However, it is said that in the autumn of the third year of Emperor Wu's Yuanzhan, the Xiongnu Yizhi slanted to take revenge on the army, divided into two roads, each with tens of thousands of Hu cavalry, attacked the right Beiping, Dingxiang two places, killed and plundered more than 1,000 people. Shan Yu returned to China after victory, expecting that the Han soldiers would definitely attack, so he discussed with Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xinbing was defeated and surrendered to Hu, Shan Yu because he had been in the Han Dynasty for a long time, familiar with the situation in China, and was very favored, and was named the second king, married his sister, and built a city to make him live. Zhao Xin taught Shan Yu to move to the north through the desert, not to lure the Han soldiers deep into the border fortress, and to take advantage of their fatigue to attack them, and they will be able to win. Just obeyed his plan, and moved all the people and animals to Mobei to live. When Emperor Wu heard Shan Yu's plan to move, he summoned Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and others to discuss: "Zhao Xin is Shan Yu's plan to move north, thinking that our soldiers can't go far away from the desert. I am now sending soldiers to prepare more food and exterminate the Huns in one fell swoop. "In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, Emperor Wu ordered the general Wei Qing and the hussar general Huo Quai, each leading 50,000 horsemen, hundreds of thousands of infantry, and 140,000 public and private horses, and marched separately. Emperor Wu saw that Huo Qu's illness was slightly more than Wei Qing's, so he selected the soldiers who dared to fight deeply to Huo Qu's illness, and ordered Huo Qu's sick soldiers to go out of Dai County, and Wei Qing's soldiers to go out of Dingxiang, and make an appointment to spend the desert to fight the Huns. The two generals led the same number of men and horses, but Huo Quai's subordinates had no generals, so Li Guang's son Li Dang and others were appointed as colonels to serve as generals. Li Guang saw that Emperor Wu had a big effort to cut down Hu, but he did not order him to be a general, and he was displeased, so he asked Emperor Wu to do it. Emperor Wu said: "The general is old, and he can't come to the battle again." Li Guang repeatedly insisted on the invitation, and Emperor Wu pondered for a long time before he agreed, and then worshiped Li Guang as the former general, and the left general Gongsun He, the right general Zhao Shiqi, and the later general Cao Xiang all belonged to the general Wei Qing. Wei Qing and Huo Qu received the order and took the soldiers to set off at an auspicious time.

The Wei Qing soldiers went out of Dingxiang, captured Hu people on the road and asked where Ming Shan was located, and led the army to advance at the same time. However, he ordered Li Guang and Zhao Shiqi to join forces and travel eastward to meet at an appointment.

Li Guang thought to himself, it takes a lot of time to bend the eastbound road, and there are very few water and grass along the way, so it is impossible to supply the brigade of men and horses, and it must be divided into several teams to walk slowly, which is obviously because the general does not want me to make great contributions, so I am allowed to travel this long way, so he said to Wei Qing: "The former general of the minister's department should be the vanguard to attack the enemy." Today's general is a minister to make the east road, I don't know what it means? And the minister was at war with the Huns from Rong, until today, the minister is willing to lead the troops to serve the former enemy. Wei Qing didn't allow him to ask when he heard this. Li Guang was reluctant to go east, and Wei Qing saw that Li Guang had violated the order, so he used coercive means to order him to obey the order. Li Guang was angry in his heart, and he didn't say goodbye to Wei Qing, he walked out, returned to his military camp, and met Zhao Shiqi to lead the troops.

Speaking of Wei Qing and Li Guang, there is no grudge on weekdays, so why not make it the front this time? Just because when he was leaving, Emperor Wu had secretly instructed: "Li Guangnian is old and dying." Don't be alone, you may be alone and escape, and you will not be captured. "Wei Qing was instructed by Emperor Wu to be on good terms with Gongsun Ao, Gongsun Ao missed the military period because of the previous division, lost the marquis, and now is a lieutenant in the army, Wei Qing intends to promote him to make meritorious service and restore the knighthood, so he transferred Li Guang and took Gongsun Ao as the front. Li Guang didn't know that Emperor Wu had such words, but he only knew that Wei Qing wanted to make meritorious service to Gongsun Ao on his behalf, so he was indignant. Wei Qing sent Li Guang away, and he urged his troops to march north, traveling more than 1,000 miles to cross the desert.

Shan Yu detected that the Han soldiers were attacking, but he was also panicked, and he hurriedly prepared to meet the enemy. Zhao Xin offered a plan: "The Han soldiers are tired from afar, and I can sit and wait for them to be captured." Shan Yu sent the baggage to the north, and led the elite troops to garrison Mobei, and saw the arrival of the Han soldiers in a far-sighted manner, and lined up to wait. Wei Qing guarded against Hu Qi galloping and ordered to surround the camp with Wugang chariots. Wugang car is a kind of military vehicle, there are board walls around the trunk, a small window is installed for lookout, the arrow hole is opened next to it, the sword and gun are surrounded by a circle, the enemy cavalry must not conflict, and the crossbow arrow can not penetrate, which is regarded as a sharp weapon for the march of the day. Wei Qing set up camp and sent 5,000 horses to challenge, and the Xiongnu also sent 10,000 horsemen to meet the enemy. The two formations were about to fight, and at this time there was no strong wind, and the dust and sand were blowing on people's faces, and the two armies could not see each other. Wei Qing sent tens of thousands of cavalry to advance on the left and right flanks and encircle the Xiongnu. The two fought for a long time, it was late, Shan Yu saw that the Han soldiers were very strong, took advantage of the twilight to ride six mules, and led hundreds of horsemen to break through. The Han soldiers did not know it, but they still fought with the Hu army until the night, secretly holding each other, and the casualties were roughly equal.

Later, the left colonel of the Han army captured the Hu people, and it is said that Shan Yu had already fled before he fainted. Wei Qing hurriedly rode lightly to chase after him at night, and led his army to follow. At this time, the Hu soldiers were also exhausted from the battle and dispersed. Wei Qing wanted to chase Shan Yu, and led the soldiers to gallop all night, non-stop until dawn, traveling for more than 200 miles, but there was no trace of Shan Yu. and then went to Zhao Xincheng, and got the Hun valley. Wei Qing entered the city garrison for a day, and everyone had a full meal. The next day, Wei Qing saw that the Huns did not move, and did not dare to go deeper, so he ordered the class teacher. There was still a lot of rest in the valley, so he set off a fire, burned Zhao Xincheng to the ground, and then set off.

Wei Qing traveled to the south of the desert and met Li Guang and Zhao Shiqi's army. It turned out that Li Guang and Zhao Shiqi marched from the East Road, the path was unfamiliar, and they were confused and lost their way halfway, so that the date was delayed, and they arrived at this time. Li Guang saw Wei Qing and returned to his army. Wei Qing sent the chief Shi to give it to Li Guang with a wine mash and dry rice, asked the second general the reason for his misdemeanor, and said that he would report this situation to the Son of Heaven. Li Guang knew that Wei Qing was deliberately embarrassed, so he did not answer immediately. Seeing that Li Guang did not answer, Changshi went to Li Guang's shogunate to rebuke the military officials and urged him to make a report immediately. Li Guang became more and more angry when he heard this, so he said to Changshi: "The captains are not guilty, but I am unjust, I should go to the book by myself!" After speaking, he tended to the shogunate and said to the soldiers: "Guangzi sent from Rong, and the Huns fought more than 70 battles, there was no retreat, now from the general to the Huns, the general ordered Guangdong to go, is it not the destiny of heaven to lose the way!" I am now over 60 years old, and I am not dying, how can I beg for mercy and beg for life to the sword and pen clerks? With that, he drew his saber and killed himself. When a group of soldiers were taken by surprise and could not be rescued, they were widely mourned. Later generations have a poem that sighs:

The old man does not seal the marquis's life,

Why drive away in old age?

Mo Nan's death is useless,

Turning over makes thousands of years of fingers.

However, it was said that the hussar general Huo Quai, led the army from Daijun out of the fortress, traveled more than 2,000 miles, and met the Hun Zuoxian King with more than 300,000 people to meet the enemy. Huo Qubing waved his troops to attack, fought several times, the Han soldiers won a great victory, captured three Xiongnu kings, eighty-three officials, captured more than 70,000 enemies, and Zuo Xian led the defeated soldiers to flee. Go sick and play triumph and return. Emperor Wu was overjoyed, and issued an edict to praise Huo Qu's exploits in the war, benefiting 5,800 households, and all the generals under him were rewarded. Li Dang was sealed as the marquis of the Guan, and there were 200 households in the city. At this time, Wei Qing also led the generals back to Beijing, and Emperor Wu was unable to chase down Shan Yu, and the beheaded enemy was not more than 10,000 levels, which was far from Huo Quai, so Wei Qing was not allowed to be sealed, and even his subordinates were not rewarded. Zhao Shiqi deserved to die if he lost his way, and he was redeemed as a concubine.

The two armies killed a total of 890,000 Xiongnu, and tens of thousands of soldiers died, 140,000 public and private war horses, and less than 30,000 entered the fortress. Although he won the Huns, he suffered a lot of losses, Emperor Wu saw that Huo Quai's combat merits were higher than Wei Qing's, and the official position was still under him, so he set up the post of Da Sima, and ordered the general Wei Qing and the hussar general Huo Quai, all of whom were Da Sima. Since then, Wei Qing's favor has been declining, and Huo Qu's illness has become more and more expensive. Seeing this situation, Wei Qing's deceased and his guests left Wei Qing to fall ill. Ren An is the only one who refuses to defect, and Wei Qing knows his sage.

Li Dang resented Wei Qing for forcibly seizing his father's position in front of him and forcing him to go east, so that he committed suicide in anger and wanted to avenge his father. One day, Li Danglai met with Wei Qing and asked him about the reason for his father's death. Wei Qingfang wanted to defend himself, but Li Dang suddenly punched. Wei Qing didn't have time to be careful, he was already injured on his body, and hurriedly walked to avoid it. Speaking of Wei Qing's strength, if he fights with Li Dang, he may not fight him, but why is he willing to back down, there are two reasons.

One is that Li Guangguan was in the front, and he was supposed to be the vanguard, but because he was ordered by Emperor Wu privately, he was transferred away for no reason. And Li Guang died because of this, no wonder his son has a grudge, it is better to endure it temporarily to calm his anger; Second, Wei Qing has always been lenient with others, and he is also a general, if he fights with the son of a general, he will inevitably lose his physique. There are these two reasons, so Wei Qing not only did not bother with Li Dang, but acted as if there was no such thing, forbade his family to say it, and recuperated at home. Li dared to see that Wei Qing didn't dare to speak out.

But Huo Qubing couldn't help but be furious when he heard that Li Dang had injured Wei Qing. Huo Qu was originally Wei Qing's nephew, and I thought that my uncle could tolerate Kuanhong, but I had to try to vent my anger for him. Huo Qubing made up his mind, but he was silent outside, in the fifth year of Yuan Hunting, Huo Qubing and Li Dare followed Emperor Wu to Ganquan Palace in Yongxian County to shoot and hunt, and a group of soldiers were indulging eagles and dogs to chase birds and beasts. Huo Quzhi looked at Li Dang in the crowd and released an arrow. Li Dang didn't know that Huo Qu hated him, he didn't take precautions, it was easy to dodge the open gun, and it was difficult to defend against the hidden arrow, so he was shot and killed instantly. The left and right were shocked and hurriedly reported to Emperor Wu. Emperor Wu knew that Huo Qubing was shot to death, but he had no choice but to love the disease, and he didn't want to make him sit guilty, so he ordered to pull out the arrows left and right, and handed over Li Dang's body to his family for burial.

However, it is said that the Xiongnu Yizhi Xianshan led hundreds of horsemen to flee to the northwest, and the Han soldiers left, and the Xiongnu people searched for Shan Yu for more than ten days, but they did not know where their traces were. So the king of the right valley was established as a single Yu and led the people on his behalf. After a while, Yi Zhi slanted Shan Yu returned to his hometown, and the right valley Li Wang was removed from the number of Shan Yu and still took up his post. Statistics of the Huns are only hundreds of thousands, since Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and others have repeatedly conquered, more than half of them have died, and their momentum has declined. In addition, when the people heard of the arrival of the Han soldiers, they rushed in a hurry, and pregnant women often lost their lives by abortions, and the public was very miserable, so they had to live in Mobei to avoid the soldiers. Zhao Xin persuaded Shan Yu to make peace in the truce, and sent an envoy to Han to renegotiate peace. Emperor Wu ordered the ministers to gather, whether it was possible or not, and the lawsuit was endless. Prime Minister Shi Ren Chang said: "The Huns are ruined by our army, how can they make peace with me?" Emperor Wu said that it was good, so he ordered Ren Chang to go north to the Xiongnu with Hu envoys, and did not hear about the return of life for several months, thinking that he was unwilling to be detained with his relatives, and Emperor Wu was inevitably worried, and mentioned the pros and cons of peace and relatives when he was in the court. Dr. Di Shan stepped forward and said, "It's best to be friendly." Emperor Wu asked, "How can you see it?" Di Shan said: "Soldiers are murder weapons, and they must not be moved repeatedly." Emperor Gao was trapped in Pingcheng in the past, and he began to discuss peace, so the world was happy when he was filial piety. and Emperor Wen wanted to destroy the Xiongnu, and the north was suffering from military affairs. Emperor Jing has been in turmoil since the Seven Kingdoms, his mouth is silent, and the people are rich. Now His Majesty is raising troops to attack Hu, China is empty, and many people on the border are impoverished. After hearing this, Emperor Wu asked Zhang Tang, "What is this?" Zhang Tang knew that Emperor Wu did not want to negotiate peace, so he said: "This is a foolish and ignorant nonsense. Seeing Zhang Tang scolding him for being stupid in front of everyone, Di Shan was angry in his heart, and he couldn't care about the invincibility of the forces, so he said: "The minister is foolish and loyal, if the imperial doctor Zhang Tang is a deceitful loyalty." Zhang Tang ruled the prison of Hengshan in Huainan, and used harsh methods to denigrate the princes, divide the flesh and blood, so that the vassal could not be at ease, so the minister said that Zhang Tang was loyal. When Emperor Wu saw Di Shan reprimanding Zhang Tang, he was furious in his heart, and he did not debate right and wrong, so he said to Di Shan: "I let you go out to guard a county, can you not let Hu Lu enter the court?" Di Shan said no. Emperor Wu asked him again if he could any county? Di Shan said no. Emperor Wu asked him again if he could live in a pavilion? Di Shan couldn't resign, so he had to say yes. Emperor Wu sent him to guard a barrier. After only a month, Di Shan died violently, and his head was missing. At the time, people said that it was killed by the Huns, but there is no way to prove it. The courtiers saw that Di Shan gave his life in vain, and he would never dare to talk more about peace in the future. However, the Han soldiers were devastated, and there was a shortage of horses, and they could no longer fight the Xiongnu. Only the land near the border was occupied, and the immigrants cultivated. and set up separate guards to guard it, and the border was a little fine.

After the New Year, Huo went to die of illness, Emperor Wu was very sad, and he was named the Marquis of Jinghuan and buried next to Maoling. ordered his son Huo Heng to succeed his father.

Huo Xianzi Marquis, who was still young, was also favored by Emperor Wu and worshiped as the captain of Fengche. In summary, Huo Qu was ill all his life, and he went out six times, killed more than 110,000 enemies, and descended more than 40,000 people of the evil king. Wei Qingfan went out seven times and killed more than 50,000 enemies. After going to illness and dying, Wei Qing no longer attacked the Huns.

After Huo Quai's death, Zhao Ponu inherited his legacy and led his hussars to continue to make contributions to the Qiang Han Empire.

In the third year of the Han Yuan Dynasty, the war in the north resumed. Under the command of the Xiongnu, the two kingdoms of Loulan and Cheshi in the Western Regions repeatedly intercepted the Han envoys and plundered the property of the Han caravans, seriously undermining the stability and harmony of the Silk Road. Loulan and Cheshi are the gateway to the east of the Western Regions, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was determined to win, and he was furious when he heard this, so he sent the Hun River general Zhao Ponu to expedition to the two countries. Zhao Ponu deserves to be the first fierce general under Huo Quai, he actually led 700 light cavalry alone, more than 1,600 miles out of Yangguan in the west, the divine soldiers descended from the sky, broke Lou Lansheng and captured its king, and then swept the car division, and the military power pointed directly at Wusun and Dawan, a powerful country in Central Asia. For a time, the Western Regions were terrified, and all countries sent envoys to apologize to the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very happy, and named Zhao Ponu as the Marquis of Xunye. Later generations have poems to praise:

Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles,

If you don't break Loulan, you won't return it!

At this time, the Xiongnu succeeded to the throne, and they were young and murderous, and everyone was uneasy. The Xiongnu Zuo Dadu Lieutenant wanted to kill Shan Yu, so he secretly sent someone to tell the Han Dynasty: "I want to kill Shan Yu and surrender to the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty is too far away, please send troops to meet me immediately, and I will send troops to kill Shan Yu." So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appointed Zhao Ponu as the general of Junji, and led more than 20,000 cavalry from Shuofang County, marched 2,000 miles to the northwest, and agreed with the Xiongnu Zuo Dadu Lieutenant to Junji Mountain. After Zhao Ponu led the army to Junji Mountain, the Xiongnu Zuo Dadu wanted to send troops to attack Shan Yu, but the conspiracy was leaked and he was killed.

The Xiongnu sent troops to attack Zhao Ponu, Zhao Ponu had few soldiers, and fought and retreated, and captured thousands of Hu soldiers on the way. When Zhao Ponu retreated to a place 400 miles away from the surrendered city, he was surrounded by the 80,000 cavalry of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu. Zhao Ponu went out at night to find water and was captured alive by the Hu soldiers, so the Hu soldiers attacked the Han soldiers, and the Han soldiers surrendered. Zhao Ponu stayed in the Xiongnu for ten years, and later fled back to the Han Dynasty with his son.

During the "Witch Plague", the crown prince Liu committed suicide in defeat. Because Liu Ju is the eldest son of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Empress Wei Zifu, Wei Qing is Liu Ju's uncle, and Huo Quzhi is Liu Ju's cousin. In the witch curse, many of Wei Qing and Huo Quai's descendants were killed, and people related to Wei and Huo were also implicated. Zhao Ponu used to be Huo Quai's general, so he was also implicated and killed. That's an afterword