In the summer of 121 BC, Emperor Wu decided to completely open up the Hexi Corridor, and a few days ago we talked about the Northwest Front led by Huo Quyi and Gongsun Ao, who were responsible for the objectives of this campaign. Today we will talk about Zhang Qian and Li Guang, who were responsible for containing the Xiongnu in the northeast.
The northeast where Zhang Qian and Li Guang were located was mainly responsible for containing the Xiongnu. The Zuoxian King, who had pinned down the Xiongnu, prevented him from supporting the northwestern side of the battle.
Zhang Qian and Li Guangbing divided into two ways and took the initiative to attack and contain the Xiongnu. At this time, Emperor Wu of Han no longer trusted Li Guang, not that Emperor Wu doubted Li Guang's loyalty, but that he had no expectations for him at all. No matter how many people li guang are given, as long as there is not much merit when they go out, they can always reimburse the people they take out, but he himself can run back smoothly every time. Therefore, zhang Qian, who had never brought soldiers, was assigned 10,000 people, while Li Guang, a veteran of the hundred battles, only had 4,000 people.
Li Guang set out with 4,000 people, and Li Guang's aura of bad luck played a role here, and Li Guang this time encountered the Xiongnu main force Zuo Xian Wang with 40,000 people and surrounded Li Guang. There was a ten-to-one gap in strength on the surface, but how could such a small scene scare Li Guang, the first han-Hungarian master?
Not considering the huge difference between the enemy and ourselves, Li Guang threw himself into the sea of people with four thousand people. In the face of an enemy force ten times larger than his own, Li Guang ordered his son Li Dang to lead dozens of horses to charge straight into the enemy position and kill them from the situation that the Xiongnu encirclement was not completely closed. After Li dared to play this set of back carbines, he laughed: Hu Yuyi and ear! After engaging in such a series of magnificent performance art, the Han army was greatly encouraged. Four thousand Han troops entered a defensive state, and the whole army was listed in a circle, not fighting with the Xiongnu head-on, relying on the equipment advantage of the Han army to use long-range crossbows and arrows to resist the Xiongnu.
Zuo Xian, with a huge numerical advantage, quickly completed a large encirclement. The Han army swung its position to shoot at a fixed point in the encirclement circle, and the Xiongnu did not take the initiative to charge for the time being, but ran and drew, and the arrows on both sides rained down. After a daytime battle, the Han army ran out of bows and arrows, killing and wounding more than half.
As night fell, the Huns' offensive eased. At this time, facing the airtight Huns, the Han army that had been fighting for a day had no face. However, Li Guang, the main backbone of the army, is boosting the morale of the army, talking to the generals in the army about how they cut melons and cutting vegetables to get these Xiongnu people, and at the same time encouraging everyone to tell everyone that our Han army is mighty, generally speaking, there is no problem with a Xiongnu, so if you calculate, we can completely push back the Xiongnu, so don't be afraid! At this time, Li Guang had a sense of dissipation between laughter and laughter.
The Northeast Soldiers were divided into two roads, how did they become Li Guang's lone army fighting, and where was the main force led by Zhang Qian?
Zhang Qian is lost!
Although Zhang Qian lived in the Xiongnu region for more than ten years, but mainly in the Wangting area of the Yin Mountains, zuo xian wang was in charge of the northeast region he was not familiar with, who said that the tour guide must go to the dumen Qing?
At dawn the next day, the Huns launched another offensive, and the situation of the Han army took a sharp turn for the worse and was in danger. Originally, the Han army in the northeast region came out to bluff and play an entertainment game, but li Guang did not expect to reach the promotion match, and the containment war became a life and death battle.
When the Han army was about to be completely destroyed, Zhang Qian finally turned his mind and found the battlefield. Leading more than 10,000 horses to join the battlefield, Zuo Xianwang saw that the han army's support had arrived, the number was unknown, thinking that the main force of the Han army had been recruited, and immediately organized the team to retreat north, and Li Guang was exempted from the end of the total annihilation of the army.
In this battle, the task of containment in the northeast of the Han Dynasty was over-completed, but Li Guang almost destroyed the entire army, and the merits and demerits were offset, and he was not punished. Zhang Qian was punished for getting lost and went home to reflect.
Li Guang once again became a bitter love male protagonist, desperately fighting a battle and finally making a merit offset, hey, Li Guang is really the most tragic existence in the period of Emperor Wu.