During the Warring States period, the general of the State of Zhao, Zhao Kuo, surnamed Zhao, and given name, often associated paper soldiers with general Zhao Kuo. However, at that time, the Warring States did not have paper, so how could it be said? Although the meaning of this paper can probably sum up the general, but before this word came out, how did people describe the general?
Zhao Kuo's origin was very good, and his father was the famous General of the State of Zhao, Ma Fujun Zhao Hao, who gave a lot of military merit to the State of Zhao and fought many victorious battles. Because his father was a mighty general, Zhao Kuo also aspired to become an excellent general from an early age, so he seriously studied the knowledge of the art of war, read all the military books, and remembered them. In order to cultivate his son's military leadership ability, Zhao Hao also attached great importance to his military education. When he had free time, he practiced platooning with his son, and at first he was able to win his son, but as his son read more and more military books, it became more and more difficult for Zhao Hao to defeat Zhao Kuo, and finally he lost to Zhao Kuo. Zhao Hao has experienced the battlefield, he has accumulated a lot of actual combat experience from one war after another, he often warned his son Zhao Kuo, the art of war is dead, but people are alive, you have not experienced killing, so you will say that human life and war are very easy, if you know the cruelty of it, you will not say it so easily.
Although Zhao Hao managed Zhao Kuo very strictly and trained himself very heavily, in Zhao Hao's view, his son Zhao Kuo could not yet be called a qualified general. Therefore, he talked to his wife, he believed that Zhao Kuo could not take on the big responsibility, if in the future The King of Zhao wanted to let Zhao Kuo go to the battlefield, then this battle zhao guo was very likely to lose.
Regarding Zhao Kuo, the most famous is the "Battle of Changping" that determined the fate of zhao guo and the warring states of qixiong. In this war, a contest was fought between the two most powerful states, the State of Qin and the State of Zhao, and in the end, although the State of Qin won the victory, Bai Qi said that the battle itself was actually a narrow victory. Since the opponents summed up their achievements in this way, does that mean that Zhao Kuo, the general of the Zhao Kingdom, is not what everyone imagines, and will only talk about soldiers on paper?
At that time, it was the time when the Zhao state was filial to the king, and among the princely states, only the Zhao state and the Qin state were two powerful countries, and the rest of the countries were reduced to second-class countries in successive wars. The so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and there will be a big war between the two strong people one day, and the Battle of Changping is this turning point. The Qin army and the Zhao army confronted each other in Changping for three years, at this time, although the Zhao state was powerful, there were not many people available in the DPRK, the famous general Zhao Hao was already dead, the prime minister Lin Xiangru was also sick in bed, and only one veteran general, Lian Po, could still use it slightly. Helplessly, the two armies had been fighting each other in Changping for too long, and the Zhao army was not invincible to the Qin army, no matter how the Qin army called for war, it should not be. In order to solve the current dilemma, the Qin army sent spies to king Zhao's side to say incorruptible and small words, and the unjust and honest were quite passive and slack. King Zhao believed the words of the traitors and repeatedly ordered Lian Po to take the initiative to meet the battle.
King Zhao did this for two reasons, one was that he did not believe in Lianpo and felt that Lianpo's attitude was not good. Second, he heard that the Qin army was not afraid of Lian Po but was afraid of General Zhao Kuo, so he made the young Zhao Kuo the commander of the army that was almost the entire strength of the Zhao state this time. Zhao Kuo knew that the reason why King Zhao would replace Lian Po with himself was because he hated Lian Po for not being active in fighting, no, he had just taken office, and King Zhao had sent people many times to urge him to hurry up and send troops. There was no way, Zhao Kuo could only draw up a battle plan suitable for active attack first. After Zhao Kuo arrived on the battlefield, he adopted the strategy of luring the enemy and divided the Zhao army into three small teams, with the intention of luring the Qin army into the situation. However, the generals of the Qin army changed to Bai Qi, who saw through Zhao Kuo's plot, and also adopted the strategy of enticing the enemy, pretending to be defeated, and when the Zhao army chased after the Qin army, the Qin army cut off the food and grass of the Zhao army behind its back and surrounded Zhao Kuo and others. Zhao Kuo was trapped for more than forty days and was killed during the breakout. However, although Zhao Kuo failed, the army that could still organize discipline after forty days of food shortage shows that Zhao Kuo's command ability is very good, and he is not an incompetent person.