Three arrows fixed the Heavenly Mountain, a hat to scare off millions of enemy troops, 40 years of conquest on the battlefield but almost no defeat, the battle merits are known as the "Great Tang Army God", so how powerful is Xue Rengui's martial arts? What kind of legendary story does his life have?
Xue Rengui, the famous character Rengui, was the sixth grandson of Xue Andu, the king of Hedong in Northern Wei, he was a famous and prestigious family in the Han and Tang dynasties, but when Xue Rengui was a teenager because of the early death of his father Xue Rail, his family fell into the middle of the road, and Xue Rengui, whose family was poor, could only rely on farming for a career, but Xue Rengui still studied hard and practiced martial arts diligently, and then at the suggestion of his wife Liu Shi, he joined the army to accompany Li Shimin's army on an expedition to Liaodong, and Xue Rengui, who had just entered the battlefield, came to prominence in the army.
In 645, when the Tang army went to Goguryeo, the Tang general Liu Junqiong was besieged, so he sent Xue Rengui to the rescue, only to see Xue Rengui running away alone, taking the head of a leader of Goguryeo and hanging it on the saddle, which made the Goguryeo army withdraw in fear, and after this battle, Xue Rengui became famous in the army. And in the decisive battle between Li Shimin and Goguryeo, Goguryeo 200,000 troops came to meet the battle, Li Shimin ordered each to attack separately, only to see Xue Rengui wearing a white robe, holding a spear and a double bow, charging at the front of the Tang army to kill countless enemies, the Generals of the Tang Army were also encouraged by Xue Rengui's momentum, and they charged behind him, this battle The Goguryeo army was defeated, and at this time Xue Rengui was just an ordinary soldier, but his performance on the battlefield was very brave, so it also attracted Li Shimin's attention. Xue Rengui was promoted to a guerrilla general, and after breaking through Liaodong, he said: "It is not a big deal for me to conquer Liaodong, I am glad to have you as a general" So he made Xue Rengui the right leader Zhonglang General and put him in charge of guarding Xuanwu Gate.
After Emperor Gaozong of Tang succeeded to the throne, Xue Rengui returned to the battlefield again, and Xue Rengui, who returned to the battlefield, was as brave as ever in fighting, and in the first year of Long Shuo (661 AD), the Hui chieftain who had always been friendly with the Tang Dynasty died, and after his son Bisu succeeded to the throne, he turned his head and became an enemy of the Tang, so Emperor Gaozong of Tang sent Zheng Rentai xue Rengui and the two of them to the Tianshan Mountains to pacify the nine surnames of Tiele, and also specially gave a banquet before leaving, because Xue Rengui was good at archery, and every time he went to the battlefield, he carried two large bows. So during the banquet, Emperor Gaozong of Tang said to Xue Rengui: "People who are good at archery in ancient times can penetrate the seven layers of armor, you can try to see if you can penetrate the five layers", and then Xue Rengui pulled a bow and arrow, did not expect to really penetrate the five layers of armor, Tang Gaozong saw that Xue Rengui praised Xue Rengui continuously, and immediately rewarded Xue Rengui with a set of harder armor.
After Zheng Rentai and Xue Rengui led their troops to the Tianshan Mountains, the nine tiele soldiers joined forces to meet the battle with more than 100,000 troops, and sent dozens of Tiele Xiaoyong soldiers to challenge, while Xue Rengui still pulled a bow and arrow in front of the battle, and fired three arrows in a row so that the three Tiele generals immediately received a box lunch, while the rest of the Tiele soldiers who came to challenge were shocked by Xue Rengui's superb archery skills, so they dismounted and surrendered to the Tang army, but Xue Rengui was worried about leaving a future behind, so he chose to take advantage of the victory to pursue the defeat and regain Hui after consulting with the main general Zheng Rentai. And all the surrendered Tiele soldiers were killed, so that the nine surnames tiele would no longer become a border problem of the Tang Dynasty, which was undoubtedly the most brilliant achievement of Xue Rengui's life on the battlefield.
When the rebellion against Tubo was a few years later, the deputy general Guo Zhifeng was unwilling to obey Xue Rengui's orders, and repeatedly disobeyed Xue Rengui's orders, resulting in a crushing defeat at the Battle of Dafeichuan, and Xue Rengui was also implicated and dismissed from his post as a civilian. Ten years after being demoted to a commoner, Xue Rengui was reinstated as a rebel due to the rebellion of the remnants of Goryeo in the Tang Dynasty, and then exiled to Xiangzhou for his crimes until the imperial court was granted amnesty before he could return home, and Emperor Gaozong Li Zhinian and his old merits summoned Xue Rengui to revive him.
Later, due to the Turkic rebellion, Xue Rengui was ordered to lead an army to fight, and when the Tang army and the Turks met in Yunzhou, the Turks shouted in front of the battle: "Who are the generals of the Tang Dynasty?" Tang Jun replied: "Xue Rengui", the nine generals in the camp surnamed Tiele were all terrified after hearing Xue Rengui, and the Turks were shocked: "I heard that Xue Rengui was exiled to Xiangzhou long ago, how can people come back after they have died?" So Xue Rengui suddenly took off his helmet, the Turkic soldiers were shocked after seeing Xue Rengui's true appearance, and they all retreated in a panic after dismounting and queuing up to worship, and Xue Rengui led the Tang army to pursue with victory, killing the enemy generals and capturing more than 20,000 people, and the Battle of Yunzhou was victorious, at this time Xue Rengui was already 69 years old, which was also Xue Rengui's last battle.
In the second year of Yongchun (683 AD), Xue Rengui died at the age of seventy, a generation of war god Xue Rengui fought on the battlefield for decades, defeated the nine surnames tiele, destroyed Goguryeo for the Tang, broke tubo, Turks, established countless outstanding merits, and made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, which can be described as a legendary Tang general.