[The next chapter will be on the shelves, Liu Che's team has also been formed, thank you for your perseverance, many book friends say that the main foot is not ambitious, in fact, I also want the main foot to be ambitious, but helplessly, I really worship Wei and Huo, so, in the Wei Qing era, my arrangement of the main foot is to play soy sauce, and the rise of the main foot will be arranged in the post-Wei Qing era, today I turned an article, I feel interesting, just take it as my testimonial! 】

Recently, Changping Hou Weiqing and champion Hou Huo went to illness and returned to the teaching materials, which has attracted a lot of attention. Yes, how can Chinese teenagers not know about Wei Qing and Huo Quai? In particular, Huo Quzhi, at the age when today's college students have just graduated and entered society, has already established immortal feats outside the Great Wall. His life was very short, but like a meteor, it crossed the sky of history and lit up a proud and proud youth era and a bloody era of the Chinese nation.

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"Champion Marquis" - this is the position of Marquis tailor-made by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for Huo Quai. "Champion", "meritorious champion of the whole army" meaning.

For a long time, the "champion" specifically referred to Huo Quai. Wu Jun, a poet of the Southern Dynasties, wrote in "Border City General": "When the time comes, I will be recruited to vote for the champion." ”

Huo Qubing deserves it, he is not a champion, who is? His record of being awarded the title of "Champion Hou" was his first battle against the Huns.

Before the start of this battle, he was a small follower, and accompanied his uncle Wei Qing to attack the Xiongnu in Monan, and Wei Qing allocated him 800 warriors. The battlefield was vast, the Han army was unfamiliar with the place, and there was no navigation, mobile phone or anything at that time, and as soon as the battle started, the troops dispersed.

Huo Qubing has 800 warriors around him, so he won't suffer too much when he encounters the enemy. But Huo Qubing made an unexpected choice: he let the troops set off lightly, threw the large army hundreds of miles away in one go, and took the initiative to find the enemy. Like hungry tigers, they swept through the desert, grasslands, and barren lands at an astonishing speed, looking for enemies.

You must know that the 800 people went deep into the territory of the Xiongnu. This is a very taboo "lone army going deep" in military terms, but under the command of Huo Quzhi, it became a blitzkrieg.

This is a comprehensive test of the judgment, combat effectiveness, willpower and imagination of both sides, and Huo Quzhi won completely. He found a large camp of the Huns, and treated him with a camp tent and a group of men and horses, and then said that the enemy was in chaos, some resisted, and some broke up.

According to historical records, it is "too much to kill the first captives", and "excessive" means that the enemy's losses exceed their own losses. The actual result is: 2028 kills. and killed some of the other party's bigwigs, including the high-ranking officials and grandparents' relatives under the command of Shan Yu, the leader of the Huns, and captured Shan Yu's uncle. Definitely an amazing win.

Not all of them were able to win, and in this battle, some people gained nothing, and others returned in a rout. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used military merits to judge heroes, with clear rewards and punishments, Wei Qing did not get a reward this time, and Huo Qubing was awarded the title of Champion Hou.

This year, Huo Qu was 17 years old. Today, this is a little boy with a pimple face who is struggling in a sea of questions.

Next, Huo Qubing continued to lead his troops to fight the Huns, and achieved more amazing victories, the most classic one was the Battle of Mobei.

In this year, Huo Qubing was 22 years old, led 50,000 cavalry, marched north for more than 2,000 miles, engaged in battle with the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang, annihilated 70,400 enemies, captured 3 people including the Xiongnu Tuntou King and Han Wang, and 83 people, including generals, Xiangguo, Danghu, and Duwei, and pursued them to Wolf Juxu Mountain (now in Mongolia), held a sacrifice to heaven and sealing ceremony in Wolf Juxu Mountain, and held a sacrifice to the earth in Guyan Mountain, and the soldiers were forced to Hanhai (now Lake Baikal, Russia). This was a decisive victory, and since then "the Huns have fled far away, and there is no royal court in Monan".

It is not a compliment to say that Huo Quzhi is a generation of war gods. Huo Quai's fighting, brave and decisive, good at blitzkrieg, long-distance raids, fighting with war and roundabout battles on the outer front in depth, six battles against the Huns, did not taste a defeat.

His characteristic is that he smashed the life gate of the Huns like thunder, focusing on killing and injuring the enemy's leaders and vital forces, and he also attached importance to the appointment of Xiongnu warriors. Therefore, other generals are either lost, or they are out of food, but Huo Quai's troops can solve military needs in the enemy's activity area, accurately capture fighters, and accurately deliver a thunderous blow.

The Battle of Mobei was also the farthest Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu. In the words of the Southern Song Dynasty Xin Qiji, it was said that "Yuanjia was grassy, sealed the wolf and Juxu, and won the Canghuang Beigu", which used this allusion. Feng Wolf Juxu is the highest honor of ancient Chinese soldiers, but it is a pity that "Yuan Jia" is not a strong man, and there is no Huo Qu disease in the world.

Nine years after Huo Quai's "sealing the wolf Juxu", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended Mount Tai to seal Zen and sacrifice to heaven and earth. This is the highest ceremony of the ancient emperors, and only when the dynasty changes, the country changes hands, or after a long period of turmoil, resulting in peace in the world, can the world be sealed, report to the heaven and earth to reorganize the great feat, and at the same time express the acceptance of the mandate of heaven and govern the world.

In history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wore yellow clothes and bowed to the sound of solemn music. In order to commemorate this ceremony, Emperor Wu also changed the name of the year to Yuan Feng.

When he knelt down and saluted, he must have thought of Huo Qu's illness, he had the great achievement of defeating the Huns, how could he be less sick from Huo Qu's disease? At this moment, Huo Qubing has been dead for 7 years, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty specially brought Huo Quai's son Huo Huan to Mount Tai.

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Huo Quzhi's historical merits are actually underestimated.

His uncle Wei Qing, who was also an unborn general, had led his troops to recover the "Henan Land" (Hetao area) before Huo Qubing went to the battlefield, so that the border line of the Han Dynasty was restored to the line of the Yinshan Mountain Range. This was the northern frontier at the height of the Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shi Huang is a strong person, but for the Xiongnu, most of the time can only take a defensive position, ordered Meng Tian to lead 300,000 Qin troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and after collecting the Hetao, he began to build the Great Wall.

Meng Tian can be called the Qin Dynasty's "infrastructure madness", from Yuzhong (now part of Gansu) along the Yellow River to Yinshan to build a fortress, connecting Qin, Zhao and Yan more than 5,000 miles of the old Great Wall, constituting a long defensive line in the north.

This is a huge project, and folklore says that Meng Jiangnu's husband Wan Xiliang died in the process of building the Great Wall. Meng Tian defended the north for more than ten years, and the Huns were afraid of its might and did not dare to commit it again.

But after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the Xiongnu waited for an opportunity to go south and grabbed a lot of territory.

"The Xiongnu moved west to occupy the area west of the Yellow River, and then drove out the Yueshi in the Hexi Corridor, threatening Wusun and forcing most of the countries in the Western Regions (present-day Xinjiang and Central Asia) to submit to its rule. To the east, it annexed the Donghu tribes and controlled both sides of the present-day Great Xing'an Mountains. To the south, he recaptured the 'Henan Land', and for a time advanced to the northern part of present-day Shaanxi and Shanxi. ”

Judging by the map, the Xiongnu had seriously threatened the security of the Han Dynasty. So Liu Bang, who had just captured the world, led 300,000 people to attack, but in today's northern Shanxi, he was besieged by the Xiongnu army for seven days and seven nights.

Frightened by this, the Han Dynasty had to adopt a humiliating "harmony" policy, pretending to be a princess to marry Shan Yu, but the Xiongnu were not satisfied, and always invaded, burned, killed and plundered.

The Han Dynasty endured for 70 years. Until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty couldn't bear it anymore and made a move, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were his two iron fists, the first punch, the face was full of flowers, he staggered back, and the last punch was even more ruthless, thunderous.

After the Battle of Mobei, the Han Dynasty took control of the Hexi region, laying the foundation for opening up the road to the Western Regions. The Xiongnu sang a sad song for this: "Losing my Qilian Mountain will make my six animals rest; The loss of my self and the mountains have made my wife colorless. ”

If we can use the fast-forward button to look at the history of Asia more than 2,100 years ago, we can see a magnificent scene: in the hinterland of Asia, the Xiongnu tide receded, the earth was like a flood, regained its vitality, clusters of flowers bloomed, bubbling springs, business travelers began to come and go, camel bells began to melodious.

"Constant tribute is not only an economic burden, but also a sign of political weakness. So the Han Empire decided to settle the entanglement with the Xiongnu once and for all.

The first was the seizure of the Hexi Corridor and control of the agriculturally rich Western Regions, followed by the return of the nomads to their original places after nearly a decade of repeated campaigns (ending in 119 BC).

The Hexi Corridor leads to the Pamir Plateau to the west, and to the west of the plateau is a whole new world. China opened the door to a transcontinental communication route – the 'Silk Road' was born. ”

So writes the British historian Peter Francopan in his book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World.

Yes, when we talk about the Silk Road today, we will always think of Zhang Qian, but we can't forget Huo Quai.

Interestingly, Huo Qubing and Zhang Qian also fought together, Huo Qubing and Hou Gongsun Ao walked all the way, and Zhang Qian walked all the way with the famous "Flying General Li Guang" in history. As a result, only Huo Quai's great victory, Li Guang ventured forward, was surrounded by the Huns, suffered heavy casualties, Zhang Qian's rescue came late, and he committed the crime of delaying the military plane by staying in the army, and was sentenced to death.

At that time, Zhang Qian was named Marquis of Bowang because of his contribution to the Western Regions, paid a ransom, was relieved of his title, and became a commoner. Gongsun Ao was lost and failed to join Huo Quai, and as a result, like Zhang Qian, he was sentenced to death, paid a ransom, and was cut to the people.

Even Zhang Qian, who is most familiar with the terrain, got lost, and had to admire Huo Quzhi's precise positioning.

The war of the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu lasted for many years, and the famous generals of the Han Dynasty won successive victories, while the Xiongnu had gone all the way to the west.

Around 160 AD, the Xiongnu came to the Syr Darya River valley in Central Asia, a country known as "Kangju" in ancient times, and then left, and disappeared from historical records until about 260 AD, when they appeared on the other side of Asia, east of the Don River, in the kingdom of Alan.

Here they regained their strength and began their westward conquest of Europe, "a kind of people whom had never heard of before, who did not know where on earth they came like a blizzard on a high mountain" (Amiana Marsilinus, History), which triggered a domino migration that changed the fate of European history, and the "barbarians" were driven to pieces by the more barbaric Huns, who shattered the Roman Empire.

In the book "Towards a Strange Place: A History of Inland Eurasian Migration", it is written:

"In a way, the Huns contributed to the turning point in the development of European history. They put the Germanic people of the jungle on the stage of history and with them ended the Roman era. The disappearance of imperial history ushered in the beginning of a pluralistic political pattern in Western Europe, which consisted of various feudal states. ”

This is the "butterfly effect" of history.

In 476 AD, the last Roman emperor Romulus was deposed, if he could cross, would he complain to Huo Quai: "600 years ago, why did you beat the Xiongnu so hard?"

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Most of the great nations are born or rise in the desperate struggle against strong enemies.

The Han Dynasty was a great dynasty in Chinese history that laid the foundation for the term "Han people". It was also in the Han Dynasty that the Chinese first developed a strong sense of national identity, a strong sense of national identity and responsibility. "Han people", "Han people", "Han", "Chinese", "Chinese characters", ...... It continues to this day, flowing with infinite confidence and pride.

Looking back at history today, it can be said that it was the Han-Hun War that affected the collective character and temperament of the Han Dynasty, and the collective character and temperament of the Han Dynasty helped the Han Dynasty achieve a brilliant victory over the Xiongnu.

Glory comes from hardship. You must know that this is a rare overwhelming victory of the farming people over the nomads in history, and it is to break out of the Great Wall, and defeat the nomads in the grassland area that the nomads are most familiar with with with the cavalry combat method that the nomads are best at.

The Xiongnu were a horseback people, and the cavalry was extremely fierce. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Chao Cuo once said: If you get off the horse and fight with a sword, the strong Huns are definitely not the opponents of the Han people. But Huo Qubing gorgeously used cavalry against cavalry, and finally defeated the Huns, defeated, defeated, and subdued. Speaking of "Hussar General Huo Quai", the Huns were also convinced.

Before Wei Qing and Huo Quai, the Xiongnu was still a terrible power, with its power extending from the Liao River in the east, the Green Mountains in the west, the Great Wall in the south, and Lake Baikal in the north, which was the first powerful steppe nomadic empire in the history of Eurasia. The people of the Han Dynasty began with Wei Qinghuo's illness, and in the repeated battles with the Xiongnu, they sharpened their indestructible national character.

The character of the Han Dynasty can be summed up in two words, that is, blood.

The humiliation of the Xiongnu for more than 70 years, coupled with the Han-Hungarian War that lasted for a hundred years, refined the blood of the Han Dynasty people, which was the basis for them to live with dignity. They are still martial, and after the autumn of each year, all localities have to conduct training, competitions, and assessments.

Whether it is the children of the nobles or the common people, they all love to practice martial arts, the tiger is vigorous, Huo Quzhi is naturally a martial arts master, good at riding and shooting, even the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who lives in the deep palace, also has a good kung fu, history records that he is "good at self-defeating Xiong Pig", can "hand the bear".

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, those who were successively named "Champion Hou" were Jia Fu and Dou Xian. Needless to say, the divine power of Dou Xian, who eliminated the main force of the Northern Xiongnu and left the allusion of "Yan Ran Le Shi".

Another Jia Fu, born as a scribe, was resolute and pioneered in battle, and was known for his bravery among the heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the folk commentary, Jia Fu even left the legend of "dragging the intestines", in a certain battle, he was picked out of the intestines by a strong enemy, and after fighting out of the encirclement, he found that his little friend was gone, so he killed back, dragged the intestine war, and rescued the little partner. Although it is a romance, it can also be seen that it is mighty.

The people of the Han Dynasty are still martial and bloody, and they are by no means fighting in the nest, they are proud of serving the country and killing the enemy on the battlefield, and they write the epic of men's battles with blood in the border fortress far from their hometown.

For example, Huo Quai's aunt is the queen, and he can live a young life in the rich township, but he chose to go to the dangerous front line to make contributions. In the words of General Fubo Ma Yuan, it means that "the boy should die in the border field, and the body should be buried in horse leather." "This is the mainstream value of the Han Dynasty people.

Ma Yuan himself is like this, he is one of the founding heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and has made great achievements for Liu Xiu to unify the world. After the unification of the world, although Ma Yuan was old, he still asked Ying to go east to the west, to break the Qiang people in the west, and to fight in the south...... Later, he fell seriously ill during the crusade against Wuxi Man and unfortunately passed away, and he practiced the spirit of "horse leather shroud".

Reading the stories of the Han Dynasty today, I often feel that there are so many legends - or a lone army that sticks to it, does not give in to the storm, or several people go on an expedition, even if they die nine times and do not give up; There is the courage to fight out of the encirclement, the tenacity to overcome loneliness, the self-confidence to run thousands of miles, and the heroism to meet the hard......

In the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, the human nature was simple, the spirit was strong, the honor was attached, the blood was very bloody, the vitality was vigorous, the heroes were proud, and the patriotism was proud, so the nation had a super centripetal force, and therefore broke out a very strong combat effectiveness.

Such a bearing, just like the stone statue of "Horse Stepping on the Huns" in front of Huo Quai's tomb, is not fancy and carved at all, and has nothing to do with cumbersome and vulgar, but the blood and power in it, although it has been solidified and silent for thousands of years, can still feel erupted.