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Gai Jiayun
High Tang general who served as Protector-General of Beiting and Qixi commissioner, captured the Turgesh khan in 739; Qianjia Shi credits him with the song Yizhou Ge.
On a desert ridge, a rammed-earth watchtower and a long wall run across sand and rock toward the distance; a sentry stands on the tower with his back turned, smoke rises from a far beacon tower, and a small camel caravan crosses the sand at the right.
Also known as Gai Jiayun, Military Governor of Qixi
Gai Jiayun was a High Tang general whose dates are unknown. From 733 he served as guard general and army commissioner, then Protector-General of Beiting, deputy grand protector of Anxi and military governor of Qixi. He defeated the Turgesh, captured their Black khan Tu Huoxian at Suyab in 739 and brought back Princess Jinhe. He lost the Shibao fortress to the Tibetans in 740 and was dismissed the next year. He is said to have written a lost Xiyu Ji, and the Qianjia Shi credits him with the song Yizhou Ge.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active 733-741