Emperor Chen Bozong (552–570), courtesy name Fengye, King yao of small characters, eldest son of Emperor Wen of Chen, and empress dowager Shen Miaorong, was the third emperor of the Chen Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, reigning from 566 to 568. In the third year of Yongding (559), he was made crown prince. In the first year of Tiankang (566), Emperor Wen of Chen died, and the crown prince Chen Bozong took the throne. Chen Bozong ascended the throne at a young age, and his uncle Chen Bozong was good at imperial politics, and in the second year of Guangda (568) and the first year of Taijian (569), Chen Bozong died at the age of nineteen.
In 547, the 84-year-old Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu accepted the Eastern Wei rebel general Hou Jing, despite the opposition of his subjects. Hou Jing was a disaster star, and after going south, the Hou Jing Rebellion, which was disastrous for the Southern Dynasty, broke out. In 549, the old and confused Emperor Wu of Liang starved to death in Taicheng, and the situation in the south quickly collapsed. With the efforts of all parties, although the Hou Jing Rebellion was extinguished, the territory of the Southern Dynasty was greatly reduced. South of the Huai River, north of the Yangtze River, in 555 AD, the Western Wei army, with the cooperation of Xiao Chen, the emperor of the Liang Dynasty, conquered the then Liang Dynasty capital Jiangling and killed the Liang Yuan Emperor Xiao Xuan.
The Liang Dynasty was in chaos, and the two northern powers took the opportunity to eat a large amount of territory, of which Western Wei took the greatest advantage. At its peak, Western Wei also occupied Xiang Prefecture (present-day Hunan) on the south bank of the Yangtze River. In 557, when the Liang Dynasty general Chen Baxian deposed the Liang Jing Emperor Xiao Fangzhi as emperor, the place was very small. At the beginning of the Chen Dynasty, the north was not the Yangtze River, and the west was not Xiangzhou, somewhat similar to the Three Kingdoms of Eastern Wu in the area of control that did not capture Jingzhou.
Fortunately, the Chen Dynasty produced a heroic Chen Wen Emperor Chen Xuan (Chen Baxian's nephew, the male protagonist of the love story with Han Zigao). Chen Xuan was good at using troops, and after taking the throne, he recaptured Xiangzhou in the second year of Chen Tianjia (561 AD). The reconquest of Xiangzhou was a lifesaver for the Chen Dynasty, and the land of Xiangzhou was fertile and rich in war resources. The Chen Dynasty took Xiangzhou and was able to use Xiangzhou as a strategic barrier between Lingnan and Jiangdong.
But the Chen Dynasty always had a huge heart disease: the Northern Qi forces were just north of the Yangtze River. The capital of the Chen Dynasty was Nanjing, Jiangsu, on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The Northern Qi soldiers were in jiangbei and could cross the river at any time. In addition, the Northern Qi soldiers did not cross the Yangtze River, and in 556 AD, the Northern Qi soldiers killed the southern bank of the Yangtze River, posing a fatal threat to the remnants of the Liang imperial court in Wuhu and Ma'anshan to Nanjing. Fortunately, Chen Ba, who was first a military genius, defeated the Qi army and saved the precarious situation in Jiangnan. However, the Northern Qi army in Jiangbei is like the United States stationing heavy troops in Ukraine, which is absolutely unacceptable to Russia, and the Chen Dynasty is also like this.