Wei Qing(?) —106 BC) Hedong Pingyang people. From a humble background. He was an illegitimate child. His father was an errand boy in the family of Cao Shou, the Marquis of Pingyang. After Wei Qing grew up, he developed a riding and shooting skill, so he became a riding slave (coachman) in the Hou family of Pingyang.
Once he entered the palace with Princess Pingyang, he was said by a prisoner who would look at the appearance when he entered the palace to serve: He is the life of a nobleman, and he can do the marquis in the future. At this time, Wei Qing still did not believe it. It was not until later, because Wei Qing's sister Wei Zifu entered the palace and was favored by Emperor Wu of Han, that Wei Qing's status gradually became noble.
In the same year (129 BC) when Li Guang was captured by the Xiongnu soldiers in battle and then fled back, the Han army failed in all four ways, and only Wei Qing fought a victorious battle and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei; later, he defeated the Xiongnu soldiers one after another and made battle achievements.
In 124 BC, Wei Qing led 30,000 cavalry and chased them to Chang
Outside the city. Taking advantage of the unguarded situation of the Xiongnu's Right Sage King, more than fifteen thousand captives were captured, and more than ten Hun kings were captured. The Right King fled with hundreds of his cronies. The left and right sage kings of the Xiongnu were only one level lower than Shan. In this war, the Right Xian King's entire army was destroyed, and it was a great blow to the Xiongnu.
Emperor Wu of Han received the good news and happily wanted to make Wei Qing's three infant children Hou, but Wei Qing refused. Emperor Wu of Han had no choice but to appoint seven generals under Wei Qing as hou.
The following year, the Huns attacked again. Emperor Wu of Han also sent Wei Qing to lead six generals and a large group of men and horses to deal with the Xiongnu. This time, Wei Qing's nephew Huo Went ill showed his head: he led a small group of men and horses, ran hundreds of miles, killed a large camp of Xiongnu, killed Shan Yu's grandfather's king on the spot, and captured Shan Yu's uncle and Xiang Guo (official name). The eighteen-year-old Huo Went ill took part in the first battle and captured two Xiongnu generals, which was a great credit. At the end of the battle, he was crowned champion Hou.
In order to eradicate the invasion of the Xiongnu, in 119 BC, after making full preparations, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty once again sent Wei Qing and Huo Toyi with 50,000 elite soldiers each to attack the Xiongnu in two ways. Wei Qing marched more than a thousand miles from Dingxiang County, through the great desert, and the Xiongnu's Yi Zhi Shan Yu personally led the elite troops to fight. The two sides engaged in a general battle. When night fell, a fierce wind suddenly blew up on the desert, sandwiched with gravel, and blew it dark. Wei Qing braved the fierce wind and braved the gravel that swept over his face, and ordered the cavalry to attack on the left and right flanks. Yi Zhi was unable to resist and led hundreds of cavalry to break through to the north and flee. Wei Qing pursued all the way to Zhao Xin City under the Yan Mountain, where the Xiongnu soldiers had fled, and a lot of grain and grass were stored in the city. Wei Qing let the soldiers have a full meal and burned the excess grain before returning to the division in victory.
On the other hand, Huo Wentai also crossed the desert and advanced more than two thousand miles, breaking the soldiers and horses of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and chasing them all the way to the Wolf Juxu Mountain (on the north bank of the Yellow River northwest of the present-day Wuyuan in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; one said in the territory of the present-day Mongolian People's Republic), where a stone stele was erected as a memorial.
This was the largest and farthest pursuit of the Han Dynasty. After that, the Xiongnu retreated to the north of the Great Desert, and there was no Xiongnu royal court to the south of the desert.
As a great general of the Great Sima And a very popular subject, Wei Qing never raised a soldier. Therefore, the literati did not have a high evaluation of him. On the contrary, later military generals spoke highly of him: in ancient times, famous generals were often evaluated as "Sun Wu Baihan, Po Mu Wei Huo" (Sun Wu, Wu Qi, Bai Qi, Han Xin, Lian Po, Li Mu, Wei Qing, Huo Zhiyi). Cao Zhang, the third son of Cao Cao during the Eastern Han Dynasty, once said: "When the eldest husband learned from Wei Qing and Huo to get sick, made meritorious contributions to the desert, drove hundreds of thousands of people for a long time, and crossed the world, how could he be a doctor?" Li Jing, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, once commented: "Whoever fights, he will win with a miracle." Zhengqi and good people such as Sun Wu, Wei Qing, Zhuge Liang Liao Liao have several human ears. Yue Fei, a famous anti-Jin general of the Song Dynasty, said: "Wei Qing and Huo went to the disease, and they will be exemplary, and I should do it." At the same time, he highly appreciated Wei Qing's Wugang vehicle array, believing that "the reform of tactics broke the Xiongnu, and Wei Qingshi" (Liu Yu also used this vehicle array to break the Southern Yan cavalry).
Zong Ze, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty in the same period, also said: "For the generals to be a scholar weiqing." In addition, Su Xun (Su Dongpo's father) also praised: "Han Zhiwei, Huo, Zhao Chongguo, Tang Li Jing, Li Ji, Xian general also." Han's Han Xin, Tuobu, Peng Yue, Tang's Xue Wanche, Hou Junji, sheng Yanshi, Cai Jieye. There are not many wise men, but those who have talents can do whatever they want. He Feishi said in the "Biography of Huo Fu": "In the past, Han Wuzhi had something to do with the Xiongnu, and his family would be handed over to Saixia." And Wei Qing started from the lowly subordinate, went to the disease to fight for the proud child, turned to war, invincible, and the prestige and merit shocked the world, although the ancient name will be incomparable. Is the power of the two people out of su xi ya? Also the capital of the heavens. "Refuting the statement that "Wei and Huo originated in nepotism". Li Weiqing has the saying that "Han has Wei Qing and Huo To be ill, and Tang has Guo Ziyi and Li Sheng" saying. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, once used the words "Zhongqing and Yaoshi" ("Zhongqing" refers to Wei Qing, "Yaoshi" refers to Li Jing) to praise the famous general Lan Yu who defeated the Northern Yuan in the Battle of Yu'erhai. Qi Jiguang sighed: "Wei Qing, Huo Fuyi, Xie Xuan, Yue Fei, King Wuning of Zhongshan, or Shen Xianhu?" Or is it the people of my generation? Zeng Guofan mentioned in the book: 'Those who have done something' should not be limited by capital. Wei Qingren slave, worship will be a marquis, still a noble lord. At this time, it is possible to do so in a strange and stubborn manner! ”