When mentioning Huo Qubing, words like this will come to many people's minds: Han Dynasty, famous general, fighting the Huns... Yes, Huo Qubing's life is completely linked to the Huns, but such words are still far away. Not enough to describe Huo Qubing.

As the nephew of Wei Qing, a famous general in the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing has lived in the military camp since he was a child. With the influence of his ears and eyes and the guidance of Wei Qing, Huo Qubing became famous on the battlefield at a young age. But I am afraid that even Wei Qing did not expect that his nephew was actually an unparalleled military genius.

Huo Qubing started his military career as a god of war since he first went on an expedition with his uncle Wei Qing when he was 17 years old. He showed that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers and went straight into the hinterland of the Huns with 800 cavalry to annihilate more than 2,000 enemies. .

When Huo Qubing went to the Xiongnu for the second time, he was only 19 years old. As the commander of the army, Huo Qubing always rushed to the front in every battle. In the Hexi War, he severely damaged the Xiongnu twice in a row and regained the north in one fell swoop. The Xiongnu had occupied the Hexi Corridor for a long time.

By the time of the Mobei War in 119 BC, 21-year-old Huo Qubing was as famous as his uncle, General Wei Qing.

In order to completely eliminate the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent out all the elite soldiers and generals of the Han Dynasty, just to capture and kill the Xiongnu Chanyu. In this battle, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing used their swords together to kill Mongolia's Kent Mountain in one go, and held a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven at Langjuxu Mountain here. From then on, "Fenglang lives in Xu" became synonymous with victory.

After that, Huo Qubing, who was not willing to let the Xiongnu Chanyu slip away, went deep alone again, relying solely on his feelings to fight his way to the vast sea, which is what we call Lake Baikal today. Huo Qubing's relentless pursuit completely defeated the Huns' last remaining energy, and they surrendered in the autumn of the same year.

It can be said that Huo Qubing was basically invincible in that era, especially in the fight with the Xiongnu, and he suffered from the trouble of "seeking defeat alone". Perhaps precisely because of this, Huo Qubing died at the age of only 23 not long after the Xiongnu announced their surrender to the Han Dynasty.

Perhaps, this is the meaning of his life. He was born when the war broke out and left in style after the war. He was born only for the war.