The State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with a period of eight hundred years! Splendid culture and many famous kings have always influenced the situation in the Central Plains! Even in the last forty years after the Battle of Changping, when the Qin state had become a unified force, the Chu state still struggled to maintain a stalemate! It was almost stronger, and after Zhao Guo, he once again took over the banner of anti-Qin!
The reason for this situation is, on the one hand, because of the excellent qualities of the blue wisps of the Chu Kingdom and the Qishan Forest left behind by the ancestors of the Chu Kingdom, on the other hand, it can also be said that it originates from the generational enmity between Qin and Chu!
Figure 1, the long history and culture of the Chu state
Although the two countries also spent a long honeymoon in the Spring and Autumn Period, due to the fierce annexation war in the middle and late period of the Warring States and the turbulent international situation, it was inevitable to turn against each other in the end! This intensification of this contradiction was fully manifested during the period from King Huai to King Xiang of Qing: King Huai died in Qin after three years of entering Qin and did not return to Qin; during the period of King Xiang of Qi, he was flooded by Qin and flooded the city, burned the tomb of the king, and attacked the capital of the country, all of which are ironclad evidence of Qin Chu's blood and deep hatred! This is also the fundamental reason why King Huai of the late Qin Dynasty and Xiang Yu vowed to destroy Qin Fuchu and avenge their families!
During the more than twenty years of the reign of King Kao Lie, the last male lord of the Chu Kingdom, qin still made the last effort in the face of qin and chu generations of grievances and the international situation in which Qin had achieved absolute superiority over the six kingdoms!
Figure 2, Chu Kao Lie King Xiong finished
The last forty years of the Chu State in the Warring States also happened to run through his entire ruling career! During his reign, he reused Huang Xie, twice joined forces, and finally moved the capital to Shouchun to avoid the Qin state! Although he had been trying to maintain the situation, Qin's superiority over the Six Kingdoms had been achieved, and the Chu State was eventually doomed! Even so, he still left a strong mark in history!
And the State of Chu died in Qin in 223 BC, pushing forward forty years, just in the last year of the King of Xiang, King Kaolie ascended the throne the following year, it can be said that he also accompanied the State of Chu through the last half of the years!
Forty years, not long or short, but that was almost half a century! With the chu state, it can also be said that the six kingdoms can persist for decades even if the qin state has gained absolute superiority after Changping? As a result, King Zhaoxiang of the Qin State still could not unify the six kingdoms after decades of outstanding political achievements? I think that although there are reasons why the six kingdoms are struggling to maintain, the main reason is that the Chu state in the last few decades, especially during the period of King Kaolie, played a certain role in inhibiting the Qin state!
Figure 3, Flag of the Chu State
Typical examples such as the aid of Zhao Quelu during the period of King Kaolie, the two joint efforts to aid Zhao, as the name suggests, is to rescue the Zhao state after Changping, which has lost all the elite in the country! And in the same year that King Kaolie ascended the throne, King Zhaoxiang of the State of Qin had already purged the forces of Empress Xuan and his uncle Marquis Wei Ran in one fell swoop for several years! Coupled with Fan Sui's long-distance and close attack, he saw hope in unifying the world and began to frantically attack Han and Wei! It was in this year that the Wild King of Korea was attacked by Bai Qi, causing the connection between Shangdang and the Korean capital Xinzheng to be severed, and the Korean monarch pretended to give the fat meat of the Qin state to his long-time enemy Zhao Guo! It was this move that triggered the most tragic battle of the Warring States period, the Battle of Changping, and finally the later Wei Chu aided Zhao. The great battle lasted for three years, and by July 260 BC, King Xiaocheng of Zhao, dissatisfied with the defensive tactics of Lianpo, exchanged zhao kuo for an attack, and was finally surrounded by the famous Qin general Bai Qi for forty-six days. In the middle, although Zhao Kuo repeatedly commanded his pro-army to break through, he was still killed by the Qin army's random arrows!
Figure 4, like the Battle of Changping in Shura Purgatory
After that, the Zhao army surrendered to the Qin army in despair, Bai Qi ordered all of them to be executed, 450,000 first-level giant Jingguan rose from the ground, Wu Anjun looked at the world like a god, the prestige shocked the world, and there was no barrier in the east of the Qin Kingdom! King Zhaoxiang of Qin also quickly exposed his ambition to swallow the world - to destroy Zhao. At this moment, King Kaolie also realized that once the Zhao Kingdom was destroyed by Qin, the Three Jins would exist in name only, and Qi Chu could only be reduced to fish and meat! The prophecy that "although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu" may be forty years earlier, so it is absolutely impossible for the Qin state to attack Handan!
It was with this idea in mind that in 257 BC, after the Qin army besieged Handan, he directed himself to perform a zhao state pingyuan jun to the chu state to ask for help, and then let the plain junmen Mao Sui threaten his own trick, pretending to be coerced and immediately let Chunshen Jun Huang Xie be the commander, and the Chu duke Jingyang led the army to save Zhao. The reason why he said that he directed himself and acted himself, we can appropriately restore the situation at that time: the wrath of the Son of Heaven bleeds for thousands of miles, and there are millions of corpses, and a mere doorman can walk within five steps of the King of Chu? Why didn't Plain Jun stop it? If you really want to kill the King of Chu, then Zhao Guo will face the attack of Qin Chu, the strongest two countries at that time, and the country will not be afraid of the destruction of the family? According to the historical records of Pingyuan Jun, he is not so bloody, right? If all this doesn't make sense, why? In fact, if we look at what King Kaolie did later, we can see that he was a man of great talent. If Pingyuan Jun and King Kao Lie had reached a tacit agreement to save Zhao, wouldn't it make sense to just play such a play to show the Qin State? King Kao Lie just let the Qin state know: the Chu state to save Zhao is also forced, in case the Zhao state is destroyed, then the Qin state attacks Chu, there can be more room for maneuver! I think this is in line with human nature and common sense! However, I am not opposed to the creation of so many flesh-and-blood historical figures in the real history books, and they are also to carry forward the various excellent spirits of the ancestors!
Figure 5, Self-nomination of Mao
Later, with the lessons of King Chu Kaolie, the State of Wei also learned from it, so there was a famous Xinling Jun who stole a charm to save Zhao. It is estimated that the psychological activity of the King of Wei at that time was like this: everything was the fault of Xin Lingjun, and there was no half-cent relationship with me and Wei Guo! Our brothers have long been at odds, you see? After he saved Zhao, he did not dare to return to China to see me, and lived in Zhao Guo for a long time!
So we can also see above: the treacherous Warring States want to survive and protect the foundation, and no monarch is a sheep and a soft persimmon! We often say that the faint-hearted Kings of Wei Hui, Chu Huai, and Qi Min were the first of the nations during their reigns. Even though they are not, there is still something to be desired, so it must be comprehensive to see people!
After that, we all know the ending, this military operation between King Kaolie and Xin Lingjun was very successful: the Qin army was defeated under the city of Handan, 20,000 Qin troops were captured, and the Qin general Zheng Anping was surrendered! Korea reinstated the Party! King Zhaoxiang has no hope of unifying the six kingdoms!
Historia. The Chu Shijia also clearly recorded this rescue operation:
In the sixth year, Qin besieged Handan, Zhao told Chu that He was anxious, and Chu sent the general Jingyang to save Zhao. Seven years, to the new middle school. Qin Bing went.
In just ten short numbers, the Battle of Handan between the Qin Army and the Three Kingdoms jumped out of the paper, although after this battle, the Qin State declined, but after the Battle of Changping, it has formed an absolute advantage over the Six Kingdoms of Shandong! Even though the Xinling King and the King of Kaolie of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong organized two joint expeditions in 247 BC and 241 BC respectively, King Kaolie took advantage of the fact that the countries had no time to take care of it and destroyed the old princely state of Lu, which lasted for hundreds of years from the Spring and Autumn To the Warring States, and was unable to return to heaven! And King Kaolie also moved the capital to Shouchun after the last joint venture to avoid the Qin army!!
Figure 6, Chun Shenjun who assisted King Kaolie in destroying Lu
Looking at the international situation faced by the State of Chu during the reign of King Kaolie, the State of Qin had formed a monopoly advantage over the Six Kingdoms, but he still single-handedly led the Six Kingdoms in many wars against Qin, and also restored the national strength of the State of Chu! Qin also suffered from Chu Fuqiang, Hengcheng was the Qin Emperor, and Zhonghe was the King of Chu!
Unfortunately, after the death of King Kao Lie, there were no outstanding monarchs in the Six Kingdoms of Shandong to stop the unification of the Qin State, and King Kao Lie was almost a monarch who supported the overall situation of the overall situation after the death of King Xiaocheng of the Zhao Kingdom and the King of Anli of the State of Wei! Rumors spread about the State of Chu after his death, such as that King Chu You's father was actually Chun Shenjun and so on! In fact, in the late Warring States period, such rumors are more than one, the most famous is the mystery of the first emperor's biological father! The only difference is that the protagonist has become the King of Chu You, Hao Shou is poor, and I still don't know what their motives are!
And Chun Shenjun, a royal courtier who assisted King Kao Lie, was also killed by his foreign relative Li Yuan after his death, and the Chu kingdom has been in decline ever since! By 230 BC, the first emperor began to merge the pace, unifying the world step by step, and destroying Korea in the same year! After the destruction of Han, there was no possibility of cooperation between the six kingdoms, and the Chu state could only go with the flow! Seven years later, although the Chu general Xiang Yan defeated Li Xin's 200,000 Qin army, there was still only one way for the Chu state to perish!
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References to the Chronicle of History. Chu Shijia".