Li Ling: It is difficult to have both Han and Hungarian love
That's Li Xu, not me. ”
Li Xu was a frontier lieutenant of the Han Dynasty, he surrendered to the Xiongnu after the defeat, and was desperate for the Xiongnu, so he was reused, and his status even surpassed that of Li Ling. He gained the trust of the Da Yan clan and became a confidant, and he was also a hot nobleman among the Xiongnu.
Li Ling could not hold a grudge against Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because of the favor of the Great Yan clan, the lives and clan names of Li Ling's entire family were ruined. Li Ling vented his resentment on Li Xu and killed him in order to eliminate harm for the country.
After Li Xu's death, Li Ling sacrificed his head to his relatives, but he felt empty in his heart. In the end, Li Ling voluntarily surrendered and was executed. Although Shan Yu didn't want to kill Li Ling at first, he was eventually forced to helpless.
Shan Yu deplored this, but the Da Yan clan was not satisfied with this, because Li Xu was killed by Li Ling, and she wanted to kill Li Ling anyway. The methods of the Da Yan clan were ruthless, and they once sent someone to assassinate Shan Yu's younger brother Zuo Daduwei.
Because of his love for Li Ling's talent, he took pity on his plight and couldn't bear to execute him. After the death of the Da Yan clan, Shan Yucai took Li Ling back, married his daughter to him, and named him the king of the right school, in charge of the Jiankun and other tribes west of the Xiongnu.
In the area of Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia, near the present-day Yenisei River, the ruins of a Han Dynasty brick-and-tile palace have been discovered, probably built by Li Ling or his descendants.
Li Ling is admired like a hero in front of the young and beautiful Xiongnu princess, and their relationship is more admiration than love. After the battle of Junji Mountain, Li Ling became a legendary hero in the hearts of Xiongnu men and women.
I have said that the Xiongnu people worship the strong by nature, their emotions are straightforward and rough, they do not know how to hide and subtlety, and sometimes even seem a little silly, which makes the Han Li Ling feel very uncomfortable at first, but as time goes by, he slowly begins to get used to it.
It wasn't until one dark night that Li Ling finally let the Hun woman who played the Hu Ji outside the tent to comfort him come into his heart, just because she was lonely.
Li Ling and his wife ushered in two lively and lovely children, whenever he saw them, his eyes would appear in front of his eyes the young son of the Han family who died early in Longxi many years ago, and his heart was full of melancholy and nostalgia.
And his Hun wife would cry with him tenderly, and although she knew that his heart was dead, she still hoped to bring him a trace of warmth, even if only for a moment.
However, life in the Xiongnu made Li Ling feel more and more confused and confused, he respected and accommodated in every way the enemies of his own compatriots, but it was his own compatriots who sat idly by and did not save him, and hurt him in every way.
This strong contrast and contrast made Li Ling feel painful and helpless, as if he had become a non-human, non-ghost, vague-faced monster, and this change seemed to be caused by the deepening of Huhua and the invasion of virus infection.
In 90 BC, the Han-Hungarian War broke out again. Seeing the political turmoil in the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu led an army to invade Wuyuan and Jiuquan, resulting in the killing of the commanders of the two counties. In retaliation, Emperor Wu Liu Che prepared to send troops out of the fortress, but after successive civil strife, the Han Dynasty's social unrest, political chaos, and economic collapse led to a significant decline in military strength and morale.
This war seems to be more auspicious, the civil and military officials are worried, only the Emperor Wu's favored scholars and divination scholars are still keen to praise the victory of our army. Emperor Wu decided to use new people to deal with this war.
The first newcomer, Shang Qiu Cheng, was originally the Great Honglu of the Han Dynasty, and was promoted to the rank of Imperial Historian for his great contribution to the removal of Prince Wei in the previous year, and he led 20,000 soldiers from the West River to attack the Xiongnu.
The second newcomer, Ma Tong, was originally a native of Handan in Zhao State, and was later transferred to the Han Palace, he was named the Marquis of Chonghe because of his great contribution to the removal of Prince Wei in the previous year, and he led 40,000 soldiers from Jiuquan to attack the Xiongnu.
In addition, Li Guangli, a often defeated general, went to war again, and he led the main force of the Han army of 70,000 from Wuyuan County to attack the Xiongnu. At the end of "Historical Records: The Biography of the Huns", Tai Shi Gong was heartbroken and shouted continuously, "Only in the selection of the general!"
Only in the choice of the will be the same! "There were indeed problems in the employment of people in the later period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Shan Yu convened a military meeting, and Li Ling attended. The atmosphere of the meeting was warm, and all the generals expressed their positions one after another, but only Li Ling was silent and looked solemn. Shan Yu asked Li Ling if he was willing to participate in the war, and Li Ling lowered his head and replied, "No." ”
However, his heart is full of contradictions and struggles. He knew that he had become a traitor, but he wanted to take revenge on the ruthlessness of the Han Dynasty with his actions. He thought that his five thousand soldiers were bleeding and sweating here, that their loyal bones might be in the yellow sand beneath his feet, and that their heroic spirits were still floating in the sky, watching his betrayal.
His mood was like ashes, his will to fight was lost, and his tactical literacy deteriorated overnight. As a result, Li Ling and Shang Qiucheng fought in Junji Mountain for nine days, lost their troops and returned in defeat.
Shan Yu understood Li Ling's predicament and asked him to lead his troops north. Although Shang Qiucheng won the battle, he also starved to death by thousands. Li Guangli won first and then lost, and almost all his troops were wiped out.
This was the biggest defeat of the Han army since Emperor Wu fought with the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu were extremely arrogant and sent a letter to the Han Dynasty, declaring that they were "the pride of the sky".
Faced with Li Guangli's dereliction of duty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious. He favored all the way, but instead of getting the expected return, he became a stain on himself in front of everyone. So, he ordered Li Guangli's family to be wiped out.
Sima Qian recorded this incident in the "Biography of the Huns" with a calm stroke, and then stopped writing the "Historical Records", hoping to give himself an explanation. Although he never intended to mention himself in the Chronicles, facts are facts and must be recorded.
Therefore, the "Records of the Historians" does not record Li Guangli's end, while the "Book of Han" reveals his tragic fate. Li Guangli did not escape his fate, and a year after he surrendered to the Xiongnu, he was framed in a competition with Wei Lu and became a tribute to the Xiongnu shamanic gods.
Despite being a traitor, he still does not forget about infighting. Looking back at the four conquests of the Xiongnu in the later period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, two were fruitless, two were defeated, and a total of more than 100,000 troops were lost, while the losses of the Xiongnu were no more than 50,000 or 60,000, which was in stark contrast to Wei Qinghuo's winning record.
These fiascos were not only due to Emperor Wu of Han's misuse of generals, but also to problems with his overall strategy. First, the forces are scattered; secondly, to rush for results; Furthermore, there is a lack of preparation; In the end, years of conquest led to war-weariness among the people at home.
If Liu Che had been more cautious and conservative, learned from Huo Quzhi's successful experience in the Hexi Campaign, adopted more flexible strategies and tactics, supplemented by political means, targeted attack and division of the Xiongnu, and accelerated their weakening and disintegration, then the Han army might not have paid such a heavy price.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made a radical and rigid decision in dealing with the Xiongnu issue in the later period, ignoring the dilemma of national strength and insisting on the early all-round attack method of large investment and large encirclement.
This practice was anachronistic and easy to be targeted by the Huns, who were familiar with the tactics of the Han army. Liu Che did not stop in time and made a typical empirical dogmatic mistake. This reminds us that we need to learn from the failures of our predecessors.