"The Huns are not destroyed, and there is no place for them to live" is the eternal saying of Huo Qubing, the hussar general of the Western Han Dynasty. Huo Qubing (140 BC - 117 BC), a native of Pingyang, Hedong (now Linfen City, Shanxi Province), was a famous general, strategist and national hero in the Western Han Dynasty. The nephew of Empress Wei Zifu of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Great Sima General Wei Qing, and the half-brother of the Great Sima General Huo Guang.

When Huo Qubing was eighteen years old, he became a captain of the Yao School. He led 800 cavalrymen deep into the desert, twice won the title of the entire army, and was awarded the title of Marquis. At the age of nineteen, he was promoted to General of Hussars and commanded two battles in Hexi. He annihilated and surrendered nearly 100,000 Xiongnu in Hexi. He captured the Huns and offered sacrifices to the Jinmen, and marched directly to the Qilian Mountains. This was the first time that the Chinese regime occupied the Hexi Corridor, and from then on the Silk Road was opened. In the fourth year of Yuanshou (119 BC), Huo Qubing and Wei Qing led their troops deep into Mobei. In the Battle of Mobei, they wiped out more than 70,000 of the main force of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu. They pursued the Xiongnu army as far as Langjuxu Mountain and Guyan Mountain. Offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, and then return to the Hanhai Sea. This battle caused "the Xiongnu to flee far away, and there was no royal court in the south of the desert." After the war, he became the Great Sima Hussar General and was in charge of military affairs with Wei Qing. In the sixth year of Yuanshou (117 BC), Huo Qubing died of illness at the age of twenty-four. Emperor Wu gave him the posthumous title "Jinghuan", buried him in Maoling, and built a tomb for him in the shape of the Qilian Mountains.

Huo Qubing was flexible in the use of troops, focused on strategies, and was not adhering to ancient methods. He was good at long-distance raids, rapid raids, large detours, large-scale penetrations, and annihilation battles. He made significant contributions to the military expansion during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.