After the end of the Southern Expedition of Shu, these fierce warriors fell into unemployment; Leaving such forces in the South is undoubtedly a great factor of social instability.

To this end, Zhuge Liang implemented a favorable policy of killing two birds with one stone; Ethnic minority fighters were recruited to join the Shu government army, and the funding problem was solved by the local tyrants.

"Huayang National Chronicles" recorded: Liang Yiyi is more ruthless, not surnamed Haoqiang, but ordered to pay out gold silk, and hired evil Yi as a family department, and many people are hereditary officials.

So the Yi people greedy for goods, in order to subjugate the Han Dynasty, into the Yi Han tribe, so as to establish a local army with the nature of razing in the local area, the local Haoqiang to get the social status, then settled in the Shu Han rule, out of the golden twilight soldiers, so that the minority people get benefits, ease the people. Tribe. Spear. Shield.

Barbarian unemployed soldiers became government troops, just as they got a stake in an enterprise and became the core of centripetal force among ethnic minorities.

The army it composed was familiar with folklore and less likely to provoke problems; Later, Zhang Wei, Ma Zhong and others suppressed the rebellion, and the Yihan tribe was the main force.

Such benefits naturally cannot be enjoyed exclusively by localities; At the same time, in order to completely avoid the resurgence of the southern separatist forces; Under the auspices of Zhuge Liang, Shu did not hesitate to move south to the south, and more than 10,000 Qingqiang families were in Shu for five departments, so they should have no front number for the flying army. This is the origin of the Wudang Flying Army.

After the members of the Wudang Flying Army arrived in Shu County, they became military households of Shu State, and they became professional soldiers for Shu for generations.

At that time, the prosperity of Chengdu and Nanzhong was not the same, and the Yi people of Nanzhong were heavy warriors; Therefore, every time there is a vacancy, the southerners will run to tell it, and they will be proud of it.

At that time, the population in the south was not large, with 20,000 households in Langke County, 10,000 households in Jianning County, 8,000 households in Zhuti County, and 40,000 households in Xinggu County.

The flying army is all dressed in iron armor and can cross mountains and mountains; good at using bows and crossbows and poisoned arrows; He is especially good at defensive operations.

Because it is a family migration, it is customary to dance with a barbarian aunt, and all the group cards are draped in hair, and the horn is roaring.

Such a strange costume and a unique army with unique customs were stationed in Shudu; It must also bring about a lot of cultural conflicts, at least the majority of the noble class must be curious and worried.

In order to be able to give these fierce warriors good management, Shu Han appointed Wang Ping, a strict Wei general, as the first commander of the legion.

Wang Ping has all the words, and his literacy is less than ten; He shared weal and woe with the soldiers, but was strict by nature, harsh in training, and rarely spoke.

Such a general who was both convincing and stern and a little gloomy; It's really a suitable commander for mercenaries.

The Wudang Flying Army is worthy of the prestige of the warriors of Nanzhong, brave and good at fighting, and has outstanding performances in all wars of Shu Han.

As soon as he came out of Qishan, he was accompanied by Ma Tan's troops to fight Zhang He in the street pavilion, and Ma Jian made a mistake and the whole army was defeated; It was the Wudang Flying Army led by Wang Ping who broke off.

The Wudang Flying Army fought to the death on the one hand, and beat the drum on the other to confuse the enemy army; successfully covered the evacuation of other units from the battlefield, and retreated with his own body; It's a small test.

In the ninth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang's fourth northern expedition made Wang Ping to the south of Tun with a deputy division; Self-designed around Sima Yi in Qishan.

Sima Yi couldn't resist it, so he simply used the trick of encircling Wei to save Zhao; sent Zhang He to lead the main army to attack Wang Ping's lone army, although Wang Ping's Wudang Fei army was only 3,000 and made Wei one-twentieth of the army; But these barbarian warriors all swore to the death and resisted desperately, arrows were like flying locusts, Zhang He couldn't attack it, but Sima Yi's camp had been broken by Zhuge Liang's army.

The Wei army retreated, but the Wudang Fei Army took advantage of the characteristics of the mountain corps to rush out of the camp; counterattacked the Wei army's rearguard, and attacked the Wei army in front and back; Thousands of armor losses were lost. Shu was able to gain a considerable advantage in the first battle with Sima Yi, and the Fei army fought to the death against the army of Cao Wei's fierce general Zhang He, and made great contributions.

Due to the characteristics of mountain warfare, the Wudang Flying Army was often used to crusade against rebellious ethnic minorities.

In the third year of Yanxi (240 AD), Hanjia (now Ya'anbei, Sichuan) rebelled; Shu Han dispatched the beloved Su guards to replace him to go to the expedition, and the equipment was not excellent; As a result, this famous general with a good temperament died at the hands of minority rebels, and it was only when the flying army was transferred back from the front line that the situation was controlled.

Wei Yan lamented regretfully when he recounted this: "The old man was killed by Ma Dai at the Hutou Bridge in Hanzhong, and his body disappeared, but his ghost did not disperse, and he has been floating in the sky over the land of Bashu; What I saw was that the Wudang Flying Army was under the command of Jiang Wei! ”

Stretching his neck and throat, he said: "The end of the Wudang Flying Army is extremely tragic, it is the eighth time in Jiang Wei's nine expeditions to the Central Plains; In order to cover the retreat of the commander, the 5,000 Wudang Fei Army and the last commander Zhang Wei fought the last battle, and the whole army was killed. Later, although there is still the name of the flying army; And it has been shown in battles such as the defense of Yangping Pass, but the Wudang Flying Army as a whole no longer exists......"

Zheng Shuang listened to Wei Yan tell about the formation and demise of the Wudang Flying Army, and said thoughtfully: "Did the predecessors quote the story of the Wudang Flying Army to consider those executioners whose hands were covered with blood? ”

Wei Yan frowned and said calmly: "The young general is not wrong, the old man is thinking like this......"