The Han Dynasty wanted to eradicate the Huns once and for all. The operational goal is to destroy the other side's effective forces, and the strategic policy is to fight a war of annihilation. Numerous heroes emerged in the Sino-Hungarian War, among which young Huo Qubing was the most outstanding.
Huo Qubing, because of that sentence? The Huns are not extinct, why should they be extinct? His famous saying is, live for war and die for war. Barton once said: War is the highest achievement created by mankind. ? Huo Qubing is like this, and some even commented that he is? To destroy the Huns? People born.
In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (AD 123), Huo Qubing, aged 17, attacked the Huns with the general Wei Qing. Because of his repeated well-documented, Wei Qing chose 800 elite cavalry under his command. Huo Qubing, who put on his shirt for the first time, didn't have any actual combat and command experience, but with vigor, he led the Eight Hundred Small Seven to the north. The vast grassland was deserted, and near dusk, I suddenly found a black spot in the distance ahead.
Huo went to judge that it was the camp of Xiongnu, and immediately ordered everyone to take the medal and leave. When he reached a distance suitable for charging, he rushed to kill it at lightning speed. The Huns never dreamed that the Han army would suddenly come out, and suddenly they were in chaos. Eight hundred Xiao Qi warriors were brave and unusual, and Huo Qubing was the first to break into the enemy camp and kill the Xiongnu soldiers and flee.
Huo Qubing won the first battle with unprecedented results, killing more than 2,000 people, which dealt a heavy blow to You Wangxian and Khan's main force, forced them to retreat to the bitter and cold land north of the desert, consolidated the northern part of Henan Province, and successfully cut off the connection between the east and the west of Xiongnu, creating very favorable conditions for the Xiongnu who later attacked Hexi (now the western corridor and Huangshui River basin) and opened up the Hexi Corridor.
In the spring of the second year of Emperor founding ceremony (BC 12 1), Emperor Wu appointed Huo Qubing as the general of a title of generals in ancient times, led ten thousand elite cavalry, and set out from Longxi to attack the Huns. In this campaign, Zhang Qian, as a South Route Army, was slow to move, and Li Guang was besieged by himself. According to the change of the battlefield, Huo Qubing resolutely changed the original battle plan and ventured through the defensive zone of the evil king of Xiongnu.
At that time, the combined forces of the King and King Hugh Tu were at least 60,000, while that of Huo Qubing was only 10,000. Brave and resourceful, Huo Qubing took the method of concentrating superior forces and dividing them one by one, rushed ahead before the enemy's main forces were assembled, fought a war of annihilation and ate the enemy bite by bite.
Anxious Huns constantly dispatched troops, but they didn't know that they were playing refueling tactics, and they were picked up by Huo Qubing one by one. The most important significance of this battle is that it completely destroyed the rebellious will of Xiongnu in spirit, and made the three strategic groups armies of Xiongnu fear the Han people like tigers, leaving a great psychological shadow.
In the fourth year of Yuanshou (1 19 BC), in order to completely solve the Xiongnu problem, Liang Wudi and Han launched an unprecedented? Mobei War? . This is the longest, largest and most difficult battle of the Han army from the Central Plains. After the war in the south of the desert and the west of the river, Xiongnu Khan led his troops to Mobei, but he continued to invade the northern border of the Han Dynasty in an attempt to provoke Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty and induce the Han army to cross the desert in order to achieve his long-awaited evil purpose of annihilating the Han army in Mobei.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty analyzed: Zhao Xin always thought that Han soldiers could not stay in the desert, but when they died today, they got what they wanted. ? Taking advantage of Zhao Xin's misjudgment, he decided to take him by surprise, attacked him by surprise, and concentrated his forces on Mobei to find the main force of Xiongnu. So he mobilized 654.38+040,000 cavalry, 654.38+040,000 war horses and 654.38+040,000 infantry, under the command of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and headed for Mobei in two ways.
At this point, Huo Qubing became the trump card of the Han army without any dispute. In this campaign, Huo Qubing took his large-scale long-distance attack tactics to the extreme. In the process of searching for the main force of Xiongnu in Mobei, at the cost of 1.5 million people, more than 70,000 Xiongnu people were annihilated, 3 Xiongnu princes were captured, and 83 cadres above ministerial level were captured. The left and right Wang Xian of Xiongnu were cut off, leaving Xiongnu Khan hanging in Mobei.
Huo Qubing wanted to meet Khan in person, so he sent his troops to hunt down Mount Kent in Mongolia today. Speaking of which, Huo Qubing paused and led the troops to hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven was held in Xushan, where wolves live, and the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ground was held in Gu Yan. ? This is a ceremony and a swearing-in meeting. After sealing the wolf in a professional position, Huo Qubing led his troops to pursue the Xiongnu until the Han Sea (now Berga Lake in Russia), before moving troops back to Korea.
After the Battle of Mobei, there was no Xiongnu Wang Ting in Mobei. The Huns finally realized that Han people are not easy to provoke. They just responded to a powerful famous saying by another general of the Han Dynasty, Chen Tang: those who make friends with strong Han people will be punished even if they are far away!