Short stories of China’s top ten heroes

As follows:

1. Meng Tian

A famous general of the Qin Dynasty.

Meng Tian came from a family of famous generals and had great ambitions since he was a child. In 221 BC, Meng Tian was named a general, conquered the Qi State, and was worshiped as the internal history. He was deeply favored by Qin Shihuang. At that time, he and his younger brother Meng Yi were known as "loyal and trustworthy". After the unification of Qin, Meng Tian led an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north. Recovering Henan, he led his army to build the Great Wall and the Jiuzhou Straight Road, overcoming the dilemma of domestic traffic congestion. It has greatly promoted the economic and cultural exchanges and integration of the people of all ethnic groups in the north.

In 210 BC, the First Emperor of Qin died of illness. The CRRC ordered Zhao Gao, Prime Minister Li Si, and Prince Hu Hai to secretly plot a coup. After Hu Hai came to the throne, he ordered the death of the Meng brothers, and Meng Tian committed suicide by swallowing medicine.

Meng Tian once stationed in Jiujun for more than ten years. He shocked the Huns and was known as "China's No. 1 Warrior." It is said that Meng Tian once improved the brush, so he is also known as the "ancestral brush". He was the earliest developer in northwest China and the first person to develop Ningxia in ancient times.

2. Wei Qing

Wei Qing, a famous general in the Western Han Dynasty, was the younger brother of Wei Zifu, the second queen of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was an official up to the rank of Grand Sima General and was granted the title of Changping. Hou.

Wei Qing's first expedition was a surprise attack on Longcheng, which opened the prelude to turning defeat into victory in the Han-Hungarian War. He had seven battles and seven victories, regained the Heshuo and Hetao areas, defeated Shanyu, and made a major contribution to the development of the northern territory. .

Wei Qing is good at supporting war with war, dares to go deep into the country with his troops, gives strict orders to his generals, cares and benevolent to his soldiers, is generous and courteous to his colleagues, and is a minister of others without establishing personal authority.

Wei Qing passed away in the fifth year of Yuanfeng. He was buried 1,000 meters northeast of Maoling in a tomb like Mount Lu. His posthumous title was "Lie".

3. Huo Qubing?

Huo Qubing, a famous general in the Western Han Dynasty, an outstanding military strategist, a patriotic general, a national hero, an official who rose to the rank of Grand Sima Hussar General, and was awarded the title of Champion Marquis.

Huo Qubing is the nephew of the famous general Wei Qing. He is good at riding and shooting, flexible in using troops, pays attention to strategy, does not adhere to ancient methods, is brave and decisive, and is good at long-distance raids, quick raids, large detours, and large interlude operations.

In the first battle, he led 800 cavalry hundreds of miles into the enemy's territory, killing the Huns and sending them fleeing. In the two battles of Hexi, Huo Qubing defeated the Xiongnu, captured the Xiongnu Jinmen, and took the Qilian Mountains directly. In the Battle of Mobei, Huo Qubing sealed Langjuxu and returned home victoriously.

In the sixth year of Yuanshou, Huo Qubing died of illness at the age of 23. Emperor Wu was very sad and dispatched the armored troops from the five border counties to form a formation from Chang'an to Maoling. The tomb he built for Huo Qubing was shaped like the Qilian Mountains. He combined the two principles of bravery and territorial expansion and gave him the posthumous title of Marquis Jinghuan.

4. Ran Min

Ran Min, the founder of the Ran Wei regime during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, was famous for his bravery.

In 350 AD, he was proclaimed emperor, the country was named Da Wei, and the history was called Ran Wei. In 352, Ran Min failed to break out of the encirclement, and was captured by the former Yan Emperor Murong Zhen. He was killed on the Nexing Mountain and was later posthumously named King Wu Dao.

5. Xue Rengui

Xue Rengui was a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty and the sixth grandson of Xue Andu, King of Hedong in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"Going to war", "Three arrows set Tianshan Mountain", "Bravely conquering Liaodong", "Benevolent government of Korea", "Love the people like Zhoucheng", "Take off your hat and retreat from all enemies" and other allusions.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Rengui served as governor of Gua, led the army and generals on the right, inspected the school and acted as governor of the state, and was granted the title of Pingyang County Duke.

In the second year of Yongchun, Xue Rengui passed away at the age of seventy. The book was presented to General Zuo Xiaowei and the Governor of Youzhou.

6. Yue Fei

Yue Fei, a famous general who fought against the Jin Dynasty, was a famous military strategist, strategist, calligrapher, poet, hero against the Jin Dynasty and a national hero in Chinese history. The head of the general.

Yue Fei surrendered to the army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the more than ten years from the second year of Jianyan when he met Zongze to the eleventh year of Shaoxing, he led his Yue family army to fight hundreds of battles with the Jin army. In the first year of Jingkang, Yue Fei was recruited to join Zhao Gou's army in Xiangzhou as the generalissimo.

When the Jin army went south to the south of the Yangtze River, Yue Fei stood out and persisted in resisting the Jin army and regaining Jiankang. In the third year of Shaoxing, he was appointed as the envoy along the river. He never forgot to recover the Central Plains.

The following spring, Yue Fei regained the six counties of Xiangyang. In the sixth year of Shaoxing's reign, he led the Northern Expedition and successfully captured Yi, Luo, Shang, Guo and other prefectures. People in the two rivers rushed to tell each other, and rebels from all over the country responded one after another.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, Wanyan Wushu destroyed the alliance and attacked the Song Dynasty. Yue Fei sent his troops to the Northern Expedition and recovered Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places. He also defeated the Jin army in Yancheng and Yingchang and marched into Zhuxian Town. However, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui insisted on seeking peace and ordered Yue Fei to lead his troops with twelve "gold-character plaques".

He was framed by Qin Hui, Zhang Jun and others and imprisoned. In January 1142, Yue Fei was killed along with his eldest son Yue Yun and general Zhang Xian on trumped-up charges. During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei was rehabilitated and reburied in Qixialing by the West Lake. He was given the posthumous title of Wu Mu, and later he was given the posthumous title of Zhong Wu and was granted the title of King of E.

Yue Fei's representative poem "The River is Red" is a famous patriotic poem that has been passed down through the ages. Later generations compiled another collection and handed it down.

7. Xin Qiji?

Xin Qiji, a poet and general of the Bold and Bold School in the Southern Song Dynasty, is known as the "Dragon of Ci". Together with Su Shi, he is called "Su Xin", and together with Li Qingzhao, he is called "Jinan Er'an".

Xin Qiji was born in the Kingdom of Jin. He resisted the Jin Dynasty and returned to the Song Dynasty as a young man. He served as the pacification envoy to Jiangxi and the pacification envoy to Fujian. Due to political disagreements with the ruling peace faction, he was later impeached and dismissed from office, and retired to the mountains. Before and after the Kaixi Northern Expedition, he was successively appointed as the prefect of Shaoxing, the prefect of Zhenjiang, and the Privy Council. In the third year of Kaixi's reign, Xin Qi died of illness at the age of sixty-eight. Later, he was given the posthumous title "Zhongmin" as a young master.

Xin Qiji’s life-long ambition was to recover and he was proud of his achievements. However, he had a bad fate and was ostracized, and his ambition was difficult to realize. However, his patriotic belief in restoring the Central Plains never wavered. Instead, he placed all his passion and concerns and worries about the rise and fall of the country and the destiny of the nation in his poems.

8. Qi Jiguang

Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty, an outstanding military strategist and national hero.

Qi Jiguang fought against Japanese pirates on the southeast coast for more than ten years, eliminating the Japanese pirates that had plagued the coast for many years and ensuring the safety of lives and property of the coastal people; later he fought against the Mongolian tribal invaders in the north for more than ten years, safeguarding It ensured the security of the northern territory and promoted the peaceful development of the Mongolian and Han peoples.

At the same time, Qi Jiguang was an outstanding weapons expert and military engineer. He transformed and invented various fire attack weapons; the large and small warships and chariots he built made the Ming army's waterway equipment superior. To defeat the enemy, he creatively built a hollow enemy tower on the Great Wall, which could be used to advance, attack, retreat or defend. It was a very unique military project.

9. Zheng Chenggong?

Zheng Chenggong, a military strategist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a famous anti-Qing general and a national hero.

In 1645, the Qing army invaded the south of the Yangtze River, and soon his father Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Chenggong led his father's old troops to resist the Qing Dynasty on the southeast coast of China, and became one of the main military forces in the late Southern Ming Dynasty. They once raided and surrounded the Qing Dynasty by sea. Jiangning Prefecture, but was eventually repelled by the Qing army, and could only rely on the advantage of naval warfare to hold on to the islands of Xiamen and Kinmen in Quanzhou Prefecture.

In 1661, he led his army across the Taiwan Strait. The following year, he defeated the Dutch East India Company's garrison in Taiwan, regained Taiwan, and started the Zheng family's rule in Taiwan.

10. Zuo Zongtang

Zuo Zongtang, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a strategist, politician, a famous general of the Hunan Army, and one of the representatives of the Westernization Movement. Together with Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, he is known as one of the "Four Famous Officials of the Late Qing Dynasty and ZTE".

Zuo Zongtang studied at Chengnan Academy in Changsha and passed the provincial examination at the age of 20. Although he failed in the joint examination many times after that, he paid attention to farming, read many books, studied geography, and the art of war. Later, he experienced important historical events such as the Hunan Army's suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Westernization Movement, the suppression of the Shaanxi-Gansu Tongzhi Rebellion, the recovery of Xinjiang, and the establishment of Xinjiang Province.

During the Sino-French War, he invited himself to go to Fujian to supervise the division. During this period, he died of illness in Fuzhou at the age of seventy-three.