Guo Si 郭汜

At first Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu, General of the Household, commanded troops and was stationed separately at Shan County, and he dispatched the colonels Li Jue, Guo Si and Zhang Ji separately to plunder the counties of Chenliu and Yingchuan. Records, Wei 6 §19

When Dong Zhuo died in the 4th month of the 3rd year of Chuping (192) and Niu Fu too was beheaded by his friend Hu Chi'er and others, Li Jue and the others, on their return, were left with no one to rely on and each wished to scatter and go home. According to the Biography of Jia Xu, when the colonels Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji and others wanted to disband their troops and slip home by back roads, Jia Xu told them that there was talk in Chang'an of killing every man from Liang Province, and that if they abandoned their troops and went off alone, a single precinct chief could tie them up; better to lead their men west, gathering troops as they went, and attack Chang'an. Li Jue and the others collected troops wherever they went, so that by the time they reached Chang'an their host numbered more than 100,000, and together with Dong Zhuo's former subordinates Fan Chou, Li Meng, Wang Fang and others they surrounded Chang'an, took it in ten days, and fought Lü Bu inside the city and drove him out. The Annals of Emperor Wu and the Biography of Wang Ling record that Li Jue, Guo Si and the others killed Wang Yun and attacked Lü Bu, and wiped out Wang Yun's entire household. Records, Wei 6 §16 · 19–20Records, Wei 10 §70–71Records, Wei 1 §21Records, Wei 28 §2

Li Jue and the others let their troops loose and slaughtered the old and young of Chang'an, put to death those who had killed Dong Zhuo, and exposed Wang Yun's corpse in the marketplace. Li Jue became General of Chariots and Cavalry and Marquis of Chiyang, Guo Si General of the Rear and Marquis of Meiyang, and Fan Chou General of the Right and Marquis of Wannian, and the three of them arbitrarily wielded the government of the court. Zhang Ji became General of Agile Cavalry and Marquis of Pingyang and was stationed at Hongnong. Records, Wei 6 §21

On entering Chang'an, Li Jue and Guo Si made Liu Biao General Who Guards the South and Governor of Jing Province, seeking an alliance with him as outside support. When Cao Cao, who also held the post of Governor of Yan Province, first sent an envoy with a letter, Li Jue, Guo Si and the others, claiming that those east of the passes meant to set up a Son of Heaven of their own and that Cao Cao's envoy too was insincere, discussed detaining the envoy, but accepted Zhong Yao's persuasion and replied generously. Dong Zhao, too, wrote letters on Cao Cao's behalf to the generals in Chang'an, Li Jue, Guo Si and others, expressing goodwill to each according to his weight. Records, Wei 6 §83Records, Wei 13 §3–4Records, Wei 14 §49

That year Han Sui, Ma Teng and others came to Chang'an to submit, and Ma Teng became General Who Conquers the West and was stationed at Mei County. The Palace Attendant Ma Yu, together with the Grandee Remonstrant Chong Shao, the General of the Household of the Left Liu Fan and others, planned to have Ma Teng attack Chang'an while they acted as insiders to put Li Jue and the others to death, but the plot leaked; Fan Chou defeated Ma Teng and attacked Huaili, and Ma Yu and the rest all died. At that time the people of the Three Adjuncts still numbered several hundred thousand households, but Li Jue and the others let their troops loose to plunder the towns, so that within two years the starving people had eaten one another and were almost wiped out. Records, Wei 6 §22–23

The generals, contending for power, killed Fan Chou and absorbed his host. Guo Si and Li Jue grew increasingly suspicious of each other and fought within Chang'an. When Li Jue took the Son of Heaven hostage in his own camp and sent the high ministers to Guo Si to seek peace, Guo Si detained them all. They attacked each other for several months, and the dead numbered in the tens of thousands. The Biography of Xu Huang records that when Li Jue and Guo Si threw Chang'an into turmoil, Xu Huang persuaded Yang Feng to escort the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang. Records, Wei 6 §24Records, Wei 17 §57

When Li Jue's general Yang Feng rebelled and Li Jue gradually weakened, Zhang Ji came from Shan County and reconciled the two, and the Son of Heaven was at last able to get out and reached the area between Xinfeng and Baling. Guo Si again tried to coerce the Son of Heaven into returning to make Mei County the capital, but the Son of Heaven fled to Yang Feng's camp, and Yang Feng attacked and defeated Guo Si. Guo Si fled to the Southern Mountains, and Yang Feng and General Dong Cheng escorted the Son of Heaven toward Luoyang. Records, Wei 6 §25

Li Jue and Guo Si, regretting having let the Son of Heaven go, joined hands again and caught up with him at Caoyang in Hongnong. Yang Feng called in Han Xian, Hu Cai, Li Le and others, former leaders of the White Wave in Hedong, to resist, but was defeated, and Li Jue and the others killed high ministers and officials, carried off palace women and entered Hongnong. The Son of Heaven fled to Shan County and crossed the Yellow River to the north, and Yang Feng, Han Xian and the others made Anyi the capital for him. When the Minister Coachman Han Rong was sent to Hongnong to make peace with Li Jue, Guo Si and the others, they returned the palace women, high ministers and officials they had seized, along with a few of the Son of Heaven's carriages and horses. Records, Wei 6 §26–27

After the Son of Heaven returned to Luoyang, Cao Cao received him and made Xu County the capital. In the 2nd year of Jian'an (197) Pei Mao, Supervisor of the Internuncios, led the generals of Guanxi to put Li Jue to death and exterminated his three kindreds, and Guo Si was attacked by his own general Wu Xi (五習) and died at Mei County. Chen Shou did not discuss him separately in the assessment at the end of the volume. Records, Wei 6 §28 · 30 · 96