Before the age of eighteen, he was Chang’an’s most arrogant young noble.
When the emperor tried to teach him the art of war, he bluntly dismissed its outdated doctrines.
The entire court looked down on him, veteran generals mocked him, and everyone thought he was coasting on his family’s status.
Emperor Wu gave him a perfunctory command of eight hundred light cavalry, expecting him only to travel with the army and gain experience.
Wei Qing merely sent him out to capture a prisoner and scout the enemy.
No one knew that this youth was a peerless military genius sent from heaven!
He mastered the art of war on his own, used tactics far ahead of his time, struck across a thousand miles, and showed no mercy!
Those who surrendered lived; those who resisted were slain. He destroyed enemy pastures and cut off the Xiongnu’s foundations!
He won a marquisate in his first battle, pacified Hexi twice, and swept across Mobei, routing seventy thousand foes!
He sealed the wolf at Juyan Mountain and performed the Fengshan sacrifice at Guyan!
With the Xiongnu still undefeated, how could he think of home?
Witness the Han dynasty’s wildest young man, who guarded the frontiers for generations in his brief life of just twenty-four years!
