svetikya Chapter 316
Chapter 316
Li Guanghong was born in the period when the entire Han Empire had the most fierce offensive against the Xiongnu and the hostile countries in the northwest, achieved the most fruitful results, and had the most obvious military and tactical advantages.
At that time, there was a saying that "one Han enemy and five hu", one Han cavalry can defeat five Xiongnu cavalry, which shows the combat effectiveness and equipment of the Han army at that time, in addition, it also indirectly explains the "ferocity" of the Han people!
Since the fifth year of Yuan Guang, after Wei Qing was made a marquis in the Battle of Longcheng, the Han Empire began to slowly reverse the unfavorable situation of fighting against the Xiongnu, and gradually established military and psychological superiority, and in the next thirty years, not to mention that under the same force conditions, even in the case of more Xiongnu troops than the Han army, the same was beaten.
For example, during the Battle of Mobei in the fourth year of Yuangari, the Han Empire ordered Huo Qubing and Wei Qing to each lead 50,000 troops to march north in the east and west to find the main force of the Xiongnu to fight a decisive battle.
Among them, Wei Qing led more than 50,000 second-line troops, one-third of which were still infantry, and met more than 70,000 people of the main elite cavalry of the headquarters led by the Xiongnu Shan Yu, without fear, first stabilized the position with the car formation, and then sent 5,000 cavalry to hedge against the Xiongnu's 10,000 cavalry... How exactly to fight, is still a mystery, anyway, Wei Qing
surrounded the main force of the Xiongnu! Yes, that's right, the few people surrounded the large number of people, so frightened that the Xiongnu only led a few hundred people to break through the weak encirclement and fled away, and the remaining main force of the Xiongnu collapsed, running all the way without a shadow.
The troops led by Wei Qing were second-line troops, and their combat effectiveness was really average, and many of them were fighting for the first time, so this battle only annihilated 19,000 enemies, and by the way, Zhao Xincheng, who the Xiongnu hoarded grain and grass, took Zhao Xincheng, who could eat and take what could be taken here, and finally couldn't take it away, and burned it to the ground, completely destroying the military potential that the Xiongnu had spent several years accumulating.
The partial division led by Wei Qing still fought like this, and the main force of Huo Qubing played an unbelievable result. In order to give full play to the suddenness of cavalry combat, Huo Qubing carried only a small amount of heavy grain and grass, crossed the desert, captured Shan Yu Minister Zhangqu alive, killed King Qi of Beiche, and killed countless enemies. Then he felt that the results of the battle were lackluster and he had no face when he went back, so under the condition of no logistical support, he crossed Nanhou Mountain, crossed Gonglu Water, and captured three people, including King Tuntou and King Han, and 83 people including General, Xiangguo, Danghu, and Duliu, and only then returned with a full load.
In this expedition, Huo Qubing's troops attacked and killed 5,000 li, and with a loss of 10,000, a total of 70,443 Hu Yu were captured before and after, so far, the two arms of the Xiongnu left and right sages were completely cut off, leaving only the Xiongnu alone in the north of the desert. After this battle, the Xiongnu fled far away, and there was no royal court in southern Monan.
Huo Qubing used this battle to seal Wolf Juxu Mountain, Zen in Guyan, and landed on Hanhai and returned (Note).
At that time, the Han Empire and the Han army were not yet controlled by civilian officials, nor were they educated by Confucianism, for them, the military was very pure, that is, to achieve victory at all costs and by all means, therefore, whether Wei Qing or Huo Qubing, they were very good at fighting without logistics, and the soldiers under their command preferred this way of war, many low-level generals from the border areas, even a little addicted to war, it was very uncomfortable not to fight.
The Xiongnu's long-term pursuit of the Han land is not to occupy the city as the purpose of burning and looting, after all, it is easier to rob other people's things, especially after robbing and running, when you have no way to retaliate, it will seem that robbery is a bit dashing. Moreover, the Xiongnu also have a bad habit of robbing things and robbing people back to be slaves, which especially makes the Han people cut their teeth and hate it.
Therefore, in the subsequent military operations launched by the Han army, in line with the principle of reciprocity, the same retaliatory measures were taken against the Xiongnu, and more thoroughly, useless places were left without grass, useful places were built cities, even the territory was Han family's.
In order to be able to march quickly, he simply abolished the heavy accompanying system, each person brought enough military food for eight or nine days, rushed thousands of miles, drove straight in, killed the Xiongnu when he saw it, and then replenished military supplies on the spot, as long as he did not delay the business, there was basically no control over the sergeant, let him be happy at will
! ! The Xiongnu's Luhou King and Zhelan King once blocked Huo Qubing's 10,000 people with several times the superior force at the foot of Gaolan Mountain, and as a result, in the end, only 3,000 of Huo Qubing's 10,000 troops remained, while the Xiongnu lost 8,000 men and horses, could no longer hold on, and collapsed and fled!
Without
him, they have done too many sins to the Xiongnu people, and they know that surrender is also a dead end, and if they fight hard, they may be able to enjoy a few more years, even if they die on the battlefield, they should enjoy everything in this life, and they will die without regret!
Therefore, once Huo Qubing leads the troops to attack, many times the direction of the war is not up to him, when to collect the troops, but also to see when his subordinates are satisfied, so, in the absence of logistics, the champion Hou led the troops, rushed to attack more than 1,000 li, just like playing, more than 2,000 li, can be regarded as normal operation.
As for rushing and fighting for five thousand miles like the battle of Mobei, there is no way. Generally, Huo Qubing led soldiers are about 10,000 people, easy to feed, that time really brought a little much, and after years of conquest, the Xiongnu gradually moved north, the tribes close to the south heard that the champion Hou came out to hunt, they were moving overnight to hide, engaged in him can only go all the way north, until to the Hanhai shore, really can't go north, this is the triumph of the class.
They came and went to fight for thousands of miles, and when they went out, they were 50,000 people, 140,000 horses, and when they came back, they were 40,000 people, 30,000 horses, and the soldiers were hungry!
Not to mention whether "hunger on the face" is true or false, whether it is to gain sympathy, Ask for a reward pretended, after all, fought all the way, just kill the enemy more than 70,000, the routs are not known how many, 40,000 people returned, it is estimated that there are really not a few starved to death, but even if it is true, it is deserved, when I went out to play, I was too hi, I didn't think about logistics at all, where to fight, but when I came back, I found that the Huns all fled far away, and even the autumn wind could not find the target, it is estimated that they ate war horses all the way back, so the proportion of war horse losses will be ridiculously high, moreover, they don't know how many cattle, sheep and horses they robbed outside, back to Chang'an, there is nothing, it's really a little too edible......
Since it comes to the champion Hou of Feng Wolf Juxu, let's say a few more words, all say that character determines destiny, such an army, that is, he can bring out, others are really not as unscrupulous as him!
Huo Qubing grew up with a golden key since childhood, his aunt is an empress, his uncle is a general Wei Qing, who has accompanied the emperor since he was a child, Huo Qubing has a heroic and proud personality since he was a child, both ambitious and willful, and at the same time his words and deeds are low-key and cautious, and his personality is very contradictory.
For example, Emperor Wudi of Han wanted to personally teach Huo Qubing the art of war, but he deferred it on the grounds that "Gu Fangluo is like an ear, not to learn the ancient art of war", he means that using the art of war against the Xiongnu, a bit of the meaning of playing the piano on the ox, it is better to go straight to his refreshment, is it necessary to learn so much, the Xiongnu do not understand! Therefore, Huo Qubing's military idea is to give him 10,000 cavalry, one man and three horses, and no need for logistics, just go directly to the territory of the Xiongnu, and then engage him;
Huo Qubing also dismissed the cavalry officers sent by Emperor Wudi of Han, only appointing officers of his own choosing, not afraid of being criticized, in fact, Huo Qubing had bitter intentions, his combat methods were a little not in line with the moral aesthetics of Shi Dafu, he could only take the risk of great disapproval, and selected according to his own standards, as for what his standards were, it was self-evident;
Also, some people think that Huo Qu's sick young man is noble, so he does not spare the soldiers. When he set out on a campaign, Emperor Wudi of Han specially gave him food, and there were dozens of cars. Huo Qubing would rather throw it away than share it with the soldiers, in fact, this just shows that Huo Qubing, who grew up in the deep palace, is politically mature, just imagine, if he divides, won't he fall under the charge of inviting people to buy people's hearts and trying not to be subjects?
In addition, he also studied from his uncle and resolutely did not open the mansion, so as not to incur the emperor's suspicion, from which it can also be seen that although he is young, he is not a small white politically
! ! Of course, he also has a willful side. In the fifth year of Yuangari, Li Guang's son Li Dan resented the general Wei Qing because of his father's death and injured him. Wei Qing did not make a noise and covered up, but Huo Qubing shot Li Dan during the hunt in Ganquan Palace to avenge his uncle. You know, during the Great War of Mobei, Li Dan once accompanied Huo Qubing to fight the Xiongnu, and he was also considered a brother of life and death, but he died at his hands, which is sighing
! As for why he said so many old things about Wei Qing and Huo Qubing here, it was because Li Guanghong's father Li Shi's combat method was caused by imitating the champion Hou and the hussar general!
Therefore, Li Shi was also very hated by the Xiongnu, so he did not hesitate to mobilize more than 2,000 elite cavalry in Monan at the critical moment when the livestock grew fat in the autumn, and besieged and killed his father in the area of Guizi and Wusun!
Now there is only one male Ding left in the Li family in Quli, and he does not know how many years he has been going, he is so alone, traveling thousands of miles west to find his father, even if he is both civilized and martial, he can also speak the local native language and some Xiongnu languages, once he goes deep into the land of the Xiongnu, it is also fierce and lucky, it is really unwise!
Therefore, while instructing Li Guanghong to sell his property and prepare more carts, horses, food and grass, Zhang Mingshan sent letters to Zhangye, Wuwei, and Jiuquan, and summoned some Zhang family members and disciples to come and serve him, so that he could wait longer.
Therefore, at the suggestion of his teacher, Li Guanghong sold his family property, raised dozens of war horses, ox carts, and prepared a lot of salted meat and dry food, and also took out dozens of knives, guns, bows, arrows and armor collected by his father from the cellar, and recruited ten local Hu warriors and guides, and then anxiously waited for the clansmen and brothers mentioned by the master to come and converge
... After waiting for about twenty days, when Li Guanghong was anxious, finally, the person mentioned by his mentor Zhang Mingshan arrived....
When Li Guanghong first saw these people, he was taken aback!
There were nearly seventy people who came to Quli City, the older ones looked about forty, and the younger ones looked about the same age as him, that is, they had just tied their hair.
The most shocking thing for Li Guanghong
was that these people were uniform! All the people were wearing black coarse cloth short shirts, and the lower body was wearing black linen trousers that looked very sharp, and even the feet wore. I don't know if it's cowhide or sheepskin boots, are dyed black, at a glance, all black, at first glance, it seems to be uniformly made clothes, but under careful identification, you can see that their tops are long and short, although most of the clothing is rough texture of coarse linen, but thick and thin, and there are a few people's tops, made of leather, but also dyed black, and the style is also imitated by the style of linen, all are right and short, the waist is tied with a belt, indescribably clean! !
In addition, from the point of view of appearance, it is impossible to distinguish which of them are his junior brothers, the readers, and which are the "clansmen" mentioned by the mentor, because the faces of each of them are almost bronzed, and they seem to have been exposed to the wind and sun all year round, except for a few people who have beards, at first glance, they can't tell by their faces alone!
The gaze was like a sword
, and when they looked at him in unison, there was a fierce feeling that made him stab in the back and avoid it! In addition, what made him quite jealous was the temperament of these
people! These people walked, sat and lay down, as if trained, all carved out of a mold, and when many people stood together, they were either in a row or in rows, walking in unison, and they were in unison, compared to the so-called elite warriors that his father painstakingly trained, I don't know how much more tidy!
There is also the body plate of these people, whether standing or sitting, the upper body is all straight, the chest is tucked in, and the chin is tucked up, giving people a high-spirited and upward Ling Ran momentum, which makes people dare not directly attack him!
Li Guanghong looked more and more frightened, the more he looked at it, the more he was full of doubts, I don't know where his teacher gathered such a group of warriors, so after settling these people, he saw an opportunity and asked the teacher about the origin of these people.
Zhang Mingshan said with a smile: "
Many of their grandfathers or fathers have accompanied me on envoys to the Western Regions and across the countries
!" "The fathers of many of them, and even a few of them, have also accompanied the champion Hou Feng Wolf Juxu and Zen Yu Guyan!"