HISTORY
Hodg disease, a distant name, but deeply nailed in our hearts. In ancient China, the highest dream of many soldiers was to "seal the wolf and live in Xu", but he did it at the age of 21 and became an example looked up to by countless future generations. "Born in Shihan Yu Lin Lang, he first rode with Yuyang. He who knows not to suffer from the side court, let him die like a chivalrous bone. Wang Wei's poem just expresses his admiration for him.
Huo went ill, the legend of a generation of famous generals, 17 years old under the leadership of his uncle Wei Qing, went out with the army, the crown of the whole army; 21 years old across the desert north, became the commander of the three armies, attacked the Xiongnu many times, the scenery is invincible, with few victories, always able to return with great victories. He created a legend of a warrior and became the object of admiration of countless people in later generations.
However, a generation of heroes actually died of illness at the age of 23, which makes people sad. As for the reason for his death, the data presents only a sentence of death due to illness, and the story behind it needs to be constantly explored.
The nimble young man has achieved ambition, and his name has shaken the north and south
"Wei Huo treats the rich and noble, how can he be without success?" In the pen of the ancients, the famous Western Han Dynasty general Huo Fuyi's heroic posture and bravery and fearless heroism jumped on the paper.
More than 2,000 years ago, when other peers were still ignorant, the eighteen-year-old Huo Fuyi had already become a leader in the army, and in his early twenties, he was even more an official to the Grand Sima Horse Riding General and the title of Champion Hou. In front of the world, his extraordinary achievements, anyone will be overwhelmed with emotion.
As the nephew of the famous general Wei Qing, Huo Fuyi was deeply influenced by his uncle, with a flexible head and quick reflexes.
In the march to fight, the use of soldiers is flexible, pay attention to strategy, not like the old generals in the army who rely on the old and sell the old, cling to the ancient law, when dealing with the Huns, he does not stick to the ancestors' stereotyped sand table military method, dare to guerrilla warfare.
Huo went ill and dared to act boldly, made decisive decisions, was good at long-distance raids, and won the first rank of enemy soldiers in one grassland battle after another.
While other Han generals were still studying previous examples of warfare and seeking how to defend the Huns in the wilderness, Huo had ordered his soldiers to quickly raid the enemy camp.
It has to be said that Huo Fuyi was a lucky person in history, because he was the nephew of Wei Qing, a great meritorious officer of the Western Han Dynasty, and was deeply respected by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Huo's command on the battlefield is very large, and he can open his heart to use soldiers without any scruples.
The greatest advantage of Hodg's disease is that he dares to try fresh tactics and strategies. In the endless desert, he ordered his army to carry out a great roundabout operation against the Hun cavalry, to use a large interspersed operation to surround and annihilate the enemy army.
At the age of eighteen, he led eight hundred horsemen in his first conquest, and when the enemy's defenses were lax, he raised his horse and whipped his horse, went deep into the enemy territory for hundreds of miles, and killed the Xiongnu soldiers in all directions.
In the two battles of Hexi, Huo went ill to break the Xiongnu, captured the Xiongnu sacrifice Tianjin people, and directly took the Qilian Mountains.
In the Battle of Mobei, Huo went ill to seal the wolf juxu and returned home with a great victory. This made the Western Han Dynasty excited, and finally washed away the shameful history of the compromise with the Xiongnu since The Ancestor of Han Gao, Liu Bang!
Huo's record of illness made countless old generals of the Western Han Dynasty sigh with emotion and feel ashamed of themselves. For a time, Huo Fuyi was embraced by the non-commissioned officers in the military camp, and was revered by countless Han warriors as the unparalleled god of war in his heart!
According to the records in Sima Qian's "Records of History", Huo Went ill died suddenly before going out to conquer the Xiongnu, and the cause of death announced by the Western Han Court was illness, so was he really sick and died? In fact, this possibility is not very large. Because at the age of 17, he followed his uncle on the expedition and gradually grew into a generation of famous generals, as a brave warrior who had been in the battlefield for a long time, his physical fitness was definitely excellent, and at the age of 23, the idea of falling ill and dying did not seem to be very valid.
Huo Went ill became famous at a young age, emerging from Wei Qing's army, and after the Great War of Mobei, his status in the army increased rapidly, after which Huo Went ill also gradually broke away from Wei Qing's sphere of influence, formed a sphere of influence with himself as the core, and established his own military strength.
The backbone members of this military group were almost all low-level soldiers, who attacked the Xiongnu with Huo's illness, most of them were low-level officers who could ride and shoot, and they were brave and good at fighting. More importantly, the focus of these people was on the military battlefield, and they had almost no connection with the noble families of the imperial court.
The split of the military group: a contest between Wei and Huo
At a young age, Huo was very innovative. The young Huo went ill and dared to break through the fixed method of using soldiers, to a large extent, he had already offended many veterans and magnates in the army.
On the other hand, Huo's uncle Wei Qing, a generation of great generals, is declining day by day, but he has too many interest entanglements in his body, representing the interests of many interest groups, the Wei family has a huge influence, and smart as Emperor Wu of Han, in order to curb this huge force, the means taken are to use Huo to defend.
In this way, the Wei and Huo cliques formed a sharp contradiction struggle. Of course, when this contradiction intensifies, it must be at the expense of the interests of one party.
Even a family cannot avoid such a tragedy. Therefore, Huo Fuyi, who had never participated in the struggle of the political forces of the imperial court and devoted himself to the battlefield, was also difficult to avoid this disaster, and unfortunately became a victim of this political struggle. From some historical facts, we can also glimpse one or two of them.
If the biggest protective umbrella of the Weibu interest group is Wei Qing, then what they want to protect is naturally the interests of Prince Wei, so the contest between Wei and Huo is not only above the battlefield, but also extends to the court.
What is more crucial is that this group of old generals who rely on the old and sell the old, have made high achievements, and have paid hard for the dynasty do not want to let themselves, the new master of the dynasty, integrate into their circle as soon as possible.
Although sometimes, Ho go ill with some of the recklessness of young people. However, he was a new generation of strength in the army, and he was extremely loyal to Emperor Wu of Han and absolutely loyal to the emperor. Closely from the point of view of him shooting Li Dare, it was not just to avenge the personal vendetta of his uncle Wei Qing's assassination. After all, in the feudal army system, the act of assassinating the commander on the spot was a capital offense according to the regulations.
If the assassination of Wei Qing itself was successful, it was very likely that the Han army itself would be in great chaos.
The end result will not only lead to the success of the entire war against Hungary, but also to the failure of the results. It even led to internal divisions in the Western Han army, and even more so, they supported the new spokesmen of the Western Han Dynasty and supported some puppet emperors. The direction of history will definitely be the split and demise of the Western Han Dynasty.
At this time, there were three powerful forces in the imperial court, headed by Wei Qing, Huo Fuyi, and Li Guang. Li Guang's cousin Li Cai held a prominent position in the imperial court and was also a core member of the entire family.
In 119 BC, during the Great War of Mobei, Li Guang chose to commit suicide. Li dared to stab Wei Qing, but Wei Qing was humble and courteous, gentle and generous. He hid the matter, but it also laid the foundation for the Li family.
In 118 BC, Li Cai committed suicide on trumped-up charges. It was also in this year that Huo went ill and killed Li Gan in front of the emperor. Then in the whole struggle, the one who benefited the most was the Wei Group.
By shooting Li Gan so blatantly, didn't Huo go to the disease and consider the consequences? This was not a long-planned killing, but a sudden move. After the Li family was uprooted, the hatred between Huo Ande and the Li clan also reached its peak, which also caused the emperor's displeasure.
The Han Dynasty's assassination methods escalated, and there were many infighting organs
In 117 BC, Huo Went ill repeatedly wrote to the emperor to separate the three princes as kings, so why did he do this repeatedly, in fact, it was not much benefit for him, he was only the initiator and leader of this matter, but the development of the matter was huge, and all the courtiers were involved. The biggest beneficiary is still Prince Wei, and the Wei Group is still the biggest beneficiary, and Huo died of illness half a year later.
Hearing the news of Huo's illness and death, Emperor Wu was shocked, and for a while he was in a hurry, and between waking up, he endured the pain and arranged the army's defense to replace the handover task of the general.
Subsequently, in order to stabilize the hearts of the army, he buried meritorious service. He also dispatched the ironclad troops of the five border counties, lined up from Chang'an to Maoling, and gave Huo Huo's tomb the shape of Qilian Mountain, and posthumously honored him as the Marquis of Jinghuan.
Thinking about it carefully, Huo Fu, who was in his prime, suddenly died of illness. The cause of his death has to be said to be strange. In short, the history books at that time were not convenient to record, but the possibility of Huo's illness being poisoned was extremely high.
During the Western Han Dynasty, in order to consolidate his position in the imperial court. The detailed activities of various interest groups are frequent. The spies in the imperial court and the large camp in the army were in turmoil for a while.
Even the tools involved in poisoning are further improved relative to the previous dynasty. It is also common to release poison in clothing, diet, and air.
Since the opening of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court has been full of bloody rain and wind. After Liu Bang, Lü Hou used cruel means to kill the founding father of the imperial court and ruthlessly, poisoning the harem in a bottomless way.
In the Western Han Dynasty, there were similar examples up and down, and the powerful people in the military and the DPRK would also go up and down in order to eliminate dissidents, and there were many poisonous incidents for a while. Even the inexplicable disappearance of powerful people has appeared one after another.
However, after all, Huo's position of illness is highly powerful, and it is not good to make it disappear directly. Therefore, the hostile forces in the army completely use covert means, and the possibility of the enemy people who are sick and buying their close personnel to poison their diet and even their drinks is extremely high.
More crucially, the great general of the frontier died suddenly. Even if the imperial court, even if the results of the secret investigation by Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty confirmed that Huo Qi's illness was poisoned, it was helpless and powerless. The imperial court and the army did not dare to speak out, so as not to disturb the hearts and minds of the army, so that there were signs of division within the army, so that the Xiongnu took advantage of the void, or caused the army to mutiny, and the extreme events of the division of the dynasty appeared.