In 544 AD, Xiao Luo, the governor of Jiaozhou, tyrannical to the people, resulting in the loss of people's hearts. The local wealthy clan Li Ben took the opportunity to join forces with heroes from other states to rebel and drove away the governor of Jiaozhou Xiao Pu. Emperor Wu of Liang ordered New South Wales governor Lu Zixiong and Gaozhou governor Sun Jiong to send troops to suppress him quickly. But later the court suspected that Lu, Sun and Li Ben had an affair with the country and sentenced the two to death in Guangzhou. This incident aroused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers under Lu Zixiong's troops. Zhou Wenyu, , Du Sengming, and others gathered to mutiny and besiege Guangzhou. Guangzhou Governor Xiao Ying hurriedly summoned Chen Baxian to quell the rebellion. Chen Baxian led 3,000 elite soldiers to Guangzhou. After several fierce battles, he defeated the rebels and quickly quelled the rebellion. Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, was very happy to hear the news that the rebellion had been quelled, and immediately issued an edict to designate Chen Baxian as the general of Zhige, and sent painters to Guangzhou to paint a portrait of Chen Baxian as a commendation.
In 545 AD, Li Ben imitated the Liang Dynasty system and set up all officials, proclaimed himself Emperor Yue, and rebelled against Liang Dynasty . The court appointed Chen Baxian as Sima of Jiaozhou and the prefect of Wuping, and ordered him to jointly fight against the rebellion with Yang Ripiao, the governor of Jiaozhou. Chen Baxian received the imperial decree and immediately recruited troops and repaired weapons. In June of the following year, Chen Baxian led the siege army to Jiaozhou, and Li Ben led 30,000 troops to fight at Sulijiangkou. When facing Li Ben, Chen Ba led the army and led the army to charge and achieved a great victory. After Li Zhi was defeated, he fled to the Quliao area of Jianing County. Quliao was full of mountains and harsh environments, so Chen Baxian had to stay around. Later, after three years of hard fighting, he finally got rid of the local separatist forces headed by Li Gui and recovered several states such as Jiao, Ai, De, Li, and Ming. This time, Chen Baxian, the queller of rebellion, became famous, but because the society at that time was extremely particular about family background, Chen Baxian, who had outstanding achievements, was still appointed as the governor of Xijiang and Gaoyao Prefect by Emperor Wu of Liang, and only had one military post to supervise the military of the seven counties.
However, there are always opportunities. Not long after Chen Baxian led his troops back to Gao, the Liang Dynasty broke out in Hou Jing's rebellion.
Hou Jing, originally a general under the command of the Prime Minister of Eastern Wei , Gao Huan , was highly valued by Gao Huan and was named the Great Street of Henan Road and the commander-in-chief of the military of the Thirteen Prefectures. After Gao Huan's death, Hou Jing refused to accept Gao Huan's son, Gao Cheng, and rebelled.
In February 547 AD, he surrendered to the Liang Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Liang sent his nephew Xiao Yuanming to lead 50,000 troops to the Northern Expedition to the Eastern Wei Dynasty and respond to Hou Jing. However, Xiao Yuanming and Hou Jing were both defeated, Yuanming was captured, and Hou Jing fled to Shouyang. Soon, Hou Jing raised his troops to rebel against Liang and surrounded Taicheng . Because the reinforcements from Liang Guo are intriguing each other, most of them wait and see without fighting. As a result, Hou Jing finally captured the palace city, put down Emperor Wu of Liang, and established the prince Xiao Gang as the puppet emperor
Chen Baxian led his army to Jiangling, and surrendered to the seventh son of Emperor Wu of Liang, the king of Xiangdong Xiao Yi, and obtained the legal right to the Northern Expedition. After defeating various local separatist forces, Chen Baxian's army sent troops to Nankang again and went north along the Ganjiang River.
In 552 AD, Chen Baxian's army of conquering the south road set off from Yuzhang and met with the governor of the west road Wang Sengbian. In March, a decisive battle with Hou Jing was launched on Jiankang , and finally completely destroyed Hou Jing's power. Soon, Xiao Yi was persuaded by various soldiers to become emperor in Jiangling. Chen Baxian promoted Sikong to defend Jingkou for his contribution to quelling the rebellion.
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In September 554 AD, Western Wei sent troops to raid Jiangling. Wang Sengbian did not rescue him in time, and Liang Yuandi Xiao Yi was killed. Chen Baxian discussed with Wang Sengbian to establish the ninth son of Emperor Yuan of Liang Xiao Fangzhi as the emperor. However, Gao Yang wanted to take advantage of the destruction of Liang State, so he sent Xiao Yuanming back to Jiankang to be the emperor, hoping to make the Liang Dynasty a vassal of Qi. At first, Wang Sengbian disagreed, but later, forced to send troops to put pressure on Northern Qi, he did not care about Chen Baxian's dissuasion. In May 555 AD, Xiao Yuanming was appointed as the emperor and Xiao Fangzhi was appointed as the crown prince.
Chen Baxian had a conflict with Wang Sengbian. In September, Chen Baxian raised an army in Jingkou, raided Jiankang, and killed Wang Sengbian. Seeing this, Xiao Yuanming knew that his throne could not be preserved, so he took the initiative to abdicate. In October, Chen Baxian supported Xiao Fangzhi to restore the throne and changed the reign to Shaoqin.After Xiao Fangzhi was restored, he appointed Chen Baxian as the governor and took charge of the military and national affairs of the Liang Dynasty.
After Wang Sengbian's death, his remaining troops successively raised an army to fight against Chen Baxian. Wuxing Governor Du Kan , Yixing Governor Wei Zai , Wang Sengbian's younger brother, Wujun , the prefect Wang Sengzhi and others all occupied the city to fight against Chen Baxian. Chen Baxian sent his general Zhou Wenyu to attack Yixing, but he was unfavorable and was defeated. Wei Zai took advantage of the victory to set up a square outside the city, confronting Zhou Wenyu. Chen Ba personally fought eastward and pulled out the water fence set up by Wei Zai outside the city within two days. Then, Chen Ba first sent Wei Zai's clan brother to persuade Wei Zai to surrender.
Just shortly after Chen Baxian left Jiankang, Xu Sihui, the governor of Qiao and Qin, and Ren Yue, the governor of Nan , Yuzhou, and Ren Yue, the governor of Nan , Yuzhou, suddenly surrendered to Northern Qi. With the support of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Xu Siwei and Ren Yuejiu led 5,000 troops to attack Jiankang, occupying Stone City , and forming a stalemate with Hou Andu , who was left in Taicheng. In November, the Northern Qi sent 5,000 troops across the river to occupy Gushu, supporting Xu Sihui and Ren Yue. Soon, the Northern Qi sent Anzhou Governor Zhai Zichong, Chuzhou Governor Liu Shirong, and Huaizhou Governor Liu Damo to lead tens of troops across the river from Hushu and sent 30,000 stones of rice and more than a thousand horses to Shitou City.
Faced with the aggressive momentum of Northern Qi, Chen Baxian adopted Wei Zai's suggestion and sent weeks Tiehu to attack Hu Shu overnight, burned down more than a thousand ships in Northern Qi, cut off the enemy's food route, and then sent people to repair Hou Jing's ancient building on Dahang , and sent troops to defend it to ensure the transportation line connected with the east. The Qi army also set up fences in Cangmen and Shuinan to guard them. A few days later, Chen Ba first personally led the elite cavalry and defeated Xu Sihui. Xu left Liu Damo to guard the Stone City and made an appointment with Ren to Caishi to welcome the reinforcements of Northern Qi.
In December, Hou Andu led the navy to break through the Xu Sihui fence and captured hundreds of people. Chen Baxian built a floating bridge in the city, crossed the river and attacked the northern Qi Cangmen and the southern Shuizhan, and defeated the Qi army.
Xu and Ren led more than 10,000 troops from Northern Qi to land and land to enter Shitou City, but were blocked by Chen Baxian's troops and had to station in Pukou, Jiangning. Soon, Chen Baxian sent Hou Andu to lead the navy to launch a fierce attack on the Xu and Ren garrisons, forcing Xu and Ren to flee. In this way, only Liu Damo was left alone in Shitou City. Chen Baxian summoned the armies of the water and land to surround the Stone City on all sides. In the end, because there was no water in the city, Liu Damo had to send someone to ask Chen Baxian for peace, but asked Chen Baxian to send his son as a hostage. The court officials of Jiankang were eager to make peace, but Chen Baxian had no choice but to agree. After repelling the large-scale invasion of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Chen Ba first successively destroyed the rebellious forces such as East Yangzhou Governor Zhang Biao, Jiangning Order Chen Zhongsi, Huangmen Minister Cao Lang, and Xiao Bo from Lingnan.
In March 556 AD, the Northern Qi Dynasty sent the Grand Commander Xiao Gui and Xu and Ren to join forces with 100,000 troops to march into Liangshan despite the trust of peace. Chen Ba was prepared for a long time, and Hou Andu and Zhou Tiehu were all stationed here, so the Qi army was defeated and retreated to Wuhu. Chen Baxian also dispatched the governor of the state Shen Tai to Liangshan to assist Hou Andu in defending. Soon, Chen Ba went to Liangshan to inspect in person. The Marquis of Andu took advantage of the opportunity that Northern Qi did not dare to advance and led the elite cavalry to attack Sima Gong, the Qixing Taiwan Department, and won a great victory and won tens of thousands of prisoners. The Qi army was timid, so he wrote to the Liang Dynasty, saying that as long as it was returned to Xiao Yuanming, he would retreat. Chen Ba agreed first, but within a few days, Xiao Yuanming died of "breasted hair". After learning the news, Xiao Gui felt insulted, and sent troops to walk on the dry road the next day, heading straight to Jiankang. Chen Baxian immediately summoned the troops to return to Liangshan and prepared for defense in Jiankang. As a result, the unprecedentedly fierce battle to defend Jiankang began.
Jiankang Defense Battle
At the beginning, Chen Baxian took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Qi army had not arrived and had not yet gained a foothold, and led his troops to deal with the Qi army who arrived first. However, as the main forces of the Qi army arrived one after another, Chen Baxian was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. So he temporarily avoided the Qi army's front, fought and retreated, and constantly used the rangers to harass the Qi army's supply line. Not long after, Chen Baxian found that he had reached a state of indulgence. Enemies appeared on the south, north and east sides, and Jiankang was surrounded, and the situation was very critical. But there is no way out. At this time, the plum rain season in Jiangnan is coming, and it rains heavily for days. The Qi army outside the city has no cooked things to eat. Moreover, we must always beware of Chen Ba's sneak attack. The soldiers cannot get rest. They stand in the water all day, their toes are soaked, and they are even more exhausted mentally.Chen Baxian's army in the city was on a high place and was frequently replaced, so he got a good rest.
Chen Ba first seized this opportunity and personally led his army to attack the Qi army in one go, and finally defeated the Qi army and captured the Qi army commander Xiao Gui. The victory of the Jiankang defense battle made Chen Baxian famous. Emperor Jing Xiao Fangzhi appointed Chen Baxian as the Secretary of the Secretariat, Situ, and Yangzhou governor, and was promoted to the title of Great Wall Duke.
In September 556 AD, Xiao Fangzhi joined Chen Baxian as Prime Minister, Secretary of State, General of the Zhenwei, Minister of the Yangzhou, and Duke of Yixing. Since then, Chen Baxian gathered the military and political power of the court, and Xiao Fangzhi completely became a puppet emperor. In September of the following year, Chen Baxian promoted to the prime minister and was granted the title of Duke of Chen, preparing the ceremony of nine tins, just like an emperor. In October, Chen Ba first became the king. After making all preparations, Chen Baxian deposed Emperor Jing Xiao Fangzhi, proclaimed Emperor Liang, established Chen Chao , established the capital Jiankang, and the reign was Yongding.
In June 559 AD, due to long-term continuous wars, Chen Baxian was exhausted and fell seriously ill. He died in less than half a month. He was 57 years old at the time. Chen Ba died and was buried in Wan'anling. He was posthumously named " Emperor Wu " and the temple name "Gaozu"
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