Huo Quai, a famous anti-Hungarian general in the Western Han Dynasty, an outstanding military strategist, defeated the Huns many times with fewer victories, and made great achievements, and the famous general Wei Qing was his uncle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoHuo Quai's life was colorful, at the age of seventeen, he was appointed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as the captain of Bi Yao, and followed Wei Qing to attack the Huns in Monan, in this battle he killed 2028 enemies, including Xiangguo, the officials of the household, and also killed Shan Yu's grandparents Ruohou production, and captured Shan Yu's uncle Luo Gubi, bravely crowned the whole army, and was named the champion Hou with 1,600 households. This battle was Huo Quai's first battle since joining the army, and he was born with dazzling results.

At the age of nineteen, Huo Qubing was appointed as a hussar general by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and in this year, he fought against the Xiongnu twice, and won great victories in both of them. The evil king of the Xiongnu was taken by the power of Huo Quai, and knew that the general trend had gone, so he led 40,000 troops to surrender, and after that, the Hexi Corridor was officially incorporated into the Han Dynasty. This was also the first time in Chinese history that a foreign captive was surrendered.

In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to lead 50,000 cavalry into Mobei to find and annihilate the main force of the Xiongnu. Huo Qubing led the army to the north for more than 2,000 miles, crossed the Lihou Mountain, crossed the Gonglu River, 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 the Wolf Juxu Mountain (now in Mongolia), and the troops were forced to Hanhai (another name for the desert or Lake Baikal in present-day Russia).

Huo Qubing used soldiers flexibly, paid attention to strategy, did not adhere to ancient methods, was brave and decisive, won every battle, and won the trust of Emperor Wu. and his uncle Wei Qing are known as the imperial twins. And left the famous sentence of "the Huns have not been destroyed, why should they be at home".

However, no one expected that in the sixth year of Yuanzhen, Huo Quai, who was only 24 years old, died of illness, and a generation of young generals fell, and the whole country was sorry. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty regretted this after knowing this, and in order to commemorate his military exploits, he built a large tomb for him in the northeast of Maoling, which was like Qilian Mountain. There are huge stones piled up on the sealed soil, and stone people, stone beasts, etc. are placed in front of the tomb.

"Historical Records", "Book of Han" and other official histories only left a simple "薨 (or 卒)" for the cause of Huo Qu's death, which added a mysterious aura to the cause of his death. Modern historians believe that there are two causes of death of Huo Qu's disease, one is said to be in the battle of Mobei, the Huns buried the dead cattle and sheep and other livestock in the water source to sacrifice and curse the Han army, so the water source area produced a plague, Huo Qubing ate water with germs here, and then died.

The second theory is that the fatigue of leading the troops on several expeditions and being in a difficult environment for a long time caused incurable injuries to Huo Quzhi's body, and the medical level of 2,000 years ago was limited, and Huo Quzhi's injuries could not be effectively treated, and his body deteriorated after that, and finally led to death.

Regardless of who is true or false in the above two statements, there is no doubt that Huo Quai's illness was indeed sick and died, but now the third uncle tells us that Huo Quai's death is related to Emperor Wu of Han's search for the elixir of life, which not only surprises us, but also makes us feel ridiculous.

But after calming down and thinking about it carefully, things have come to this point, it is impossible for the third uncle to lie to us, I believe that he must have found clues from the murals in Maoling, so he asserted that Huo Quzhi's death had nothing to do with the disease.

Seeing that we were suspicious, the third uncle said to us: "I knew you wouldn't believe it, but then again, if I hadn't seen Huo Quai's body, I definitely wouldn't have believed that there would be another way out of his death." ”

Biaozi said impatiently to the third uncle: "Don't you sell Guanzi to us, let's talk quickly, what is the content on the mural, why is Huo Quai's death related to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's quest for immortality?" ”

The third uncle smiled sinisterly: "I'm hungry now, I don't have the strength to say more, if you want to know the following, you have to fill my stomach first." ”

As soon as the third uncle said this, we suddenly felt hungry, and after counting, since we went down to the ancient tomb, more than ten hours have passed, not to mention that we have been active, even if we wake up from sleep, we should not be hungry.

Biaozi was stunned for a moment, and then said with relief: "If you are hungry, you will say it earlier, why do you go around such a big circle?" Just because of the relationship between you and me, can you be embarrassed? The third uncle coughed a few times, and his old face turned rare red.

We don't have much food, and even if we are on a budget, we can only last the rest of us for two days, so we can only eat half full for this meal. Biaozi took the opportunity to complain that the third uncle was too unstable and didn't bring food when he came down, which was the lowest mistake, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't be sympathized.

The third uncle estimated that he was hungry and panicked, and he didn't bother to pay attention to the label, and after taking a pack of compressed biscuits, he began to gobble it up, and finally said to us lazily: "There are fifteen murals in total, and the content of the front murals is about Huo Quai's war against the Huns, and the back murals are appalling. ”

For the sake of making a long story short, the third uncle did not tell the contents of the murals in the back one by one, but only told us that Huo Quzhi led the soldiers of the brigade to the depths of an endless mountain range after a long time of climbing mountains and wading through rivers, and on one of the majestic mountains, they found a huge cave and saw an underground palace inside.

The scale of that dungeon is very huge, and soon after Huo Quzhi led his subordinates in, he found many monster corpses, which were like guards guarding the tomb, guarding the left and right sides of the dungeon passage, and the number was very large.

Huo Qubing should have been very surprised at that time, but he didn't think much about it, and led everyone to continue to set off towards the underground palace, but at this moment, for some reason, those monsters actually came back to life and launched an attack on them.

The third uncle guessed that Huo Qubing did not bring many people that time, because not long after the battle, the murals showed that only five people finally escaped from the underground palace, and the others died in the underground palace, and among the five people who lived, one of them was Huo Quai.

After going back, Huo Qubing met Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and told him about the trip, and soon after, Huo Qubing fell ill, speaking of which, the third uncle paused, he glanced at us, and said: "Huo Qu did not die after falling ill, but it is no different from death, because he has become a bloodthirsty zombie." ”

At the same time I was surprised, I reacted instantly, and couldn't help but say in a lost voice: "You mean, the monsters that Huo Qubing encountered in the dungeon were all zombies, and although he escaped, he was poisoned by corpses, and finally became zombies because of the attack of corpse poison?" ”

"That's right! It was for this reason that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had no choice but to order him to be killed. The third uncle said with all his thoughts: "A generation of famous generals died in such a daze, and they died in the hands of their own people, if this news is revealed, what will the people of the world think?" ”

I already understood what the third uncle meant, and took his words and said: "I'm afraid that after the people of the world know the truth of the matter, the reputation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Huo Qubing will be ruined, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty concealed this matter, claiming that Huo Qubing was due to the perennial war, which led to a vicious disease in the body, and finally died." ”

Biaozi couldn't help but sigh: "I'll just say that Huo Qu is sick as a military general, and he is so young, after a few big battles, his uncle Wei Qing's body has not collapsed, why did he fall first, it turns out that the truth of the matter is like this, which is too unexpected." ”

The third uncle nodded and said: "Although Huo Qubing has made great achievements, he is not an important member of the royal family, but his tomb is still built in the northeast of Maoling as a burial tomb of Maoling, I think it is because of this incident, because Emperor Wu of Han feels ashamed of him and hopes to compensate him after his death." ”

Biaozi thought for a while and said, "Let's get down to business." Huo Quzhi went to the depths of the mountains to find the underground palace, which was naturally the meaning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but what does this have to do with his search for the elixir of life? Could it be that there is an elixir hidden in that underground palace? ”

The third uncle didn't answer and asked: "Do you know where the mountain on the mural is?" It is Kunlun Mountain, which is known as the first mountain in China. "We were stunned. (To be continued.) )