When the Qin state fell, Wang Qi had already died, so how could he come out to save the Qin state? If he could come out, I'm afraid that before he could bring his troops out on the expedition, the generals of the Qin Army would be scared to death!
The "Chronicle of Wang Qilie" says: "At the time of Qin II, Wang Qi and his son Ben were both dead, and the Meng clan was destroyed." Although Sima Qian did not directly say the time of Wang Qi's death, it can be seen from the "annihilation of the Mengshi again" that Wang Qi died before Qin II destroyed the Mengshi. The "Mengshi" is the Mengtian and Mengyi families, and the Mengtian and Mengyi are clearly recorded to have been executed by order of Qin II in 210 BC.
From this, it can be seen that Wang Qi also died in 210 BC at the latest, that is, in the first year of Qin II's ascension to the throne. And we must know that the first large-scale peasant uprising that broke out in the Qin Dynasty, the "Chen Sheng Wuguang Uprising", broke out in 209 BC. That is to say, when the Qin Dynasty really faced a crisis of rule, Wang Qi had been dead for at least a year.
In this way, how could Wang Qi, a famous general of the Qin State who died long before Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising, lead his troops to save the country when the Qin State fell?
Of course, although Wang Qi did not come out to save the country, his grandson Wang Li stood up and led his troops to resist the anti-thieves, intending to save this Yang Yang Great Qin.
The "Chronicle of Wang Qilie" says: "Chen Shengzhi opposed Qin, and Qin made Wang Qi's grandson Wang Qi leave to attack Zhao."
Wang Li, after Wang Qi, the third generation of the Wang family at the helm, a famous general of the Qin Dynasty. In 210 BC, Meng Tian, who was in charge of the Northern Great Wall Army, was ordered to die by Qin II, and Wang Li was ordered to take charge of more than 300,000 elite Qin troops in the north.
In 207 BC, due to Zhao Gao's arbitrary actions, the elite Qin army in Guanzhong was all destroyed by the peasant rebel army, and the six kingdoms that were previously destroyed by Qin were restored, and the Qin court in Guanzhong was attacked from the belly. In desperation, Qin II had to recall the Great Wall Army defending in the north, and let Wang Li lead his troops to quell the rebellion of the Five Kingdoms.
Of course, although Wang Li was a famous general of the Qin Kingdom and a descendant of the world-famous general Wang Qi who destroyed the Three Kingdoms, his military ability did not seem to be so strong! The Great Wall Army, which was regarded as the hope of Qin II, under the leadership of Wang Li, did not have the strength to turn the tide and rescue the precarious Great Qin Dynasty.
According to the "Chronicle of History", Wang Li returned from the Great Wall and fought the first battle to intercept the Zhao army. "Li Liang has already fixed Changshan, and he also reported that King Zhao fu made Liangluo Taiyuan. At the beginning of the second year of Qin II, the Zhao general Li Liang intended to lead an army to capture the former Zhao land, and Wang Li led an army to block it at Jingxing. At this time, Wang Li defended against the rebel army in Hebei, and Zhang Handan attacked the rebel army in Henan, and the two armies cooperated with each other, becoming the two pillars of the already precarious Great Qin resistance to the peasant rebel army that was already scattered.
However, judging from his later performance, Wang Li could not afford the word "pillar". In extinguishing the fire of the uprising at the end of Qin, Wang Li did not have much brilliant performance. Compared with Zhang Handan's brilliant achievements in defeating Wei, Qi, Chu and other countries and breaking Xiangliang, Wang Li's record really makes people feel that he has the reputation of a disgraced general. In October of the third year of Qin II, Wang Li was defeated by Liu Bang at ChengyangNan, and then by Liu Bang at The Bar. It should be known that at that time, Liu Bang only had more than 10,000 troops under his command, and conservative estimates were that the number of Wang's troops was more than 100,000. Under such a disparity in power contrast, Wang Li was actually defeated by Liu Defeat twice, which was really puzzling.
After Wang Li was defeated twice by Liu Bang, he saw that Liu Bang could not defeat him, so he had to lead the remnants to join zhang handan's army at Julu, intending to annihilate the Zhao state and the combined forces of the princes supporting it with Zhang Handan.
However, in the Battle of Julu, Wang Li and Zhang Handan's army were greatly defeated by Xiang Yu's army, and Xiang Yu's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses defeated more than 300,000 Qin troops, Wang Li was killed, and Zhang Handan surrendered. After this battle, the elite of the Qin army was lost, and the Qin court no longer had the strength to resist the zhuxiong at the end of Qin, and soon after, Qin was declared dead.
Although he was incompetent, he at least did not insult the wang family's hehewei name, and after being captured, he vowed not to surrender, and used his life to maintain the reputation of the Wang family's loyalty to the Qin dynasty and fulfill the promise of the Wang family to be loyal to the Qin state for generations.
In the battle of Julu, the Qin army would be defeated, mainly in Zhang Handan's passive avoidance. Because Zhang Handan was afraid that Zhao Gao would liquidate him (at that time, when Zhang Handan and Wang Li besieged Julu, Zhao Gao was already in complete control of the imperial government, and then killed and forced to kill Li Si, Feng Zhiyi and other heroes), so in order to avoid being liquidated by Zhao Gao, Zhang Handan began to passively avoid battle. Because of Zhang Handan's avoidance of battle, Wang Li, who was facing Xiang Yu head-on, fell into the dangerous situation of fighting alone.
Zhang Handan's passive avoidance of battle and watching from the sidelines eventually put Wang Lihe and the Great Wall Army, which had made great achievements for the Chinese nation, into a desperate situation. Soon, under Xiang Yu's onslaught, the isolated Great Wall Army was devastated, the general whirled himself on fire, Su Jiao was killed, and the main general Wang Li was captured, once with a great reputation, and the Great Wall Army that killed the Xiongnu was completely destroyed.