Remember when I was a child in the 80s, my parents bought the kind of villain books that flipped sideways, and the stories of various heroic characters always made people fall in love, among which the heroic deeds of The Flying General Li Guang were admired, and he had a title of "Flying General", do you know how it came about? Follow the small editor to decrypt, let you harvest historical knowledge.
Flying General Li Guang
In 166 BC, Li Guang enlisted in the army and went out with the army to fight against the Xiongnu, he was particularly good at bows and arrows, almost 100 shots, which was appreciated and reused by Emperor Wen of Han. With superb archery skills, he has made many achievements in battle.
Lu Lunshi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote: "The forest dark grass is frightening, the general comes to the bow at night, Pingming looks for white feathers, not in the stone edge", it is him, according to historical records, in a hunting, Li Guang mistakenly thought that a stone was a tiger, opened the bow and shot it, and actually shot a deep hole in the stone, so the Xiongnu called him "Flying General". The title is derived from this, which shows Li Guang's superb archery skills.
Li Guang villain book comic strip
Although Li Guang's archery skills were commendable, he fought sixty or seventy battles with the Xiongnu, and xiao yong was good at fighting, but in a battle with the Xiongnu, Li Guang was unfortunately surrounded by a large Xiongnu army, outnumbered, the entire army was destroyed, and he was almost captured alive and demoted to civilians.
In 119 BC, the general Wei Qing and the general Huo Went ill to attack the Xiongnu in the north, li Guang, despite his advanced age, took the initiative to request to go to war, but because Li Guang was lost in the desert during the battle and delayed the military period, he blamed himself and drew his sword. The generals in the army wept bitterly for it, and the people also wept for it, and a generation of famous generals ended here.