I don't know why so many people on the Internet want to wash Zhao Kuo's white?
In history, there has never been a shortage of "exaggerated" figures like Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo
Fang Xiaoru of the Ming Dynasty had an essay called "Wu Shi", which vividly depicted characters like Zhao Kuo.
In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos. There was a disciple in Wudi, who said that he was a talent in the chaotic world, and there were few people in the world who could be compared with him. This Wu Shi was particularly confident in the art of war, and liked to talk to people about the art of war, and every time he talked about the art of war, he must deduce sun Tzu Wu Qi.
Coincidentally, Zhang Shicheng claimed the throne in the Gusu area and was ready to duel with Zhu Yuanzhang. At that time, before the victory or defeat of the war was divided, Wu Shi went to see Zhang Shicheng and told him: "I carefully observed the world today and found that there is no situation that can take advantage of Suzhou like Suzhou, and there is no place that can be as rich as Suzhou, and no one's armor can be compared with Suzhou City." But you can't be the king and the king, and you can't defeat Zhu Yuanzhang. Why? This is because your generals are so bad, they are all a bunch of despicable characters! These people do not know the art of war, there is no realm, and fighting is like a street rat fighting. If the Great King can appoint me as a general, the Central Plains are all at your fingertips, not to mention the current Zhu Yuanzhang, a small thief? ”
Fang Xiaoru
Zhang Shicheng agreed with Wu Shi's words, let him be a general, let him recruit soldiers himself, and also warned the logistics management to do his best to support, and the grain, grass, money and grain that Wu Shi needed should not be neglected.
At the beginning, Wu Shi was in the Qiantang area and once made friends with some rogue children. Therefore, Wu Shi recruited soldiers and bought horses, preferring Qiantang. As soon as he got there, he recruited the rogue disciples he had been dealing with, and dozens of them were made officials and became generals under his command. Then recruit troops and horses, rabble-rousers, mixed together in the Qiantang area, spending tens of thousands of grain and grass every month.
Every day, Wu Shi and these scoundrels discussed the soldiers' exercises and tactics, slaughtered pigs and cattle whenever they had time, drank wine and set up banquets, talked about the marquis and worshiped the generals, and laughed at the heroes of the world.
Not long after, Li Wenzhong conquered Qiantang, and Wu Shi and his men fled in all directions, without any resistance. Later, Wu Shi was captured alive and tied up to Yuanmen and beheaded. Before dying, Wu Shi did not forget to nag: "I am good at Sun Wu's art of war!" ”
Li Wenzhong
Zhao Kuo is not like Fang Xiaoru's "Wu Shi", talking about the art of war, even his father Zhao Hao seems to be unable to say anything about him, and he himself is also proud of himself, thinking that he is already the first general in the world.
However, when he really arrived at the battlefield, Zhao Kuo, who was "talking on paper", dropped the chain and, like Wu Shi, became the laughing stock of the people of the world.
In fact, from the comments of several people who live with Zhao Kuo, we can see that Zhao Kuo is "exaggerated" and "unrealistic".
At that time, because the Qin army could not defeat the honesty of the fortified wall on the battlefield, it used anti-strategy outside the battlefield and publicized everywhere: "What the Qin state is afraid of is only Zhao Kuo, the son of Mafujun Zhao Hao." ”
Unexpectedly, King Xiaocheng of the Zhao Kingdom actually listened to the lies of the enemy country and wanted to replace Lian Po with Zhao Kuo.
At this time, Lin Xiangru was already seriously ill and was about to die. However, when he heard the news that King Zhao was going to change generals, he still struggled to find King Zhao and said to him, "Great King, you appointed him because of Zhao Kuo's fame, it was like wrapping glue around the strings and pillars on the piano." Zhao Kuo just knew how to read his father's biography, and he was not a person who knew how to be flexible. ”
Battle of Qin zhao
Unfortunately, King Zhao did not think so.
Then, Zhao Kuo's mother, Zhao Hao's wife, also came to king Zhao and begged him not to appoint Zhao Kuo as a general.
At that time, Zhao Kuo's mother compared Zhao Huo's father and son in this way, she said: "When Zhao Huo was a general, there were dozens of people who were personally held by him to eat and drink, and there were hundreds of people who were treated as relatives and friends by him. Once he received the conscription of the state, Zhao Hao never only had the national war, and did not have his own family private affairs. ”
What will Zhao Kuowei look like?
Mother Zhao said: "Zhao Kuo has now become a general of the State of Zhao, and when he went to the imperial court to meet him, no military official on the road dared to look up at him. The gold and silver treasures that the king had given him were hidden in his own house, and then every day he would find suitable land and real estate outside, and buy and buy without a word. ”
"Therefore, compared with the famous general Zhao Hao's way of doing things, Zhao Kuo is really very different. Therefore, he implored King Zhao not to appoint Zhao Hao as a general. ”
Perhaps because Zhao Hao's fame was too big, or maybe it was because Zhao Kuo's fame was too big, King Zhao still did not listen to it.
In the end, the Zhao state finally had the defeat of Changping, and the elite of the forty-five Zhao state, under the leadership of Zhao Kuo, the entire army was destroyed.
Battle of Changping
At the beginning, Zhao Hao said to Mother Zhao with a sigh: "Fighting a war is an extremely serious and harsh thing, but Zhao Kuo thought of him very simply. If Zhao Guo did not let Zhao Kuo be a general, if he became a general of Zhao Guo, Zhao Guo's army would definitely be defeated at his hands. ”
In this world, parents, who are not looking forward to Jackie Chan, hope that their children have a great future. If Zhao Kuo was not so overwhelmed, how could Zhao Hao be willing to evaluate his son in this way?