What was the course of the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping?

What was the course of the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping?

In 260 BC, a large-scale war broke out between Qin and Zhao in Changping, which was later called the battle of Changping. The scale of the battle was huge, and the Zhao army was almost wiped out.

China is one of the oldest countries in history, and has left many cultural treasures in the long river of history, and these great historical cultures have left countless precious wealth to future generations. On July 5, 2020, a farmer in Gaoping City, Shanxi Province discovered a major historical relic that shocked the whole country and even the world. The biggest discovery began in the banded bone layer. After a long study, archaeologists finally found it from this banded skeleton layer. This is the trace left by the Qin-Zhao war more than two thousand years ago.

Everyone should know the battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao. Yes, this is the war. During the war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the two armies suffered heavy losses and died in the battlefield. This banded skeleton layer is where the fallen soldiers were buried at that time. After thousands of years of evolution, the land has formed a skeleton layer.

These tens of thousands of layers of bones have also attracted the attention of people from all walks of life, and the history of the battle of Changping has been reopened. The bones all over the hills in Gaoping City are enough to illustrate the tragic degree of the war at that time, and the battle of Changping was also the largest annihilation war in China's history. Let's talk about the course of the battle of Changping.

During the Warring States period, Qin had not yet achieved unified hegemony. At this time, Zhao realized the military reform of "Khufu riding and shooting" because of King Wuling of Zhao, which made the country rich and powerful and won foreign wars again and again.

As a result, the expanding State of Zhao extended the claws of annexation to the State of Qin, and King Wuling of Zhao personally disguised himself as an envoy and went to the State of Qin several times to inspect the terrain of the State of Qin and make detailed plans for the destruction of Qin by the State of Zhao. Later, the battle of Changping broke out because Zhao's acceptance of Shangdang completely angered Qin.

Qin captured Shangdang first, which not only gave a warning to South Korea, which was eyeing Qin, but also killed Zhao's morale. The end of Shangdang War also marked the beginning of Changping Campaign. In 260 BC, Lian Po led troops to attack Qin, but Qin's army was not a vegetarian.

After many battles, Lian Po was defeated by the generals of the State of Qin, and later went out personally, but the result was of no help. After repeated wars and defeats, Zhao could only make peace with Qin, and Qin had his own next plan for hypocrisy and negotiation, which made him isolated.

Later, the battle of Changping ended, and Qin temporarily suffered the battle of Tian Lei, known as the "military god". When Zhao Haoqi saw this, he also sent battle-hardened Lian Po instead of him, and sent an armchair strategist to Zhao Kuo.

In fact, Zhao Haoqi and Cheng Xiao changed to Lian Po this time, not only because he was betrayed by the Prime Minister of Qin, but also because he expressed anger at Lian Po's repeated defeats, so he insisted on replacing Lian Po with Zhao Kuo despite the obstruction of Lin Xiangru and Zhao Kuo's mother. As expected, Zhao Kuo was defeated in vain.

After more than 40 days of food shortage, Zhao appeared cannibalism in the army, and even many soldiers began to bite their companions. At this time, Zhao repeatedly failed to break through. Finally, Zhao Kuo had to lead troops to break through, which ended in failure. Zhao Kuo was also shot to death, and all the remaining Zhao Shibing surrendered under the guidance of the White Army.

In the end, the three-year battle of Changping ended in Qin Jun's victory. Qin Jun and Zhao both sent more than 400,000 troops in this war. In the end, Zhao was almost completely annihilated, while Qin Jun's army casualties only reached about half of the 200,000 troops. The human bones unearthed in Gaoping City, Shanxi Province were the remains left by this war. We have also seen how cruel this war is.

Abstract: The victory of the battle of Changping made Qin rise rapidly and opened the hegemony of unifying the six countries. As a former powerful country, Zhao was completely defeated by Qin, and the battle of Changping symbolized that the era of multi-country coexistence was coming to an end and ushered in the situation that Qin was the only one.

The battle of Changping is the most tragic, largest and historic battle in China's history so far, and we have also seen many military thoughts in this battle. The unscrupulous in the war is also reflected in this battle. As the prince of Zhao, Wang Xiaocheng can be said to be a completely failed strategist. He didn't have the military thought that a leader should have. It was because of his decision that Zhao was defeated by the State of Qin.