I have a little opinion on Wei Qinghuo's exploits in going to illness

Many people think that Wei Qing attacked the Huns seven times and killed more than 50,000 Huns, and Huo Qubing killed 110,000 Huns six times (two of them went on expeditions with Wei Qing and he was a general four times), and Huo Quai's military achievements were much greater than Wei Qing's. The efficiency is much higher than that of Wei Qing. Some people even think that Wei Qingyong is inferior to Li Guang, and his merits are not as good as Huo Quai, and they laugh at Wei Qing's large number of captured Xiongnu herds in battle, and think that Wei Qing's military exploits are not worth mentioning.

Next, I would like to talk about Wei Qinghuo's achievements in going to illness

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are both immortal generation of famous generals. The tactics of both of them are to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory, surprise victory, long-range running, and roundabout encirclement of blitzkrieg. Wei Qing is the pioneer of this method of warfare. Huo Quzhi will carry it forward. But I think there is a slight difference in the details of how the two fight. Judging from the impact of the outcome of the war on the overall situation, Wei Qing is a head higher than Huo Quai.

The Han-Hungarian War was a protracted war, and war horses were a major part. A war horse is worth 300,000 yuan in advance. At the beginning of the war, the Xiongnu horse breed was better than that of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu soldiers were better at horse warfare than the Han Dynasty soldiers, and the Han Dynasty soldiers did not understand the situation in the territory of the Xiongnu. The Han army formed a fear of the Xiongnu for decades and believed that the Hun cavalry was invincible.

The two sides of the war also fought for the material foundation, and the material foundation of the Han was grain, war horses, money, etc. The material foundation of the Xiongnu is cattle, horses and sheep, and the grassland with abundant water and grass. Cattle, horses and sheep, the grassland with abundant water and grass is also the foundation of the survival of the Huns.

In fighting a war, Wei Qing did not focus on how many people he killed, but on achieving strategic goals, on dealing a major blow to the enemy's economy, and on obtaining the enemy's materials to nourish the war with war, so that the enemy would lose the foundation for survival. Thus defeating the enemy.

This characteristic can be seen from the Henan War Wei Qing Zhan Lou Fan King, the Aries King, killed more than 5,000 people, obtained millions of cattle, horses and sheep, and collected Henan. The Monan War illustrates this even more, Wei Qing fought against the Right Xian King, captured 15,000 men and women, captured millions of cattle, horses and sheep, and completely crossed the Right Xian King. Although these two wars did not kill many people, they completely destroyed the headquarters of King Lou Fan, King Aries, and King Youxian from the bottom of survival. Occupied the land of the Xiongnu with fertile water and grass. It had a significant impact on the entire economy of the Xiongnu. So that the three are only left with people waiting to starve to death, and they can only go their separate ways and find their own way out. In the next few decades, I did not see the Lou Fan King, the Aries King, and the Right Xian Wang, and invaded the Han Dynasty.

Wei Qing's strategic thinking can also be seen from Wei Qing's tactics of burning the Xiongnu grassland in the spring and starving the Xiongnu cattle, horses and sheep to death. This tactic was also praised by the ancestors.

Wei Qing attacked the Xiongnu six times in the early days, and the Han army did not fail to fight the Xiongnu because of the lack of horses, because they got the excellent stallions of the Xiongnu, the quality of the horses became better and better, and the speed of the cavalry became faster and faster. The cavalry of the Han army grew stronger and stronger. This is inseparable from Wei Qing's seizure of the enemy's war horses and the enemy's materials to support the war. As for cattle and sheep, they are also materials that can be turned into money. The benefits to the economy of the Han Dynasty were very obvious. In the historical records, the shepherd Bu Shi turned into 300,000 yuan of thousands of sheep that he had raised in the past few years and donated them to the army to fight the Xiongnu.

Wei Qing's method of raising war and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's horse breeding policy finally achieved the goal of gradually improving the quality of military horses in the Han Dynasty and cultivating the best cavalry of the Han Dynasty. In the end, the captured Xiongnu soldiers taught the cavalry tactics of the Han Dynasty soldiers and became the guides of the Han army to fight the Xiongnu. The cavalry of the Han army became a stronger cavalry than the Xiongnu Dadanyu Guards. laid the foundation for the final defeat of the Xiongnu. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Wei Qing contributed to the cultivation and growth of the Han cavalry.

In short, Wei Qing's Henan War, the Mo Nan War and the rich capture dealt a heavy blow to the Xiongnu, and made the Han Dynasty get some benefits from the war. This is the real reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty named him a general, a family and four marquis.

After that, the five blows and six blows of the Xiongnu were all fought against Yizhi shoes, killing more than 19,000 enemies in total, but did not reach the grazing land of Yizhi shoes and did not capture. and lost Zhao Xin and Su Jianbu.

In Wei Qing's Mobei War, Yi Zhishou learned the lessons of the previous times, and moved the tribe and cattle, horses and sheep to the north, leaving only the elite soldiers to fight with Wei Qing in the north of the desert, so Wei Qing did not capture this battle and occupied Zhao Xincheng, which only had grain and hay in the city. Because it is impossible to cross the desert and take away the food, you can only replenish yourself, and set fire to the excess.

In this war, Wei Qing innovatively adopted the new tactics of Wuhan Iron and Steel Chariot Ring Defense, cavalry attack, and the tactic of dividing troops and encircling them. I boldly guess that if Li Guang and Zhao Shiqi's troops arrive on time, this battle is likely to completely wipe out the elite soldiers of Yizhi Shoes and Yu Guards, and Yizhi Shoes will die, causing civil strife and division of the Xiongnu. The surrender of the Southern Xiongnu during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty may have occurred during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

When the ancestors commented on this war, most of them shouted injustice because Li Guangzhao ate his troops and took the eastern road, thinking that Wei Qing had won the merit, and deliberately let Li Guangzhao eat his troops to detour. But I think it is Wei Qing who is more wronged in this battle. Because, this battle Wei Qing and Yi Zhi shoes are encounters.Wei Qing led the Han army is Huo Quai's leftovers, and has just crossed the desert, the soldiers are tired and tired.And Yi Zhi shoes led by the Xiongnu's most elite Shan Yu Guards, and to wait for work.Wei Qing was originally at a disadvantage.Because Li Guang Zhao Shiqi's troops did not arrive on time, and when Wei Qing and Yi Zhi shoes exchanged troops, the number of cavalry was less than Yi Zhi shoes and the elite soldiers of the guards, which was unfavorable and unfavorable, Wei Qing experienced an unprecedented danger of life and death in this battle.Finally, the battle ended with a tragic victory.I think, During the battle, Wei Qing must have been very anxious, looking forward to the stars and the moon, and hoping for the arrival of Li Guangzhao and his troops.

Although Wei Qing's Mobei War only killed more than 19,000 people, everything was only the elite soldiers of the guards, and there was no old and weak person. The foundation of the Xiongnu Shan Yu's rule was dealt a heavy blow. For a long time, it was impossible to fight the Han army again. (The Xiongnu were tribal alliances, and Da Danyu's elite troops were the basis for his rule over other tribes.) If Da Shan Yu's elite troops are weak, other tribal kings may replace Da Shan Yu and become Da Shan Yu himself. ）

The significance of the Weiqing Mobei War is actually heavier than Huo Quai's wolf (wolf) son-in-law. This is also the reason why the historical records write about the war in detail.

In the Mobei War, Wei Qing adopted the tactics of Wuhan Iron and Steel chariots forming a ring for defense, cavalry attacking and cavalry guarding and cavalry attacking, and the tactics of dividing troops and encircling them, which fully demonstrated the ability of his great military strategists and commanders, and were imitated by later generations of military strategists. Li Jing successfully achieved the goal of dividing his troops and encircling them. Defeated the Tuguhun army at Jishi Mountain, killed Tuguhun Fuyun Khan, and returned the Tuguhun land to the Tang Dynasty. During Liu Yu's Northern Expedition of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the cavalry that dealt with the fierce cavalry of the Southern Yan also imitated the tactics of the Weiqing chariot to defend the formation and the cavalry to defend the cavalry to resist the impact of the cavalry.

Huo Qubing undertook and carried forward the characteristics of Wei Qing's blitzkrieg of going deep into the enemy's territory, winning by surprise, running from a distance, and encircling in a roundabout way, and further carried forward this characteristic. But the details of his way of fighting are not exactly the same as Wei Qing's.

At this time, the Han army was not afraid to fight against the Huns, but after frequent exchanges, the Huns had a sense of fear of the Han army. Flexibility and speed can already be comparable to the elite main force of the Xiongnu. After many actual battles, the Han army became familiar with the cavalry tactics of the Xiongnu, and there were a large number of Xiongnu people in the Han army who were familiar with the situation of the Xiongnu. The overall quality of the cavalry of the Han army also surpassed that of the Xiongnu cavalry.

In the war, Huo Qubing did not want the enemy's materials and captures, but focused on killing and wounding the enemy's leaders and living forces. The military quarters of their own army are taken from the enemy and do not wait for supplies from the rear. In this way, the mobility, speed and flexibility of the troops can be guaranteed to the greatest extent. Guaranteed to catch more enemy bosses and kill more enemies. The advantages of the cavalry are vividly carried forward.

Huo Quzhi's tactics were similar to Genghis Khan's later Eastern Expeditionary Troops, and the fighting style of other 10,000 troops. The glorious results of the 10,000-strong team have attracted the attention of the world.

From Huo Quai's two Hexi Wars and the subsequent Mobei War, we can see the obvious characteristics of Huo Quai's combat and Wei Qing's differences.

The Hexi Corridor is the fertile land of the water and grass of the Xiongnu, and it is the grazing land of the King of Hun and the King of Hutu. Huo Quai's two Hexi wars swept five small Xiongnu tribal states, killing nearly 40,000 Xiongnu, but they were not captured. In the Mobei War, Huo Qubing killed the Xiongnu royal court and the grazing land of King Zuoxian, killing 70,000 people, but none of them were captured.

The advantages of Huo Qubing in the war are obvious, that is, to completely destroy the enemy physically and numerically, because the number of Xiongnu is not large, which effectively shortens the process of the Han-Hungarian war. His exploits will always be mourned by his ancestors.

However, Huo Quai's tactics also easily caused the Han army's horses to not be replenished in time, so that there was no problem of horses fighting again in the future. And the problem that there is no war harvest to compensate for war losses. It is not conducive to a protracted war against the Xiongnu. In fact, after Wei Qing attacked the Xiongnu six times, Huo Quai's two Hexi Wars and Wei Huo Mobei War were not captured, and then the Han Dynasty could not fight against the Xiongnu for nearly ten years because there were no war horses.

There is no doubt that Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are both great military commanders. can't simply think that Wei Qing is not as good as Huo Quai, probably Huo Qubing is not as good as Wei Qing. But it can be said with certainty that the strategy adopted by Wei Qing to attack the Xiongnu in the early stage was completely correct, and it was the foundation for the Han Dynasty to completely defeat the Xiongnu and make Mo Nan have no royal court.

I guess that if the Han Dynasty had attacked the Xiongnu in the first four times and adopted the tactics of Huo Quai, there would have been two possible outcomes of the war

1. Huo Qubing killed and injured the Xiongnu more than Wei Qing, but probably because there were no war horses, the Han Dynasty could not attack the Xiongnu in five, six, seven, eight, and nine times. Because of the growth of the Xiongnu, it is impossible to defeat it with a few blows, and in the end, the Han Dynasty may not get the results of the Mo Nan No Royal Court.

2. In the early days of the war, because the Xiongnu's horse breeds were better than those of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu soldiers were better at horse warfare than the Han Dynasty soldiers, the Han Dynasty soldiers did not understand all the conditions in the territory of the Xiongnu, and Huo Quai's cavalry was at a disadvantage to the Xiongnu's cavalry.

Huo Quai's meritorious service was awarded, and Wei Qing's was affected by the fighting style of the soldiers in the early stage of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, most of them learned Huo Quai's fighting style, and did not want the capture of the Huns, so that the Han army had few war horses, which became a long-term problem. I had to rely on myself to encourage the people to raise.

War, by its very nature, is a struggle for economic interests. From the perspective of modern warfare, the two sides of the war pay more attention to feeding the war with war and obtaining war benefits. Completely break through the enemy's material base, survive the base, and defeat the enemy. And without focusing on the destruction of the enemy's life. This is relatively similar to Wei Qing's tactics.

To sum up, Wei Qinghuo is also a generation of famous generals who are not born. The ancestors praised Huo Quai's illness a lot and talked less about Wei Qing, one was because Huo Qu's illness died young, while Wei Qing was the pinnacle of a noble minister and died peacefully. The second is Huo Qu's disease: "The Huns have not been destroyed, how can they be home" patriotic ambition. In addition, it is also the identity of Wei Qing's standard relative, the identity of a monk and a princess. After all, Huo Qu's illness is separated by a layer. The three are because most of the people who wrote the eulogy were literati and did not understand military affairs, they only simply compared Huo Quai's illness and Wei Qing's number of kills and injuries, and neglected the impact of Wei Qing's capture on the overall war, and even used this to ridicule Wei Qing.

The ancestors commented that Wei Qingduo was connected with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and classified them as the ruling class. The evaluation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is high, the evaluation of Wei Qing is also high, the evaluation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is low, and the evaluation of Wei Qing is also low. Huo Qu's disease is basically unaffected. Wei Qing was too badly affected by the identity of her relatives, Princess Jingyang, and her identity was too great.