Huang Guigu

In the late Warring States period (246–221 BC), general Huang Guigu acted as a general for the first Qin emperor. She commanded three military units and led campaigns against the aggressive Xiongnu and Xianbei nomad tribes in China's northern frontiers.

As the first imperial general of a united China she served the Qin dynasty without a doubt and did everything for the emperor and that loyalty and bravery is why historians preserved her story a few disputed sources including rumors and folklore tells of what happened to her after the Qin dynasty fell one rumor said she became the queen of the mountain bandits while another say she lived to be 200 years old and saw the rise of the han dynasty while another say that heaven sent a dragon to get her for they felt that her time as a mortal woman on earth were up..[1]

References
  1. The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World By Adrienne Mayor, p.419


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