After the Shang martingale transformation, the national strength of the Qin state soared, so it began a crazy plan of external expansion.
In 270 BC, the Tiger and Wolf Division of the Qin State was pulled to the Korean border, and after a platoon of troops, the Qin army quickly surrounded the Korean border town of Fuhe.
Located at the junction of South Korea and the Zhao Kingdom, It is a place where soldiers must fight, so the crisis in South Korea is also a crisis in the Zhao State from another point of view.
Fu and geographical location
After learning that the Qin army was sent to Korea, King Zhao Huiwen, the king of the State of Zhao at this time, was anxious to rub his hands. The Qin army should not have offended, but the national security seemed to be above all else.
In desperation, King Huiwen of Zhao, who was in a dilemma, had no choice but to summon the Zhao generals Lian Po and Le Cheng, and asked them for military advice. Pessimistically, both Lian Po and Le Cheng thought the military operation was too risky, so they advised King Zhao to abandon the rescue of Korea.
Although both generals believed that they should not send troops, King Zhao did not seem to be dead-hearted, and he summoned Zhao Hao and asked him for advice. Zhao Hao believed that the Qin Army was not terrible, and as long as there was courage, it would not be difficult to defeat these tiger and wolf divisions.
After King Zhao listened to Zhao Hao's words, he was also stimulated by the surge of blood for a while, and he handed over his heavy troops to Zhao Hao and sent him to rescue Korea quickly.
Zhao Luxury
The Qin army was a division of hundreds of battles, how could they not expect the Zhao Congress to come to the rescue? So the Qin army, which had long been prepared, sent a partial division and was waiting for the arrival of Zhao Guo's reinforcements.
Just as the Qin army was waiting left and right, Zhao Hao, who opened his mouth and closed his mouth to use courage to defeat the Qin army, seemed to be instigated. On the march to rescue South Korea, Zhao Hao took two steps to set up a camp, and a camp was camped for dozens of days.
Some generals thought that Zhao Hao was timid, so they did not dare to march quickly to fight the Qin army. Therefore, there was a lot of discussion in the army, and after Zhao Kuo knew about it, he ordered that if anyone dared to advise those who would fight a decisive battle with the Qin army, they would be beheaded.
Later, there was really one who was not afraid of death, and he came out to advise Zhao Hao to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army, and the result was indeed killed by Zhao Hao.
The end of the war has not yet opened, but Zhao Hao is on the verge of killing the general, which is bizarre enough, right? But there was something even more bizarre later, once the Zhao army caught the reconnaissance spy of the Qin state, zhao hao not only did not kill him, but treated him with good wine and good meat, and finally released him back to the Qin army camp unharmed.
After the spy went back to tell the generals of the Qin army about his experience, the generals of the Qin state all laughed at Zhao Hao as a coward, and from then on they scorned him and no longer paid attention to him.
Just after sending away the spies of the Qin Army, Zhao Hao immediately tore off the mask of the instigator. He suddenly gathered all the generals of the army, and then ordered the whole army to remove its heavy armor and advance quickly with light troops to reach Fuhe.
The generals of the Zhao Army had been recuperating for a long time, and at this time, as soon as they heard the command to send troops, they immediately became excited. They marched for two consecutive days and one night, and attacked the Qin army with lightning speed.
At this time, the Qin army had long been relaxed because of Zhao Hao's previous cowardice, and the Qin army hurried to fight, and as a result, it was defeated and retreated.
Zhao Hao, on the other hand, quickly seized the favorable terrain when the Qin army was in a panic, and finally used the advantages of the terrain to drive the Qin army into the narrow valley, and finally Zhao Jun killed 80,000 Qin troops in a battle and won a great victory.
After this battle, Zhao Hao became famous all over the world for beheading 80,000 Qin troops. On the other hand, the State of Qin, because of the loss of 80,000 soldiers, temporarily abandoned the original plan and turned to recuperation and preparation for the next eastward invasion of the Central Plains.
Off-topic, although Zhao Hao is famous, he also has a more famous son, named Zhao Kuo. Yes, it was Zhao Kuo, who had spoken on paper in the Battle of Changping, and perhaps Zhao Hao did not expect it until his death, he beheaded 80,000 Qin troops, and finally Zhao Guo wanted to use the lives of 400,000 boys to pay back.
Zhao Hao used the way of showing weakness to make the Qin army have contempt, and finally took advantage of the qin army's contempt to win. It doesn't seem like a complicated strategy, but why do you end up winning?
Because sometimes in the game of masters, complex strategies are often useless. Because the more complex it is, the more careful the master is. And simple strategies often play a role, because the simpler it is, the more the master will inadvertently follow his instincts to make choices. For example, after Qin Jun thought that Zhao Shuo was an instigator, he took it lightly, which was a human instinct.
Therefore, the more seemingly simple the plan, the more it allows people to inadvertently follow their instincts to make choices, thus being deceived.
This may be what the ancient Chinese said about "the road to simplicity"!