Guo Yaoshi (郭藥師) | 24 Histories

Overview

Guo Yaoshi was a Song General and Former Liao Commander.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1121 保大初
Dated from the passage context · History of Liao 102, passage 52
AD 1122 保大二年
Dated from the passage context · History of Liao 114, passages 71, 76
AD 1122 又從北伐
Directly stated · History of Song 357, passage 256
AD 1122 to AD 1125 童貫北征
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 357, passages 34, 37
AD 1126 郭藥師
Strongly inferred · History of Jin 68, passage 107

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Career and standing

commander of tribal and Han troops / Ever-Victorious Army 統蕃、漢兵
Held
Directly stated · History of Song 357, passages 37-38

Places and affiliations

Polity Song / Liao
Strongly inferred · History of Jin 68, passage 107
Organization Ever-Victorious Army 常勝軍 · Relation Commander of
Directly stated · History of Song 357, passage 38

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Liu Yanqing (劉延慶) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Song 357, passages 256, 259

Events and relationships

Defeated
Military · Commander · With Xi King Huilibao (奚王回離保)
Directly stated · History of Liao 114, passage 76
Entered Yan
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Liao 102, passage 52
Entered Yan city
Military · Commander · At Yan 燕
Directly stated · History of Song 357, passage 260
Seized horse and remonstrated
Remonstrance · Remonstrator · With Liu Yanqing (劉延慶)
Directly stated · History of Song 357, passage 256
When Zongwang marched on Song he fought Guo Yaoshi at the White River.
Biographical record · Source Text 宗望伐宋，與郭藥師戰于白河。
Directly stated · History of Jin 68, passage 107

References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 68Volume 68 Biographies 6: Huandu and His Son Mouyan; Yehe and His Sons Alubu, Gunan, and Egunai; Sanda's Son Pucha · 1 passage

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宗望伐宋，與郭藥師戰于白河。 When Zongwang marched on Song he fought Guo Yaoshi at the White River.

History of Liao, Chapter 102Volume 102 Biographies 32: Xiao Fengxian, Li Chuwen, Zhang Lin, Yelu Yudu · 1 passage

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尋有永清人傅遵說隨郭藥師入燕，被擒，具言處溫嘗遺易州富民趙履仁書達宋將童貫，欲挾蕭後納土歸宋。 Soon afterward a man of Yongqing named Fu Zunshuo, who had followed Guo Yaoshi into Yan, was captured and testified in full that Chuwen had once sent Zhao Lüren, a wealthy man of Yizhou, with a letter to the Song general Tong Guan, proposing to deliver the Xiao empress dowager and surrender the territory to Song.

History of Liao, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 44: Rebellious Officials 3 · 1 passage

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會回離保為郭藥師所敗，一軍離心，其黨耶律阿古哲與其甥乙室八斤等殺之，偽立凡八月。 When Huilibao was defeated by Guo Yaoshi the whole army lost heart; his faction Yelü Aguzhe and his nephew Yishi Bajin and others killed him; his false reign had lasted only eight months in all.

History of Song, Chapter 357Volume 357 Biographies 116: He Guan, Li Xijing, Wang Yun, Tan Shiji, Mei Zhili, Cheng Zhen, Liu Yanqing · 5 passages

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郭藥師統蕃、漢兵，灌白：「頃年折氏歸朝，朝廷別置一司，專部漢兵，至於克行，乃許同營。 Guo Yaoshi commanded both tribal and Han troops. Guan told him, "When the Zhe clan submitted in earlier years, the court set up a separate office to command Han troops alone; only under Kexing were the two allowed to camp together.

今但宜令藥師主常勝軍，而以漢兵委灌輩。」 Now Yaoshi should command only the Ever-Victorious Army, and the Han troops should be entrusted to me and my colleagues."

延慶行軍無紀律，郭藥師扣馬諫曰：「今大軍拔隊行而不設備，若敵人置伏邀擊，首尾不相應，則望塵決潰矣。」 Yanqing marched without discipline. Guo Yaoshi seized his horse and remonstrated, "The great army is marching in column without precautions. If the enemy sets an ambush, the van and rear cannot support each other and the troops will break at the first sign of dust."

藥師曰：「幹兵不過萬人，今悉力拒伐，燕山必虛，願得奇兵五千，倍道襲取，令公之子三將軍簡師為後繼。」 Yaoshi said, "Gan's troops number no more than ten thousand. He is exerting all his strength to resist us, so Yan Mountain must be empty. Give me five thousand picked troops to march by forced stages and seize it, with your son the Third General selecting a force as the follow-up."

延慶許之，遣大將高世宣與藥師先行，即入燕城，幹舉精甲三千巷戰。 Yanqing agreed and sent the general Gao Shixuan with Yaoshi ahead. They entered Yan city at once, and Gan raised three thousand picked armored troops for street fighting.