Sergeant Qiang

Sergeant Qiang is a supporting character who appears in the 2020 live-action remake of Mulan. He is the fiercely loyal second-in-command of Commander Tung's Imperial Army.
==Background==
===Personality===
Qiang serves as a sergeant (hence his name) who is ranked as the loyal second in command of the Imperial Army. Serving as the sergeant of the Imperial Army, he is shown to give a strict command to his army to follow his orders; otherwise, the soldier who receives a penalty or shows dishonesty in the army will be excluded from the army if he does not follow his orders - especially when it comes to training. In addition to the training, he is also shown to instruct his soldiers about the advantages of chi and what it can do for the person who studies the chi very carefully to create an advantage of how it works.
After Hua Mulan saved China and defeated Böri Khan and his Rouran army, Qiang honors Mulan in bringing honor to her family, country, ancestors, and kingdom, showing that he praises her for her heroic deeds, despite the fact that she brought dishonor in the first place, but later saved China thanks to the virtues of loyal, brave, true, and devotion which Mulan did to save China.
==Role in the film ==
Sergeant Qiang is first seen approaching the troops to line up for showers as well as telling the troops for someone to volunteer for night guard duty, which Mulan volunteers. The next day, Qiang gives out a warning to the soldiers of the Imperial Army that any of the soldiers who cause penalty can result in death. Qiang warns that soldiers who face their penalties result in dishonesty to their family and country, planning to make soldiers out of every single one of them. Later when the Imperial Army is readying themselves to fire arrows at the training dummies, their attempts are unsuccessful. He then instructs the soldiers that only the strongest will be able to reach the summit which will take everything each soldier has, only for the soldiers to fail their lesson in carrying buckets of water to the top of the summit, resulting in another failure. After a tough training, Qiang feels impressed for all the soldiers' hard work in training. He then tells a soldier named "Longwei" to report to the barracks immediately, banishing him from the army for his failure.
The next day, Qiang approaches Mulan using the power of chi while the other soldiers are training themselves to get ready for battle, which Commander Tung prevents him from scolding Mulan just as the other soldiers react to her chi. After a tough training and the Imperial Army is packing up for battle, Qiang approaches Mulan, telling her to report to Commander Tung to know who Hua Zhou is. He then appears in a montage of Mulan focusing on her chi, telling the Imperial Army about the Rouran army being powerful, telling the soldiers of his army that physical force may not be met with equal force, narrating that the warrior yields to force and redirects it as well as telling the soldiers that disadvantage can be turned into an advantage in a flashback.
The next day when Tung commands the Imperial Army, telling them that the Rourans are attacking them, Sergeant Qiang plans to lead the army to protect the Mountain-Steppe Garrison from the Rourans, telling his army to take the oath of the warrior pledging fidelity to the three pillars of virtue, devising a strategy to fight against the Rourans by telling the soldiers to raise their swords as the soldiers chant the virtues of being loyal, brave, and true. Later, the Imperial Army travels far into a territory passing by the remains of fallen soldiers, which Qiang tells them that the army the soldiers are passing by is the Fourth Battalion, a disbanded army of fallen soldiers who were killed by Böri Khan. Qiang and the rest of the army continue to march towards the Mountain-Steppe Garrison where the Imperial Army is recruited as the fifth battalion just as Commander Tung consults with the troops.
The next day when the Imperial Army prepares to fight against Böri Khan and his army, Sergeant Qiang commands the warriors to raise their spears and the archers to raise their bows and arrows to get ready to fight back just as the Imperial Army clashes with the Rourans throughout the battle. Throughout the battle when Mulan tricks the Rourans into firing a flaming boulder to hit a snow-capped peak, it causes an avalanche to engulf a large amount of Rourans; Qiang ended up surviving the avalanche along with several members of the Imperial Army. When Qiang notices that "Hua Jun" was actually Mulan in disguise the whole time, Tung scolds Mulan for bringing dishonor to the Hua family, banishing Mulan from the army. 
Later, Mulan approaches Tung at the Mountain-Steppe Garrison where she warns him and the army that the Rourans have invaded the city even though she was banished from the army, which Tung refuses to believe at first, but after Mulan tells him that they must believe in her, Yao, Ling, Po, Cricket, and the other warriors accept while Tung tells Qiang to hand him his sword. After listening to what Mulan is saying, Tung gains faith in her and agrees to help Mulan save the Imperial City by fighting off Böri Khan and his army, which Qiang and the other soldiers follow along. Qiang and the rest of the Imperial Army fight against the Rourans at the Imperial City while Mulan plans to protect the Emperor from Böri Khan. The battle ends after Mulan kills Böri Khan throwing his own arrow at him, resulting in victory for the Imperial Army.
With Böri Khan killed and his army defeated, the Imperial City celebrates their victory, just as the Imperial Army won the battle; Qiang later appears at the end of the film approaching Hua Zhou while Commander Tung presents a gift to Mulan for saving the dynasty and the entire kingdom just as Mulan receives the sword with the inscription reading "loyal, brave, and true" followed by "devotion to the family" written on it just as Mulan has brought honor to her family for saving China for her bravery, just as she is praised by everyone who Mulan met for bringing honor to them.
==Trivia==
*Sergeant Qiang is Ron Yuan's first role in a Disney film.
**Coincidentally, his brother Roger Yuan participated in the film as Duba Tegin, one of the leaders of the Rouran tribes while Ron participated as Qiang in the film. Therefore, this makes it the first time that both Roger Yuan and Ron Yuan both participated together in the same film.
*He is one of the several brand-new characters created for the live-action film.
*Some of the lines which Qiang warns the soldiers of the Imperial Army telling them that any soldier causing penalties resulting in death are a possible homage to one of Mushu's lines from the original 1998 film during the part where Mulan approaches Mushu acting as an indestructible guardian on her way to the training camp, despite the fact that Mushu was absent from the 2020 remake. 
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