The Battle of Henan ended with the Western Han Dynasty's seizure of henan, Hetao, and Yinshan regions.
But for the Huns, 127 BC was a year of bad news. With the heavy military defeat, the loss of a large area of water and grass economic bases, and the huge loss of human and livestock production, the Xiongnu's economy declined sharply, and its political prestige also decreased, and the original tribute taxes from all ethnic groups in the south, east, west, and north were either reduced or cut off. Under such military, political, and economic compulsions, in the winter of that year, the grandson of Mao Dun Shan Yu, the military minister Shan Yu, passed away, which made the Xiongnu regime even worse. The death of the warlord Shan Yu marked the end of the Mouton era, and the Xiongnu regime went from a period of strength to a period of decline.
After the death of the military minister Shan Yu, the Xiongnu Shan Yu broke out an unprecedented fierce internal strife within the family: the crown prince of the military minister Shan Yu was "attacked" by the brother of the military minister Shan Yu and the king of Zuogu Li, Yi Zhixiao. His nephew, Prince Yudan, who was defeated by his uncle, surrendered to the Han Dynasty and was given the title of Marquis of An by the Han dynasty.
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Yi Zhixiao established himself as Shan Yu after the defeat of the prince, although the specific circumstances are not known now, but at that time, there was chaos in xiongnu society.
After becoming Shan Yu, Yi Zhishan continued to use his troops and launched several wars against the Han Dynasty, and in the summer of 126 BC, the Xiongnu went south to Dai County, Dingxiang County, Shang County, and hundreds of thousands of people, entered the land of the Han Dynasty, plundered on a large scale, killed people and set fires, and had the intention of retaliating against the Han Dynasty. Since then, it has continued to increase the harassment and plundering of the Han Dynasty, and wanted the Han Dynasty to force the abandonment of the Henan region, and the losses of Shuofang County were particularly heavy. However, the Han Dynasty, with its strong manpower and material base, resisted the attack of the Xiongnu and preserved the hard-won results. And another climax was launched against the Huns. The Han Dynasty also organized a large-scale army and pushed the war to the land of the Xiongnu.
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In 124 BC, the Han court took Wei Qing as the general of the cavalry, placed six generals under him, and sent more than 100,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu. The second phase of a larger campaign against the Huns was officially launched. In the early stages of this campaign, the Han army turned to the Xiongnu Right Sage King as the main target of attack. However, on the Xiongnu side, not only was Yi Zhixian unable to organize effective resistance, but the Right Xian King was even more paralyzed, thinking that the Han Dynasty cavalry could not cross the grassland and run at a long distance; and the Han Dynasty cavalry, descending from the sky, surrounded the right Xian King's camp. King Youxian led hundreds of his soldiers to flee, and the Han army captured more than ten people below King Youxian, more than 15,000 men and women, and tens of millions of livestock, and won a great victory. Triumph also towards.
In this way, the Han Dynasty and the Huns fell into a war of attrition, and the war gradually became white-hot. Soldiers on both sides, massive casualties, brutal fighting, personnel on both sides began to surrender. For example, Zhao Xin surrendered to the Xiongnu and so on.
At that time, the Xiongnu Yizhixi regime tried to suppress the Han army by force, retake the Hexi pasture in Henan Province, and defend the southern part of the desert, but ultimately failed because the number of personnel and the economic base were not as strong as the Central Plains. Coupled with the excessive length of the battle line, mutual non-rescue, paralysis, etc., under the unlimited attack of the Han army, it suffered heavy losses and heavy losses. From a strategic point of view, not only have the lost pastures not been recovered, but all parts of the southern desert have not been able to keep them, and they have been forced to retreat to the northern part of the desert.
Yi Zhishan Not only abandoned the plan to recover the lost pastures in various parts of Henan Andi, but even gave up the plan to fight against the Western Han army in the southern desert area, and was forced to retreat to the northern desert area, where the natural conditions and economic conditions were very bad, in order to avoid being attacked by the Han army again.
Although Yi Zhishan Had already retreated to the north of the desert, strategically speaking, he did not make corresponding adjustments to the Xiongnu groups throughout Hexi at that time. Due to the improper arrangement of the deployment alone, the Xiongnu herding and hunting groups in the Hexi region were exposed to the attack of a very fierce and quite aggressive and powerful Central Plains army. After two or three years of recuperation, the Central Plains army also saw and seized this strategic flaw exposed by the Xiongnu and launched a larger-scale offensive war against the Xiongnu.
Wei Qing's nephew Huo Went ill and was given the title of Lieutenant Colonel Yao.
Marching route of the Battle of Hexi
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In the spring of 121 BC, Emperor Wu of Han ordered Huo Toyi to lead more than 10,000 carefully selected elite light horses from Longxi and travel more than a thousand miles across the Yanzhi Mountains to attack the Xiongnu. Huo Wentai was ordered to lead an army deep into the pasture of the Five Kings of the Xiongnu, killing back and forth for six days and nights, killing the King of Zhelan and the King of Luhu, and all the armored soldiers of the two tribes, and slaughtering them all. The prince of the Hun Evil King, Xiang Guo, and Du Wei beheaded more than 8,000 heads, captured the Sacrifice Heavenly Golden Man of King Xiu Tu, and this beheading, the elite cavalry of the Han Army, returned his human body in his human way, did not carry heavy grain and grass, and killed while fighting along the way, replenishing while fighting. By surprise, the Xiongnu were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.
After that, Huo went out of Longxi several times and attacked the nomadic tribes of the Xiongnu entrenched in Hexi, which not only caused very serious population and property losses to the Xiongnu in the Hexi region, but also seized the grazing and hunting sites of the original Xiongnu people who had very good water and grass conditions such as Yanzhi Mountain and Qilian Mountain. All the xiongnu herding and hunting groups in Hexi were ravaged by the sick cavalry sent by Liu Che, and the losses of the tribes belonging to the various tribal groups, their population, livestock, and various types of property were very huge. What is more serious is that they have also lost a large area of excellent pastures such as Yanzhi Mountain, Qilian Mountain, and Hexi Grassland. The kings of the various tribal groups not only did not resist the attack of the Han army, but most of them were defeated, captured or killed, and few remained.
King Xiutu and King Hun of Hexi
Yi Zhishan was even more angry at the Hun Evil King and The Hun Tu King, who were still alive at that time, and wanted to summon them to the royal court to punish and punish them, so the Hun Tu King and the Hun Evil King conspired to surrender to the Han Dynasty, but on the way to surrender the Han Dynasty; the Hun Tu King repented and was beheaded by the Hun Evil King.
Hugh Slaughtered the people, the dragons were leaderless, and they were killed by Huo Fuyi, and the rest of them returned to Han under the oppression of force. In the end, the remnants of King Hutu, all the Evil Kings, and more than 40,000 people returned to Han. Since then, the Han army has swept across Hexi, and there are no more Xiongnu in Hexi, and the Xiongnu have sung 'Lose me Qilian Mountain makes my six animals have no clan, and Lose My Yanzhi Mountain makes my women colorless' and retreated back to the desert grassland.
The Battle of Henan was won, and the Western Han court not only seized the former Xiongnu Henan (including the area where Mengtian built forty-four counties in the Qin Dynasty), but also set up Shuofang County. After the Battle of Hexi in Mo'nan, the Western Han Court successively set up four counties of Jiuquan, Wuwei, Zhangye and Dunhuang in the former Xiongnu pastoral and hunting areas. The arm of the Broken Xiongnu, the armpit of Zhang China, the Great River of Xigui, the Qilian of Lie county, the elbow of Zhang Guo, the grand splendor.
Four counties of Hexi
In addition, another major achievement of the Han army in the Hexi Campaign was to lay the foundation for the future competition with the Xiongnu regime for the western region.