Bai Qi, a native of the State of Qin, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States, was born in King Zhaoxiang of Qin. The special period of implementing the Shang Martingale Transformation Law and thoroughly implementing the military merit awarding system, as a product of the times,
In 294 BC, Bai Qi had already served as the commander of Zuo, leading troops to attack Xincheng in Korea, and the Baiqi-style annihilation war began to enter the historical stage. In 293 BC, the Han and Wei coalition forces held Xianhan to prevent the Qin army from advancing eastward, and Wei Ran, the prime minister of the Qin state, recommended Bai Qi as the main general and sent troops to attack the Han and Wei kingdoms. After Bai Qi took office, he adopted the tactics of avoiding reality and attacking the weak, first weak and then strong, ordered the main force of the Qin army to circle the rear of the Han and Wei coalition army, defeated the remaining troops in the rear of the two countries many times, and gradually surrounded the main forces of the Han and Wei coalition army in Yique, and finally eliminated the Han and Wei joint army, a total of 240,000 people, occupying all the land east of Anyi to Qianhe in Korea, known as the Battle of Yique, Bai Qi became famous in this battle, and was promoted to national captain, that is, commander.
In 292 BC, Bai Qi was promoted to Daliangzuo, sent troops to attack Wei, and captured sixty-one large and small cities in the Wei state in one fell swoop, laying the foundation for the Qin army to send a letter to the east. In 286 BC, Bai Qi attacked the State of Zhao, captured the City of Light Wolf, and killed more than 30,000 people of the Zhao army, which is known as the Battle of the City of Light Wolf.
In 281 BC, a longitudinal master who made good use of weak bows and shot geese appeared in the state of Chu. He used the glorious past of the state of Chu and the shame of today to inspire King Xiang of Chu to send envoys to the various princely states to jointly destroy Qin. When King Zhaoxiang of Qin heard this, he decided to attack the State of Chu. From 280 BC to 278 BC, Bai Qi attacked Chu three times, forcing the state of Chu to cede Shangyong with a total victory. The land north of Hanshui sought peace, captured the capital of the Chu state, Yiling, burned the tomb of the king of Chu, forced the king of Chu to change Chen to the capital, lost countless lands, and the state of Chu was in a slump until it was destroyed by the state of Qin. The state of Qin took Ying as the southern commandery, and made Bai the Prince of Wu'an, and Bai was famous from this time.
In 273 BC, Bai Qi led an army to attack the Zhao-Wei coalition army that was rescuing Korea, broke the combined army in Huayang, captured the generals of Han, Zhao, and Wei, beheaded 130,000, and then fought with the Zhao general Jia Wei, drowning 20,000 Zhao and killing 20,000 people, known in history as the Battle of Huayang. In 264 BC, Bai attacked the Korean city, captured five cities, and beheaded 50,000 people. The following year, Bai Qi led his army to cut off the Korean Taihang Road. In 262 BC, Bai Qi captured Yewang of Korea, and the road from Shangdang County to the capital was completely cut off. King Han Huanhui knew that Shangdang County was not guaranteed, and decided to sacrifice Shangdang County to Zhao Yuan in order to achieve Han Zhao's goal of uniting against the Qin state. After discussing with Zhao Sheng, the Prince of the Plains, King Zhao Xiaocheng decided to sit back and enjoy the success, accept the seventeen cities given by Bai, and send people to Shangdang to receive the land while sending Lianpo to lead an army to garrison Changping in case the Qin army attacked. This lit the fuse for the future Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao. Three years after the confrontation between the State of Qin and the State of Zhao,
In 260 BC, the prime minister of the Qin state, Fan Yu, made the Zhao state use the incapable Zhao Gu Dailian as a general and secretly replaced Wu'an Jun Bai as the chief general of the Qin army. Bai Qi adopted the tactics of retreating to lure the enemy and dividing and encircling and annihilating, cutting the Zhao army into three sections, devoting the whole country to cutting off the Zhao army's food for 46 days, and finally killing and capturing 450,000 Zhao troops in the Battle of Changping, and the Zhao state has been in a slump ever since. In 259 BC, the Qin army divided into two routes, one led by Wang Gong to attack Pijiao, and the other led by Sima Terrier to capture Taiyuan. Bai Qi personally led the Qin army to besiege Handan, and Zhao was terrified and sent Su Dai to bribe Ying Hou Fan Yu with heavy money. Fan Yu was afraid that after destroying Zhao, his position would not be secured, so he asked for permission on the grounds that the Qin soldiers were tired and eager to recuperate, and Han Zhao cut the land to seek peace. King Zhaoxiang of Qin agreed, and Bai Qi formed a grudge with Fan Yu from then on. In September of the same year, Wang Ling, the fifth great doctor of the Qin army, attacked Zhao again and failed to attack Handan. In 258 BC, King Zhaoxiang of Qin wanted to attack Handan again with Bai Qi as a general, but Bai Qi claimed that he was ill and wrote a letter not to advise Zhao, so King Zhaoxiang of Qin had to send Wang Gong to replace Wang Ling as a general. As a result, the news of the defeat of the Qin state continued to come, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin consulted with Fan Yan, because Bai Qi was reluctant to send messengers to give him a sword and order him to kill himself.
In 257 BC, a generation of famous generals Bai Qi committed suicide in Du Yu, and the official history of the Qin state only left a faint sentence, Wu'an Jun Baiqi died guilty. Until 760 AD, Emperor Suzong of Tang enshrined ten famous generals with outstanding martial arts in history in the temple of King Wucheng, known as the Ten Zhe of Wumiao, and Qin Wu'an Jun Baiqi was one of them. Contemporaries were included in the Ten Zhe only Wu Qi and Le Yi.