On the battlefield, Huo Fuyi, with his flesh and blood courage, led eight hundred elite horses to gallop hundreds of miles in the vast desert, raided the rear of the Xiongnu, and killed more than 2,000 Xiongnu. Kill Shan Yu's grandfather's generation of The Marquis of Ruo, and capture Shan Yu's uncle Luo Gubi alive. Emperor Wu of han named him "Champion Hou" and praised his bravery in the three armies.
Because Hexi is located west of the Yellow River, it is called Hexi, also known as the Hexi Corridor. After the battles of Henan and Monan, the Xiongnu were left with only King Zuoxian and the Xiongnu army in Hexi in the vast area south of the desert.
In the spring of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (121 BC), Huo Washi was appointed as a general of the Hun Horse, leading 10,000 elite troops from Longxi (present-day Lintao County, Gansu Province) to attack the Xiongnu. This was the Battle of Hexi.
The 19-year-old commander Huo Went ill and carried out a thousand miles without a rear, lightning long-distance attack, and fought a beautiful roundabout battle.
Huo went ill for six days to fight in the Five Kingdoms, and drove straight in. After concentrating his superior forces to attack five tribes in Hexi in a row, he avoided the frontal fortifications of the Two Kings of Hun and Hu Tu, and quietly rushed east along Yanzhi Mountain (southeast of present-day Shandan County, Gansu) to Gaolan Mountain (present-day south of Lanzhou City, Gansu), fighting with Lu Hou and the Second King of Zhelan at the foot of Gaolan Mountain.
Huo Wentai engaged the main forces of Lu Hou and the two kings of Zhelan in Gaolan Mountain, which was a real frontal battle, a contest of strength between the two sides, a fight between life and death. In this battle, there is no chance of trickery, on the contrary, it is fought with less and more, and the battle is extremely cruel. In this battle, Huo Huo was defeated by illness, and only about 3,000 of the 10,000 elite soldiers remained. The Xiongnu suffered heavy losses -- both The Marquis of Lu and the King of Zhelan were killed in battle, the Hun Evil Prince and Xiangguo and Du Wei were captured, and the enemy was beheaded by 8,960, and the Xiongnu Hutu Sacrifice Tianjin also became the trophy of the Han army. After this hard-hitting battle, the young Huo Wentong showed the style of a generation of gods of war.
In the summer of the same year, Emperor Wu of Han decided to take advantage of the victory and pursue, and launched the battle to retake Hexi. In this battle, Huo went ill and became the commander of the Han army.
The four generals who left the blockade this time were Huo Fuyi and Gongsun Ao, the Marquis of Heqi, both sent troops from the north and marched separately; Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang, and Lang Zhong, ordered Li Guang to send troops from Right Beiping and march separately. Judging from the intentions of Emperor Wu of Han, this operation in the northeast was a strategic containment, for the sake of attacking from the northwest, with the purpose of going all out to attack the Xiongnu right-handnout group in the northwest, in order to achieve the strategic goal of connecting the western regions.
In this battle, Gongsun Ao and other "old horses" of the desert got lost in the desert and did not play their due role in assisting. The veteran general Li Guangsuo was surrounded by the Xiongnu King Zuoxian. Huo went ill again and went deep alone.
In the Qilian Mountains, Huo went to the sick camp and beheaded more than 30,000 enemies, captured five Xiongnu princes, as well as 59 Xiongnu princes, 59 Xiongnu princes, and xiangguo general Danghu Du.
After this battle, the Xiongnu had to retreat to the north of Yanzhi Mountain, and the Han Dynasty recovered the Hexi Plain. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties have been harassing the border, the mighty Xiongnu sang bitterly: "Kill me in Qilian Mountain, so that my six animals will not rest; lose my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my women have no color." ”
Since then, the Han army has been mighty, and the nineteen-year-old Huo Fu has become a god of war who frightens the Xiongnu.
After this battle, Huo's command ability increased greatly, and he gradually grew into an excellent military commander. At this time, Huo's illness had become familiar with the commanders, and the judgment, analysis, and decision-making, the dispatch of troops, the deployment of troops, and the grasping of the timing of attack had matured. More importantly, Huo's subordinates included Zhao Baonu, Gao Buzhi, and Shuduo, who were given the title of marquis; the lieutenants who arrived at Xiaoyue's clan with Huo's illness were also given the title of Zuo Shuchang. In this way, the team of Huo's disease in the army began to form.
What really reflects the wit and courage of Huo's disease is the "Surrender of Hexi".
After the two great battles of Hexi, because the Hun Evil King was repeatedly defeated by the Han army and lost tens of thousands of people, the Xiongnu Shan Yu was furious and wanted to summon the Hun Evil King and kill him. It is estimated that the information is not confidential, so it was known to the Hun Evil King, so the Hun Evil King and the Hun Tu King wanted to surrender to the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of Han did not know the truth or falsity of the surrender of the Second King of the Xiongnu, so he sent Huo to the Yellow River to be surrendered.
This is the first time in China's history to face the surrender of foreign prisoners, Huo Went ill all his life to fight, everywhere risky, but the most dangerous of the dangers may be counted this time, psychological warfare is especially better than the real war, Huo Toe disease's ability to control the overall situation and the courage to be fearless in the face of danger is still impressive after thousands of years.
Huo went to the sick to lead 10,000 troops, crossed the Yellow River and looked at the evil people. When Huo went to lead his troops across the Yellow River, there was a mutiny in the Xiongnu's troops. At that time, the Huns were in chaos and the situation was unknown, and Huo Zhiyi could completely let the Huns themselves go into civil strife, and did not have to risk their own risks among a bunch of Huns who had blown up their nests, because the chances of being killed or captured by the Hun rebels were very high.
Faced with such a situation, Huo Wentai rushed into the Xiongnu camp with only a few of his own soldiers, confronted the Hun Evil King, and ordered him to kill the mutinous soldiers. Huo's momentum not only suppressed the Hun Evil King, but also suppressed more than 40,000 Huns, killing the mutinous 8,000 Huns without harming himself, and then ambushing the remaining 40,000 people. A war that was on the verge of erupting finally disappeared.
The smooth end of the surrender in Hexi is something that we can only imagine with reverence today. At that time when the situation was full of danger, how the young man who had just turned 20 stood in the enemy's tent and subdued the forty thousand soldiers and eight thousand soldiers outside the tent with just one expression and one gesture.
After the surrender of Hexi, the territory of the Han Dynasty has since added four counties: Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang. The Hexi Corridor was officially incorporated into the Han Dynasty. From then on, the Han Dynasty got rid of the situation of two-front warfare and could concentrate on dealing with the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wangbu and Shan Yu Headquarters in the northeast.
There is a story that Huo went to Hexi to make a great contribution, and Emperor Wudi of han sent envoys to the front line to comfort him. Huo went to the envoy and said, "Thank you emperor for your reward." But the heavy blow to the Huns was not my own credit, the credit went to all the soldiers. Therefore, he ordered that the imperial wine be carried out of the reward for his subordinates. But what to do if there are fewer people and more people? Huo went to the disease and ordered his men to pour two altars of fine wine into the mountain spring where the tent was located, and the whole valley was suddenly filled with the aroma of wine, and all the soldiers drank from the mountain spring mixed with wine, and the sound of joy and thunder was thunderous, which was the origin of the "wine spring".
The Battle of Mobei, the Wolf Juxu
In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (119 BC), in order to completely eliminate the main force of the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of han launched an unprecedented scale of the "Desert North War". The Han Dynasty mobilized 100,000 cavalry, 140,000 warhorses, hundreds of thousands of infantry, and 50,000 cavalry each led by Wei Qing and Huo Quyi, marching north of the desert in two directions.
In the pre-war planning, it was originally arranged for Huo to go sick to fight Shan Yu, but due to intelligence errors, this match became Wei Qing versus Shan Yu, and Huo Went sick encountered Zuo Xian's wangbu.
This big battle can be regarded as the pinnacle of Huo's disease. Huo Wentai led his army out of Dai Commandery and Right Beiping, gave full play to the mobile combat capabilities of the cavalry, crossed the desert, marched north to fight for more than 2,000 miles, crossed the Lihou Mountains, crossed the Bow Lu River, and turned to attack the xiongnu Zuoxian King's military group, and launched a thrilling and deadly decisive battle with the powerful cavalry group of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King. Huo went all the way to pursue and kill, after a fierce battle, the Han army won a complete victory, beheading more than 70,000 enemies, capturing the Xiongnu Tuntou King, the Han King, etc., the general, Xiang Guo, Danghu, Du Wei and other 83 people, Zuo Xian Wang fled in defeat. With his own losses of 15,000 men, this battle completely crushed the Zuo Xian Wang clique, which was another decisive victory after eliminating the Right Xian Wang clique and Wei Qing crushing the Shan Yu clique at the same time.
Huo Wentai led his army to the Wolf Juxu Mountain (present-day Kent Mountain, Mongolia), where Huo Wentai temporarily paused and led the army to perform the ceremony of sacrificing heaven and earth - the sacrifice of heaven and earth was held at Wolf Juxu Mountain, and the sacrifice of the land was held at Guyan Mountain. It's a ritual and a determination.
After sealing the wolf Juxu, Huo continued to lead his army in a deep pursuit of the Xiongnu, until he reached Hanhai (present-day Lake Berga, Russia) before returning to the army. From Chang'an, he went all the way to Lake Berga, and achieved such a great victory in an almost completely unfamiliar, deserted situation, and it was difficult to find the enemy's tracks, and also achieved a miracle in the history of the soldiers.
After this battle, the three major strategic groups of the Xiongnu were all crushed, and they were unable to engage in large-scale battles with the Han Dynasty, "the Xiongnu were far away, and there was no royal court in the south of the desert." The threat of the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty since the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty was lifted.
Huo Wentyi and his "sealing the wolf Juxu" have since become the highest pursuit of the life of Chinese soldiers and the dream of lifelong struggle. And this year's Huo went to the disease, only twenty-two years old.
After completing the "Great Battle of Mobei", Huo Fuyi also reached the peak of his life, the great general Sima Da.
In order to reward him, Emperor Wu of Han specially ordered someone to build a mansion for him. But Huo went to the sick and politely refused. He said to Emperor Wu: "The Xiongnu are not destroyed, and there is no home to do!" In just nine words, not only Emperor Wu was greatly moved, but even today, two thousand years later, he can still be excited.
In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (117 BC), the 24-year-old general Huo Went ill and died young, and a generation of war gods completed his brilliant life.
Emperor Wu of Han was very saddened by Huo's death. He summoned the Iron Armor Army and lined up along Chang'an all the way to Maolinghuo to go to the sick cemetery. He also built Huo's tomb into the shape of Qilian Mountain, showing his miraculous ability to defeat the Xiongnu. The stone statue of the "Ma Ta Xiongnu" in front of the tomb symbolizes his immortal merits for the country.
He led troops to attack the Xiongnu four times in his life, destroyed 110,000 enemies, surrendered 40,000 enemies, and expanded the territory, which can be described as a legend of thousands of years.
In a sense, Huo's disease can be said to be the creator of blitzkrieg, and the Huns were extremely in awe of it, calling it "wolf", and when they were driven out of the land of China, they also spread the name of Huo's disease to Europe. China has many excellent military experts, but in the British-written "World Famous Military Experts", only two people were selected, and Huo Zhiyi was one of them.