Pit killing, presumably, is a word often seen in history. Bai Qi, Xiang Yu, Cao Cao and other famous figures, they all had records of pit killing.
However, many people do not know that the so-called pit killing is actually much more terrifying than we think.
In our cognition, pit killing seems to be buried alive, but this is not the case. According to historical records, pit killing was called "shoki" in ancient times, also known as "Jingguan", which is a kind of demonstration practice of piling up the bodies of captives after killing captives.
For example, the Book of Wei records that Murong Chui and Northern Wei were defeated at the Battle of Sanhepo, and most of his army was captured by Northern Wei.
Unexpectedly, the Northern Wei Dynasty killed all the captured soldiers, and the corpses piled up like mountains, and then covered with soil to form a mound shaped like a pyramid.
It can be said that the real pit killing is very cruel, but anyone who uses this method will generally be spurned by posterity. For example, Bai Qi, don't look at him as the god of war, after his pit killing captives, he has been criticized by future generations of people to this day, becoming a major stain in his life.
Today, however, we would like to talk about a very kind general in our impression, Xue Rengui. He not only killed all 130,000 enemy troops who surrendered, but also forced the enemy's princesses to become concubines.
Killing and descending is an disgraceful thing, and it also occupies the princess, is Xue Rengui a heinous demon in history?
Speaking of Xue Rengui's most famous battle, it is counted as his "Three Arrows Fixing Heavenly Mountain". It was also in this battle that he wantonly slaughtered his descendants and forced the enemy princess to be concubines, but few people in the world spit on Xue Rengui.
Why?
Time back to the second year of Zhenguan, when the Eastern Turk Khan died, causing great turmoil in the country. Because the Eastern Turks usually oppressed the Tiele and other tribes under their rule, the Tang seized the opportunity to unite with the Tiele tribes to jointly attack the Eastern Turks.
With the help of the Tiele tribe, the campaign went very smoothly and soon defeated the Eastern Turks.
After the tang army withdrew, the Tiele tribe established a khanate, with a territory stretching from Daxing'anli in the east to the Altai Mountains in the west, which can be said to be a vast territory.
However, after the founding of the Country, the nine major families within Tiele were capricious and disagreed, some advocating defection from the Tang Dynasty, and some wanted to maintain the status quo.
In this case, the families that advocated rebellion against Tang often invaded Tangbian, but when the Tang Dynasty sent a large army, they immediately surrendered.
At the end of 661, the tiele chief died, and the new chief decided to oppose the Tang, so he led an army of 130,000 people from the nine major families to invade the Tang border.
Li Shimin was furious when he heard this, and sent Xue Rengui to lead the expedition, vowing to kill these capricious villains.
Later, the two armies faced each other at tianshan, and Tiele sent dozens of generals to challenge them, and as a result, Xue Rengui fought alone to meet the enemy, and in the process of fighting, Xue Rengui fired three arrows in a row to hit the three generals of Tiele.
After the others saw the situation and fled in a hurry, Xue Rengui seized the moment of the other party's panic and ordered an attack, and finally captured all the enemy troops.
Thinking of The capriciousness that Tiele has always had, one will surrender, one will rebel, it is really hateful, so this time we must cut the grass and remove the roots.
According to historical records:
"Xue Rengui killed more than 100,000 people, and even more so he went to the north to beg the rest of the people."
Therefore, after Killing 130,000 descendants, Xue Rengui continued to march north to collect the remaining forces of Tiele.
Just after breaking through the kingdom of Tiele, he discovered the beauty of Princess Tiele. Don't look at Xue Rengui at this time, he is more than 50 years old, but he forcibly forced Princess Tiele to be a concubine.
When this matter was transmitted back to the Tang Dynasty, it immediately aroused heated discussion among everyone. Some people say that he is not ashamed and actually did something to seize.
Some people say that even if he kills and surrenders, he still occupies the princess, which is detrimental to the majesty of heaven.
In fact, the reason why Xue Rengui only killed the pawns in his life was mainly because the enemies were too hateful, they were capricious, and if they were let go, it would be difficult to continue to act strangely in the future.
As for the forcible occupation of Princess Tiele, in fact, it can be seen as a self-defiling way, just imagine a general who likes to see a beautiful woman, rather than soaking in the barracks all day to develop and grow, such a general emperor is naturally assured to use.
Because of this, he can live to the age of 70, otherwise according to his merits, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be a situation of running dog cooking.
Reference: Old Book of Tang