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Bai Qi (? - 257 BC), with the surname Mi and Bai family name, was born in Yiyi (now Baijia Village, Changxing Town, Meixian County, Shaanxi Province). An outstanding military strategist and representative figure of "military strategists" during the Warring States Period. Bai Gong, the grandson of King Ping of Chu, defeated his descendants.
He is familiar with the art of war and is good at using troops. He has a good relationship with Queen Mother Xuan of Qin and Wei Ran, the Marquis of Rang. He assisted King Zhao of Qin and made many military exploits. In the Battle of Yiqian, the combined forces of Wei and Han were defeated; in the Battle of Chu, the city of Ying, the capital of Chu, was captured. The Battle of Changping severely damaged Zhao's main force.
He served as the commander-in-chief of the Qin army for more than 30 years, conquered more than 70 cities, and made great contributions to the unification of the six countries by Qin. He was named Lord Wu'an. His great achievements shocked the lord, offended the princes, and he was demoted one after another. In the fiftieth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (257 BC), he died in Duyou.
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Bai Qi commanded many important battles. He fought more than 70 battles in his life without any defeat. The Battle of Yique annihilated the 240,000 allied troops of Han and Wei, completely clearing the way for the Qin army to advance eastward. They defeated the Chu army and invaded the capital of Ying, forcing the Chu State to move its capital. The Chu State never recovered from the fall.
In the Battle of Changping, 450,000 Zhao troops were annihilated in one fell swoop, setting a precedent for the earliest and largest encirclement and annihilation battle in Chinese history, and laying the foundation for him to be revered as a famous general by later generations. According to Liang Qichao's research, during the entire Warring States period, the Japanese killed two million people in battle, and Bai Qi occupied one-half.
Bai Qi's combat command art represents the level of war development during the Warring States Period. Bai Qi is good at analyzing the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and then adopts correct strategies and tactics to launch a devastating attack on the enemy. For example, in the Battle of Yique, we concentrated our forces and defeated them one by one; in the Battle of Yanying, we used heart-breaking tactics accompanied by water attacks; in the Battle of Huayang, we conducted a long-distance attack. In the Battle of Changping, the enemy was lured out of their established positions by feigning defeat, and then divided into encirclement tactics to completely annihilate the enemy.
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