Xue Rengui was a very famous military general in Chinese history, who was mighty on the battlefield and a great general who frightened the enemy.
But the great general did a very immoral thing, that is, he buried 130,000 Tiele army alive when he attacked the Tiele Ninth Army.
Xue Rengui was ordered to go out on the expedition, he fired three arrows in a row, and took the enemy's three heads down, originally his 3,000 army iron horse had already made the enemy feel frightened, Xue Rengui saw that the enemy was frightened and begged for forgiveness, he instead intensified and killed all the 130,000 iron cavalry troops who surrendered.
After that, he still did not give up, forcing Princess Tian Le of the Tiele Army to make himself a concubine.
This incident caused great repercussions in society at that time, but the murderous general lived to be 70 years old.
First, Xue Rengui's first show of style
Xue Rengui was a very ordinary peasant before he became a soldier, but his ancestors were also brilliant. His great-grandfather,
Grandfather, but by the time Xue Rengui was born, his family road had already fallen, so his youth depended on farmland for a living.
His wife was a very knowledgeable person, when Tang Gaozong was fighting in Liaodong, she also understood that her husband had very strong martial arts, that is, to persuade Xue Rengui to recruit soldiers, and when he was young, he created a great cause so Xue Rengui went to prove that he had signed up.
When he first went to the battlefield, although he was very unfamiliar with the battlefield, his own skills were superb, so it was like a fish in the water, and he immediately adapted to life on the battlefield.
Even if he was an ordinary little soldier, he was also the most heroic and invincible one.
Once a general and several soldiers were surrounded by enemy troops, one of whom was Xue Rengui, and just when the leader did not know how to be good and was in a dilemma, Xue Rengui rushed up and beheaded the leader of the enemy army.
The thief captured the king first, and after the leader was killed, the remaining soldiers also fled left and right. It was this action that made Xue Rengui's reputation gradually rise.
2. Ordered to attack Tiele
The Tiele people in the north have always been rivals of Datang, and although they once helped Tang Taizong to seize the throne, this people who wandered on horseback still had a tiger's eye on the country of Datang.
In the end, the chief of the Tiele nation led 100,000 iron cavalry to raise an army around the Tianshan Mountains to rebel, and the news reached the territory, and Tang Taizong hurriedly ordered to go to the battle.
However, at that time, a main general had already been designated as Zheng Tairen, and the vice general did not have a suitable candidate. At this time, someone in the palace recommended Xue Rengui.
This famous fierce general had not yet served as such a figure, and Tang Gaozong heard that he had archery skills beyond ordinary people, and hoped that he could show it.
With that, Xue Rengui raised his bow and arrow, and the arrow shot out and penetrated the armor.
Emperor Gaozong of Tang was surprised and delighted, and then appointed Xue Rengui as his deputy general and ordered them to immediately go to Tianshan to meet the Tiele Ninth Army. this
At that time, Xue Rengui was 47 years old, but he was still a mighty general, and by the time the Tang army reached the Tianshan Mountains, the Ninth General tiele had been wandering there for a long time.
They saw that the Tang army had traveled thousands of miles to meet the battle, and wanted to use the radical method to make them collapse into an army, so several leaders who took the lead shouted to Xue Rengui, asking him to show his skills and come to single out.
Xue Rengui's deputy general first led three thousand iron horses to the battle, and the tens of thousands of troops led by Zheng Tairen were still in the rear, so Xue Rengui actually did not have an advantage in front of the enemy's 100,000 troops.
But this battle-hardened general, in the face of the enemy's majestic strength, he was not afraid, but raised his bow and arrow at his own pace, firing three arrows in a row, shooting the three leaders of the enemy off the horse.
Xue Rengui's move frightened the enemy army, and the several shouting generals also dismounted and begged for forgiveness.
The tiele chief adopted the radical general method in order to suppress the Tang army, but he did not expect that Xue Rengui was not in a hurry to fix the Heavenly Mountain with three arrows, and the morale of the Tang army was ignited at once.
When Xue Rengui saw this, he immediately ordered him to go forward and fight, and the two sides began to fight.
The terrain of the Tianshan Mountains was complex, and the Tang army led by Xue Rengui was not familiar with this place and had no advantage to speak of, but his three arrows frightened and suppressed the morale of the enemy army, causing the Tiele army to not act according to the previous plan and was confused.
Coupled with the fierce momentum of the Tang army, fighting all the way, the Tiele cavalry fled and surrendered.
It is reasonable to say that if the king is defeated, the dignified people will not surrender, and since the army has been raised, the remaining leaders have led all the soldiers to surrender, so it means that they may rely on the Tang Dynasty, no longer raise troops, and can also forgive them.
However, at that time, Xue Rengui rushed to the sky with a murderous spirit and ordered the 130,000 Tiele army that surrendered to be buried in the pit, leaving no living mouth. he
Although this practice was morally contrary to heavenly reason, Xue Rengui had his own ideas.
He did this for two reasons, the first was that the Tiele Ninth Army had been attached to the Tang Before that, but they were ostensibly friendly with the Tang Dynasty, but behind the scenes, they secretly formed an army to prepare to attack the Tang. However, it backfired, every time they fought with data, their army was defeated, so they pretended to be good friends with data, but they would not attack the Tang army again.
Xue Rengui, who had posted a real man like this, was already provoked by such capricious behavior, so Xue Rengui buried them all.
The second reason is that if these people are retained, the blood and ability of the Tiele people will not allow them to live under the people, and their descendants will one day be able to invade the Tang Dynasty with large troops.
Instead of becoming a hidden danger to Datang in the future, it is better to kill the killers now and cut them down and root them out. After this, Xue Renguiqiang married Princess Tian Le and made him his concubine.
In this war, the reputation left by the Tang army was not good, because Zheng Tairen also did a lot of bad things.
Originally, Xue Rengui had already achieved great results in the front, zheng Tairen had to pull tens of thousands of Tang troops to engage, and after the enemy routed, he also ordered to pursue, which led to a large number of casualties of the Tang army.
These casualties were avoidable, but neither Xue Rengui nor Zheng Tairen closed their hands in time.
After returning to the court, many officials did not support the two men's approach, and Tang Gaozong also did not punish them for the fact that both of them had made many contributions to the country.
3. Summary
Xue Rengui's position in the military became higher and higher, but Emperor Gaozong of Tang did not record him, and he lived to be 70 years old.
In history, tiger generals like Xue Rengui were very short-lived, but Xue Rengui was different from ordinary people, because his status was different from theirs.
Although Xue Rengui's ancestor was a well-known tiger general, his family road had long been lost, and his identity was a peasant, not a son of an official eunuch, so there was no threat to the emperor.
Xue Rengui was completely sincere and loyal to the emperor.
Above the court, he was not attached to anyone, and everything he did was approved by the emperor, so Emperor Gaozong did not regard him as a thorn in his eye.
After Xue Rengui's death, Emperor Gaozong of Tang also ordered him to be buried with a higher standard, and this famous tiger general could also be regarded as having a better ending.