The battle records of the four men, Mengtian, Li Mu, Wang She, and Lian Po. Is Li Mu, the god of war, the best

Mengtian (? -210 years ago): Ji surname, Meng clan, name Ten. He was a famous general during the reign of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and was known as the "First Warrior of China". Han Chinese, ancestry Qi, Shandong. Legend has it that he improved the brush, was the earliest developer of the northwest of the motherland, and was the first person to develop Ningxia in ancient times.

In 221 BC, Meng Ten was made a general and attacked Qi, and was worshiped as the inner historian (the highest administrator of the capital city of the Qin Dynasty) for his success in breaking Qi, and his brother Meng Yi was also ranked as the supreme minister. Meng's brother Meng Yi also became the supreme minister. The brothers were y favored by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Meng Ten served as an external advisor, and Meng Yi was always the internal advisor, and they were known as "Zhongxin" at that time. The other generals did not dare to compete with them.

Meng Tian was ordered to lead a 300,000-strong army to attack the Xiong Nu in the north. He recovered Henan Province (present-day Inner Mongolia Hetao South Ikezhaomeng area), and set up 34 counties from Yuchong (present-day Inner Mongolia Yijinhuo Luo Banner to the north) to Yinshan. And crossed the Yellow River, occupy Yangshan, migrate people to enrich the border counties. Later, the Great Wall was built from Lintao in Longxi (now Minxian in Gansu) in the west to Liaodong (now in Liaoning) in the east, connecting the original Great Wall of Yan, Zhao and Qin into one. The Great Wall utilized the topography of the area and set up fortresses to curb the southward advance of the Xiongnu. Later, he was sent to open a direct road for Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tour of the world, from Jiuhuan County (southwest of present-day Baotou City, Inner Mongolia) to Ganquan Palace, cutting off the mountain ranges and filling in the deep valleys, with a length of 1,800 miles, but unfortunately, it was not completed. Mengtian had been fighting in the north for more than ten years, and was a formidable warrior for the Xiong Nu (Huns).

Li Mu (李牧)

Li Mu (?

Li Mu (李牧)

Li Mu (? - 229 BC), surnamed Li, was a member of the Han nationality. Li Mu (李牧), an ethnic Han Chinese, was a native of Berren, State of Zhao (present-day Longyao, Xingtai), a general of the State of Zhao during the Warring States period, and one of the Four Famous Generals of the Warring States period. Li Mu was a famous general in the Warring States period, one of the four great generals of the Warring States period. Li Mu was very successful in battle and never lost a battle in his life. Li Mu's life story can be roughly divided into two phases, first on the northern border of the State of Zhao, fighting against the Xiongnu; then mainly defending against the State of Qin. Li Mu was one of the "Four Great Generals of the Warring States", along with Bai Qi, Wang Jian and Lian Po. He was honored with the title of Wuan Jun (武安君). In 229, King Qian of Zhao fell for the Qin's stratagem and took Li Mu's military power, and killed him shortly afterward; the state of Zhao fell 3 months later.

Li Mu's life activities can be roughly divided into two phases. The first phase was on the northern border of Zhao, fighting against the Xiongnu; the second phase was in the dynasty to participate in political and military activities, mainly to defend against the strong Qin, and had twice defeated the Qin army.

Stage 1: Zhao's northern border with Xiongnu. In 309 BC, during the period of King Wuling of Zhao, he ordered the implementation of the "Hu clothing riding and archery" in the state, and carried out a series of reforms, and the military power was gradually strong, and repeatedly defeated the Huns and other northern Hu people tribes. However, during the reigns of King Huiwen and King Xiaocheng, the Xiongnu tribes gradually regained their military power and continued to harass the northern border of Zhao, so King Huiwen sent Li Mu to lead his troops to take sole responsibility for the northern border. First of all, Li Mu got the king of Zhao to agree that he had the right to set up his own officials according to his needs, and that all the taxes from the local fields should be returned to the general's office to be used for military expenditures. In response to the characteristics of the Zhao and Xiongnu armies, he adopted a series of military and economic measures after careful consideration. He improved the beacon towers on the border line and assigned elite soldiers to guard them strictly, and at the same time, he increased the number of intelligence investigators to improve the intelligence network and provide early warnings. Within a few years, the Xiong Nu invaded many times, but found nothing, but always thought that Li Mu was timid and avoided war. In fact, Li Mu had already set up a plan to lure the enemy in, set up ambushes to annihilate, and ignored all kinds of humiliating curses, while the generals of the border court because every day to get rewarded, but there is no opportunity to contribute, they all hope to be able to serve in the battlefield. Li Mu saw that the conditions were ripe, so after strict selection of 1,300 chariots, and selected 13,000 sturdy horses, 50,000 brave and good soldiers, and 100,000 excellent archers, and then the selected chariots, horses, and warriors were strictly organized, and carried out the training of multi-military joint combat maneuvers. In the spring of 244 B.C., after all the preparations were made, Li Mu asked the people to graze their livestock all over the mountains to lure the Xiongnu to invade. Li Mu was familiar with the enemy situation from the alarms of the beacon towers and the reports of the intelligence officers, and he ambushed the Xiong Nu on their way, and the whole day's battle soon turned into a massacre of the Xiong Nu. The Xiongnu cavalry was wiped out, and the Xiongnu monarch fled with only a handful of followers.

Phase 2: As Li Mu ensured the security of Zhao's northern border, Zhao's rulers and ministers were able to deal with the annexation wars from the powerful Qin in the west without any worries. In fact, every victory in the political and military struggles of Lin Xiangru, Lian Po, Zhao Xue, and others was inseparable from Li Mu's collaborative support.

Around the twentieth year of King Xiaocheng's reign (246 BC), he was transferred back to the imperial court for state affairs, and traveled to Qin as a minister to set up an alliance, which led to the return of Qin's hostage to Zhao. Two years later, King Mourning Xiang succeeded to the throne. At that time, Zhao Xie and Lin Xiangru had already died, and Lian Po and Le Shi had both left for other countries, making Li Mu the most important minister in the court. At that time, Qin quickly annexed a large part of Wei's land, and after forcing Wei to yield, it directed its main force towards Zhao. At that time, Yan also took advantage of Zhao's weakness to rob it. In the second year of King Xiang's reign (243 B.C.), he was ordered to fight against Yan, and led his troops to capture Wusui (west of Xushui County, Hebei Province) and Fangcheng (south of Gu'an County, Hebei Province) in Yan. In the second year of Zhao's reign (234 BC), Qin general Fan Yuzhi captured Zhao's Pingyang (present-day western Linzhang County, Hebei) and Wucheng (present-day western Wucheng County, Shandong), killing Zhao general Hu Luo and beheading 100,000 people. In the third year (233 BC), he attacked Zhao with a heavy army. Zhao sent Li Mu as the general and defeated the Qin army at Yian (present-day southwest of Gaocheng County, Hebei Province). Fan Yuzhi broke out of the siege with only a few of his own soldiers and fled to Yan in fear of punishment. The king of Qin was so furious that he begged for the head of Fan Yuqi with a thousand pounds of gold and ten thousand families. The victory was a heavy blow to Qin, and Zhao was given a chance to recover. Li Mu was appointed as the ruler of Wu'an for his great achievement.

In the fourth year of King Qian of Zhao's reign (233 BC), Qin once again attacked Zhao's Fanyu (present-day Pingshan County, Hebei Province), and Li Mu attacked, and the Qin army was defeated and fled, but Zhao's military strength suffered a great loss. At that time, Han and Wei had already obeyed Qin's orders and followed Qin's army to attack Zhao, for which Li Mu marched southward again to defend against Han and Wei's attack.

In the seventh year of King Qian of Zhao's reign (229 BC), the Qin general Wang Jian attacked Zhao, leading the Shangdang soldiers straight down to the Jingfu Pass (present-day Jingfu County, Hebei Province), and Yang Duanhe led the Hannei soldiers to besiege the Zhao capital Handan. Zhao sent Li Mu and Sima Shang to defend against the attack, and they held out until the following year. Zhao was already weakened by years of wars, earthquakes in the northern part of Daiji, and widespread famine, but the bigger worry was in the court, where the dim-witted Zhao king Qian favored Guo Kai, the Qin spy who had falsely accused Lian Po. When Qin failed to win a quick victory in the battlefield, he tried to counteract him by bribing Guo Kai to falsely accuse Li Mu and Sima Shang of plotting against him. King Qian of Zhao did not analyze the situation and immediately sent Zhao Onion and Qi general Yan Ju to replace Li Mu. Li Mu refused to give up his military power and continued to resist courageously for the sake of the people and the country. The king of Zhao and Guo Kai then spied on him, captured and killed him when he was not ready, and deposed and dismissed Sima Shang. Three months later, Wang Jian defeated the Zhao army, killed Zhao Onion, captured the Zhao king and Yan Ju, captured Handan, and destroyed the state of Zhao.

Wang Jian

Wang Jian (birth and death dates unknown) was a famous general of Qin at the end of the Warring States period, who, along with his son Wang Ben, was the most important ministers of the Qin Emperor in the annihilation of the six kingdoms. His outstanding military commanding skills made him one of the four most famous generals of the Warring States period, along with Bai Qi, Li Mu and Lian Po.

The earliest recorded battle of Wang Jian took place in the eleventh year of Qin's reign (236 BC), when he led an attack on Zhao's Xiongnu, and after leading the army for only eighteen days, he sent the lieutenants who were less than a hundred stone back home, and chose two of the original army's ten to stay with him, and the result was that those who stayed behind were the best of the best in the army. Wang Jian captured the Xiongnu and nine cities of Zhao with this elite force, which had a high morale. In the 18th year of Qin's reign (229 BC), Wang Jian sent his troops from the county down to the defile and echoed with Yang Duanhe's army. He prepared to attack and destroy Zhao in one fell swoop. As a result, he met Li Mu, a famous general of Zhao, and held each other for more than a year, but could not win, and the situation was very bad. So the Qin army used a trick to make the king of Zhao kill Li Mu. After the death of Li Mu, Wang Jian marched forward with great force and defeated the Zhao army, and killed Zhao Onion, the main general of the Zhao army, captured Dongyang of Zhao, captured Zhao Wang Qian, and the original various lands of Zhao were entered into the Qin land, which became the county of Qin.

In the twelfth year of Qin Wangzheng's reign (235 BC), the historically famous Jing Ke assassination of the King of Qin took place, after Jing Ke's failure. Qin Wangzheng utilized this opportunity and sent Wang Jian to lead an army to attack Yan. The army was led by Prince Dan of Yan, who finally lost at the Yishui River where Jing Ke was sent off. Wang Jian took advantage of the situation and captured the capital city of Yan, Ji, and took the head of Prince Dan. King Xi of Yan fled to Liaodong, and the state of Yan was destroyed in name only. In the twenty-second year of Qin's reign (225 BC), the king of Qin sent Wang Jian's son Wang Ben to attack Chu and defeated the Chu army. Then Wang Ben's army quickly went north and attacked Wei, finally flooding the city of Daliang with water from the Yellow River and the Great Ditch, and destroying the city. The king of Wei surrendered. Then Wang Ben pacified all parts of Wei and set up Dang County to the east of Wei land.

In the twenty-first year of Qin Wangzheng's reign, he suggested to attack Chu with an army of 600,000, which was not adopted by the king of Qin. Later, due to the loss of the Qin army, Qin Wangzheng asked Wang Jian to come back. In the 23rd year, Wang Jian led a 600,000-strong Qin army to attack Chu, marching to Pingji (present-day Henan Province) and defeating the Chu army. In the 24th year, he destroyed the state of Chu.

In the second year after the destruction of Chu, Wang Jian's army continued his campaign against the Hundred Yue. In the second year after the destruction of Chu, Wang Jian's army continued to conquer Baiyue, and pacified the south of the Yangtze River, subduing the king of Yue. At this time, Wang Jian's son Wang Ben, he and Li Xin also attacked Liaodong, captured Yan Wangxi, Yan died. He also attacked Dai and captured King Jia of Dai.

In the twenty-sixth year of Qin's reign (221 BC), Wang Ben attacked Linzi, the capital of Qi, and captured the king of Qi, who was the last of the six kingdoms to fall. The last of the six kingdoms of Qi also fell. After the fall of Qi, Qin unified China. The other five states, except Han, were all taken care of by the father and his son. This is a rare feat in the thousands of years of Chinese history.

Lian Po

Lian Po (327 BC - 243 BC) was a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He was a famous general of the State of Zhao at the end of the Warring States period, and was one of the "Four Famous Generals of the Warring States" together with Bai Qi, Wang Jian and Li Mu. He was mainly active during the periods of King Huiwen of Zhao (298-266 BC), King Xiaocheng of Zhao (266-245 BC), and King Mansion of Zhao (245-236 BC). Lian Po's tomb, located in today's Shou County, Anhui Province, Bakong Mountain, Jijia Ying cattle on the south-western slope of the mountain, commonly known as "quite ancient pile".

Since the history books of all the countries have been burned by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, there is not much historical information about Lian Po.

At the beginning of the reign of King Huiwen of Zhao, Qi was the strongest of the six eastern states, and Qi and Qin were the most powerful states in the east and west. Qin wanted to go east to expand its power, and Zhao was the first to bear the brunt. In order to remove the obstacles, the king of Qin sent troops to attack Zhao many times. Lian Po led the Zhao army to defeat the Qin army repeatedly, forcing Qin to change its strategy and implement a joint column, and then met with Zhao in the 14th year of King Huiwen (285 BC) in Zhongyang (present-day Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province, west of China) to make peace. In the 14th year of King Hui Wen, he made peace with Zhao in Zhongyang (west of Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province), and then united the divisions of Han, Yan, Wei, and Zhao*** in a crusade against Qi, which resulted in a great defeat of the Qi army. Among them, Lian Po led the Zhao army to attack Qi in 283 years before King Huiwen of Zhao, and drove deep into Qi's territory and captured Yang Jin, which shook the vassals and made Zhao the top of the six states. Lian Po returned to the imperial court and was appointed as a senior minister (senior minister was a high-ranking title at that time), and the Qin state did not dare to attack the state of Zhao, precisely because of Lian Po's power. Since then, Lian Po led the army to war, the defense must be solid, the attack must be taken, almost a hundred battles, shocking the countries.