Speaking of famous female generals in ancient times, the familiar ones include Mulan, Mu Guiying, , Fan Lihua, , Liang Hongyu, etc. In fact, in the late Ming dynasty of , there was a female war god who was more legendary than these female generals.
Not only did she make countless achievements in her military affairs, she was appointed as a general and was also the only female general who was written into the official history "Twenty-Four Histories". In other words, she was the only female hero in ancient my country who had a formal national organization.
She is the legendary heroine of the late Ming Dynasty Qin Liangyu .
Ming Dynasty Chongzhen Emperor once wrote four poems for Qin Liangyu, praising her, "Why should the general be her husband when holding a military talisman in the sleeve of a mandarin duck?"
Several emperors in the late Ming Dynasty highly praised her and added her titles several times. Even her old rivals, Zhang Xianzhong, and the Qing army, dare not easily invade her defending ground.
So, what extraordinary abilities does Qin Liangyu have, and what kind of merits have she made, leaving her with such a heroic reputation and honor?
01 Good tutoring
574, in the Qin family in Zhongzhou, Sichuan Province, a Miao baby girl was born. The whole family loved this girl who had been looking forward to for a long time. This baby girl is Qin Liangyu.
Qin family is a family of scholars, Qin's father Qin Kui is a scholar, full of knowledge, indifferent by nature, and open-minded.
Qin Liangyu has two brothers on top and one younger brother on the bottom. Qin Kui treats children equally, and does not care about boys or girls, they all teach them with all their hearts. This was very rare in that era.
Although the Qin family is Miao people, they have been Chinese for a long time. Therefore, Qin Liangyu has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics with his brother and younger brother since childhood, and is well-versed in literature and inspiration.
Moreover, because of the strong style of the Miao people and the strong support of Qin Kui, the Qin children are also familiar with military tactics and skilled in archery and horse archery. They also like to dance guns and sticks and arrange troops.
Especially Qin Liangyu, although she is a girl, she doesn't like to wear red clothes and is very good at armed. She is very good at everything than her brothers.
Qin Kui likes this excellent daughter very much. However, he also regretted his daughter. Because in that era, marching and fighting were all men's affairs, and women basically had no chance to go to the battlefield.
He said to Qin Liangyu, "It would be great if you were a boy."
Qin Liangyu listened to her father's words, but said in dissatisfaction that as long as she could give her military power, she could also go to battle and kill the enemy and make achievements.
02 Find a good marriage
Qin Liangyu is both civil and military, and is well-known. Everyone from far and near knows that the Qin family has such an outstanding daughter, and they come to propose marriage.
However, Qin Liangyu himself is very independent. Her parents said nothing about her marriage, and she had to nod her head in person. Qin Liangyu is excellent, so ordinary men naturally don’t like him. Therefore, her marriage could not be settled for a long time.
Later, Qin Liangyu proposed to compete for marriage to attract marriage. So she set up a kissing ring at home.
At that time, there was a young talent named Ma Qiancheng , who was Shizhu County Tujia Tushi. He is the descendant of Ma Yuan, a general of Han Dynasty.
Ma Qiancheng admires Qin Liangyu very much. He heard that Qin Liangyu was going to compete for martial arts and recruited a bride, so he rushed to the Qin family as soon as possible to participate in the competition.
Just like Mu Guiying and Yang Zongbao , Qin Liangyu and Ma Qiancheng fought in the competition arena and they have developed feelings.
Afterwards, Ma Qiancheng impressed Qin Liangyu with his own skills and sincerity. The two finally got married and created a love story that has been passed down for hundreds of years. After
, Ma Tiancheng married Qin Liangyu solemnly and enthusiastically. Qin Liangyu was 22 years old this year. After marriage, the couple was very loving and harmonious.
No one expected that Qin Liangyu's legendary life began after marrying Ma Tiancheng.
03 formed Baigang
Shizhu County at that time was a mountainous area, not only lacking resources, but also has a tough folk customs. The imperial court's management of stone pillars was beyond the reach.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty usually appointed local chieftains as Xuanfu envoys, and authorized Xuanfu envoys to train troops to maintain local social stability.
The living conditions of people in Shizhu County are very backward, and many places even live a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming. During the severe drought season when crops are poor, bandits often go out to rob grain and harm the village.
One year, Qin Liangyu thought there would be a severe drought, so he organized people to reclaim wasteland and plant drought-tolerant corn.
In order to protect crops in the future and prevent them from being robbed by bandits. When the fields were not busy, Qin Liangyu organized everyone to train troops and train wars. She also equipped everyone with spears to specialize in the protection of crops in the fields.
A militia organization that serves the people in peacetime and fights in war was born.
It really happened that year, and only Qin Liangyu and his friends had a bumper harvest in the cornfield.
People were confused and asked Qin Liangyu why he could know in advance. Qin Liangyu explained that during severe drought, ants will make the cave very deep; while in rainy seasons, the ant cave will be high.
Qin Liangyu's practices have won the respect and trust of the locals. They almost respect Qin Liangyu as gods.
So, more people joined Qin Liangyu's self-defense team, and Qin Liangyu's white-rod soldiers gradually took shape. This militia self-defense force is also called the "Ma Family Army".
Why is Qin Liangyu's self-defense force called Bai Gan Bing? It turns out that this is related to the weapons they use.
The weapon used by the white pole soldier is a spear, which was created and invented by Qin Liangyu with his full use of his intelligence and military talents. The spear's pole is made of white wood with hooks and rings. It is not only powerful, but also very flexible and easy to use.
Qin Liangyu took her white-rod soldiers and began her 50-year battle career.
04 won the first battle
599, it was the year of Wanli 27 that Yang Yinglong launched a rebellion in Zunyi, Guizhou.
The court at that time was corruption and incompetent and unable to quell the rebellion, so it handed over this important task to local armed forces. As chieftain and Xuanfu, Ma Tiancheng also received the edict to participate in the war.
Qin Liangyu also asked to join the war, but her husband Ma Tiancheng kept saying that it was ok. In that era, there was no reason to let women lead troops to fight.
However, Ma Tiancheng still fulfilled his beloved wife's wish. He promised to let Qin Liangyu be a grain escort officer. This official position does not require fighting on the battlefield, and the danger is much smaller.
So, Ma Tiancheng and Qin Liangyu led 3,500 white-rod soldiers to quell the rebellion.
At that time, Loushanguan had been occupied by rebel generals, and the army could only stationed here and stalemate with the rebels.
At this time, it was just around the corner of the Tujia people's New Year. On the festival day, soldiers in the army spent the whole day drinking and playing music to celebrate the festival. By night, the soldiers in the camp were already drunk.
Rebel Yang Yinglong took the opportunity to attack at night, intending to take down the white pole soldiers in one fell swoop.
Unexpectedly, the Baigang soldier actually came around from all directions, and the Baigang soldier who fell to the ground pretending to be drunk also stood up suddenly. Under the attack from inside and outside, the white-rod soldiers killed the rebels and fled in a panic.
White pole soldiers took advantage of the victory and fought until Yang Yinglong's army camp. Yang Yinglong himself was also defeated and died.
It turns out that Qin Liangyu is familiar with military strategy, knows himself and his enemy, and has long been a strategy.
She expected that Yang Yinglong would send someone to attack during the Chinese New Year. So, she secretly ordered everyone to pretend to be drunk and lure the enemy into attack. At the same time, she ordered an ambush around the military camp. Yang Yinglong was indeed deceived. After
, Qin Liangyu led his army to fight continuously and completely quelled the war.This year, 25-year-old Qin Liangyu won the first major victory in his life.
Governor Li Hualong specially sent a plaque to Qin Liangyu with the letter "Husband of the Female" to commend Qin Liangyu's achievements.
05 Defend the country
1 In 1613, Ma Tiancheng offended the eunuch and was framed and imprisoned, and was later tortured to death in prison. Qin Liangyu and his son, who was only a few years old, became orphans and widows.
Because his son Ma Xianglin was young, and Qin Liangyu was both civil and military, and had military achievements, the court appointed Qin Liangyu to succeed as chieftain.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the court was in trouble with internal and external troubles. Outside, there were Later Jin invasions again and again, inside, there were Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rising up, and wars continued everywhere.
In this chaotic world, Qin Liangyu led his troops to defend the king several times, quell the chaos, defend himself, fought on the battlefield, made countless military achievements, and became famous.
621, sent by Qin Liangyu, her brothers Qin Bangping and Qin Minping led thousands of white-rod soldiers to the Liaodong battlefield to participate in the battle for the king. Unexpectedly, the war was fierce, and his brother Qin Bangping was killed in battle, and many Bai Gan Bang also died.
Qin Liangyu then personally took his son Ma Xianglin and led three thousand white-rod soldiers to Liaodong to fight against the Jin Dynasty north. The Baigang soldier was brave and good at fighting and successfully resisted the attack of the Jin soldiers. The Jin soldiers were very afraid of the Baigang soldier led by Qin Liangyu.
The court was very happy when he heard the news and promoted Qin Liangyu to the second-rank official wife.
630, Chongzhen ordered the world to be the king. Qin Liangyu, 56, raised food and grass for himself, went on a war again, and rushed to the capital for the third time.
Qin Liangyu and his white-gan soldiers fought to the death, and the Qing soldiers were defeated and fled, and finally lifted the siege of the capital.
Emperor Chongzhen, who heard the good news and rarely wrote poems, wrote four poems for Qin Liangyu personally, and praised them.
After Emperor Chongzhen summoned Qin Liangyu, he gave her a dragon and phoenix robe. This is Qin Liangyu's most prominent honor in his life.
It is said that when of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the phoenix pattern selected for torch clothing came from this treasure of the dragon and phoenix robe.
644, that is, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty perished. At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong captured Sichuan.
Although Qin Liangyu was already seventy years old at this time, she firmly refused to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong's regime and defeated him several times.
Before Qin Liangyu's lifetime, neither Zhang Xianzhong nor the Qing army later could defeat Qin Liangyu in his seventies. They never dared to get close to the stone pillar guarded by Qin Liangyu.
It was not until Qin Liangyu's death that the Qing army gradually occupied the stone pillar.
648, the 74-year-old Qin Liangyu still insisted on the military parade at school. After the military parade, she suddenly fell to the ground and left the country she protected forever.
Not long before her death, she was ill in bed and promised the Little Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty to go on duty again to serve the country.
After Qin Liangyu died, mourning and honor were everywhere. Whether it is the old and young people in the Ming Dynasty or the new nobles in the Qing Dynasty, they all respect her very much.
According to Qin Liangyu's arrangements during her lifetime, after her death, her family sent 48 deaths and left 48 graves. No one knows where the female general is buried.
A generation of female war gods went through her glorious and heroic life like this.
Qin Liangyu experienced four emperors in his life, fought on the battlefield several times, both loyal and brave, and had a family of heroes, making great achievements for the Ming Dynasty.
As a famous general and national hero of a generation, Qin Liangyu is worthy of the title of "Zhongzhen Hou" and is fully qualified to be included in the official history of the Ming Dynasty.
Author: Tiangaoyundan
