Seeing that everyone's attention had been attracted, Chen Wen began to tell the story.

"The protagonist of the story has the same surname as Zaixia, also surnamed Chen, named Qingzhi, Ziyun, a person from Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of this dynasty, is a fellow villager."

"When Chen Qingzhi was young, he was the entourage of Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty. The concept of Southern Dynasty Liang may not be well-known, but if you talk about the era of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the heroes of the Sui and Tang dynasties, everyone should be familiar with it, right? And the Southern Dynasty Liang is between these two time periods. ”

At this time, there was a knowing laughter from the audience.

Mo said that he was present, for the Southern Dynasty Liang dynasty, Chen Wen didn't know much when he was studying, he only knew that it was one of the four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in the Southern Dynasty. And the distance between it and Sui is not far away, and it is also because of Zhang Lihua and Chen Qingzhi, two people who are not related to each other.

Although Chen Qingzhi himself is powerless, he can't even pull an ordinary crossbow machine, and he can't shoot arrows on horseback, but he is a wise general who leads troops well and is resourceful. But Chen Qingzhi's story starts from the second year of Emperor Wu of Liang. ”

In the second year of Datong, the Northern Wei Dynasty, which stood side by side with the Southern Dynasty Liang, broke out the Erzhurong Rebellion. The Northern Wei Dynasty was not Cao Cao's Wei state, but a dynasty established by the Hu people hundreds of years after the Three Kingdoms returned to the Jin Dynasty. After this dynasty unified the north, it immediately began to sinicize, and it can be regarded as a dynasty that admires China. And that Er Zhurong is a complete Hu man, and the book says that he is a high merit Mengde, and the disaster is better than Dong Zhuo. ”

"Huh?" The prestige of Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo is really more shocking than that of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty Liang, and it is really better to take familiar things and put them on the top.

After Er Zhurong rebelled, Yuan Hao, the king of Beihai of the Northern Wei Dynasty, descended south to Liang and borrowed troops from Liang to restore the country. After thinking about it again, in line with the idea of being small and broad, Emperor Wu of Liang decided to send Chen Qingzhi to escort him to the throne in the rebellion. And how many people are there in this counterinsurgency army? Seven thousand, only seven thousand. And these 7,000 people are all wearing white robes, known as the white robe army in history. ”

Seven thousand people were brought with them to quell the turmoil, which is an incredible number. And in their eyes, the Northern Wei Dynasty in Chen Wen's mouth seems to be a big country, what are these 7,000 people enough to do, send them to death?

"In April of the first year of Zhongdatong, that is, in the second year, Chen Qingzhi's army set out and broke through Xingcheng. Qiu Daqian, the general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was ordered to command an army of 70,000 to defend nine cities, but within one day, Chen Qingzhi captured three cities and Qiu Daqian surrendered. ”

"Sss Seven thousand people went down to three cities in one day, and such a record made everyone gasp.

In ancient wars, siege battles were often protracted due to the presence of city walls. Not to mention the siege of the ant, whether it is to build siege equipment or cave attack, it takes time, unless there is an internal gate to open the city or the morale of the defenders is low or the strength is far inferior to the attack and defense, it is almost impossible to go down in one day.

In the battle just mentioned, the defender's 70,000 troops were divided into nine cities, which was more than the 7,000 people on the attacking side on average, but Chen Qingzhi was able to take three cities in one day, which would make people feel incredible.

In the same month, Yuanhao, the king of Beihai, was proclaimed emperor in Suiyang under the protection of Chen Qingzhi. On April 20, Chen Qingzhi captured Kaocheng, annihilated the 20,000 Yulin army led by Yuan Huiye, the king of Jiyin in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and captured his people. ”

"On the first day of the fifth month, Chen Qingzhi attacked Daliang, and the defenders of Daliang of the Northern Wei Dynasty surrendered in white robes. Chen Qingzhi then led his division westward and pointed to Luoyang, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty. When the news of the fall of Daliang came, Yuan Tianmu, the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who was suppressing the Xinggao uprising in Qingzhou, led an army of 300,000 to return to Shiqin Wang. ”

"Three hundred thousand?" This number is indeed amazing, after all, Ming Taizu's Northern Expedition only sent 250,000 troops.

"Yes, it's an army of 300,000." Chen Wen smiled, and what followed were the battles in which Chen Qingzhi, who was called the first general of the Southern Dynasty on the Internet in later generations, went to the altar.

"On May 23, Chen Qingzhi captured Xingyang, broke 70,000 people under the command of Yang Yu, the governor of Southern Wei Province, and captured his people and the governor Yuangong, and Xingyang guarded the king of Xihe. Xingyang had just changed hands, and the reinforcements of the Northern Wei Dynasty were coming, so Chen Qingzhi's handsome white-robed army of 3,000 people fought hard and defeated more than 10,000 cavalry of Yuan Tianmu Pioneer Erzhu Zhao. ”

Hearing the news, the Northern Wei Tiger guarded Er Zhu Shilong and abandoned the city. This tiger prison is the tiger prison of Liu Guan, Zhang Sanying, and Lu Bu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. ”

"Oh."

Seeing that saying this really made the audience more understandable, Chen Wen continued: "After the fall of the Tiger Prison Pass, where will the next attack target be, does anyone know? ”

Hearing this question, everyone entered into thought, but the man who was called Yin Ergou by Wu Dengke reacted quickly. "Mr. Chen, it's Luoyang."

"Exactly, it's Luoyang. Two days later, Yuan Hao entered Luoyang City under the escort of Chen Qingzhi and changed his name to Yuan Jianwu. ”

"After Chen Qingzhi captured Luoyang, Yuan Tianmu attacked again, conquered Daliang and Suiyang successively, cut off Chen Qingzhi's back road, and at the same time sent Zhaoping County Gongfei Mu to lead 20,000 troops to capture the Tiger Pass."

Faced with such a predicament, Chen Qingzhi immediately returned to his division to face Yuan Tianmu. Yuan Tianmu saw Chen Qingzhizhi, and hurriedly crossed the river with 40,000 people. Subsequently, Chen Qingzhi recovered Daliang and Suiyang, while Fei Mu, who had just conquered the Tiger Pass, led his army to surrender. ”

Later, Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" said that Chen Qingyi traveled all the way and took thirty-two cities; Forty-seven battles, all directions. ”

"This is not the end, what is even more incredible is that Chen Qingzhi's white-robed army has almost no casualties after these forty-seven battles, and only lost 500 soldiers when attacking Xingyang. As a result, Chen Qingzhi executed all 37 officers in the Xingyang garrison Yang Yu's army except for him, and ordered the Shu soldiers to take their hearts and eat them in order to avenge this. ”

Everyone in the audience listened to this series of sensational records in amazement, the exaggeration of this person's achievements was even more terrifying than Wang Xuance who had heard of it before, if it weren't for Chen Wen's insistence that it was written in the history books, no one would believe it.

Chen Wen knows very well that if this story is left unchecked, it will definitely create doubts, and doubts will have very bad consequences for what he is about to do, so the best thing to do is to stifle doubts in the cradle before they arise.

"I studied it carefully when I was reading and came to three conclusions. First, although the white-robed army under Chen Qingzhi has not been replenished, there is no doubt that it is 7,000 soldiers, and the Northern Wei Dynasty has tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops, in fact, only the battle of Kaocheng is facing 20,000 soldiers, although the soldiers in other battles should be far more than the white-robed army, but it is difficult to say how much. ”

Second, due to the Er Zhurong Rebellion, the generals and soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty turned away from the Northern Wei court, and the purpose of Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition was to escort the Northern Wei clan to the throne, so once the battle situation was unfavorable, the Northern Wei army would surrender to the Northern Wei clan Yuan Hao escorted by Chen Qingzhi. Therefore, although the white-robed army could not be replenished, it did not need to divide troops to defend cities and strategic points, and could concentrate all its strength in every battle, while his opponent had the advantage of troops, but the people were uncertain, so it was unreasonable to use the army of tigers and wolves to meet the rabble. ”

Third, at the time of Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition, Zhu Rong, a powerful minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was quelling the Six Towns Rebellion, and when Chen Qingzhi set off, the Xinggao Rebellion broke out in Shandong, which gathered more than 100,000 households. The Northern Wei court had two choices at that time, one was to attack Chen Qingzhi first, and the other was to level Xinggao first, but they chose the latter, because they felt that Xinggao had a large number of people, and Chen Qingzhi would not be able to make much waves with 7,000 people. ”

"Well, ......," Chen Wen smiled and shook his head.

Seeing that everyone had a sudden realization, Chen Wen continued to speak.

"When Chen Qingyi was heading north, the Erzhurong mentioned earlier was out suppressing the rebellion. As a result, as soon as he heard that Luoyang had been captured by Chen Qingzhi, he immediately led his army to converge with the remnants of Yuan Tianmu, with hundreds of thousands of troops, and returned to the division to try to recover Luoyang. ”

After Er Zhurong returned to the division, Chen Qingyi saw that the other party's hundreds of thousands of troops would definitely not be able to defend Luoyang, so he crossed the river with the white-robed army to defend Beizhonglang City, and Yuan Hao led the army to stay in Luoyang. Er Zhurong besieged Beizhonglang City for three days, and after eleven battles, he was killed and wounded, and almost wanted to retreat. As a result, someone offered a plan, so Er Zhurong sent a small number of troops to cross the river to attack Luoyang while leading the army to continue to besiege Chen Qingzhi. ”

As a result, people fell through the glasses, and Luoyang, which was heavily guarded, was defeated in a battle, and Yuan Hao, who was called the emperor for a long time, fled and was later captured. After Chen Qingzhi got the news, he immediately led the army to break through and prepare to retreat to Liang. ”

After Chen Qingzhi broke through, Er Zhurong chased him all the way, but there was nothing he could do. In this way, Chen Qingzhi commanded the white-robed army all the way south, and Er Zhurong followed all the way, as if he was sending off guests. ”

Hearing the word "send-off", some of the people in the audience showed a knowing smile.

"And who were the people in the army that participated in the siege and pursuit of Chen Qingzhi, let me list them. First of all, the Northern Wei Dynasty, Er Zhurong's family, He Batsheng, He Batyue's brothers. ”

"The Northern Wei Dynasty was later divided into the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Yuwentai family, the Guanlong nobles in the Great Pillar State Zhao Gui, Dugu Xin, Hou Mo Chen Chong, Li Bi's brother Li Biao, Hou Mo Chen Shun and Yu Wengui among the twelve generals; On the Northern Qi side, Gao Huan, Hou Jing, Pan Le, Cai Jun, Qi Lie Kill Ghosts, Zhang Yanzhi and others. ”

"What do these names mean, it means that almost all the famous generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties at that time participated in the battle against Chen Qingzhi's lone army, but the result is that these famous generals have no way to take Chen Qingzhi."

Probably because today's sensational jokes are too dense, these strange celebrities obviously did not provoke much reaction from everyone. But for Chen Wen, since he has spoken it, he needs to be able to understand it to the listener.

"Not to mention the Northern Qi side, Yuwentai, the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, created a new military system called the government military system. The government military system started from Yuwentai until the abolition of the Tang Xuanzong Tianbao period, extending for four dynasties, and even the military household system of this dynasty was actually transformed from the government military system. ”

"Huh?" Seeing that everyone's interest had been aroused, Chen Wen continued.

"Why the government military system can last for four dynasties, in fact, it is very simple, in addition to its great improvement in the combat effectiveness of the army, this system appeared at the same time as a new power group - the Guanlong aristocracy also appeared, from the Western Wei Dynasty, the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, to the Yang family of the Great Sui and the Li family of the Tang Dynasty are actually members of the Guanlong aristocracy."

"Yuwentai as the founder not to mention, the Tang Dynasty's Taizu Gao Emperor Li Yuan is the grandson of Li Hu, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, who held military power, and Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, is the son of Yang Zhong, one of the twelve generals of the Western Wei Dynasty. Of course, in addition to this, Yang Zhong also has another identity, he was a member of Chen Qingzhi's white-robed army before entering the Northern Wei army. ”

Taking advantage of Yang Zhong's background, Chen Wen smoothly brought the story back, and when he saw that everyone was shocked, he calmed down and continued to tell the story.

"However, seeing that it was on the border of Liang State, a flash flood broke out, and the entire army of the White Robe Army was swallowed up by the flash flood, Chen Qingzhi was only spared, and later he disguised himself as a monk before returning to Liang State."

"After Chen Qingzhi returned to the Liang State, he successively participated in several offensive and defensive battles against the Northern Dynasties, and almost all of them were defeated."

A few years after Chen Qingzhi's death, his subordinates defeated Hou Jing across the Yangtze River, and Hou Jing killed a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in the south of the Yangtze River, and was pacified a few years later, and the Liang Dynasty was in a state of collapse from then on. Five years after the Hou Jing Rebellion, the Liang general Chen Ba replaced Liang and established the Chen Dynasty, which was also the last dynasty of the Southern Dynasty. ”

The story has been told, and Chen Wen knows very well that there are actually some deep-rooted reasons for the failure of Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition, but he no longer intends to talk about it.

There's still a lot to do today, so let's talk about it when we have a chance.