The hot strong man (30)
main writer: Xianle Zhu Hui
After the Han army expeditioned to Dayuan , the Han army was powerful and powerful. Western Regions kings all sent their children to carry tributes to the quality Han Dynasty . The small Han countries Luntai and Quli (now Tarim Hebei, Xinjiang) were slaughtered by the Han army and turned into empty cities. They are also located in the heart of the central part of the Western Regions. The climate is mild and the soil is plump and suitable for farming. Emperor Wu then continued to advance from Yumen Pass to the northwest. They set up strongholds in these two places, each of which was equipped with hundreds of soldiers to farm and set up "Envoys Captains" to protect the Han envoy's supplies and road safety. This is a bit like an embassy, and there is also an "embassy" with garrisons. In this way, the Han envoy's back became hard, and later he could even become the leader of the small king of the Western Regions, which laid a solid foundation for the establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate during the future , Emperor Xuan of Han, and the time of .
Of course, The Huns There was also an "embassy" in the Western Regions at that time, that was the servant lieutenant (a name that bullies the weak with strong ones) placed by the Right Rizhu King. He usually stationed troops in Yanqi, Xinjiang, and collected taxes from the countries in the Western Regions to plunder the wealth of various countries. Now the Han Dynasty also set up an "embassy" in the Western Regions, which is only more than a hundred kilometers away from the Xiongnu's servant's mansion. In this way, the focus of the Han and the Huns turned completely to the last piece of cheese in the Western Regions. The war will inevitably break out, but it will be just a matter of time.
2 In the winter of the fourth year of Taichu of the Han Dynasty (101 BC), the Xiongnu Shanyu, who had reigned for less than a year, passed away. His younger brother, Zuo Daduwei, Qie Du (the sound of the low) Hou, was supported as Shanyu . Since Yi Zhixie, the Huns have chosen more inheritance methods: brothers end with brothers and sons rather than fathers and sons. This also shows that the weakening of the Huns has led to their need for more mature and powerful rulers, and this chaotic inheritance method has laid the root of disaster for the Huns' later struggle for civil strife. Half a century later, the descendants of the Wuwei Shanyu lineage and the descendants of his younger brother, and Duanhou Shanyu lineage, started a big internal struggle, which is known in history as "the five Shanyu fight for establishment." This is a later story, and I won't mention it.
Seeing the political situation of the Huns, Emperor Wu of Han was moved again, so he issued an edict to fight with the Huns again to avenge the revenge of Emperor Gaozu Pingcheng and the humiliation of the insult of the book by Empress Lu. He also quoted the words of "Spring and Autumn" saying that a gentleman takes revenge, and it is not too late for nine generations, and the country will be humiliated by the family, and the country will be punished twice as much as possible (Note 1).
After nearly twenty years of rest and recuperation, the Huns had roughly recovered their military strength before the Battle of Mobei, but the Marquis of Duke, who had not yet stabilized his status, did not want to go to war with the Han Dynasty at its peak. Then he came up with a plan and wrote to Emperor Wu of Han to surrender, saying, "My son, how dare you compare with the Han emperor, the Han emperor, my father-in-law." After that, he sent people to send more than ten Han envoys, including Guo Ji and Lu Chongguo, who were detained by the Huns, back to Chang'an , and presented a large number of tributes to seek goodwill from the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of Han was so happy. Since he started to beat Emperor Gao, the Huns claimed to be the brotherly country of the Han Dynasty. Now they are so obedient and want to be their son. It seems that my great man is really shocking! Good boy, be good, since you are so obedient, I, as an elder, will naturally be embarrassed to spank you. Come on, give you a candy.
D In the spring of the first year of Han (100 BC), Emperor Wu took Suwu as the General of the Central Army, carried generous gifts, congratulated the Marquis of Qie on his succession, and escorted the Xiongnu envoys detained by the Han Dynasty to return to the country to express his intention of repaying his favor.
As Su Wu's close friend Li Ling , because Zhangye is in defense, he has no time to return to Chang'an to see him off. He feels regretful, but he is still very happy for Su Wu: You are the envoy, I am the general, and I am the general, and I am the time to make a name for you.
The two did not know that their fate was about to turn suddenly due to this envoy. On the day of goodbye, people and things were completely different.
exits Yanmen , crosses the pass, farewell to the elders, leave Chang'an, drives a horse, crosses carved saddles, and seeks peace for the country, holding an scepter , and has a thousand miles of country. Finally, Su Wu came to the court of the Xiongnu royal family.
But unexpectedly, the Han delegation came with peace and friendship, but was treated with a very embarrassing coldly. Not only did there be no crowds to welcome, children send flowers and generous gifts, but the attitude of the Marquis was also completely different from the letter. He was very arrogant towards these noble far-off guests. Su Wu was inexplicably surprised, and something happened.
is the case with a traitor named Wei Lu .
To be precise, Wei Lu can only be considered half a traitor. It turned out that he was a Hu man living in Changshui (now east of Huxian County, Shaanxi Province). He was a Han minister, but his bloodline was from the Huns. So when Li Yannian (Note 2), a friend and benefactor who recommended him to serve on the Huns, was killed for his crime, and he was afraid of being implicated, so he went back to surrender to the Huns without hesitation. The Xiongnu Khan believed in him very much, so he always stayed with him and planned state affairs. He also made him the King of Dingling and led the tribes of the North Sea (i.e., Hanhai, now Baikal, Russia).
In this way, after Zhongxing said that Zhao Xin , the Huns had another planner who was familiar with the internal affairs of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Han was very angry about this and wanted to kill Wei Lu's family to vent their anger. Unfortunately, Wei Lu escaped very cleanly, and his whole family was in the Huns, but he just didn't give Emperor Wu of Han a chance.
Emperor Wu of Han hated traitors the most in his life. It doesn’t matter if you are defeated in the battle, but it doesn’t matter if you are captured. The key is that you cannot surrender. Whoever surrenders will destroy the whole family.
So, Su Wu had a deputy envoy named Zhang Sheng, and he was moved. This time he was a coward and embarrassing person. How could he let out this breath? At this moment, the Yu Chang and King Qian who surrendered to the Huns, whom we mentioned earlier came secretly and suggested to Zhang Sheng that they cooperated internally and externally, launch a coup, kill Wei Lu, the think tank of the Huns, and then hijack Shanyu's mother and flee back to China. In this way, we can return home without guilt and return to China. You can make meritorious service and receive rewards, why not do it? Zhang Sheng was overjoyed when he heard this, so he hid it from Su Wu, and this...
This Zhang Sheng, who was killed by a thousand swords, really killed Su Wu. Yu Chang and his team had only about seventy people in total, and they wanted to play a coup in a place like a wolf den in the Xiongnu royal court. The result can be imagined: the plot was leaked, the coup failed, the insiders were either killed in battle or captured, and Zhang Sheng was also confessed. The entire Han delegation was implicated.
The Marquis of Han was furious and was about to kill all the envoys of Han. If a minister suggested that it would be better to use this to force the envoys of Han to make the emperor embarrassed and face the emperor.
So Wei Lu personally took action and killed Yu Chang in front of Zhang Sheng, Su Wu and others. Zhang Sheng was originally a political speculator. When he saw such fear scenes, he surrendered on the spot. But Su Wu would rather die than surrender. His father, , Su Jian, fled once, was destroyed and he lived in pain for half his life. As a son, Su Wu empathized with him, how could he repeat his father's mistakes!
So he passionately said to another deputy envoy of the Han delegation, Chang Hui : "I am humiliated and humiliated. Even though I am born, how can I return to the Han Dynasty!" After that, he drew his sword and stabbed him. Wei Lu quickly hugged Su Wu and sent a Hu doctor to rescue him. Su Wu finally came back alive. When he saw Chang Hui crying loudly in front of the hospital bed like a woman, he couldn't help but be furious: It's embarrassing, why are you crying? Isn't this the Huns laughing at us? Stop crying, be more righteous, let's have a chance to be heroes!
And when Du Hou heard that Su Wu would rather commit suicide than surrender, he was not angry, but was very happy. He thought Su Wu was a true man and a pure man in the Han Dynasty. The Huns liked pure man, so he quickly sent someone to take care of Su Wu day and night, hoping that he would recover as soon as possible.
Soon after, Su Wu's body gradually healed, and the Xiongnu Chanyu sent Wei Lu to persuade him to surrender. Wei Lu used eighteen martial arts, both temptation and coercion, but Su Wu refused to surrender, but instead scolded Wei Lu for being bloody and said a very domineering sentence: " Nanyue killed Han envoys and slaughtered them into nine counties. The King of Wan killed Han envoys and was in the north of the county. Korea killed Han envoys and killed Han envoys immediately. Only the Huns are not. Your actions only make the two countries attack each other. The disaster of the Huns begins with me!" It means that our Han emperor is not a good man, and all the tribes and countries that offended him are dead.Your behavior will only cause war between the two countries to resume, and the Huns will be in great trouble because of me!
said this, Wei Lu couldn't help but feel shocked and lost all his face. In addition, he was exhausted and had to report to the Shanyu in a mess. When the Shanyu heard this, he was shocked and respected Su Wu more and wanted Su Wu to be his subject. This feeling was like a boy chasing a girl. The more he couldn't chase him, the more he wanted to chase him, and he would never give up until he achieved his goal.
But the method that Shanyu pursued was cruel: I neither killed you nor let you go. I want you to die than to die, and finally begged to surrender to me.
So, Su Wu was locked up by Shanyu in a cold cellar, leaving water and food, and forced him to submit.
In the winter in the north of the desert, heavy snow is flying, Su Wu is cold, hungry, and thirsty. The boundless loneliness and pain are so soul-devouring and bone-eroding, which is simply crazy. In this case, ordinary people may either surrender or die, but Su Wu doesn’t!
You want me to surrender, but I will not surrender! If you want me to die, I will not die! I just want to live for you, what is the terrible vitality and what is the hard bone of a strong man.
When it gets cold, Su Wu will run wildly in the cellar; when he is hungry, Su Wu will eat the fur on his fur; when he is thirsty, Su Wu will eat the snow on the ground. After several days of hard work, Su Wu was not dead. He proved with practical actions that as long as his will is strong enough, the god of death will bow his head and surrender.
and Duan Hou Shanyu was shocked. He looked at the weak but his eyes firmly Su Wu and felt an unprecedented failure. He, the great Huns' Great Khan, was defeated by the willpower of an unarmed Han envoy. How could this be possible?
At this moment, Su Wu stood proudly in the Huns' tent with Han Festival (Note 2), with a cold face and a strong heart. It is really hard not to think of the protection of the gods behind him, otherwise how could he survive until today.
But the Marquis of Shi was not willing to fail. He roared hysterically: "If you Su Wu really have the God of Heaven to protect your body, you will go to the uninhabited land of the North Sea to graze the rams. The God of Shi helped you to produce milk, and you can return to the Han Dynasty!"
Su Wu sneered, held his stalk and came out, without even looking at him.
Outside the tent, Su Wu's laughter came from the wind and snow in the sky, and the Huns' kings and ministers looked at each other.
At this time, Wei Lu walked in from outside the tent and whispered to the Marquis of Qieji: "Report to the Great Shanyu that Yu Chang and other rebellious ministers had caused trouble a few days ago. The Han generals Zhao Ponu and others died in the chaos. The subordinates rushed to chase him, but unfortunately they had not been caught."
Marquis of Qieji slapped the table, and this double blow was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time.
Soon after, Zhao Ponu fled back to Chang'an, bringing news that Su Wu's delegation was detained by the Huns, as well as a large amount of high-level information from the Huns.
Liu Che Hearing the letter, he slapped the table in the court.
—Do you Huns want to fight? OK, I'll give it to you!
In May of the second year of the Han Dynasty (99 BC), Emperor Wu of Han sent General Ershi Li Guangli to go out of Jiuquan to Tianshan with 30,000 cavalry, and attacked the Xiongnu Youxian Wang tribe who had moved here not long ago to consolidate the Han Dynasty's control over the Western Regions. At the same time, General Gan Gongsun Ao led his troops out of Xihe County (the county is now the territory of Dongsheng County, Inner Mongolia), and the strong and arrogant Duwei Bode led his troops out of Juyan. The two units advanced together to explore the enemy's tracks and met in Zhuotu Mountain (now the eastern lineage of the Altai Mountains in Outer Mongolia, near the Gobi of Mandal), so as to restrain the main force of the Xiongnu Shanyu from being allowed to aid the West.
Since then, the Han-Hungarian War that had been extinguished for more than ten years has started to set off. The Hexi side is blocked and the horns are blowing in the camp. Su Wu's friend Li Ling is also very excited. In his gradually dimming eyes, a blazing flame of fame and fortune exploded.
——A real man makes achievements, and it’s time! Ziqing (Su Wu), wait, I will soon break through the Shanyu court and save you back!
Sure enough, Li Guangli's army was about to set off, and Emperor Wu of Han asked Li Ling to return to Chang'an from Zhangye to report his duties, and summoned him personally in the Wutai Hall of Weiyang Palace.
Emperor Wu of Han said, "Now the Huns are rebellious and detained our Han envoy. I want to send troops to attack him and let you be the second general's baggage, how about?"
Li Ling was extremely disappointed when he heard this.
last time was to pick up Li Guangli into the subway, and this time he transported Li Guangli's baggage. He was always a supporting role and played supporting roles. Li Ling found that he could no longer tolerate
—oh, I carried the load, I led the horse, welcomed the sunrise and sent away the sunset, and then sent you Li Guangli to fight the fairies. How could such an unfair thing be! Even if I let the fairy eat it, I want to experience the heroic exaggeration and tragic like my grandfather Li Guang . Why doesn’t Your Majesty understand my heart?
Many books say that Li Ling was only in his twenties at that time. In fact, according to my calculations, Li Ling was the eldest grandson of the Li family and was a friend of Su Wu. He should be about the same age. At this time, he was in his early forties, but he had never led his troops to fight a big battle. He urgently needed a victory to prove himself. Besides, he is a descendant of three generations of generals. How could he always attack Li Guangli, who came from the Ying family? He really couldn't accept it!
So Li Ling kowtowed to Emperor Wu and asked himself: "The people I am going to be stationed in the border are all the warriors and swordsmen of Jingchu. They are powerful and powerful, and shoot. They are willing to be a team of people. They go to Langan Mountain to divide the Shanyu soldiers and do not allow them to fight against the Ershi."
Emperor Wu of course understood the combat effectiveness of Li Ling's army, and also understood that it was a good idea to use Li Ling to disperse the Huns' troops and reduce the pressure on Li Guangli, but Li Ling was unwilling to be controlled by General Ershi, ignored authority, and was eager to compete for merit. This completely disrupted his original strategic plan and reward plan, which made Liu Che very angry. He seemed to see Li Guang, the old guy who was so mean to be the vanguard in Li Ling. He didn't understand, why did the three generations of the old Li family want to be unable to get along with his brother-in-law?
Since Li Guangli was reluctantly named Marquis, what Emperor Wu feared most was that he could not be favored by the public, but unexpectedly, the matter happened in the end, and it happened to Li Ling, who also had great expectations. This made him very confused and painful, but he understood that he had to make a choice from it.
Emperor Wu lowered his head and pondered for a while, but finally decided to choose Li Guangli.
So he said to Li Ling, "You are evil and evil! I have sent many troops, and I have no cavalry to you."
Even though the previous few defeats caused tens of thousands of horses, Li Guangli took away another 30,000 cavalry, but in such a large Han Dynasty, there were not even horses equipped with 5,000 cavalry? Who believes it! ? A few years ago, weren’t there still 180,000 cavalry during Fengshan? Emperor Wu of Han told such a lie too poorly. It was obvious that Li Ling wanted to retreat when he saw the difficulties. Don't be too arrogant, and don't compete for contributions with Li Guangli, otherwise you will die very ugly.
Because of going out to the frontier, there must be cavalry troops. Otherwise, once surrounded by the superior forces of the Huns, they can't escape even if they want to. How fast the Huns' war horses are, they will surround and block a group of two-legged infantry. It's not like cats catching rats , how can they play?
Even if Han Bai is reborn and Wei Huo is alive, he may not dare to go out of the frontier easily, and at most he can use a trick to lure the enemy.
But Li Ling didn't believe in evil. He boasted: "I have nothing to do, I am willing to attack the crowd with fewer people, and 5,000 infantrymen involved in the Shanyu Court."
Emperor Wu of Han was completely shocked by Li Ling's arrogance. What? How dare you join the Shanyu Court if you have 5,000 infantrymen? Do you think you are my eldest son Huo. Even Mr. Huo still wants cavalry, but you don’t even want cavalry? You crazy guy! Your grandfather Li Guang is crazy enough, you are even crazy than him!
Li Ling is indeed crazy. His three generations of heroes in the Li family have never been able to carry shoes to relatives. Isn’t this crazy? As long as you can become the protagonist of the times, what if you are a lunatic? Just think I'm crazy, I'm crazy because I'm afraid. If it's like wood or stone, will I get attention? Is silence still praised in the world? Not explosive enough. Just cry, I just want to be surprised.
So Emperor Wu finally agreed to Li Ling and greatly encouraged him. Li Ling happily thanked him.
If Li Ling's previous sentence "dividing the Shanyu army" is still a good suggestion, then the latter sentence "involving the Shanyu court" is completely a verbal word of indifference. He and Liu Che both vented their personal emotions to major issues related to military and national security, and they were both wrong. As the military strategists in the Northern Song Dynasty said: "Those who are good at generals do not give their generals to the enemy; those who are good at generals do not give their own body to the enemy."Emperor Wu and Li Ling are neither like orthodox military decision makers. They are like orthodox gamblers and war madmen who are very fond of merit.
Liu Che quietly looked at Li Ling's departure back, as if he was watching a dead person.
OK, if you want to be a martyr, then I will fulfill you!
Note 1: The original text of the edict is: "In the past, Duke Xiang of Qi regained the hatred of nine generations, and the Spring and Autumn Annals are great. "The Emperor Wu of Han wanted to use the support of the Confucian theory to enhance the justice of the war against the Hungarians.
Note 2: Also Mrs. Li's brother , a famous musician in the Han Dynasty. Because he was proficient in music, he was deeply favored by Emperor Wu of Han and was named Xielu Duwei. This is an official position invented by Emperor Wu of Han. He only sings and music, regardless of military affairs, and is a " civil servants major generals" (It seems that this Mingtang has a tradition in China). However, Li Yannian's younger brother Li Ji actually committed adultery with concubines in the harem, turning the white jade crown of Emperor Wu of Han into jade. Emperor Wu of Han was furious and issued an edict to kill Li Yannian and Li Ji's brothers. Only one Li Guangli was left.
Note 3: Staff, ancient envoys received tokens from the emperor's support for visits. According to Li Xian's note, "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" "The Chronicle of Emperor Guangwu" describes that the Han Dynasty generally uses bamboo as its handle, which is eight feet long and has bamboo joints in it, so it is called "Jians"; the head of the rod is decorated with yak tails, hanging on the upper end, with three levels, so it is also called "Jians".
