Chinese history produced a young genius military scientist, who was the founder of ancient Chinese cavalry warfare and the heroic general who defeated the fierce enemy in the north for the first time in Chinese history; it is a pity that this man died of illness in a young age, which made posterity feel infinite sorrow and emotion; he was Huo Go, the general of Emperor Wu of Han, who once said at huo's funeral:
Losing champion Hou is equivalent to breaking an arm of the big man.
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Huo's only seven-year career in the army created heights that countless military generals could not reach in their lifetimes; however, the world only knew Huo's miraculous feats of attacking the Xiongnu in the north, but did not know what significance the existence of Huo's disease had for the Western Han Dynasty.
Wei Qing cultivated Huo to go to the disease
Huo Wentai was the nephew of Wei Qing and Wei Zifu, his mother was Wei Zifu's sister, and his father was just a small county official; Huo Wentai was taken care of by Wei Zifu and Wei Qing from birth, and it can be said that Huo Wentyi grew up in Wei Qing's ears, and Wei Qing treated Huo Zhiyi like his own son, and devoted everything he could to teach him to read and fight.
Perhaps sometimes the genius flickered and could not stop it, and Huo Wentai, who was only a teenager, was already familiar with the military book and the strategy of cavalry combat; uncle Wei Qing often discussed with him the advantages and disadvantages of the Han cavalry, and Huo went to the disease and said directly:
The world's cavalry is far inferior to the Xiongnu hussars, however, since the gap between warhorses is too large, it can only be changed in the way of fighting.
At this time, Wei Qing had long been famous in the world, Wei Qing was the first general to defeat the Xiongnu on a large scale, but Wei Qing never thought that his exploits could make him proud, he always felt that he could not reach the ability to completely defeat the Xiongnu; after hearing his nephew's words, Wei Qing began to take him in and out of the military camp, and Huo Wentyi also officially began to contact the Han military.
Huo went ill and was favored by Emperor Wu of Han
Huo's illness is very popular with people, and his views on the military are often eye-catching, once Emperor Wudi of Han Liu Che came to Weiqing Mansion, saw the young Huo Go to the disease, and wondered who this little student was, Wei Qing introduced Huo to the disease, Emperor Wu of Han asked some military questions on a whim; at the beginning of some basic questions, Huo Went sick did not want to answer like a stream.
Emperor Wu of Han became more and more curious, so he asked some extremely difficult questions, and he asked Huo Toyi:
Could the Han defeat the Huns in one battle?
Huo replied:
Yes, but it takes strong cavalry.
Emperor Wu of Han then asked:
What is a powerful cavalry?
Huo went to the disease and said:"
The war horses in the territory of the Han Dynasty lacked strong mobility and lacked a lot of endurance, and the war horses in the Hetao area were the real war horses, but they were inferior to the Xiongnu in terms of mobility, but in terms of endurance, the Xiongnu were inferior to the Hetao horses.
Although he knew that the endurance of the Hetao horse was very strong, but the mobility was quite poor, how could he defeat the Xiongnu cavalry by relying on endurance alone? Huo went to see His Majesty's concern and went on to say:
The real cavalry battle is not based on the main force duel, but a roundabout blow, through the war of attrition to consume the will of the other side and the physical strength of the warhorse, although the Hun horses are mobile and strong, but the physical endurance is limited after all, if the guerrilla consumption, they can be defeated. ”
Emperor Wudi of Han finally asked, "Did you think of these things yourself, or did someone teach you?" Huo went to the sick and thought about it and replied, "The revelation that my uncle gave me." A remark not only made Emperor Wu of Han Long Yan very happy, but also made Wei Qing very face-saving, this is the way huo to go ill, when Huo went ill, almost most of the generals and civilian officials in the Han Dynasty liked this young general.
Huo went ill with 800 cavalry to sweep the court of the Xiongnu king
Emperor Wu of Han also began to cultivate Huo's illness, and he directly brought Huo to his side as a close subject, and often gave some military folds to Huo to see, and also took the time to personally teach Huo to be sick "Sun Tzu's Art of War". In this atmosphere, Huo went to the disease step by step, and soon ushered in his first northern expedition.
When Huo went ill at the age of 17, Emperor Wu of Han asked him to follow Wei Qing to conquer the Southern Xiongnu, and his uncle Wei Qing was worried that his nephew had no combat experience, afraid that he would have an accident on the battlefield, so he began to let him work under his account; but Huo went to work for a few days, directly told his uncle that he hoped that he could make himself a forward or lead a cavalry of several hundred people, Wei Qing saw that Huo Qing's attitude was so firm, so he gave him eight hundred elite cavalry, he only needed to be responsible for the surrounding reconnaissance, such an errand was not a big danger.
However, Huo Wentai was not a master of peace, Huo Wentyi directly led eight hundred cavalry, abandoned the main force and fought all the way north to the territory of The South of The Desert, Wei Qing knew the news, the lungs of qi were about to explode, and immediately called out to other generals to lead the cavalry to rescue Huo Toyi.
What did Huo go to with 800 people? He led 800 people to attack hundreds of miles, around the rear of the main Xiongnu force, because the Xiongnu's tactics like to put the elite in the front, and most of the rear are some Chinese troops and heavy weight, which is also a reason why the Xiongnu are too conceited, they think that the Han army can not cross the elite cavalry in front of them, but Huo Wentai's disease is biased back to the rear, 800 people directly attack the rush, the Xiongnu front troops did not have time to react, they were scared silly by Huo's sick cavalry.
Huo Zhiyi knew how to take advantage of the situation very well, he let eight hundred cavalry raise the sand together, using the suspicious tactics to make the enemy unclear about his own strength, and then the whole army attacked in a linear manner, giving people a feeling of vastness, this battle of 800 people crushed tens of thousands of Xiongnu troops, and also killed more than 2,000 enemy heads, captured a large number of warhorses.
This is not nothing, the key is that Huo Wentai's illness arrested a large number of Xiongnu officials and nobles; when Wei Qing's support troops arrived, they only saw the xiongnu army completely routing, and the distant Han army cavalry quickly rushed to the scattered Xiongnu army, the support troops could not believe their eyes, when they rushed to the side of this Han army, they saw that this young general had a blood stain on his face, as if he were killing gods in hell, eight hundred people were left with less than a few hundred people, but each of these hundred people was blood stained. This army made the support force feel that it was not a Han army at all.
So Huo went to the sick and the support troops, with the Xiongnu noble officials and a large number of warhorses behind them, back to Wei Qing's side; Wei Qing saw that Huo Qing's face was full of blood, and quickly went up to check his wounds, and when he saw that he had only suffered a slight injury, he angrily wanted to deal with Huo Qing's illness by military law, and the generals knew that the law enforcement of this great general Wei Qing was strict, so they fell to their knees to intercede for Huo Qing's illness, and finally Wei Qing spared him.
Huo's illness laid the foundation for the Western Han cavalry
Wei Qing looked at the densely packed Xiongnu warhorses and captives behind him, his brain was buzzing, he didn't expect his nephew to be so powerful, so he asked Huo to take his men down to the river to take a bath, and the remaining hundreds of people were also the concubine troops who later Huo went to the disease, they were all bloody and confident.
Later, after Huo's death, In order to continue this army, Emperor Wu of han used a large number of generals and soldiers of Huo's army, and it is said that almost most of the hundreds of people under Huo Wentyi were the backbone generals of the army, and laid the foundation for the cavalry of the Western Han Dynasty.
Also because of this battle, Emperor Wu of Han was very happy, and directly made Huo Fuyi the champion marquis, which was still the youngest prince in history; after two years, Huo Wentyi directly became the western Han dynasty's hussar general, equivalent to the second military figure of weiqing, and in charge of the western Han cavalry.
Huo went to the disease to open up the Hexi Corridor
Later, Huo Wentai also did not fail in his mission, directly led the army to open up the Hexi Corridor, and successfully occupied these areas, it can be said that huo's real merit was to open up the land of the Hexi Corridor for China, and from this time on, the Hexi Corridor has always been the territory of the Chinese nation, which is the most important political significance of Huo's disease to the Western Han Dynasty.
Especially as long as Huo Went was ill, the Xiongnu and the Western Regions did not dare to fight back to the Hexi Corridor at all, because Huo Went's illness was too mysterious, the battle was completely out of routine, you simply could not find the main force of Huo Go' disease, and when you found his main force, that was when you were defeated and killed.
Huo went to the disease to sweep away the main force of the Xiongnu
At the last highlight of Huo's life, he led 10,000 cavalry to defeat the combined army of the five kingdoms of Hexi, and severely damaged the Xiongnu, and also destroyed their army of nearly 10,000 people; many people felt that Huo Went's illness and severely injured the Xiongnu was already a great achievement, even Emperor Wu of Han thought so, and he was thinking about how to reward Huo's illness.
But before Emperor Wu of Han had written down the holy will, he heard the officials come to report that Huo Went ill and led the army to go deep into the Xiongnu alone, and it should be known that Huo Went ill's 10,000 cavalry had already suffered a lot of damage when they fought longxi, and now at most there are more than 6,000 people, and Emperor Wu of Han is a little on fire, he asked."
Didn't Gongsun Ao go all the way with Huo? What about him?
Officials said that Gongsun Ao was lost, so angry that Emperor Wu of Han directly ordered that Gongsun Ao be relieved of his position as commander-in-chief.
Emperor Wu of Han was very worried about Huo's illness, he thought that Huo went to the disease was the future pillar of the Western Han Dynasty, but could not fall like this, the whole Han was worried, waiting for the news of Huo's illness, but a month, two months, three months passed, Huo's army has not been heard, when everyone thought that Huo's army had fallen, Huo went to the disease sent news, annihilated the Xiongnu thirty thousand cavalry, captured the five xiongnu kings, and captured the Xiongnu courtiers, and also captured nearly 10,000 warhorses.
When this news came, Emperor Wudi of Han was stunned, he could not believe that Huo Went ill was only less than 20 years old, so qigong, Emperor Wu of Han did not know what to use to reward him, because Huo went to illness, Emperor Wu of Han could become the greatest emperor of the Great Han, and this kind of honorable descendant emperor did not have that opportunity at all.
This is not the end, Huo Wentai was ordered by Emperor Wu of Han to meet a certain king of the Xiongnu who surrendered, but some of the Xiongnu generals directly reversed the festival and led the troops to prepare to kill Huo Toyi, huo went to the disease and directly led the troops into the Xiongnu army, and therefore, the Western Han Dynasty completely and firmly grasped the Hexi region, and the Xiongnu did not dare to fight the Han for more than ten years.
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If Huo Go disease is defined as a famous general, this is obviously underestimating him, Huo Go disease and Emperor Wu of Han are all rare talents in ancient times, perhaps it is the sympathy of this kind of genius, when Huo Go disease died, Emperor Wu of Han was sad for him for a long time, and he was often sad when he looked at his portrait.
The meritorious deeds created by Huo Zhiyi for the Han Dynasty not only laid the foundation for the Han cavalry unit, not only solved the xiongnu threat, but more importantly, opened up the territory of the Han Dynasty, opened up the Hexi Corridor, and also laid the foundation for the development of the Silk Road, but also played the prestige of the Han Dynasty, so that the Han nation had the self-confidence to stand tall for thousands of years, and only then did it have the ambition of posterity to say that "those who offend our strong Han will be punished from afar.".