The Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu fought for a long time, and the two sides have not been able to distinguish between the high and the low, so during the han Wen Emperor, the emperor once sighed that if he could get such a strong general as Lianpo Li Mu, he would not be worried about destroying the Xiongnu.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, because of Han Gaozu's recklessness, which led to the defeat of the Han Dynasty in the war with the Xiongnu, and eventually lost its military initiative, during the reign of several emperors after Han Gaozu, the policy adopted against the Xiongnu could only be peace and affinity, fighting and fighting, and always having to save their lives, this passive situation did not improve until the time of Emperor Wu of Han.
Emperor Wen of Han reigned for more than twenty years, and he was very strenuous about the trouble of the Xiongnu, and although he also had good soldiers, he felt that they could not bear this honor. He once lamented: If I can get Lian Po and Li Mu, then I am still afraid of the Xiongnu yarn!
Lian Po We all know that the bearer Jing please sin, but when it comes to Li Mu, many people are relatively unfamiliar, but to be able to rank with Lian Po and be so appreciated by Emperor Wen of Han, it must be an unusual figure.
Li Mu had been serving as a military commander in the northern region of the Zhao Kingdom, and because of his superior ability, he was trusted by the king, and had the ability to appoint and dismiss officials, and the property income in the border areas had to go into his pocket, of course. He was not a corrupt person, and the money was basically used as an expense for the army. Li Mu treated the soldiers very well, killing some cattle and sheep every day to replenish the soldiers' bodies, and he also personally taught the soldiers to ride horses and shoot arrows, and taught them the skills and experience of fighting. Although Li Mu was very popular, the soldiers were also a little dissatisfied with him. It turned out that Li Mu's way of fighting was too conservative, and whenever the Xiongnu came to attack, he required the soldiers to only defend and not attack, and if there were people who violated the order, they would be killed. In fact, for the Zhao State at that time, this was not necessarily a good idea, after all, in dealing with the unfavorable situation of the Qin State, the northern troops could not withstand large-scale casualties.
However, the soldiers did not take this into account, and they demanded to take the initiative to attack all day long and give the Huns a little color to see, but Li Mu ignored this. Since it was useless to reflect it to the general, some people made a small report in front of the king.
When the king heard it, what he said was also reasonable, it turned out that Li Mu was so timid, come down. Under the orders of the king, another general took over Li Mu's post, and as soon as this general took office, he began to take the initiative to attack, and as a result, because the nomadic group led by the Xiongnu was too strong, several battles were lost, and then the king had to ask Li Mu to go back, at this time Li Mu also played a small role, you let me go back, isn't it too impersonal? Li Mu refused the request, and the king gave the order for the second time, and the more the order was given, Li Mu also softened his heart, so he rushed to the front line again.
Li Muguan was reinstated, the original combat method did not change, this time the soldiers were not so excited, but still asked Li Mu to take the initiative to attack, even if it was once, Li Mu finally agreed.
He carefully prepared a total of 1,300 chariots, and selected 13,000 horses, as well as 50,000 elite infantry and 100,000 elite crossbowmen, all of which were organized to train for combat. At the same time, a large number of livestock were grazed everywhere, and the grazing people could be seen everywhere, and the Xiongnu sent a small detachment to invade, and Li Mu pretended not to be able to resist, deliberately discarding thousands of soldiers to the Xiongnu. After hearing the news, Shan Yu felt that Li Mu was too garbage, so he led hundreds of thousands of people to invade. Li Mu took the opportunity to set up a formation and used many strange soldiers, and he let the army open its bow left and right to surround the enemy. As a result, the Huns were defeated and more than 100,000 soldiers were killed. The Xiongnu allies were wiped out, Lin Hu and Dong Hu also fled, and for more than a decade, the Xiongnu no longer dared to go south, and the northern border of the Zhao state was finally at peace. The reason why Emperor Wen of Han admired Li Mu was precisely in these words I said.
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