Qin Shi Huang's great achievements in this life, presumably do not need to be evaluated by posterity, have long been deeply imprinted in our hearts. He unified the six countries, built the Great Wall, unified the script, currency, weights and measures.
In history, Qin Shi Huang has always said that he was a tyrant and wiped out his benefits, but in fact, this is the wronged Qin Shi Huang, who first completed the unification of China, and the first monarch in Chinese history to use the title of "emperor".
Qin Shi Huang laid the foundation for more than 2,000 years of authoritarian political structure in Chinese political history, and was once praised as "the first emperor of the ages" by the Ming Dynasty thinker Li Xian.
And I think the greatest achievement of Qin Shi Huang in his life is to unify the six countries and create a Chinese territory for today's China!
Then I will tell about the five generals who helped him unify the six countries, and they fought bloody battles and made great contributions to the great commander of the Qin State!
1. Wang Yi
Wang Yi is in the first place, and he deserves it, he is the biggest hero of unifying the six countries!
Wang Yi (birth and death year unknown), a native of Pinyang Dongxiang, Guanzhong (present-day northeast of Fuping, Shaanxi), was the ancestor of the Langya Wang clan and the Taiyuan Wang clan, a famous general and military strategist of the Qin State during the Warring States period, and Bai Qi, Li Mu, and Lian Po, known as the "Four Great Generals of the Warring States."
Wang Chong had outstanding military command skills, and once led his army to eliminate Yan and Zhao and wipe out the three Jin Dynasties; defeated Xiang Yan and destroyed the State of Chu; Together with his son Wang Bian, he became the greatest contributor to Qin Shi Huang and the destruction of the Six Kingdoms.
Houguan paid homage to Taishi and became Marquis of Wucheng. In the eleventh year of Qin Shi Huang (236 BC), Wang Chong led an army to attack Yanhe of the State of Zhao, and Wang Chong led the army for only eighteen days, so he ordered the captains in the army who were less than 100 stones to go home, and selected two of the ten members of the original army to stay in the army, and the result was that all those who remained were the elite of the army. Wang Yi used this elite army with high morale to capture Yanhe, and at the same time captured Zhao's nine cities.
Sweep the three Jins
After eradicating Lü Buwei and Concubine, the Qin king officially became pro-government, and the war of the Qin state to unify the world began. This unification war began 236 years before the Qin army and Zhao, which lasted for 15 years. During this period, except for the first annihilation of Korea, Wang Chong did not participate, the other five kingdoms were either destroyed by Wang Chui's troops or died for their son Wang Bian.
In the eighteenth year of Qin Shi Huang (229 BC), Wang Yi sent troops from Shangjun and went down to Jingxian to echo the two armies of Yang Duanhe. Prepare to destroy the State of Zhao in one fell swoop. As a result, he met Li Mu, a famous general of the Zhao Kingdom, and held each other for more than a year. Wang Yi used a counterplot to get rid of Li Mu. After Li Mu's death, Wang Chong marched forward like a broken bamboo, defeated the Zhao army, killed the Zhao army commander Zhao Cong, captured Handan, the capital of the Zhao state, captured Zhao Wang Qian, and the original lands of the Zhao state were incorporated into Qin land and became Qin County.
In the nineteenth year of Qin Shi Huang (227 BC), the famous Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin occurred in history, after Jing Ke's defeat. King Zheng of Qin was furious, and took advantage of this opportunity to send Wang Yi to lead an army to attack the Yan state. Yan Wang Xi and Zhao Jia the acting king jointly resisted the Qin army, and the Yan dynasty coalition army was led by the crown prince Dan of the Yan state, and finally defeated at the Yishui River that saw Jing Ke. Wang took advantage of the situation to capture the Yan capital city of Thistle, and Yan Wang Xi fled to Liaodong, and the Yan kingdom also existed in name only.
In the twenty-second year of Qin Shi Huang (225 BC), the King of Qin sent Wang Chu's son Wang Ban to attack the state of Chu and defeated the Chu soldiers. Then Wang's army quickly moved north and attacked the Wei state, and finally flooded the city of Daliang with the Yellow River and Dagou, destroying the city. King Wei fakely surrendered. Wang then pacified all parts of the Wei state, setting up the eastern part of Wei as Dang Commandery
Quelling the rebellion
In the eighth year of the reign of the King of Qin (239 BC), the King of Qin ordered his brother Chang'an Jun Cheng to be the main general, and Fan Yuzhi was the deputy general to lead an army to attack the state of Zhao, but unexpectedly, Chang'an Jun defected at the instigation of Fan Yuzhi and raised troops to rebel.
Ying Zheng sent Wang Yi to suppress the rebellion. Wang sent lobbyists to infiltrate the rebels, met Chang'an Jun, and delivered a letter of persuasion. The king of Chang'an surrendered and the rebellion subsided. Fan fled to the Yan Kingdom. But unfortunately, Chang'an Jun did not save his life later.
At the beginning of the reign of King Qin, due to his young age, the state government was controlled by the state of Lü Buwei. Lü Buwei was in power and cheated with the Empress Dowager, seeing that Qin Shi Huang was getting older and afraid that the East Window incident would happen and wanted to leave the Empress Dowager,
He was afraid that the Empress Dowager would be resentful, so he offered a fake eunuch to the Empress Dowager.
Concubine Yi and the Empress Dowager gave birth to two illegitimate sons in the former capital of Qin in Yongcheng (present-day Fengxiang, Shaanxi), and regarded themselves as the false father of the King of Qin. With the help of the Empress Dowager, he made Changxin Marquis, took possession of Shanyang, Taiyuan and other places, collected his own henchmen, operated in Yongcheng for many years, and established a huge power.
In the ninth year of the reign of King Zheng of Qin (238 BC), Huan Zheng went to Yongcheng, where the Empress Dowager was located, to pay homage. Wang led troops to suppress Xianyang and sent 30,000 elite soldiers to protect the Qin king on his westward journey. After the King of Qin left, Lü Buwei held the state government in the capital Xianyang, and Wang Yi remained quiet, dispatched troops, and waited for Lü Buwei to wait for the opportunity to change. Defeated by the crime of fornicating the palace, he launched a mutiny and attacked the Hu Nian Palace, where the Qin king Huan Zheng was located, which is known in history as the "Mutiny of the Hu Nian Palace".
The King of Qin detected this conspiracy in time, preemptively sent troops to quell the rebellion, pursued and beheaded Concubine, and purged hundreds of people from the Concubine clique in Xianyang, thus involving Lü Buwei, and soon removed him from his post as Xiangbang. Soon, at the suggestion of Wang Yi, he was given to death, and Qin Shi Huang fully seized state power.
2. White up
Bai Qi and Qin Shi Huang are not directly related in history, although it was Wang Yi who destroyed the Six Kingdoms in the end, most of them were weakened by Bai Qi to the strongest forces, such as the powerful State of Zhao, and the State of Chu, who dared to confront the State of Qin, in the end, they were more incapable of fighting the State of Qin. In history, the name of killing gods in vain is not covered, but it is the first fierce general of the Qin Kingdom. Hence placing him in second place.
Major achievements: Baiqi (?) —257 BC), of the Bai clan, courtesy name Qi, was a native of Yiyi (present-day Baijia Village, Changxing Town, Mei County, Shaanxi). An outstanding military strategist and representative figure of the "soldier family" during the Warring States period. Descendant of Bai Gongsheng, grandson of King Chuping.
He served as the chief general of the Qin army for more than 30 years, attacked more than 70 cities, made great contributions to the unification of the six states of the Qin state, and was named the Prince of Wu'an. The merit was high and shocking, offended Ying Hou, and successively demoted officials.
In the fiftieth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (257 BC), he died in Duyou. As another outstanding military strategist and commander in Chinese history after Sun Wu and Wu Qi, Bai Qi, together with Lian Po, Li Mu and Wang Qi, is known as the four famous generals of the Warring States and is listed among the ten philosophers of Wumiao.
Bai Qi commanded many important battles, and fought more than 70 battles in his life, without defeat. The Battle of Yique annihilated the 240,000 combined forces of Han and Wei and completely cleared the way for the Qin army to advance eastward. The Chu army broke through and invaded the capital of Xing, forcing the state of Chu to move the capital, and the state of Chu has been in a slump ever since. The Battle of Changping annihilated 450,000 Zhao troops in one fell swoop, setting the earliest and largest precedent in Chinese history of encircling and annihilating the enemy, and laying the foundation for himself to be respected by later generations as a generation of famous generals. According to Liang Qichao's research, a total of two million people died during the entire Warring States period, one-half of which was reported in vain.
Bai Qi's art of combat command represents the level of war development in the Warring States period. Bai Qi was good at analyzing the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and then adopted correct strategies and tactics to launch a devastating attack on the enemy.
For example, in the Battle of Yique, concentrate troops and break each one; the heart-wrenching tactics in the Battle of Yanying, accompanied by water attacks; The Battle of Huayang ran for a long time. The Battle of Changping lured the enemy away from the existing position by feint defeat, and then divided the encirclement tactic to completely annihilate the enemy army. The idea of annihilation warfare that does not take siege of cities and land as the only goal, but takes the annihilation of the enemy's living forces as the main purpose, and is good at field attacks, and war must seek annihilation, this is the most prominent feature of Baiqi.
He was an unparalleled commander in the history of warfare who used encirclement tactics. He is also one of the military commanders who are very good at fighting annihilation wars in the history of Chinese wars.
3. Meng Tian
After he unified the Six Kingdoms, he defended the frontier and led an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north and build the Great Wall, so he ranked third.
Meng Tian (c. 259 BC-210 BC), surnamed Ji, Meng, given name Tian, ancestral home of the State of Qi (now Mengyin County, Linyi City, Shandong Province), a famous general of the Qin Dynasty, known as "the first warrior of China", the earliest developer in northwest China, and the first person to develop Ningxia in ancient times. Because of its improved brush, it is also known as the "ancestor of the pen".
In 221 BC, Meng Tian was made a general, conquered the state of Qi, and worshipped as an internal history.
After the unification of Qin, he led an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north and regain Henan. Later, he led his army to build the Great Wall and the Kyushu Straight Road, forming a defensive town to defend the north, and the Xiongnu feared its might and did not dare to commit it again. In 210 BC, after Hu Hai ascended the throne, he gave death to the Meng brothers, and Meng Tian committed suicide by swallowing medicine.
After the Qin state annexed the world, Meng Tian was ordered to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north. After recovering Henan (the area around present-day Hetao South Ikezhaomeng in Inner Mongolia), from Yuzhong (north of present-day Yijin Holuo Banner in Inner Mongolia) to Yin Mountain, 34 counties were established. He also crossed the Yellow River, occupied Yangshan, and migrated people to enrich Bian County. Later, the Great Wall of Wanli was built from Lintao (present-day Min County, Gansu) in Longxi in the west to Liaodong (in present-day Liaoning) in the east, connecting the Great Wall of Yuanyan, Zhao, and Qin. The Great Wall took advantage of the terrain and set up fortresses to effectively curb the southward advance of the Xiongnu. Later, he was sent to open a straight road for Qin Shi Huang to tour the world, from Jiuyuan County (southwest of present-day Baotou City, Inner Mongolia) to Ganquan Palace, cutting off the mountains and filling deep valleys, with a total length of 1,800 li, but unfortunately the repair was not completed. Meng Tian was stationed in Shangjun for more than ten years, threatening the Xiongnu.
Qin Shi Huang greatly respected Mengshi, trusted and praised Meng Tian's talents, and was close to Meng Tian's younger brother Meng Yi, who was the supreme secretary of the official Meng Yi, and accompanied Qin Shi Huang in the same car when he went out, and served in front of Qin Shi Huang in the house. Meng Tian served as a foreign minister, and Meng Yi was often an internal conspirator, and was known as loyal at that time. Therefore, the other generals did not dare to compete with them for favor.
Meng Yi had strict rule of law, never favored the powerful, and the Manchu dynasty was civilized and martial, and no one dared to fight with it. One day, the chamberlain Zhao Gao committed a major crime, and Meng Yi sentenced him to death according to law and removed him from his eunuch position, but he was pardoned by Qin Shi Huang. From this time on, the Montessori brothers became Zhao Gao's heart disease.
In the winter of 210 BC (the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang), Qin Shi Huang fell ill during his political tour and sent Meng Yi around him to sacrifice mountains and rivers to pray for blessings. Soon after Qin Shi Huang died of illness in the dunes, the news of his death was blocked, and Zhao Gao, worried that Fusu would succeed to the throne, Meng Tian would be used to his detriment, so he withheld the edict and conspired with Hu Hai to usurp the imperial throne. He also coerced and lured Lees to conspire with them and forge the edict. The "testament" accused Fusu of not being able to make meritorious contributions outside, but resented his father and the emperor, so he sent messengers to give his son Fusu and Meng Tian to death on trumped-up charges. Fusu committed suicide, Meng Tian had doubts in his heart and asked for a resumption of the lawsuit.
The messenger handed Meng Tian over to the officials, and sent Li Si and others to replace Meng Tian in charge of the army and imprison Meng Tian in Yangzhou. After Hu Hai killed Fusu, he wanted to release Meng Tian. However, Zhao Gao was afraid that Montessori would once again favor and be unfavorable to himself, and insisted on eliminating Montessii. Meng Yi slandered Hu Hai in front of the First Emperor, and Hu Hai imprisoned and killed Meng Yi. Qin II sent people to Yangzhou to kill Meng Tian.
The messenger said to Meng Tian, "You have sinned too much, and Meng Yi deserves death, and sits on you." Meng Tian said: "From my ancestors to my descendants, there have been three generations of birth and death for the Qin Kingdom. I commanded an army of 300,000 men, and although I was imprisoned, my forces were enough to betray me. But I know that I should die righteously. The reason why I did this was because I did not dare to insult the teachings of my ancestors and not dare to forget the kindness of my ancestors. ”
The messenger said, "I have only been ordered to execute you, and I dare not pass on the general's words to Your Majesty." Meng Tian sighed, "How did I offend the heavens? Executed without guilt? After a long silence, he said: "My sins should have been to death, and I went to Liaodong to build the Great Wall and dig ditches for more than 10,000 miles, and it was impossible not to dig up the veins of the earth during this time. So he committed suicide by swallowing medicine.
4. Wang Gong
In the Battle of Handan, the Qin soldiers suffered heavy losses, but later made great achievements for the Qin state, so they ranked fourth
Wang Gong (?) -244 BC), also known as Wang Yan (王齮), was a general of the Qin state at the end of the Warring States period.
Wang Gong served as a general of the Qin state after three generations of Qin kings, capturing Wu'an and Pijiao in the state of Zhao in 259 BC, and later besieged the Zhao capital Handan in place of Wang Ling's army, but failed to conquer it. Wang Gong conquered the cities of Shangdang in 247 BC, and the Qin state made them Taiyuan Commandery. In 244 BC, Wang Gong died.
In the forty-fifth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (262 BC), King Zhaoxiang of Qin sent his general Bai Qi to lead an army to attack the Yewang of Korea, and the Yewang surrendered to the State of Qin, cutting off the communication between Shangdang County and Korea in Korea, and Shangdang County Taishou Feng Ting annexed Shangdang County to the State of Zhao.
In the 47th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (260 BC), King Zhaoxiang of Qin sent Wang Gong, then the commander of Zuo, to lead an army to attack Korea and seize Shangdang, and Shangdang Taishou Feng Ting surrendered to the state of Zhao, and the state of Zhao was stationed in Changping (present-day northwest of Gaoping, Shanxi), preparing to receive the Shangdang and defend the Qin army.
In April of the same year, Wang Gong attacked the state of Zhao, and the state of Zhao sent his general Lian Po to lead an army to fight back against the Qin army. Soldiers of the Qin and Zhao armies fought from time to time, and the Zhao soldiers offended the Qin scouts, and the Qin scouts killed the deputy general of the Zhao army (surname unknown, given name Tomato), and the war expanded day by day.
In June, the Qin army broke through the Zhao position, captured two castles, and captured four lieutenants. In July, Zhao Jun built a high wall, but the wall could not come out. The Qin army carried out a fortified battle, captured two lieutenants of the Zhao army, broke through the position of the Zhao army, and captured the western stronghold. Lian Po held the stronghold and took a defensive posture to confront the Qin army, which repeatedly challenged, but the Zhao army could not hold out. King Zhao Xiaocheng repeatedly accused Lian Po of not fighting the Qin army, and the prime minister of the Qin state and Ying Hou Fan Yu sent people to the state of Zhao to spend thousands of dollars to carry out a counter-scheme, and trumpeted: "What the state of Qin fears most is that Zhao Kuowei, the son of the horse service king Zhao Fu, will lead troops, Lian is quite easy to deal with, and he is about to surrender to the state of Qin." "King Zhao Xiaocheng had long been angry with Lianpo, because Lianpo's army suffered many casualties and repeated defeats, but he held the stronghold and did not dare to fight, plus heard many anti-rumors, so he believed that he sent Zhao Kuo to replace Lianpo and lead troops to counterattack the Qin army.
When the State of Qin learned that Zhao Kuo was a general, he secretly sent Bai Qi as a general, and Wang Gong served as a lieutenant's deputy general, and ordered anyone in the army who dared to leak Bai Qi as the supreme commander and shoot and kill. As soon as Zhao Kuo arrived in office, he sent troops to attack the Qin army. The Qin army pretended to be defeated and fled, while deploying two raiding forces to approach the Zhao army. The Zhao army took advantage of the victory to pursue and chased straight to the Qin army stronghold. However, the Qin stronghold was too strong to penetrate, and one of the Qin raiding forces of 25,000 men had cut off the retreat of the Zhao army, and another fast force of 5,000 cavalry wedged into the stronghold of the Zhao army, severing their connection, dividing the Zhao army into two isolated parts, and the passage of the Zhao army's grain transportation was also blocked. At this time, the Qin army sent light and elite soldiers to attack.
When the Zhao army lost the battle, it built a barrier, stubbornly held on, and waited for reinforcements to arrive. When King Qin Zhaoxiang learned that the grain transportation channel of the Zhao army had been cut off, he personally went to Hanoi, granted the people knighthoods at each level, and recruited all young adults over the age of fifteen to concentrate on the Changping battlefield to intercept the rescue troops of the Zhao state and cut off their food supply.
In September of the same year, Zhao soldiers had been deprived of rations for forty-six days, and the soldiers in the army secretly killed to feed themselves with human flesh. The Zhao army, which was already in great distress, pounced on the Qin stronghold and launched an attack, intending to break through the siege and escape.
They formed four teams and took turns attacking four or five times, but still could not rush out. Their general Zhao Kuo sent elite soldiers and personally put them into battle to lead them to fight the Qin army, which shot Zhao Kuo to death. Zhao Kuo's troops were defeated, and more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers surrendered to the Qin army. Bai Qi thought that the soldiers of the State of Zhao were fickle and if they were not all killed, they would probably cause trouble, so he used deception tricks to bury all these soldiers alive, leaving only two hundred and forty young soldiers to return to the State of Zhao.
Before and after the battle, the Qin army killed a total of 450,000 Zhao troops, and the entire Zhao state was shocked, and the history is called the Battle of Changping.
Repeatedly attacked the State of Zhao
In October of the 48th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (259 BC), Bai Qi attacked the state of Zhao in three ways, and sent Wang Gong to lead an army to attack and capture Wu'an and Pijiao in the state of Zhao.
In the first month of the forty-ninth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (258 BC), Wang Ling was ordered to lead an army to attack Handan (邯郸, in modern Handan, Hebei), the capital of the state of Zhao. Wang Ling attacked Handan, but the results were few and the progress was not great, so the Qin state sent additional troops to assist Wang Ling to continue the battle. As a result, Wang Ling's troops lost five military battalions, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin dismissed Wang Ling due to his ineffective fighting, and instead sent Wang Gong to command the troops in place of Wang Ling. In August and September, Wang Gong besieged Handan, but failed to conquer it. The State of Chu sent Huang Xie, the Prince of Chunshen and Wei Wuji, the Prince of Wei, the Prince of Wei, to lead an army of hundreds of thousands to attack the Qin army, which suffered heavy casualties.
In December of the fiftieth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (257 BC), the state of Qin mobilized more soldiers to garrison near Fencheng. At that time, Wang Gong continued to attack Handan, but still failed to conquer it. Just as reinforcements from various countries attacked Wang Gong, Wang Gong was defeated several times and sent messengers to and from the Qin state. Wei Wuji led reinforcements to defeat the Qin army under Handan, so Wang Gong withdrew the Handan besieged army and retreated, turning back to the garrison near Fencheng. Two months later, Wang Gong attacked Fencheng and immediately followed Zhang Tang to conquer the Wei state city of Yining Xinzhong, renaming it Anyang.
In the fifty-first year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (256 BC), the generals of the State of Zhao, Le Cheng and Qingshe, led an army to attack Wang Gong's army and defeated Wang Gong's army.
In the third year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang (247 BC), Wang Gong conquered the cities of Shangdang, and the state of Qin set its territory as Taiyuan Commandery.
In the third year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang (247 BC), King Xiang of Qin Zhuang died, and his son Wang Zheng of Qin ascended the throne, with Lü Buwei as Xiangguo, Li Si as a retainer, and Wang Gong as generals with Mengqiao and Duke Lu as generals, jointly assisting the imperial government.
In the third year of Qin Shi Huang (244 BC), Wang Gong died.
5. Obscurity
Although he could not wait for the moment when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, his repeated battle achievements undoubtedly cleared the way for Qin Shi Huang to dominate the world. Although he is also a famous general of the Qin State, because he is Bai Qi's subordinate, he ranks fifth.
During the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (306 BC-251 BC), he entered the State of Qin from the west of the State of Qi to serve King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
In the first year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang (249 BC), Meng Xiao served as a general and was ordered to lead an army to attack Korea, which ceded Chenggao (northwest of present-day Xingyang, Henan) and Gongercheng to the State of Qin, and the State of Qin set up Sanchuan County (northeast of present-day Luoyang, Henan).
The "History of Meng Tianlie" records that it was Mengqiao who captured the two cities of Chenggao and Xingyang (present-day northeast of Xingyang, Henan) in Korea and set up Sanchuan Commandery. After the Qin state established Sanchuan Commandery, its borders reached Daliang, the capital of the Wei state (present-day Kaifeng, Henan).
In the second year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang (248 BC), King Xiang of Qin Zhuang sent Meng Xiao to lead an army to attack the state of Zhao and pacify Taiyuan.
In the third year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang (247 BC), Meng Xiao led his army to conquer Gaodu (present-day Jincheng, Shanxi) and Ji County in the Wei state. He then attacked Yuci (present-day Shanxi), Xincheng (present-day Shuozhou, Shanxi), and Wolf Meng (present-day Yangqu, Shanxi) of the Zhao state, capturing a total of 37 cities (recorded in the "Shiji Meng Tian Liebian as the second year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang"). In the same year, Wei Wuji, the Xinling ruler of the Wei state, led a coalition of Yan, Zhao, Han, Chu, and Wei to attack the Qin state, defeating the Qin army south of the Yellow River and repelling Mengqiao, so Wei Wuji and other troops retreated.
In the first year of Qin Shi Huang (246 BC), Qin Wang Zheng (i.e. Qin Shi Huang) ascended the throne, appointing Lü Buwei as prime minister, Li Si as Sheren, and Meng Xiao and Wang Yan and Duke Lu as generals. In the same year, the State of Qin captured Jinyang (present-day southwest of Taiyuan, Shanxi) in the State of Zhao. Soon Jinyang rebelled against the Qin state, and Meng Xiao led his army to quell the rebellion.
In the third year of Qin Shi Huang (244 BC), Mengqiao attacked Korea and captured thirteen cities. In October of the same year, Mengqiao attacked the Wei state's clan and the second city of Youwei. In the fourth year of Qin Shi Huang (243 BC), Meng Xiao attacked the clan and Youwei. In March of the same year, Mengqiao withdrew his troops and returned.
In the fourth year of Qin Shi Huang (243 BC), Wei Wuji died. In the fifth year of Qin Shi Huang (242 BC), after Qin Wang Zheng learned of Wei Wuji's death, he sent Mengqiao to lead an army to attack the Wei state again. Meng Qiao captured 20 cities of the Wei state, including Sour Zao (southwest of present-day Yanjin, Henan), Yan (northeast of present-day Yanjin, Henan), Void (present-day Yanjindong, Henan), Changping (present-day northeast of Western China, Henan), Yongqiu (present-day Qi County, Henan), and Shanyang (present-day Jiaozuodong, Henan), and set them as Dong Commandery (zhipuyang, southwest of present-day Puyang, Henan).
In the seventh year of Qin Shi Huang (240 BC), Meng Xiao died at the age of about seventy.
Two of the above five generals laid the key foundation for the future unification of the Qin State in the early stage.
They made great contributions to the unification of the six countries of the Qin State and helped Qin Shi Huang create a prosperous era in China!
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