The War in Wuwei History

1, Wuwei Tang took Liangzhou as its base and fought against ethnic minorities.

2. The past on the grassland of the ancient city of Songshan in Tianzhu, Wuwei-the Battle of Songshan (Ming Dynasty).

3. The Battle of Hexi Hexi is now Wuwei, Zhangye and Jiuquan in Gansu. Because it is located in the west of the Yellow River, it has been called Hexi since ancient times, also known as Hexi Corridor. It is the gateway from the mainland to the western regions and has an important strategic position. At this time, it was still under the control of Xiongnu, posing a threat to the flank of the Han Dynasty. In order to open up the road to the western regions and consolidate the western regions, Han Ting decided to launch a campaign in Hexi. Therefore, it organized a powerful cavalry unit, led by a title of generals in ancient times general Huo Qubing.

In the second year of Yuanshou (BC 12 1), in March, Huo Qubing led ten thousand people out of Longxi, crossed Wushaoling and attacked the Huns in Hexi Corridor. He took the tactic of surprise attack and marched directly into the army. The Han army was on a roll, and broke the five kingdoms of Xiongnu in just six days. Then he crossed Yanqi Mountain (now Huangshan Mountain in Shandan, Gansu Province) for more than 1000 miles and fought the Xiongnu army under Gaolan Mountain (now west of the Yellow River in Lanzhou). With unusual bravery and rampage, Huo Qubing won Lien Chan's victory, wiped out nearly 9,000 enemies, captured the Xiongnu prince, prime minister and a surname alive, and captured the sacrifice money of the Xiongnu corpse butcher alive. Return home in triumph.

In the summer of the same year, in order to completely annihilate the Xiongnu army in Hexi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once again ordered the whole army of Huo Qubing to attack. In order to prevent the Xiongnu left in the northeast from attacking, he asked Zhang Qian, Li Guang and others to lead the troops out of Peiping and attack the left to cooperate with Huo Qubing's main action.

This time, Huo Qubing led tens of thousands of elite riders out of Beidi County, detoured to the north of Hexi Corridor, and went deep into 1000 kilometers. He went deep behind enemy lines and attacked from northwest to southeast. With the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves and breaking all the ministries of Xiongnu, in the Heihe River Basin between Qilian Mountain and Helishan Mountain, we fought a decisive battle with the main force of Xiongnu in Hexi, killing more than 30,000 people and winning a decisive victory. During the campaign, Huo Qubing took 2,500 people, including Xiongnu Khan Wang, Sheikh Wang Tu and so on, and captured the Queen Mother, Khan and Prince. Guo Xiang, General, Danghu, Dewey, etc. 120 people, then surrendered to the evil king of Huns and the king of butchers, with more than 40,000 people killed, and all occupied the Hexi Corridor. In the Han Dynasty, there were four counties: Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye and Dunhuang, and immigrants actually guarded production.

The battle of Hexi dealt a devastating blow to the Xiongnu army in Hexi area, extended the rule of Han Dynasty to this area, opened the road of communication between Han and the western regions, realized the strategic goal of "breaking the Xiongnu's right arm" and provided the possibility for further large-scale counterattack against Xiongnu. After the two major battles of Monan and Hexi, the Xiongnu troops suffered heavy losses, and the Han army has completely occupied the initiative of this protracted counterattack.

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