Just when Erzhu Rong was just in control of the Northern Wei court, he encountered a troublesome matter: Liang Jun escorted Yuan Hao to attack Northern Wei.
Yuan Hao was the nephew of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, Yuan Hong, who initially served as an official in Northern Wei and later fled to Southern Liang due to internal strife in Northern Wei.
After learning that Erzhu Rong held power, Yuan Hao was furious, and he said a lot of good things to Xiao Yan, hoping that Xiao Yan would send troops to help him kill back Northern Wei and seize the throne.
Liang Jun could also grab some territory on this trip, so Xiao Yan agreed and sent the general Chen Qingzhi to send him back with troops.
A series of wonderful battles are about to begin. Let's first briefly introduce Chen Qingzhi.
Chen Qingzhi is Xiao Yan's close confidant, Xiao Yan likes to play chess, chess can play all night, most people end up asleep, only Chen Qingzhi is energetic. No matter when Xiao Yan called him, he could immediately come over and play chess with Xiao Yan, so Xiao Yan liked him very much.
Of course, if Chen Qingzhiguang could play chess, Xiao Yan would not dare to hand over the army to him, and the reason why Xiao Yan let him lead the troops out was because Chen Qingzhi had a good performance on the battlefield.
In 527, the Liang army attacked Woyang under Northern Wei control, and Chen Qingzhi accompanied the army.
Northern Wei naturally did not remain indifferent, sending tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to support the defenders of Woyang, and the Liang army and the Wei army fought intermittently for about a year, regardless of victory or defeat.
Later, the Wei army was full of people and prepared to send people to camp in the rear of the Liang army, and the commander of the Liang army, Cao Zhongzong, was afraid of being attacked by the enemy and planned to withdraw.
If Liang Jun had withdrawn like this, all previous efforts would have been in vain.
At the critical moment, Chen Qingzhi stood up and said to the generals, "We have been here for a year, and we have spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but now everyone is only thinking about retiring from the army. We should fight the enemy to the death and make meritorious achievements, I have the emperor's secret order, if anyone wants to retreat, it will be dealt with according to the secret order!"
Listening to him say this, those generals who wanted to retreat were frightened, Chen Qingzhi was after all the emperor's red man, he may really have a secret order, the commander Cao Zhongzong decided to listen to Chen Qingzhi after repeated evidence.
At that time, the Wei army set up thirteen forts, and if it wanted to defeat the Wei army, it was necessary to pull out these nails. Chen Qingzhi led his troops to sneak closer, and used the method of night attack to first lay down four camps.
At this time, the Wei army still had nine camps left, but under the strong offensive of the Liang army, the Wei army was already scattered. The Liang army launched another onslaught, defeating the Wei army and taking back Woyang. The Battle of Woyang was well fought, while Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition was even more exciting.
In 528, under the arrangement of Xiao Yan, the Emperor of Liangwu, Chen Qingzhi took Yuan Hao to kill Northern Wei. However, Xiao Yan did not attach great importance to this operation, and only gave Chen Qingzhi 7,000 people. Relying on this point, people want to attack the Northern Wei, and the difficulty is not ordinary.
The first to fight Chen Qingzhi was the Northern Wei general Qiu Daqian. He set up nine fortifications to block liang jun. Chen Qingzhi was very good at attacking tough battles, and after a while he had laid down three camps, and Qiu Daqian was frightened and directly surrendered.
The Liang army continued to advance, and the second opponent was the Northern Wei general Yuan Huiye.
At that time, Yuan Huiye led soldiers to defend Kaocheng (around today's Shangqiu in Henan), which was surrounded by water on all sides, and was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
However, this was not difficult for Chen Qingzhi, who had people create a position that could float on the water, use this as a base to launch an attack, and quickly lay down the city.
At the third stop, Liang Jun came to Xingyang (荥阳, in present-day Xingyang, Henan). Xingyang was a place where soldiers and families had to fight, and Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought here many times in those years.
The Northern Wei emperor Yuan Ziyou knew that Xingyang's military position was very important, and arranged for 70,000 Wei troops to defend Xingyang, while other Wei troops came to encircle the Liang army.
At this time, the pressure of the Liang army was very large, the fortified city was in front, the pursuing troops were in the rear, if it could not break through the city before the enemy reinforcements arrived, the Liang army would be attacked from front to back, and the consequences were unimaginable.
The Liang army must lay down the city as quickly as possible, so Chen Qingzhi gathered his generals and said to everyone, "We have killed many enemies here, and we have formed a deep vendetta with the Wei army, and the enemy is outnumbered, we must lay down the city before the enemy reinforcements arrive, otherwise we will wait for death." "
Chen Qingzhi's words made the whole army clear: If it wants to survive, it must quickly take down the city in front of it
The survival of the Liang army can burst out of amazing combat effectiveness, the soldiers desperately attack, the defenders have never seen such a fierce opponent, and soon they were defeated, and the Liang army captured the city.
Not long after capturing the city, reinforcements from the Wei army arrived.
The Liang army had already killed the red eye at this time, and Chen Qingzhi went out of the city with three thousand cavalry to meet the battle, beating the Wei army that had come to support and fleeing.
Relying on the spirit of daring to fight and dare to rush, Liang Jun finally took Xingyang and obtained a large number of supplies. Next goal: Tiger Prison Pass.
Zhen Shouhu was imprisoned by Erzhu Rong's cousin Erzhu Shilong, who had been frightened by Chen Qingzhi.
Hearing that Liang Jun had arrived, he immediately abandoned the city and fled.
Tiger Prison Pass was the gateway to the Northern Wei capital Luoyang, and after liang captured it, they soon attacked Luoyang. At this time, the Wei army did not dare to fight again, and the Northern Wei monarch Yuan Ziyou simply fled, and the Liang army easily occupied Luoyang.
Under the leadership of Chen Qingzhi, the Liang army achieved amazing results, and with only 7,000 men and horses, they defeated the enemy who was far more numerous than their own and occupied the capital of Northern Wei. Because Chen Qingzhi's troops were all wearing white robes, a saying was later circulated: "The famous general Mo Zi is imprisoned, and thousands of troops and horses avoid white robes." "
Since then, however, the situation has changed.
Chen Qingzhi understood that the situation was still grim, and suggested that Yuan Hao ask Xiao Yan to send reinforcements again.
But at this time, Yuan Hao and Liang Jun were no longer one heart, he now had some people who supported him, the number was several times that of Chen Qingzhi's troops, Yuan Hao felt that his wings were hardened, and he planned to break off relations with Liang Jun.
Therefore, Yuan Hao sent someone to Xiao Yan to say that the current strength was enough to deal with the Northern Wei, and there was no need to send reinforcements.
Originally, Southern Liang's reinforcements were already on the road, and after Xiao Yan received the news from Yuan Hao, he let the reinforcements stop.
In this way, with fewer troops than the enemy, Chen Qingzhi could not wait for reinforcements. Soon after, Northern Wei slowed down, Erzhu Rong led a large number of soldiers and horses to counterattack Luoyang, Yuan Hao was captured alive by the Wei army in the battle, Chen Qingzhi's troops encountered a flood on the way to the march, almost completely destroyed, Chen Qingzhi fled back to Southern Liang with difficulty, and Erzhu Rong once again made meritorious contributions to Northern Wei.