaten the imperial court for the time being, so he led the army directly to attack the Zhao state, and Zhang Handan wanted to cooperate with the troops led by Wang Li and Shi Jian to eliminate the Zhao army entrenched inside and outside julu city in one fell swoop!
As long as the Zhao Kingdom is cleaned up, the threat of the northern rebel army to the imperial court can be temporarily eliminated!
Therefore, the survival of the Zhao state has become the key point that affects the fate of the Great Qin Empire as it did more than ten years ago, if the "Battle of Changping" more than ten years ago, the Qin State annihilated hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops and accelerated the historical process of whale swallowing the Six Kingdoms, then this "Battle of the Giant Deer" is a decisive battle that determines whether the Qin Dynasty can still maintain its rule!
Zhang Handan
But the problem was that Zhang Handan understood this, and King Huai of Chu and his military generals did not necessarily not understand it!
Therefore, king Huai of Chu sent Liu Bang, the Duke of Pei, to attack Guanzhong, and on the other hand, he sent the Qingzi champion Song Yi and Lu Gong Xiangyu and others to lead a large army to aid the Zhao state.
Song Yi did have a set of troops, and he wanted to emulate the method that Sun Zhi had besieged Wei to save Zhao, but did not directly participate in the battle. Song Yi planned to let the Qin and Zhao states fight each other and lose both, and then take the opportunity to attack the Qin army.
Therefore, no matter how anxious Xiang Yu was and how to ask for battle, Song Yi just did not move.
The Chu army stayed for 46 days in a row, and the grain was eaten!
But Song Yi was still indifferent, and Xiang Yu felt that he could no longer bear it, so he simply broke into the shuai tent and killed Song Yi, grabbed the power to command the whole army into his hands, and then led the army to pull out, until he was able to camp outside Julu City. Although there were many princes who came to support the Zhao state, they did not dare but did not dare to attack the Qin army.
Song Yi
Others are afraid of Zhang Handan, Xiang Yu is not afraid!
Therefore, under the gaze of the armies of those princes who were sitting on the wall and watching, Xiang Yu led the Chu army, which had only brought dry food for three days to eat, and killed the Qin army like a drunken madman and a milk tiger with an arrow!
As a result, the Nine Battles and Nine Victories not only crushed the stubborn resistance of the Qin army but also captured the Qin general Wang Li, forcing the Qin general to set himself on fire and forcing the Qin general Zhang Handan to abandon the stubborn resistance and agree to join the anti-Qin uprising according to the trend!
Xiang Yu
In the 46 days before the outbreak of the Battle of Julu, it was not so much that The Qingzi champion Song Yi tried to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but rather that it provided an opportunity for Xiang Yu to seize the military power! Because if Song Yi hadn't stayed for 46 days, he might not have angered Xiang Yu and made him feel the heart to replace him. And if the Chu army is still under the command of Song Yi, who is cautious and lacks courage, do you think he can attack the Qin army while others are sitting on the sidelines? Definitely not!
In this way, the Battle of the Giant Deer will definitely be a different story, and how history will develop, I am afraid that no one can predict!
Fortunately, the Battle of Julu eliminated the last main field force of the Qin Dynasty, thus accelerating the historical process of overthrowing the violent Qin!
The course of action of the rebel army
Conclusion: In these two "46" days in history, some seemingly accidental factors have inadvertently created inevitable results! However, the rise and fall of the Great Qin Empire seems to have an inextricable relationship with these two "46" days.