Volume 19 Han Ji 11 (7)
It was dusk, and a strong wind was blowing, and for a while the sand and rocks were flying, and the two armies could not see each other's camps. Just fighting in the chaos. The Han army then surrounded Shan Yu on the left and right wings. Shan Yu saw that the Han soldiers were prosperous, and the horses were strong, and he could not win, so he took six mule chariots, led hundreds of strong horses, broke through the Han siege, and fled to the northwest. At that time, it was already dark, and the Han army and the Xiongnu soldiers and horses fell into a melee. The two sides killed and injured each other.
The Han army's left colonel captured the general and told the general that Shan Yu had fled to the northwest before it was dark, so the Han army sent troops to chase after the general overnight and led the Chinese army to follow, and the remaining Hun soldiers also took advantage of the chaos to disperse. The sky was about to dawn, and at this time, he had been marching more than 200 miles continuously, but he did not see Shan Yu's figure. Along the way, more than 9,000 captives were captured and beheaded. Then he went to Zhao Xincheng and got the Xiongnu army and labor. Rest on the spot for a day, burn the remaining military resources, and then retreat.
In addition, the former general Li Guang and the right general Zhao Shiqi, in the process of marching, because there was no guide in the army, they lost their way halfway and did not meet the general on schedule. didn't catch up with the battle with Shan Yu. The general led the army and passed through the south of the curtain before meeting the second general.
The general asked Changshi about the second general's loss of the road, and urgently reprimanded Li Guang's staff to go to check the situation. Li Guang said: "This is not the fault of your captains, it is my personal fault, and I am willing to take responsibility alone." After speaking, he impassionedly said to his subordinates: "I, Li Guang, have fought more than 70 battles with the Huns since the end of the war, and today I am fortunate to follow the general to go on the expedition, but the general has ordered Li Guang to go out of the east road and cannot be the forward." and lost the way halfway, delaying the military plane. Isn't that providential? Li Guang is now over 60 years old, and he can no longer go to court with the officials of the sword and pen. After saying that, he sighed and committed suicide.
It happened suddenly, and before the generals could react, poor General Li was already splashed with blood on the spot.
Li Guang was honest and upright, and every reward he received was distributed to his soldiers and soldiers to eat and drink. For more than 40 years, the family has no money to spare. It is a man with an ape arm that shoots at you, and shoots without a target. In peacetime, the generals and soldiers go to a place where there is a shortage of food and water, and when they see water, the soldiers do not drink or drink, and the soldiers do not eat or eat. The soldiers were happy to use it. and hearing his death, all the troops wept. When the people heard about it, they wept over it, young and old. And the right general Zhao Shiqi, who went to prison alone to ask for the crime, should be a capital crime, and be redeemed as a concubine.
Besides, when Shan Yu fled, his soldiers failed to fight with Shan Yu because of the melee with the Han soldiers. The king of the right valley collected the remnants of the army and regrouped, but there was no news of Shan Yu for a long time, thinking that Shan Yu was dead, so he set himself up as Shan Yu. After more than ten days, the real single Yu returned, and the right valley Li Wang went to his single number. Return to the government in the single Yu.
The hussar general's cavalry weight was equal to the general's military strength, but there was no general, so Li Kang and others were appointed as colonels, and the right was used as generals. The army went out of the Daidi, more than 2,000 miles north of Beiping. Isolated from the desert, he met the left soldiers of the Huns, and captured the Huns Tuntou King, Han Wang and other three people. General, Xiangguo was the commander of eighty-three people. In Guyan wolf dwelling son-in-law mountain seal Zen. Then land on the Hanhai. Seventy thousand four hundred and forty-three were captured. The Son of Heaven was crowned a hussar general with 5,800 households. He also appointed four people, including the right Beiping Taishou Lu Bode and other four people as liehous. Captain Li dared to be the Marquis of Guannei. The other soldiers, big and small, were rewarded poorly. And the general is not allowed to be sealed. None of its military officials had a marquis. When the two armies left the fortress, there were nearly 140,000 official and private horses. and re-entering the stopper, less than 30,000 horses. The Son of Heaven replaces the position of the Great Sima, and the Great General and the Hussar General are all Great Sima. The edict was made, and the rank of the general was equal to that of the hussar general. Since then, the general Wei Qing has been fortunate to retreat, and the hussar general Huo Qu has become more and more fortunate. Most of the general's deceased and his subordinates went to the hussars to get involved, and many of them got official titles because of this. Only Ren An refused to leave. The hussar general was a man of few words and restrained. The Son of Heaven once wanted to teach him the art of war of Sun Wu, and he replied: "Facing the enemy in battle mainly depends on your strategy, and it is not necessary to learn the art of war of the ancients." The Son of Heaven once bought a mansion for him and took him to see it, and he said: "The Huns are not destroyed, what do you want the family to do?" Therefore, the emperor valued him more and more. However, because he was young and noble, he did not know how to sympathize with the soldiers. When he went out to the army, the Son of Heaven specially sent him an imperial cook, bringing dozens of carts of delicacies from the mountains and seas. When they were outside the fortress, the soldiers lacked food, but the hussars were still clothed and fed, and were unmoved. The general is benevolent, and he retreats and flatters the emperor with gentleness. That's how the two of them are doing.
At that time, the Han army killed a total of eighty or ninety thousand Huns, and the Han soldiers and soldiers also had tens of thousands.