We often say that "xiucai rebelled, ten years will not succeed", that is, although the literati have splendid articles, they often have difficulty in walking on the real battlefield, let alone leading the troops to win the battle, but also the kind that wins the battle. For example, in ancient times, there was a "doctor", that is, the erudite Confucian sheng always told the imperial court not to fight the Xiongnu, but to "Huairou" to the enemy, so the emperor threw him to the border pass to let him "Huairou", and it was not long before the doctor was killed by the enemy.
But there are always some powerful people in history, as a literati, have not brought much soldiers, every day to accompany the emperor to play chess, chat about this kind of thing, and this person is still free and weak, even the bow and crossbow can not be pulled, just to be able to ride a horse, suddenly one day the emperor gave him a little person, he is like the god of war possessed, suddenly from the south to the north, hit the enemy to see his white clothes and frightened and scattered, just so-called:
"Famous teachers and generals mo self-imprisoned, thousands of soldiers and horses avoid white robes"
This scholar was Chen Qingzhi.
Chen Qingzhi was born in 484 AD. There is no clear record of his origin in history, but it can be clear that he was born into poverty and lowliness, and may be an ordinary son of a commoner, because the edict given to him by Emperor Wu of Liang wrote that he was "not a general and not a rich family", that is to say, he was not a descendant of the family, and there was no shadow left for him in his ancestors.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of the cold disciples like this were difficult to enter a very high official position, and Chen Qingzhi was no exception, he was just a small official at the beginning, playing chess with Emperor Liangwu and him, occasionally helping to write and write. But it was probably this position that gave him a turnaround in his life. But the turnaround came so slowly.
Chen Qingzhi soon turned 41 years old, and he almost left no trace in history in these decades, perhaps his life has passed so obscurely, at most in the history books, Emperor Liangwu especially liked to play chess with a literati named Chen Qingzhi, that's all. However, history made a joke to Chen Qingzhi, in ancient times, the forties were already relatively old, at this time there was a rebellion with the Northern Dynasty that confronted the Southern Dynasty, and the Northern Dynasty generals who failed in the rebellion ran to the Southern Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of Liang, with a disgusting Northern Dynasty mind, sent Chen Qingzhi with 2,000 people to protect the Northern Dynasty generals "going north", accompanied by several generals of the Southern Dynasty.
At that time, the military strength of the Northern Dynasty was stronger than that of the Southern Dynasty in the south, and the Northern Dynasty, which could easily pull up hundreds of thousands of cavalry, chen Qingzhi could accomplish anything with 2,000 people going up? However, for Emperor Wu of Liang, he did not have great hopes, that is, he simply wanted to disgust the Northern Dynasty. It was probably Chen Qingzhi who often talked to him about the art of war, and he just asked Chen Qingzhi to practice it.
Unexpectedly, "unintentionally inserting willows into the shade", Emperor Wu of Liang was almost a "joke work", and actually achieved a generation of famous generals throughout the ages. From then on, Chen Qingzhi started a life of rage and became the "white-robed general" that the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty were most reluctant to meet, because he and the soldiers both wore white robes.
In 525, the State of Wei of the Northern Dynasty sent Yuan Yanming, the King of Anfeng, and Yuan Yu, the King of Linhuai, to lead 20,000 people to resist Chen Qingzhi and build a strong fortification, and then Chen Qingzhi led a charge of 2,000 people to defeat the 20,000 enemy troops hiding in the fortifications. However, at this time, the Liang army appeared pig teammates to surrender to the Northern Dynasty, and almost all the other friendly troops were killed and wounded, only Chen Qingzhi ran back with his 2,000 soldiers and horses intact.
Chen Qingzhi's wave of victorious retreat almost instantly blinded Emperor Liangwu's eyes--I really can't see it, you sick straw man is still so capable of fighting? In order to verify his guess, Emperor Wu of Liang asked him to go north with a little people the next year, Chen Qingzhi took two cities and then came back, this time Emperor Liang Wu believed that he really picked up the treasure!
Chen Qingzhi once again accompanied the others on the expedition, when the opponent was the Wei Xiaoming Emperor Yuan Xuanfu sent the general Yuan Zhao to lead an army of 150,000 (one said 50,000) to reinforce Woyang, his vanguard troops were now arriving, confronting the Liang army, seeing that the Wei army was not selling well, Chen Qingzhi requested to send troops to defeat the other side's vanguard troops first to attack their military hearts, but at this time Liang Jun's own troops were also very small, and the main general did not agree. So Chen Qingzhi asked himself to attack with 200 men, and a charge once again defeated the enemy army, and the Wei army was terrified.
Chen Qingzhi then led his men to pursue the victory, at this time the Wei army built a fortification behind the Liang army's position, and the other generals were afraid of being attacked by the enemy on their stomachs and backs, and wanted to withdraw their troops. Chen Qingzhi said: "We came here to make meritorious achievements, that is, to wait for the enemy to gather together to annihilate, I have the emperor's secret edict, if you retreat now, I will behead you according to military law" This time liang soldiers were stable in their hearts and prepared to fight with the Wei army to the death, this time Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the night to launch an attack and break the enemy hiding in the fortifications.
In order to intimidate the enemy, Chen Qingzhi selected 30 Wei prisoners to release and asked them to report their defeat to the Wei army, while Chen Qingzhi followed. The 30 prisoners said that the Defeat of the Wei Army was even more frightened, at this time Chen Qingzhi led his troops to cover up, the Wei Army was defeated, and more than 100,000 soldiers were destroyed.
A year later, civil unrest broke out in Northern Wei, and Emperor Wu of Liang felt that he could not miss this opportunity, and when Yuan Hao, the king of Wei Beihai at that time, surrendered to Liang because of the great chaos in the dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang established Yuan Hao as the "King of Wei" and sent Chen Qingzhi to escort him back to the country to "succeed to the throne", in fact, he fought all the way over and forced Northern Wei to recognize Yuan Hao as the new King of Wei, this time almost the pinnacle of Chen Qing's life. Chen Qingzhi escorted Yuan Hao all the way with 7,000 people, and the Wei army wherever he went was solved by Chen Qingzhi slaughtering pigs and dogs.
When they arrived at Xingyang City, the Wei army gathered 300,000 troops to fight Against Chen Qingzhi according to the city. Chen Qingzhi's soldiers were all afraid of this, and Chen Qingzhi jumped off his horse to give a speech to the soldiers: "We have gone all the way north and killed many people and horses of the Wei army, and now the enemy will definitely not give any of us a chance to live." Therefore, we must put life and death aside and attack the city, lest we lose our lives after being chased and killed by the enemy's cavalry on the steppe! ”
After Chen Qingzhi personally beat the drum, the soldiers were very encouraged to listen, and a charge conquered the enemy army, and the Wei army was defeated. Taking advantage of this military might, Chen Qingzhi directly took Luoyang, and Yuan Hao immediately formally succeeded to the throne in Luoyang, with Chen Qingzhi as his attendant, grand general of the che riders, and Zuo Guanglu's doctor, and increased the number of households.
Come to think of it, when Emperor Wu of Liang was looking for this young man to play chess, he would not have thought that this weak scholar next to him was actually such a famous general who had never been encountered in eternity!