The story of border guards

Defenders of the northwest frontier of the motherland

The Chinese nation has been threatened by nomadic people since ancient times, the most serious of which is the northwest frontier of the motherland. Since the Han Dynasty, the nomadic peoples that pose a threat to the Central Plains are Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongolia and Uighur in turn. Hexi Corridor, as the most northwest frontier controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years, has never lacked heroes to defend the country since ancient times, and more are silently dedicated border people. Since the Hexi War between Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. All occupied the Hexi corridor. Wu Wei, Jiuquan, Zhangye and Dunhuang were established by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Immigrants settled in the fields and guarded the border. The battle of Hexi opened the road to the western regions and the commercial road to the farther west, which was related to the fate of the Han empire. However, the Huns were unwilling to withdraw from Hexi, and it was impossible for the Han empire (because of the conditions at that time, soldiers could not station a large number of troops in Hexi). Under the condition of retaining a large number of troops in Hexi, the border people who immigrated to the wasteland became the most reliable force of the Han empire. For the honor and territory of the empire and for survival, nomads can bow and shoot arrows. People in Hexi border can also do it. In fact, since Li Guang, a famous soldier in Tianshui, Gansu, Gansu's sons and daughters have been the main source of troops for the cavalry in the Han Dynasty, and General Fei is also based on the mobility of the cavalry. They are the people who are most familiar with the bustling wolves in the northwest. They are imperial hounds guarding the gate of the sheepfold. Please forgive me for saying this, because since the Han Dynasty, how many ethnic groups beyond the Great Wall have crossed the Hexi Corridor and swept the Central Plains all the way? Hexi has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, and there is Jiayuguan after the existing stone passes through Yumenguan Yangguan. Since the Han Dynasty, there have been no quarrels among up to 10,000 garrisons, and a large number of tasks to defend the frontiers of the motherland have been handed down from generation to generation. It seems that this is their destiny in life. Advance is for the people, and exit is for the soldiers. How many times the western expedition to Yangguan, how many times the battlefield spilled blood, how many times you went where you went, and the desolate poetry and music of Liangzhou Qu all told this and that history. From the Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty, how many times did they resist the invasion of fierce enemies? They have no food and clothes, strong armor and elite weapons. With their ancestral leather armor, bows and arrows, and skillful riding skills, they have quietly dedicated themselves in the northwest frontier of the empire for hundreds of years. When later people praised the ancestors who drove the Huns thousands of miles north, who thought of the border people who made great sacrifices for the empire? Even during the chaos in China, when the Han people were helpless, they fought tenaciously and rebelled constantly. People on the grassland respect the strong, and their border people can be treated equally and enjoy all the rights that people on the grassland can get, but they fight for their own destiny and honor alone. (