During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Che, the emperor of Han Wu, succeeded to the throne. A major event occurred during his reign, when the young general Huo Qubing shot Li Guang's son Li Dan on the spot in front of Liu Che during his hunting in Ganquan Palace.
This happened under Liu Che's nose, but instead of punishing Huo Qubing, he also tried to shield Huo Qubing.
The reason was that Liu Che, the emperor of Han Wu, planned to attack the Xiongnu. Therefore, he appointed the general Wei Qing to lead his generals to Mobei to fight the Xiongnu. But another general, Li Guang, after knowing this, also wanted to participate in the team of this conquest.
However, at this time, Li Guang was already old, and when he was young, he was a famous general during the Western Han Dynasty, and he was nicknamed "General Fei". However, Emperor Wudi of Han did not allow Li Guang to participate in the expedition, not only because Li Guang was old.
Another important reason was that he was worried that Li Guang's participation in this war would lead to the defeat of this war. The reason why Li Guang was not canonized in his life was because Emperor Wudi of Han had always been prejudiced against him.
With Li Guang's merits, his status will not be lower than Wei Qing. But because Emperor Wudi of Han always believed that Li Guang "committed bad luck", he has always been quite prejudiced against him,
However, Li Guangjian was eager and kept coming to Emperor Wudi of Han, and after his repeated pleading, Emperor Wudi of Han finally agreed to let him participate in this war. And let him be a pioneer.
However, during the deployment of the march, Wei Qing suddenly changed his strategy and ordered Li Guang, who had been the vanguard, to join the Right Route Army instead. He and his brother Gongsun Ao faced the Xiongnu general Shan Yu head-on, and formed a pincer attack with Li Guang.
This caused Li Guang, who changed direction halfway, to be lost in the desert, and only arrived when Wei Qing had finished fighting Li Guang. For his belated arrival, Li Guang was ashamed.
Why did you suddenly change strategy? The first reason was that halfway through the march, Emperor Wudi of Han wrote to Wei Qing, telling Wei Qing that Li Guang had no prestige and no combat strength, and tried to get Wei Qing to transfer Li Guang to an unimportant support team.
The second reason is that Wei Qing is also skeptical about the elderly Li Guang. Although Li Guang was quite prestigious at that time, he did not have a large-scale battle that could be taken, which made Wei Qing also doubt Li Guang's strength.
The third reason is that Wei Qing himself has selfish intentions, his brother Gongsun Ao lost the last battle against the Xiongnu with him, resulting in the loss of the throne, Wei Qing felt guilty about this, and decided to let Gongsun Ao take the lead in this operation.
But what Wei Qing didn't know was that it was this decision that buried Li Guang's life.
When Li Guang, who was in his sixties, faced Wei Qing's accusations, he was no longer able to argue anything, only full of shame. Li Guang, who is eager to make a contribution, is already disheartened at this time, and this Mobei war is also the last straw that crushes his hopes.
Li Guang, who was full of ashes, saw that he was already over the age of Huajia, and at this time, he had no hope of accomplishing anything. And this incident also made Li Guang begin to doubt himself, so Li Guang drew his sword on the spot and killed himself.
Li Guang's suicide made Wei Qing regret it, and he did not disrespect the elderly general. But now that the wood is done, the matter has been settled, and whatever he says is pale.
Wei Qing also recommended Li Guang to posthumously seal the throne for him, but in the end Emperor Wudi of Han did not agree.
Li Guang's death is most unacceptable to his son Li Dao. In order to get justice for his father, Li dared to chase Wei Qing's mansion and beat him without saying a word. Wei Qing felt guilty about Li Guang's death, so he did not fight back when he was beaten.
For himself to be beaten, Wei Qing can understand Li Dang's feelings very well. In the end, Li Dao's father was forced to die by himself, how could this child not remember hating himself in his heart. So for the matter of his beating, Wei Qing was silent about it, and finally stopped talking.
But Wei Qing could understand, but his nephew Huo Qubing could not. His uncle was beaten, how could his nephew swallow his anger?
Huo Qubing thought that his uncle had done nothing wrong, obeyed military orders on the battlefield, and Li Guang himself got lost and shut up his uncle. It's just that a few sentences of punishment are already light, and it is already good to deal with it by military law for delaying the fighter. Unexpectedly, he dared but did not know how to be a villain, and dared to blame his uncle.
Huo Qubing held a grudge against this and always wanted to take this evil breath for Wei Qing. On this day, Emperor Wudi of Han organized a hunt in Ganquan Palace, among which were Huo Qubing and Li Dang, who seized the opportunity, in the process of hunting, he pulled his bow in front of Emperor Wudi of Han and shot Li Dan to death.
This incident aroused the anger of many ministers on the field at that time. It is believed that Huo Qubing openly killed other people's lives on such an occasion, and his crime is punishable.
Moreover, Li Guang devoted his life to the imperial court. Now his body is not cold, but his son was killed by Huo Qubing in front of the emperor's eyes, it is really heartbreaking, how can it not be chilling.
However, Emperor Han Wudi was very partial to Huo Qubing, because Huo Qubing was watched by Emperor Hanwu and grew up, and naturally he could not bear to punish him.
So he ordered Huo Qubing to make meritorious service, and quickly sent him to the front line. Regarding Li Daan's death, Emperor Wudi of Han even claimed that he accidentally fell off his horse and was killed by a frightened elk in the process of hunting.
Li Guangjian was sincere, and seeing that he was old and hopeless, he swung his sword and killed himself, which is really regrettable. In fact, everyone is excusable, but this tragedy happened, only Emperor Wudi of Han was to blame.
