As a result of Chen Baxian's hasty usurpation of the throne, the old land of Southern Liang, which had been fragmented, collapsed and disintegrated again, and Hanzhong and Yizhou were occupied by Yuwen Hu of Northern Zhou; Xiangyang and Jiangling established Houliang under Xiao Chen's command; Wang Lin, the general of Zhenshou Xiangzhou, was divided and established by Chen Baxian because he killed Wang Monk, and at the beginning of the founding of Southern Chen, the land he owned was only Jiankang, Sanwu, and Lingnan.
Although Chen Baxian was invincible on the battlefield, he was invincible to the poisonous hand of fate, and within three years of ascending the throne, he fell ill and died, and did not complete the unification of Southern Chen until his death.
Statue of Chen Baxian
Wang Lin raised an army to cut down the funeral
In the Chen Baxian dynasty, there was no prince, Chen Baxian's son was few, and the only surviving Chen Chang was taken captive by Northern Zhou at the same time as his cousin Chen Hao when Jiangling fell, and when Chen Baxian died of illness, Southern Chen Qunlong was leaderless.
Empress Zhang advocated welcoming Back Chen Chang to succeed to the throne, but Northern Zhou was reluctant to release people, and an opportunity to make Southern Chen "grateful to Dade" was abandoned by Yuwen Hu, and the Southern Chen general Hou Andu and others were unwilling to be controlled by others, forcing Empress Zhang to make up a will, and Chen Baxian's nephew Chen Xuan became the second monarch of Southern Chen.
As soon as Chen Xuan took the throne, Wang Lin raised an army to fight for the funeral, taking advantage of Chen Ba's death in the east to conquer Chen, the Southern Chen general Wu Mingche was defeated, and Wang Lin marched quickly and marched forward. As Wang Lin's ally, Northern Qi also promptly sent Murong Yu to sit in Jiangbei, ready to go south at any time.
The situation was already very unfavorable to Chen Xuan, and in this extremely critical situation, the lieutenant Hou Yao was ordered to lead a large army to confront Wang Lin at Wuhu, and although he repeatedly cracked Wang Lin's attacks, he could not take down the enemy, and the battle situation was glued.
Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, Xiao Qin, who was behind Wang Lin, suddenly launched an attack on Yingzhou, and the troops in Yingzhou were empty, and the general Sun Yue, who was left in Yingzhou by Wang Lin, was a rare military wizard, but unfortunately Wang Lin misjudged the situation in Yingzhou, stubbornly believing that Sun Yue could not hold Yingzhou, and in order to avoid encountering an east-west attack when returning to Aid Yinzhou, Wang Lin took advantage of the surge of the river and the sudden rise of the southwest wind to launch a fierce attack on Southern Chen in an attempt to destroy the State of Chen.
Wang Lin fought with Hou Yao
In the face of the sudden attack, Hou Yan lined up on the riverside and avoided fighting, Wang Lin took advantage of the situation to go down the river, and after Wang Lin's warships all advanced eastward, Hou Yan appeared behind Wang Lin with torches, and the southwest wind became Hou Yao's best assist with fire, and the surge of the river pushed Hou Lin's fire ships all to Wang Lin's warships.
Wang Lin was defeated and fled to Northern Qi, and the Southern Chen army marched all the way west to capture Wang Lin's city, while Northern Zhou had not yet captured Yingzhou, which Sun Wei was defending, and when he heard that Wang Lin had fled to Northern Qi, Sun Wei was helpless and surrendered to Southern Chen.
Hou Andu murdered Chen Chang
Yuwen Hu, who wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in the Southern Dynasty to regain the land of Southern Chen, miscalculated, he did not think that Sun Wei was actually a defensive general, in order to continue to suppress the rising Southern Chen, Yuwen Hu released Chen Baxian's son Chen Chang and nephew Chen Yan back to Chen Guo, hoping that Chen Chang and Chen Xuan would break out into a power struggle in order to reap the benefits of the fisherman.
Although Yuwen Hu was a first-class power magician, he was not a perfect strategist, and when Nan Chen urgently needed Chen Chang, he deliberately held on to it, and now That Nan Chen was already Chen Xuan's world, Chen Chang's only advantage was the name of Chen Baxian's son, who had already passed away, and without talent and prestige, what power would he take?
Grand Admiral Hou Andu
Chen Xuan found Sikong Hou Andu, tearfully expressed his intention to abdicate and give way to Xian, where can Hou Andu agree, Chen Xuan was originally the king he advocated to inherit the unification, and now a small Chen Chang actually wanted to force Chen Xuan to abdicate, Hou Andu was furious, and immediately went to the Yangtze River to welcome Chen Chang.
By the time Chen Chang arrived in Jiankang, he had become a corpse, and as for the reason, the river swelled, the ship was damaged, and Chen Chang unfortunately drowned.
Chen Xuan's temptation
Chen Xuan was almost a replica of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, who was politically clear in the early stages, And Qing Yunei in the early years, and faint and mediocre in his later years.
The general Hou An made immortal contributions in the process of supporting the king and conquering Wang Lin, and was accused of treason and murdered for arbitrarily exercising power and ignoring Chen Xuan's orders. Chen Xuan's younger brother Chen Huan rose to the top and controlled most of Southern Chen's military strength, and Chen Xuan actually took Xiao Yan's old path at this time and sacrificed himself to the Buddha, fortunately, Chen Xuan went from fainting to illness, and it only took a very short time, and did not destroy the Country and Mountains like Xiao Yan.
Before his death, Chen Huan left the throne to his younger brother Chen Huan, and this fatal temptation was evaded by the cautious Chen Huan, who although he had the heart to be called emperor, he had absolutely no such courage in Chen Xuan's dynasty, and once Chen Huan agreed, he was afraid that it would not be the throne but the butcher's knife in his hand.
Chen Xuan was very satisfied with Chen Hao's answer, and he entrusted the thirteen-year-old crown prince Chen Bozong to his younger brother Chen Hao, and in order to avoid Chen Yu being tempted by power, Chen Yu simultaneously placed his close associates Liu Zhishi and Zhi Zhongju among the auxiliary ministers, forming a balance between the two sides.
Chen Yan ascended to the throne
Hua Jiao plotted rebellion
Unfortunately, Chen Xuan ignored one of the most important things, Liu Zhishi and Zhi Zhongju were both civilian subjects, in the Chen Xuan dynasty, power struggles were not often staged, and Ben did not give them the opportunity to accumulate actual combat experience, and the only trustworthy military general Han Zigao was just Chen Xuan's male favorite, he became a general by appearance, and his ability was basically zero.
An imperial uncle who held the power of Southern Chen's army was extremely easy to deal with two civilian ministers who had no experience in fighting, Liu Zhishi was killed, and when Zhongju was framed for plotting against Han Zigao, Chen Huan left Chen Yu to balance his ministers in a very short period of time, and all that was left was when to claim the title of emperor.
Chen Xuan and Han Zigao
When Zhongju and Han Zigao were killed, another of Chen Xuan's favorite ministers was worried, he was Hua Jiao, who was guarding Xiangzhou, in order not to repeat Han Zigao's mistakes, Hua Jiao secretly contacted Northern Zhou and Hou Liang, moved closer to them, recruited troops on a large scale, and was ready for battle, and Chen Hao's side was not idle, and the general Wu Mingche had already quietly led his army out to the east, and the troops were directly pointing directly at Xiangzhou.
Northern Zhou Yuwen Hu finally waited for Southern Chen's civil strife again, and he did not want to miss this excellent opportunity, so he made Yuwen Zhi the governor of the capital and sent troops south to reinforce Hua Jiao, while Liang then sent the general Wang Cao to lead 20,000 troops to join Hua Jiao in the joint resistance against Wu Mingche.
The biggest advantage of Yuwen Zhi, Wang Cao, and Hua Jiao was that they were in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with their warships in order and the west wind rising, so they could go down the river and crush Wu Mingche's army, and then directly attack Jiankang and destroy Southern Chen.
Hua Jiao and the others were not in a hurry to move east, but took advantage of the wind to prepare countless dry firewood, so that these burning ships could go straight downwind, burn Wu Mingche, and then go out in unison to kill the remnants of the forces.
The perfect plan, but unfortunately the sky did not follow people's wishes, just after Hua Jiao set sail on the fire of countless ships, the wind direction suddenly changed, and the fire boats that had originally rushed towards Wu Mingche suddenly rushed into their own camp, and Wu Mingche took advantage of the situation to attack and retake Xiangzhou.
Hua Jiao
Wu Mingche Northern Expedition
Sweeping away Hua Jiao, Chen Hao could finally claim the title of emperor with peace of mind, he kicked his nephew Chen Bozong off the throne, and then poisoned him, Chen Xuan could not think of it until he died, and his kindness to rescue Chen Hao from Northern Zhou was an act of luring wolves into the room.
Chen Baxian usurped the throne three years ago and died of a violent illness, when Chen Xuan succeeded to the throne, civil unrest broke out, the country was not prosperous, and when he pacified Wang Lin and established a prosperous Southern Chen, he also died of illness, and Chen Hao sat on Chen Huan's legacy of ruling the world, and when he swept away Hua Jiao's rebellion, not only did he not suffer large-scale losses, but he seized a lot of Land of Houliang, especially the general Wu Mingche rose in the Southern Chen army, all the factors pointed to the first dream in the hearts of the People of the Southern Dynasty, the Northern Expedition.
Fa Qi was still Fa Zhou, Chen Yan did not have a mature idea in his heart, he first sent emissaries to Northern Qi to lobby Gao Wei, but unfortunately Gao Wei only knew how to accompany women to fool around, and had no ambition to unify the world at all, and even Chen Yan's emissaries were expelled without seeing them.
Lian Qi fell into the Zhou Dynasty, and Chen Yan did not dare to send people to Northern Zhou, after all, at this time, Northern Zhou was already the domain of Yuwen Yong, and The Emperor Ming was good and powerful. Chen Yan did not send people, but the Northern Zhou side sent envoys to the south to devote themselves to the alliance between Zhou and Qi, and Chen Hao had long been looking forward to this moment and immediately agreed.
Northern expedition
After dealing with this powerful enemy of Northern Zhou, Chen Yan finally dared to attack Northern Qi with peace of mind, and the general Wu Mingche commanded an army of 100,000 people to go straight to Huainan, under Gao Wei's rule, Northern Qi had already lost the hearts of the people, especially those generals who guarded the border for fear of being killed by Gao Wei for no reason, day and night, looking forward to the arrival of Wang Shi, and the last three famous generals of Northern Qi, Duan Shao, died of illness, Huo Luguang and Gao Changgong were killed, and the generals of Huainan could not resist Wu Mingche's attack at all, and Northern Qi, which occupied Huainan for more than twenty years, finally lost this important strategic point.
Unfortunately, Chen Yan only wanted to recover Huainan, and did not have the ambition to advance the world, after Wu Mingche recaptured Huainan, he stopped attacking, divided Huai and ruled, and Gou An Jiangnan, this historic opportunity was lost by Chen Yan in vain, three years later, the Northern Zhou Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong launched an attack on Northern Qi, and in a very short period of time, he attacked Jinyang and Yecheng and captured Northern Qi Gaowei alive.
Southern Chen's famous general Wu Mingche
After hearing the news of Yuwen Yong's destruction of Northern Qi, Chen Yan was very shocked, and he immediately sent Wu Mingche to raise troops for the Northern Expedition, this time finally decided to cross huaishui and launch an attack on places north of Xuzhou, but the Northern Zhou army was not a Northern Qi army, their army was complete, their combat effectiveness was extremely high, not only defeated the Southern Chen army, but also captured the general Wu Mingche alive, and occupied the Huainan region that Southern Chen had just recovered, Chen Yan worked hard all his life and was useless.
In 582, Chen Hao came to the end of his life, and he left the crown prince Chen Shubao to inherit the throne, and the north was already the world of the Great Sui.