What does the poem Xia Sai Qu mean?

Moral: At the foot of the dark mountain, a flock of geese roared and flew high, exposing the plot of Khan's army to escape at night. The general led the light cavalry all the way behind, regardless of the heavy snow all over the sky, bending his bow and taking a knife.

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The Wild Goose Crossing the Heights is an ancient poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Lun, and it is the third poem among the "group poems". This poem is about the heroic feat of the general preparing to lead his troops in pursuit of the enemy on a snowy night. Although the poem does not directly describe the fierce battle scenes, it leaves readers with a broad imagination space and creates a long poetic atmosphere.

Lu Lun (748? -800? ) the word Yunyan, ancestral home (now Yongji West, Shanxi). Poets in Tang Dynasty. One of the ten gifted talents in Dali. In the last years of Tianbao (742-756), he was recruited by a scholar and took refuge in Poyang, Jiangxi Province, because of the rebellion of Anshi. At the beginning of Dai Zongli (766 -779), he went to Chang 'an several times, but all failed. Later, due to the recommendation of Prime Minister Yuan Zai and Wang Jin, he was appointed as Wei Xiang, bachelor of Jixian, secretary of provincial orthography and censor. In 776 (the eleventh year of Dali), Yuan Zai was killed and demoted, and Lu Lun was also implicated. It was not until 780 AD (the first year of Dezong Jianzhong) that he was appointed as the magistrate of Zhao Ying County near Chang 'an.

This poem was written when Lu Lun's life and career were extremely unfavorable. In his early years, he failed many times. Later, Yuan Zai and Wang Jin recommended him for a management position. After the Zhu Rebellion, Hun Wang of Xianning went out of Zhenhe and promoted Lu Lun as the judge of Marshal's Office. This is the beginning of life in Lulun frontier fortress. In the military camp, Lulun saw all the solemn frontier fortress scenes and all the rough and heroic soldiers, so he wrote this frontier fortress poem.