In 129 BC, Emperor Wu of Han decided not to shrink under the "tower" anymore, and the Han Dynasty should take the initiative to attack. Emperor Wu of Han organized a 4-way army to launch a tentative attack on the Xiongnu.
The result of the war was that Gongsun He led 10,000 Han troops to make a military trip, Gongsun Ao led 10,000 people lost 7,000, the old general Li Guangquan army was destroyed and returned to him, only the newcomer Wei Qing won the first battle, directly killed the Xiongnu sacrifice to the holy land of Longcheng, killed more than 700 Xiongnu people, and returned triumphantly. After this war, Li Guang, the first master of the desert, completely lost the military expectations of Emperor Wu of Han, and after that, Li Guang was marginalized, either to be contained or to be behind the palace, in short, Li Guang had no chance to show his head in the big scene. Wei Qing gained the trust of Emperor Wu of Han and began to officially enter the military stage and became the commander of the new generation of Han troops.
After the Battle of Longcheng, Emperor Wudi of Han was relieved, and this Xiongnu could do it. The Xiongnu were unhappy, and the holy place was smashed by Wei Qing, and the depressed Xiongnu decided to take revenge.
The Xiongnu's method of revenge is very interesting, their retaliation point was selected in the northeast region of the Han Dynasty, rather than the usual northwest, if you open there you can directly take the heart of the Han.
The Xiongnu chose to be in the northeast for three advantages:
First, the defense of the Northeast is weaker than that of the Han Army in the northwest, and it is cost-effective to grab a hand and run.
Second, by constantly harassing your remote frontier areas, you have to allocate manpower and material resources to defend, so that the loss of your national strength makes the big han exhausted.
Third, and most crucially, the Xiongnu also saw the restless heart of the young new emperor of the Great Han. The Great Han had been recuperating for more than a hundred years and accumulating huge amounts of energy, and the Xiongnu did not want to completely turn their faces with the Great Han. The robbery is still to be grabbed, but it is not so fierce, so that the big man will directly lift the negotiating table.
The Xiongnu wanted to take revenge this time through a few years of small local battles, and after the Han instigated, the two sides sat down to talk. When the time comes, you Han Dynasty will still have to obediently send girls to girls, and you should send money to send money.
It has to be said that this method of revenge of the Xiongnu is very feasible and deeply rooted in the essence of guerrilla warfare.
But what the Xiongnu could not imagine was that his opponent Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was an amateur military enthusiast who had gradually touched the doorway of war and wanted to understand how to fight this battle. This emperor is no longer satisfied with small local wars, he wants to play big. What he pursues is not the gain or loss of one city and one place, nor the glory and disgrace of one victory and one defeat. He was pondering how to erase the opponent who had been fighting the Central Plains for hundreds of years from the map.
What the Huns seek is to make you confess. And what Emperor Wu pursues is to make you disappear. As the saying goes, it depends on it, it depends on it, and whether the intention is lofty or not often determines the final level of merit.
The revenge of the Huns began, and tens of thousands of troops rushed directly to the northeastern border of the empire. But what he didn't expect was that Emperor Wu didn't take the northeast life and death seriously. He didn't care what happened to the northeast, what he wanted was the life of the Huns.
Emperor Wu of Han didn't care about the northeast, and the guards had to care! At this time, facing tens of thousands of Xiongnu troops was the second generation of the Han Dynasty military, and also the ambassador of peace in the past years, Han Anguo, did not expect that he loved peace, and he had to fight with the Xiongnu in his later years.
Han Anguo was a famous general on a par with Zhou Yafu at that time, and his status in the Han army was much higher than that of Li Guang. However, he was conservative in his thinking and became a representative figure of the "dove faction", and after the failure of the Mayi encirclement and suppression, he was marginalized because of his wrong attitude, and let Emperor Wu of Han go to the northeast front to fight for the motherland.
Saying that Han Anguo's fate is good or his fate is not good, wherever this old general is, he will be subjected to a key military attack. In the past years, under the liang king as a general, in time for the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the Wu-Chu coalition army beat Liang Guo to death, And Han Anguo solidified the defense, and after the counter-rebellion, he also became famous for this battle. Now that I am old, I want to have this remnant in the northeast, but I did not expect to get the key care of the Xiongnu side.
When Wei Qing and his class returned to the dynasty and celebrated with songs and dances in Chang'an City, the Xiongnu sent thousands of cavalry to attack Yuyang, which Han Anguo defended. Without the support of the imperial court, Han Anguo struggled to resist this wave of attacks by the Xiongnu. In the autumn of the following year, when the farmers in the Central Plains were busy with a bumper harvest, the Huns killed them again.
This time, the Xiongnu came more fiercely, the army was divided into three routes, and in the northeast, 20,000 iron horses were dispatched to raid Liaoxi (Ludong County, Hebei), killing Liaoxi Taishou and plundering thousands of people.
Another road of 10,000 cavalry killed Yuyang, this time Han Anguo still had only a thousand horses left after the last battle, almost all of them were killed, and just when Han Anguo was about to be martyred, Yandi rescuers arrived, rescued Han Anguo, and protected Yuyang.
At the same time, on the side of the Xiongnu headquarters, the soldiers went out of Yanmen, defeated the Yanmen lieutenants, and killed more than a thousand people.
Under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's combat policy of ignoring the northeast, the entire northern frontier of the empire was in a hurry.
Emperor Wu saw that it was no longer possible, so he ordered Wei Qing, who was stationed in Mayi, to save Yanmen, and Li Xichi, who was stationed in Dai County, to aid Yuyang and fight back against the atrocities of the invaders.
Mayi was only a hundred kilometers away from Yanmen, and Wei Qing led 30,000 elite horsemen to the Yanmen battlefield in less than half a day, once again showing the Xiongnu killer temperament, killing thousands of Xiongnu cavalry, the Xiongnu were defeated, and the siege of Yanmen was lifted.
On the other side, Li Xi also led an army to aid Han Anguo, capturing thousands of Xiongnu and recapturing hundreds of thousands of livestock. The Xiongnu plunder was successfully contained.
The great victory at Yanmen Pass once again confirmed Wei Qing's ability, and Emperor Wu of Han also had a greater plan, and a large-scale initiative against the Xiongnu was already on the agenda.