郭闳 / Guo Hong (late Han)

Overview

Guo Hong is a Huan-era frontier official introduced in Hanji 855 as the Liangzhou inspector whose desire to share military credit obstructs 段熲 during a Qiang campaign.

Current Profile

The current evidence is narrow but consequential. Guo Hong appears when 先零羌, 沈氐羌, and other Qiang groups attack Bingzhou and Liangzhou. Instead of enabling Duan Jiong’s campaign, he tries to capture part of the merit, blocks military movement, and delays the opportunity.

The episode then turns Guo Hong’s obstruction into a command-failure case. Hu soldiers serving far from home desert during the delay, but Guo Hong shifts the blame onto Duan Jiong. The court recalls Duan, imprisons him, and sends him to Left School hard labor, making Guo Hong a source-bounded example of merit-seeking interference becoming wrongful punishment.

Key Characteristics

• Liangzhou inspector in a Huan-era Qiang-front crisis.
• Seeks a share of campaign credit rather than preserving unified command movement.
• Obstructs Duan Jiong’s advance, causing operational delay.
• Shifts responsibility for the failed campaign outcome onto Duan Jiong.
• Functions in the wiki as a negative contrast to root-cause, public-duty frontier governance.

Evidence

• Frontier office and setting: Hanji 855 places Guo Hong as Liangzhou inspector during attacks by Xianling, Shendi, and other Qiang groups.
• Merit-seeking obstruction: Hanji 855 says Guo Hong wants to share military credit and sets obstacles that delay Duan Jiong’s army.
• Scapegoating consequence: Hanji 855 says Guo Hong blames Duan after the campaign breaks down, leading to Duan’s recall, imprisonment, and hard-labor punishment.

Qualifications

This page is not a full biography of Guo Hong. It preserves the episode’s bounded account of one Qiang-front command failure and treats the “梁州/凉州” wording as part of the late-Han Liangzhou frontier context rather than a separate route decision.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 855’s Qiang-front obstruction and blame-shifting account.

Relationships

• 段熲 - commander whose campaign Guo Hong obstructs and then blames.
• 凉州 - frontier region tied to Guo Hong’s inspector role.
• 先零羌 - one of the Qiang groups whose attack forms the crisis setting.
• 沈氐羌 - Qiang group named in the same attack sequence.
• 边郡军政崩盘 - related failure pattern where internal command and governance defects break campaigns before enemy pressure alone decides the outcome.