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When the state of Qi invaded and defeated Yan, King Xuan asked Mencius: “Some advise me not to annex Yan; others urge me to take it. We, a great state of ten thousand chariots, conquered another great state in just fifty days – surely this is Heaven’s will! If I refuse to take it,…
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Just two years after implementing military innovation “Wearing Hu Attire and Shooting from Horseback”, the state of Zhao had forged a formidable cavalry force – swift, agile, and utterly unlike the slow, cumbersome chariot armies of old.