In literary and artistic works, you can often see the description and plot of "thousands of troops and horses avoiding white robes", in fact, this is not a fabrication, there is indeed a "white-robed general" in Chinese history, he is invincible, created a miracle on the battlefield, let the enemy feel frightened, so that the northern land at that time was circulating with the nursery rhyme of "famous teachers and generals are not self-imprisoned, thousands of soldiers and horses avoid white robes". This white-robed general who almost led 7,000 people to defeat the Northern Wei dynasty was Chen Qingzhi.
Chen Qingzhi (陈庆之), courtesy name Ziyun ,Chinese, was a Native of Yixing Guoshan (present-day Yixing, Jiangsu Province) and a Liang general of the Southern Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During Liang's ordinary years, he served as General Wuwei and General Xuanmeng, leading soldiers well and caring for non-commissioned officers. When chen Qingzhi is mentioned, everyone prefers to use "ping thirty-two cities, forty-seven battles, and no advance" to praise the courage of his soldiers. However, compared with other famous players in history, he is really a late bloomer.
When Chen Qingzhi was young, he was not a general, but a civilian official. All that's done is sorting out the copywriting and so on. But it was this job that gave Chen Qingzhi the opportunity to read the art of war. At this time, the Shenzhou mainland coincided with the period of great turmoil in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Northern Wei Xianbei unified the north, the Han people once again moved south to Jiangnan and other places to establish the Liang Dynasty regime, Chen Qingzhi several times asked to invest in the army from Rong to serve in the army, the army commanders were not suitable for refusal, until the middle age, 41-year-old Chen Qingzhi showed his talent to Emperor Liangwu by chance, so. A generation of gods of war was born.
As soon as Chen Qingzhi made his debut, he won the first victory with a beautiful night raid battle, and with only two hundred people, he defeated the vanguard of the Wei army, thus opening up his legendary experience of winning more with less. After that, the war lasted for a year, and the soldiers from the generals to the soldiers were reluctant to fight, and the wish to go home and get married after the battle was promised I don't know how many times, and both sides had the idea of retreating. Chen Qingyi looked at this line, and immediately led the elite to break through the thirteen camps, and finally won a complete victory, and the historical records recorded that the body of the Wei army even blocked the tributaries of Huaishui.
529 AD, the first year of the Middle Chase. This is the year that belongs to Chen Qingzhi. At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty was in civil strife, and the King of Beihai, Yuan Hao, surrendered Liang and asked Liang Chao to send troops to help him claim the title of emperor. Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu sent Chen Qingzhi to lead 7,000 troops to escort Yuan Hao to the north, which was originally a prevarication but achieved the most legendary Northern Expedition in history. No one expected that Chen Qingzhi's seven-thousand white-robed army, which had traveled thousands of miles and won many battles, actually entered the Wei capital Luoyang and supported Yuan Hao as emperor. For a time, the Northern Dynasty talked about chen color changes, and the nursery rhyme in Luoyang City said: "The famous master general Mo Zi is imprisoned, and thousands of soldiers and horses avoid white robes." ”
In this life, he can be said to have made many achievements in battle, compared to Bai Qi, Xiang Yu, Han Xin and other famous people in history, but why do few people know the great name of the white-robed general?
Later generations believe that his merits have a lot of water, and although his white-robed army is small, it is all elite soldiers. At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was already corrupt, and the combat effectiveness of the army was naturally extremely poor, so Chen Qingzhi won more with less, there was moisture, and these achievements did not rule out the suspicion of exaggeration, so it was rarely recorded in the historical materials.