Summoning of the Great General of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 212

And Yelu Dashi's subordinates, such as Guo Yaoshi, the general who turned against him.

Guo Yaoshi, a native of Tiezhou, Bohai Sea, his ancestry and date of birth are unknown.In the sixth year of Tianqing (1116), Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Dynasty, Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, killed Liaodong and left Xiao Baoxian.Emperor Tianzuo sent Prime Minister Zhang Lin to crusade, but was defeated by Jurchen soldiers supporting Gao Yongchang in Shenzhou.

So Emperor Tianzuo appointed Yan Wang Yeluchun as the Marshal of the capital, recruited the hungry people in Liaodong, and took the meaning of avenging Jurchen, so-called "resentful army", which was divided into Qianyiying, Houyiying, Qianjinying, Houjinying, and Qianjinying. Ying, Xianying, Ganxian Daying, and Yanzhou Ying had a total of 28000 people in eight battalions, and Guo Yaoshi was one of the leaders.Since then, Guo Yaoshi has stepped onto the stage of history.

After the establishment of the resentment army, not only was it unfavorable in combat, but also rebellions occurred one after another.In the first year of Baoda (1121), Dong Xiaochou, a general of the Resentment Army on the Southeast Road, was executed because of his failure to conquer Lizhou and rebelled. So his subordinates Luo Qinghan and Dong Zhongsun led the Resentment Army to rebel.Liao capital commander Yelu Yujian and Xiao Qian led troops to put down the rebellion.Guo Yaoshi and others killed several people in Luo Qinghan and accepted the recruitment.Liao selected 2000 people from them to form the fourth battalion, and appointed Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen to lead them respectively.The remaining 6000 people were sent to various places as the imperial army.

In order to completely solve the problem of the resentful army, Yelu Yujian suggested to Xiao Qian: "The two battalions rebelled last year and plundered Qianzhou, and they have been recruited. This year, the whole army rebelled and attacked Jinzhou. If our army does not come, the city will be destroyed." , Tens of thousands of residents were killed. The so-called resentful army failed to repay the grievances to the Jin people, but repeatedly resented and rebelled against my family. If we take advantage of the disarmament and send troops to cover up and kill them, we will never suffer from future troubles." But Xiao Qian disagreed, thinking that " There are also those who are loyal and righteous for a while, how can we kill them all?" Guo Yaoshi and others were able to save their lives.

Here, Guo Yaoshi's temperament is changeable, and his capricious characteristics have begun to emerge.And the resentful army has indeed become Liao's future trouble, as Yelu Yujian said.

In March of the second year of Baoda (1122), under the attack of Jin soldiers, Emperor Tianzuo fled to Jiashan, Yeluchun stayed in Nanjing, changed Yuan to Jianfu, and was called Beiliao in history.Yeluchun changed the resentment army to the ever-victorious army.Because "the pharmacist is young and strong, with a majestic appearance, but Shen Yi is resolute and courageous, and he uses his might to control the crowd, and many people attach him. At the beginning, he was recommended by the fourth army of martial arts to teach Dianzhi, and he was recruited by Jurchen to accumulate merits." Therefore, pharmacist Guo was promoted to be the governor The Changsheng Army and Zhuozhou stayed behind.

In April, Song Yitaishi led Privy Council Minister Tong Guan as the propaganda envoy of Shaanxi, Hedong, and Hebei roads and led 10 troops to attack the Northern Liao regime.Due to the restraint of Huizong and the incompetence of the Song generals, the Yang Keshi tribe and the Xinxing tribe of the Song Dynasty were successively defeated by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian of the Northern Liao Dynasty. "From the south of Xiongzhou, to the north of Mozhou, between Tangbo and Xiongzhou The sight of corpses lying next to each other in Xibaozhou and Zhending is unforgettable."

In June, Yeluchun died of illness. His wife, Xiao Puxian, became the empress dowager, and Xiao Qian, the Privy Councilor of the North, took over the dictatorship.In July, Song took Liu Yanqing as the capital and led an army of 20 to send troops to the Northern Liao Dynasty again.At this time, the Northern Liao regime was in trouble at home and abroad. Before that, the Taiwei Li Chuwen and his son Qiantong Tongguan were executed, and "when the king of Yan took the throne, the Han army was more than the Fan army. People and the kings of the north and south, the king of the second family, and the leather family violently dragged the assassins."He no longer trusts the Han people.At this point, Empress Xiao, Xiao Qian and others were afraid that the Han people, especially the victorious army, would change and "plot it out".

Guo Yaoshi hurriedly summoned his troops and encouraged them to vote for the Song Dynasty.So "thousands of voices shouted, and all of them responded, so Xiao Yuqing, the prison supervisor, and others sent a regiment to train Zhao Heshou, commander of eight thousand elite soldiers, five hundred cavalry, and four counties in one state were sent down by envoys."Guo Yaoshi's surrender to the Song Dynasty caused Beiliao to lose an important armed force.After discussion by civil and military officials, Empress Xiao had no choice but to profess her ministership to Song and Jin at the same time in order to maintain the lingering situation.

When Guo Yaoshi surrendered to the Song Dynasty, he performed a very emotional surrender.He first expressed his strong sense of national identity for the Song Dynasty, and at the same time said that he was originally loyal to the Liao Dynasty, but Empress Xiao retaliated against him, and he had no choice but to surrender to the Song Dynasty.Because Guo Yaoshi was familiar with the Liao situation and he had such an important armed force as the Changsheng Army, the Song Dynasty appointed him as the observer envoy of Enzhou and still knew the military forces of Zhuozhou.Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, Zhen Wuchen, and Zhao Heshou, the leaders of the Changsheng Army who surrendered together, were also promoted to caress them, and belonged to Liu Yanqing's department.

After receiving the surrender form from Beiliao, Huizong thought that Yanjing would be recovered soon, so he couldn't wait to change the name of Yanjing to Yanshan Mansion, and urged Liu Yanqing to march as soon as possible.Liu Yanqing adopted Guo Yaoshi's opinion: taking advantage of Xiao Qian's main force in the front line, to surprise Yanjing with light cavalry, the Han people in the city will definitely respond, and Yanjing will definitely be taken.So Guo Yaoshi was ordered to lead the ever-victorious army with thousands of people as the vanguard, followed by Yang Keshi, Gao Shixuan and others.

Zhen Wuchen, a general of the Pharmacist Department, led 50 people from the Victory Army who knew the situation in Yanjing. They mixed with the suburban residents entering the city to seize the Yingchun Gate. The army continued to enter. Two generals and 7 troops were sent to each of the seven gates of Yanjing to guard them.At this time, it seems that Yanjing must return to Song Dynasty.But at this critical moment, instead of appeasing the people in the city, the Song general issued a wrong order: kill all the Khitans and Xi people in the city.Moreover, the Song soldiers were disorderly in discipline and drank and robbed everywhere, which aroused strong resistance. Empress Xiao also ordered Xiao Qian to quickly return reinforcements.

In this way, the Song army fought hard for three days and nights, with no reinforcements from outside. Only Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and hundreds of soldiers escaped by chance, and most of the soldiers including Gao Shixuan died in the city.This surprise attack on Yanjing, Guo Yaoshi's strategy is not unreasonable, but due to the disordered discipline of the Song soldiers, the wrong ethnic policy, the many contradictions among the generals, and the cowardice and incompetence of the main general Liu Yanqing, the success was on the verge of failure, and the recovery of Yanjing was in vain.Immediately, Liu Yanqing burned the camp and collapsed. The Liao army attacked and the Song army was defeated.So far, Song's two campaigns to attack Yan have failed.

Despite the failure of the war, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty still favored Guo Yaoshi. Bao, I know Yanshan Mansion together." In June, he was summoned to the court and given the house to concubines, and he was summoned in person at the Yanchun Hall in the Houyuan. In the sky, it doesn't mean that we can look forward to Longyan today.' The emperor praised him deeply, entrusted him to guard the swallow, and said to him: "I wish to die."

He also ordered Tianzuo to change his face and say: "Tianzuo, the minister is the old master. The country broke and left, and the minister surrendered."Your majesty's envoys have ordered others to do so, and dare not resign. If they turn against the old master, it is not your majesty's business, and they are willing to pay others. 'Crying like rain because of tears. "Guo Yaoshi's performance won Huizong's appreciation, and he was given two gold pots and a royal bead robe, and he was appointed as an imperial tutor.

In March of the fifth year of Xuanhe (1123), according to the provisions of the original Song and Jin "Sea Alliance", Jin delivered Yanjing and six nearby states to Song Dynasty, and Jin "returned the households outside Songting and Yuguan to the country within a few , asking for more than [-] households, including Guo Yaoshi, the commander of the Changsheng Army, who are also from Liaodong in the Yuan Dynasty."However, Song believed that if the Yan people replaced the Changsheng army and returned to the gold, not only the Changsheng army could be retained, but also the land and properties of the Yan people could be obtained to support the Changsheng army without the state paying for money and food.

During Guo Yaoshi's tenure in Tongzhi Yanshan Mansion, relying on Huizong's favor, he did whatever he wanted and was domineering.But Wang Anzhong, the magistrate, "couldn't make it, and the first song intended to serve it."The imperial court tried its best to provide all the weapons, armor, staff and horses Guo Yaoshi wanted.He sent his subordinates to do business in various states in the Song Dynasty to make money.He also summoned the craftsmen of Emperor Tianzuo to make all kinds of rare objects to make friends with dignitaries.At this time, the Ever Victorious Army had 5 people, and the township soldiers claimed to be 30.But Guo Yaoshi and his subordinates did not change the "left lapel", that is, they still wore Liao clothes instead of Song clothes.At that time, people compared it with Anlu Mountain.

Although Guo Yaoshi was difficult to control, he also made some military exploits for Song Dynasty.After Yanjing was conquered by the Jin soldiers, Xiao Qian proclaimed himself the Holy Emperor of Daxi Kingdom and changed his name to Yuan Tianfu.In June of the fifth year of Song Xuanhe (1123), Xiao Qian led his troops out of Lulongling due to lack of food and broke through Jingzhou.He also defeated Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren, the ever victorious army, in Shimen Town and captured Jizhou.The situation was very critical at that time, and Tong Guan sent a letter from the capital to severely reprimand Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi.

In July, Guo Yaoshi and Xiao Qian fought at Yaopu, defeated Xiao Qian, took advantage of the victory and pursued Lu Longling, killing more than half of them.Xiao Qian was killed by his subordinate Bai Dege, and his head was dedicated to Song Dynasty.In August, Guo Yaoshi defeated Xiao cadres again and dispatched Kui Buli to Fengshan, captured Grand Master Alu alive, and obtained the honorary title of Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang Baojian and painted gold seals, eliminating the threat of the remnants of the Liao forces to the Song Dynasty.

The "Sea Alliance" of Song and Jin was only a short-term alliance based on attacking Liao. Once Liao fell and Song and Jin directly bordered each other, war would be inevitable.In November of the third year of Jin Tianhui (1125, the seventh year of Song Xuanhe), the Jin army divided the east and west to attack the Song Dynasty. Trapped in Tan and Jizhou.Guo Yaoshi led the Changsheng army to meet the Jin army in Baihe.

"The pharmacists' soldiers were brightly armored and their troops were well-organized. The Jin people were frightened when they first saw it. He Li looked eastward and bowed to the sun, ordering all the tribes to advance. The pharmacists fought fiercely for more than thirty miles, and the Jin people were already north. Zhang Linghui and other senior leaders He escaped, and the golden manpower chased him."The escape of Zhang Linghui and others led to the complete defeat of the Ever Victorious Army, and Yanjing could no longer hold on.Pharmacist Guo discussed surrender with Cai Jing, the governor of Yanshan Prefecture of the Song Dynasty, but Cai Jing was unwilling, so Pharmacist Guo detained Cai Jing and the transshipment envoy Lu Yihao, and surrendered to Zong Wang.Jin soldiers entered Yanjing.

After the news reached the Song court, "the emperor still kept the matter secret, and proposed to give him the title of king of Yan to cede the land to him, so that the world can guard it, which is beyond his reach."In the chaotic situation at that time, Guo Yaoshi ignored Song's great kindness to him, and chose to change again, from Song's "strict rank" to Jin's "hero".

After Guo pharmacist surrendered gold, "Taizong took pharmacist as Yanjing to stay behind, gave him a gold medal, and gave him the surname Wanyan. From Zong Wang's attack on the Song Dynasty, the pharmacist knew everything about the true and false facts of the Song Dynasty."Because of Guo Yaoshi's understanding of the situation in Song Dynasty, Zong Wang went south from Yanjing to attack Song Dynasty, and Guo Yaoshi led 1000 cavalry as the vanguard.The pharmacist said that he had few soldiers, and the Jinren gave him another 1000 cavalry, and ordered him not to kill the states and counties he passed.

The news that Huizong Zen was located in Qinzong reached Zongwang camp, and Zongwang wanted to quit the teacher for fear that the Song Dynasty would be prepared. "Pharmacist Guo said that the Southern Dynasty may not have been prepared. He said that the wealth of Bianjing and the palace confinement were incomparable to those of Yanshan. He ordered the prince Langjun to move his troops very quickly. He could take advantage of the bamboo-breaking situation and rush towards the river. The soldiers would definitely defeat the victory, but they could return without fighting. Gou. I have heard that you have prepared your troops in Hebei, and watched the Southern Dynasties as a tiger, in order to demonstrate the country's prestige, and it is not too late to return."In this way, Zong Wang followed his advice and drove straight down.On the seventh day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Jintianhui, Zongwang's troops arrived in Bianjing, guided by Guo Yaoshi, and stationed in Moutuogang in the northwest of the city.

Previously, Guo Yaoshi had played ball in Moutuogang, and knew that the Tiansi Supervisor of Song Dynasty had [-] horses here, and there was a mountain of fodder, so he guided Zong Wang to take all of them.The soldiers of the Jin Dynasty were unable to attack Bianjing, and negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty. The Jin "excused the palace province and invited treasures to serve and play, all of which were guided by the pharmacist."In this way, Guo Yaoshi made great contributions to Jin Li.But after Jin retired, Zong Wang found an excuse to capture Guo Yaoshi's ever-victorious army.

Later, Guo Yaoshi's experience was not recorded in the original biography of "Song History" and "Jin History", but clues can be found in books such as "Da Jin Guo Zhi" and "Records of Years Since Jianyan".In the autumn of the tenth year of Jintianhui (1132), Guo Yaoshi, who was Pingzhou guard at that time, was imprisoned by the marshal for some unknown reason and was released soon, but his family property was all owned by the left deputy marshal Wanyan Zonghan.In this regard, the author of "Dajin Guozhi" has a very appropriate comment: "Although Dajin used it expediently, don't you have doubts in his heart? At the beginning, he seized his ever-victorious army and scattered them with armor and saddle horses, and then seized his family wealth and lost it. Therefore, the pharmacist is lucky to die." Since then, Guo pharmacist has not been recorded in the historical records.

Jinshi Taizu cut off the six prefectures of Yanshan Mountain and the people of Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty envoy Wang Anzhong, the deputy pharmacist, to guard Yanshan Mountain.And Anzhong could not shelter Zhang Jue and killed him, and wrote to his head to Zong Wang, the pharmacist was deeply attached to the people of Song Dynasty, and had no ambition to strengthen himself.Zongwang's army went to Sanhe, and the pharmacists and others refused to fight in Baihe.When the army is defeated, the pharmacist surrenders.Zongwang then took Yanshan.Taizong took the pharmacist as Yanjing to stay behind, gave him a gold medal, and gave him the surname Wanyan.Cong Zongwang defeated the Song Dynasty, and the pharmacist knew everything about the falsehood and reality of the Song Dynasty.

Zong hoped that he could go deep with the suspended army, garrison troops under the city of Bian, agree to accept the money, and cede the land for a complete victory. The pharmacist can measure the feelings of the people of Song Dynasty, and he is willing to do so.And the two towns were not restrained, and the generals were ordered to discuss them. The pharmacist broke the Shun'an barracks and killed more than [-] people.When Hailing came to the throne, all surnames were given duplicate surnames by imperial edict, so Guo Anguo, the son of the pharmacist, was still surnamed Guo.

Northern China at the beginning of the 12th century was a time when the Liao, Song, and Jin regimes had complicated contradictions and conflicts.Such an era also created characters with distinctive characteristics of the times, especially Guo Yaoshi as the representative. "Guo Yaoshi is the remnant of the Liao Dynasty, the powerful leader of the Song Dynasty, and the hero of the Jin Dynasty. It is not a good thing to be a disaster and blessing to the Three Kingdoms as a minister."Just like this discussion in "Golden History", Guo Yaoshi served three dynasties with one person, capricious and changed frequently, and had an important impact on the rise and fall of the three dynasties, which can be described as a special product of the times.

Biography No. 20 of Jinshi said: Guo Yaoshi, a native of Tiezhou, Bohai Sea.The Liao State recruited people from Liaodong to serve as soldiers to complain to Nuzhi. They were called "Resentful Army" and had pharmacists as their commanders.Orugu attacked Xianzhou and defeated the pharmacist under the city.After the death of the Liao Emperor, Baotian De, Yelu Nieli established himself on his own, changed the "Resentful Army" to the "Victorious Army", and promoted the pharmacists and guards to generals.Nieli died, and his wife, Concubine Xiao, called him Zhi. The pharmacist returned the two states of Zhuo and Yi to the Song Dynasty.The pharmacist arrived at Yanjing with 6000 Song soldiers, and the five ministers of Zhen captured the Yingchun Gate with 5000 soldiers and all entered the city.Concubine Xiao ordered the city gates to be closed and the Song soldiers fought in the streets.The pharmacist was so defeated that he lost his horse and ran away, crossing the city to avoid it.Song people still rewarded it generously.host
Moved to Guo Anguo, the son of the pharmacist.Tired and moved to the general of Fengguo and the deputy of Nanjing to stay behind.In the third year of Zhenyuan, there was a fire in Nanjing, and Hailing envoy Yousi Lang Zhongliang Zhongqiu and Tongzhi Anwu Army Jiedushi Wang Quanyin asked about the fire.Feng Changning, who stayed behind, and Zuo Ying, the capital transfer envoy, each had a hundred sticks and were expelled.An Guo and Daliang Shun, the left-behind judge, each had eighty sticks and cut off the three officials.Wu Jun, the commander of Nanjing soldiers and horses who was in charge of the fire incident, was expelled with 150 sticks.In case of fire, 13 soldiers and officials were killed together.The edict said: "I don't think the palace is magnificent. Since I came to the throne, I want to patrol the province of Henan. You didn't know how to be careful, and you caused foreign spies and burned them to death. I wanted to punish you and others for capital punishment, so I specially used the old people to leniency The way of war, the hostages should be executed, and if they are suspected of concealing spies, they will all be executed."

There is no strategy for Jiang Fa'an to be mild-tempered.Hailing will attack the Song Dynasty, and the son of the general of Anguo will be promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of War and changed to the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.Jun Xing led Wu Jiejun to be in charge, and Wu Sheng and Wu Pingjun were the forwards.Hailing taught the generals the strategy, and the prelude to Anguo said: "Zhao Gou heard that the king's teacher is here, and he is bound to flee. I don't care about the distance, I chase after him, but where to put it?" Hailing said with great joy: "Your words That's right. Once it is constructed, it will be built as a temple and guarded by soldiers." When Shizong ascended the throne, Hailing planned to return to the north, and set up the military and horse capital of the West Zhejiang Province to control the capital, with Wanyan Yuanyi as the capital, and Anguo as the deputy.And when Hailing was murdered, all the evil Anguo did, and Li Tong and his generation were all killed.

Zan said: Guo Yaoshi is the remnant of the Liao Dynasty, the leader of the Song Dynasty, and the hero of the Jin Dynasty.It is inappropriate to use the body of a minister to bring disasters and blessings to the Three Kingdoms.Wei Gongshucuo persuaded his lord to kill Wei Yang, but he didn't see anything!

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