From the standpoint of the Chinese nation, the greatest battle in history was the Battle of Mobei carried out by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the fourth year of the Yuan Hunt. This battle will not only bring stars together, but also have extraordinary significance in Chinese history. The defeat of the Xiongnu is only a manifestation of the historical significance of this battle, and if it is really dug deeply, it can even be said that it is a "battle of the founding of the nation" of the Chinese nation. Why? Or let me take my time.
Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese culture has formed its own independent system. Specifically, it is to replace the original natural god worship system with a set of systems of ancestor worship and destiny belief. This system has become the cultural foundation of China for thousands of years to come, and has distinct characteristics in the civilizations of the world. It can be said that the reason why the Chinese nation has such a strong cohesion is that this cultural system is the fundamental reason.
However, after the rise of this culture, Chinese culture and the surrounding ethnic minority culture began to become distinct. Because the surrounding ethnic minorities are almost the same system of worship of the natural gods, in order to symbolize the two, the liturgical music compilers at that time also created a word: Rong Di.
Cultures can have their own circles, but geographical traffic cannot be blocked. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in addition to the internal survival of the fittest, the Chinese nation often faced the attacks of the surrounding Rong Di. The Central Plains civilization belongs to the more honest farming civilization and can produce wealth on its own. The surrounding Rongdi are all nomadic civilizations and have low productivity, so they often have to go south to rob, which brings countless disasters to the Chinese people.
In the non-stop battle, Rong Di himself is also optimizing and integrating. The last remaining is a combination of two major ethnic groups: the Xiongnu and the Eastern Hu. Among them, the Huns were more warlike, while the Eastern Hu were more powerful.
At the end of the Warring States period, a new leader appeared among the Huns: Touman Danyu. ToumanDan had high political ability and established an effective administrative system within the Xiongnu. Beginning with him, the Huns slowly evolved from loose tribal alliances into empires. Of course, Tou Man Shan Yu still does not forget the old business: robbery. It was just that his luck was not good, and at this time, China had two famous generals who guarded the border: Meng Tian of the Qin State and Li Mu of the Zhao State. The two defeated the Xiongnu once each, so that they did not dare to go south to herd horses.
After the head ManDan Yu, the Xiongnu appeared another super cattle man, Mao Dun Shan Yu. Mao Dundan is the son of The Head Mandan Yu, his political ability is not inferior to his father, and his military ability is far beyond it! He annexed Eastern Hu to the east and Loulan and Wusun to the west, unifying the desert steppes; to the south, he was arrogant after baishan almost captured Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, who had just unified the world, and wrote a letter to flirt with Lü, who actually controlled China. In that era, Mo Dundan was an invincible being. It was also under his efforts that the Xiongnu became a great shackle that inhibited China's foreign exchanges, and for a time it overwhelmed the Great Han Dynasty.
After the death of Morton Shan, his descendants can be said to be inferior to a generation. Although it still maintained its superiority over the Han Dynasty and often entered Guanzhong to plunder, its strength was no longer as good as before. At this time, the Han Dynasty successively appeared two qualified shoucheng kings- Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han. Thanks to the efforts of these two emperors, the national strength of the Han Dynasty flourished.
However, although the balance of strength between the two sides was tilting toward the Han Dynasty, the final decisive battle was never carried out, and the Xiongnu, at least on the surface, still maintained military superiority. If things continue to develop in this way, it will still be very dangerous for the Han Dynasty and even the Chinese nation. The Han Dynasty was incapable of fighting the Xiongnu and could only be beaten passively. Once the Xiongnu had another powerful figure like Mao Dun Shan Yu, he relied on the financial and material resources of the entire grassland to break through the Border Defenses of the Han Dynasty and occupy northern China. In that case, the Central Plains culture may retreat to the natural god worship system, or become a hybrid cultural system, then the characteristics of the Chinese nation will no longer exist, and today's Chinese will no longer be Chinese!
Fortunately, there was a cattle man in China at this time, that is, the heroic Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Han had the huge wealth accumulated by his grandfather for two generations, and he had the character of not accepting defeat, so he decided to take the initiative to solve the Xiongnu problem once and for all.
The first powerful weapon in the hands of Emperor Wu of Han was his brother-in-law Wei Qing. Wei Qing was good at surprise attacks, and had defeated the Xiongnu many times before the Battle of Mobei, that is, he had fought military might and regained a lot of territory. At this time, with just one more force, the Xiongnu could be completely driven back to the desert and form a solid defensive system in the northern part of the Han Dynasty.
At this time, Wei Qing's nephew Huo Fu's illness also began to emerge. He used large-scale interspersed tactics and fought two victorious battles in the Hexi region. Emperor Wu of Han appreciated him very much, so he decided to let Wei Qing and Huo Go ill together to carry out a devastating blow to the Xiongnu.
In the spring of the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (119 BC), Wei Qing and Huo Fuyi each led 50,000 cavalry, supported by 140,000 warhorses and 500,000 infantrymen, divided into two routes and killed the Huns in the depths of the desert. Wei Qing's troops went out of Dingxiang County, rushed thousands of miles, and fought a decisive battle with the Xiongnu Shan Yu. The two sides fought fiercely in the huge wind and sand for a day, and the Xiongnu, knowing that they were invincible, took advantage of the night to escape. Wei Qing took advantage of the victory to cover up the killing, and captured more than 19,000 enemy people, while Huo Fuyi on the other side set out from Dai County, under the leadership of the Xiongnu generals, to fight with the Xiongnu King Zuoxian. King Zuoxian retreated, while Huo Fuyi pursued him and took advantage of the situation to carry out a major sweep of the eastern Xiongnu, with the peak of the army pointing directly to the Hanhai (present-day Lake Baikal). In this battle, great results were achieved in killing more than 70,000 enemy people, capturing 3 Xiongnu Tuntou Wang, Han Wang, and 83 generals, Xiangguo, Danghu, and Du wei. Later, the army came to Mount Wolfjuxu (Kent Mountain in present-day Mongolia), where a ceremony was held to enshrine the heavens, and a Zen ceremony was held at the nearby Mount Guyan (present-day Mount Dzongmot Bokdoula in Mongolia). After The Ceremony, Huo went to the sick and triumphantly returned to China.
The victory in the Battle of Mobei made the Xiongnu far away from the depths of the desert, so that "there was no royal court in the south of the desert" and no longer dared to invade the border of the Han Dynasty. Although after more than ten years of recuperation, the Huns regained some strength, but they were no longer able to invade the south. There were no more large-scale wars on the borders of the Han Dynasty, and the culture of the Chinese people was able to develop steadily in a safe environment until it was finally finalized.
Nowadays, when it comes to the ancient civilizations in the world, people always say that only The Chinese civilization is inherited in an orderly manner. The Battle of Mobei is the guarantee for Chinese civilization to achieve this. That's why I say that the Battle of Mobei was one of the greatest battles in ancient China. Although the Turks and Mongols rose successively, the Chinese culture at that time had undergone thousands of years of tempering and had become the cultural gene of the Chinese nation, which could no longer be changed.