Li Guang was appointed as a general by Wei Yan, and started to attack Xiongnu at Yanmenguan. The Huns were outnumbered, defeated Li Guang's army and captured Li Guang alive. Khan heard that Li Guang was very talented at ordinary times and ordered: "Li Guang must be taken alive." His angry cavalry stopped beside Li Guang. At that time, Li Guang was seriously ill, so he put Li Guang between two horses and put it in a net bag made of rope.

After walking more than ten miles, Li Guang pretended to be dead. He narrowed his eyes and saw a Xiongnu boy riding a good horse beside him. Li Guang suddenly jumped on He Nu's horse, pushed the boy down, grabbed his bow, rode south for dozens of miles, met his remains again, and led them into the cold. The Huns sent hundreds of chasing cavalry to chase him. Li Guang picked up the bow of the Xiongnu boy, fled and shot the chasing cavalry, only to escape.

From: Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, Historical Records and Biography of Li Seventy.

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Historical Records is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in the history of China, which records the history of four years and more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to the early years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The excerpts use the methods of comparison and contrast. In order to highlight the characteristics of Li Guang's troops, it is also matched with the brushwork that Cheng does not know how to lead troops. Li Guang's troops are characterized by broad and simple "marching without a department" and "writing books in Mofu province", which is almost inaction. Cheng doesn't know how to lead the army, but he is very strict. He meticulously "walked in the forefront, fought in the army" and "beat Diao Dou". Against the background of ignorance, the characteristics of safflower and green leaves and Li Guang troops are particularly conspicuous and prominent.

Combining leniency with severity is just a different style of running the army. At that time, Li Guang and Cheng of Hanbian County were both famous soldiers. However, the Huns were afraid of Li Guang. "The foot soldiers are also happy to come from Li Guang, and the journey is hard." The reflection of Xiongnu and foot soldiers reveals the author's tendentiousness, and readers' admiration for Li Guang arises unconsciously. In Biography of General Lee, it is to set off Li Guang's irrelevant ignorance about Li Guang.

Historical Records has a huge scale and a complete system. His original biographical compilation method has been passed down by the "official history" of later generations, and is regarded as an excellent literary work, which plays an important role in the history of China literature. It has a far-reaching influence on the development of later historiography and literature, and is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, leaving Sao without rhyme", which has high literary value.