Chen Qingzhi (484–539), courtesy name Ziyun, was a native of Yixing (present-day Yixing, Jiangsu), a famous general of Southern Liang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the second year of Liang Datong (528), Emperor Wu of Liang sent Chen Qingzhi to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. Throughout the Northern Expedition, Chen Qingzhi played the strategy of narrow roads meeting the brave to win to the extreme, and his 7,000 lone army was invincible in forty-seven battles; the siege of thirty-two cities was invincible. The 300,000 Wei army could not even stop Chen Qing's previous advance.
When Chen Qingzhi was young, he served as an retinue to Xiao Yan, a major minister of Southern Qi, and with loyalty and diligence, he soon won Xiao Yan's trust. In the second year of the Southern Qi Dynasty (500), Xiao Yan raised an army to fight against the tyrannical Marquis Xiao Baojuan of Dongxia. In December of that year, Xiao Yan's army invaded Jiankang City. Soon, Xiao Yan was proclaimed emperor and changed the name of the country to Liang, in favor of Emperor Wu of Liang. At this time, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu did not forget Chen Qingzhi, who was dutiful in his duties, and he appointed Chen Qingzhi, who was only 18 years old, as the main book, and was specifically responsible for handling clerical and other clerical work.
In the first year of Liang Datong (527), Emperor Wu of Liang sent Chen Qingzhi and the general Cao Zhongzong to lead an army to attack the Northern Wei city of Wuyang (present-day Meng County, Anhui). As soon as Chen Qingzhi sent his troops, the Northern Wei who had been on the defensive already discovered this military situation and hurriedly sent the general Zhengnan and The King of Changshan, Yuanzhao, to lead an army of 150,000 to reinforce Woyang. In the nearly 10 months that followed, the liang and Wei armies, which met on the narrow road, fought nearly a hundred times, winning and losing each other, and the generals on both sides were miserable. At this moment of stalemate, a cavalry of the Northern Wei Suddenly appeared in the rear of the Liang army. There were strong enemies in the front, and the rear road was worrying, and the worried Liang general Cao Zhongzong was ready to lead his army to retreat south. At the critical moment, Chen Qingzhi took out the battle given to him by Emperor Wu of Liang, stood in front of the camp and shouted: "When we all came to Woyang together, we fought for a year before and after, and the grain, grass and money consumed could not be calculated. Nowadays, everyone has no fighting spirit and only wants to retreat to save their lives, how can this be something that a strong man who wants to serve the country can do?
Today, either everyone will work together to fight the Xianbei people to the death, or I will use the festival given by the emperor to cure everyone's sins. When Cao Zhongzong and the others looked at it, they could only follow Chen Qingzhi and fight a decisive battle with the Wei army. That night, Chen Qingzhi personally led the elite cavalry to raid the Wei camp, and in one night he captured four camps of the Wei army. Wang Wei, the defender of Woyang City, saw that Liang Jun was as brave as he was, and had no choice but to surrender the city. After successfully receiving the city of Woyang, Chen Qingzhi ranked the first rank of the Wei army's captives in front of the front, personally beat the war drums, and urged the generals to attack the remaining wei camps. Frightened by Chen Qingzhi, the Wei army dared to fight again, leaving its own camp and retreating on all fronts, and the Battle of Woyang finally ended in the victory of the Liang army.
The victory of Vortex City was nothing more than Chen Qing's initial appearance. In the second year of Datong (528), Emperor Wu of Liang sent him to lead 7,000 cavalry to protect the Northern Wei Beihai King Yuan Hao who surrendered to the Liang Dynasty in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. Chen Qingzhi led his army north across the Yangtze River, and soon advanced to suiyang (present-day Shangqiu, Henan). The Northern Wei general Qiu Daqian, who was guarding Suiyang, had 70,000 troops under his command, but when the Liang army charged, Qiu Daqian led his army to surrender. Suiyang was the gateway to Luoyang, the capital of Northern Wei, and seeing that the gate of the capital was about to be opened, the Northern Wei court was immediately in chaos. After an emergency meeting, the Northern Wei court hurriedly sent the General Yuan Hui of Zhengdong to lead 20,000 imperial forest troops to retake Suiyang.
However, Chen Qingzhi did not take the 20,000 Wei State Iron Horse seriously at all, and led the generals to charge again, not only defeating the Wei army, but also capturing the Wei army's main general Yuan Hui alive. Hearing the news of Yuan Hui's defeat, the Northern Wei emperors sat restlessly and urgently mobilized 300,000 troops from all over the country to go south to fight Chen Qingzhi. At this time, the situation was very unfavorable to the Liang army, Chen Qingzhi's lone army traveled thousands of miles, the supply was difficult, and the Wei army that poured out of the nest was dozens of times larger than the Liang army, and the difference in strength between the enemy and us was huge, and the Slightest carelessness of the Liang Army would be completely destroyed. Chen Qingzhi knew that this moment was the courage and determination of both sides, and he personally delivered a morale-boosting speech to the generals of the Liang Army, to the effect that at the moment of the great war, there is no way to retreat, and only by fighting to the death can we survive in death. After the speech, Chen Qingzhi led an army to attack Xingyang (present-day Henan), where 70,000 Wei troops were stationed.
The Xingyang Wei army could not resist the crazy Liang army, and was destroyed by the Liang army, and tens of thousands of Wei troops were taken prisoner. Subsequently, Chen Qingzhi selected 3,000 white-robed cavalry to line up behind the city and confronted more than 100,000 cavalry of the Wei army who rushed to reinforcements outside the city. With Chen Qingzhi's order, 3,000 Liang Army cavalry frantically rushed towards the Wei army with a momentum of death and no life. After a bloody battle, more than 100,000 Wei cavalry were crushed by Chen Qingzhi's white-robed cavalry team, and Chen Qingzhi smoothly attacked the city of Luoyang. At that time, the children of the whole luoyang city were singing the song of "Famous Teachers and Generals Mo Zi prison, thousands of troops and horses avoid white robes". This means that it doesn't matter how famous you are, and how many soldiers you have under you, see the brave white-robed cavalry, or how far you have fled.