In the unpredictable era of ancient battles, many warlords and strategists were born. They relied on careful observation and rigorous reasoning, and always managed to win a beautiful battle by surprise.
Especially in the ancient times when productivity was low and transportation was closed, people would give a very powerful person, a kind of divinity.
And there is such a person, he is a brave warrior, a brilliant military, he is known as the first killing god of the ancient times, he is the famous general of the Qin state during the Warring States period, he is a life of prima donna, for the country for the family made great achievements in battle.
But when he was leading his troops into battle, there was a very odd regulation that forbade his soldiers to eat mutton, and what was that all about?
Bai Qi's exact year of birth is unknown, but his outstanding military ability shocked the whole country. He fought in all four directions in his life, serving as the main general of Qin for more than thirty years, and capturing more than seventy cities for the Qin dynasty, and he made a great contribution to Qin's unification of the six countries.
It can be said that half of Qin's territory was fought by Bai Qi. One of the most famous battles was the Battle of Changping.
Sun Tzu's Art of War, everyone has heard of, and Bai Qi is the representative of the military family, and the military family's Dao is notorious for its rigor and logic. So don't look at Bai Qi as a brown man who fights in the battlefield, but his mind is very delicate.
To lead an army in battle is not to rely on good equipment and external objects, but to see whether the core of the army is able to avoid risks, to be surprised and yet to be able to return.
Any degree of carelessness can bury the whole country's elite, wasting several years of national strength.
So since you want to win the war you can't be sloppy, you have to be careful, see through the enemy's movements on the battlefield, and also make sure that you do the best you can with your every move.
If you lead a raid on yourself and do not hide your course of action, and are discovered by the enemy, then it is to change the raid into a siege. This shows that any decision on the battlefield is a matter of life and death, and can only be made after careful consideration.
Later, according to Liang Qichao's statistics, in the ancient battlefield battles, the warring states in the process of the war a **** dead 2 million people, of which nearly 1 million people is the "God of Killers" led by Bai Qi, the war to fight off.
The most famous battle is the Battle of Changping, where he wiped out 450,000 people from the state of Zhao at once, and directly beat the state of Zhao to the point of great injury, which also accelerated the process of Qin's unification of China.
Marching and fighting does not just require warriors to fight bravely, supplies from the rear are also very important, of course, these supplies are naturally one side of the water and soil to raise a party of people, the different dietary habits of each country, the supplies are not quite the same.
Because Qin belongs to the Great Northwest Shaanxi, which is very suitable for sheep, so the meat of the sheep is also very tasty. It was customary to consume lamb as early as pre-Qin Shaanxi.
So during the Qin army's march to war, some soldiers would carry some mutton with them, and occasionally, when they were homesick, they would take it out and nibble on it to relieve their homesickness.
But Bai Qi suddenly put a ban on eating mutton during the march: "It is forbidden to eat mutton." And it also said that the soldiers could only eat cooled food, and the mutton was replaced with beef.
Many soldiers were very puzzled, they felt how even insignificant eating habits, this great general also want to manage a tube. So not many people took this matter to heart at all.
Although Bai Qi expressly prohibited, lamb can not appear in the army, but there are still some soldiers are not convinced, but they do not dare to directly with this great general hard, so they chose to secretly eat lamb at night.
At first there was only one person who ate secretly at night, but the taste of the mutton aroused the cravings of many soldiers, and the people who stole the mutton went from one to a group of people, who met in the tent to steal the mutton and ate it happily.
But what they didn't expect was that before long, a furious shout came from outside the tent, saying that they had violated the military order and were to be dealt with by military justice.
The person who came happened to be Bai Qi, and everyone was emotionally surprised that he was traveling late at night, but Bai Qi told them, rightfully so, that he had expected a soldier to violate the ban, so he came out to check.
That's when a soldier breaks the rules and asks why he can't eat mutton.
Bai Qi, however, was not angry, but smiled and said to him, "You try to walk 50 paces, I can smell the smell of mutton 50 paces away, and that's in the absence of wind, if there is a gust of wind, the smell will spread far and wide.
It turns out that although mutton is delicious and unusual, it is hot in nature and accompanied by a strong odor, and in the later stages of the battle Bai Qi, needed to lead the army to fight an ambush, but the odor of mutton will make the enemy troops quickly alert, so in the circumstances Bai Qi ordered to replace the mutton with beef with comparable nutritive value with the odor of mutton.
After the soldiers realized what happened, they praised Bai Qi as a man of strategy who could lead them to victory.
After this farce was spread inside the barracks, all the soldiers knew Bai Qi's good intention, and this seemingly absurd military order was strictly enforced like any other military order that no one dared to violate.
It is said that Sun Tzu's Art of War is as good as God's, but Bai Qi even considered the mutton carefully, which shows that his military talent is very high.
Under his leadership, the Qin army broke the state of Zhao, wiped out the enemy **** 450,000 people, the history books say Bai Qi beat Zhao to the point of no man. Zhao was thus greatly wounded and never dared to call Qin's bluff again.
In the war of Qin's unification, Bai Qi led the battles can be said to have won a hundred battles, and he was also sent a "God of killing" title.
While he was dedicated to fighting for his country, bowing and scraping to assist the king, he still failed to usher in a good result, and it may be the destiny of an outstanding military man to escape the suspicion of being too powerful for his own good.
Bai Qi, who was finally suspected by the king, cut his own throat and died, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin said to him, "I know you don't have the heart to conspire against the king, but you do have the ability to conspire against the king."
He was also a loyal minister who served his country by serving his country through military service, and he washed the lands he had conquered with his blood, and included them all in the great unification of the Qin state.
Although his end is scribbled, but his name is famous for thousands of history, the descendants have seen his unparalleled military talent, history books meticulously recorded his every battle, folk everywhere in the legend of his valor, use of the army as God, he is to promote the historical process of the builders, but also an era of the sad singer.