Preface: In the late Spring and Autumn until the Qin Dynasty, a powerful nomadic people was active in the north: the Xiongnu. During the time of Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian led an army of 400,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north and temporarily suppressed the Xiongnu, but in the early years of the Han Dynasty, the national strength declined and he was unable to fight the Xiongnu, especially the "Siege of Baideng" where the Han Wuzu Liu Bang was trapped for seven days and seven nights, which made the rulers of the early Han Dynasty fear the Xiongnu!
Therefore, Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing have always implemented a unilateral and pro-family policy, that is, they chose a Han woman to marry the Xiongnu Shan Yu and gave a lot of gold and silver treasures!
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But the peace policy did not bring stability to the border passes, and the barbaric Xiongnu cavalry still went around robbing grain and grass everywhere every year and ravaging the border people, which made Emperor Wudi of Han very annoyed!
In 133 BC, Nie Yi, a merchant of Mayi, found the border guard Wang Hui and offered a strategy of "luring the enemy deep and annihilating it in one fell swoop"! It was Nie Yi, who often did business with the Xiongnu, who falsely claimed to sacrifice Ma Yi to the Xiongnu, luring the Xiongnu army to take over Ma Yi, and then setting up an ambush in Mayi, cutting off the retreat and capturing Shan Yu alive!
The plan was reported to Emperor Wudi of Han, and he felt that it was feasible, so he sent Han Anguo, Li Guang, and Gongsun He to lead 300,000 elite troops to set up an ambush in the valley near Mayi, and ordered Wang Hui Li Xi to lead 30,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu's grain and grass, and then sent Nie Yi to fool Shan Yu and say: He has hundreds of people in Mayi, and he can cooperate inside and outside, kill the Mayi County Order, and welcome the Xiongnu Shan Yu.
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The Xiongnu led an army of 100,000 to march in the direction of Mayi, but found clues in the place where they had not yet entered the encirclement of the Han army more than a hundred miles away from Mayi: there were livestock along the way, but no one grazing cattle.
The Xiongnu found it suspicious, so they captured an imperial history, and under torture, learned about the plans of the Han army, and ordered the withdrawal of the army.
And Wang Hui and Li Xi's 30,000 troops found that the Xiongnu were retreating, knowing that their 30,000 people could not withstand the Xiongnu army, so they withdrew. And Han Anguo's 300,000 army did not move for several days, so they took the initiative to pursue, but the Xiongnu army had fled, and they returned in vain!
Mayi pursues
The Mayi incident completely tore the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty apart, in order to take revenge on the Han Dynasty's Mayi ambush, the Xiongnu attacked the border of the Han Dynasty, burned, looted, and did all evil, which made Emperor Wudi of Han realize that it was time to start a head-on confrontation with the Xiongnu!
Next is Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Guangyi and other famous generals appear, we will talk about it next time!
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