In recent years, special forces film and television dramas have sprung up one after another, and Jensen's favorites are "I Am a Special Forces Soldier" and "Special Forces Fire Phoenix". In retrospecting some past TV series, Jensen stumbled upon many ancient "special forces" .
The early Qin state was suppressed for a long time by the most elite "Wei Wu pawn" in the world, and after the Shang martingale changed the law, the national strength became stronger and stronger, and the general Sima Mistaken suggested to King Huiwen of Qin to imitate the "Wei Wu Pawn" to form a "Qin Ruishi", but the selection criteria were more stringent, and it was necessary to carry more than eighty pounds of heavy weapons and armor to travel more than a hundred miles to be able to enter the fierce battle, in order to enter the infantry and cavalry battles, and those who ranked first could be selected as "Iron Eagle Sharp Soldiers", so that almost every one of them was an invincible warrior with one hundred, the new army of the Qin State was 200,000, and the Sharp Soldiers were only 1,600 people. The commander after Sima Cuo was Bai Qi, the god of war, and the "Iron Eagle Sharps" led by him made great achievements in the unification of the Six Kingdoms, and was the most legendary special forces in the Warring States period.
Everyone knows that "Lü Bu among men and red rabbits in horses", but few people know that Lü Bu, who is invincible and invincible, has a brave special forces under his command to "trap the camp", the commander of the trap camp is the general Gao Shun, the whole army has only more than 700 people, but he has defeated Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao's general Xiahou Chun. The victories of the trapped camp stemmed from the elite equipment, strict discipline and strategic commander Gao Shun, but Lü Bu could not know and make good use of people after the end, since Hao Meng rebelled, he alienated Gao Shun, and after Lü Bu was defeated by Cao Cao, Gao Shun, like Chen Gong, refused to surrender, died without a word, and the trapped camp has since disappeared into history.
The Battle of Shuishui was one of the famous battles in history in which less won more, and the 80,000 troops of the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated more than 800,000 troops of Former Qin, one of the reasons was that the Eastern Jin Dynasty had an elite "Northern Province Army". Xie Xuan, the Yanzhou assassin Shi Xuan, who possessed the "talent of the country", recruited overseas Chinese who had fled from the north and had a bloody vendetta against the Hu people, and recruited mainly generals rather than soldiers, including Liu Jiaozhi, who was brave and good at war, so the combat experience and combat effectiveness of this "Northern Fu soldier" was very strong, and it was natural that the Eastern Jin Dynasty occupied an important strategic position and defeated Former Qin, which was ten times more powerful than its own army. However, Xie Xuan was later dismissed from military power due to suspicion, and Liu Gaozhi was forced to commit suicide after defecting to the anti-thief Heng Xuan, and the Beifu soldiers disintegrated.
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were chaotic strife, displaced people begged everywhere for food in order to survive, and various localities organized armed defenses, and the displaced people were attacked, and they developed their own armed forces in self-defense, gradually forming a "beggar army". Later, with the Wuhu Chaos, the main contradiction of the Beggars Army changed from food and clothing to national contradictions, and under the leadership of the leader Ran Min, the Beggars Army showed a strong fighting force, and repeatedly defeated the Hu people with fewer victories. However, with the death of Ran Min in battle, most of the beggars were martyred and suffered heavy losses, and they could not launch a large-scale attack on the Hu people, but instead harassed and sneaked attacks, which lasted for more than a hundred years. The beggars are tragic, but their patriotic plot has left a strong color in history.
Anyone who has seen Huang Haibing's version of "The Legend of Sui and Tang Heroes" knows that Luo Cheng's father Luo Yi has a terrifying special forces unit under him, "Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen", they are dressed in cold clothes, waist machetes, face masks, heads covered with black scarves, only show their eyes, only active in the desert, rarely enter the Central Plains, no one has ever seen its true face. The "Eighteen Horses of Yanyun" once slaughtered tens of thousands of men, women and children in the Turkic Liao, making them afraid to invade Luo Yi's territory. Yang Lin, the patron king, commented on the "Eighteen Horses of Yanyun": Fast as the wind, fierce as fire, wherever you go, there is no grass left. Strong bow and machete, good at riding and shooting, with one enemy and a hundred, not a defeat. After Luo Yi surrendered to Li Yuan, he led a team to suppress Liu Heimin, and was defeated by Su Dingfang, and the "Eighteen Horses of Yanyun" was also completely destroyed in the process.
In the "Biography of Sui and Tang Heroes", we know the heroes of Qin King Li Shimin's account, such as Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Wei Chi Jingde, etc., but we do not know that they also have a strong and perverted Xuanjia army in their hands, the weapons and equipment of the Xuanjia Army are the most sophisticated, and the selected soldiers and horses must be wearing heavy armor, which leads to this unit having only three to five thousand people. When Li Shimin besieged Wang Shichong in Luoyang, Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 to aid Wang Shichong, and Li Shimin immediately led 3,500 Xuanjia troops to meet the attack, not only defeating Dou Jiande with few victories and more victories, but also capturing him as a prisoner, which also laid the foundation for the Three Hundred Years of the Tang Dynasty. After Li Shimin became emperor, he left some generals as guards, others were sent to attack the Xiongnu, and with the change of emperor, the Xuanjia army gradually became an ordinary army.
Yue Fei is one of the most famous patriotic generals in China's history, and his Yue family army is often talked about, and the most famous of the 12 armies is the Back Ridge Army. After Yue Fei defeated the puppet Qi regime, he captured a large amount of war horse resources, thus forming the Back Ridge Army. There were two classic battles of the Back Ridge Army, one was to use infantry to break the elite "abduction horse" of the Golden Army, killing 15,000 enemy troops; the other was to kill more than 100,000 people of the Golden Army with 500 back ridge elite soldiers, which made the Jin people have to sigh: "It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult for the Yue family army." After the Yue family army was scattered, the Back Ridge Army was transferred to Kyoto to guard the Imperial City, reorganized into the Imperial Front, and after living a comfortable life for 20 years, it gradually lost its former glory.
Timid Xue is a Mongolian word meaning the Janissaries or Imperial Forest Army of the Mongol Empire, and it was a pro-army formed by Genghis Khan to ensure his safety, most of which were composed of the elite sons of the Mongol nobility, which was one of the ways genghis Khan controlled the nobility. The weapons and equipment of the Cowardly Xue Army were the most luxurious in the Mongol Empire, and the status and fenglu enjoyed were also the highest in the army, but it was not easily used, let alone used to fight on the battlefield, but used to control the entire Mongol Empire. In the later years of Genghis Khan, the cowardly Xue army expanded from 10,000 to more than 120,000 people, but gradually decayed in the later period and eventually withdrew from the stage of history.
At the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising, he received a firearm from a man named Jiao Yu, and firearms became an important weapon for the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. When Ming Chengzu Zhu Di set up an independent gun unit Shenji Battalion, which was the earliest gun army in China and even the world, the Shenji Battalion chose a three-stage shooting method, which also led the world for more than 200 years. The early Shenji Battalion was able to repel the invading Mongol soldiers with the earliest artillery, the copper fire rifle, and was able to resist the iron horse of the Qing army, but when the national strength declined in the late Ming Dynasty, it was either equipped with firearms or equipped with inferior firearms, and it was naturally unable to resist when it encountered the powerful Qing Dynasty government.
Qi Jiajun, also known as the Yiwu Army, was named after the commander Qi Jiguang. Qi Jiguang loved to study the art of war from an early age, and later attacked Dengzhou Wei to command the affairs, and was appreciated by the governor Hu Zongxian and promoted to join the army, and after participating in the battle with Wukou in Longshan, Cixi County, he found that the existing army was corrupt, so he submitted to Hu Zongxian to personally recruit soldiers to form a team, and then formed the Qi family army. Qi Jiguang strictly trained the team, and the Qi family army participated in the Battle of Taizhou, the Battle of Fujian, and the Battle of Xinghua and won a complete victory over Wukou. Later, he was transferred to the north to build a long town to guard the border, coinciding with the death of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the central government, and the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun engaged in "settling accounts after the autumn" and deposed Qi Jiguang, Zhang Juzheng's most trusted person. The Qi family army, which lacked its soul, had lost its vitality and gradually became an ordinary army.
The above are the top ten "special forces" in ancient China, although the number of troops is small, but on the battlefield they make the enemy feel frightened, and they are deeply loved by the people at home. If Jensen has missed any other famous "special forces" in ancient times, please point out for Jensen in the comments section. Welcome to follow Jensen, Jensen will bring more exciting content.
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