26 Facts About Ma Qiu

Ma Qiu was a military general of Later Zhao and Former Qin during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

Ma Qiu participated in Zhao's campaigns against Former Yan and Former Liang, in which both he met with failures.

Ma Qiu had served Later Zhao during the time of Shi Le.

Ma Qiu was described as a fierce and dangerous man.

Ma Qiu was involved in the joint Later Zhao and Former Yan campaign against the Duan tribe in 338.

Shi Hu ordered Ma Qiu to retrieve Duan Liao, who had offered his surrender at Mount Miyun.

Ma Qiu returned on foot to an angered Shi Hu, who stripped him off his titles and offices.

Ma Qiu returned to prominence in 346, now serving as Inspector of Liangzhou.

Ma Qiu conquered Jincheng, where the Prefect Che Ji refused to surrender to him and committed suicide.

Ma Qiu then conquered Daxia after Liang's general Liang Shi arrested its Administrator Song Yan and handed over the city.

Ma Qiu was impressed by the displays of loyalty from Che Ji and Song Ju, so he had them both buried with proper burial.

Ma Qiu continued his advances into Liang the following year in 347 by attacking Fuhan.

Ma Qiu used siege ladders and tunnels to breach their defenses but all these failed while getting thousands of his men killed.

Xie Ai went to face Ma Qiu's army, riding a light carriage, wearing a white headdress and having drums played as he proceeded.

Ma Qiu saw him foolish-looking and thought he was mocking him, so he sent his cavalries to fight him.

Ma Qiu was badly routed and fled alone on horseback to Daxia.

Ma Qiu returned with Shi Ning and captured Fuhan before proceeding to Henei.

Ma Qiu was further reinforced by Sun Fudu and Liu Hun and attacked Zhang Chonghua.

Ma Qiu complied and had many of Wang Lang's barbarian troops executed, causing Wang to flee.

Ma Qiu advised Fu Hong to concentrate in conquering Guanzhong while Ran Min and Shi Zhi were at war.

Fu Hong agreed but Ma Qiu was not as loyal as he thought.

At a feast, Ma Qiu took the chance to poison Fu Hong and took over his army.

Unfortunately for him, though Fu Hong was poisoned, he did not get far with his plans, as Ma Qiu was quickly arrested and executed by Fu Hong's son, Fu Jian.

In some iterations of her, Ma Qiu is portrayed as her father.

Ma Qiu was put in charge of building fortifications and forced his workers to work day and night.

However, Ma Qiu soon found out and wanted to apprehend his daughter for this, but by then, she had fled to the mountains to pursue the Taoist arts.