留存嘅有狼兵出現嘅最早記載，係喺明英宗正統二年，由廣西向朝廷奏提交嘅奏摺度，係第一次提到咗狼兵係愛嚟剿匪。跟著之後明朝就多次調用狼兵打仗 。狼兵並唔屬於正式軍隊嘅編制 ，係一個由土官主理嘅特殊兵種，唔受一般官差嘅控制 ，同朝廷編制嘅官兵、各地方編練嘅土兵唔一樣。
The earliest surviving record of the appearance of wolf soldiers is in the second year of the orthodoxy of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and the degree of recital submitted by Guangxi to the imperial court is the first time that the wolf soldiers are loved to suppress bandits. After that, the Ming Dynasty called wolf soldiers to fight many times. The wolf soldier does not belong to the establishment of the formal army, it is a special type of military under the control of local officials, and is not controlled by ordinary officials, which is different from the officers and soldiers of the imperial court and the local soldiers.