During the Warring States period, the seven heroes stood side by side, and disputes continued. In the end, the state of Qin suddenly rose up and annexed the Six Kingdoms. However, many people may not know that in the early years of the Warring States Period, the first to rise was the Wei State, which once destroyed the Zhongshan State and defeated the Qin, Qi, and Chu states in succession. A good start but no perfect ending, why did Wei break a good hand?
The Seven Heroes of the Warring States. Wei Zhixian, Zhou Wen's concubine Bi Gonggao also. After King Wu fell, the seal was higher than Bi, so the descendants took Bi as their surname. In the year of the Western Weekend, the Bi Kingdom was destroyed by Xirong, and the Bi family became a commoner. When the Jin Dynasty was dedicated to the public, Bi Wan assisted in the meritorious service, was named a doctor, fiefdom in Wei, and his descendants were named Wei from his country. After Duke Wen of Jin succeeded to the throne, because Bi Wan's grandson Wei Li died with him, he was ordered to become a knight, and his descendants were Jin doctors for generations. In 453 B.C., the Wei clan united with the Han clan and the Zhao clan to destroy the Zhi clan, and the Jin state was completely controlled by the three families, and the Jin state office existed in name only. During the reign of Marquis Wen of Wei, in 403 BC, King Weilie of Zhou officially named the three doctors of Han, Zhao and Wei as princes, known as the "Three Families of Jin" in history, and the Wei State was born from then on, and history entered the Warring States Period.
Three families are divided. At the beginning of the Warring States period, in order to adapt to the profound social, political and economic situation, and to cooperate with the fierce annexation war, various countries constantly adjusted their policies to carry out reforms, and this wind of reform was initiated by Wei Wenhou of Wei State. Wei Wenhou reused Li Kui to reform the law, reform politics, reward farming and warfare, build water conservancy, and develop the feudal economy. Wu Qi was used to carry out military reform, and he was trained to become a well-known "Wei warrior", and Wei realized a rich country and a strong army. In 409 BC, Marquis Wen of Wei appointed Wu Qi as the commander, conquered the land west of the Qin State, and established Hexi County. In 406 B.C., Marquis Wen of Wei ordered Le Yang to be the general and destroy the Zhongshan Kingdom. In 405 BC, taking advantage of the civil strife, he won a great victory with the allied forces of Han and Zhao. By the time of his son Wei Wuhou, the spearhead turned to the south, and Wei formed a three-country alliance with Han and Zhao, broke the Chu state, captured Daliang, and prepared for the future relocation of the capital to Daliang. At this time, Wei was already the overlord of the Central Plains.
In 344 B.C., King Hui of Wei led the princes to meet the emperor of Zhou, known as the meeting of Fengze, officially marking the Wei State as a new generation of overlords, by this time the Wei hegemony has lasted for a hundred years, but the Wei State is inevitably prosperous and declined. At this time, the pattern of the "international community" had undergone great changes, King Qi Wei reused Zou Ji, Tian Ji, and Sun Bin to carry out reforms, and Qin Xiaogong also let Shang Ying preside over the reform, and the rapid rise of Qi and Qin posed a challenge to Wei. After King Wei Hui succeeded to the throne, he changed the strategy of attaching importance to the alliance of Han, Zhao and Wei since his father's ancestor, and continued friction with Han and Zhao, and the conquest was endless, which consumed the national strength. In 354 BC, Wei attacked Handan of Zhao, Zhao asked Qi for help, and the battle of Guiling broke out between the armies of Qi and Wei, and Wei was defeated. In 342 BC, the Wei State attacked Korea, and the South Korea asked the Qi State for help, Sun Bin set up an ambush in Maling to break the Wei army, the main general Pang Juan committed suicide, and the crown prince Shen was captured. In 341 BC, Qin took advantage of Wei's heavy defeat in the Battle of Maling, and united Qi and Zhao to attack Wei, the Wei army was defeated, and King Wei Hui was forced to cede part of the land west of Hexi to sue for peace with Qin. At this point, Wei no longer had hegemony and was reduced to a second-rate country.
King Wei Hui in the Great Qin Empire.
During the reign of King Wei Hui, the hegemony of Wei flourished and declined. Qin soon took over the hegemony, and because Wei was located in the Central Plains, it occupied a key position, and it was a close neighbor of Qin, and Qin would be the first to enter Wei in the east. In 293 B.C., in order to open the passage to the Central Plains in the east, the Qin army led by the general Bai Qi launched an operation to annihilate the Han and Wei coalition forces in Yique (now Longmen Town, Luoyang City, Henan Province), completely annihilating more than 240,000 Han and Wei coalition troops, and both Han and Wei were severely damaged. Since then, the Qin State has continued to attack the Wei State, and the Wei State sometimes cedes the land to seek peace, and sometimes joins forces to resist the Qin, vacillating. With the acceleration of the unification of the Qin state, the end of the Wei state was not far off. In 257 BC, after the Battle of Changping, the Qin army besieged Handan, the capital of Zhao, and Zhao asked Wei, Chu, and Qi for help. Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, commanded 80,000 troops to aid Zhao, and joined forces with Zhao to break the Qin army and relieve the siege of Handan. In 247 BC, Xinling Jun commanded the alliance of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin, and defeated the Qin army under the command of Meng Fu outside the river, curbing the momentum of Qin's eastward advance. However, Xinling Jun was highly meritorious, and was suspicious of his elder brother King Wei Anjiao, and finally died of depression, and the last hope of Wei was dashed. In 242 B.C., the year after the death of Xinling Jun, King Yingzheng of Qin sent Meng Fu to attack Wei again, seizing 20 cities in Wei, including Suozao, Yanyi, Xuyi, Changping, Yongqiu, and Shanyang City, and setting them as Dongjun. At this time, the Qin Unification War ushered in the end, and the Wei State was in ruins. In 225 BC, the Qin general Wang Ben attacked Daliang by flooding, and the king of Wei faked his surrender, and the Wei state, which had been founded for 178 years, was destroyed.
When Wei Wenhou and Wuhou were in the time, Corporal Lixian, Duo Shiying Dynasty, Li Kui, Wu Qi, Ximen Leopard, Zixia, Zhai Huang, Wei Cheng, united the Three Jins, and Wei dominated the world. During the reign of King Hui of Wei, he pursued his own development excessively and oppressed the allies, which eventually led to the collapse of the Three Jin Alliance, and successively lost outstanding talents such as Shang Ying, Zhang Yi, Fan Ju, and Xin Lingjun.
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