Huan Yi
Huan Yi was a general of the state of Qin in the late Warring States period (5th cent.-221 BCE). General Pang Nuan of Zhao occupied several towns of the state of Yan in 236 BCE, whereupon Yan asked the state of Qin for help. Huan Yi, Yang Duan, and Wang Jian commanded the relief campaign against Zhao and took its towns Ye (today's Linzhang, Hebei) and Anyang (Hebei), as well as Eyu (Heshun, Shanxi), and Liaoyang (Zuoquan, Shanxi).
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In 234 BCE, Huan Yi attacked Pingyang (Linfen, Shanxi) and Wucheng (Cixian, Hebei), killed general Hu Zhe and massacred 100,000 troops of Zhao. He then left Shangdang, passed the Taihang Ridge and invaded Zhao by taking Chili and Yi'an (Gaocheng, Hebei). Zhao thereupon laid the supreme command in the hands of Li Mu, who defeated Huan Yi in the battle of Fei (Jinxian, Hebei) and pushed him back out of Zhao, it was the last great victory of Zhao over Qin. Huan Yi's way back was cut off, he betrayed his state and had to flee to Yan in the northeast, where he later committed suicide after Jing Ke failed in his assassination attempt on Ying Zheng, the King of Qin.
In popular culture
Huan Yi is portrayed by the actor Lü Xiaohe in the film The Emperor and the Assassin (1998) and by Wang Ya'nan in the television series Assassinator Jing Ke (2004).
In Manga Kingdom, he is portrayed as Kan Ki, an ex-bandit leader and Qin general. He also served as a Vice General in the Mougou Army, and after the death of Great General Mou Gou, he commands his own independent army.
References
- Yang, Kuan (2003). History of the Warring States 战国史 (in Chinese) (reprint ed.). Shanghai: Shanghai People Publishing House. ISBN 7208045372.