The Xiongnu, a nomadic people of northern China, stated in the Chronicle of the Xiongnu that their ancestors were miao descendants of the Xia Hou clan.
As a powerful force active in the Mongolian steppe, they move with the water and grass. It has also been a threat to the Central Plains regime.
During the Warring States period, there are records of the Xiongnu entering the Kou on a large scale and being defeated by Li Mu and returning. In 215 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent Meng Tian to expel the Xiongnu from the Hetao and Hexi Corridor areas.
However, with the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, and the hinterland of the Central Plains, the Chu-Han struggle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu also led to the fact that after winning the victory, the Western Han Dynasty was in ruins and waiting to be revived, and the national strength was relatively weak compared to the Xiongnu, and there was no absolute strength to compete with it.
Therefore, they had to adopt a policy of compromise and concession in exchange for time for recuperation. After several generations of development and the paving of the rule of Wenjing, the Han Dynasty finally became stronger and stronger on top of its strength.
And kings and generals, in this way, are fulfilled by each other. After Emperor Wu of Han succeeded to the throne, he actively prepared military forces and strengthened military construction, and Wei Qing and Huo Quyi stood out at this time.
As Wei Qing's nephew, the 17-year-old Huo Went ill and got the opportunity to fight fiercely. In the sixth year of the Western Han Dynasty, at the age of 17, he led 800 elite cavalry to drive directly into the hinterland of the Xiongnu. It won 2,028 people, and this also included the uncle of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, Xiang Guo, and was awarded the title of Champion Hou for this.
In the years that followed, he was made a general of the Hussars. Lead the army to attack the Hun Evil King, Hu Tu Wangbu, annihilate the Uncalculated, capture the Xiongnu King, etc., and regain the Hexi region, and at the age of 22, the young hero Huo Went ill and Wei Qing, together with Wei Qing, broke the Xiongnu Zuoxian King's Department, sealed the wolf Juxu, and from then on "the Xiongnu are far away, and there is no royal court in the south of the desert.".
And Emperor Wu of Han, who couldn't help himself, naturally wanted to give a big reward, not only to the mansion, but also to the official and knight. But for the general who aspires to break the captivity, the sentence "The Xiongnu are not destroyed, why is the family" is the best portrayal of his life.
Unfortunately, the day does not take a holiday. In the sixth year of the Yuan Hunt, Huo Fu died of illness at the age of 24. And what we leave behind is only innumerable, if, if...
Emperor Wu of Han was even more deeply saddened by Huo's illness, and ordered the burial of Maoling, and even repaired his tomb to the appearance of Qilian Mountain to commemorate his great achievements.
The cruelty of history is that it does not make any stops because of people. After decades of conquest, the Xiongnu also gradually declined, splitting into the Southern Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu. In 33 BC, the southern Xiongnu king Hu Han xiandan submitted to the Han Dynasty, and after Wang Zhaojun went out of the country and kissed, it also made the two sides communicate with each other and enter a relatively peaceful state.
However, the Xiongnu in the north still chose to look at the tiger and fought many wars with the Han Dynasty, and they have always been a threat to the Han Dynasty's western regions. This change in this situation occurred in the fourth year of the Han And Emperor Yongyuan (91), when the Han army, led by the general Dou Xian, broke the main force of the Northern Xiongnu at Jinwei Mountain (present-day Altai Mountain) and captured its empress.
The Northern Xiongnu saw that there was no longer any way to escape the land in the western region, so they had to continue to move west. Later, the Northern Huns defeated the Germans, who in turn took control of the Western Roman Empire.
The land of the former Northern Xiongnu was empty, and the Xianbei people took advantage of the void to occupy this area. Under the pressure of Xianbei, the original Qiang, Yu and Wuhuan tribes in the Outer Mongolia area moved inwards one after another, becoming the source of the Wuhu Rebellion in the future.
These are naturally the last words.
For the Han Dynasty at that time, the practical significance was the defeat of the Northern Xiongnu, which also meant that the scourge of the Xiongnu that had plagued the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years was basically solved.
As a great general, Dou Xianshi also made great contributions.
But judging by his usual behavior, he is a complete bully. As the elder brother of Empress Zhangde, he went all the way to the top. And under such a Grace Dragon Holy Family, he also held great power, and even dared to forcibly buy and sell his manor to Princess Qinshui, and the princess was afraid of her intimidation, and even more did not dare to compete with it.
The reason why he sent an army to attack the Northern Xiongnu was because he killed Liu Chang, a favorite of Empress Dou's sister who had become empress dowager.
In order to redeem himself, he asked for orders to attack the Northern Xiongnu. This was the feat of defeating the Northern Huns.
After basically eliminating the threat of the Northern Xiongnu, he set up a shogunate with Bangu and others, and took charge of the government to the extreme. What's more, they intend to usurp power.
When Emperor Han and Emperor He learned of this, he relied on the zhongchang to serve the hook shield order, recruited Zheng Zhong, designed to deprive him of the great general YinShou, and forced him to commit suicide.
Dou Xian himself is like a combination of contradictions, he is not only a bully, there are many lawlessnesses, but also the style of the dictatorship of foreign relatives in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but he can also have the feats of defeating the Xiongnu, climbing Yanran Mountain, and "carving stone Legong", which inevitably makes people feel the power of creation.
References: 1 "Records of History" 2 "Book of later Han"