Huo Qubing’s “Dantian comes with its own GPS navigation radar” is the most funny answer I have ever seen on the Internet. Huo Qubing's greatness in recent years has gradually shifted from the previous attention to his military capabilities to the fact that he was able to accurate

Huo Qubing

"Dantian comes with GPS navigation radar", this is the most funny answer I have seen on the Internet. Huo Qubing's greatness in recent years has gradually shifted from the previous attention to his military capabilities to the fact that he was able to accurately locate the matter in the vast grassland and desert every time he fought against , the Huns and .

Indeed, for those of us who are unable to move forward without opening the mobile phone navigation, it is really incredible that Huo Qubing, a person more than 2,000 years ago, can do this. But after all, history is not a fantasy novel, and behind all this there are actually very simple objective principles.

The reason why Huo Qubing can avoid getting lost is first of all, although , Western Han does not have mobile navigation, it is usually a human-shaped guide during wars. For example, Zhang Qian, who was in the textbook for , Western Regions , was unable to tie a chicken, and was named "Bowang Hou" with military merits. A large part of the reason why he held the position of guide many times. However, human-shaped navigation also has times when it is broken. Even Mr. Zhang has had the experience of getting lost.

So, we must talk about the second point. Huo Qubing's team not only has a guide, but also a large number of local people in the Huns. Unlike the backbone of the titles under Wei Qing and other people, most of the Han Han people under . Among Huo Qubing's subordinates, such as Gao Bushi, "Yiguan Hou" and "Huiqu Hou" are many, and they are all from the Huns. He did not avoid the traditional idea of ​​"there are differences between China and the barbarians", and was good at and dared to use a large number of generals and soldiers with Hun backgrounds, which made Huo Qubing better than others in terms of both his understanding of the terrain and his degree of understanding of the enemy.

Third, it is thanks to technology. The sincar in the Western Han Dynasty was a relatively primitive tool that could also play a certain role in distinguishing direction like the compass of later generations. To quote the words from the book "History of Chinese Tactics", it is that in the century-old war between the Han and the Hungarians, the Sinanche played a great role.

Finally, the ancient generals were generals. They generally had to master some basic astronomy and geography knowledge, such as how to rely on the stars in the sky to distinguish directions.

After talking about these points above, do you think that Huo Qubing is not so mysterious if he doesn’t get lost? But some people may still feel that in addition to the element of the large number of Huns under their command, other generals can also have the other aspects. Why is Huo Qubing not lost?

In fact, the generals were lost at that time, not as many as everyone imagined. Even if you are like , Li Guang, and , who are ridiculed as blind by jokes, you have only been lost once during the battle with the Huns for decades. The reason is that the guide is lost, which is not the norm.

There is a point here. It’s useless to just get lost. The key is that you have to fight the enemy. They were not lost. The cavalry of Li Ling 5,000 were almost wiped out, and the cavalry of Li Guangli 30,000 were lost 20,000. Then, the cavalry of Gongsun Ao was almost wiped out. Only when Huo Qubing can win, will he become valuable if he doesn't get lost.

So, I always feel that the topic direction has really gone a little off the line in recent years. Huo Qubing is strong and not getting lost is only one aspect, but being able to fight is the core, and these two points are not his best.

The great thing about Huo Qubing is that he created a new way of playing and thinking. Before Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, from , Warring States to Qin and Han dynasties, most of the Central Plains dynasties focused on defense for the northern forces, and even if they went out to fight back, they would not run too far. In this situation that has almost become a fixed mindset, Huo Qubing has created a deep-following enemy-behind fighting style in the form of blitzkrieg , driving in and fighting with war. Not only have people from Central Plains seen them before, but even the Huns were stunned for a moment. It turned out that there were still people who played like this, so they all came to my house.

Don’t look at this, this is just a small change, many areas in human history have stopped moving forward because a thin layer of window paper has not been pierced. Huo Qubing's way of clearing the clouds and seeing the sunshine also allowed famous generals to learn from it. in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty Dou Xian , this is the case, and in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Rouran , Tuoba Tao , the , the 3,000 cavalrymen went out for thousands of miles, and the Turkic , the same is true for Li Jing .

Why do we say that the greatest wealth of the Chinese nation is our long history? It is because there are pioneers like Huo Qubing in all fields, and countless inheritors who have been optimized and improved based on their predecessors, which makes our culture so brilliant and colorful.