This incident is indeed recorded in Sima Qian's "Records of History", and this incident is indeed true, but the wine and meat are not deliberately smelled by Huo Fuyi. There are two reasons why the soldiers are not given food, and look down. Avoid diseases Everyone knows, ancient marching army does not have a refrigerator or anything, meat and wine are easy to stink, and ancient medical treatment is not very developed, which means that a small disease that looks small in modern times may make the entire army collapse and eventually defeat itself without fighting. Before Huo went to the disease to lead the army expedition, Emperor Wu of Han had rewarded him with more than a dozen carriages of wine and meat to motivate the soldiers, and Huo went to the disease to be able to get the emotional intelligence of the young man, which means that the wine and meat under Huo went to the disease had a great chance of being rotten, and Huo went to the disease in order not to eat the stomachs of the bad soldiers, in order not to let the disease spread before the wine meat was discarded.
If, according to Sima Qian's account, Huo went ill and would rather put the meat bad than share it with the soldiers, wouldn't this be a contradiction in terms? Fine wine is much more expensive than meat. Huo's style of fighting is informal, bold, and penetrating thousands of miles behind enemy lines, often unexpected. He took a strong army of elite soldiers to form special forces, and of course the less materials he carried, the better to facilitate large-scale interspersed maneuvers, even if Emperor Wu had food to give Huo to go sick, he would not carry them with him when he fought.
The number of Huo's troops is small, but it is the essence of the Han Army, some people can identify the direction by the astrological appearance of the vast steppe, some people can find water sources, some people are veterinarians.
No one is perfect, Jin is not perfect, although there are some problems in Huo's illness, but he has achieved such a great merit, coupled with his such a young age, it is inevitable that he will make some mistakes, looking at historical figures, we must treat it from his positive impact on history, at least the Western Han Dynasty because of huo's disease such a genius god of war, only in the war against the Xiongnu invincible, look at Wei Qing and Huo Go disease died, the Western Han War against the Xiongnu can be seen that not every general can achieve such feats as Wei Qing and Huo Go disease, Sima Qian could not be too harsh on Wei Qing and Huo Tou.