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Yuchi Gong (尉遲恭) or Yuchi Rong (尉遲融) (585 – 25 December 658 [1]), courtesy name Jingde (敬德), also known by his posthumous name Duke Zhongwu of E, was a Chinese military general who lived in the early Tang dynasty. Yuchi Jingde and another general Qin Shubao are worshipped as door gods in Chinese folk religion.
Yuchi Gong (or Yuchi Jingde, 尉迟敬德) is a major character in the latter half of the Shuo Tang, as well as in the sequel. He has dark skin, and uses a Bian (a columnar- and pagoda-shaped traditional Chinese weapon).
Emperor Gaozu put Qin Shubao under Li Shimin's command. Around the new year 620, with Liu Wuzhou the Dingyang Khan having seized most of Tang territory in modern Shanxi and aiming to attack further south, Emperor Gaozu sent Li Shimin to resist Liu, and Qin and Yin Kaishan (殷開山) were able to defeat Liu's general Yuchi Gong at Meiliang River (美良川, flowing through modern Yuncheng ...
When the Emperor Taizong of the Tang was being plagued by nightmares, he ordered portraits of his generals Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong to be affixed to gates. [citation needed] They eventually came to be considered divine protectors, replacing Shentu and Yulü and remaining the most common door gods to the present day. [1]
Apart from this and a minor skirmish between a Xia officer and the Tang general Yuchi Gong, [64] the two armies maintained their standoff from about 08:00 until noon, when the Xia troops began to show signs of thirst and weariness, with soldiers sitting down or breaking formation to fetch water. Li Shimin, from a high vantage point, saw this.
Shan charged at Li directly but was intercepted by one of Li's generals, Yuchi Gong, who knocked Shan off his horse. Yuchi then led the armoured cavalry force and broke through the enemy army while Li rallied his forces and drove through Shan's light cavalry several times.
Yuchi Bei (尉遲北; Yùchí Běi) is a descendant of Yuchi Gong and one of the top three martial arts experts in the palace. He befriends Tie Mole later. He befriends Tie Mole later. Yuchi Nan ( 尉遲南 ; Yùchí Nán ) is Yuchi Bei's elder brother who serves as an imperial guard commander.
The four most senior are Jinjie Shiba Gong (勁節十八公), Guzhi Gong (孤直公), Lingkongzi (凌空子) and Fuyun Sou (拂雲叟), who appear in human form as four old men. Their true forms are a pine tree, a cedar tree, a juniper tree, and a bamboo tree respectively.