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Xue Rengui, the god of war of the Tang Dynasty, is a legendary fierce general like Zhao Yun in history, but Zhao Yun's deeds are mostly fabricated by novelists, but Xue Rengui's deeds are real. However, Xue Rengui's victories in life were mostly tactical victories, and the defeats were all strategic failures. It can be said that Xue Rengui was a "often defeated general" who led to a significant contraction in the territory and strength of the Tang Dynasty in the later period.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > The major battle of Emperor Taizong's expedition to Goguryeo, Xue Rengui came to the fore</h1>
At the end of the Zhenguan period, Emperor Taizong of Tang personally conquered Goguryeo, which had been occupying Liaodong for hundreds of years, and Xue Rengui, who had trained in martial arts, took the initiative to request to join the army in the war.
In a battle, Lang's general Liu Jun'ang was besieged by several times the enemy, Xue Rengui rode into the army, and won the first rank of the enemy general, the enemy army was angry, and they all broke away, and Xue Rengui was praised as a warrior by the army.
In the Battle of Mt. Tatar, the Goguryeo general Gao Yanshou led a 150,000-strong army to fight, and Xue Rengui changed into a white robe, "shouted first, and went forward without awhere", killing the enemy army to the point of crying wolf and howling, and the Tang army took advantage of the situation to cover up on all sides and win a great victory.
Emperor Taizong looked at Xue Rengui's heroic performance from afar, as if he saw the shadow of his youth. He personally received Xue Rengui and said that he was already old, and it would be up to you to fight in the future! He looked forward to him deeply: "I don't like Liaodong, I like Qingqing." ”
Although this time the Tang army did not defeat Goguryeo because of the Dun army in an city, Xue Rengui became famous in the first battle, was promoted to general, and has since entered the list of famous generals.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > conquest of the Nine Turkic surnames, the general three arrows dingtianshan</h1>
The Western Turks near the Tianshan Mountains rebelled, and Xue Rengui led a large army to conquest.
The Turks sent a group of warriors to fight in groups. Xue Rengui took the lead and fired three arrows in an instant, and the three "leading big brothers" of the Turks all received the box lunch.
Before the war, Emperor Gaozong personally awarded jingjia and asked Xue Rengui to test the arrow, and Xue Rengui pierced it with an arrow, which surprised Emperor Gaozong. It can be seen that Xue Rengui was born with divine power, and the bows and arrows used were sharp and matchless, and the Turks were intimidated by the three arrows.
The Turks admired the warriors, and with the simplicity of the brain circuit, they all knelt down in unison and begged to submit to the Tang Dynasty.
Xue Rengui was worried that they would continue to rebel in the future, so he killed all the more than 100,000 captives of the nine soldiers and civilians.
This was a crime of killing prisoners in the taizong era, when Li Shimin had a headache about whether to "stay" or "release" after subduing the Turks, and Xue Rengui directly took "killing" and disposed of it simply and rudely.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, the discipline of the Tang army had begun to be abolished, and the imperial court also turned a blind eye. The Nine Turkic surnames had so completely declined that they could no longer set off a storm, after all, the young and middle-aged were physically wiped out.
This was the easiest and bloodiest counterinsurgency process in the history of the early Tang Dynasty.
On the way back, the soldiers sang "The general three arrows fixed the Heavenly Mountain, and the soldier sang into the Han Pass." ”
In this way, he preached Xue Rengui's outstanding martial arts.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > defeated Goguryeo and reached its peak</h1>
In the early years of Emperor Gaozong's reign, the Tang took advantage of the infighting among his sons after the death of Goguryeo Quan Gai Suwen and sent a large army to launch a war of annihilation.
Xue Rengui led a partial division to attack the main Goguryeo force that pursued the Tang general Pang Tongshan, beheading more than 50,000 people in one fell swoop, achieving the greatest damage since the battle against Goguryeo.
Under Buyeo City, Xue Rengui annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, causing more than 40 defenders around the Buyeo River to be distraught and hope that the wind would return.
Soon after, Xue Rengui, in coordination with the commander Li Ji, captured Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, which had been standing since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and officially destroyed Goguryeo, which had been established for more than 700 years.
The hehe martial arts established by Xue Rengui reached their peak.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > after the deaths of Li Ji and Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui was beaten back to his original form</h1>
The famous generals Su Dingfang and Li Ji, who destroyed Baekje and Goguryeo, had already died at the age of seventy after personally sacrificing the monarchs of the two countries to the Taimiao Temple. At the end of the seven-hundred-year-long Three Kingdoms Era in Northeast Asia, Silla began to covet the homeland of Baekje and Goguryeo.
At this time, Xue Rengui stayed in Pyongyang and was awarded the title of "Grand General of the Right Wei Wei, Duke of Pingyang County, and Concurrently Inspector of Andong Du Protectorate", and served as the highest official stationed in andang Du Protectorate of Andong, the former capital of Goguryeo.
The Tang Dynasty was preparing to slowly digest the territory it had just taken from the peninsula, and also sent a huge envoy to the Uighurs to prepare to pass through the East China Sea, at which point an alarm sounded on the western front.
Western Front: Defeat in the Battle against Tibet
The powerful Tubo in the southwest entered the Kou, and the western front of the Tang Dynasty was in a hurry. At that time, Tibet was an out-and-out militarism, and the people were proud of their deaths in battle and ashamed of their deaths, far from being comparable to the nation that was corrupted and declined by religion in later generations.
Xue Rengui was dispatched to serve as the commander-in-chief of the March of TheRao Province, and went to Qinghai to fight against the Tubo army.
This time, Xue Rengui met his nemesis, the famous Tubo general On Qinling.
Considering that Xue Rengui had the courage of ten thousand men and the sharp offensive of the Tang army, Qinling adopted the strategy of luring the enemy to go deep, and used some old, weak, sick and disabled people to continuously lead Xue Rengui's main force to the plateau.
Xue Rengui's main force and logistics were completely disconnected, and the heavy troops under Guo Zhifeng did not stay at Dafeiling according to the established arrangement, but rushed to attack and prepare to meet Xue Rengui, and were intercepted by The Qinling in the Wuhai area and surrounded and killed.
Xue Rengui retreated in a hurry, and when he arrived at DafeiChuan, the troops were no longer supplied, and coupled with the long-term altitude sickness, the Tang army changed from the elite of the hundred battles at the time of the dispatch to a unit that almost lost its combat effectiveness.
In this situation, Theon Qinling gathered a large number of troops and fought with Xue Rengui.
The outcome can be imagined, more than 100,000 Tang troops (one said to be 50,000, comprehensive historical data plus heavy logistics should be more than 100,000) the entire army was destroyed, resulting in the biggest fiasco since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and since then the Tang army's war against Tibet as a whole has been at a disadvantage.
As for the reason for the defeat, many commentators in later generations believed that it was the consequence of his subordinate Guo Beifeng's failure to act without following Xue Rengui's instructions. However, from the comprehensive analysis of historical materials, the main reason is that Xue Rengui lacked strategic awareness, lacked accurate grasp of the enemy's movements, and was easily lured by the Qin Tomb to go deeper, just as goguryeo general Eulji Devon dealt with the Sui Dynasty expeditionary army, and the Russian army commander Kutuzov dealt with Napoleon.
However, Xue Rengui not only failed to realize his own strategic mistakes, but also attributed the reason to "unfavorable times in the sky" and used some superstitions of god nagging as a shield, and his insight was really far from Li Jing, Li Ji, Su Dingfang and other real famous generals.
Ren Gui sighed: "This year is in Kang Wu, the military march is against the age, Deng Ai died in Shu, and I know that I was defeated." Ren Gui sat down and was removed.
Eastern Front: A rout in the battle against Silla
Goguryeo set off a restoration movement and was used by Silla, and the situation on the peninsula was urgent, and At this time, Xue Rengui, who had been stripped of his post as the governor of Jilin Province, was made the governor of Jilin Province by Gojong, and as the commander-in-chief of the Baekje region, he fought against Silla.
This history is mentioned in Chinese history books, the Tang army and Silla had won and lost each other, but inexplicably withdrew from the peninsula, and the Silla people took control of the Goguryeo homeland south of the Taedong River and all the Baekje homeland.
In the history books of the Silla people, the history of the Tang Dynasty Silla War is more clearly described. In fact, the Tang army stationed in Baekje, under the leadership of Xue Rengui, ended in a total fiasco.
In June 671, Silla launched a surprise attack on the Tang army, beheading more than 5,000 people at Shicheng and capturing 6 Tang generals.
"(Silla) and Baekje Garin Seonghe, so they fought with Tang soldiers at Shicheng, beheaded 5,300 ranks, and won two baekje generals and six Tang Guoyi."
On October 6 of that year, more than 70 ships of the Tang army were attacked to Baekje, "the dead are innumerable."
In 675, [Silla] "fought eighteen battles with Tang soldiers, all of whom won, beheaded 6,470 ranks, and won 200 warhorses." ”
The last battle between Tang and Silla in Baekje's homeland was fought by Xue Rengui himself, and the Tang army won first and then lost, losing its foothold in Baekje. (Silla) "fought with Xue Rengui at Theophra in Sophuri Prefecture and was defeated. Again, the size of the twenty-second war, Kezhi, beheading more than four thousand levels. ”
After this battle, Xue Rengui was completely defeated at Baekje, and the Tang army had no choice but to completely withdraw from the battle for Baekje in the south of the peninsula, thus completely losing the opportunity to conquer the Uighur state.
Only the Tang generals Liu Renji and Gao Kan in the northern theater won victories such as breaking through the Seven-Fold City, saving a little face.
In this situation, Silla took advantage of the victory and sought peace, and the Tang dynasty was also exhausted due to the two-front battle, and needed to concentrate on dealing with the powerful Tubo, so it completely abandoned baekje's homeland and ruled with Silla on the border of the Taedong River, and Silla continued to be a vassal of the Tang dynasty as a vassal state, but in fact, the Tang Dynasty's Baekje war strategy was completely defeated, which was equivalent to making a wedding dress for Silla.
Among them, the most important thing is that Xue Rengui was slightly helpless in Baekje, incompetent in combat, lacked measures and means within a few years, and did not improve the war at all, but was gradually defeated and retreated, and finally was completely driven out of Baekje, which was very different from the comprehensive ability gap between Su Dingfang and Liu Renluo, who had laid baekje in that year. At the same time, before and after the conquest of Baekje, it also happened to encounter the decline of the Military System of the Tang Dynasty, and the sharp decline in the combat ability of the Tang Army was also a factor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > conclusion:</h1>
Xue Renguiyong was brave, but the lack of strategy was a huge shortcoming that he could not make up, so that after the death of famous generals such as Li Ji and Su Dingfang of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty lacked the main backbone of the commander-level, and he lacked strategic thinking, awareness of the overall situation and dispatching ability after blindly attacking and rushing, so that he lost successive defeats in the war against Tubo and Silla, and the previously invincible Tang army became a often defeated division during xue Rengui's period, especially the loss of Baekje's homeland, so that Datang lost the springboard for conquest of the Uighur state. This had an immeasurable impact on the pattern of Northeast Asia for more than a thousand years.
@Qingshi Zijian2020.11.17 Written in Yiyuan