In the summer of 121 B.C., due to the defeat of the war with the Han Dynasty, the Huns were forced to leave their homeland where they had multiplied for several generations, and they lost their pastures, water sources and the ambition of their ancestors to go south. The loss of my self and the mountains have made my wife colorless. ”
The initiator of the scene in the song is a 19-year-old Han Dynasty boy. Huo Qu's disease. There will always be some people in the history books who can leave a very strong mark in a very short period of time, and their lives are as gorgeous and short as meteors.
But the trajectory is eternal, as if it was perfectly carved in the sky of history by the earth-breaking axe, no matter after hundreds or thousands of years, whenever future generations read their stories, they will be fascinated, and it is these stories that are intertwined into that history, and even the gods and souls of the entire nation.
Huo Quzhi is such a person. He is one of the very few characters on the historical stage who can be called a "celestial man", and his life and death are very story-telling, which makes people inevitably feel that this is a teenager who fell from the sky with a mission, and this task is simple and clear - to attack the Huns in the north!
When the era with the most pioneering potential, and the most enterprising and ambitious monarch, met the most high-spirited general. And just like that, the story begins.
Huo Quzhi's birth was not decent, his mother Wei Shao'er was the ** of Pingyang Houfu, and his father Huo Zhongru was a minor official in Pingyang County.
Not only that, but the two also fornicated. Bastards are not welcome in any age.
But Huo Quzhi's childhood life was not dark, because soon after he was born, Wei Shao'er's sister Wei Zifu was fortunate to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and she was extremely favored for a while.
Just like many elders will especially favor a junior, this kind of inexplicable special family affection also happened to Xiao Huo Quai, but this family affection is unusual.
It was his old uncle, the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che. Throughout his youth, this big man's good nephew has been by Liu Che's side.
As the proud protégé of the Son of Heaven, Huo Qubing is undoubtedly pinned on high hopes, in daily contact, his talent and youthful spirit are gradually revealed, Liu Che seems to see the juvenile version of his other self from his body, and he begins to deliberately cultivate Huo Qubing as a military general.
However, in a class on the art of war taught by Liu Che himself, Huo Qubing rejected his teachings without scruples: the Son of Heaven tasted the art of war of his grandson, Wu, and said: "Gu Fang's strategy is like an ear, and he will not learn the ancient art of war." ”
The meaning of the things in the books can be understood, and the real things have to be seen on the battlefield.
Familiar? More than 60 years ago, a man said almost exactly the same thing on the same occasion: "Books are enough to remember names." The sword is an enemy of one person, and it is not enough to learn, and it is not enough to learn from ten thousand enemies. ”
In 123 BC, the Xiongnu invaded and killed the commander Zhu Ying. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately launched a counterattack, appointed Wei Qing as a general, and led the army to Dingxiang and smashed Yinshan.
The Huns were forced to flee to Mobei, and since then there has been no royal court in Monan. In this battle, Liu Che finally used the sword that he had personally polished for more than ten years. The 18-year-old Huo Qubing was named the captain of Bi Yao, and led 800 elite cavalry to follow Wei Qing on the expedition.
Captain Yao is an official position specially set up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for Huo Quai, which means brave and vigorous, which is not only an expectation for Huo Quai, but also a test for him.
Huo Qubing passed the test perfectly, and his Han Divine Sword was sharp and sharp the moment it was unsheathed.
He led his 800 cavalry to break away from the large army, go straight into the desert, roar back and forth in the home field of the Huns, crisscrossing hundreds of miles, and finally beheaded 2,000 and 28 ranks, including the Xiongnu's Xiangguo, Danghu and Da Shan Yu's grandfather Ruo Hou Chan, and captured Da Dan Yu's uncle Luo Gubi.
Didn't you Huns boast that they come and go like the wind, and the cavalry is the best in the world? Okay, then let me beat you on horseback, faster and fiercer than you! After Huo Qu's illness, he was awarded the title of champion with military merits, and won the meaning of the three armies.
This is his second exclusive name, and it is still used today as a compliment to the first place. However, perhaps what neither Liu Che nor the Huns expected was that Huo Quzhi's dazzling record was only the most inconspicuous one in his short career.
Huns, prepare mourning clothes, this is the doom of fate, you have to recognize. Three years later, Emperor Wu of Han's strategic ambitions swelled again, preparing to wage another great war against the Huns.
The reason is that a forgotten mission has returned to Chang'an, this western mission sent by Liu Che himself thirteen years ago, there were more than 100 people when they went, but only two people returned.
One of these two people was Zhang Qian, who brought to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty what he had seen and heard in the Western Regions in the past thirteen years, including customs, hydrology and landforms, military deployments, and rare treasures, ......This collection of valuable information gave this eloquent monarch a new understanding.
There is still much to be done in this world. Zhang Qian, who is not familiar with today's national conditions, hurriedly reminded that the only way for the Han Dynasty to go west has been controlled by the Huns, and because of this, the east and west are blocked, and they will never see each other, so they are in prison and cannot return to their hometowns for many years.
But Liu Che didn't care, because the times have changed, and the offense and defense have become alien. Kou can go, and I can go. Champion Hou, it's your time again. Teacher Tianzi assigned this exam question to his proud disciples, 10,000 people, go to the Hexi Corridor for a walk.
Click ** to enlarge the historical strategy map of Wei Qing Huo Quai, they were in 121 BC, Huo Qubing rode out of Longxi, passed through Wusheling Mountains, crossed the Shiyang River, and went all the way to Yanzhi Mountain.
After more than 1,000 miles in Yanzhi Mountain, they encountered the main force of the Xiongnu and launched a fierce battle, beheading more than 8,000 ranks, and capturing the evil prince, Xiangguo, Duwei and so on.
Huo Quzhi performed the soldiers to the extreme, went deep alone, chased the dead all the way to the north, and finally triumphed in Chang'an with a full score answer sheet.
Liu Che looked at this answer sheet and carried out a larger-scale combat deployment with a smile on his face, like a gambler who has gambled on the rise.
Under the leadership of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han army successfully defeated the Xiongnu in the decisive battle in 119 BC with excellent equipment and soldiers.
However, Emperor Wu also mixed some selfish motives, and allocated the elite 50,000 cavalry to his disciple Huo Quai, giving him the opportunity to destroy the Xiongnu in person.
In this ultimate battle between Han and Hungary, Huo Qubing did not meet the opponent he wanted, Yi Zhixian did not appear on his marching route, but met his uncle Wei Qing, and was broken by him with the help of Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles and the wind, and the opponent on his side was another elite Xiongnu, King Zuoxian.
In the face of King Zuo Xian, Huo Qubing chose the most direct way to play, facing it head-on and rushing straight to the enemy formation.
The battle showed a one-sided situation, and under Huo Quai's fierce pursuit, Zuo Xian's Wang lost his armor and could not escape, and was annihilated by more than 70,000 people, almost all of whom were annihilated.
In this battle, Huo Quai's disease ran through the desert, and he marched north for more than 2,000 miles, and sacrificed to the sky in the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and sacrificed to the Guyan Mountain, and the soldiers returned to Hanhai (now Lake Baikal, Russia). Since then, Feng Wolf Juxu has become the highest ideal of later military generals.
This passage tells the story of Huo Quai's Northern Expedition career and his sudden death. In the process of preparing for the Northern Expedition, Huo Qubing exhausted the national strength of the Han Dynasty, making it impossible for the Han to launch large-scale campaigns for a long time.
Huo Qubing died suddenly two years after the Northern Expedition, and the cause of death is not recorded in the history books.
Although Tai Shi Gong once commented that Huo Qubing was just lucky, in fact, the core dilemma faced by Huo Qubing in the previous expeditions was basically the same, and his way of breaking the game was often traceable.
There are three extremely difficult questions on each test paper of Huo Quzhi: how to ensure the accuracy of the marching direction when he has gone deep into unfamiliar areas many times and fought all the way? Without baggage, there is no supply later, how to ensure the supply of tens of thousands of horses?
How to maintain the morale of the army in away battles? Facts have proved that all three questions were perfectly answered by Huo Quzhi.
The key to Huo Qu's success lies in his appointment of a large number of Xiongnu guides to ensure that he will not get lost during the march and eat the enemy, as well as a reliable guarantee of military achievements.
Huo Quzhi's success does not depend entirely on luck, but more on his resourcefulness and courage.
At the best age and the most prominent position, the 23-year-old Huo Qu died suddenly, and his glory and pride finally disappeared in the loess under the Maoling stele. He is a man who "responds to the mandate of heaven", a man who cannot be interpreted by convention.
His ethnic group has experienced thousands of years of reproduction and growth, and finally stood on the stage of history under his guidance with a new name.
Before he came, his people were obscure and patient, but his arrival made his people subdued and flourished.
However, history does not allow him to rush to extermination, come to the sky, and go to the competition, not by ghosts and gods.
Huo Quzhi's life is very exciting, he is a young man in Chang'an, fresh clothes and angry horses, born rich and noble; It is also a desert hussar, spanning thousands of miles, paving the road with white bones.
He spent a quarter of a hundred years living a wonderful life that others could not live in ten lifetimes. He was a young man who had not yet had time to grow old.
February**Dynamic Incentive Plan His combat style is as fierce and swift as fire, his attack is like a storm, there is no common sense of the art of war that is not pursued by the poor, only a complete victory.
His bravery and pride are like the overlord of Western Chu Xiang in Pengcheng, and like the second son of the Li family in Tiger Prison, they are all soaring and unstoppable.
Whenever Liu Che recalled his decision to send Li Guangli on an expedition against the Xiongnu in his later years, he would feel remorse. Perhaps he would have thought that if his nephew were still alive, he would never allow himself to suffer such humiliation.