In 135 BC, the year of empress dowager Dou's death, Emperor Wu of Han, who did not have the seal of old lady Dou, broke away from the wilderness and began a "free" government. In this year, the Xiongnu once again sent envoys to the Han Dynasty to ask for girls, which has become the norm of the Han Dynasty, and every few years, the Xiongnu side sent envoys to ask for money and girls.
However, this time the imperial court had a different wind direction, and Liu Che took this matter to the court for the courtiers to discuss.
For this unusual discussion, the more sensitive people among the courtiers immediately heard the meaning, and the official Ren Daxing ordered Wang Hui to stand up and said: My hometown is Yandi, and I have crossed the border, so I know more about these barbarians. These barbarians are insatiable, and every time they make peace with their relatives, after satisfying their conditions, they will keep to themselves for a few years. Moreover, these Huns always violated their promises to invade, so it is better to take advantage of this time and kiss us to surprise them and let them know how powerful we are.
Wang Hui's words were avant-garde, to know that the Han had given the Xiongnu a girl for more than 50 years, every time he was looking for a princess of the clan or a palace maid to marry, and then find something that the Xiongnu did not have as a dowry. Wang Hui's words have not been mentioned for decades, which is to encourage the emperor to fight!
At this time, the imperial master Han Anguo stood up and once again explained to Emperor Wu why his ancestors had endured humiliation and burden for so many years: it was difficult to make a profit by being an enemy of the Xiongnu and crossing thousands of miles! It was clear that he was persuading the emperor to continue to endure.
The reason why the Han Dynasty endured the Xiongnu for so many years is because the Xiongnu have no fixed place and are uncertain, which is really difficult to catch! Moreover, the Xiongnu were located in a bitter cold land, and that land could not even grow crops, and it was not interesting to occupy it. Moreover, the Huns were generally illiterate and had a low IQ, which was incomprehensible. This kind of land breaking, whether you get his land or the person who robbed him, you will not get any benefit. Thousands of miles of profit are tired, not to mention that there is no harm at all.
Empress Dowager Dou had just died, and the inertia of the Han "Rule of Huang Lao" was still playing a role, so the ministers in the court echoed Han Anguo's statement. Emperor Wu saw that the "doves" were still strong, and this matter was once again reconciled according to Han Anguo's strategy.
Emperor Wudi of Han Liu Che was not confused, and did not need Han Anguo to give him science popularization, and Emperor Wudi of Han also knew that attacking the Xiongnu was a loss-making business!
However, who was Emperor Wu of Han, that was a existence comparable to that of Qin Shi Huang. He understood the reason, but he still had to beat the Huns! As the saying goes, barefoot people are not afraid to wear shoes, but if the shoes are also taken off and barefoot, the one who wears the shoes can take off the sole of the shoe plate originally stripped the face of the barefoot man!
However, this time Liu Che still endured, but the tree wanted to be quiet and the wind was not stopping. Two years later, in 133 BC, the storm resurfaced.
Nie Yi, a local tycoon from Mayi, Yanmen County, wrote to Liu Che through Wang Hui: The Xiongnu have just made peace with us, and there is no defense. Now, as long as we tempt him with great interests and let them go deep into the borders of the country, we will certainly be able to put an ambush in advance, and we will certainly be able to fight a war forever. This time the book is obviously not something that a border tycoon can come up with, and presumably there must be a high-ranking person behind it. Taking a step back, even if it is the patriotic sincerity of this local tycoon, the letters handed over will theoretically only be the charcoal fire of the imperial dining room. Who are you? Fighting this thing gets your turn to speak?
This letter of invitation was placed on the Long Shu case by Liu Che liu che, which was discussed by all parties. However, this is not a free discussion, and Mr. Liu has set a discussion scope for this discussion.
Liu Che said: The Great Han and the Xiongnu have been friends for many years, and every time they have been with the Xiongnu, they will give them a lot of money, but the Xiongnu are insatiable, untrustworthy, and repeatedly violate the side, and now some people have proposed to use violence to make them more memorable, what do you think?
The sword of words and swords once again unfolded between the "hawks" on behalf of Foreign Minister Wang Hui and the "doves" Imperial Historian Han Anguo.
Han Anguo is still the same old way: the Xiongnu are all cavalry, coming and going like the wind, there is no fixed place, like loach can not catch them at all, but the Huns rely on strong mechanical power, want to harass you to harass you, and live by herding they do not engage in production at all, what is missing is to rob, the purpose of living is to rob more money and women. If a war starts, we will travel thousands of miles to the grasslands and consume national strength, and there will be no need at all.
Wang Hui said: Now that China is prosperous, it is completely enough to destroy the Xiongnu with one percent of its strength, and moreover, this time the battle plan is to lure the enemy deeper, and there is no need for us to go deep into the desert. As long as our large army sets up a circle of encirclement, it will certainly be able to pacify the Xiongnu in one battle, and there will be no more!
You said that the Xiongnu were not easy to fight, I said that the Xiongnu were a fart, and the words and swords quoted the scriptures until Wang Hui spoke for the fourth time, Liu Che clapped: Don't quarrel! Call me! Fight to the death! He wants to completely destroy these barbarians!
So the war machine of the Great Han began to operate, and the fierce man Liu Che was ready to do a big vote, and kill the boss soldier Shan Yu on the other side in the first battle.
As the original initiator of this battle, Wang Hui had been sneaking forward and after, and he claimed to be a professional observer of the Xiongnu, so he was arranged by Emperor Wu to take charge of the chief designer of the planning of the annihilation of hungary. After Liu Bang and the first generation of Mao Dun fought, the grandson and grandson began to move.
Wang Hui carefully planned a conspiracy of low quality, and then threw Nie Yi out as bait.
In June 133 BC, Emperor Wu of han sent 300,000 elite troops, ordered the general Han Anguo and the light car general Gongsun He to lead more than 200,000 troops to ambush in the valley near Mayi, and sent the tun general Wang Hui and the general Li Guang and the general Li Xi out of Dai County, attacking the Xiongnu from the flank and cutting off their retreat, in order to completely annihilate the main Xiongnu in one fell swoop.
The net has been laid, and then it will be up to Wang Hui to see if he can successfully seduce the Xiongnu!
Nie Yi, in the name of going out to do business, met the Xiongnu's party and government leader, the military minister Shan Yu (the grandson of Mao Dun Shan Yu). Nie Yi said to shan yu, a military officer: I plan to do a big ticket to see if Shan Yu is interested! I have hundreds of people under me, who can kill The Order of Mayi County, open the gates of Mayi City, and lead a large army into the city to loot, but the Xiongnu must send a large army to meet them, on the one hand, to move goods, on the other hand, to guard against Han soldiers.
The military minister Shan Yu was still hesitant to enter Mayi to rob him, because the traitor in front of him came too suddenly, but Mayi's property was too tempting. Under the premise of not giving up wealth or life, Junchen Shan planned to make two preparations, while personally leading 100,000 troops into Wuzhou Sai (present-day Zuoyun County, Shanxi Province) ready to enter the city at any time, while sending emissaries to follow Nie Yi into Mayi first to argue the truth and falsehood.
Nie Yi then returned to Mayi, where the whole drama had already been completed, and the county magistrate of Mayi was hidden in the snow, and then killed a prisoner, cut off the head and hung above the city gate, disguised as the head of the county commander.
The messenger returned to the military minister Shan Yu: No problem! Hurry up, Mayi is now in a state of anarchy. After receiving the report, the military minister Shan Yu was overjoyed and personally led more than 100,000 troops to march in the direction of Mayi.
But the peoples of the steppe, born with wolves, the alertness in their genes made him feel very wrong. The 300,000-strong army of the Han Dynasty, which wanted to lead the Xiongnu to the Mayi urn with Ma Yi as the center, had almost predicted from the very beginning that this strategic purpose would not succeed. The reason is that, with a border town like Mayi as the center, it is too difficult for the dense population to keep the secrecy work leak-free, and it is very easy for the enemy to find out from all angles that there is a deception.
When the military minister led the army more than a hundred miles away from Mayi, he found an abnormality. There were many livestock along the way, but no one grazed, which aroused the suspicion of the military ministers Shan Yu. So the military ministers ordered the army to stop advancing, sent a large number of dark sentries to patrol on all sides, in order to obtain more detailed information, even sent troops and captured a Great Wall beacon, capturing Wuzhou Weishi. Wei Shi laid out the plan and plan for the ambush of Mayi, and the military ministers ordered an immediate withdrawal after listening to it.
A nationwide large-scale battle plan with a very high density of aircraft, the details of which were known by a border lieutenant Shi, and more importantly, this border lieutenant also appeared at the front line post, and the leakage of such key information directly led to a series of preparations made by the Han for the siege of Mayi.
At this time, the 30,000-strong army led by Wang Hui and Li Xi had already left Dai County, spared the main Xiongnu force, and prepared to attack the rear and encircle the main force of the Han army, at this time the news came that the Xiongnu were retreating at the fastest speed. Wang Hui saw that his 30,000 people had indeed suddenly become the main force of the blockade from the za pocket, and felt that he had no chance of winning, so he withdrew to Dai County.
Han Anguo, as the commander-in-chief of the Han army, ambushed near Mayi for many days, and did not see a single Xiongnu soldier, so he changed the original battle plan and took the initiative to lead the army to attack, only to find that the Xiongnu army had already retreated back to the depths of the grassland, and 300,000 Han troops returned without success.
This time, 300,000 troops were dispatched, and a large amount of grain and grass was consumed, and not a single Xiongnu was killed, and Liu Che was furious. Wang Hui, the representative of the "hawks," was fully responsible for the failure to succeed in this mission.
This time Wang Hui acted too much to disappoint Liu Che, with 30,000 people Wang Hui actually did not take the initiative to attack the Xiongnu for a moment, attacking the Xiongnu, aren't you the most cheerful? The Hun who shouted and killed the most fiercely, facing the retreating army, did not dare to go up and cut it.
Of course, Wang Hui also had an explanation: he only had 30,000 troops and horses, while the Xiongnu had 100,000 people, and if he rushed up, he was afraid that the whole army would be destroyed, and his active retreat saved the 30,000 horses of the Han Dynasty.
But he didn't know that today's Tianzi didn't care at all about how many people died and how much cost he paid, he wanted the name of the ages.
The siege of Mayi ended with Wang Hui committing suicide.
In fact, Wang Hui, a diplomat, has done a very good job, and he is also a warm-blooded patriotic official, which is very worthy of respect. But his first gun as Emperor Wu was really pitiful. He had no idea what the weight of his actions was! I don't know how much strength I have, but I can't achieve great things by relying only on my enthusiasm!
Since then, the relationship between Han and Hungary has completely changed from peace to war, and the pace of war has been unstoppable.