The Battle of Changping was expanded little by little, and at the beginning of the war, Wang Gong was qualified as a major general
Before the Battle of Changping, the historical records may not have recorded Wang Gong's deeds, but as far as the early stage of the Battle of Changping was concerned, the scale was not very large, and from this aspect, it was reasonable not to use Baiqi.
The reason for the outbreak of the Battle of Changping was that the State of Qin adopted the diplomatic strategy of long-distance and close-range attack, and decided to abandon the attack on the State of Qi, and instead attacked the surrounding Korea, Bai Qi led his troops to capture the Wild King, cutting off the connection between shangdang and the korean capital, for which Korea promised the Qin state to cede shangdang to the qin state.
However, at this time, Shangdang's county guard Feng Ting plotted to pull the Zhao state into the water and unite the forces of the Zhao state to deal with the Qin state, so he led the people to surrender to the Zhao state, and King Xiaocheng of Zhao agreed to Feng Ting's request and decided to accept the Shangdang.
The State of Qin sent Wang Gong to take over Shangdang, and the State of Zhao also sent Lian Po to take over Shangdang, and the two sides had military conflicts in the Shangdang area, and the two sides also increased their troops, and eventually the war expanded into the Battle of Changping.
According to the data on the number of people in the Battle of Changping, we estimate that the Zhao state was killed by 450,000 people, and the Qin army also suffered 200,000 or 300,000 casualties, that is, the Qin state mobilized at least 500,000 people.
Therefore, at the beginning of the Battle of Changping, there were not so many people on both sides, the Zhao army was 450,000, and the Qin army was 500,000 people participating in this war, even if it was a concept of flow, it was also a dynamic concept, not a concept at a certain point in time.
During the critical period of the war, King Zhaoxiang of Qin personally went to Hanoi to recruit all the young and middle-aged people over the age of fifteen to concentrate on the Changping battlefield, and from this point of view alone, when Wang Gong was the main general, the Qin soldiers and horses would not say much.
Bai Qi may have been stationed in the Wild King at that time to deter the three kingdoms of Han, Wei, and Chu
The record of Bai Qi in the Battle of Changping in the "Records of History" is that after the capture of the Wild King, it was stopped until he was sent to serve as the main general of the Changping Battlefield, and there was basically no record before he was sent to serve as the main general of the Changping Battlefield.
Zongheng believes that Bai Qi should be in the Wild King, shocking Han and Wei.
After Bai Qi defeated the Wild King, it is estimated that the Korean generals felt numbness in their hearts as soon as they heard the name Bai Qi, where did they dare to fight with Bai Qi again, and after the scale of the Battle of Changping gradually expanded, the most feared thing for the Qin state was that the three kingdoms of Han, Wei, and Chu helped the Zhao state.
If you think about it, although the national strength of the Qin State is a little stronger than that of the Zhao State, if Han, Wei, and Chu can send 300,000 troops at this time, I believe that it is unacceptable to the Qin State.
If it were not for the fact that Zhao Guo had lost morality by taking advantage of the fire and robbery to seize the Shangdang, South Korea would have helped Zhao Guo by fighting the old roots, and for the Qin State, there could not be any if, and it was reasonable for the White King to supervise the movements of the Three Kingdoms and shock the Three Kingdoms.
At that time, only Bai Qi could shock the three kingdoms, before the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi did not have a large-scale military war with the State of Zhao, the main object of foreign war was against Han, Wei, and Chu, in the Battle of Yique, Bai Qi killed 240,000 Han and Wei allies, in 273 BC (the 34th year of King Zhao), Bai Qi attacked Wei, pulled Huayang, made Mang Wei defeated and fled, captured Zhao and Wei generals, and beheaded 130,000 enemies.
In 264 BC (the forty-third year of King Zhao), Bai Qi attacked the Korean city of Jingcheng, capturing five cities and killing 50,000 enemies.
In addition to the battles against Han and Wei, Bai Qi also led troops to attack the State of Chu, occupied the capital of the State of Chu, Ying, burned the tomb of the former king of the State of Chu, and went east to Jingling. Forcing the King of Chu to flee the capital and flee east to move the capital to Chen.
It can be said that with the record of white rising, the stationing of the wild king is a kind of military deterrent for the three kingdoms.
King Zhaoxiang of Qin deposed Wei Ran, and Bai Qi should have also been affected to a certain extent
On the other hand, Zongheng also believes that Bai Qi should oppose the expansion of the shangdang war.
I have always believed that the Shangdang incident zhao guo did not abide by morality first, and if the qin state can strike through diplomatic means, it will inevitably isolate the zhao state even more, but the war launched by king Qin Zhaoxiang actually suppressed the national fortunes of the entire qin state.
Bai Qi's thinking should also be influenced by Wei Ran, because Bai Qi is the person who Wei Ran promoted and reused, Wei Ran's plan for foreign expansion is to gradually encroach, and the war between countries, although there are mutual victories and defeats, but in the end it is gradually stronger.
Therefore, during the Battle of Changping, King Zhaoxiang of Qin did not think of using Bai Qi at all.
Especially at that time, after Qin Zhaoxiang took power and deposed Empress Xuan and Wei Ran, Bai Qi's political identity in the Qin State was actually very embarrassing, as mentioned earlier, Bai Qi was Wei Ran's person at all.
In order to replace Wei Ran, Fan Ju constantly provoked the relationship between King Zhaoxiang of Qin and Wei Ran, and Bai Qi must have also been affected.
We can see that although Bai Qi later became the main general of the Battle of Changping and made the Qin state successful, he was soon killed by King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and Bai Qi made great contributions to the Qin state and had no rebellious heart, so why he was still given death, the fundamental point is that King Qin Zhaoxiang did not trust him.