Chapter 52 1. Li Guang is difficult to seal

122 BC, April 9th.This is an auspicious day.Liu Che made Wei Zifu's son Liu Ju the crown prince, and Liu Ju was seven years old at the time.In the same year, May 30th.This is an unlucky day.There was a solar eclipse, and more than ten thousand cavalry of the Xiongnu attacked Shanggu, killing hundreds of people.Liu Che kept this account in his heart. In the second year (121 BC), March 3rd.This is an unlucky day, Prime Minister Gongsun Hongxie.Confucius said that those who grow old without dying are called thieves.Gongsun Hong, an old fox who goes to bed early and gets up early, but rises late and sets late, finally left.

A few years later, someone summed up Gongsun Hong's life, he won at least two firsts in the Hanwu period: he rose in old age, became a prime minister, and was named a marquis as a prime minister, which was the first in the Hanwu period; It was also the first in the Han Wu period to die a natural death with one's own life. Gongsun Hongxie, there is a vacancy for the prime minister.There are fat vacancies, never worry about no one to fill them.In the same year (121 BC), March 22nd was a beautiful day for two people.Of these two people, one is Zhang Tang and the other is Li Cai.Li Cai, the doctor of the censor, was promoted to be the prime minister, and Zhang Tang, the Ting Wei, was promoted to the position of the doctor of the censor.

The officialdom is like a theatre, and the newcomers are never seen laughing, but the old ones are not crying.Li Cai and Zhang Tang were promoted to high positions, they were happy.At the same time, at least two people were extremely depressed.Of these two people, one is Li Guang and the other is Ji An. Ji An was depressed, there was nothing to say.In Ji An's eyes, he is like a beater, and Zhang Tang is like a fly.The swatter chased and beat the fly, but unexpectedly the fly jumped higher and higher, and even landed on top of his head and stunned him.This was something he never expected.

Li Guang and Li Cai are cousins ​​and have no political hatred.Li Cai was promoted, and Li Guang was in a gloomy mood, not for anything else but jealousy. Reminiscing back then, the two brothers made their debut at the same time, became Lang together, and served Emperor Wen Liu Heng.Later, because of his talents and courage, Li Guang took the first step and climbed to the high position of two thousand stones. However, Li Guang's ideal is not that little salary, his ultimate goal is to make contributions and win the title.But after fighting for so many years, more losses than wins, Hou position is still far away.

On the other hand, Li Cai, he has been running behind Li Guang's ass.Although lagging behind, people ran very steadily.During the reign of Emperor Jing Liu Qi, Li Cai received the same salary as Li Guang.However, Li Guang lacks two things in Li Cai, stable character and good luck.Later, Liu Che appointed Li Cai as General Qingche, and followed General Wei Qing to fight against King Youxian.In that battle, Li Cai made meritorious service and finally won the title of Marquis. Not only did Li Cai become a Marquis, but many generals under Li Guang also jumped to the Marquis position one after another.He alone has been in the position of general for many years.For a military general who takes killing as his profession, not being awarded the title is a matter of face at a light level; at a deep level, it is a very shameful thing in life.Therefore, it was difficult to confer the position of Marquis, which became Li Guang's eternal pain from then on.He could never erase this pain in his life.

Someone summed up to Li Guang the reason why he was difficult to seal, because he once killed the general. There is a training in ancient times, it is ominous to kill generals.However, the matter of killing the general was a long time ago, and it shouldn't be the whole reason why Li Guang couldn't be sealed.Therefore, some people said that Li Guang was difficult to seal because he could not be a man, and he should not accept the general seal of Liang Wang Liu Wu when redressing the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion. In my opinion, this is not the essence of the problem.That's right, Li Guang made a youthful mistake.But for many years, the central government of the Han Dynasty did not necessarily deal with him coldly, but used him repeatedly.Therefore, it is difficult to say that Li Guang can't be a man and it is difficult to get a title. This proposition is difficult to hold.

In my opinion, the problem still lies in Li Guang's character.This character flaw is too brave.It is recognized by everyone that Li Guang dared to fight.Many years ago, Emperor Wen Liu Heng also said this.But daring to fight does not necessarily mean being able to fight.Fenghou is the same as our evaluation of titles today.Today, if you want to evaluate a professional title, if you want to evaluate a professor, you must have basic hardware, that is, you must have high-grade papers or books. According to the feudal marquis system of the Han Dynasty, one must have martial arts works if one wants to be conferred a marquis.Li Guang has fought wars for so many years, is there any war work he can produce?

Quite literally, almost none.Without decent works, there is no way to criticize professors.In the same way, for Li Guang, without martial arts, he would not even want to be a Marquis. However, as long as the war is not over, Li Guang's dream of becoming a Marquis may be realized again.Immediately, the opportunity presented itself. 121 BC, March.As mentioned above, last year the Huns killed tens of thousands of people in Shanggu and owed a blood debt to the Han Dynasty.Now is the time to collect debts.Therefore, Liu Che decided to send someone to ask for the debt, and told him to calculate more interest for the Xiongnu, so that it would be uncomfortable for them to taste the taste of usury.

This time, the person Liu Che sent out to demand the debt was Huo Qubing. This year, Huo Qubing is 21 years old.In order to ensure that the usury can be recovered, Liu Che allocated 10,000 bodyguards to Huo Qubing.These bodyguards are all cavalry.Their starting point was set in Longxi County.Want to collect debts, find Huo Qubing.Facts have proved that this statement is correct.Huo Qubing's expedition this time is like a surprise attack by a divine eagle.After six days of fighting, they actually crossed Yanzhi Mountain for more than a thousand miles. Why did Huo Qubing run so far?His sense of smell told him that there were good things hidden behind the mountain.

Sure enough, Huo Qubing discovered the Huns who were hiding from debts.For the Huns, this Huo Qubing was simply a disaster.Can't afford to provoke, even can't hide. Huo Qubing's cavalry marched forward, like a pack of wolves meeting a herd of sheep, blood flowed all over the field, and the battle was fruitful.More than 8,900 people were captured and killed. What's more impressive is that the two Hun kings were killed, the prince of Hunxie king, and members of his two sets of civil and military teams were captured.What's even more impressive is that even the golden statues used by the Huns to worship the sky were snatched by Huo Qubing.

The singing of victory was blown to Chang'an by the wind.Liu Che smiled.Liu Che was quite satisfied with this debt collection action, and he rewarded Huo Qubing with two thousand fiefs. In the summer, Liu Che wanted to order Huo Qubing to go out to collect debts.Liu Che believes that last year's debt and interest will come back.But the interest before last year is not enough. Therefore, Liu Che sent two troops to attack the Xiongnu separately.One is to let Huo Qubing and Gongsun Ao lead tens of thousands of riders, starting from Beidi County (now Maling Town, northwest of Qingyang County, Gansu Province); the other is to let Wei Wei Zhang Qian and Lang Zhongling Li Guang lead the army from the right Depart from Beiping County (now southwest of Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia).After setting off, Huo Qubing and Gongsun Ao parted ways, and Zhang Qian and Li Guang also parted ways.Li Guang personally led 4,000 soldiers in the vanguard, while Zhang Qian led 10,000 cavalry in the rear. Opportunities and challenges coexist.However, Li Guang's bad luck came again.Half of this bad luck was caused by objective factors; the other half was caused by subjective factors. The so-called objective factor is that he unfortunately ran into the main force of King Zuo Xian of the Huns.The opponent has 40,000 cavalry, while Li Guangcai has 4,000 cavalry, there is a huge disparity in strength. The subjective factor is that Li Guang ran too fast, while Zhang Qian ran too slow, which caused a mistake.It can only be considered that Li Guang was unlucky.However, bad luck also has to fight.Because the 40,000 cavalry of the Huns had already surrounded Li Guang from all sides. In this situation, Li Guang seemed to have returned to the Battle of Guan City eight years ago.At that time, Li Guang was captured alive and narrowly escaped death.At this time, he fell into the wolf's den again.Li Guang, are you afraid? If you are afraid, then you are not the real Li Guang.However, Li Guang's cavalry was really scared.If you want to make a group of big living people face strong without fear, unless his eyes are blindfolded.Li Guang is too familiar with war. The so-called survival after death is reserved for the army that is not afraid of death.Brothers will be afraid if the battle has not started yet, the battle will be lost. Suddenly, veteran Li Guang immediately thought of a solution. At that time, Li Guang's son Li Gan also joined the army.First of all, Li Guang called Li Gan and assigned him a homework.This homework was very difficult, and he ordered Li Gan to take dozens of brothers to run around the Huns' formation, and then ran back to the camp smoothly, which was regarded as the completion of the task. The so-called tiger will have no dogs.Li Gan took the order and rushed out with his brother without saying a word.Not long after, he came back.Counted the number of people, one was not many. Li Guang was quite satisfied with the degree to which Li Gan completed his homework. Immediately afterwards, Li Guang pulled the army out, pretended to be very confident, and shouted at the soldiers: Brothers, the Huns are all paper tigers, there is nothing to be afraid of.Please believe in our strength, as long as we are united, there is no battle we cannot win. Li Guang's words gave his four thousand brothers a reassurance. Since we are here to ask for a debt, we must have the aura of asking for a debtor.When you defeat yourself, you defeat the enemy.In the past, Li Guang thought so; now he thinks so; in the future, he also thinks so. The war has begun. The Huns were the first to attack.The lowest cost attack of the Xiongnu is to shoot arrows.Arrows flying all over the sky, like densely packed locusts, rushed towards Li Guang's military crops.At this time, Li Guang also launched a counterattack.The flying arrows of the Han army also shot out and flew towards the Xiongnu. On the vast plain, there are no forests, no hills, and no holes in the ground.For the arrows fired by 40,000 cavalry, it is conceivable that the winning rate of Li Guang's soldiers is much higher than that of the Huns.Sure enough, after firing the arrows this time, Li Guang lost more than half of his troops.More than half of the troops lost meant that Li Guang had less than 2,000 men left. If he fights the flying arrow again, Li Guang's entire army will definitely be finished.However, at this time Li Guang made an astonishing decision: stop shooting arrows. Li Guang had no choice but to stop flying arrows.Because their arrows are about to run out.What's more terrible is that Zhang Qian, who was playing guard, hadn't arrived yet. Damn Zhang Qian, he must have lost his way. No matter what, Li Guang must wait until Zhang Qian comes to rescue him.Li Guang also ordered that all soldiers put their arrows on their bows, and no arrows should be released without an order.Li Guang stopped shooting, and the Xiongnu also stopped shooting.The battlefield temporarily returned to tranquility.Terrible tranquility. When the soldiers looked at Li Guang pessimistically, Li Guang was slowly pulling away the rhubarb.The so-called rhubarb is a special giant bow.This is no less than the anti-aircraft guns in modern warfare. This arrow has a long range and powerful power. As long as the big arrow is released, the opponent will immediately fall to the ground and cannot be rescued once they win the prize.Of course, this kind of big arrow must test arm strength and archery skills.A good arrow matches a master, this big arrow is really suitable for Li Guang. When shooting a man, shoot a horse first, and when capturing a thief, first capture the king.Li Guang locked his eyes on the generals of the Huns.In fact, Li Guang's archery skills are really not blown out.He fired arrows in a row, killing dozens of people at once. The Huns were startled. At this time, it was getting dark, and the Xiongnu decided to call a truce.The soldiers of the Han army looked at the Huns who were in a hurry, retreating slowly like a tide, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. After this round of fighting, Li Guang's soldiers turned pale.However, they were surprised to see that their leader, Li Guang, was still in high spirits and smiled nonchalantly.This scene of Li Guang completely convinced the brothers. We have reason to believe that Li Guang's demeanor is composed, and he is obviously suspected of putting on a show.Because, the real decisive battle lies tomorrow.He must leave his confidence to his brothers, and he must support Zhang Qian's troops.To gamble, to gamble to the last penny. Sure enough, at dawn the next day, the two armies fought.This time, the two sides faced the attack, and the cavalry swung their swords and slashed at each other.After this slashing battle, Li Guang lost half of his troops.Losing half of the soldiers means that Li Guang has less than a thousand soldiers. Just then, Zhang Qian's troops arrived.