"The Xiongnu have not perished, so why should they be home?" This classic ancient famous sentence comes from the mouth of the famous general Huo Fu of the Western Han Dynasty.
During the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu had always been a major problem for the imperial court, and in the process of fighting against the Xiongnu, a number of famous generals emerged.
The generals who made the Xiongnu's liver and gallbladder were very afraid were only three people, including the flying general Li Guang in the front and Wei Qing and Huo Fu in the back.
Wei Qing and Huo Fuyi were originally nephews and uncles, and they made indelible contributions to the Han Dynasty's fight against the Xiongnu.
According to historians, the Huns always drank blood and were extremely skilled in kung fu. But why are they, who are proficient in riding and shooting, like a scattered sand when they encounter Huo's disease, and are repelled by the latter one after another, with almost no ability to fight back? What is the reason for this?
First, seal the wolf juxu
Huo Young Hero, he is the nephew of Emperor Wu of Han's empress Wei Zifu, so this relationship also makes Emperor Wu of Han treat him differently.
But what really made Huo Goyi stand out among the martial artists was not his status as a foreign relative, but his superb martial arts.
At the age of 18. He had already been given the title of Lieutenant of Plagiarism, which meant bravery and good fighting, and this title was most suitable for Huo Toyi.
He once led eight hundred cavalry deep into the desert, and in the process of fighting against the Xiongnu, he won the whole army, and the Han WuDi Emperor Long Yan Dayue specially named him the Champion Hou.
A young general like Huo Fuyi can be said to be unprecedented, and his appearance has brought great hope to the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu.
As early as the time of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, the Xiongnu became a problem that plagued the borders of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Bang once personally led a large army to attack the Xiongnu, but was deceived by the Xiongnu with a strategy, and his light enemy almost killed himself on The White Mountain. Finally, it was the ghost talent Chen Ping who offered advice, promising to promise the Xiongnu in the future that Shan Yu would be good to The Qin and Jin, so that Liu Bang's army could escape from the siege.
At this point, the feud between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu continued until the time of Emperor Wu of Han, who was very ambitious and decided to solve this problem once and for all.
So he sent his cousin Wei Qing as commander to fight against the Xiongnu, and Wei Qing took this opportunity to introduce his nephew, Huo Qi, to Emperor Wu of Han.
This proposal gave the Han Dynasty completely the upper hand in the future on the issue of facing the Xiongnu. Because the Xiongnu army would not have thought that this future young general would bring them endless terror.
What really made Huo go to the history of illness was his achievements in the Battle of Mobei
。 According to the "Historical Records", in 119 BC, Wei Qing and Huo Fuyi each led 50,000 troops to the north of the desert, which is near the present-day Mongolian state.
In this battle, they annihilated about 70,000 people in the xiongnu Zuoxian king's army, and the Xiongnu were defeated and withdrew.
Huo went ill and drove the army to chase until the wolf Juxu Mountain stopped. Huo went to the sick to seal the wolf Juxu Mountain, and only after worshipping heaven and earth did he lead his troops to return.
Second, suppress the Huns
After this battle, Huo became famous all over the world and became a national hero against the Xiongnu.
Emperor Wu of Han was overjoyed, and went to greet Wei Qing and Huo, and made the latter a general of the Grand Sima Horse. At this time, Huo Was only twenty-two years old.
The Huns were good at riding and shooting, and often carried out rigorous training on horseback, and according to common sense, they should not have been beaten so badly.
But why did their army have almost no power to fight back when it encountered Hodg's disease?
Because the Huns lived in the grasslands for a long time, when they did not fight in peacetime, they were just ordinary villagers, and they would only take up arms to meet the enemy when facing war. Moreover, the Xiongnu's battle plan and strategy were completely inferior to Wei Qing, Huo Fuyi and others.
Their unified planning and team combat capabilities for the army were far from catching up with Huo's team.
The former is too loose, while the latter is united and united in hatred.
In particular, the general who leads the army does not have the unique strategic vision of Huo Toeyi.
The Xiongnu relied more on the number of their own armies and their innate physical advantages, relying too much on their own strength, but did not plan a battle plan, and naturally could not defeat the Han Dynasty army. Moreover, they are still facing a genius general who is rare in a thousand years, so large troops are often quickly defeated by Huo's disease, and it is difficult to regroup in a short period of time.
The most important reason is that the logistics supply of grain and grass that has been continuously replenished by Huo de Gou disease can allow the army to continuously draw energy and have the advantage of infiltrating the enemy's interior for protracted combat.
However, the food and grass of the Xiongnu became less and less as the battle was prolonged, and the soldiers were hungry, and they would naturally lose when they fought on the battlefield.
These reasons are superimposed, which is why Huo's disease was able to suppress the Huns every time. The barbaric means of the Xiongnu could not be made into a climate after all under the well-trained troops of the Han army.
After this battle, the Xiongnu were seriously injured and completely lost the capital to compete with the Han Dynasty.
3. Died young
After becoming a national hero, Huo was not proud and complacent, and he always regarded the fight against the Xiongnu as a lifelong cause.
Although the Xiongnu lost a lot of their main forces after the Battle of Mobei, they did not collapse because of this, and they always held great hostility to the Han Dynasty.
In 117 BC, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Yi was rude to the envoys of the Han Dynasty, and publicly stated that he would never be a subject to the Han Dynasty, so that Emperor Wu of han had better die this heart.
Emperor Wu of Han, who heard the news, was furious and decided to send troops again to force the Xiongnu to surrender.
Just when he was ambitiously preparing to dispatch troops, a sudden news made Emperor Wu of Han suddenly feel that the sky was clear.
A generation of national heroes, the anti-Hungarian general Huo Went to die of illness!
Emperor Wu of Han did not believe this fact at first, and it was not until he saw the other party that he was completely heartbroken.
There is no accurate information left in history about the cause of death from Chordaw's disease.
Some people speculate that perhaps because of The Hodge disease for a long time to lead the soldiers in a harsh environment, it may also be overworked and died of illness. In short, this young hero left the human world, leaving behind a glorious heroic deed.
Huo died young, at the age of twenty-four. Emperor Wu of Han was so sad that he had to cancel his battle plan against the Xiongnu.
Because Emperor Wu of Han was nostalgic for the various deeds of Huo's illness in the past, he specially sent people to build Huo's tomb into the shape of Qilian Mountain, so as to reflect the hard work made by Huo to fight against the Xiongnu.
4. Summary
The story of Huo's fight against the Xiongnu has been adapted into many film and television dramas by later generations, and we can also realize the courageous spirit they showed when they fought against the Xiongnu.
The style of these national heroes seems to have reappeared before our eyes, and thousands of years have passed, but their spirit has become more and more dazzling with the precipitation of history.
The above content was created by reference to the "Records of History" and other documents.
The "Records of History" is a masterpiece of sima qian, a famous historian of the Western Han Dynasty, which records the history from Yao Shunyu to the time of Emperor Wu of han.
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