Chapter 7: The Battle to Destroy Zhao
[There was a time before when Qin attacked Han, and King An of Han sent Han Fei to Qin to persuade the King of Qin to attack Zhao. But this time, King Ying Zheng of Qin attacked Han with the direct purpose of getting Han Fei.]
[This is the man who made Ying Zheng say, "If I could see this man, I would be willing to die."]

[Love, how can I not love, this is the white moonlight.]
[Li Si: Your Majesty, in your heart, who is more important, my brother or me?]
[…Uh…Uh…The previous part is a bit disgusting.]
It was such an ambiguous sentence that Li Si's face changed and he felt a little disgusted.

Ying Zheng hated the cold. He said this because he yearned for Han Fei's teachings, but he had no other meaning.

Liu Che was a man who ate both meat and vegetables, and he understood it immediately. He knew it was a joke made by later generations, but when he thought about the scene when Qin Shi Huang, Li Si and others saw these words, he couldn't help laughing.

The First Emperor is not him. I’m afraid his expression would have changed now.

It’s a bit of a shame that I can’t see this scene in person.

[The second target of Qin's conquest of the six states was Zhao.

The death of the famous general Li Mu foreshadowed the demise of the State of Zhao.

After conquering Han, King Zheng of Qin sent General Wang Jian to lead an army to attack Jingjing, and sent Yang Duanhe to attack Handan.

King Zhao sent Li Mu and Sima Shang to lead troops to resist, and the two sides fought for a year.

At this time, Qin used a strategy of sowing discord and bribed Guo Kai, a favorite minister of King Zhao, to falsely accuse Li Mu of treason to King Zhao.

King Zhao believed the slander and sent someone to replace Li Mu.

With the country in crisis, Li Mu considered the war situation and believed that the invaders were incapable of resisting the Qin army. He refused to give up the military power on the grounds that "a general is not always able to obey the king's orders when he is away from home."

King Zhao sent people to arrest and execute Li Mu, and also killed Sima Shang.

After Li Mu's death, no one in Zhao could resist the powerful Qin army.

In 228 BC, Wang Jian defeated the Zhao army, captured King Qian of Zhao, and the State of Zhao was destroyed.

[If Li Mu dies, who will be able to take over? Even the King of Zhao doesn't use his brain.]
[Guo Kai was also very powerful. Lian Po and Li Mu both fell into his hands.]
[Guo Kai, the number one hero in Qin's conquest of Zhao (dog head)]
[“When a general is away from home, he may not obey the orders of the emperor.” When fighting a war, one must look at the situation. The situation in the Song Dynasty was really outrageous. The generals controlled the situation, and the emperor used battle formations to command the war. If you don’t lose, who will?]
[I can’t mention the Song Dynasty. I get angry when I mention it, especially the Southern Song Dynasty. If Zhao Gou was replaced by Liu Chan, Liu Chan would have become a wise ruler.]
Lian Po was so angry that he broke the table with one hand, "Guo Kai, you villain!"

Shu Han and others were surprised: Adou can become a wise ruler? This seems to mean that Adou will not have a good future, otherwise why use Adou as an example?

Zhao Kuangyin was shocked when he saw the words on the sky curtain. It was totally out of character. He himself was a military general. Although he was on guard against military generals after becoming emperor, it was impossible for him to do anything to control the generals. It could only be his successor.

The look in his eyes when he looked at his two sons at this moment seemed to be spitting fire. If it wasn't them, then it must be their descendants.

[Zhao State was different from Han State. When the three families divided Jin, Zhao State was the most powerful.

During the reign of King Wuling of Zhao, the policy of wearing Hu clothing and riding and shooting was adopted, which reversed the passive situation in foreign relations.

After adopting the Hu clothing and horse riding, Zhao State solved the troubles of Zhongshan State and the invasion of the Hu people.

His successor, King Huiwen of Zhao, appointed Yue Yi as prime minister, Lin Xiangru as senior minister, Lian Po and Zhao She as generals, making Zhao a powerful country with strong strength.

In the late Warring States period, Zhao was the only powerful enemy of Qin in its war of annexation.

[The State of Zhao was still very powerful at that time, but it became less powerful afterwards.]
[Qin used sowing discord, and Zhao was always defeated.]
[Guo Kai was also very powerful. Two of the four famous generals fell into his hands.]
In 262 BC, King Zhaoxiang Yingji sent Bai Qi to lead a large army to attack Changping of Zhao State. Lian Po led the Zhao army to defend Changping. The Qin and Zhao were in a stalemate for more than three years. Later, King Zhao Xiaocheng fell into a counter-espionage plot by Qin State and replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo as the general, resulting in more than 40 Zhao soldiers being captured and buried alive. Zhao State was defeated and its vitality was seriously damaged.

In 236 BC, a war broke out between the State of Zhao and the State of Yan. In the name of saving Yan, King Zheng of Qin ordered Wang Jian and others to attack Zhao. The Zhangshui River Basin and various cities in Hejian within the territory of Zhao were occupied by the Qin army.

Zhao's attack on Yan ended with heavy losses for Zhao, and King Zhao Daoxiang died of grief and anger.

In 233 BC and 232 BC, Zhao general Li Mu defeated the Qin army twice, which helped Zhao to temporarily overcome the crisis.

Li Mu sighed, after all it was only temporary.

His eyes were filled with unconcealable sadness. Given the stupidity of the Zhao nobles, even if Tianmu revealed more, they would only live in peace or pray for peace after the panic, and would not have the awareness to resist.

Zhao She was extremely angry. Zhao Kuo was his son, and his ability was definitely not as good as Lian Po's. He had ruined the Zhao soldiers in vain.

If Han was destroyed because of its weakness, then Zhao was destroyed because of its internal corruption.

The king of Zhao, Qian, was in power at that time. His mother was a prostitute from Handan. King Zhao Daoxiang married her because of her beauty. She was known in history as Queen Zhao Dao.

King Zhao Daoxiang deposed his eldest son Jia and enthroned his youngest son Qian instead.

During the reign of King Zhao Qian, the government was controlled by his favorite minister Guo Kai.

[Deposing the eldest son and enthroning the youngest son, such a familiar operation, could it be that this is the tradition of the State of Zhao?]

[King Wuling of Zhao deposed the eldest son and enthroned the youngest son, and then was starved to death by his own son.]
King Wuling of Zhao, Zhao Yong: Starved to death???
Many common people were also surprised. There was actually an emperor who starved to death.
[Guo Kai was jealous of talented people and excluded talented people.]

During the Battle of Changping, Fan Ju used a counter-espionage strategy, and Lian Po had no choice but to flee to Wei. He wanted to return to Zhao, and the King of Zhao also wanted to use him.

In front of the envoy of King Zhao, Lian Po "ate a dou of rice, drank ten jin of meat, put on armor and mounted a horse to show that he was still useful."

However, Guo Kai bribed the messenger and lied to King Zhao: Although Lian Po was able to eat, he had to go out to defecate three times after sitting for a short while.

After hearing this, King Zhao thought that Lian Po was too old to be useful and did not recall him.

When King Zheng of Qin attacked Zhao, Qin used a large sum of money to bribe Guo Kai and Queen Zhao Dao to frame Li Mu, who was killed.

[Guo Kai single-handedly killed two famous generals, and he could be called the living devil of Zhao State.]
[Tsk, Zhao had two famous generals but was destroyed by Qin. It turns out that if the internal situation is unstable, the external situation will be unstable too.]
[Li Mu and Yue Fei are somewhat similar, but one is "a general is not subject to orders from the emperor when he is away from home", and the other is "disobeying the emperor's orders is not the behavior of a minister". Different choices, but the same outcome.]
[If Yue Fei had not returned to the court, no one could have done anything to him, but he still returned because he considered himself a minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it was a pity that the Southern Song Dynasty had let him down.]
[I sent out twelve golden medals in succession. If Yue Fei didn't obey, he would be considered a traitor.]
[Yue Fei was loyal to the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song army and people did not betray him. It was the Southern Song Emperor Zhao Gou who betrayed him.]
[Song Dynasty, great gift, great cowardice, what is loyalty, rebel against him! Wanyan Gou is not worthy!]

[It’s frustrating to mention the Song Dynasty. No matter how prosperous the culture and economy are, the military is lame and they can’t even hold their heads up.]
Wanyan Gou? His surname was actually changed by later generations. This emperor must have been extremely incompetent.

Seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin was very angry, but only because of his good health did he not faint from anger.

What a big gift, what a coward. He could probably guess it without Tianmu explaining it.

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(End of this chapter)