In the 5,000 years of China, how many dynasties have changed, how many famous generals have competed for hegemony, and there is no shortage of fighting and scuffles, Jinge Iron Horse. In these 50 centuries, there have been too many wars, even those protracted wars, there are countless, and even many because of their age, the historical data is not traceable.
On these battlefields, those generals who are fierce and brave, strategizing and strategizing, but what really affects the outcome of the battle is those ordinary soldiers who give up their lives and forget their deaths, either by virtue of their numerical superiority, or by relying on equipment to crush, and even some people can be one to ten, today I will introduce to you, the 10 strongest armies in China's history, please press the praise, the new friends point attention, thank you.
10th, Beifu Soldiers
The wind is roaring, and the grass and trees are soldiers. The Beifu Bing was created by Xie Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Formerly known as the Xie family's private army, later Former Qin unified the north, and the soldiers directly led the dynasty, and the Northern Fu soldiers participated in the battle. At this time, Xie Xuan was guarding Guangling, where a large number of displaced people fleeing the war in the north were gathered, and Xie Xuan selected strong and strong men to join the army. These people's hometowns had just been invaded by Wuhu, and they all wanted to defeat Former Qin and regain their homeland.
Xie Xuan
In 383, Former Qin Fujian led 600,000 infantry and 270,000 cavalry to the south, Xie Xuanxian sent Liu Jiaozhi to attack Luojian with 5,000 elites, and won the first battle. Later, while fighting, the Beifu soldiers expanded their training, investing a total of 80,000 troops before and after, and finally defeated Former Qin's 870,000 troops. After that, the reputation of the Beifu soldiers became famous, and they must win every battle, and finally they were accepted by Liu Yu as the Huang family army, and even became the main force of the Southern Dynasty, its existence could almost affect the balance of the northern and southern dynasties, until the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the legend of the Beifu soldiers continued.
Beifu Bing
9th place, Mongolian Iron Horse
If you have to find an army in ancient Chinese history that can shock the world, there is no Mongolian iron horse. Founded at the end of the 12th century by Genghis Khan, it became a legend in the world of cavalry. The Mongol cavalry was unparalleled in mobility, marching 80 kilometers a day, twice the speed of European cavalry at that time. The Mongol cavalry, 40% of which was heavy cavalry, clad in iron armor and carrying machetes and maces, was responsible for assault and protracted warfare. 60 % were light cavalry, barely wearing armor, and their main weapons were bows and arrows, lasso or javelins, which were responsible for enticing, guarding and circumventing the enemy.
Genghis Khan
This cavalry, composed entirely of nomadic peoples, turned out to be invincible at that time, destroying the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Middle East, sweeping Europe, and expanding China's territory to the largest in history, north to the Arctic Ocean, south to the South China Sea, northwest to Central Asia, northeast to Sakhalin Island, a total of 21.22 million square kilometers. As far as the Darnau River, where there were constant wars and committed endless killings, killing more than 200 million in total, it is no wonder that until now, Europeans have called them "military disasters".
Mongolian Iron Horse
8th place, beggars
Chinese folk have such a tradition, "cheap names are good to feed", so children are often named "dog leftovers" and "cow hair", the name of the beggar army, which is this principle. This army was born in the Western Jin Dynasty, when war was raging, and the people and officers and soldiers in Shanxi and Prefecture had nowhere to make a living, and were forced to integrate together, fleeing and fighting while begging for food, forming a group of displaced refugees known as "begging for work". Such a group of "hanako" turned out to be the most ferocious and fierce peasant troops in history, which can be called a real beggar gang.
Beggars
For a time, countless displaced people in the land of China joined one after another, and this army was growing at all times, with its numbers spreading all over the country and its military resources coming from all walks of life. Every time they acted, they were like locusts crossing the border, and those who dared to stop them would be drowned by this torrent, but in fact, this dark army was pathetic, and in that era, any moral conscience was empty talk, and survival was the most important thing. In order to survive, they can only protect their lives by giving up their lives, and therefore, they are invincible.
Five nonsense
7th place, White Robe Army
The famous army general Mo Zi was imprisoned, and thousands of troops and horses avoided white robes. The White Robe Army of the Southern Dynasty, which Chen Qing created by one hand, became the king of that era. In fact, the White Robe Army originated from a conspiracy. At that time, the Northern Wei civil unrest, the Northern Wei king fled to the Southern Dynasty to surrender Liang, asked the King of Liang to send troops to help him restore the country, Liang Wu wanted to get Northern Wei, but also worried about the loss of troops, so he sent Chen Qingzhi, the most skilled chess player around him, to lead 7,000 soldiers and horses to escort the Wei king to restore the country. Chen Qing's orders everyone to change into white robes, not only for the Northern Wei Dai Filial Piety, but also for the soldiers to establish the belief that they should be put to death and be reborn.
Chen Qingzhi
In the first battle of the Northern Expedition, Suiyang, with 70,000 defenders, was captured on the 1st; in the 2nd battle of Xuzhou, the 2,000 white-robed army faced 20,000 Northern Wei troops, and the other side was completely destroyed; in the 3rd battle of Kaocheng, 7,000 people completely annihilated the 20,000 Imperial Forest Army of Northern Wei, captured the King of Yin, and captured 8,000 chariots. After that, the white-robed army went deep into the Northern Wei Dynasty alone, won 47 battles, attacked 32 cities, annihilated 300,000 enemies, swept half of the Central Plains, and finally northern Wei used the strength of the whole country to encircle and suppress, coupled with the accidental encounter with flash floods, the 7,000 white-robed army was destroyed.
6th place, Strange Knife Army
Why the Tang Dynasty was able to conquer the four sides, half of the credit was on this team, and the most frightening thing about this team was that each person had a strange knife. What is the strange knife, it is the peak of cold weapons in Chinese history, because the cost of the strange knife is expensive, the killing is amazing, Tang Taizong strictly ordered, forbidden the strange knife to accompany the burial, the final destination of each strange knife, can only fold the battlefield, can not be shelved, so what the strange knife looks like, there is no physical reference, only countless historical records. It is said that the knife is three meters long and weighs 50 pounds. The momentum is strong and heavy, the white blade is like snow, cutting the head of the person on the top and cutting off the leg of the horse. Against infantry, chop melons and cut vegetables. Against the cavalry, like the Great Wall.
Strange knife restoration diagram
In addition to datang in the world, this army can be said to be out of print, because a strange knife is expensive, worth 1 year's salary of 15 county orders. And the warriors who can be selected into the Strange Dao Army are very difficult to choose one out of a thousand, and this most elite infantry of the Tang Dynasty is led by the super warlord Li Siye. Whether facing the Turkic cavalry, or conquering Arabia, as well as quelling civil strife, the Strange Dao Army stood there like a city wall with a knife, and when the knife went down, the people and horses were shattered, which was called the Blade of the Tang Dynasty.
Tang Dynasty Strange Knife Army
5th place, back crest army
It is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family army. If the Yue Family Army was the tiger and wolf division of the Southern Song Dynasty, then the Back Ridge Army in the Yue Family Army was definitely the elite of the elite. At its peak, the Yue family army had 100,000 troops, of which the back ridge army had 8,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry soldiers were commanded by Yue Fei's eldest son Yue Yun.
Yue Fei
In the Battle of Haocheng, the back ridge infantry charged the front, and the golden soldiers' peak cavalry "kidnapped horses" were broken, and they galloped with 500 light horses, beating the golden soldiers holding their heads and rats and scurrying across the field. In the Battle of Yingchang, 800 back ridge troops not only defeated 100,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry of Jin Wushu, but also killed the enemy general Xia Jingwu. In front of Zhu Xian Town, 500 back ridge troops broke 100,000 golden soldiers, letting them know that it was easy to shake the mountain and shake the Yue family's army. As the only undefeated army in Chinese history, it became yue Fei's elite and made great achievements in defending the Great Song Dynasty.
Back Ridge Army
4th place, Qi Jiajun
During the Jiajing period, the Wokou invaded our territory, invaded the coastal border, robbed money and grain, and slaughtered the people. Qi Ji was ordered to resist the Japanese. At this time, the strength of the Ming army had fallen to the bottom, the officers and men were raised to be soldier masters, when they encountered the enemy, they turned their heads and ran, bullying the common people but they were handy, and even many people killed civilians and pretended to be Wukou to lead the merits. Qi Jiguang knew that by relying on this kind of goods, he would definitely not be able to defeat the Wokou, and he would have to form his own army.
Qi Jiguang
At the beginning, the 4,000 Qi family army were all local self-defense militias, and after Qi Jiguang took over, he first began to train troops, and he tailored a wolf basket for the "Qi family army", and tied the sword to the top of the bamboo, which could be attacked from a distance and resisted from a distance. The Mandarin Duck Array was also invented, and several people could form a formation, and the small array could cooperate with each other to become a large array. After only 2 months of training, Qi Jiajun went out of the mountain in a high profile, and all of them were one hundred. After 10 years of hard work, he basically destroyed the Wukou, and later with Qi Jiguang, he was transferred to the north and guarded the Jimen Pass as if it were impenetrable, which was a legend of the Ming Army.
3rd place, XuanJia Army
This is a super cavalry team armed to the teeth, whether soldiers or war horses, dressed in black heavy armor, is simply a tank in the cavalry, listed as the first of the top ten heavy cavalry in Chinese history, founded by Li Yuan, led by Li Shimin, assisted by Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Cheng Yaojin and other famous generals. The reason why Datang was able to open up a prosperous world, this Xuanjia army was the trump card.
Like the Strange Knife Army, the Xuanjia Army's screening of soldiers is also very harsh, it must be able to wear 80 pounds of heavy armor, run around the military field 3 times, and can also wield a large knife to be selected, and the whole army wears bright light armor, the cost is high, and the Peak of the Xuanjia Army, there are only 3500 horses. Don't look at the small number of people, but such an army became the king of the world in that era, once 1,000 Xuanjia army broke Wang Shichong's army, killed 20,000, and captured 6,000. Li Shimin also personally went out on horseback and led 500 Xuanjia troops to defeat Dou Jiande's 100,000 troops and capture the enemy commander.
Xuan Jia Army
2nd place, nationalist 74th Army
Chiang Kai-shek preferred to call this army the Tiger Ben Imperial Forest Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it participated in almost all major battles, repeatedly hoisted the elite of the Japanese army, and won the Flying Tiger Banner, which symbolized the highest honor in the army, five times, and was the first of the five aces of the Kuomintang.
75th Army
During the Battle of Songhu, because there were too many troops participating in the battle, in order to facilitate the commander-in-chief, the Nationalist army began to reorganize, and Wang Yaowu's 51st Division and Yu Jishi's 58th Division were united, that is, the earliest 74th Army. The whole army had 8 regiments and 21,000 people, and the Battle of Songhu also became a famous battle for the 74th Army. Despite his heavy casualties, he always held his position, completely annihilated a regiment of the Japanese army, and successfully covered the retreat of the Nationalist army. Old Chiang Kai-shek gave priority to the 74th Army the most powerful equipment, so that this iron army could shock the world, turn to China, and make great achievements in the anti-Japanese battlefield. But why can such a strong team only rank second with thermal weapons? That's because the First Army was too strong.
No. 1, Chinese People's Liberation Army
If there is an army in the world that can create miracles, it must be the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Since its birth on August 1, 1927, until today, 100 years later, its name has changed many times, but its faith has remained the same. The mission of this army has never been to help someone fight for the world, but to return the world to the people. Every soldier comes from a personal name and carries a heavy family burden, but as soon as the trumpet sounds, they can always rush to the front line.
During the Long March
After a hundred years of tempering, they have come from the battlefield and experienced in the fires of war, opening up territory and expanding the territory for the Chinese nation and ensuring the safety of the people. They fought warlords, japanese warriors, and warring states. The Korean battlefield repelled the US army, and the southwest battlefield punished Vietnam, so that all the enemies who clamored to invade China by force shut their mouths. To this day, this iron-blooded division is still standing, standing on the most dangerous border, always ready to meet the danger, the first army in China's history, they deserve it.
During the War of Resistance
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