At the age of seventeen, an age when ordinary teenagers are still playing in the wind on the streets of Chang'an, Huo Qubing was already wearing silver armor, holding a spear, and riding through the wind and snow of Yanmen, he led 800 light cavalry straight into the hinterland of the Huns.
He is the nephew of Wei Zifu, a young man whom Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was shocked to call a "wolf cub" at first glance, but he insisted on breaking away from the label of "foreign relative" and used his flesh and blood to carve out a path of great fame in the Mobei wilderness. In the first battle at Dingxiang, he abandoned conventional tactics, went hundreds of miles alone, stormed the royal court of the Huns, killed thousands of enemies, and was named the "Champion Marquis" in the first battle, making the entire Han Dynasty remember this young man with unruly features and bright clothes. In the next battle in Hexi, he rode through the Qilian Mountains with his iron cavalry and regained the Hexi River. The Western Corridor forced the Xiongnu to lament, "The loss of my Qilian Mountains has deprived my six animals of their ability to feed."; During his three expeditions to Mobei, he led his army more than 2,000 miles north, climbed Wolfjuxu Mountain to worship heaven, sealed the wolf in Xu, and drank from the vast sea of horses. He pushed the territory of the Han Dynasty to the extreme of Mobei, allowing "the Huns to escape far away, but there is no royal court in Monnan."
This is a legend of a young man wearing bright clothes and angry horses, and a heroic song of family and country that swallows mountains and rivers. In his short six-year war career, he broke the myth of the Xiongnu's invincibility with his valor and peerless strategy, and became the most dazzling general of the Han Dynasty. He did not love wealth or honor, and he only thought in his heart: "Anyone who offends our strong men will be far away." Even if he died young, he still wrote the most popular young legend in Chinese history in his seventeen years of life - even if the vast sea is boundless, the young general dared to protect thousands of miles of rivers and mountains with a suit of armor!
