Geshu Han

Who was Geshu Han?

Geshu Han, formally Prince Wumin of Xiping, was a general of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty of Tuqishi extraction. He became a powerful general late in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong and in 756 became responsible for defending Tong Pass against the rebel forces of An Lushan. After being forced by the chancellor Yang Guozhong to engage An's forces, he was defeated and subsequently kidnapped by his own subordinate Huoba Guiren to An's camp. An tried to use him to get his subordinate generals Li Guangbi, Lai Tian, and Lu Gui to surrender as well, but when those generals refused to do so, put him under house arrest in Luoyang, the capital of An's newly established state of Yan. In 757, after An's son and successor An Qingxu was defeated by Tang forces and forced to abandon Luoyang, An Qingxu executed Geshu and some 30 other captive Tang generals.