Qin Shi Huang in "Great Qin Fu"
In the ninth year of the reign of the King of Qin, the rebellion of Marquis Yi of Changxin was extinguished, and in the eleventh year of the reign of the King of Qin, Wang Qi, Huan Yi, Yang Duanhe launched a fierce attack on the State of Zhao, and until the sixteenth year of the reign of the Prince of Qin, the war between the two sides continued. In the seventeenth year of the reign of the King of Qin, Shi Teng attacked Korea, and at this time Korea only controlled the capital Xinzheng and the surrounding small areas, and in the previous year, Nanyang Shouteng of Korea took the initiative to surrender to the Qin state and sacrifice Nanyang Land. The powerful Qin army easily attacked Xinzheng, Han Wang An was captured, and four years later, in 226 BC, the old Korean nobles in Xinzheng suddenly launched a rebellion, and in order to eradicate the scourge, the Qin rulers executed him.
Portrait of Wang Qi (Qing Dynasty Picture Book)
In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Yingzheng of Qin, Yingzheng sent Wang Qi to attack the State of Zhao on a large scale, Li Mu was killed by King Zhao, Zhao Liang, who came to replace Li Mu, was defeated and killed by the Qin army, Handan completely collapsed, King Zhao was captured to Xianyang and exiled to Fangling, the foundation of the State of Zhao in 181 was declared to collapse, but the State of Zhao was not completely destroyed, and Zhao Mourning King Xiang's deposed crown prince Jia led hundreds of people from the clan to flee to Daidi, claiming to be the King of Zhao and the rest of the kingdoms to unite against Qin. Twenty years after the qin king Yingzheng happened the famous Jing Ke assassination of the Qin king incident, the Prince of Yan Dan, in order to avoid the yan state being destroyed by the qin state, sent the dead soldier Jing Ke to assassinate the king of Qin, Jing Ke carried the first rank of the qin rebel general Fan Yu and the map of the governor of the Yan state to pretend to make the qin state repair, but its purpose was to kill the king of Qin, the result was clear to everyone, Jing Ke died, and Yin Zheng was completely enraged, and immediately sent troops to attack the Yan state.
Clay Pot (Yi County Museum)
Wang Qi in "Great Qin Fu"
Wang Qi, Xin Sheng, and others led a campaign against the State of Yan, and the State of Yan and the State of Dai formed a coalition to fight the Qin army in the west of Yishui, but the result was still a fiasco, and in the twenty-first year of the reign of the King of Qin, the State of Qin captured the Yan state of Jicheng (present-day Yanxiadu Ruins, in Yi County, Hebei) Prince Dan died, the Qin people got the first rank of Prince Dan, and The King of Yan fled to Liaodong. Twenty-two years after the Victory of the King of Qin, Wang Qi's son Wang Ben attacked the State of Wei and attacked Daliang with water irrigation, and the last monarch of the State of Wei, The King of Wei, surrendered falsely, and the State of Wei perished, at this time, only one remnant of the State of Zhao remained in the Three Jin Dynasties. Next, the opponent that the Qin state will face is the Chu state that has dominated southern China for hundreds of years.
The ruins of the capital city of the Yan Kingdom were restored.
Prince Dan in "Great Qin Fu".
The founding time of the State of Chu can be traced back to the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains is in a state of sometimes cooperation and sometimes confrontation, in the twenty-ninth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the famous general of the State of Qin, Bai Qi, attacked the capital of the State of Chu (the ruins of the southern city of the Chu State in jingzhou, Hubei Province) King Xiong of Chu fled to Shou County, Anhui Province, and the State of Chu, which has already eaten nearly half of the territory of the State of Qin, has continued for more than 50 years, after all, it is a big country with a history of 800 years of founding, even when it is destroyed, it is necessary to give the Qin people a little color. The Qin king Yingzheng sent a young and frantic Li Xin to lead 200,000 troops to attack Chu, but was defeated by the veteran Chu general Xiang Yan, 200,000 people collapsed, and seven lieutenants were beheaded by the Chu army.
Pottery vessels (remains of the Yan kingdom)
Bai Qi in "Great Qin Empire".
So in the 23rd year of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin King Yingzheng once again used the veteran general Wang Qi and led 600,000 troops to attack the Chu State, which was almost all the elite troops of the entire Qin State, for this reason, Wang Qi constantly asked the Qin King for land and property on the way to the Chu State, in order to reassure the Qin King. Wang Qi used the technique of deception, the Chu army repeatedly challenged, the Qin army refused to fight, so the Chu army returned to the east, Wang Qi took advantage of the situation to attack, 600,000 Qin troops suddenly crushed the Chu army, and the King of Chu was captured. Xiang Yan also established Changping Jun as the King of Chu, and after twenty-four years of the reign of King Ying of Qin, Wang Qi and Meng Wu attacked Chu again, and when the Changping army was commanding the battle, it was killed by an arrow in the head, and Xiang Yan knew that the Chu state was already doomed, so he also committed suicide.
Wang Qi and Meng Wu once again attacked the Chu state.
In the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Huan of Qin, Wang Ben's army marched toward Liaodong, attacked Wang Xi of Yan, and took zhao jia in one fell swoop, and the remnants of the state of Zhao and the state of Yan were destroyed, at the same time, Wang Qi continued to attack south to seize the vast southwest region. In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Ying of Qin, Wang Ben conquered the State of Qi, Qi Wang Tian Jian surrendered without a fight, and the Tian regime, which had been established for more than 160 years, was declared extinct, and from the time king Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, the State of Qi, which had existed for nearly 1,000 years, was also declared extinct, and the heroes of the Six Kingdoms were wiped out in ashes in just ten years.
Liu Bang in The Legend of Chu Han
Although the State of Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the Qin King Yingzheng unified China and called himself emperor, but the unification of Qin did not last long, due to the chaotic government of Zhao Gao and the decadent rule of Hu Hai after the death of Qin Shi Huang, plus the tyranny of the Qin State, so that this princely state that had lasted for more than 500 years collapsed rapidly after less than 15 years of unifying the world, Xianyang was breached, the last Qin prince infant was killed by Xiang Yu, and the Qin State also declared its demise, but the pride of Xiang Yu, the old nobleman of the Chu State, did not last long, after experiencing the cruel Chu-Han War, Xiang Yu was defeated and killed, Liu Bang became the new emperor, and the world eventually returned to Han.