Liu Bei's Secret Elite Force: The Iron Wall Behind an Emperor!

During the Three Kingdoms period, it was very common for vassals to build their own guard forces.

Cao Cao had Dian Wei as his invulnerable living shield, and Sun Quan had his general Taishi Ci by his side. These people were not only bodyguards, but also symbols of absolute loyalty.

However, in a time full of intrigue, where people's hearts can change as easily as the weather, few people know that Liu Bei, the monarch famous for his benevolence and great ambition to restore Han, possessed a secret army that even Zhuge Liang, the prime minister who held great military power in Shu Han, could not arbitrarily mobilize.

An army with no name in official history, not flashy on the battlefield, but holding the life of the emperor in their hands. Who are they? And why were they given absolute power in silence?

Who was that army? Why did they exist in the dark but play a vital role for Liu Bei and Shu Han? And for what reason did they disappear without a trace after Liu Shan surrendered? Let's discover the secret of the Bai Er Bing, the most special army in the history of the Three Kingdoms.

The Three Kingdoms was a period of chaos and bloodshed. But strangely, in hundreds of large and small battles, there were rarely any successful assassinations of monarchs. Why?

The three great monarchs Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, although they were more intelligent than others, were not really outstanding in terms of martial arts. Cao Cao had some martial arts skills, Liu Bei had studied martial arts with Liu Deqin, but he was mainly famous for his morality. Sun Quan was even more clearly the son of an official, raised in a study, and was even chased by Zhang Liao until he almost lost his shoes on the top of a mountain during the battle of Hefei.

At that time, a single stab in the night was enough to change the fate of an entire dynasty. And of course, intelligent people like the three monarchs could not help but think of that.

Therefore, in addition to sending good generals to battle, they also secretly built an army of absolutely loyal guards, just to protect their lives. These armies were often carefully selected, trained in secret, and only under the command of the commander.

Anyone who has read Romance of the Three Kingdoms will clearly remember: Liu Bei's closest bodyguard was Zhao Zilong, also known as Zhao Yun, a general with excellent martial arts skills who single-handedly saved the young lord A Dou from a siege. It is worth mentioning that, although Zhao Yun was capable of leading troops into battle, Liu Bei kept him by his side as a bodyguard.

But Zhao Yun alone was not enough. For an experienced person like Liu Bei, who had been on the run for half his life, being surrounded and defeated many times, he clearly understood that his safety could not depend on just one person, no matter how loyal. Therefore, Liu Bei secretly established a specialized elite force, similar to today's "special forces" Bai Er Bing.

This was an extremely secretive army. To the point that even Zhuge Liang, who controlled the entire Shu Han military, could not mobilize them without direct orders from Liu Bei.

Information about this army is extremely scarce in official history. However, in a letter from Zhuge Liang to Lieutenant Commander Li Yan, he mentioned them with great respect:
"You think the White Emperor's soldiers are not elite. When I went to inspect, they were the White Second Army under the command of the late emperor, and were also the most elite soldiers in the West."

This statement not only reveals the title of "Bai Er Bing" but also shows their specialness and top secret nature. They were not under the command of Zhuge Liang himself, but were an army that "belonged only to the late emperor", Liu Bei.

If the White Two Soldiers had only existed as a guard, they probably would not have been mentioned in history as a "superior" force. But the battle of Yiling that year proved that they were not only a shield but also the last blade to preserve the lives of an entire dynasty.

In the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei led his army to avenge Guan Yu and fought against Eastern Wu. However, the Wu state, under the command of the famous general Lu Xun, used fire attacks to burn down the entire Shu camp, causing Liu Bei's army to be defeated. That was the moment when the line between life and death was just a hair's breadth.

Amidst the sea of fire, chaos, and close pursuit by the Wu army, Tran Dao led the Bach Nhi army and several hundred elite soldiers to stand behind.

Under the red sky, they built a barricade of spears, the spearheads bristling like a forest of steel. The Wu army thought they could easily crush a few hundred soldiers. But they were wrong.

The Bai Er soldiers fought like cornered beasts – not taking a single step back. Even though they were outnumbered ten to one, they still stopped the Wu army from advancing, protecting Liu Bei's escape route.

If there had not been that "death-defying gate-guarding" scene, perhaps the Three Kingdoms would not have had the scene of Liu Bei "giving his last words at Baidicheng", nor the story of "Kongming assisting Adou". Bai Erjun appeared once - wrote the most tragic chapter in the journey to protect Shu Han.

After Liu Bei's death, the White Two Soldiers continued to protect the late ruler Liu Shan. But when the Shu Han dynasty was destroyed in 263, something strange happened: The entire White Two Soldiers... disappeared as if they had never existed.

There is no record of their being silenced, captured, or transferred. They simply disappear from history.

Some Chinese scholars, including sources from Sina and Sohu, believe that:
The Bai Er soldiers were originally recruited from the ethnic minorities in the Southwest. When the Shu Han Dynasty collapsed, their only loyal subjects, the Liu family, were no longer there, so they chose to quietly retreat back to where they came from.

No surrender, no resistance, no betrayal. Just quietly disappearing the way they had quietly existed.

Bai Er Bing was not recorded in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", had no bronze statues to worship, nor was he praised in history books. But among the historical lines filled with the names of generals, they are the silent figures of absolute loyalty, not for fame, not for profit, only for one person: Liu Bei.

In an era where beliefs are fickle and loyalty is easily bought, the existence of an army like the White Second Infantry becomes even more rare and memorable.

Because sometimes, history is not written by the survivors... but by those who are willing to disappear to keep the last dream of an emperor.

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