Part 12 Strange People from the North and South

Chapter 1 Southern Liang Rommel

June 3, 1969, Wuchang.

On the early summer night in the south, the moon is white and the wind is light, the bamboo shakes the clear shadow, the distant mountains are gone, and the white dew is across the river. The rice has not yet spit out sonorous ripe ears, but the air has begun to fill the air with a faint smell of rice.

A generation of great man Grandpa Mao, leaning on the wooden bed, holding a large-character "History of the South", while reading and circled and pointed, and finally supported the pen to write eight big characters--- "Read this biography again, fascinated." ”

At that time, the great man had been away from Rong Ma for nearly 20 years, whose deeds made him so excited and unable to help himself?

As mentioned above, Er Zhurong personally leveled Ge Rong, sent the northwest crusade army to settle Guanlong, and mobilized troops to defeat the white-robed army of Southern Liang. This person is the leader of the white-robed army.

Let's first take a look at the white-robed army recorded in official histories such as "Book of Liang" and "Southern History".

Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu had a guard entourage by his side, who was from a humble background, thin and weak, not good at riding horses, and even ordinary bows and crossbows were difficult to open, and he couldn't shoot accurately if he opened them (if he couldn't shoot through the zap, the horse would not be convenient).

How could such a fake war scumbag stay by Xiao Yan's side for more than 20 years?

There must be a reason. The celebrities around the leader are either excellent in business or can invest in the leader's favor. Nowadays, there are many people who accompany the leaders to play cards and table tennis. Xiao Yan loves to play chess, and is obsessed with staying up all night and forgetting to sleep and eat, and this guard has good chess skills and good energy, and can stay up all night to play with Xiao Yan.

This guard, who is in very poor health and even worse in martial arts, is already in his early forties after playing chess with the emperor for more than 20 years, and even nowadays, he is basically past the age of promotion.

However, by chance, this guard soared into the sky and became a generation of famous generals in the north and south of the country.

This guard's name is Chen Qingzhi.

Chen Qingzhi, a native of Yixing Guoshan (now Yixing, Jiangsu), was born in 484 and died in 539, living to be 55 years old. In the first half of his adult life, he played chess with the emperor for more than 20 years. In the second half of his life, he shook the north and south of the river, which made the great man Grandpa Mao of later generations applauded.

Chen Qingzhi started his military career by a very fortuitous chance.

In 525, the monk Xuzhou Assassin Shiyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty rebelled against the Northern Wei Dynasty and took refuge in the Southern Liang. If someone surrenders, and Nanliang is surrendered, someone has to be sent to pick it up, who will be sent?

Xiao Yan thought about it, picking up people is not a technical job, and the people in the emperor's office don't specialize in reception. So, I asked Chen Qingzhi, a 41-year-old chess friend at the time, to pick up people.

The office staff led the soldiers to pick up people, and there must be a military title, so Xiao Yan gave Chen Qingzhi, who was not mighty, the title of "Wuwei General".

Chen Qingzhi successfully completed the task of picking up people.

Since he accepted the surrender of the Northern Wei Dynasty's Xuzhou Assassin History, the Southern Liang still needed to send someone to take over Xuzhou. So, Xiao Yan gave Chen Qingzhi, who was struggling to even draw an ordinary bow, the title of General Xuanmeng (Xiao Yan is really humorous), led an army of 2,000, and escorted his son Xiao Zong, the king of Yuzhang, to take over Xuzhou.

Of course, it was impossible for the Northern Wei Dynasty to lose the strategic land of Xuzhou, so it sent two clansmen, Yuan Yanming and Yuan Yu, to lead an army of 20,000 and set up camp in the area of Zhikou, waiting for Xiao Zong and his gang, who came to pick up the cheap, and prepared to beat them violently.

Chen Qingzhi got the news and led the army to approach the Northern Wei military camp, aimed at its army, and attacked directly. With the kung fu of war drums, the 20,000 horses of the Northern Wei Dynasty were actually defeated.

This was the first battle led by the 41-year-old Chen Qingzhi, who easily knocked out his opponent.

The first battle was successful, but it ran into trouble. The trouble comes from the fact that the master who escorted him is a fan of his father.

Chen Qingzhi escorted Xiao Zong, who took over Xuzhou, and his mother, Wu Shuyuan, turned out to be the concubine of Xiao Baojuan, the last emperor of Qi. After Xiao Baojuan killed Xiao Yan's brother and was killed by Xiao Yan, the beautiful Wu family was taken by Xiao Yan as his own. After Wu followed Xiao Yan for seven months, he gave birth to Xiao Zong.

It took ten months to be pregnant, and many people in the Liang Dynasty suspected that Xiao Zong was Xiao Baojuan's son.

The rumors reached Xiao Zong's ears, and he was also very confused. The general cycle of a woman's pregnancy is 37-42 weeks, during which the birth is normal, and the phenomenon of premature and late birth is also common.

Xiao Zong decided to believe in science and do a chemical experiment to determine who his real father was.

Of course, this experiment is not to do DNA identification, but to identify relatives by dropping blood.

"The blood of the living drains the bones of the dead, and seeps, that is, father and son." This ancient Chinese folk custom is the chemical equation recognized by Xiao Zong.

He quietly dug up Xiao Baojuan's grave, took out the bones, and dripped his own blood on Xiao Baojuan's bones.

As a result, blood seeped in!

Xiao Zong is a little unsure, is this theory accurate? He wanted to do another experiment.

It's obviously no condition to find Xiao Yan to borrow bones, anyway, there are many sons, so kill yourself.

Xiao Zong killed one of his sons, took out the bones, and dripped his own blood on his son's bones.

As a result, it seeped in!

Dripping blood recognition relatives, founded in the Three Kingdoms era, is divided into the dripping bone method and the combined blood method. Xiao Zong used the bone dropping method, which was actually written into the forensic science book "Records of Clearing Grievances" by Song Ci of the Song Dynasty, and there was an episode of the famous TV series "The Criminal Officer of the Great Song Dynasty" that also showed this forensic inquest method.

In fact, this method of bone dropping has no scientific basis, but in ancient China, it has always been regarded as a guideline.

After the activity of killing relatives and finding his father, Xiao Zong confirmed that he was actually Xiao Baojuan's son. At this time, Xiao Yan changed from his father to a father killer.

In a fit of rage, Xiao Zong took a few people to defect to Yuan Yanming, the commander of the Northern Wei Dynasty, overnight, and said that he would mourn his "father" for three years.

The coach surrendered to the enemy, and it was pointless for Chen Qingzhi to stay any longer, so he had to retreat. However, Chen Qingzhi became famous with this battle of 2,000 to 20,000.

1. The Battle of Vortex Sun

In 527, the Southern Liang sent the general Cao Zhongzong to attack Wuyang. The general led the troops outside, the emperor was not at ease, and he needed to send a supervisor, and Xiao Yan selected Chen Qingzhi again.

Chen Qingzhi, who was 43 years old at the time, was ordered to lead 200 soldiers to supervise the army with a fake festival (equivalent to the sword of Shang Fang).

In ancient times, those who supervised the army were generally the emperor's close attendants, and they were not required to be able to fight, as long as they had the awareness and ability to report to the emperor, and most of the eunuchs did this job very well.

It can be seen from Xiao Yan sending Chen Qingzhi to be the supervisor that Xiao Yan still positions Chen Qingzhi as his close attendant, and the 200 soldiers he gave him are also military policemen and other flowery fist embroidered legs.

When the Northern Wei Dynasty learned the news, they sent Yuan Zhao and others to lead an army of 150,000 to rescue Wuyang, and the vanguard troops rushed to the camel stream one step ahead of the army.

Chen Qingzhi suggested attacking the Wei army at night to dampen its spirit, while another general, Wei Fang, believed that the enemy's forward troops were all elite and should not act rashly.

Wei Fang, but the eldest son of Wei Rui, the first general of Southern Liang, has a preponderance in the army. Chen Qingzhi is just a chess player who accompanies the leader, and in the face of this debate between war and non-war, he did not take advantage of it.

In the end, Chen Qingzhi was anxious: You don't want to go? Then I'll take my two hundred men!

After speaking, Chen Qingzhi led his 200 or so people to travel for 40 miles, taking advantage of the night to surprise the Northern Wei forward army. The result? Defeated.

When the Northern Wei army heard that the vanguard had been defeated, the whole army was terrified, slowed down, and its morale plummeted.

After that, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang sides fought near Wuyang for nearly a year, fighting hundreds of times, and they were in a state of stalemate. However, after all, the Wei army had the advantage of military strength, and had already built a camp in the rear of the Liang army, forming a flanking attack.

Cao Zhongzong and Wei Fang, the two main generals, were afraid of being dumped by the Wei army and prepared to retreat.

Can't go! Chen Qingzhi took the fake festival and stood at the gate of the camp, blocking the retreating troops: We have been here together for more than a year, consuming countless grains and grass materials in the country, and now you have no fighting spirit, and you all want to be a turtle with a shrunken head, how can you make a name for yourself? ! The art of war is cloudy, and it can only be reborn if it is put to death. Before I came here, the boss gave me a secret edict, who dares to retreat, and will be severely punished!

This kid is the emperor's side. Cao Zhongzong and Wei Fang thought about it, but they didn't dare to offend Lao Chen, and they were a little lacking in confidence when they fought. Simply, hand over the command to your old commander, love what. Chen Qingzhi unceremoniously took over the baton of the whole army, and immediately led the elite to raid the Northern Wei reinforcements, breaking through the opponent's thirteen camps in a row, and won a complete victory. There were countless corpses of the Northern Wei army, and the tributaries of the Huaishui River were silted up.

2. Unintentional Northern Expedition

There was a civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Er Zhurong wantonly slaughtered the Sinicized officials and the Northern Wei royal family, and the Northern Wei clan Beihai Wang Yuanhao surrendered to Liang on the grounds of the chaos of this dynasty, and asked the Liang Dynasty to send troops to help him become emperor.

It works. Xiao Yan wanted to have a political speculation, agreed to Yuan Hao's request, and named him the king of Wei.

In the next step, someone needs to escort Yuan Hao to Luoyang to claim the emperor. Chen Qingzhi, who did a good job of picking up people last time, was targeted by Xiao Yan again. So, this work of giving people fell on Chen Qingzhi's head again.

The titles of "General Wuwei" and "General Xuanmeng" have been used, so what will they be sealed? This time, Xiao Yan gave Chen Qingzhi the title of "Soaring General" and allocated him 7,000 men.

Chen Qingzhi escorted Yuan Hao all the way.

Yuan Hao looked at the 7,000 centaurs, thinking as he walked, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. With this mere 7,000 Han troops, they went deep into the north surrounded by Xianbei, Qianhu, and Eile iron cavalry, and didn't they light the lamps in the thatched houses - looking for (death)?

Yuan Hao decided not to leave, and carried out the ceremony of being the emperor on the spot, named himself the emperor, and named Chen Qingzhi as General Wei, Xuzhou Assassin Shi, and Wudu Gong, and ordered him to continue to supervise the army to the west and attack Xingyang (now Henan).

The new emperor Yuanhao, who has a total of few people under him, emphasized to Chen Qingzhi in a serious voice: You are so good, you will definitely be able to do it yourself, and the club will support you spiritually.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to let Chen Qingzhi fight wherever he wants, and fend for himself.

Die? Then I'll give it a try. In the continuous spring rain, Chen Qingzhi took 7,000 Han troops and began the mythical Northern Expedition.

1. Take advantage of the void to occupy Xingcheng.

Xingcheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, now Shangqiudong, Henan, Chen Qingzhi did not make much effort to easily capture it, because there were few soldiers stationed in this city. Why?

In 528, a group of displaced people, led by a scholar landlord named Xing Gao, gathered a crowd to oppose Wei near the southwest of present-day Weifang, Shandong. The Northern Wei sent Yuan Tianmu and Er Zhu Zhao to lead an army to conquer, and in April 529, they took away the elite of Xingcheng. Chen Qingzhi did not let go of this opportunity.

2. Take advantage of the victory to attack Suiyang.

After Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the situation to capture Xingcheng, he marched to Suiyang.

The guard general of Suiyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty is called Qiu Daqian, who is an old acquaintance of Chen Qingzhi, and when Chen Qing broke the 20,000 troops of the Northern Wei Army with 2,000 men and horses in the first battle, he was one of the victims.

Coincidentally, this time Qiu Daqian's troops were 70,000, and Chen Qingzhi's troops were 7,000, and the ratio of troops was also 1:10.

This time, Qiu Daqian learned his lesson and built nine camps in a row to resist. Unexpectedly, Chen Qingyi captured three of them in the morning. Qiu Daqian completely lost his fighting spirit and surrendered.

3. Keep up the hard work to attack the city.

The general of Kaocheng was Yuan Huiye of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who led 20,000 guards to defend it. The city is surrounded by water, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It's easy to do when you have water. Chen Qingzhi, like Wei Rui, likes water in the five elements, as long as there is water, it is easy to fight. He sent a water conservancy engineering construction team to "build a fortress on floating water", condescendingly, captured the city in one fell swoop, and captured Yuanhuiye.

The 7,000 Han army went deep alone, and actually defeated more than 90,000 people of the Northern Wei army, and connected several cities of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In May 529, Emperor Yuanziyou of Wei Xiaozhuang mobilized troops to deploy defenses in the surrounding cities of Luoyang, Xingyang, Hujiao, and other places to defend the capital Luoyang, and even the old Yulin army was dispatched. Among them, Yang Yu, Wang Yuanqing, Xi'a, and Yuan Xiangong, the general of the Fu army, were sent to lead 70,000 Yulin troops to guard Xingyang.

The Wei army had many soldiers, Xingyang City was strong, and Chen Qing was unable to attack it at one time. On the periphery, Yuan Tianmu, the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, led reinforcements to arrive, and the advance hussar general Erzhu Tuwuer led Hu Cai 5,000, and the general Lu An (the main helper of Emperor Xiaozhuang to kill Er Zhurong) led an army of 9,000 to reinforce Yang Yu. Zhu Shilong, the right servant of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Wang Zhen, the assassin of Western Jingzhou, led 10,000 cavalry to occupy the tiger prison.

Erzhu vomited? This name is interesting, in fact, it is Erzhu Zhao, nicknamed Tumo, and it is called Erzhu Tuwuer in the Book of Liang.

The Northern Wei Dynasty army totaled 300,000 people and surrounded Chen Qingzhi.

Yuan Hao, who was in the rear, was anxious when he saw Chen Qingzhi's danger. Thinking that he still had some connections in the Northern Wei Dynasty, he sent someone to persuade Yang Yu to surrender.

Surrender? Can this absolute superiority in forces surrender? Yang Yu contemptuously refused.

Soon, Yuan Tianmu and Erzhu Tu'er's army arrived one after another, and the armies of all walks of life looked at each other for a while, and the encirclement gradually closed.

When the encirclement was really closed, Chen Qingzhi's troops, which had been used as dumpling filling, were gone.

The generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty were confused, where did Chen Qingzhi go? Broken out? No way. Got into the ground? More unlikely.

I was surprised, and when I looked up, I saw the banner of Chen Qingzhi's army, which was already shining at the head of Xingyang City.

Chen Qingzhi used thousands of soldiers and horses to capture Xingyang City, which was guarded by 70,000 troops in the Northern Wei Dynasty!

Why is it so godly? Without him, idealism is strong.

Although Chen Qingzhi is frail, he has an incomparably strong heart. This powerful heart gives him a special aura that can raise the morale of the team to the limit.

Cao Di Zengyun: Husband fights, courage also.

Folk brawl masters, when summarizing the experience of fighting, often say: one courage, two strength and three kung fu.

Look, gall comes first. What is gall? It is the spirit of the bright sword.

A team with high morale can often burst out with several times or even more than ten times the combat effectiveness. Such examples are not uncommon. The Battle of the Giant Deer and the Battle of the Rivers are all classic examples of the defeat of the big army by a small army with a bloody fighting spirit.

When Xingyang City was not conquered, Chen Qingzhi's generals and soldiers were a little frightened when they saw the Northern Wei army surrounding.

Political Commissar Chen mobilized before the war: Let's come all the way, slaughter the city, kill the parents and brothers of the family, and kidnap countless children, what are they doing here? Come for revenge! We only have 7,000 people, and there are more than 300,000 people, and if we want to survive, we must wait for them to capture Xingyang City before they attack. Otherwise, let's just wait to be slaughtered like dumplings.

What could be more inspiring than the desire to survive? Chen Qingzhi personally beat the drum to attack the city, only one drum, the warriors Song Jingxiu and Yu Tianshu took the lead in climbing the city wall, and the Liang army entered one after another, Xingyang Suike. Chen Qingzhi captured Yang Yu and captured a large number of people.

Yuan Tianmu and others led 200,000 reinforcements to besiege the city, but Chen Qingzhi didn't want to defend the city at all, and led 3,000 elite horsemen out of the city to fight.

After a surprise attack, the Northern Wei general Lu An surrendered in front of the battle, and Yuan Tianmu and Er Zhuzhao fled on horseback.

Take it when you see it? That's not Chen Qingzhi's style. Chen Qingzhi took these 3,000 elite cavalry and went straight to the Tiger Pass. The Northern Wei Tiger Prison Guard, Er Zhu Shilong, did not dare to engage in the battle and abandoned the city and fled.

As soon as the Tiger Prison Pass was lost, Emperor Yuanziyou of Xiaozhuang of the Northern Wei Dynasty could not sit still, and was forced to withdraw from the capital Luoyang to the eldest son (now the west of the eldest son in Shanxi), leaving Chen Qingzhi's old acquaintance Yuan Yanming to defend the city.

Yuan Yanming, the background emperor when Chen Qing won the first battle, was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of grass ropes for ten years. Yuan Yanming thought about it, who is the emperor is not the emperor, Yuan Hao is also his own family, and as a result, he surrendered directly to the city.

The battle report of Chen Qingzhi's capture of Luoyang flew to the rear, and Yuan Hao, who shrank his head and pretended to be a turtle in the rear, was so shocked that he didn't close his mouth for a long time. Who am I? Where am I? After sobering up, I realized that I was sent by Chen Qingzhi to be the emperor.

So, Yuan Haole entered Luoyang City upside down. Yuanyu, the king of Linhuai in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Yuan Yanming, the king of Anfeng, led the hundred officials in Luoyang City to welcome Yuanhao into the palace.

Yuan Hao suddenly had the confidence, changed the amnesty, and added Chen Qingyi's official position in one go, what kind of waiter, general of the chariot and cavalry, and doctor Zuo Guanglu were almost called his brother.

The soldiers are few and fine, and there is no problem in field battles, but it is a big problem to divide troops to defend the city. Soon, Wang Yuantianmu, Wang Laosheng, Li Shuren and others of the Northern Wei Dynasty led an army to conquer Daliang, and Wang Laosheng, Fei Mu and others led an army into the Tiger Prison.

These people dare to come back. After Chen Qingzhi heard about it, he led the army to counterattack, and Yuan Tianmu led more than ten horsemen to cross the Yellow River north and fled.

Fei Mu was full of confidence in attacking the Tiger Prison, and when he was about to conquer it, he suddenly heard that Yuan Tianmu had escaped, and he was afraid that he would be copied back. Flee like Yuan Tianmu? Lao Fei felt that it was a shame to escape, so he surrendered directly to Chen Qingzhi.

Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the victory to attack Liang and Liang Guo, and they were all defeated.

Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu got to report the amazing achievements of his chess friend Chen Qingzhi in the north, pinched his thigh, and wrote the edict to the secretaries.

When a nasty sound appears at the same time as a certain thing, it will form a conditioned reflex for the body, and when you encounter this thing again, you will have feelings of rejection, hatred and even fear. In the Korean battlefield, after learning the terrifying combat power of the volunteers, many South Korean soldiers were particularly interested in the sound of the volunteers' military trumpets and the yellow rubber shoes worn by the volunteers. Chen Qingzhi's army of tigers and wolves all wore white robes, and because their combat effectiveness was too terrifying, white caused huge psychological trauma to the soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"Famous teachers and generals are not imprisoned, and thousands of soldiers avoid white robes." The image of nursery rhymes in Luoyang City interprets this sense of panic.

The news of Chen Qingzhi's capture of Luoyang shocked the central government of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and even alarmed a hero of the time, that is, Er Zhurong, the general of Tianzhu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, who immediately mobilized a large number of troops to besiege Luoyang.

Chen Qingzhi crossed to the north of the Yellow River and led the army to guard Zhonglang City, the gateway to Luoyang. In three days, eleven battles with Erzhu's army, Beizhonglang City stood still.

Beizhong Langcheng was defended, but Luoyang City fell, and Yuan Hao fled to Linying, where he was captured by Er Zhurong.

Yuan Hao was captured, and it was meaningless for Chen Qingzhi to stay in the north any longer, so he led the army back to Liang.

When he walked to Songgao County, Yingshui flooded, the whole army was scattered, Er Zhurong's army chased him, Chen Qingzhi had to dress up as a monk, and fled back to Liangdu Jiankang alone, ending his journey to the north of the Northern Expedition of 7,000 Han troops from the north of Gongxian County to Luoyang, traveling more than 3,000 miles, experiencing 47 battles of all sizes, and the magical Northern Expedition of 32 cities of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The magical Northern Expedition is over, but Chen Qingzhi's magic is not over.

In December 529, there was a monk named Seng Qiang in the southeast of Southern Liang, and he united with the local tyrant Cai Bolong to raise troops against Liang, gathered 30,000 people, and captured Xuzhou in the north of Southern Liang.

Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu ordered Chen Qing to go to the expedition before, and instructed: The people in the Jianghuai region are relatively strong, you can use tactics to deal with them, and it is not appropriate to fight a decisive battle.

Chen Qingzhi was ordered to go, and in less than 12 days, Emperor Wu of Liang was in the capital Jiankang and met the head of Seng Qiang and Cai Bolong sent by Chen Qingzhi.

The chess friends who galloped on the chessboard can also attack the city in reality, and they did not make the best use of their talents early, Emperor Wu of Liang blamed himself a little, and it was time to give some military facts. In 530, Xiao Yan named Chen Qingzhi as the governor, the governor of the southern and northern divisions, the western Henan, and the four states of Henan, as well as the history of the two states of the southern and northern divisions.

After Chen Qingzhi arrived, he led his army to besiege Xuanguo (now Runan, Henan), defeated the Northern Wei Yingzhou Assassin Shi Lou Qi and Yangzhou Assassin Shi Yunbao at Qinshui, and defeated the Northern Wei Xingtai Sun Teng, Dadu Governor Hou Jin, Yuzhou Assassin Shi Yaoxiong, and Liangzhou Assassin Shi Sima Gong in Chucheng.

In 535, the Northern Wei Dynasty had been divided into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, and Chen Qingzhi attacked Shi Yaoxiong in Yuzhou, Eastern Wei, but failed to win, which was a rare setback in his career.

In 536, Chen Qingzhi ushered in the strongest opponent of his life.

Hou Jing. The fierce general under Gao Huan, the actual ruler of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, was the assassin of Dingzhou in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

In October of that year, Hou Jing led 70,000 soldiers and horses to attack Chuzhou, captured Shi Huanhe, the assassin of Chuzhou, marched to Huaishang, and wrote a letter to persuade Chen Qingzhi to surrender.

At that time, Chen Qingzhi's soldiers and horses were less than 10,000, and Hou Jing, a member of the Liang tribe, was known for his bravery.

Not long after the departure of the two armies, when they arrived at Lizhi, news came from the front: the enemy army had been annihilated, and Hou Jing fled on horseback.

Chen Qingzhi not only has an innate military talent, but also has a lot of political talent, and he is very virtuous in governing the local area. Especially when there was a famine in Yuzhou, Chen Qing ordered the opening of the warehouse to release grain to help the victims, and more than 800 people in Yuzhou asked for Chen Qing's tree monument to praise virtue, and Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu issued an edict to approve it.

In October 539, Chen Qingzhi died at the age of 55. Emperor Wu of Liang posthumously presented him as a loose cavalry attendant and a general of the left guard, and called it "Wu", and ordered Yixing County to send 500 people to mourn him.

Chen Qingzhi's legendary life experience is similar to that of the famous German general "Desert Fox" Rommel in World War II.

Rommel turned out to be not a general, like Chen Qingzhi, he was a guard military attache beside the leader (Hitler), and only after the start of World War II did he take the initiative to ask to go to the front line to lead the troops. Hitler specially formed the Seventh Panzer Division of the New Army for it, and everyone knows what happened after that, Rommel led the division to create a series of battlefield myths, and played the title of "Devil's Seventh Panzer Division".

Chen Qingzhi's miraculous record, while winning a piece of amazement, also caused a lot of doubts, feeling that with a mere 7,000 Han army, from the north of Gongxian County to Luoyang, Yuanhao traveled more than 3,000 miles, experienced 47 battles, and 32 cities in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was a bit too magical and mysterious.

Objectively speaking, Chen Qingzhi's miraculous record has a certain degree of accident, and there are three reasons for this:

1. The civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty gave Chen Qingzhi the opportunity to drive straight in. As mentioned above, at that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty was in turmoil, Ge Rong's Six Towns Rebel Army, Wan Qian Chounu's rebel army in the Guanlong area, and Xinggao's rebel army in Qingzhou were all ruthless characters who made the Central Committee of the Northern Wei Dynasty restless. It is not easy for Er Zhurong to support the crisis in the north alone, and the troops within a radius of hundreds of miles from Luoyang are empty and morale is low, so Chen Qingzhi can take the opportunity to drive straight in.

2. At the beginning of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the enemy was underestimated, resulting in insufficient preparations. There is a record in the "Book of Wei" that "the imperial court is lonely and weak, and does not think about it", that is, the Northern Wei court did not take Yuan Hao and Chen Qingzhi's 7,000 men and horses in their eyes at the beginning. It is normal for a light opponent to be knocked out by a well-prepared opponent, just like the German team in the 2022 World Cup is to the Japanese team.

3, Chen Qingzhi's division is famous, and he hit the weakness of the Northern Wei Dynasty. As mentioned above, the internal division of the Northern Wei Dynasty was serious, and the Heyin tragedy directed by Er Zhurong exacerbated the internal division. Er Zhurong's Qianhu army, the Sinicization official group, the Xianbei warrior group, the forbidden army loyal to the royal family, the forbidden army standing in Er Zhurong, and the various forces with a neutral wait-and-see attitude, each playing their own wishful thinking.

Don't forget, Chen Qingzhi came to the north to be the emperor of the imperial family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and in a sense, Yuan Hao used the soldiers of the Southern Liang to clean the gateway for the Northern Wei Dynasty. is also a Northern Wei clan, you Yuan Ziyou must be more qualified to be the emperor than Yuan Hao? In troubled times, who can stabilize the emperor's throne in the end, no one has a definite score in his heart.

Looking at Chen Qingzhi's opponents, in addition to Yuan Tianmu, Er Zhu Zhao, Er Zhu Shilong, etc., who are Er Zhurong's sworn friends, Yuan Huiye, Qiu Daqian, Yuan Yu, Yuan Yanming, Fei Mu, Lu An, Yang Yu and others belong to different political factions.

Especially this Lu An, who surrendered in battle, was the direct leader who assisted Emperor Xiaozhuang to kill Er Zhurong and Yuan Tianmu afterwards, and he himself poked countless knives in Er Zhurong and Yuan Tianmu.

Before the overall situation is decided, no one wants to fight for which side, or consume their own strength needlessly.

The combat effectiveness of such a Northern Wei army can be imagined.

But, is Chen Qingzhi's legendary Northern Expedition all about luck? If it was all about luck, then how to explain that in 536, he defeated Hou Jing's army of 70,000 tigers and wolves with an absolutely inferior force? The strength of Hou Jing's army will be described in Chapter 2 of this part.

Chen Qingzhi's military talent is manifested in his good strategy and decision. At the same time, he was also an extremely good political commissar, good at stimulating the adrenaline of the soldiers before the war, accelerating the heartbeat, dilating the blood vessels, and arousing the soldiers' desire to fight. It is certain that Chen Qingzhi, who is weak on the surface, has an incomparably powerful heart, and this strong heart gives him a unique aura, which can arouse the entire team's desire to fight to the limit. The so-called one guts, two strengths and three kung fu, "guts" is the first.

This legendary journey of the Northern Expedition also tells us that no matter how powerful the enemy is, the spirit of the sword is the first element of victory. At present, some countries that frequently challenge China's bottom line on the issue of Huangyan Dao and Diaoyu Dao have paid attention, and history shows that the Chinese have never lacked this spirit of bright sword.