The TV series "The Emperor of Hanwu", released in 2005, has been 16 years since then, and the drama is still regarded as a god by countless lovers of historical dramas.
The whole drama takes the Han-Hungarian War as the theme, telling the protracted war between Han and Hungary and a number of famous battles, including the "Battle of Hexi" led by Huo Quyi and famous for capturing the Hexi Corridor.
TV series "Emperor Wu of Han"
The Hexi Corridor is narrow and long, about 1,000 kilometers long and ranging from a few kilometers to 200 kilometers wide, and it is the only land passage connecting China's Xinjiang and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in ancient Chinese mainland the Central Plains.
To this day, the strategic location of the Hexi Corridor is still very important to our country. It can be said that without the Hexi Corridor, there would be no vast territory and good national fortunes in China today.
Geographical location of the Hexi Corridor
During the reigns of the Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin dynasties before China, the area was occupied by the Yidi tribe until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when the Hexi Corridor was officially incorporated into the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty in China for the first time.
Territorial map of the Qin Dynasty
Territory of the Western Han Dynasty
Of course, this great merit in opening up the territory and expanding the territory must first be thanked by Emperor Wu of Han, Zhang Qian, and Huo Zhiyi, and the direct executor responsible for capturing the Hexi Corridor, the general Huo Zhiyi, was the greatest contributor.
Huo Wentai, Han, Hedong Pingyang (that is, today's Linfen people, Shanxi Province), a famous general and national hero of the Western Han Dynasty, became the most feared Han chinese in the whole Xiongnu because of his outstanding battle achievements against the Huns, and posterity honored him as the "God of War".
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In the early western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian's first mission to the Western Regions brought about a great geographical discovery, which made Emperor Wu of Han determined to open the Hexi Corridor in order to connect the Western Regions, and appointed Huo Qiyi, who was only 19 years old, to attack Hexi.
Zhang Qian sent his first mission to the Western Regions
In just one year, Huo Quyi led more than 10,000 of the most elite cavalry of the Han Dynasty to rush forward and launch two consecutive large-scale military strikes against the Hexi region, forcing the Xiongnu Hun Evil King to lead the people to surrender to the Han Dynasty, at this point, the Han Dynasty opened the Hexi Corridor and officially reclaimed the Hexi region.
Huo went to the road map to march into Hexi
It is worth mentioning that in the two "Battles of Hexi", Huo Zhiyi was strict with his own military discipline, requiring soldiers not to embezzle the property and personnel of the captives; and implementing a differentiation strategy for the Xiongnu: those who submitted would no longer attack, and all those who resisted would be killed.
The policy of division and disintegration adopted by Huo Zhiyi enabled the Han army to attack lightly and at high speed, and even some Xiongnu tribes would serve as the forerunner of the Han cavalry army, and at the same time, the Xiongnu Yi Zhi was suspicious of the hun evil and the second king of Hun Tu, resulting in the final submission of the hun evil king to the Han Dynasty.
In the two battles of Hexi, in addition to recovering the Hexi Corridor, a total of more than 40,000 enemies were annihilated, 5 kings, 55 queen mothers, 59 princes, Xiangguo, generals, and lieutenants 63 were captured, while Huo Only lost more than 3,000 people.
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Huo's exploits were not limited to the reconquest of Hexi, but also in the subsequent "Battle of Mobei". In this battle, he led more than 50,000 strong cavalry legions, beheaded and captured more than 70,000 Xiongnu, and captured 86 Xiongnu princes, generals, Xiangguo, Danghu, and Du lieutenants. After the war, he became one of the highest honors of a military general in The history of China.
Huo went to the sick to seal the Zen wolf Juxu
Today, the Hexi Corridor region has become an inalienable part of our sacred territory. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty successively set up five counties in the Hexi Corridor, which are now Wuwei, Jinchang, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Jiayuguan.
China's land territory is all over the country
As for the origin of the name "Jiuquan", according to legend: after Huo went to the sick army in Hexi to defeat the Xiongnu, on the way back, he poured a pot of fine wine that the emperor gave him to his future relatives, poured it into a nearby spring, and drank with the soldiers, and in order to commemorate him, the descendants renamed it "Jiuquan" (described in episode 51 of the TV series "Emperor Hanwu").
Jiuquan Resort
Huo went to illness and recovered the Hexi Corridor at the age of 20, which was a great feat that was rare in the world. Unfortunately, God is jealous of the talent, he died young at the age of 24, which makes people sigh!
It is indeed a blessing for today's people to have Huo's illness in China, and no matter how much we praise him today, we cannot overstep our respect for him.
Statue of Hodg
October 28, 2021