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3 unusual facts about Xue Rengui


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Xue Rengui (614–683), formal name Xue Li, Chinese general during the early Tang Dynasty

Xue Rengui

According to this television action-drama, broadcast worldwide on KBS-1, Xue Rengui could finally claim victory over the Goguryean insurgency when he had Dae Joyoung and his legion of escaped Baekje, Goguryean, Khitan, and Sillian prisoners cornered, and had Dae Joyoung vow loyalty to the Tang Empire, and become a military officer of high-rank in the Tang army.

In spring 668, they further marched east and captured Goguryeo's major northeastern city Buyeo (扶餘, in modern Siping, Jilin), and Xue was described to have marched to the sea (probably Sea of Japan) and taking some 40 cities in Goguryeo's northeastern territories, before marching southwest to rendezvous with the supreme commander of the entire operation, Li Ji, at Pyongyang.



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