The reputation of "famous general of the ages" is not well deserved in the long river of Chinese history. Because the two hard indicators of "incomparable loyalty" and "supreme battle achievements" are extremely difficult for many takeshi to achieve and break through at the same time.
He can be called a famous general throughout the ages, such as the Lord of Jin after shelling in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, causing him to die of his wounds and curbing the Manchu Qing's entry into the customs, Yuan Chonghuan Yuan. Another example is that since childhood, he has engraved the four big characters of "loyal to the country", and has been bent on pounding the Yellow Dragon to welcome back the Second Emperor hui Qin, beating the Jinguo Hu yu to cry and shouting at the mother, and returning the Yue Wu Mu Yue prince of I Heshan. Another example is to plant the banner of the Great Han Army on the mountain where the wolves live in the north of the desert, light up the billowing wolf smoke, and show Hou Huo, the champion of the Great Han Dynasty who has shown the might of the Great Han God to the exotic land.
None of these warm-blooded men did not dedicate their sincerity and courage to their ancestral homeland, and they never lived up to the glory and glory of the "famous generals of the ages". However, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties,
But there is a person with outstanding martial arts, extraordinary achievements, no loss to the Western Han Dynasty's Huo Tou disease, almost on a par with it, but its final ending is deeply regrettable, and I am afraid that it can not be recognized by the mainstream as the "famous general of the ages", looking at his life's temperament and performance, it seems that he has long been doomed to such a tragic ending, so it also fulfills an old saying we often say: "Character determines destiny!" ”
Who is it? Looking at the officials and listening to the tao, this person's surname is Dou, the name Xian, the word Bodu, his grandfather is the founding hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty Dou Rong, his father Dou Xun was killed illegally, he did not have parents to watch over when he was young, when Emperor Zhang of Han, his sister entered the palace as an empress, he was elected into the palace to be a tiger benzhonglang general who protected the emperor, because of his high martial skills, he soon became the first red man around the emperor. In the capital luoyang, from the princes and princesses to the Yin family and the Ma family, there was not a single one who was not afraid of Dou Xian.
Dou Xian even used the prestige of his emperor's brother-in-law to buy the Qinyuan of the famous imperial sister Qinshui Princess Qinshui at a low price (the origin of the word brand name Qinyuan Chun), and the princess did not take him at all and did not dare to bother with him. Later, Emperor Zhang of Han traveled through Qinyuan and wanted to meet the princess, so he pointed to the garden gate and asked Dou Xian to go and report it.
At that time, Dou Xian was embarrassed, and the emperor knew that he had forcibly seized the princess's garden, and immediately scolded angrily: "Do you want to learn from Zhao Gao, who refers to deer as horses, and treat the widow as Qin II?" I don't want to look at the queen's face, killing you is like pinching a stinky rat to death!" (The abandonment of the Constitution of the widow is like a wrinkled rat's ear!) ）
Dou Xian was so frightened that he urinated and urinated on the spot, fell to his knees and prostrated his head until the blood flowed continuously, and soon Empress Dou also knelt down outside the palace gate in tattered clothes to apologize to the emperor, Emperor Hanzhang was discouraged after a long time, Dou Xian also returned Qinyuan to the princess, and from then on, the emperor never promoted Dou Xian again.
Later, Emperor Zhang of Han died, and Emperor Liu Zhao, who was only ten years old, took the throne as a crown prince, and Empress Dou became the empress dowager, at this time, as the new emperor's uncle Dou Xian was promoted to shizhong (equivalent to the emperor's secretary general), everything in the palace was controlled by him, and there was not a single edict that did not go through his hands.
Several of Dou Xian's brothers also became important courtiers of the imperial court, and Dou Xian himself was very impatient, and he could not take revenge for his grievances. During the reign of Emperor Ming of Han, his father Dou Xun died at the hands of the chancellor Han Hong, who had already died, but Dou Xian still sent assassins to kill Han Hong's son and cut off his head to pay tribute to his father.
Liu Chang, the Marquis of Duxiang, the Prince of Qi, was ordered by his father to come to Luoyang to guard the spirit of the former emperor, and it is said that Liu Chang was proficient in strange and strange arts (suxing evil), and often sent gifts to Empress Dou through connections, Dou Xian was afraid that he had any plans, so he sent assassins to kill Liu Chang in the imperial forest camp, and then forced the blame on Liu Chang's brother Liu Gang, the Marquis of Li, and waited until Yushi tortured Liu Gang in every way, and finally realized that everything was Dou Xian's doing, and then reported it to the empress. When Empress Dowager Dou saw her brother making such a fool of herself, she was furious and imprisoned him in the inner palace and forbidden to go out.
Only then did Dou Xian realize that he had committed a capital crime, so he asked the empress dowager to bring troops to fight the Xiongnu outside the Great Wall to atone for his sins. It just so happened that at this time, the Southern Xiongnu DaDan Yu, who had already defected to the Han Dynasty, also requested to attack the Northern Xiongnu, who had always disobeyed the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the empress dowager asked Emperor Han and Emperor To appoint Dou Xian as the general of the Che Cavalry, and sent the veteran general Geng Bing as his deputy general, and transferred the most elite warriors from the Twelve Counties, along with the mercenaries of Eastern Hu and Western Qiang.
The following year, Dou Xian led only 4,000 iron horses, followed by 10,000 cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu Zuogu Li King, from Shuofang County,Jilusai north, with various large armies to meet Zhuo Evil Mountain (present-day MandalGobi, Mongolia), and then fought fiercely with the northern Xiongnu troops at Jiluo Mountain (present-day AlchaBokdo Mountain, Mongolia), and finally defeated Northern Danyu, killing more than 13,000 Northern Xiongnu and obtaining more than a million cattle, sheep, camels, and horses.
Then there was the famous field "Yanran Leshi" that was comparable to Huo's sick wolf Juxu, and Dou Xian led the eighty-one tribes in northern Mobei, totaling more than 200,000 people, to the Xiongnu sacred mountain Yanran Mountain, which symbolized the residence of the gods, and he climbed to the top with the tribal leaders, carved stone Legong on the mountain, and spread the weide of the Great Han far away in these three thousand miles away.
At that time, the inscription was written by the great historian Ban Gu (the author of the Book of Han). Then the Han army returned, and the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu also gave him an ancient ding symbolizing the xiongnu kingship, which was engraved with a line of large characters such as "Zhongshan Fuding, his descendants and grandchildren Yongbao", Dou Xian did not dare to swallow it, and returned to Luoyang and dedicated it to Han He. Emperor Han he was very happy, and immediately promoted Dou Xian to the rank of grand general, and was given the title of Marquis of Wuyang and twenty thousand households.
At this time, Dou Xian's authority really shocked the government and the opposition, according to the Han system, the position of great general was still under the three dukes, and even belonged to the subordinate of the taiwei, so the courtiers wrote to him to rank him above the three dukes. Dou Xian actually refused to do anything, and his brothers all sealed Hou and won the reward, but Dou Xian refused to accept the title, and ran to the northwest liangzhou with soldiers and horses. Since the Northern Xiongnu would still invade from time to time from the south, Dou Xian
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Destroy the Northern Prisoner. Later, he almost captured Beidan Yu alive at Jinwei Mountain (present-day Altai Mountains), but he escaped and has not been found ever since.
The Han Dynasty fought a war with the Xiongnu for more than two hundred years, and finally completely quelled the Xiongnu at the hands of Dou Xian, and his prestige has since flourished. Most of the civil and military officials of the imperial court rushed to tie up and cling to him, and the Shangshu servants Zhi Shou and Le Hui were not accustomed to his arrogance and were forced to commit suicide, and the whole court was shocked.
Dou Xian also became more and more oblivious, and his subordinate Deng Die's mother and his son-in-law Guo Ju actually wanted to enter the palace to murder the empress dowager, and then supported Dou Xian as emperor. Emperor Han and Emperor Relied on the eunuchs in the palace, and knowing their plot, they consulted with the eunuch leader Zhongchang Zhengzhong to get rid of Dou Xian.
At first, Emperor Han and Emperor He were afraid that Dou Xian's generals were many generals, so he sent envoys to the army to treat the three armies, and then summoned Dou Xian to the palace to receive rewards. When Dou Xian entered the palace, Emperor Han and Emperor He immediately ordered the Yulin Army to close all the gates of the five palaces, and to capture all of Dou Xian's loyal generals, and after being imprisoned, all of them were killed, and all the families of these people were exiled to Hepu County in the far south as slaves.
Dou Xian was alone and confiscated the Great General Seal on the spot, and changed his title to Champion Hou, which was the same title as Huo Fu's illness that year. Emperor Han and Emperor He could not kill Dou Xian in front of the empress, but only escorted him and his two brothers to his fiefdom, and promised the empress dowager that he would choose a harsh state to discipline them, but as a result, dou Xian's brothers were forced to hang themselves as soon as they arrived at the feudal state. This is how the dou family's powerful foreign forces were eradicated.
When future generations talk about Dou Xian, they will compare him with such world-famous generals as Wei Qing and Huo Zhiyi, especially his brilliant record of "sweeping away the Shuo court in one fell swoop" and completely annihilating the Xiongnu, which makes many heroes Hao Jie fascinated! Unfortunately, he did not listen carefully to the words of Emperor Han Zhang's exhortations to him that year, "Use it as a tiger, and use it as a mouse", which has become a terrible rumor that he self-destructed his future and was discredited!
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