唐将薛仁贵“三箭定天山”的故事长久以来在民间流传,然而天山一役的历史真相却绝非两唐书《薛仁贵传》记载得那么简单。九姓铁勒的反唐叛乱,是唐朝大肆征调铁勒部众参与对外征伐的恶果,也暴露出了漠北羁縻府州制度的局限性。之后唐将郑仁泰、薛仁贵对铁勒的征讨亦未能有效地平息叛乱,直到唐朝转变政策改剿为抚,漠北局势才最终稳定下来。 The story of Xue Rengui and his “Three Arrows to Settle the Tianshan Mountains” has long been circulating in the private sector. However, the historical truth about the battle of Tianshan Mountains is not as simple as that recorded in the two biographies of Xue Rengui Biography. The anti-Tang rebellion of the surname Tieler was the result of the drastic rectification by the Tang Dynasty in the external conquests of the Tiele department and the limitations of the regime of the Mobei government. After Tang Zheng Rentai, Xue Rengui’s solicitation of Tiele also failed to effectively quell the insurgency until the Tang Dynasty changed its policy to suppress Fu, the situation in Mubei finally stabilized.