Su Shi wrote such a sentence in the "Confession of the King": "The back is in the fall, and the building is about to fall." This phrase was later widely used to describe those who made great sacrifices and contributions to the salvation of the country in times of crisis. And the general we want to talk about today during the Southern Dynasty Liang period is the true portrayal of this sentence, when the Southern Dynasty Liang fell into danger of falling into the country because of Hou Jing's rebellion, it was he who stepped forward, defeated Hou Jing to quell the rebellion, and stabilized the political situation of the Southern Dynasty Liang. However, his ending was not lucky, and he eventually died at the hands of his comrades who fought with him to quell the rebellion of Hou Jing, and this person was the great general of the Southern Dynasty Liang, Wang Shengquan.
Wang Shengjie was originally a northern Wei courtier, but in wang shengquan's father's generation, he defected from the north to the southern dynasty, and Wang shengjie also served as the left chang attendant of Xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong in Southern Liang, and has been serving under the king of Xiangdong ever since. Originally, according to this development, Wang Shengjie was unlikely to have the opportunity to become a famous general. However, the later Hou Jing Rebellion forced Wang Shengjian to become a famous general.
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu was still trying to govern in his early years, so the Liang Dynasty was strong in his hands for a period of time. When the Northern Dynasty rebel General Hou Jing defected to the Liang Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang had already reached his old age, but in his later years Emperor Liang Wu had already become faint and incompetent, and he tried to use Hou Jing's strength as a boost to the Northern Expedition, and also gave Hou Jing extremely high treatment. But he did not know that Hou Jing was a person who did not have the concept of loyalty at all.
When Eastern Wei sent troops to recruit Hou Jing, not only crushed the reinforcements of the Liang Dynasty, but also captured Xiao Yuanming, the Marquis of Zhenyang, which greatly changed Emperor Liang's attitude toward Hou Jing. Later, after Eastern Wei made a request for reconciliation to Emperor Wu of Liang, Hou Jing was deeply disturbed, and Hou Jing actually took the initiative to test Emperor Wu of Liang, forging a letter from Gao Cheng, the ruler of Eastern Wei, proposing to exchange Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming, and when he found out that Emperor Wu of Liang actually accepted this agreement, he resolutely decided to launch a rebellion.
Under Hou Jing's full preparations and the blind appeasement of Emperor Wu of Liang, the preliminary work of Hou Jing's rebellion was completed very smoothly, and even found Emperor Liangwu's adopted son Xiao Zhengde as an internal response, Emperor Liangwu was unmoved by all the news that Hou Jing was trying to rebel, and finally allowed Hou Jing to complete the preparations for the rebellion, with 8,000 troops to start an army in just over two months, with the help of the soldiers Gui Shensu and Xiao Zhengde, Hou Jing successfully invaded Jiankang City, starved Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, and established xiao Gang as the crown prince himself. As a puppet emperor
After the outbreak of Hou Jing's rebellion, the King of Xiangdong soon sent Wang Shengquan to serve as the governor of the capital, and gave Wang Shengquan 10,000 troops to let him go to Jiankang to help, as a result, when Wang Shengjian arrived in Jiankang, Jiankang had already been attacked by Hou Jing, Emperor Wu of Liang was also dead, and the counterinsurgency materials mobilized throughout the country were also enjoyed by Hou Jing.
Under the circumstances at that time, the Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan was already dead, and Hou Jing took control of the court and deposed the emperor at will. Outside the imperial court, the sons of the imperial family have the opportunity to compete for the throne, and the King of Xiangdong will naturally not give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So he planned to first attack Xiao Yu, the king of Hedong, who occupied Xiangzhou, and he once again sent Wang Shengjie to March towards Xiangzhou. The king of Xiangdong was so anxious that he was like an ant in a hot pot, and he actually directly cut and injured Wang Monk just because the troops were not assembled and planned to postpone the request to send troops, and even handed it over to the court lieutenant for punishment.
Wang Shengquan almost lost his head in such an inexplicable way, but fortunately there were not many generals like Wang Shengquan under the King of Xiangdong, so soon the King of Xiangdong suffered in the battle to attack Changsha, and had to release Wang Shengquan from prison and let Wang Shengquan continue to command the army, otherwise Southern Liang might lose a famous general. Wang Shengquan, who had regained control of the army, soon led an army to capture Xiangzhou, and the King of Xiangdong also restored his official position. After that, Wang Shengjie also forced back the army of Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, and since then, there have been basically no royal sons who can contend with the king of Xiangdong.
After that, Wang Shengquan's opponent was only Hou Jing, and Hou Jing also knew that the King of Xiangdong posed a threat to him, so he led his army westward, all the way to the west towards the sphere of influence of the King of Xiangdong to encircle and suppress, Hou Jing with a water army of 200,000 people, the mighty King monk of the Dynasty pounced. Wang Shengquan was not stupid, knowing that Hou Jing's soldiers were many generals and could not be tough with him, so Wang Shengquan chose to defend instead of attacking, stationed in Baling City to confront Hou Jing, and as a result, Hou Jing sent troops to attack many times and was defused by Wang Shengquan in various ingenious ways such as fire arrays, and even his general Ren Yue was captured by Wang Shengquan. In the end, Hou Jing, who could not attack Baling City for a long time and lost the general, could only be forced to retreat. Seeing that Hou Jing's army was retreating and fleeing, Wang Monk launched a counterattack, and he led his army down the river to recover Jiangzhou and Yingzhou, which had previously been captured by Hou Jing. The mighty Wang Monk pointed his sword straight at Jiankang City.
In Baimao Bay, he met with the person who was most important to him in his life, this person was called Chen Baxian. Chen Baxian also wanted to quell Hou Jing's rebellion, but Xiao Bo, the Marquis of Qujiang, who Chen Baxian had previously served, did not have this plan, so Chen Baxian also defected to the xiangdong king's account. Although the two men served under the King of Xiangdong, the work of the two was not the same, Wang Shengquan led the army to confront Hou Jing's main force, while Chen Baxian fought a tug-of-war with the corresponding Hou Jing's rebellion against the Gaozhou Assassin History, and by the time Chen Baxian defeated the Gaozhou Assassin History and sent troops to the east, Wang Shengquan had already led his army to defeat Hou Jing and was taking advantage of the victory to pursue.
At first, because Chen Baxian's reputation was higher than that of Wang Shengxuan, there was still some gap between the two, and Wang Shengxian was also jealous of Chen Baxian, but after Chen Baxian discovered that the western road armies led by Wang Shengxian were just short of grain, he generously donated money and divided the half a million stones of grain in his army into 300,000 stones to the western road armies where Wang Sengquan was located, and only then did the scruples and estrangement between the two eliminate scruples and estrangement.
After the two men met in Baimaowan, they took an oath on the altar and concluded a covenant, after which the combined forces of the two men conquered Wuhu, Gushu and other places in succession with a thunderous momentum, and only two months later they reached jiankang city, hou jing fought a decisive battle with the combined forces of Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian in the north of Jiankang city, and was finally defeated by the coalition forces, Hou Jing fled to the sea, and was killed by his subordinates. The Hou jing rebellion was completely quelled here.
After the end of Hou Jing's rebellion, Xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong, ascended the throne as emperor, that is, The Liang Yuan Emperor in the history books. Both Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian were promoted successively, with Wang Shengquan being given the title of Situ and Chen Baxian being Sikong. Originally, the story of the two could be called a beautiful talk, fighting side by side and defeating Hou Jing together and recreating the Liang Dynasty, but the turn of events soon happened.
Before the rebellion of Hou Jing, the King of Xiangdong had submitted to Western Wei in order to gain the support of Western Wei, but now that the King of Xiangdong had become the Emperor of Southern Liang, it was naturally impossible for him to continue to claim subjection to Western Wei. Moreover, the King of Xiangdong also wanted Western Wei to return the land it had previously occupied. In this way, Yuwen Tai, the ruler of Western Wei, at the request of King Yueyang of Southern Liang, sent an army to attack the land of Jiangling, where the King of Xiangdong was located, but the King of Xiangdong was captured and executed by Western Wei generals.
After learning the bad news, Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian, who were still in Jiankang at this time, decided to install Xiao Fangzhi, the son of Xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong, as emperor. However, after the fall of Jiangling, Northern Qi also became interested in the court that controlled Southern Liang, so he wrote to Wang Monk, saying that Xiao Fangzhi was young and unfit to deal with the current chaotic situation of the Liang Dynasty, and Xiao Yuanming, who had been captured by his side, was not only older, but also Xiao Yan's nephew, more suitable to be emperor than Xiao Fangzhi. Wang Shengquan was naturally not stupid, and Northern Qi's letter was clearly intended to support his own puppet dynasty in the Liang Dynasty, so Wang Shengquan and Chen Baxian refused this request.
However, Northern Qi did not intend to give up, but sent Gao Huan's seventh son Gao Zhuo to escort Xiao Yuanming back to the south, facing northern Qi, which was under the pressure of a large army, and liang dynasty was the new king Gangli, Wang Shengquan had to submit to Northern Qi, and under the strong opposition of Chen Baxian, Xiao Fangzhi was made crown prince and Xiao Yuanming was made emperor. This decision caused Chen Baxian to completely break with Wang Shengjian.
In the same year that Xiao Yuanming became emperor, Chen Baxian secretly attacked Wang Shengwei and captured him, then deposed Xiao Yuanming and once again established Xiao Fangzhi as emperor. In order to stabilize Northern Qi, Chen Baxian first expressed to Northern Qi to continue to be a vassal, and then went to the imperial court to execute Wang Shengjie. After that, Chen Baxian quelled the rebellion under Wang Shengxian and defeated the intervention of the Northern Qi army, and after three years of conquest to pacify the interior of the Liang Dynasty, Chen Baxian forced Xiao Fangzhi to take the throne and changed the name of the country to Chen. However, Wang Shengxian's descendants and subordinates have never forgotten Chen Baxian's betrayal, so when Wang Shengxian's second son destroyed the Chen Dynasty with Yang Guang's army, he excavated Chen Baxian's mausoleum, burned the body, and drank the ashes with water to show his hatred!