At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was the Yellow Turban Rebellion first, followed by warlords, coupled with plagues and natural disasters, the population plummeted, ten rooms and nine empty, the whole world was in chaos, even if the country was chaotic like this, the local governments of the Eastern Han Dynasty could still hang the surrounding Hu people, unlike the Western Jin Dynasty that unified the three kingdoms, just to deal with the bald and humble people in Liangzhou, it took a whole decade.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the most important foreign enemies were Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, Qiang, Yu and other foreign tribes, when the Eastern Han Dynasty was strong, these foreign tribes were originally subordinate to the Eastern Han Court, but for various reasons, the foreign tribes for the Eastern Han Court was also a rebellion, and at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty Court had already existed in name only, could not control the localities, let alone control the surrounding foreign tribes, so the foreign tribes would definitely want to enter the Central Plains by force.
Three kingdoms
Throughout the Three Kingdoms period, the Hu people were prevented from being outside the Central Plains, one is because of the strength of the Three Kingdoms regime, although the internal mess is a mess, but it is still strongly guarded against the outside; the second is because there are many border generals guarding the town, with them to resist foreign tribes, foreign tribes can not invade the Central Plains, do you know what famous border generals in the Three Kingdoms period guarded the border?
1. Gongsun Zhan
Gongsun Zhan was a warlord who fought with Yuan Shao for the four prefectures of Hebei, but was defeated by Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zhan was able to become one of the largest forces in the north at the end of the Han Dynasty, because he had always been a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, responsible for defending foreign enemies on the border, and then expanding his power step by step because of his military achievements.
Gongsun Zhan was a native of Qian'an, Hebei, born into an aristocratic son-in-law, who was summoned as a son-in-law by Taishou because of a list of talents, and later became the governor of the Liaodong state, Liaodong is located in the north, there are many Hu people around, there are Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu and other Hu people, Gongsun Zhan proved his ability with his own strength.
Gongsun Zhan
Gongsun Zhan led dozens of cavalry patrols outside the Sai, encountered hundreds of Xianbei cavalrymen, the number of the two sides is very different, if you choose to escape, you can not escape the nomads, Gongsun Zhan chose to fight hard, with dozens of people rushed to the other side of hundreds of people, the result was suddenly blinded the other side, the two sides lost more than half, but Gongsun Zhan survived, and broke out of the fame, because of this battle, Gongsun Zhan was appointed by the imperial court as a county order.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the northern border has not been peaceful, the Han Zhang Chun and the Wuhuan leader Qiu Liju rebelled in the area of Youbeiping County and Liaoxi County, capturing the city, when Gongsun Zhan led 3,000 cavalry to defeat Zhang Chun and the Wuhuan people, forcing some of the Wuhuan people to surrender to the Eastern Han Dynasty, gongsun Zan was therefore made a general by the imperial court.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Gongsun Zhan was still defending against foreign enemies in liaodong and western Liaoning, during which time Gongsun Zhan formed a cavalry composed of white horses and elite soldiers, known as the white horse Yicong, this army rode pure white, and was good at riding and shooting, fighting bravely, and soon broke into a reputation on the border, the average foreign enemy did not dare to invade the border guarded by Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Zhan's reputation was also growing.
White Horse Yicong
Later, the Eastern Han Court appointed Liu Yu as the pastor of Youzhou, the highest official of Youzhou, while Gongsun Zhan became Liu Yu's nominal superior, Liu Yu treated hu people with gentle means, and Gongsun Zhan advocated treating Hu people by force.
Gongsun Zhan guarded the border for many years, had military merit, and was brave and good at war, Gongsun Zhan once defeated hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou Yellow Turban troops with 20,000 people on foot, captured 70,000 people, and beheaded 30,000 people, and was the Eastern Han general who defeated the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army and achieved the greatest battle results in addition to Cao Cao, and his reputation was shocked for a while.
Due to the loss of control of the local government by the imperial court, although Gongsun Zhan was a general of Liu Yu's army, he had his own power, and gradually grew, attacked and killed Liu Yu, occupied most of Youzhou, became a warlord, and failed to set himself on fire because of the struggle with Yuan Shao for the north, and the northern Border of Youzhou guarded by Gongsun Zhan, although not very peaceful, at least held the border, did not let the Hu people enter Han Territory on a large scale, and Gongsun Zhan was a member of the border generals.
Gongsun Zhan was defeated by Yuan Shao
2. Gongsun Du and Gongsun Kang father and son
Gongsun Du was a native of Liaoyang, Liaoning, originally a minor official of Xuanju County, which was one of the four han counties of the Han Dynasty in northeast China and the Korean Peninsula, and its jurisdiction included present-day South Hamgyong Province, North Hamgyong Province, and the western part of Liaoning Province and Jilin Province in China, Gongsun Du was recommended as the Assassin of Jizhou because he was appreciated by Gongsun Jue, who was soon dismissed, and later on Xu Rong's recommendation, Dong Zhuo appointed him as Liaodong Taishou, and from then on Gongsun Du opened a new local division.
Gongsun Du served as the Tai Punctual of Liaodong, using cruel means to crack down on the powerful families that disobeyed him, and at the same time actively expanded abroad, Gongsun Du invaded Wuhuan in the west, conquered Goguryeo in the east, and Fuyu in the north, and even crossed the Bohai Sea, spread his power from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Shandong Peninsula, captured the Donglai counties under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, established the Yingzhou Assassin History to manage the local area, and established a forward base for entering the Central Plains.
Gongsun Du saw that the Central Plains were in chaos, and took the opportunity to divide Liaodong and claim the title of king without authorization, even at that time Cao Cao co-opted Gongsun Du and made him the Marquis of Zhang, Gongsun Du actually dismissed it, and the Liaodong partition regime established by Gongsun Du was a small overlord in the local area at that time, not only beating the foreign tribes to dare not invade, but also submitting to Fuyu, Goguryeo and other powerful countries.
Gongsun Degree
After Gongsun Du's death, his son Gongsun Kang succeeded to the post, at this time Liaodong was in a period of great power, after Cao Cao defeated the Wuhuan people who had taken Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi at the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi fled to Gongsun Kang in Liaodong, Gongsun Kang killed Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi and gave the first rank to Cao Cao, ostensibly submitting to Cao Cao, but in fact still dividing the side.
In 209 AD, Gongsun Kang led an army to attack Goguryeo, attacked the capital of Goguryeo, and then sent troops to attack Han Tao, located in the south of the Korean Peninsula, for a while, the authority of the Liaodong government shook the northeast and became the fourth regime outside the Three Kingdoms, and although the Liaodong regime established by Gongsun Du and Gongsun Kang's father and son was an independent separatist regime, it also belonged to the Han regime, which was essentially no different from the warlords such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
Due to the strong existence of the Liaodong regime, the surrounding Hu people basically did not dare to invade, but the Liaodong regime conquered many surrounding regimes, and because of its internal stability, it took in many scholars who had fled from the Central Plains to Liaodong, forming a rather stable place in the chaotic world, and also becoming a barrier in the north of the Central Plains.
Gongsun Du divided Liaodong
However, in 238 AD, the Liaodong regime was destroyed by the army led by Sima Yi, who killed all the men over the age of 15 in Liaodong and moved more than 40,000 households of the Liaodong people to the interior, which was equivalent to abandoning Liaodong, although there were still Wei Dynasty troops guarding this place, but because the population was gone, gradually there were Hu people gradually filling the power vacuum in Liaodong and began to gradually move south, and the later Wuhu Chaohua was caused by this.
3. Pulling
Zhao Zhao was a native of Wuyi, Hebei, a friend of Liu Bei in his youth, and was later recruited by Yuan Shao to help Yuan Shao command the Wuhuan cavalry, after Yuan Shao's defeat, He zhao surrendered to Cao Cao, when Cao Cao attacked Yuan Tan, the King of Wuhuan Qiao wanted to lead an army to support Yuan Tan, and the envoy Wu Huan, persuaded the King of Qiao, and wanted to kill the envoys of Liaodong on the spot, only because Liaodong wanted to seal the King of Wuhuan Qiao and refused Cao Cao's appointment, so the Wuhuan people were impressed.
Later, he followed Cao Cao in the Battle of the White Wolf Mountain, and was appointed by Cao Cao as a lieutenant of the Hu Wuhuan School to guard the border, and in the Cao Pi era, Zhao Zhao was appointed as the lieutenant of the Hu Xianbei School, stationed in Changping, and Zhao Zhao mainly used the means of conjuring to appease the Hu people and let the Hu people return to their place of residence.
Trick-in-the-cheek
He also served as the Taishou of Yanmen Gate, defending the border with zhen, defeating the Hu people's invasions many times, and at the same time treating the Hu tribe with divisive and military strikes, and the diversion of the Combined Xianbei tribe defeated another Xianbei chieftain, Qibineng, killed Qibineng's younger brother Tho Luohou, and then appeased the Xianbei people, and sent some of the Xianbei and talented people to Taixue in Luoyang to study, thus improving the tension between the Hu and the Han.
Zhao Zhao also personally led the army to rescue Tian Yu, a lieutenant of the Hu WuHuan Colonel who was surrounded by Kebineng, and jointly annihilated the enemy with Tian Yu, and defeated Kebineng again, there was a trick, Kebineng could not sit big, you must know that Qibineng was the leader closest to unification in Xianbei during the Three Kingdoms period, And Zhaozhao always contained Qibineng, and successfully defended the northern border of Cao Wei.
4. Tian Yu
Tian Yu was a native of Tianjin, when he was young, he had defected to Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan, after the defeat of Gongsun Zhan, Tian Yu defected to Cao Cao, in 218, it was Cao Wei's troubled autumn, Liu Bei and Xiahou Yuan's Battle of Hanzhong was underway, the northwestern Wuhuan Wuchen began to rebel, Cao Cao sent Cao Zhang and Tian Yu to be responsible for counterinsurgency, Cao Zhang was responsible for military operations, Tian Yu was responsible for planning strategy, the two joined forces to break the Wuhuan army, and defeated the Xianbei army that came to support Wuhuan.
Tian Yu
During the reign of Emperor Wen of Wei, Tian Yu served as a lieutenant to protect Wuhuan and guard the border, in order to prevent the Hu tribes from joining forces to attack the border, Tian Yu adopted a divisive strategy, provoking dissension between the Hu tribes, uniting one to attack the other, dividing the Hu people, and giving the Hu people a military blow, for a while, Tian Yu's reputation was very large.
Tian Yu once led more than a hundred people into the tribe of Wuhuan Wang Bone Jin, ordered his subordinates to announce the evidence of Bone Jin's crime, and directly beheaded Bone Jin to show the public, Tian Yu's behavior was the same as that of Fu Jiezi of the Han Dynasty, he came with self-confidence, without strong strength as a backing, Tian Yu did not dare to do this, and because of this confidence, The generals of Bone Jin did not dare to take action, and all the Hu people surrendered.
Tian Yu served for 9 years as a lieutenant of Wuhuan, and had a great reputation among the Hu people, and later he was framed by Wang Xiong of Youzhou's assassin Shi and was transferred to Runan as a Taishou, and Chen Shou, the author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, listed Tian Yu with Man Yu and Guo Huai, indicating that Tian Yu was a general of both culture and martial arts, and guarded the border for 9 years, not only guarding the border, but also disintegrating the unity of the Hu people, keeping the Hu people in a divided state, which was conducive to the stability of the Central Plains.
5. Qiu Jian
Yiqiu Jian was a Shanxi Wenxi person, born in a declining family, loved to read, inherited his father's title, and was later selected by Cao Pi as a Lang official to accompany the prince to study, it can be seen that Yuqiu Jian had a high literary talent, Cao Rui became the empress, Yuqiu Jian began to step into Qingyun, and later served as the Assassin of Jingzhou, and wrote to suggest that Cao Rui crusade against the Gongsun clan regime in Liaodong Province, Cao Rui agreed, and appointed Yuqiu Jian as the Assassin of Youzhou, the general of Duliao, and the lieutenant of Wuhuan, and led an army to fight against Liaodong.
Yiqiu Jian
However, Yiqiu Jian's military campaign against Liaodong was unsuccessful, after that, Cao Rui sent Sima Yi as the main general, and Yiqiu Jian as the deputy general, jointly attacked Liaodong, and finally succeeded, this battle Yiqiu Jian also had merit, after the end of the war, Sima Yi returned to the army, and Yiqiu Jian stayed in Liaodong and became a border general guarding the border.
Because Sima Yi slaughtered the city in Liaodong and moved most of the people, resulting in the emptiness of Liaodong, Goguryeo took the opportunity to send troops to attack Liaodong and attack Xi'anping, and soon after, Yuqiu Jian led an army to attack Goguryeo, and when the two armies fought, Yuqiu Jian completely annihilated the main force of Goguryeo and attacked the capital of Goguryeo and destroyed his country.
The following year, the exiled members of the Goguryeo royal family restored the country and rebelled again, Yuqiu Jian led his army to attack Goguryeo in two ways, the Wei army continued to pursue the remnants of Goguryeo all the way to the northeast, the king of Goguryeo fled all the way to Sushen, and soon died of illness, and the other way attacked south along the Korean Peninsula, defeated Goguryeo's allies Andi and other troops, destroyed the Three Han Kingdom in southern Korea, and the Wei army controlled the entire Korean Peninsula, which was the farthest foreign conquest of the Wei state during the Three Kingdoms period.
Yuqiu Jian conquered Korea
After the end of the war, Yiqiu Jian erected a stone stele in the city of Bu Nai in Xuanyu County, carved a stone monument, which was discovered in Ji'an City, Jilin Province in 1906, which was the biggest war victory won by the Wei army, completely solved the threat to the Central Plains Dynasty in the northeast direction, and spread the power of the Wei State to the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula and the present-day Far East, so that all the four counties of Han set up during the Han Dynasty were incorporated into the Wei State.
Among all the generals, Yuqiu Jian's military achievements were the greatest, but after Sima Shi took control of Cao Wei's power, Yuqiu Jian was transferred to Huainan, and because of his dissatisfaction with Sima Shi's dictatorship, Yuqiu Jian and Wen Qin launched a rebellion, because of the contradictions, the rebellion was eventually defended by Sima Shi, and Yi qiu Jian was shot by civilians on the way to escape.
6. Liang Xi
Liang Xi was a native of Shangqiu, Henan, who was initially a minor official, and later defected to Cao Cao, and was appointed county magistrate by Cao Cao, because of his outstanding political achievements, he was promoted by Cao Cao to the post of Assassin of Hezhou, and the prefecture was located on the frontier, at that time Cao Cao had just recovered the prefecture, and its jurisdiction was unstable, Liang Xi served as the governor of Hezhou, and used the means of Enwei and Ji to appease a large number of Hao clans and people.
Liang Xi also forced the Xiongnu to submit, facing the other Hu tribes, Liang Xi was also able to do both Enwei and Ji, Liang Xi once beheaded a leader of the Xianbei tribe, named Yuyan, when Yuyan led 5,000 Xianbei cavalry into Andzhou to trade with Liang Xi, as a result, there were Xianbei people who bullied the local people strongly, and were arrested by Liang Xi's officials, which triggered a backlash from the Xianbei people, preparing to go to war with Liang Xi, Liang Xi directly scolded the other side, and beheaded the Xianbei leader Yuyan on the spot.
Liang Xi
Liang Xi's behavior is similar to the behavior of the King of Wuhuan, all of them are in inferior situations, not afraid of the strong and law-based, relying on the strength behind the Wei state, this behavior is quite bold, and can deter the Hu people, after Liang Xi killed the Xianbei chief, although there were 5,000 people on the other side, they did not dare to confront and directly slipped away, which shows how bloody the Han people were at that time, this is the general who guarded the border, so the Hu people easily did not dare to invade the border.
Liang Xi also killed the rebellious Wuhuan king Lu Xi, Lu Xi, because he missed his wife, disobeyed Cao Cao's orders without authorization, led his army into and greeted his wife, only to be known by Liang Xi, who sent Xianbei cavalry to shoot Lu Xi and quell a possible rebellion.
Liang Xi was both literate and martial, and he had both political achievements in governing the localities and preventing the Hu people from rebelling, guarding the border, and also beheading two Hu leaders, threatening the border, and there were such border generals who guarded the town, and the foreign tribes did not dare to invade.
7. Yan Rou
Yan Rou was a native of Beijing, and when he was a teenager, he was a prisoner of Wuhuan and Xianbei, and was very familiar with the Hu people, and later with the help of Xianbei, he became a lieutenant of Wuhuan, and later Yan Rou assisted Liu Yu in fighting against Gongsun Zhan, and after Liu Yu was killed, Yan Rou defected to Yuan Shao, because Yan Rou was familiar with the Hu people, and Yuan Shao let his town guard the north and deal with Wuhuan and Xianbei.
Yan Rou
After the Battle of Guandu, Yan Rou led his subordinates Xianbei and Wuhuan cavalry to defect to Cao Cao, and was again made a lieutenant of Wuhuan, and followed Cao Cao on an expedition to Wuhuan, before the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, Yan Rou fought side by side with Zhang Liao, defeated Wuhuan, and in the Cao Pi era, Yan Rou was named the general of Duliao, commanding youzhou soldiers and horses, and guarding the border.
8. Wang Xiong
Wang Xiong was a native of Linyi, Shandong, and was the grandfather of Wang Rong, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, who served as the Assassin of Youzhou during the Cao Pi period, and Wang Xiong did a very famous thing, that is, he sent an assassin named Han Long to assassinate the Xianbei chiefTaine Kebineng, who was the most effective leader of Xianbei at that time, and had a tendency to unify the Xianbei tribes, Wang Xiong directly sent people to kill Kebineng, causing the Xianbei tribes to fall into civil unrest again and could not be condensed, which was the greatest contribution to Cao Wei's relief of border defense pressure.
9. Huo Yi
Huo Yi was a native of Zhijiang, Hubei Province, his father's name was Huo Jun, he was a local Hao clan, when Liu Bei was in charge of Jingzhou, Huo Jun became a general under Liu Bei, after Liu Bei entered Yizhou, he took Huo Jun with him, and after clashing with Liu Zhang, Liu Bei left Huo Jun town to guard Ye Meng City, becoming Liu Bei's only rear in Yizhou, Huo Jun only relied on hundreds of soldiers to guard Ye Meng City for more than a year, successfully blocking Liu Zhang's attack, Zhang Lu's temptation.
Huo Yi
After Huo Jun's death, Huo Yi inherited his father's title and entered the rank of Lang official, becoming the crown prince, after Zhuge Liang's death, Huo Yi first served as the army and protector of Yan Yu, the governor of Yu, and was later appointed as Yongchang Taishou, whose jurisdiction was in western Yunnan and eastern Burma, where ethnic minorities disobeyed Shu Han rule and often rebelled, Huo Yi led an army to quell the rebellion, and then began to guard Nanzhong and maintain peace in Nanzhong for decades.
In 263, the State of Wei attacked Shu Han, Liu Chan surrendered, Huo Yi, who was the governor of Nanzhong, asked to send troops to support, but Liu Chan refused, and after the fall of Shu Han, Huo Yi still guarded Nanzhong, and sima Zhao submitted to Shun, still appointed by Sima Zhao as the governor of Nanzhong, zhen shou nanzhong, and then Huo Yi, under sima Zhao's orders, sent troops to rescue Lü Xing, the official of Jiaozhong County, and pacified the three counties of Jiaolan, Ninan, and Jiuzhen, so that they could be subsumed into the later Western Jin Dynasty.
Huo Yi went from guarding Nanzhong for Shuhan Town to Guarding Nanzhong for Western Jin Town, and had always been a general guarding the border crossing, ensuring the security of the southern border of the Central Plains regime.