A generation of war god Huo Zaodi, not one person in the fight, Han Wu Di and Wei Qing, watched him write down the legend!

There is a Huo Zaiwei statue in the park, all the people who go to the park to walk, will go to seriously touch the Huo Zaiwei statue under the "Huo Zaiwei" three words, while touching the same time, also chanting "dispel disease dispel disease, do not get sick." It is said that during the Spring Festival, thousands of people line up from morning to night to touch these three words. Everyone believed that if they "touched Huo Zai Diao", they could "get rid of their illnesses". So, people who were sick wanted to get rid of their illnesses, and people who were not sick also wanted to get rid of their illnesses, and they would rather wait in a long line for several hours than to touch "Huo Zhaodi". The black marble on which the word "Huo Zhaodi" is engraved below the statue has been touched as smooth as a mirror.

When Huo Zaiwei conquered the West, he was stationed here. At that time, the soldiers were tired and thirsty, but could not find water. So Huo Zaiwei held a horsewhip, even hit five, the results of the whip springs, so into five springs, so far five springs still exist, still out of the trickle of spring water. In order to commemorate him, the descendants repaired a statue of Huo Zaiwei here.

Of course, this is just a legend, people go to touch Huo Zaiwei three words, does not reflect a superstitious behavior, more is this to Huo Zaiwei this young war god of nostalgia. Huo Zaizi was born to destroy the Xiongnu, and he caused the Xiongnu to suffer a great loss of vitality and to be devastated. His life was sensational and famous for ages.

Huo Zaiwei was an outstanding young general during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, with outstanding war achievements. At the age of 18, he led the army into battle, and had six successive campaigns to fight against the Xiongnu, all of which won great successes and opened up the Western Corridor. He died at the age of 24.

Huo Zaiwei's exploits are well known to everyone, so I won't repeat them. Here is a chart to illustrate the life of Huo Zaiwei.

I would like to say that Huo Zaiwei became a perfect god of war, in addition to his own courage, bravery and "not using the ancient art of war" military talent, and the other two big names of the Han dynasty at the time, and the full support of the inseparable.

The artist, Huo Zaiwei and Wei Qing

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiong Nu, the Han Dynasty for a long period of time, there is no smoke outside, so that the people of the internal stability, to a large extent, thanks to the Wei Qing and Huo Zaiwei.

Wei Qing was the uncle of Huo Zaodi.

It is interesting to say that Wei Qing was a bastard, and Huo Zaodi was also a bastard. Wei Qing's mother, Wei Old Woman, was a maid in the Pingyang Marquis' residence, and she gave birth to three men and three women, the eldest son named Changjun, and the last born man, Bu Guang, the eldest daughter named Junru, and the second daughter, Shao'er, the three women's husbands. When Wei old woman was young, she had an illicit affair with Zheng Ji, a petty official of Pingyang who worked in Princess Pingyang's residence, and gave birth to a son, who later assumed the name of Wei Qing.

Huo's father, Huo Zhongru, a magistrate in Pingyang County, had an affair with Wei Shaor, Princess Pingyang's slave girl, who was also Huo's mother, and gave birth to Huo in the first year of Emperor Wu's reign (140 BC). Wei Qing was about twelve or thirteen years older than Huo Daizi.

Sometimes history is strange in that it tells us a lot about the privacy of these two men, but then it downplays their accomplishments, as did Sima Qian. I think Sima Qian thought that Wei and Huo were directly responsible for Li Guang's suicide and Li Dang's death by shooting, and felt angry, so he intentionally wrote down in the "Records of the Grand Historian" this incident which seems to be a scandalous image of the two of them. The history of the world has always been such a joke, and all illegitimate children have extraordinary abilities.

When Wei Qing was about 24 years old, he led the army into battle. The great victory of Longcheng, the recovery of the River Plate, a surprise attack on Gaoque, the second out of Dingxiang, the war in the desert, almost unbeaten, the official to the great general of the great horse generals. If Wei Qing is the legend of a small man from the lower class who turned himself into a fish, then Huo Daizi is the second generation of government officials with talent and ambition, and compared with his uncle, his success was much easier. If we talk about which one of them, Wei Qing or Huo Zaizi, is more outstanding in battle? It can be said that without Wei Qing, there would be no Huo Zaodi!

In the spring of the second year of Emperor Wu's reign (139 years ago), Liu Che, the eighteen-year-old son of the Emperor, went to Bashang to pay homage to his ancestors, and then on his way back to the palace, he stopped by Princess Pingyang's mansion to visit his sister. In order to please her brother, the Princess found several beautiful women to serve him, but unexpectedly she met Wei Zifu, who was waiting to blossom. The history of the Han Dynasty has turned a new page.

In this year, Wei Zifu was about 14 or 15 years old, and her younger brother Wei Qing was about 12 or 13 years old. The following year, Wei Zifu's second sister, Wei Shaoye, gave birth to a son, Huo Daizi. Both Wei Qing and Huo Daizi were house slaves in Princess Pingyang's residence. However, as Wei Zifu's status rose, and Wei Qing gradually came to be favored by Princess Pingyang, the Wei family became brilliant, and Huo Zaodi, before he even knew what he was doing, synchronized with a gorgeous turnaround and became a noble boy envied by everyone.

Huo Zaodi grew up in the army, taught by his uncle, studied the art of war, the ancients mastered the way to transport the army, but he believes that we should not stick to the books, we must be adapted to local conditions, flexible use. Huo Daizi fought a war that seemed to have no common sense, but in fact was unable to win the law. The famous Ming Dynasty historian Qiu Jun commented: "Since ancient times, the famous generals do not use the ancient art of war, three people, Han Huo Zaodong, Tang Zhang patrol, Song Yue Fei only, are able to make a success of the time, famous for generations to come."

Huo Zaodi followed Wei Qing on several occasions, and certainly understood and familiarized himself with his uncle's tactics and methods of warfare, and studied a set of military tactics suitable for himself. For example, Wei Qing and his subordinates shared the same sweet ****, so did Huo Daoguang, or else the name of the place, Jiuquan, would not exist. However, Huo seeks speed in fighting, unlike Wei Qing who seeks stability; Huo likes to march at high speeds and plunge straight into the heart of the enemy, just like the current special forces. His fighting style appeared to be simple, but in fact, he had figured out the characteristics of marching and fighting in deserts and grasslands, and had utilized his cavalry advantage to the extreme, thus ensuring that he could effectively and completely eliminate more enemies by surprise. In the battle of Desert North, the three armies, including Wei Qing, got lost, and Huo Zaizi was the only one who fought a great victory with his pointed front.

The Artist Huo Zaiwei and Liu Che

Liu Che was the wise and mighty Emperor Wu of Han.

The first desert war, Wei Qing failed, favoring Huo Daizi led all the way to victory. Liu Che's eyes turned to Huo Daizi, keenly saw Huo Daizi's military talent. From then on, Liu Che spared no effort to cultivate Huo Zaodi and fully supported him from all aspects. It can be said that his favor reached the point of no return.

Huo Zaiwei made his first expedition to Xiong Nu in the sixth year of the Yuan Shuo era (123 BC) and died in the sixth year of the Yuan Hao era (117 BC). He made six expeditions to Xiong Nu, and achieved brilliant results, which showed that the young general Huo Zaiwei's military talents and qualities of bravery and decisiveness, flexibility in the use of troops, non-conformity to ancient methods, and focus on strategy, and his ability to conduct rapid raids and long-distance attacks as well as large detours and large interludes were very good at warfare.

Sima Qian commented that the reason why Huo Zaiwei was always victorious in every battle was that he led men who were experienced in battle, and that he himself was "fortunate". This "heavenly fortune" is not only the Emperor's favor to Huo Zaiwei, but also the Emperor's direct intervention in the choice of Xiong Nu's strategy and military deployment, which is the key factor of Huo Zaiwei's victory.

At that time, Emperor Wu pursued the goal of unification of the Han dynasty: the farming areas south of the Great Wall would be governed by the county system, and the neighboring nomadic peoples north of the Great Wall would have to pay tribute and submit themselves to the Emperor, so as to achieve the goal of "the people's peace and prosperity, and the eternal wealth of heaven". In order to achieve this goal, Emperor Wu of Han also formulated the military strategy against the Xiong Nu: to carry out decapitation operations, to strike the ruling center of the Xiong Nu tribal alliance, Shan Yu Court, to capture, behead or force Shan Yu to bow down and submit to the Han Dynasty, in order to change the situation of the world upside down, to eliminate the Xiong Nu's encroachment on the border areas of the Han Dynasty, " Within the four seas, there are no counties; the four barbarians and eight barbarians come to pay tribute to their duties, and there is no limit to the heaven, the people are in abundance, and the heavenly fortune is everlasting." Therefore, every military action taken by Emperor Wu of Han against Xiong Nu, personally formulated the plan of action, personally supervise the implementation.

Huo Zaiwei, who conquered the Xiongnu six times in his life, was not able to directly engage the Xiongnu leader, Shan Yu, in a head-on battle.

This is directly related to Liu Che's intentional arrangement. Huo Zaiwei's first four expeditions to the Xiongnu, in addition to the third battle of Hexi for Huo Zaiwei to welcome the surrender of the Hunxian king's surrendered, the other three are as a partial division of the expedition, not the main force. Emperor Wu of Han did not use Huo Zaiwei's army as the main force in the main attack on Xiong Nu Shan Yu, which was to give the young and vigorous Huo Zaiwei a chance to exercise. As Huo Zaiwei's achievements and experience accumulated, as well as Han Wu Di's favor to him deepened, in the next desert war, Han Wu Di intended to give him the opportunity to "be a monarch" (frontal confrontation with the monarchs), so that he could establish greater achievements.

But as fate would have it, Huo Zaiwei was never able to fight the Huns head-on in his fifth and sixth campaigns in the desert.

In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanhao, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched the Battle of Desert North, appointing Wei Qing and Huo Zaiwei to lead 50,000 men each in a separate expedition. This was the first time that Huo Zaiwei went to war as the main force, and the goal was to strike the supreme leader of the Xiongnu, Monarch Izhi. For this expedition against the Xiong Nu, Emperor Wu of Han had Huo Zaiwei lead his army from Dingxiang County according to the original battle plan. However, when the Han army captured Xiongnu soldiers and intercepted important information that Shan Yu's main force had already migrated eastward, Emperor Wu immediately changed the battle plan to have Huo Zaizi's troops set out from Daixian County (Daixian County, northeast of present-day Weixian County, Hebei Province), and the general Wei Qing's troops set out from Dingxiang (Chengle County, northwest of present-day Heringer, Inner Mongolia, in the city of Tuchengzi). The event of changing the place of the general's expedition when a big battle was about to be fought was the only case in the war history of Emperor Wu of Han. The reason why Emperor Wu changed the battle plan was that he wanted his favorite general Huo Daizi to be the "single lord" and to destroy or capture him as the main attacking force.

However, what Emperor Wu did not expect was that the change of battle plan, Huo Zaiwei lost the opportunity to face the main force of Shan Yu, and Wei Qing, who was also eager to "be Shan Yu", encountered the main force of Shan Yu. Of course, Huo Zaiwei was not affected emotionally at all. He led his elite cavalry to travel more than 2,000 miles northward, penetrating into the north of the Desert, offering heavenly sealing rites at Wolf Juxu Mountain and earthly Zen rites at Gouyan Mountain, and the front of his army was pushed all the way to the Hanhai Sea (present-day Lake Baikal). Later, until the death of Huo Zaiwei in 117 years ago, there was no more opportunity to go out to conquer the Xiongnu.

Liu Che's almost unconditional trust and full support for Huo Zaiwei is also reflected in the courage to put down blood money: Huo Zaiwei was equipped with the most elite soldiers, the most sophisticated weapons and the best war horses. When it comes to war horses, we have to thank Wei Qing. Whenever Wei Qing returned from a war, he always brought to Chang'an the best horses he had captured from the Xiong Nu (匈奴). This Huo Zhaodong could not do. Therefore, Sima Qian said that the soldiers and equipment of the other troops of the Great Han were far inferior to those of Huo's division. With strong morale, advanced equipment, and Huo Zaiwei's ability to command the military by surprise and taking risks, winning battles did not seem to be a difficult task.

Liu Che may have also ensured Huo's logistical supply. Sima Qian said that the Son of Heaven sent his eunuchs to transport dozens of carts of food, and when Huo Zaiwei came back, there was still a lot of rice and meat left on the carts, while there were still hungry soldiers in Huo Zaiwei's army. What Sima Qian meant by this statement was that the food was a special offer from the Son of Heaven to Huo Zaiwei, and he was not sympathetic to the soldiers as he could not finish it himself but did not give it to the soldiers. This is too much, Sima Qian did not understand Huo Zaoyi's method of fighting battles, Huo's troops were used to forced marches, and used to taking food and rations from the Xiongnu while fighting battles. If he himself ate and drank in the army and let other generals or soldiers watch from the sidelines, the morale of his troops would not be affected? Later generations spoke quite highly of Huo Zaiwei's integrity and self-discipline, so this is Sima Qian's bias.

Huo Zaiwei became famous as a young man, and from his first campaign at 18 to the sealing of the wolf at 22, he made glorious war achievements for the Han Dynasty to stabilize and open up the remote northwestern regions. After the Battle of Desert North, the area west of Shofang to Zhangye was occupied by the Han Dynasty, opening up the Hexi Corridor. The Xiongnu suffered a blow from the Han Dynasty and split into five monarchs, and along the Great Wall from the northeast to the northwest, the Xiongnu were willing to become a "vassal screen" of the Han Dynasty. In the first year of Jingning (33 BC), Zhaojun went out of the Western Frontier, and peace was restored between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu. The unification that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had been striving for was realized when Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty completed the unification of the agricultural society with the nomadic society.

Unfortunately, Huo Zaiwei, the Grand Secretary Hussar, died at the age of 24. "His short life of twenty-four years forged a splendor unmatched by future generations. The Qilian Mountains became famous because of him, and the Yanzhi Mountains lost their color because of him. The figure of Fengwolf Juxu became the most beautiful scenery in the eyes of later generations, and the strong fragrance of the wine springs swept for a hundred years."

A poem written by the Taibai Emperor says: "The horse seems to be like the wind soaring, sounding the whip out of the Weiqiao. The bow of the bow to quit the Han moon, inserted feathers to break the pride of the sky. The first time I saw this, I was able to get the ball rolling. The success of the painting of the Lin Ge, the only Huo john Yao."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to commemorate his achievements, in the northeast of the Mausoleum built for his own mausoleum, for him to build a large burial mound, like Qilian Mountain.