Since ancient times, fighting wars has been the business of military generals, commanding large armies to fight and charging on the battlefield are also the period of military generals, and many military generals also look down on literati commanding battles. However, literati sometimes fought fiercely, as was the case with Chen Qingzhi, a white-robed general during the Southern Dynasties.
Chen Qingzhi is a figure in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, he was born poor, he became the entourage of Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan when he was young, and served Xiao Yan wholeheartedly for many years, and played chess with Xiao Yan when he had nothing to do. After Xiao Yan became emperor, he gave Chen Qingzhi an official position and let him be responsible for some document management and document sending and receiving work in the court. If this trajectory continues, Chen Qingzhi will be an unknown little person in history, but what happened later made Chen Qingzhi a famous literati general in history.
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In 525 A.D., the Northern Wei Dynasty Xuzhou assassin Shi Yuan monk rebelled against Wei and surrendered to Liang, considering that there was no danger this time, Xiao Yan appointed Chen Qingzhi as the general of Wuwei and asked him to lead the troops to accept the city of Xuzhou. Chen Qingzhi also completed the task smoothly.
After returning to the army, Xiao Yan asked Chen Qingzhi to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to escort Xiao Zong, the king of Yuzhang, into the town of Xuzhou, at this time the Northern Wei sent 20,000 troops to resist, and the Northern Wei first sent the general Qiu Daqian to build a fortress in Xunliang to monitor the Liang army near the border. Chen Qingzhi advanced and forced his stronghold, and defeated him in a battle. However, a dramatic scene appeared, Xiao Zong surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty at this time, and the Southern Liang army was leaderless for a while, and was caught off guard by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and only Chen Qingzhi was able to retreat safely along the way.
Chen Qingzhi
After these two things, Xiao Yan thought that Chen Qingzhi was a treasure, and he couldn't let him stay by his side, and he could go to the battlefield to make contributions.
In the Battle of Wuyang in 527 AD, Chen Qingzhi led 200 men and horses to kill almost all the vanguard troops of the Northern Wei Army, and the corpses were all over the field. In the following year, Chen Qingzhi led 7,000 men and horses to escort Yuan Hao, the king of the Wei Beihai Sea, who had surrendered to Liang, and Chen Qingzhi led these 7,000 men and horses to defeat Qiu Daqian, who had 70,000 troops, and then defeated Yuan Huiye, a Wei general with 20,000 troops, in Kaocheng.
On the way to escort Yuan Hao back to Luoyang, Chen Qingzhi led the 7,000 soldiers and horses to go through 47 battles, pacify 32 cities, and finally occupy Luoyang, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It can be said that since Liu Yu's Northern Expedition at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to capture Luoyang and Chang'an, Chen Qingzhi was the first person in a hundred years.
Because Chen Qingzhi and his subordinates were all dressed in white robes, everywhere they passed, the northerners were all frightened. The local people have a song and ballad: "Famous teachers and generals should not be imprisoned, and thousands of soldiers and horses should avoid white robes." "It means that no matter how powerful the general is, no matter how many soldiers and horses, when he sees this white-robed army, he will hide far away.
Chen Qingzhi
Later, after Yuan Hao entered Luoyang, he acted indiscriminately and squeezed out Chen Qingzhi, which eventually led to the counterattack of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the loss of Luoyang. Chen Qingzhi also returned to Nanliang.
Later, Chen Qingzhi was sent to quell the rebellion many times, made many military exploits, and became the "God of War" of Southern Liang.
It's a pity that in 539 AD, Chen Qingzhi, the white-robed god of war, completed the legendary road of his life and died at the age of fifty-six. Chen Qingzhi's death made Nanliang no longer have a famous general to intimidate the Quartet, laying the groundwork for the later "Hou Jing Rebellion".