Hello everyone, here are the seven of 9527. A science student who loves history.
Today, I will talk about the fact that the State of Wei attacked the State of Zhao itself but almost destroyed the country.
In 339 BC, King Hui of Wei moved the capital from the previous "Anyi" (Yuncheng, Shanxi Province) to the "Great Liang" (Kaifeng, Henan Province) closer to the Central Plains, so King Hui of Wei was also known as the King of Liang Hui.
Seeing that the State of Wei had moved its capital to prepare for the Central Plains, the State of Zhao was not willing to show weakness, and in order to expand its power to advance to the Central Plains, it attacked the State of Song and the State of Wei.
In particular, Wei Guo had long been a big fat meat in the eyes of Zhao Guo, and Zhao Guo spent a lot of heart and thought to annex Wei Guo, but he was always stopped by Wei Guo, the eldest brother of Wei Guo.
Under pressure, Zhao Guo had been a petty thief, and from time to time he would come and run, and Wei and Zhao had reached an unstable balance.
However, in 354 BC, the State of Zhao made another small move, sneaking into the Wei State, seizing two cities, and then standing still, waiting to see the reaction of King Hui of Wei.
Unexpectedly, this time Zhao Guo's approach angered King Hui of Wei, and Zhao Guo's practice of slapping his little brother from time to time was very much to break his face.
In addition, after several years of development, the strength and military strength of the State of Wei had also been basically restored, and King Hui of Wei believed that he could take this opportunity to suppress the arrogance of the State of Zhao.
But the State of Wei was in the land of four wars, especially Qi and Chu were looking at this side with a tiger's eye, how dare they do it casually?
At this time, a trivial matter thousands of miles away unexpectedly became the fuse of the war between Wei and Zhao.
PS: Historically known as "LujiuWei Handan"
At that time, King Xuan of Chu was gathering the princes of the small country to make an alliance, and Duke Gong of Lu also went, and King Xuan of Chu began to beat up his younger brothers, so he found a wronged head, Lu Gonggong, saying that the wine of the State of Lu was not good and tasted bad.
PS: Today's workplace leaders will do this kind of thing in order to show their power, and the most common thing is to criticize you in the public office.
It may be that what King Xuan of Chu said was a little ugly, which made Lu Gonggong, who was a duke, very angry, and slammed the table on the spot: "Lao Tzu is a descendant of the Duke of Zhou, a duke who was sealed by the Son of Heaven, and attending the banquet to bring you wine is already giving you face, and you still scold me?" "Say it and shake your hands and leave."
PS: Zhou Metric Ritual Music, the operating system of the Chinese dynasty, is the founder of the Chinese state of etiquette
King Xuan of Chu was furious at this and immediately decided to send an army to attack the state of Lu. And attacking the State of Lu, the State of Qi would join in at any time to help, so the State of Qi also immediately sent troops to help the Chu Army.
On the side of the State of Wei, King Hui of Wei finally made up his mind when he saw that the time had come, and ordered Pang Juan to send troops to take the capital of the State of Zhao, Handan, with the intention of annexing and destroying the State of Zhao in one fell swoop.
PS: Pang Juan was jealous and hateful and cruel to the same door, Sun Zhen lost his legs and fled to the Country of Qi, don't be too jealous
With Zhao Guo's current strength, he could only bully and bully small countries, and he was completely vulnerable in front of the "Wei Wu Pawns" led by Pang Juan, and for a moment he felt overwhelmed, and could only launch a distress signal to Qi and Chu.
After receiving Zhao Chenghou's distress message, King Wei of Qi was hesitant to rescue Zhao Guo.
A faction led by Zou Ji opposed the dispatch of troops, believing that the battle between Wei and Zhao was originally a "three Jin" civil strife, and there was no need for the State of Qi to participate in it, and moreover, the reform within the State of Qi had just begun, and it should be mainly based on seeking stability.
However, Tian Ji, who was at odds with Zou Ji, jumped out to oppose it, believing that the rising momentum of the State of Wei should be curbed, and if the State of Wei succeeded in annexing the State of Zhao, it would become the number one threat to the State of Qi.
After much deliberation, the King of Qi Wei decided to abandon the matter of lu guo first and send troops to rescue Zhao guo.
However, the purpose of the State of Qi was to contain the State of Wei, and they did not care whether the State of Zhao was dead or not, so they did not immediately send troops to relieve the siege of Handan, but instead very insidiously delayed a bit, and continued to watch wei and Zhao consume national strength from each other.
The State of Qi waited like this for several months, and when the State of Zhao finally could not hold back and Handan was about to fall, it finally intervened, and the King of Qi Wei sent Tian Ji and Sun Zhen to rush to the rescue.
Sun Zhen believed that he should not go directly to Handan to confront Pang Juan's army, the State of Zhao was not a small country such as Song and Wei, and the State of Wei must have sent troops this time to the strength of the whole country and poured out of the nest, and at this time the State of Wei must be very empty.
Therefore, Sun Zhi suggested directly attacking the State of Wei, pang Juan could not take care of both the head and tail, and must return to the division to rescue, and the siege of Handan of the State of Zhao was resolved by itself.
Sun Bing suggested to Tian Ji that two relatively poor armies, one to harass Pang Juan's army, deliberately appeared messy, and the other rushed straight to the wei capital liang, making it look like it was not measuring enough to hit the stone with an egg.
Sun Zhen wanted Pang Juan to think that the commander of the Qi Army did not understand the art of war, and quickly returned to pinch the Qi Army's "soft persimmon".
Pang Juan did indeed fall for Sun Zhen's favor, at this time the Wei army had already captured Handan, Pang Juan left a part of the army to defend, led the main force of the Wei army, threw away all the burdens, and returned to the Wei state in a hurry to march, preparing to completely annihilate the Qi army.
The State of Zhao had just been defeated, and as soon as he saw that Pang Juan had withdrawn his troops, he fought back, and the northern part of the State of Wei was in a hurry.
King Xuan of Chu also intervened at this time, sending an army to attack the southern part of the State of Wei.
On the Korean side, Han Zhaohou also decided to aid the Zhao state, so he also joined the team that besieged the State of Wei.
In the west, Qin Xiaogong reacted faster, and had already sent troops into Xihe County, beheaded 7,000 people, and directly took Shaoliang City, the base camp of the Wei state of Xihe, and directly approached Hedong County.
The International Anti-Wei Alliance was re-established, and King Hui of Wei had been developing for many years, but he did not expect to make a wrong step, and inadvertently the State of Wei fell into a situation of being besieged and in danger of destroying the country.
Pang Juan thought that the main target of the Qi army was Daliang, and the main force of the Wei army had surrounded Handan for half a year, and now he was in a hurry to return to the Wei state, exhausted, plus Sun Bin had already set up an ambush at Guiling.
Just as the so-called calculating intentions were unintentional, the Wei army was defeated through Guiling, and the main general Pang Juan was captured.
This defeat came too suddenly, it occurred during the rise of the Wei state, and other countries were not ready to divide the Wei state, so the anti-Wei alliance was fleeting.
At this time, the anti-Wei alliance appeared in Korea, the second and fifth boys, Han Zhaohou took the initiative to meet with King Hui of Wei, apologized, and ostensibly Korea reconciled with Wei again and continued to play the diplomatic strategy of two no offenses.
The rebellion of Korea re-strengthened the momentum of the State of Wei, and Sun Zhen knew that the time was not yet ripe, so after winning the Battle of Guiling, he proposed a truce to the State of Wei and withdrew his troops.
After the countries withdrew one after another, the State of Wei attacked the Qin army and subdued Shaoliang, and the anti-Wei alliance retreated in its entirety, and the wei state's national strength was temporarily maintained.
Two years later, King Hui of Wei and Marquis Chenghou of Zhao signed a contract at the Zhanghe River, the State of Zhao ceded the Hui clan and the Hù [hù] Ze and other places, the State of Wei withdrew its troops from the State of Zhao, the State of Zhao restored the State of Zhao, the two sides returned to the starting point, and the State of Qi also released Pang Juan.
PS: It can also be seen from this that Sun Zhen's knees were cut off should not have been done by Pang Juan, otherwise Pang Juan would not have been able to return to Wei in its entirety.
However, The years of indecent development of King Hui of Wei were in vain, and the upward momentum of the State of Wei was interrupted since then, and the State of Qi has since become a mountain that the State of Wei cannot turn over.
PS: In this battle, Sun Bin created the "siege wei and rescue Zhao" tactics, which has become a common means of military luring the enemy for more than two thousand years.
The wonderful thing about Wei Wei's rescue of Zhao is that in the way of reverse thinking, on the surface, it seems to be willing to seek the near and far, but this bypasses the superficial phenomenon of the problem, thus solving the essence of the problem, so as to achieve the magical effect of winning a move.