The Warring States of Myth: I Am Zhao Kuo

Historically, Confucian scholars held vastly different attitudes towards Zhao Kuo and Li Ling. Li Ling's defeat and surrender to a foreign tribe (the Xiongnu) garnered sympathy, while Zhao Kuo's defeat and death were ridiculed. This was because Zhao Kuo's defeat to the Qin state allowed Qin to further develop and eventually unify China; therefore, opposing the "tyrannical Qin" was politically…

I paid for a chapter specifically so that I could leave a comment. Frankly speaking, Zhao Kuo was an idiot. Many people say that Zhao Kuo brought down the Qin army. I just laugh. On the main battlefield, the entire Qin army was annihilated. So what if the enemy was weakened?

Bai Qi can die, but he cannot be defeated, much less surrender. Don't ruin his image.

I paid for a comment specifically to write this; so many people trying to defend Zhao Kuo, but it's impossible to erase his name from the truth. I'll just mention a few points that are widely touted online. Firstly, the very idea of replacing Zhao Kuo is absurd. The claim that Zhao was attacking because it was starving is completely ridiculous. While Zhao was indeed short of food, so was Qin.

Author, this is too far-fetched. On the battlefield, especially in the vanguard, it's unreasonable for Li Mu to suddenly become overpowered. Any great general needs time and battlefield experience to grow (except for those with cheat codes). Li Mu's growth time is too short!

Don't underestimate Zhao Kuo. During the Battle of Changping, Zhao Kuo was surrounded by Bai Qi's army and held out for more than twenty days with only enough food for two or three days, maintaining the morale of his troops. Ask yourself: how many people could last more than twenty days under such circumstances? Zhao Kuo wasn't weak; he simply encountered an opponent far more formidable than himself. This is a classic case of accidentally being matched into a high-level game in ranked matches.

After reading the introduction and comments, I want to say something. I watched the historical explanation and then searched for some information. Zhao Kuo's defeat was not his own fault. As everyone knows, the Zhao state adopted the Hu-style clothing and cavalry archery, which was mainly based on cavalry.

I'd like to ask what the protagonist did in his previous life? He didn't have any cheat codes and transmigrated into Zhao Kuo, so how did he manage to fight Bai Qi?

Anyone in Zhao Kuo's position would almost certainly lose. Only a very few military strategists like Xiang Yu and Huo Qubing could defeat him with overwhelming force and elite troops, or military tacticians like Han Xin and Li Jing could excel in large-scale and wide-area warfare.

Seeing him become the King of Zhao was unbearable. So what if he became King of Zhao? Qin took generations to conquer the world, and a dying Zhao state thinks it can turn the tide? A few hundred thousand bushels of grain think it can survive? A doomed situation is impossible to win without some kind of cheat code. It'll probably end badly in the end.