In 2018, Turkey released a propaganda film for the 2227th anniversary of the founding of the Army, mainly from the development of the Turkish army after Mustafa Kemal and the history of the nation, which is inconvenient for outsiders to discuss due to different positions, but it is worth mentioning that the documentary begins with a cavalry in 209 BC advancing in the direction of the Great Wall of Our Country.
In Turkish history textbooks, the ancient Huns have always been recognized as their ancestors, and the Turkish nation has been defined as "the people who let the Chinese build the Great Wall."
Leaving aside the right and wrong of this today, let us talk about the origin of the Turkish nation.
The first is the Turkish perspective:
According to Turkish history textbooks, the ancestors of the Turkic peoples were the Xiongnu founded by Mo Dun Shan Yu, a cavalry that was so brave in the battle against the Chinese dynasty that qin shi huang and later rulers built the Great Wall.
Later, the reason for the decline of the Xiongnu was because of natural disasters in the Xiongnu region during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and as a result, the Han Dynasty defected to the Han Dynasty. Turkish history sneers at its "ancestor" in the name of Han.
After the Southern Xiongnu defected to the Han Dynasty, the Northern Xiongnu were defeated by the Eastern Han Dynasty near the Altai Mountains, and the Empress Dowager was captured, the record of the Northern Xiongnu was broken.
However, it is easy to speculate that they had to cross the Altai Mountains and continue west to find a way out.
During this period, the history of the "Turkish Army" was completely blank, there was no written record, and only a few words were said to have been killed by cavalry on ancient stone pillars unearthed in Syria and other places, which scholars analyzed may have been committed by the Huns.
Because there is no information to cite, the Turkish "Propaganda Film on the Founding of the Army in 2227", after galloping north of the Great Wall for a while, directly entered the modern Kemal period, but the country that recognized the westward migration of the Huns as the ancestor of Hungary was Hungary.
Regardless of whether the Huns were the ancestors of Turkey or not, Turkey definitely misunderstood this period of history:
Jia Yi mentioned in the "Treatise on Passing the Qin Dynasty" that Qin Shi Huang "made Mengtian build the Great Wall and defend the fence, but the Xiongnu were more than 700 miles; the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain", which clearly showed that the Xiongnu originally lived in the Yellow River Valley and were driven away by the Qin army.
Although Mao Dun Shan Yu had almost captured Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, in the Siege of Bai Deng, the "History" also clearly showed that the background at that time was that the national strength of the late Qin and early Han Dynasties was caused by years of war, and the Xiongnu Mo Dun Shan Yu dispatched the troops of the whole nation, while Liu Bang only led one of the many armies to meet the battle, and was surrounded by the factor of light enemy, and it was not too big a gap in strength between the two sides.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wei Qing and Huo went to the north to further the North, driving the Xiongnu to Outer Mongolia and Siberia, where the natural environment was even worse, and the stone carvings of the Ma Ta Xiongnu in front of Huo's tomb are still there.
In the face of unfavorable battles, the Xiongnu continued to split, and the Western Han Yuan Emperor called Han Evil Shan Yu, in the absence of persecution by the Han Dynasty, took the initiative to enter the Chang'an Dynasty to pay tribute and marry Wang Zhaojun.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dou Gu, Dou Xian, and later generals defeated the Northern Xiongnu many times, captured the Xiongnu Empress, and also killed the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu, and the Northern Xiongnu gradually disappeared from China's history books. According to the History of Hungary, they lived in the region of present-day Russia for hundreds of years before being expelled to Hungary by ethnic Russians.
In 46 AD, the Xiongnu were divided into northern and southern Xiongnu, and later the Southern Xiongnu defected to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and according to the Book of Later Han, local officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty also had the power to hunt down and kill the Southern Xiongnu. After that, the development of the Southern Huns naturally had little to do with Turkey.
All in all, the Huns were not as powerful as the Turks claimed, and there is no reliable evidence that they were the ancestors of the Turks.
Our country has a more logical and rigorous record of the origin of the Turks:
The History of the North, compiled by Li Yanshou of the Tang Dynasty, records:
The Turks, whose ancestors lived on the right side of the Western Sea (Aral Sea), were independent tribes, and the other species of the Huns was also covered. The surname is Ashina. Later, it was destroyed by neighboring countries and exterminated its people. There was a son, who was ten years old, and when the soldiers saw that he was small, he could not bear to kill him, but cut off his arm and abandoned the grass. There are wolves with meat bait, and long, and they mate with wolves, so that they are pregnant.
Because the rise of the Turks was relatively sudden, it was inevitable that there would be a mysterious element in its origins. However, according to the living environment in northern China and combined with historical data, it can be concluded that the Turks are the result of the integration of several major nomadic peoples who have flourished successively, and the main ones should be: Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Rouran.
At the height of the Tang Dynasty, both the Eastern and Western Turks submitted to the Tang Dynasty, and because of the influence of the Tang Dynasty's enlightened ethnic policies, the Eastern Turks returned to the north to restore the country during the reign of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty declined, the surrounding ethnic minorities were lawless and annexed to each other, and the Turks were destroyed by the new uighurs and annexed to the Uighurs. (Book of Tang, etc.)
Many people take it for granted that the Turks could not defeat the Tang Dynasty and killed all the way to today's Turkey.
There is some truth to this statement, but there are also major mistakes.
Because the Turks were in the 9th century AD, the Iranian Samanid Empire constantly captured the Persian Empire to train soldiers, and then fought westward. Therefore, it is not false to fight all the way, but it is also very miserable. During this period, the Iranians also began to revise history, and the Tabari Chronicle left by Iranian historians has since recorded the history of the Turks' conquests manipulated by the Persians.
It is expected that the Turks brought a large number of Tang Dynasty cultures here, including the habit of repairing history. Otherwise, with the weakness of the Turks at that time, this generation would not have formed a wide range of Turkic-speaking regions after that, including Turks, Turkmens, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Azerbaijanis, Kyrgyz, etc.
The Turkic peoples at this time were actually a people that combined the Iranian religion and Turkic language of the time, and they carried this trait to integrate the vast peoples from Central Asia to West Asia, and finally defeated the Byzantine Empire, captured Constantinople, and established the Ottoman Empire. Although Turkey has been insisting on making itself a separate "Turkish nation", in fact this nation did not exist since ancient times, and if it is refined, the current Turks can still be divided into Kazakhs, Arabs or Persians.
The history after the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Europe, the Arab world and Russia and other countries have begun to have historical records, and the origin of Turkey is actually very certain.
Therefore, even according to Turkey, the Turkish Army should not have started with Moton Shan Yu at the earliest, but should have begun at the end of the 9th century when they were first captured by the Persians as soldiers.