"Yuan Jia caocao, seal the wolf Juxu, win the emperor Of the North Gu." The famous lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Renjie, wrote a famous poem "Yong Yu Le Jingkou Beiguting Huaigu". The meaning of this sentence is: When Liu Yilong was in the Northern Expedition, he wanted to establish an immortal battle merit to seal the wolf Juxu, but he was defeated and ended up in a hurry to flee for his life and look north to pursue the army...
Sealing the wolf was the goal of many generals in ancient times, and it was also a topic that countless ancients talked about. Its name is associated with a young general in his twenties.
He called Huo to go sick.
Huo Fuyi, born in 140 BC, was a native of Pingyang, Hedong (present-day Linfen, Shanxi). Huo Had a very powerful uncle named Wei Qing. Wei Qing was one of the top famous generals of the Western Han Dynasty and had made great achievements in battle. Wei Qing loved Huo to get sick and hoped that he would join the military camp and make meritorious achievements when he grew up.
Huo went to the disease and did not live up to the love of his uncle, and eventually became a generation of famous generals. We can even say that Huo's achievements on the battlefield surpassed those of Wei Qing.
According to historical records, Huo participated in 3 major military operations in his lifetime.
The first time was in 123 BC, when Emperor Wu of Han appointed the 17-year-old Huo Fuyi as a lieutenant of Yao Yao and followed Wei Qing on his expedition to southern Mo. During the expedition, Huo Wentai left the large army for the first time to fight alone, leading 800 elite cavalry, alone into the hinterland of the Xiongnu for hundreds of miles, killing more than 2,000 enemy people and capturing the Uncle of the Xiongnu Shan Yu. Huo went to fame in one battle, won the championship of the whole army, and was awarded the title of "Champion Hou".
The second time was in 121 BC, when Emperor Wu of han appointed the 19-year-old Huo Fuyi as a general on horseback, and he made two expeditions to Hexi in the spring and summer. In the spring attack, Huo Quyi led 10,000 cavalry to fight the Xiongnu in the area of today's Hexi Corridor, annihilated the main xiongnu army at the foot of Gaolan Mountain, captured the Xiongnu sacrifice tianjin people, and sealed 2,000 households. In the summer offensive, Huo Went ill, in the case of the friendly gongsun Ao's lost and late arrival, led his army to go deep alone and achieved brilliant results: 127 princes and nobles below the five kings of the Xiongnu were captured, more than 30,000 enemies were annihilated, and more than 40,000 people were forced to surrender by the Hun evil king of the Xiongnu. After this battle, the Han Dynasty army firmly controlled the Hexi Corridor.
Let's focus on the third major military operation. Because the famous wolf was destroyed, it took place in this military operation.
That was 119 BC.
In the spring of that year, Emperor Wu of Han ordered Wei Qing and Huo to go ill, each leading 50,000 cavalry, to attack the north of the desert in two ways and fight a decisive battle with the main Xiongnu.
This is the rhythm of intending to wipe out the Huns.
Wei Qing that way, we do not press the table for the time being, only to say that Huo went to the sick road. It is said that after Huo went on a journey from Dai Commandery (代郡, in present-day Wei County, Hebei Province), he traveled all the way north, more than 2,000 miles, crossing the Lihou Mountains and crossing the Bow Lu River. At this time, Huo's army encountered the xiongnu Zuoxian king's troops head-on.
King Zuoxian was a kind of king of the Xiongnu, with high power and status, and often commanded tens of thousands of troops under his command. The ZuoXian King whom Huo went ill with was still the heir of Shan Yu, with nearly 100,000 troops under his command. Therefore, this battle is destined to be difficult.
However, Huo Went ill did not give King ZuoXian any chance at all, rushed up and directly attacked, slashing and killing, annihilating more than 70,000 people, and also capturing 3 xiongnu Ji tun tou wang, han wang and 83 generals, xiangguo, danghu, and duwei.
If it is an ordinary general, after achieving such a battle, you can return to the dynasty and brag for a while. Huo went ill but was not an ordinary general. He took advantage of the victory to pursue the remnants of the Xiongnu army, all the way north to mount Wolfjuxu (present-day Mount Kent, in Mongolia). Subsequently, Huo Quyi held a grand ceremony to sacrifice the heavens at Wolf Juxu Mountain, and held a sacrifice ceremony at Guyan Mountain north of Wolf Juxu Mountain. Thereafter, the Army of Horde continued northward, drinking horses on the North Sea (present-day Lake Baikal, Russia).
This is the Wolf Juxu. The "Chronicle of the General Wei's Horse Riding Column" reads: "Three people, including Hou Of Renhou and Ji Gonglu, the King of Tuntou and the King of Han, and eighty-three generals, Xiang Guo, Danghu, and Du Wei, were enfeoffed with the wolf Juxu Mountain, Zen Yu Guyan, and ascended to Hanhai."
The significance of sealing the wolf Juxu is that Huo Quyi declared to the Xiongnu that this large area of land was the territory of the Han Dynasty and could not be invaded by anyone. So, after that, "the Han family was full of Yin Mountains, the Xiongnu were far away, and there was no royal court in the south of the desert." "Once upon a time, the Xiongnu were entrenched in the area around the south of the desert and the west of Hexi, using this as a base camp and constantly going south to invade the Central Plains. Now, under the constant blows of Huo Fuyi, Wei Qing and others, the Xiongnu withdrew from the southern part of the desert and the western part of the river, and fled as far as the north of the desert, never daring to go south easily.
What a remarkable feat this is for Hodge's disease? For the Han Dynasty, what kind of glory was this?
Since then, many celebrities have praised Huo's sick wolf Juxu.
The Eastern Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu said: "Riding the champion, the brave and courageous, the long drive of six moves, the electric shock thunder, the drinking of Ma Hanhai, the sealing of the wolf jushan, the West Regulation Of the Great River, the Liejun Prayer Lian." Cao Zhang, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms, sighed: "Husband Yi, Wei and Huo, will ride 100,000 horses in the desert, drive Rong Di, and make meritorious contributions." The Ming Dynasty historian Wang Shizhen praised: "The great general and the general of the Hussar Horse rode the desert with light horses, and counted the zhi yan." ”
Reading these comments, it is as if I saw a young general with a sharp sword and a heroic posture, running towards us from the long river of history...