Wang Fuzhi once commented on the Battle of Changping in the Zhao Kingdom: There are good generals and do not use them, and Zhao Deposed lian is quite dead!
Although it affirms the incorruptible combat ability, in fact, it is not fair, the Battle of Changping, as the largest annihilation battle in the early days of ancient China, such a large pot is not something that any one person can carry, all blame Zhao Kuo is obviously overestimating Zhao Kuo.
After the Five Kingdoms, during the Qin War of Monopoly, the only country that could match the Qin state was the Zhao state that had been ridden and shot by Hufu, when King Zhaoxiang of Qin, under the persuasion of Fan Ju, adopted the strategy of long-distance and close attack to attack the weak Korea around him.
In 262 BC, the Qin general Bai Qi attacked the Korean Yewang and cut off the connection between the Korean Shangdang County and the Korean mainland, in this case, the Koreans could only be forced to seek peace and cede the Shangdang to the Qin State, but then the Shangdang Junshou led the Shangdang people to surrender to the Zhao State.
South Korea itself is a small country in the Central Plains, and the most important reason why it can become the seven heroes of the Warring States is that the Korean monarch is good at trickery and communicates with the outside world through conspiracy. This move was obviously to pull the Zhao state into the water when he could not confront the Qin state, and use the power of the Zhao state to compete with the qin state.
At that time, Zhao Bao, the Jun of Pingyang, thought that "the han clan did not enter the Qin people, and wanted to marry Zhao Ye!" “
King Xiaocheng of Zhao attacked with an army of millions of people, and he did not gain a single city for more than a year." Now with the city of Yi seventeen coins of our country, this great profit also. "Decided to accept the party.
If the Zhao state carried out this war by aiding the Shangdang, it would definitely gain moral support, but Zhao Sheng, the Prince of Pingyuan, believed that there would be a war between Qin and Zhao, and it was better to accept the Shangdang, and Zhao Sheng personally went to the Shangdang to receive it, and the strategy of Zhao Sheng of the Plains was that the Zhao State became a country that plundered neighboring countries, but was unanimously resented by all countries.
It can be said that at the beginning, Zhao Guo dug a pit for himself and had already failed halfway.
This move eventually broke out the Battle of Changping, in fact, at that time, the State of Qin was able to unite with other countries and completely divide the State of Zhao, but King Zhaoxiang of Qin had a relatively poor understanding and chose the next strategy, and the Battle of Changping broke out.
After the outbreak of the Battle of Changping, Qin and Zhao increased their weight against each other, and eventually became a battle that neither side could afford to lose, and the famous General Lian Po of the Zhao State lost in the process of fighting against Qin in the early stage, so he adopted a strategy of sticking to it.
In the case of a long-term confrontation between Qin and Zhao, when the Zhao state had a grain shortage, the rulers of the Qin state were anxious to fight a decisive battle with the Qin state, but Lian Po was unwilling to fight a decisive battle, in such a situation, The Zhao state decided to change the general, in other words, if Lian Po was ok, would the Zhao state change the general? Although the spies of the Qin State may have played a certain role in this.
It can be said that Lian Po was repeatedly defeated in the early days of Changping, which eventually led to the change of general of Zhao Guo.
Of course, it is impossible to say that the Zhao State failed, and the main general Zhao Kuo had no responsibility, but then again, during the Warring States period, there were several generals in various countries who had combat experience compared with Bai Qi.
King Zhao Xiaocheng is not a fool, even if King Zhao Xiaocheng is a fool, Zhao Sheng, the Prince of Pingyuan, is not a fool, and it can be said that replacing Lianpo should be recognized by the ruling class of the Zhao State.
Being able to choose Zhao Kuo to succeed Lian Po shows that Zhao Kuo is not just a soldier on paper, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was no record without major events, and many of the information about Zhao Kuo were not clear to everyone, and finally it was only evaluated after the defeat of the Battle of Changping.
We often say that heroes do not judge success or failure, in fact, we are the values of the winner as the king and the loser as the coward.
After Zhao Kuo took office, he quickly changed his combat strategy at the time of Lian Po, but instead sought a decisive battle with the Qin army, and when Zhao Kuo led the army to attack the Qin state, Bai Qi let the Qin army pretend to be defeated and retreated, and Zhao Kuo took advantage of the victory to pursue, eventually resulting in being surrounded by the Qin army.
Zhao Kuo led the main force of the Zhao army to be cut off from food for 46 days, because it was impossible to break through, and Zhao Kuo was killed in the process of breaking through, which eventually led to the defeat of the Zhao army.
If Zhao Kuo can fight steadily and steadily, without risking a breakthrough, even if he fails, he will lose both.
To sum up, the reasons for the defeat of the Zhao State Changping Battle were manifold, first of all, the Zhao army occupied the Shangdang instead of aiding the Shangdang and failed morally; second, General Lian Po failed to defeat the Qin army, but was instead suppressed, which was also a factor of defeat; and finally Zhao Kuo was anxious to win the decisive battle, fell into an ambush, and eventually led to defeat.
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