Chapter 158 Chapter 157: Emperor Wu Chen Baxian

Chen Ba was born with the word Xingguo, and the small characters were born.Born in the second year of Tianjian (503 A.D.), he was ambitious and good at strategy when he was young, and he didn't like to engage in any productive labor.In order to realize his ambition of saving the world and helping the poor, Chen Ba first read history books and military books, and he also read a lot about Weihou, Guxu, and Dunjia.He is tall and burly, he has practiced martial arts well, and he is wise and decisive in handling things, so he is deeply respected by the people of the time. Chen Baxian started his official career as a small official in the village. Later, he went to Jiankang, the capital of Liang, as an oil depot official. Because of his literacy, he soon moved to preach to Xiaoying, the new Yuhou.Chen Baxian was loyal to his duty and was highly appreciated by Xiao Ying.During the reign of Liang Datong, Xiao Ying was appointed by the imperial court as the prefect of Wuxing, that is, he appointed Chen Ba to take the post first, and later transferred Xiao Ying to the governor of Guangzhou.

In the eighth year of Datong (524 A.D.), Xiao Zi, the governor of Jiaozhou, lost the hearts of the people because of his subordinates and the people's tyranny.Li Ben, a local wealthy family, took the opportunity to unite the heroes of several states to rebel.Xiao Ying, the governor of Guangzhou, hurriedly summoned Chen Baxian to quell the chaos.Chen Ba first led 3000 elite soldiers to rush to the city of Guangzhou. After several fierce battles, he killed Du Tianhe and captured Du Sengming alive.Ba Xian saw that Seng Ming was brave and brave, and explained it righteously.Seng Ming felt his virtue, so he became one of Chen Baxian's brave generals.When the news of success spread to the imperial court, Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan was very happy. He ordered Chen Baxian to be the general of Zhige, granted Xin'anzi and 300 households in the city, and sent painters to paint the appearance of Baxian for viewing at any time.

In the spring of the following year, Li Ben proclaimed himself Emperor Yue.The imperial court ordered Chen Baxian to be the Sima of Jiaozhou and the prefect of Wuping, and together with the governor of Jiaozhou to conquer the rebellion.Chen Baxian led the decree to recruit brave soldiers and renovate and smelt military equipment.In June of the eleventh year of Datong (AD 545), when the army arrived in Jiaozhou, Li Ben set up a city fence at the mouth of the Suli River with 30,000 horses to resist.Chen Baxian took the lead, charged into the battle, and won consecutive victories.Li Ben was afraid and fled to the Qu Liao area in Jianing County.This place is high and steep, the situation is dangerous, the army can't search and arrest, so they have to garrison the surrounding area.

In the autumn of the next year, Li Ben led 30,000 troops out of Tundianche Lake from Qu Liao, built large ships, and filled the lake. The conquering army waited for the battle, but they were all timid and stationed at the mouth of the lake without daring to advance.Chen Ba first said to the generals that as long as we work together and fight to the death, we will surely win.If you stay here for no reason, the opportunity will be lost!When the generals heard the words, they all looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one answered.That night, the river surged, and the water level rose by seven feet. It poured into the lake with turbulent torrents and rapid torrents.Chen Ba first led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters and advanced downstream. When the generals saw this, they also clamored to move forward.Li Ben's rebels were caught off guard and suffered countless casualties, so they had to rush into Qu Liao's area.In March of the second year of Taiqing (548 A.D.), Li Ben was exhausted and was beheaded by Liaoren and sent to Jiaozhou.Chen Baxian sent Li Ben's head to Jiankang, and Emperor Wudi of Liang granted Baxian Zhenyuan General Xijiang Supervisor and Gaoyao Prefect to supervise the military forces of the seven counties.It is Chen Baxian who shocked the south and became famous in the capital.

In the winter of the second year of Taiqing (AD 548), Hou Jing was in chaos, and Chen Baxian led his troops to conquer for several years.During this period, he took the lead and made outstanding achievements repeatedly; he was good at observing the people's sentiments and won many righteous men;After Hou Jingping, his general Guo Yuanjian begged to surrender in Guangling, Wang Sengbian sent envoys to appease him, and sent Chen Baxian to lead the army to accept the surrender.Chen Ba first went to Ouyang, Qi general Xin Shu had already occupied Guangling, and Ba Xian received 3,000 people from Yuan Jianbuqu before returning to Jiankang.Xiao Yi took Chen Baxian as the general of the Peking University, opened the third division of Yitong, the governor of South Xuzhou, and became the county magistrate of the Great Wall.Soon, Xiao Yi was the emperor in Jiangling, and Chen Baxian was promoted to Sikong because of his contribution to Ping Houjing, guarding Jingkou, and the rest of the titles remained unchanged.

In December of the third year of Chengsheng (554 A.D.), Xiao Yi, Emperor Yuan of Liang, died at the hands of the Western Wei Dynasty.Chen Baxian discussed with Wang Sengbian and others, and decided to welcome Xiao Fangzhi, King of Jin'an.In February of the following year, Xiao Fangzhi, who was only 13 years old, came to Jiankang from Xunyang and ascended the throne of God.Chen Baxian was given the title of General Conquering the West. Chen Baxian had a close relationship with Wang Sengbian because of his tacit cooperation with Wang Sengbian when he put down the Houjing Rebellion. Fighting hard to retain Xiao Fangzhi's throne, Wang Sengbian firmly disagreed.From this, Chen Baxian began to have conflicts with Wang Sengbian, so he secretly fought and prepared weapons for the funeral.Soon Hou Andu led his water army to the north of Shitou City, abandoned his ship and landed, attacked the city, and went straight to Wang Sengbian's bedroom; Chen Baxian also used tricks to open the south gate and enter the city.At that time, Wang Sengbian was dealing with government affairs. When he reported an accident outside, he hurriedly ran out of the hall and went to the door with his son. There were about dozens of entourages, and they fought fiercely with Hou Andu.After a while, Chen Ba led the army to arrive. Wang Sengbian was outnumbered, so he ran away and climbed to the south gate tower of the city. Chen Ba ordered the soldiers to gather firewood and set fire to it.Chen Baxian was afraid of having long nights and dreams, and that night, Wang Sengbian and his son were about to be strangled and put in prison.

When Xiao Yuanming heard that Wang Sengbian had been killed, he knew that the throne was difficult to live in, so he took the initiative to return to his residence.In October, Chen Baxian supported Xiao Fangzhi's restoration and changed Yuan to Shaoqin.Taking Xiao Yuanming as Situ, he was feudal Anjun Gong; Chen Baxian was still a court officer, added a ministerial order, supervised all military forces at home and abroad, and also promoted the governor of Xu Erzhou. At this time, Du Kan, the governor of Wu Xing, who was promoted by Wang Sengbian, saw Wang Sengbian was killed, and immediately rebelled. The city resists Chen Baxian.Chen Baxian sent his general Zhou Wenyu to attack Yixing. In Yixing's county, there were many soldiers from Chen Baxian's past. They were famous for their good use of bows and arrows.Zhou Wenyu's attack was unfavorable, so he had to lead his army to retreat. Wei Zai set up a fence outside the city according to the water.Chen Ba first learned that Zhou Wenyu's departure from the army was frustrated, and he was anxious. He ordered Hou Andu and Du Ling to defend Jiankang, and he himself led the army to meet him.

Chen Ba's first army arrived in Yixing, and within two days he pulled out Wei Zai's water fence.Then, Chen Ba first sent Wei Zai's younger brother to the city with a letter to Wei Zai, beckoning him to surrender.Wei Zai was unable to persist because of his poor power and clumsiness, so he went out of the city and surrendered.Baxian comforted Wei Zai with kind words, led his left and right men to discuss military and state affairs, left his younger brother to supervise the county affairs, attacked Wu Xing Du Kan with Zhou Wenyu's troops, and went to Wu County with Ningyuan General Pei Ji to seek Wang Sengzhi.At this time, Jiankang was in a hurry, and Chen Baxian had no choice but to return to the capital.

It turned out that Xu Sihui, the governor of Qiao and Qinzhou, had a younger brother named Xu Sixian, who was Wang Sengbian's nephew.After Sengbian was killed, Xu Sixian fled to Xu Sihui's place and encouraged Sihui to descend from all states.When Chen Baxian fought against Wei Zai in the east, Xu Sihui made an appointment with the governor of southern Yuzhou and raised his troops to respond to Du Kan and Wei Zai.Northern Qi also assisted with soldiers, horses, food and grass.Seeing that the capital was empty, Xu Sihui led 5,000 elite troops to Jiankang to conquer Stone City. After Chen Baxian returned to Jiankang, he planned to attack Stone City.Before going to war, it was also heard that Qi had dispatched Anzhou governor Zhai Zichong, Chuzhou governor Liu Shirong, and Huaizhou governor Liu Damo with ten thousand troops to aid Xu Sihui, and transported 30,000 shi of grain to Hushu, and a thousand horses into stones.Baxian was worried, and asked Wei Zai about his plan. Wei Zai said: "If the Qi army divides its troops to occupy the road of Sanwu and plunder the eastern border, then the big thing will be gone. Now we should go to Huainan and build a city along the old fortress of Houjing to protect the east. The grain road, and then divide the troops to cut off the enemy's transportation road, so that they have no food, grass and equipment to help them, so that in only 10 days, Qi will send his head." Baxian nodded and said yes, sent General Renwei Zhou Tiehu to cut off the enemy's transportation, and captured Qibei Zhang Lingzhou, the governor of Xuzhou, sent weapons to Jiankang, and then sent Wei Zai to Huainan to build a fortress and send people to garrison it.The Qi army also set up fences at Cangmen and Shuinan. A few days later, Xu Sihui was defeated by Chen Baxian's elite troops, leaving Liu Da and others to guard the stone city, and went to quarry to meet the Qi army.

In December of this year, Chen Ba sent Hou Andu to lead a water army to attack Qin County, broke the fence of Xu Sihui, and captured hundreds of people.Chen Baxian built a pontoon bridge in Zhicheng City, crossed the river and attacked the second gate of Qicangmen Shuinan.The soldiers of Qi were defeated, thousands of people drowned, and the sound of wailing shook the world.At this time, Xu Sihui and Ren Yue led more than 10,000 soldiers from Qi and land to occupy Stone City, and Ba Xian sent troops to Jiangning to occupy the dangerous terrain.Si Hui and others did not dare to enter again, and stationed at Pukou in Jiangning. They were attacked by Chen Baxian's Marquis Andu leading a navy army. Si Hui and others fled, leaving only Liu Damo, guarding Stone City alone.Ba first summoned all land and water armies and besieged Stone City on all sides.There is no water in the city, and a liter of water can be exchanged for a bolt of silk.Bodhidharma had nothing to do, so he sent envoys to make peace, asking Baxian to send his son as a pledge.Baxian called a meeting of the generals, and they all believed that Jiankang was weak and the food supply was not continuing, so they should be allowed to seek peace.Baxian had no choice but to agree, and ordered Congzi Tanlang and Yongjia Wang Xiaozhuang to join the camp and join Damo outside the city.After the alliance, Bodhidharma led his troops away, and Xu Sihui and Ren Yue followed him.

Besides, General Pei Ji of Ningyuan was ordered by Chen Baxian to go to Wu County to attack Wang Sengzhi, and he rushed to the city at night.Pei Ji ordered the soldiers to attack the city with clamor. Wang Sengzhi woke up from his sleep. Suspecting the arrival of the army, he hurriedly got up and escaped from the back door, and went to Wu Xingdu Kan by boat.At this time, Zhou Wenyu was attacking Du Kan together with Ba Xian's nephew Chen Qian. Wen Yu secretly made Du Tai, a general of Du Kan's Ministry, let him serve as an internal response to encourage Du Kan to surrender.One day, Du Kan and Du Tai went out to fight Wenyu. Du Tai deliberately stood still. Du Kan was defeated and returned to the city. Du Tai took the opportunity to persuade Du Kan to surrender.Go back and tell his wife Wang, who said: "Chen Ba killed my father first. How can he seek peace with such a deep hatred!"Sergeant Du Kan received the reward, and all of them fought to the death, and even killed the Wen Yu army for 10 li.Du Kan usually likes to drink, but this time he won the battle, he drank so much that he passed out.Du Tai took the opportunity to open the city gate to welcome Wen Yujun into the city.Wang called Du Kan anxiously, but Du Kan didn't wake up.Reluctantly, Wang cut her own hair, pretended to be a nun, and fled outside the city for her life.Wen Yu's soldiers searched the mansion, but Du Kan was still lying on the bed drunk, so he was ordered to carry him out, and beheaded him in front of Xiangwang Temple.Wang Sengzhi saw that Wu Xing could no longer survive, so he and his younger brother took advantage of the chaos to escape through the back door and defected to the Northern Qi Dynasty. Since then, Chen Baxian has successively defeated rebel forces such as Zhang Biao, the governor of East Yangzhou, Chen Si, the order of Jiang Ning, and Cao Lang, the servant of Huangmen.So far, the south of the stone and quarrying has been completely pacified.Unexpectedly, the flames of war on the northern front were ignited again. In March of the first year of Taiping (556 A.D.), the Northern Qi Dynasty sent Xiao Gui as the governor of the Southern Conquest, and together with Xu Sihui and Ren Yue, 100,000 troops entered the bandits.From Zhakou to Liangshan.Blocked by Huang Cong, the leader of Chen Baxian's tent, the Qi army was defeated and retreated to Wuhu.Baxian sent Shen Tai, the governor of Dingzhou, and others to Liangshan to assist Hou Andu in defending the city against the enemy.Soon, Baxian also went to Liangshan to inspect in person.The Qi army was timid and did not dare to press forward, but Andu took this opportunity to lead his cavalry to attack Sima Gong, Sima Gong of Qi Xingtai, and won a big victory, taking tens of thousands of prisoners.The Qi army was discouraged by this, and immediately wrote a letter to Baxian, saying that it was ordered by the Lord Qi to summon Xiao Yuanming, the Duke of An'an, and it was not to compete with the Southern Dynasty for victory.Chen Ba accepted the book first, and promised to send Yuanming back to Qi, but at this time, Yuanming had gangrene on his back, was unable to walk, and died within a few days.The Qi army waited for Yuanming to come out, and it was difficult to retreat, so they simply encouraged the army to fight again. The soldiers sent from Wuhu, passed through Danyang to Moling, and ruled. Chen Ba first ordered the generals to guard Fangshan, Mamu, and the south of Dahang to resist the Qi army together.In order to be serious about the military order, Chen Ba took the lead in leading the clan princes and courtiers and generals to punish the beasts outside the gate of the Great Sima, accusing the Qi people of breaking their promises, speaking generously, and exchanging tears with each other. Excited, gearing up to fight Qi to the death. Two days later, the Qi army built a bridge across the Huai River in Moling, marched into Fangshan, and forced Hou Andu, Zhou Wenyu and other troops back to Jiankang.Then the Qi army marched from Fangshan to Nitang, and rode under Taicheng. At this time, Jiankang was under martial law. Against the array. Entering June in a blink of an eye, the Qi army moved from Zhongshan to Mufushan, and then to the northwest of Xuanwu Lake, intending to occupy the northern suburb altar.It happened to be raining heavily for several days, and the water on the flat ground was more than ten feet deep. The Qi army sat in the mud day and night, with their hands and feet dying.However, the Liang army lived on a high ground and was often changed, so there was no danger. It was just that due to the obstruction of the four directions and the lack of food transportation, there was a food shortage, and the soldiers looked disheveled.It happened that Chen Qian brought in 3,000 dendrobium rice and 1,000 ducks.Ba Xian ordered the rice to be cooked and the duck to be cooked, and the rice and duck meat were wrapped in lotus leaves, and distributed to the sergeants.Everyone had a good meal, and at dawn the next day, Baxian personally led out of the Shogunate Mountain to attack the Qi army and defeated the enemy army. Chen Ba first led the army to return triumphantly, and beheaded all the captured Qi Shuai Xiao Gui and others.Chen Ba first won this battle, and he shocked the capital. He was appointed as the Supervisor of Zhongshu, Situ, and Governor of Yangzhou, and he was promoted to Duke of the Great Wall.Soon, he was promoted to the prime minister, Lu Shangshushi, and Zhenwei general, changed the governor to a pastor, and named Yixing County Duke.Chen Baxian was in power and full of ambition, so he naturally had the idea of ​​becoming an emperor, so he began to prepare intensively. In August of the second year of Taiping (557 A.D.), he was promoted to Taifu, added a yellow axe, and put his sword on the palace. In September, he entered the position of Xiangguo, headed Baikui, enfeoffed the ten counties as Chen Gong, prepared nine ceremonies, and ranked above the princes; In October, Jinjue became king, and ten counties including Kuaiji, Jinling, and Yuzhang were entrusted to Chen Guo, and the former twenty counties. Just this month, Liang Jingdi Xiao Fangzhi was forced to "abide", Chen Baxian ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, changed his Yuan to Yongding, and announced the birth of another new dynasty—the Chen Dynasty. Although Chen Baxian became the emperor, he did not live a comfortable and stable life. Wang Lin, who used to be the governor of Liang Xiangzhou, has never been very obedient.Chen Baxian used Sikong to conscript, but Wang Lin not only refused to be recruited, but instead built a large number of ships, preparing to attack Chen Baxian.Ba Xian ordered Zhou Wenyu and Hou Andu to lead a boat division to Wuchang to attack Wang Lin. As a result, Andu, Wenyu and other generals were all captured. Wang Lin locked Andu, Wenyu and others with a long chain and put them in the back cabin, ordered the trusted eunuch Wang Zijin to guard them, and led the troops to station in Baishuipu, Pancheng.Andu and Wenyu talked sweetly, and promised to bribe Wang Zijin with heavy bribes.Lured by profit, Zijin pretended to be fishing with a small boat, approached the rear rudder, moved Andu and other three people into the small boat, carried them ashore overnight, and fled secretly from the wilderness grass back to Chen's garrison.Chen Ba first learned that Andu's army was defeated, and he was very panicked. Later, when he saw Andu and others fled back to Jiankang, he couldn't help but turn his worries into joy. In the first month of the second year of Yongding (558 A.D.), Wang Lin occupied Pancheng with 100,000 troops.In order to advance to Jiankang in the east, Lu Xida, the governor of Beijiang Prefecture, was specially appointed as the general of Zhenbei.Siddharth and the officials and nobles on both sides accepted it, but in fact, they were not allowed to wait and see.Wang Lin wanted to lead troops eastward, but was stopped by Siddha. Lin sent someone to lure her, but Siddha refused.Wang Lin had nothing to do, so she had to send a reporter to ask for help from Qi, and asked Xiao Zhuang, the grandson of Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang Yuan, to lead Liang.Qi followed his request and sent troops to Xiaozhuang in the south of the Yangtze River to inherit the sacrificial ceremony of Liang. Chen Ba first ordered Sikong Houzhen, the leading general Xu Du, and the boat division to attack Wang Lin for the former army, and personally went to Stone City to see him off.At this time, Zhou Di, the governor of Jiangzhou, won a battle and captured Wang Lin's generals Li Xiaoqin and Yu Xiaoqing. It was a good opportunity to dominate the forerunner, so he sent Xie Zhe, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, to persuade Wang Lin to submit. Wang Lin was probably unfavorable in the war. , Zhou Wenyu, Hou Andu and others all fled again, so they promised to return Xiangzhou to the west.In August, Xie Zhe returned the report, and Baxian immediately ordered all the troops to return to the division. Just one month later, because Yu Xiaoqing's younger brother Yu Kaomai and Zi still resisted and refused to surrender, Chen Baxian ordered Zhou Wenyu to lead his soldiers to attack.Wang Lin sent Cao Qing to lead 2,000 troops to rescue them. Cao Qing's command rejected Chang Zhongai and Wen Yu, and led his own soldiers to attack Zhou Di and Wu Mingche. Seeing Zhou Wenyu's military defeat, Xiong Tanlang designed an ambush in the tent to kill Wenyu on his seat.After Tan Lang annexed Wenyu's followers, he went to attack Zhou Fu, the governor of Ningzhou, and was defeated by Zhou Fu.Tan Lang fled to Bashan alone, and was killed by villagers soon after. Before Wen Yu was killed, Chen Baxian sent Hou Andu to lead his troops to meet him.On the way, Andu learned that Wenyu was dead, so he led his teacher back. He happened to meet Zhou Ling and Zhou Xie, generals of Wang Lin's tribe, and caught them after a short fight.At this time, Xiaomai's younger brother Xiaoyou led 4,000 troops to surrender, and Andu took advantage of the victory to march to Zuoli, defeated Cao Qing and Chang Zhongai, and captured more than 30 people including Wang Lincong's younger brother Wang Xi and coach Yang Ridong. , Zhongai fled to Lushan, and was killed by the local people soon after.In June of the same year, Andu made a triumphant return to Jiankang.However, the constant worries and wars made Chen Baxian exhausted. In this month, he fell ill and died in less than half a month at the age of 57.In August of that year, he was buried in Wan'an Mausoleum, with the posthumous title of "Emperor Wu" and the temple title of "Gaozu".