Located in the Hexi Corridor, the Wuwei Grassland is vast, rich in products and galloping horses, and has been a strategic and border defense center since ancient times. For thousands of years, in this magical land, a large number of heroic and courageous warriors have emerged. They galloped on the battlefield, achieved outstanding feats, and left behind magical and beautiful legends.
Wuwei ancient called Liangzhou, since ancient times is the place where soldiers must pass, the Central Plains Dynasty marched into the desert north, far away from the western region, must pass through Wuwei, over the Wusheling Mountains, into the Gulang Gorge, and then to Liangzhou is a horse Pingchuan Big Gobi, the steppe. Liangzhou is bordered by Ningxia in the east, Qinghai in the south, the western region in the west, and Mongolia in the north, and is known as the "first line of passage in the vast desert and the throat of the five counties".
Liangzhou is one of the regions with the highest degree of militarization and the strongest military strength in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, known as "Liangzhou Malaysia, across the world!" Liangzhou crowd, horizontal knife immediately! There is a poem: "The Three Kingdoms are like a dream of chaos, free to fly flowers and flow water; a wisp of incense soul passes away with the wind, and the Liangzhou Iron rides into Kyoto." The "Liangzhou Iron Horse" mentioned here refers to the "Liangzhou Legion".
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos; eunuchs had exclusive power and princes were divided; wars were rife, and the people were not happy. Xiliang is located in the northwest, that is, a vast area centered on today's Wuwei in Gansu, and the "Xiliang Legion" is also known as the "Xiliang Iron Horse". There were two main branches, one was the Liangzhou government army of the Liangzhou warlord Dong Zhuo, who was led by the generals Li Dai and Guo Feng after Dong Zhuo's death. The other was the Liangzhou rebel army of Ma Teng and Han Sui, and Later Ma Chao succeeded him as the leader of the Western Liang Army, and the generals Ma Dai, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie were also well-known. The Liangzhou Iron Horse, represented by Dong Zhuo, the "Great Desert Hero", was also quite fierce, and although the strength of the coalition forces was several times that of Dong Zhuo, none of the generals of the all-round dong coalition army dared to attack. Liangzhou Iron Horse, brave and fierce, to one to ten. After Dong Zhuo, Li Dai and Guo Feng took over this force, and in the face of Lü Bu's army, which was also known for its bravery, the Liangzhou Iron Horse took only ten days to capture Chang'an, and later the Western Liang Iron Horse also won many battles and repelled the enemy.
The allusion of "Yi Yi Xiandeng" can reflect the strength of the Western Liang Army, in the second year of Emperor Chuping (191 AD), the Liangzhou people Qi Yi was proficient in qiang warfare and commanded the Liangzhou Iron Horse, and at the end of the Han Dynasty came to the Central Plains to become a general of Han Fu, and then turned against Han Fu, who betrayed in July of that year, Han Fu sent troops to recruit and was defeated by Qi Yi.
The Western Liang Iron Horse, led by Ma Chao, was extremely powerful in attack and was an ace force in the Three Kingdoms of Chaos. Ma Chao character Mengqi, three kingdoms of Xiliang (now Wuwei) people, also known as "Jin Ma Chao", known as "Jinpao General", so people called "Xi Liang Gongzi", "Splendid Ma Chao". Ma Chao was born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a noble family, and his grandmother was a Qiang. Ma Chao's grandfather was Ma Su (said to be a descendant of the ancient Romans) of Guzang in Liangzhou, and Ma Su was a descendant of Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo, the founding minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After Liu Bei entered Shu, Ma Chao defected to Liu Bei and drove Liu Bei into Chengdu. Liu Bei called Ma Chao, the queen of Hanzhong, the general of Zuo, and in 221 AD Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, and Ma Chao was made the general of The Horse Riding, the Marquis of Xiangxiang. Together with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong, he was known as the Five Tiger Generals, and was given the title of Marquis of Wei and the General of Shenwei Tian.
Ma Chao inherited the Qiang lineage of his father Ma Teng from an early age, and was able to help the clan to pacify the liang borderlands in the west at the age of a weak crown. In the third year of Chuping, Ma Chao followed his father on an eastern expedition against Dong Zhuo and led an iron horse to attack eight hundred miles in one night, directly approaching Chang'an City. The "Western Liang Iron Horse" is an elite cavalry accustomed to using spears, ironclad cavalry, spears and large guns, and the Cao army has retreated when he sees them, and Cao Cao often advises them: "The Kansai soldiers are fierce, and the walls are not to fight." Cao Cao once said something like this: "Horses do not die, I have no burial place", Cao Cao fought with Ma Chao and Han Sui, Cao was defeated, and fled in the rebel army. Someone shouted: It is Cao Cao who has a long beard! Cao Cao swung his sword and cut off his beard. Someone shouted again: It is Cao Cao who wears a red robe! Cao Cao took off his red robe and threw it away. The idiom "cut the beard and abandon the robe" comes from this. It became the "horse phobia" that became popular in the Cao Army, and the heavy armor was difficult to defend, and the horse was fast and long. Avoid early and do not dare to provoke.
Legend has it that the battle of the Western Liang Iron Horse is a perfect combination of the ancient Roman legion and the Liangzhou Iron Horse of the early Eastern Han Dynasty, which has both excellent characteristics, fighting fiercely, fiercely, especially suitable for the desert and the Gobi long-distance and protracted raiding operations, which is also related to the characteristics of the Liangzhou people and the endurance of the Great Wan horse, from the Liangzhou Iron Horse phalanx excavated from the Liangzhou Eastern Han Leitai Han Tomb, it is indeed the case. The area around Yanzhi Mountain is a natural grassland, where Qiang, Xun, Yueshi, Xiongnu, and later Turks, Uighurs, and Tibetans have all flourished here. After the Hexi Corridor was incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty, the Shandan Army Horse Farm at the foot of Yanzhi Mountain was fully controlled by the Han Empire. The Xiongnu people were sincerely afraid, and reluctantly left this good place of abundant water and grass in the Hexi Corridor, and sang the song that has been passed down through the ages: "Lose me Qilian Mountain, so that my six animals will not rest; lose my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my women will have no color." The cavalry not only needs elite soldiers, but also needs warhorses that can travel thousands of miles a day, walk eight hundred at night, come like the wind, go without a trace, and charge into the battlefield. Horses have become an important combat force during the Three Kingdoms period, and in the martial land of Xiliang, the warlike Xiliang Iron Horse was born. The horses ridden by Xiliang Iron are Dawan horses, but there are also Mongolian horses, Qiang horses, and many hybrid horses. The Western Liang Iron Horse was rampaged and invincible, and with its rapid marching speed and extremely aggressive combat ability, it often caught the opponent off guard and made the strong enemy fearful.
In the Western Jin Dynasty, the famous Liangzhou general Beigong Chun was one of the outstanding representatives. "Liangzhou Malaysia, running rampant in the world" that no one knows. Let the people of Liangzhou be proud. During the Yongjia period, the leader of the rebel army, Wang Mi, led tens of thousands of horses and horses to attack the four prefectures of Qing, Xu, Yan, and Yu, and attacked Luoyang, and the people in the capital Luoyang were panicked, and Sima Chi, the emperor of Jinhuai, fled with his cronies. Only Situ Wang Yan insisted and asked Liangzhou to assassinate Shi Zhang Rail of Liangzhou for rescue. So he sent Beigong Chun to take on this heavy responsibility.
Beigong Chun, also known as Beigong Sanlang, a native of Liangzhou, was a fierce general who served as an overseer, nicknamed "Western Jin Dynasty Military God". Beigong Chun selected a thousand elite soldiers and quickly marched towards Luoyang. But see the flag hunting, the sword flashes. Beigong Chun ordered Liangzhou Iron Horse to be the vanguard, organize "death squads" to fight against the rebels, and line up at the luoyang city gate to resist the enemy. In the face of tens of thousands of rebels, Beigong Chun led the Liangzhou Iron Horse to rampage, and the Mi army was defeated, and the Liangzhou Iron Horse played a prestige. A few years later, the Xiongnu Liu Yuan sent his fourth son Liu Cong to lead an army south, defeated the Western Jin army, and once again entered luoyang. Beigong Chun led the Liangzhou Iron Horse, rushed thousands of miles to Luoyang, unexpectedly, attacked the Xiongnu camp at night, beheaded Liu Congbu's general Hu Yanhao, and the military might was greatly zhen. Two thousand-mile rescues lifted the siege of Luoyang, and the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang were very moved. The song spread: "Liangzhou is a big horse, running rampant in the world." Liangzhou Plover, Kou Thief Elimination. The owl flutters and kills. ”
Liangzhou Iron Horse is brave and good at war, and has extremely strong combat effectiveness. He was famous in the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Two Jin Dynasties. Become a dazzling star.