Ancient China has the richest history books in the world, recording the history of a large number of famous generals, such as Jiang Ziya, Bai Qi, Lian Po, Su Dingfang, etc., but these famous generals rarely appear in the figure of women, although we also know the deeds of many female generals such as Mulan, Fan Lihua and others, but that comes more from the literary and artistic image, the only one who is really recorded in the history is Qin Liangyu.
Qin Liangyu was born in the second year of the Wanli Calendar (1574), is a native of Zhongzhou, Sichuan (now Chongqing Zhong County), everyone knows that Chongqing is a famous mountain city, where the mountainous hills account for more than 70% of the whole territory, the influence of this special landform, later accompanied by Qin Liangyu's life, let her create a mountain special operations unit according to local conditions: white pole soldiers.
When Qin Liangyu was 18 years old, he married 14-year-old Ma Qiancheng, a descendant of the famous Eastern Han general Ma Yuan, and was a local hereditary toastmaster. After the two were married, they were extremely affectionate, and the local people also lived very well under their administration, but Ma Qiancheng was seriously ill in 1613 and was not in good health, so he did not seem very respectful when receiving Qiu Chengyun, a eunuch sent by the imperial court.
After Qiu Chengyun returned to the imperial court, he framed the emperor, and Ma Qiancheng was arrested and imprisoned for this, and died of illness because he did not receive effective care. After careful examination, the imperial court also found that Ma Qiancheng was not guilty, so he did not deprive their family of the position of hereditary toastmaster, which should have been passed on to his son Ma Xianglin, but Ma Xianglin was still very young at this time, and Qin Liangyu had already made great achievements in battle.
So the 39-year-old Qin Liangyu took the place of her husband Ma Qiancheng and became a general of the imperial court, and she trained a powerful white pole soldier in Chungju, becoming a non-negligible existence in that chaotic world. The white pole soldiers are made of local white wood and strong long poles, with iron hooks with blades on the top and hard iron rings on the lower head, which can be regarded as a special weapon with both attack and defense.
Especially when the hooks and rings of multiple white rods are connected together, it becomes a sharp weapon for climbing mountains and walls, even in a mountainous and hilly place like Chongqing, Qin Liangyu and her troops can still walk on the ground and show extremely superb military quality.
It is precisely because of such a powerful army that Qin Liangyu is highly valued in that chaotic world, and whenever the imperial court encounters rebellion or intrusion, he will ask Qin Liangyu to lead an army to suppress the rebellion. In the twenty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar, Yang Yinglong, the toastmaster of Bozhou, believed that the terrain of Bozhou was dangerous and that it was difficult for the officials and troops to attack, so he brazenly rebelled, and as a result, he was beaten by 3,000 white pole soldiers led by Qin Liangyu and fled, and put down the rebellion in Bozhou in one fell swoop.
In the first year of the Apocalypse, Hou Jin led a large army to attack Shenyang, qin Liangyu led the white pole soldiers to the rescue, helping the imperial court to win the victory in the defense of Shenyang; in the second year of the Apocalypse, the Yi leader Su Chongming rebelled, once captured a large number of territories, and besieged Chengdu, Qin Liangyu led an army to defeat Su Chongming and recover all the lost land; in the third year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Emperor Taiji led an army to besiege the capital, and Qin Liangyu led an army to rescue the driver, causing Emperor Taiji to retreat.
Qin Liangyu's southern conquest of the northern war in her lifetime, whether it is Tusi, Manchu Qing, or Zhang Xianzhong and other rebels, have suffered under her, it can be said that if there is no Qin Liangyu, the time of the fall of the Ming Dynasty may be greatly advanced. Qin Liangyu died in 1648 at the age of 75, and her life deeds were recorded in the "Biography of Qin Liangyu in the History of Ming Dynasty", and she was the first female general in ancient China to have a history.
Because she had defeated many forces before she died, qin liangyu's enemies were also many, although no one dared to retaliate against her before she died, but it was difficult to predict after death, so the number of qin liangyu's graves was as high as 48, and after her death, 48 gangs of people nominally went to the end, but in fact they went to inquire into the truth, and all of them were poisoned, so Qin Liangyu's grave and the descendants of the Qin family were saved.
Reference: "Ming Shi Qin Liangyu Biography"