When Huo Zaizi was a young man, he lived in poverty and hardship among slave girls. However, he practiced martial arts with his uncle, Wei Qing, and became skilled in riding and shooting, stabbing and stabbing, physically fit, reticent and trustworthy, wise and courageous. Because his aunt Wei Zifu was good at singing and dancing, she was favored by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty and was named Empress, which made Huo Daizi the Servant of the Son of Heaven at the age of 18. In the same year, he took part in the last battle with the Xiong Nu's Right-Hyun King for the land of Henan Province (present-day Hetao area) with the general Wei Qing, and his name was "Ticket Yao Colonel" (which means a military officer who acted swiftly). He led 800 elite cavalry, hundreds of miles away from the army, took advantage of the Xiongnu's unpreparedness, chose a convenient target to attack, and won the battle by surprise, killing 1,028 enemy soldiers and winning the first battle, which made him the Champion of Champions.
Since then, the main force of the Xiongnu has been far away from the north of the desert, and the Xiongnu in the western corridor of the Hexi Corridor is alone. In the spring of 121 B.C., Huo Zaiwei was promoted to "Hussar (meaning valor) General", and led 10,000 cavalry from Longxi, attacked the western Xiongnu right virtuous king (Xiongnu jurisdiction of the western part of the highest governor) of the ministries, 6 days consecutively broke five tribes, almost captured Shan Yu (Xiongnu supreme chieftain) of the son, and with the trend of direct capture, so that the Hunxie, Huutu two kings The two kings of Hunxie and Huotu were so frightened that they built a city day and night to prevent the Han army from attacking from the front. Suddenly, Huo Zaizi made all the soldiers with bamboo arrows in their mouths and bells on their horses, and quietly galloped more than 1,000 miles eastward along Yanzhi Mountain (southeast of present-day Shandan County, Gansu Province) to Gaolan Mountain (south of present-day Lanzhou City, Gansu Province), where he fought with the two kings of Lu Huo and Zuilan in a short, physical battle. At that time, the Han army because of the long-distance travel, men and horses have been fatigued, but see Huo Zaiyi shouted, jumped forward, and killed the enemy army, the Han army morale is greatly invigorated, and the courage to kill Lu Hou, folded the two kings and the ministry of the crowd of nearly 9,000, captured the son of the king of Hunxie, paid the king of the Huotu "sacrificing the sky of the golden man" (as the Xiongnu people worship the "Lord of Heaven") The king's son was captured, and King Huitu's "Golden Man of Sacrifice to Heaven" (a ten-foot-high idol used by the Huns as a symbol of their faith in the Lord of Heaven) was seized.
In the summer of the same year, Huo Zaiwei and Gongsun Ao strung tens of thousands of cavalry from the Beidi County (today's Gansu Yongchang West), attacking the Xiongnu Right Honorable King, in order to completely annihilate the Xiongnu forces in the west of the river. Because along the Yanzhi mountain north west advancing Gongsun Ao department lost the road, failed to meet as scheduled, Huo Zaiyi improvised, led the army to cross the Juyan sea (today's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region northwest), from northwest to southeast, more than 2,000 miles deep, from the foot of the Qilian mountains shod (today's northwest of Zhangye, Gansu Province) attacked Hunxian, Huotu two kings flanks, beheading the enemy more than 30,000, forcing the Huns to withdraw from the Hexi Corridor. Xiongnu for this sad song: "Lose my Qilian Mountain, make my six animals do not reproduce; Lose my Yanzhi Mountain, make my marrying woman without color."
Because of the Xiong Nu Shan Yu want to war defense is not effective, will be Hun Qi, Huitu two kings to ask the crime, in the fall, the two kings decided to surrender to the Han. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, fearing that it was a fraudulent military tactic, ordered Huo Zaiwei to lead 10,000 horsemen to go to receive the surrender, Huo Zaiwei was still on the way, King Huetu had already reversed his decision, and the King of Hunxie was in a hurry to assassinate the King of Huetu, and to collect his army. Surprised to hear the sudden change of the wind and clouds, Huo Daizi resolutely led his army to cross the Yellow River, and made the whole army line up in front of more than 40,000 Xiong Nu troops to press forward. At this time, many of those who did not have the sincerity to surrender to the Han Dynasty in the Hunxie King's department fled and threw their horses to turn around, and the camp was in a turmoil, which was quite disintegrated in a moment. Huo Daizi made a prompt decision, jumped into the formation of King Hunxie, captured King Hunxie, stabilized the Xiong Nu troops, and then through negotiation, ordered King Hunxie to kill 8,000 rebellious officials and soldiers, and sent people to escort King Hunxie to Chang'an, and he led tens of thousands of Xiong Nu soldiers to return home with success. The Han Dynasty to the subordinate Xiongnu troops in Longxi and other five counties near the Guanshi, and along the Qilian Mountains to the Salt Zephyr (present-day Xinjiang Lop Nur) to build border fortresses, in the original Huitu King, Hun evil king stationed in the sub-Wuwei, Zhangye two counties and Jiuquan, Dunhuang, totaled four counties in the West, both further isolation of the Xiongnu, but also to open up the road to the Western Region.
In 119 BC, the Han Dynasty decided to send Wei Qing and Huo Zaiwei with 50,000 cavalry and hundreds of thousands of infantry to encircle the northern desert. Huo Zaiwei went out of Daixian County (around present-day Weixian County, Hebei Province) to right Beiping (around present-day Pingquan County, Hebei Province), and Wei Qing went out of Dingxiang (present-day Heringer, Inner Mongolia), splitting their forces across the desert and seeking a showdown with Shan Yu.
Based on the characteristics of desert warfare, Huo Daizi boldly chose some Xiongnu people who surrendered to the Han Dynasty and Han people who had stayed in the Xiongnu for a longer period of time as his military academy, resulting in the advantage of familiarizing himself with the Xiongnu's military situation and the conditions in the northern part of the desert. Leading light cavalry with guides, they left their bases and went deep into the enemy's rear, "taking food from the enemy" and "chasing and chasing north" for more than 2,000 kilometers in search of Shan Yu. As Shan Yu's main force moved west, he led his troops to turn away from the Waiting Mountain (today's place is not known), crossed the Gonglu water (today's Mongolia Kelun River), and fought with the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang (the supreme chief of the eastern part of Xiongnu), and the result was that he was awarded with Xiongnu Dengtou and other 3 small kings, generals, phasers, and lieutenants of 83 people, **** beheading captives of more than 70,000, and Xiongnu Zuobei was almost completely annihilated. Wei Qing led his troops northward for more than 1000 miles, across the desert, to Yanshan Zhaoxin City (now the Mongolian people **** and the territory of the country), encountered Xiong Nu Shan Yu led by the main elite cavalry, fierce battle in the Xiong Nu Shan Yu fled to the northwest, the Han army captured Xiong Nu nearly 20,000 people. Huo, Wei and the two armies finally met in Hanhai (now Lake Baikal), in order to celebrate the success of the battle, in the Wolf Juxu Mountain (now the Mongolian people's *** and the country of Del Mountain) set up a high altar to heaven, in the Gouyanshan (now the Mongolian people's *** and the country of Ulaanbaatar East) to open the sacrificial ground square, and then after the division of the triumphal victory. This campaign to recover all the land south of the desert, the cantonment of defense against the Xiongnu, "the Xiongnu far away, and the desert south of no king's court", lifted since the early years of the Western Han Dynasty since the Xiongnu on the threat of the Han Dynasty, Huo Zaiqi was also promoted to the Grand Secretary of the General of the Hussar.
Two years later, Huo died at the age of 24. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty held a grand funeral for him, by wearing iron armor officers and soldiers will be escorted to his own tomb Maoling East, buried in the shape of the Qilian Mountains in the shape of a tall tomb, the tomb in front of the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in recognition of his war work and the establishment of the 14 pieces of large round stone carvings. On the inscription of his motto: "Xiong Nu end of the destruction, why the family for!" Li Bai's "Lefu Poetry Hu No One" wrote: "Severe winds blowing frost and seaweed withering, the sinews and sinews are strong and firm and the Hu horses are proud. There are 300,000 warriors in the Han family, and the general is also the leader of Huo john yao. The white feathers of the shooting star were inserted in his waist, and the light of the sword was out of the box. The heavenly soldiers descend from the Jade Pass in the snow, and the tiger's sword shoots gold armor like sand. The clouds, dragons, winds and tigers are all handed back, and the enemy can be destroyed when Tai Bai enters the moon."