Sui and Tang · General and Military Governor

Guo Yingyi 郭英乂

Died AD 765

Passages: 11
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Guo Yingyi was a general and Military Governor.

Life and dates

Death

AD 765 永泰元年十月
Killed · Authority Cui Han (崔旰)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 112, passage 192
AD 765 永泰元年
At Lingchi 靈池 · Authority Han Cheng (韓澄)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 130

Attested activity

AD 765 永泰元年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 144, passages 119-120
AD 765 永泰元年十月
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 112, passage 192
AD 765 郭英乂代適
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 151

Family

Sibling of Guo Yinggan (郭英幹)
elder brother 兄 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 120

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Military Governor 節度使
AD 765 永泰元年 · Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passages 120-121
military governor 節度使
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 112, passage 192

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Active in
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 144, passage 120
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 112, passage 192

Events and relationships

Cut pay and destroyed Xuanzong statue
Political · Actor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 127
Defeated
Military · Commander · With Cui Ning (崔寧) · Outcome Retreated
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 126
Fought
Military · Commander · With Cui Ning (崔寧) · At west of Chengdu 城西 · Outcome Defeated
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 129
Framed and killed
AD 765 永泰元年 · Legal · Perpetrator · With Wang Chongjun (王崇俊)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 122
Killed by
AD 765 永泰元年十月 · Military · Victim · With Cui Han (崔旰)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 112, passage 192
Marched ostensibly to aid
Military · Commander · With Cui Ning (崔寧) · At Chengdu 成都
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 124

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Memorialized appointment
Political · Appointer · With Ban Hong (班宏)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 151
Summoned
Political · Actor · With Cui Ning (崔寧)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 122
Violated concubines
Personal · Perpetrator · With Cui Ning (崔寧)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 124
Relation Successor of · Person Gao Shi (高適)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 151

Assessments and attributes

Assessment crimes denounced in proposed memorials · Mode quoted-speech
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 133
Item cast-metal image of Xuanzong 玄宗冶金像 · Relation Destroyed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 127

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 120

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 112Volume 108 Biographies 58: Wei Jiansu, Cui Yuan, Cui Huan, Du Hongjian · 1 passage

永泰元年十月，劍南西川兵馬使崔旰殺節度使郭英乂，據成都，自稱留後。 In the tenth month of Yongtai 1, Jiannan West military commissioner Cui Han killed military governor Guo Yingyi, seized Chengdu, and declared himself acting military governor.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 127Volume 123 Biographies 73: Liu Yan, Di Wuqi, Ban Hong, Ban Shao, Li Xun · 1 passage

既而郭英乂代適，以厭人望，奏署秘書郎，兼雒令，以疾免。 When Guo Yingyi succeeded Gao Shi, he placated public opinion by appointing Ban Hong secretary and magistrate of Luoyang, though illness soon forced Hong to leave office.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 144Volume 144 Biographies 69: Lai, Tian, Hou, Cui, Yan · 9 passages

行軍司馬杜濟，別將郭英幹、郭嘉琳皆請英幹之兄英乂為節度使，寧與其軍亦丐大將王崇俊。 Du Ji, Guo Yinggan, and Guo Jialin all urged making Yinggan's elder brother Yingyi military governor; Ning and his army asked for the senior general Wang Chongjun instead.

奏俱至，而朝廷既用英乂矣。 All the petitions arrived, but the court had already chosen Yingyi.

英乂恨之，始署事即誣殺崇俊，又遣使召寧。 Yingyi resented them; on taking office he framed and killed Chongjun and summoned Ning.

英乂怒，因出兵，聲言助寧，實欲襲取之，即徙寧家於成都，而淫其妾媵。 Enraged, Yingyi marched out, claiming to aid Ning while planning to destroy him, moved Ning's family to Chengdu, and violated his concubines.

英乂乃自將討之，會天大雪，馬多凍死，士心離，遂敗歸。 Yingyi led the campaign himself, but a blizzard killed many horses, the army fell apart, and he retreated in defeat.

寧聞英乂損裁將卒稟賜，下皆恨怒，又毀玄宗冶金像，乃令軍中曰：「英乂反，輒居先帝舊宮。」 Learning that Yingyi had cut pay and rations, angering the troops, and had destroyed a statue of Xuanzong, Ning told the army, "Yingyi has rebelled and seized the former emperor's palace."

英乂陣城西，使柏茂琳為前軍，英幹為左軍，嘉琳為後軍，與寧戰，茂琳等敗，軍多降寧。 Yingyi drew up west of the city with Maolin in front, Yinggan on the left, and Jialin in reserve; defeated, much of his army went over to Ning.

寧即署降將，使率兵還攻，英乂不勝，走靈池，為韓澄所殺。 Ning commissioned the defectors to counterattack; Yingyi was beaten, fled to Lingchi, and was killed by Han Cheng.

鴻漸出駱谷，或進計曰：「公不如駐閬中，數騰書陳英乂罪，嘉寧方略，因以寧所署刺史即授之，使不疑。 Leaving Luo Valley, an adviser urged, "Hold at Langzhong, denounce Yingyi in repeated memorials, praise Ning's strategy, and confirm the prefects he has appointed so he will trust you.