The Battle of Monan
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This year, Liu Ci has come to the year of entering the dynasty again. When passing through Huainan on the way, his brother Liu An warmly received him. What Liu Ci didn't expect was that Liu An took the initiative to put forward a brotherly grudge. What Liu Ci didn't expect was that Liu An also proposed that the brothers contract the rebellion project together.
Rebellion is like fighting, always the more people the merrier. Liu Ci agreed to Liu An's plan. At the same time, he wrote that he was ill.
It's just that before the two brothers rebel together, they must first do the same thing: they must settle the rotten people in their own family before they can talk about it.
In February of the 6th year of Yuan Shuo (BC123), Wei Qing led a large army to the expedition. This expedition almost concentrated the elite of the Han Dynasty. The list is as follows: Lieutenant General Gongsun Ao, Left General Gongsun He, Former General Zhao Xin, Right General Su Jian, Later General Li Guang, and Strong Crossbow General Li Fu.
These six generals are all battle-hardened and capable of recruiting good fighters. At the same time, Zhang Qian acted as the chief guide of the Han army. They were unified under the control of the general Wei Qing.
More than 100,000 cavalry marched from Dingxiang County. This situation can be described as the Han Army luxury version lineup. But among the crowd, no one noticed a new face. At this time, he was like a falcon, standing quietly by Wei Qing's side.
The Battle of Monan kicked off. Wei Qing marched hundreds of miles and engaged in an encounter with the Xiongnu Shan Yu, destroying thousands of enemies. Next, Wei Qing did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and suddenly made an unexpected decision: truce!
In this battle, Zhang Qian was familiar with the road and guided properly, so that the army did not have the risk of lack of food and water, and made great contributions. So he was named the Marquis of Bowang.
Wei Qing's more than 100,000 troops were all withdrawn and stationed in the three counties of Dingxiang, Yunzhong, and Yanmen. At this time, someone suddenly discovered: The falcon next to Wei Qing is gone!
In fact, Wei Qing's falcon was chasing its prey hundreds of miles away. The falcon that accompanied Wei Qing on the expedition was Huo Quai, who made the Han people proud and made countless descendants enthusiastic when they thought about it!
Regarding Huo Quai, whether it is his life experience or his courage, no matter how you look at it, it looks like an upgraded version of Wei Qing. First of all, like Wei Qing, they are all illegitimate children; Secondly, compared with Wei Qing, it can be said that the blue is better than the blue.
There is a small county official in Princess Pingyang's fiefdom, named Huo Zhongru. This Mr. Huo is simply a clone version of Wei Qing's father, Mr. Zheng. Mr. Huo also took a fancy to a female slave girl from Princess Pingyang's family. The difference is: Mr. Zheng originally took a fancy to Wei Qing's mother, while Mr. Huo took a fancy to Wei Qing's second sister Wei Shao'er. The two of you are willing, and soon after sowing, they harvested Huo Qu's disease.
But what he didn't expect was that when Huo Qubing was born, his father Huo Zhongru did not dare to admit that Huo Qubing was the fruit of his labor and refused to accept it. As a result, Huo Quzhi became a product with only a production date and no label. Ethically speaking, such a product that lacks relevant procedures cannot be marketed and circulated without the approval of the authoritative department. So Huo Quzhi had to be raised until his little aunt Wei Zifu was favored by Liu Che before he dared to appear in public.
Because the third sister is favored, Wei Shao'er, the second sister, has also opened the door. Soon married a family. And Huo Quai, a child who has a mother and no father, his education was undertaken by his uncle Wei Qing, who was sympathetic to the disease. Under Wei Qing's tutelage, Huo Quzhi finally thrived. In the eighteenth year, he joined the work and became Liu Che's entourage.
Liu Che heard that Huo Qu was sick and good at riding and shooting, so he asked him to go out with his uncle Wei Qing to practice in this battle of Monan. Wei Qing was ordered to take Huo Qubing to the expedition. What I didn't expect was: Wei Qing had a whim, promoted Huo Qubing to be the captain of Captain Yao, and led an expedition of 800 light cavalry to attack the Xiongnu's lair.
At this time, Huo Quai, a young falcon, was wandering in the depths of the desert, looking for the shadow of the Huns' lair. Luckily, he found it! Huo Quai's expedition has a brilliant record: kill the enemy captives in the 2028 class; Capture the Huns alive and take the country, as a household. There is also a grandparent of Yi Zhi Xian Danyu, who was beheaded by Ruo Hou Estate; An uncle and aunt Luo were captured alive.
At this moment, Yi Zhi slanted to the fire: Wei Qing, let's see!
This is what Wei Qing was waiting for. In April, Wei Qing led the Sixth Army to dispatch again and directly attacked Yizhi Xiandanyu. Why did Wei Qing always send troops? Intelligence is his way of winning. However, this time, Wei Qing's intelligence was wrong. Because what he encountered was not a large army of the Huns. Those who encountered Yizhi's oblique cavalry were the right general Su Jian and the former general Zhao Xin.
It's not terrible, it's scary that there are a lot of people. It is not terrible to have more people, but what is terrible is that there are few Han soldiers. The two armies of Su Jian and Zhao Xin combined were only 3,000 people. And the main cavalry of the Huns numbered tens of thousands. Three thousand blocks tens of thousands, unless God helps the Han army, otherwise do you want to win? Daydream and go!
Su Jian and Zhao Xin fought with the Xiongnu for more than a day, and seeing that the Xiongnu were fierce, they were ready to fight to the end. However, an accident happened at this time: Zhao Xin reversed!
To be precise, Zhao Xin did not call it the opposite, but called it away. Because Zhao Xin was originally a Huns, he surrendered to the Han Dynasty and was named Marquis of Xi by Liu Che eight years ago. The unreliable of surrender, the unreliable of non-surrender. I believe Yi Zhixian understands this truth. So he made a temporary cost-reducing strategy: lure down! So, Zhao Xin threw himself back into the arms of the Xiongnu and took away 800 cavalry.
At this moment, only Su Jian's lone army remained. Originally, the two of them combined were only more than 3,000 people, but now more than 1,000 have been killed in the battle and 800 have defected. There are more than a thousand left, how can you fight again? But Su Jian did not give up and continued to fight the Huns. Of course, outnumbered, Su Jian was only spared and fled back to Wei Qing.
Wei Qing exchanged views with the staff officers on how to deal with Su Jian, the general of the defeated army. The faction led by Zhou Ba advocated killing, on the grounds that Wei Qing had never killed a general since he became a general. This time, Su Jian's army was defeated, so he killed him and killed two birds with one stone, which is a good thing. The other faction, led by Hong and An, advocated not killing for three reasons: 1 Fighting against the big army with a small force, the gods can't stop it, let alone Su Jian? 2 Su Jian and the Huns fought hard for more than a day, and in the end, there was not even a single soldier left, and he remembered to run back. This alone is not bad, it is better than Zhao Xinqiang, who defected. 3 If he really killed Su Jian, there is a precedent for this, and if the generals lose the battle in the future, how can they dare to come back? They all went to the Huns. This is called doing all kinds of harm and not one good.
The two factions fought for a stalemate. In the end, they simply set their eyes on Wei Qing and watched the general's statement. At this time, I saw Wei Qing slowly speak, "I don't agree with the first faction. If it is said that killing a general is to establish authority. So I would like to ask: My relatives are leading the army outside, do they still lack military prestige? In addition, even though I, Wei Qing, am favored by His Majesty, I can't take the defeated general without His Majesty's permission. So my opinion is: temporarily lock up Su Jian, send him to Chang'an, and hand it over to His Majesty to dispose of. Isn't it a beautiful thing to set up a person who does not dare to be tyrannical in the world?" So Su Jian was loaded into a prisoner car and escorted back to Chang'an.
In this round, Wei Qing lost badly enough. The front army and the right army were all lost. However, he immediately pulled back another game: the main force led by Wei Qing killed 19,000 Huns!
In terms of heads, the Han army gained far more heads than the Xiongnu lost. In particular, Huo Qubing took down more than 2,000 heads and a bunch of Huns with heads and faces with 800 warriors. How to calculate, the Han Dynasty did not lose money? But Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, is not like that!
ran away from Zhao Xin and lost thousands of soldiers, how can you calculate it, and you can only offset the merits? So not only Wei Qing was useless, but the other generals were also useless! In addition to Zhang Qian, who has been made a marquis, only two people in the whole army have been marquised: in April, Huo Qu was named the champion marquis; In May, Hao Xian was crowned the Marquis of Zhongli. The general Wei Qing only rewarded a thousand gold.
So, what should Su Jian do? It's a troublesome issue. Liu Che's handling opinion is: According to the crime, Su Jian should die. But if you give money for redemption, you can go home.
So Su Jian's family paid money to raise people, and finally saved their lives, but they were demoted to concubines...
Su Jian lost everything, but Zhao Xin made a lot of money. Yi Zhi Xian Shan Yu gave the Huns who had defected again a very high treatment: he made Zhao Xin his second king and married his sister to him.
Of course, the king is not sealed for nothing, and the sister is not married for nothing. Immediately, Yi Zhi Xian Shan Yu asked Zhao Xin: How to deal with the Han Dynasty?
Unexpectedly, Zhao Xin put forward a suggestion that made Yi Zhi stunned: If you want to deal with the Han Dynasty, one word: Run!
Yi Zhi was furious. I gave you so much, and what you are waiting for is your sentence to tell me to run? However, when Zhao Xin finished speaking, Yi Zhixian had to admire Zhao Xinzhi's foresight: "The Xiongnu want to fight a protracted war with the Han Dynasty?" That's impossible to win. First of all, the Han Dynasty was very rich, and Emperor Liu Che was very generous and not afraid of burning money. If the Huns want to play with him, they have to see how many belongings they have. Secondly, the generals of the Han Dynasty were very good. Like Wei Qing and Huo Quai, they can fight all the way to your hometown, and they can also know the way back, they are simply the nemesis of the Huns."
Summarize the above two points and draw a conclusion: if you can't provoke it, you can always afford to hide, right? The Xiongnu could only temporarily wronged themselves and moved Shan Yu's headquarters from Monan to Mobei, so that the Han Dynasty could not find the north. Mo Nan left King Zuo Xian and some generals in the Hexi Corridor to garrison, taking care of the front and back.
Zhao Xin advocated not moving the Zuoxian royal court, which was not only a strategic issue, but also a tactical issue. Fighting is like fishing, and if you want to catch a big fish, you have to put a long line. If the Han army wants to win the order Yu, it must go deep into Mobei. At that time, the Xiongnu could take advantage of the exhaustion of the Han army to catch him off guard. This is the so-called reluctant child can't trap the wolf!
Carefully considering Zhao Xin's words, it is really not nonsense. Leave the green mountains here, what is the point of gnawing more sand? As a result, Yi Zhi Xian Shan Yu decisively decided to move and moved north...
The Xiongnu were forced to move, which can be regarded as a taste of the power of Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. If you want to summarize the war against Hungary in stages, there are only 12 words: the results are brilliant, and the price is heavy.
According to statistics, in the past 11 years of the war against Hungary, more than 200,000 catties of gold were only awarded to meritorious generals and soldiers, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses died in Han soldiers. What is particularly terrifying is that the large amount of wealth accumulated by Wenjing Zhizhi in the past forty years has been squandered by Liu Che in just over ten years!
But if you want to expand the results, you must continue to fight against the Xiongnu. If you want to keep fighting, you have to find money! The treasury is empty, there is no food, where to find money?
At this time, Liu Che thought of a way to raise money. History proves that this is a method that has endless consequences, but has to be done as a last resort. That is: Sell the Lord!
In June, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che issued an edict: Anyone who has money can buy a knight; Whoever sins may be given money to atone for his sins. More money, more redemption, less money and less punishment.
The title sold by Liu Che is called "Martial Arts Jue", which is divided into 17 levels, but only 11 levels are known now. From low to high, they are: Maker, Xianyuwei, Liangshi, Yuan Rongshi, Guanshou, Bingduo, Qianfu, Leqing, Zhirong, Zhengwei, Junwei... There should be a level 6 knighthood above the military guard, but this is unknown now.
The title is sold according to the rank, 20,000 yuan per level, and a total of 340,000 yuan for the 17th level. Liu Che stipulated: Anyone who buys a fifth-level "official head" can go to the grassroots level to become a cadre and be called an official. Don't treat officials as cadres, if you perform well, you can be recommended to the central government as officials. When you become a Lang official, the probability of contact with the emperor increases greatly, whether you are developed in the future or not, three points are destined, and seven points depend on hard work. Those who buy the seventh-level "Thousand Doctors" will enjoy the treatment of the ninth-level "Five Doctors" in the previous Shang Dynasty system, and their sentences will be reduced by the second degree. Liu Che also stipulated: You can buy up to the eighth level of "Leqing" when you buy a knight, and the title above this is awarded to the meritorious soldiers, who can sell the title for money and atone for their crimes... Both.
Liu Che's business of selling the lord is very prosperous, and this alone has earned more than 30 million gold. But problems also arise. For example, officialdom is like a bus, anyone who has money can buy a ticket to get on the bus. Over time, more and more people are crammed into the car, and one day it will definitely be seriously overloaded. In this situation, it is unreasonable to drive people out of the car, and it is also unreasonable not to get out of the car. So the highway of the Han Dynasty could only continue to drive by such a huge overloaded official car until the tire burst...