Shen Qingzhi

Shen Qingzhi

Shen Qingzhi (386-465) was born in Wuxing Wukang (Deqing County, Zhejiang Province). He was a famous general in the southern and Song dynasties.

Shen Qingzhi, born in the Shen family of Wuxing, took part in resisting the rebellion of sun en. In the 11th year of the reign of Yixi (415), Zhao lunzhi, the general of Zhenglu, praised him and granted Ningyuan Chinese soldiers to join the army. He fought bravely and was good at strategy. He took part in the Northern Expedition twice, calmed down the barbarians such as yuanmian Zhuman, Yunshan man, Gouyang man and Xiyang Wushui man, and appeased the rebellions of Liu Shao, Lu Shuang and Liu Sheng. On his deathbed, Emperor Xiaowu thought that he was a minister in charge of his life. He lived in Five Dynasties (Emperor Wu of song, Emperor Shao of song, Emperor Wen of song, Emperor Xiaowu, and former Emperor abolished). He moved to Shizhong, Taiwei, and general of motorcycles, and was canonized as the Duke of Shixing County.

In the first year of Yongguang (465), he repeatedly spoke bluntly, angered the former Emperor and gave his death as a crime. His posthumous title was Zhongwu. After succeeding to the throne, Emperor song and Ming presented Sikong with the posthumous title of Xiang.

(overview photo source: Shen Qingzhi's Fox hat in the picture of a hundred generals)

Life of the characters

Early experience

Shen Qingzhi was famous for his bravery when he was young. Sun enzhi fought against the rebellion with his clan and defended the village. In the seventh year of Yixi (411), sun en's rebellion was completely put down. However, due to years of war and chaos in the three Wu areas in the south of the Yangtze River, the land was desolate and the people's life was in decline. Shen Qingzhi stayed in his hometown to work hard. In 415, Shen Qingzhi went to Xiangyang to visit his elder brother Shen gongzhi. He was appreciated by Zhao lunzhi, the general of the army. He was appointed as a member of the Chinese army in Ningyuan to assist his son Zhao Bofu, the prefect of jingling. He gave advice to Zhao Bofu and defeated the invading jinglingman many times. Zhao Bofu is also known as a good general.

Guard the palace city

In 421, Shen Qingzhi was appointed general of the palace. In 430, he went to Yanzhi to supervise the northern expedition. Shen Qingzhi took part in the war with Zhao Bofu. Later, he returned to the South because of Zhao Bofu's illness and became a subordinate of Tan Daoji. In 431, the song army returned to the army. Tan Daoji praised Shen Qingzhi to Liu Yilong, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, saying that his loyalty knew military affairs. Shen Qingzhi was able to serve as the leader of the Imperial Guard and defend dongyemen. Later, he led the huailing prefect, who was transferred from a general outside the Imperial Guard to a general in charge of the Imperial Guard. During this period, he once left qiantangxincheng (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In the 17th year of Yuanjia (440), Liu Yilong wanted to capture the leading general Liu Zhan and his party members, and called Shen Qingzhi into the palace at night. Shen Qingzhi thought that the emperor had a plan to call the leader of the army in the middle of the night, so he came forward in military uniform. Liu Yilong ordered him to take over and behead Liu Bin, the prefect of Wu County. Soon after Shen Qingzhi was transferred to the army, he joined the army and joined the army.

Repeatedly breaking through the Barbarians

In the 19th year of Yuanjia (442), Liu daochan, the governor of Yongzhou, died of illness. He led the army to suppress it, but he was defeated repeatedly. Liu Yilong then took Shen Qingzhi as general Jianwei and went to help Zhu Xiuzhi. Soon after, Zhu Xiuzhi was jailed for his military discipline. Shen Qingzhi was in charge of the expedition alone. He broke through all the barbarians and captured 7000 barbarians. Then he went to the lake to beg for the barbarians, and captured more than ten thousand barbarians. In 444, Shen Qingzhi was transferred to beizhonglang general's residence. He joined the army under the curtain of Liu Jun's birthday, and led nandongping Prefecture. Later, he was transferred to Fu general's residence of Liu Jun, king of Wuling. In the 22nd year of Yuanjia (445), Shen Qingzhi was transferred to Yongzhou as the governor of Yongzhou because of Liu Jun, and then moved to Yongzhou (governing Xiangyang, now Xiangyang, Hubei). At that time, the group was in chaos, blocking land and water traffic. Liu Jun was also blocked in the levee, unable to move on. Shen Qingzhi sent out troops to defeat the barbarians and finally made Liu Jun enter Xiangyang smoothly. He also unified his troops to pacify the barbarians such as yidaoman and yunshanman, and captured nearly 100000 before and after. Later, Shen Qingzhi joined the army again as a medic in the north, and added Jianwei general and nanjiyin prefect. In 449, another barbarian rebellion took place in Yongzhou. Shen Qingzhi moved to Xiangyang with Liu's birthday, and led Liu Yuanjing, Zong Ke and other generals to fight against the barbarians in northern Mianyang. At the foot of Ru Qiu mountain, he assembled all the troops, ordered them to march forward in eight directions, and encouraged them to climb mountains. He directly attacked the most important places in the hearts of the barbarians and occupied the most dangerous places. The barbarians were terrified. The song army took the opportunity to besiege and scattered the barbarians. Soon after, Shen Qingzhi ordered Liu Yuanjing to lead his troops to Nanxin county to suppress the rebellion of Tian Yansheng. After that, he sent troops to inspect the city from Ruqiu mountain, smashed the barbarians in the mountains, beheaded them at 3000 levels, and captured and surrendered more than 50000 barbarians. In the 27th year of Yuanjia (450), Shen Qingzhi supervised the army to suppress xingzhushan dog and sheep. The place where the dog and sheep are based is steep and difficult to attack, and the defense is well organized. Shen Qingzhi set up a company camp at the foot of the mountain and ordered all the troops to dig pools for water in the camp to prevent the barbarians from attacking. Dog sheep mangguo goes down the mountain at night to burn song army barracks. The song army used the pool water in the camp to put out the fire, and took the opportunity to fight back with bows and crossbows, forcing the barbarians to withdraw. Shen Qingzhi ordered the troops to open the way to attack the mountain, but because the mountain was high and the road was dangerous, and it was in the summer rain, he built six garrison fortresses at the foot of the mountain and trapped dog and sheep on the mountain. Dog and sheep were trapped for a long time, food shortage, and finally had to go down the mountain. Soon after, Shen Qingzhi was promoted to the rank of commander of Prince infantry.

Follow the Northern Expedition

Master data: Yuanjia Northern Expedition

In the same year (450), Liu Yilong launched the second Northern Expedition of Yuanjia, and the three routes went hand in hand. Among them, Xiao bin, the general of the auxiliary state, was the commander of the Eastern Route Army, and Wang xuanmo, the general of ningshuo, was the vanguard. Although Shen Qingzhi opposed the northern expedition, he was still appointed as Wang xuanmo's deputy, following Wang xuanmo to attack HOHO (in the southwest of today's Chiping, Shandong Province). He abandoned the city and fled. Xiao bin went to the front line and ordered Wang xuanmo to lead his troops to attack Huatai (Huaxian County, Henan Province). Shen Qingzhi, on the other hand, was left behind by Xiao bin and was given the post of assistant state Sima. Wang xuanmo besieged the sliding platform for two months and failed to break the city. Before long, tuobatao, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, personally rescued the sliding platform. Xiao bin then ordered Shen Qingzhi to lead 5000 people to support Wang xuanmo. Shen Qingzhi thought that too few troops were not helpful to the war, but because Xiao bin insisted, he finally had to obey. Before Shen Qingzhi left the army, Wang xuanmo had escaped from the slide. Xiao bin saw that the forward had been defeated and planned to stick to his goal. Shen Qingzhi, however, insisted on giving up. Xiao bin then retreated to Licheng (governing the west of Jinan, Shandong Province), and ordered Wang xuanmo to stay in Jue. Shen Qingzhi retreated to Licheng with Xiao bin, and soon returned to the capital. On the way, he was ordered by Liu Yilong to go north to rescue Wang xuanmo. However, when Shen Qingzhi arrived at Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province), he was unable to go north because tuobatao had led a large army to approach. At that time, Liu Yigong, king of Jiangxia, was spending the northern expedition in Pengcheng, so he left Shen Qingzhi in Pengcheng and gave him the title of Taiwei zhongbing to join the army. Liu Yigong gave Shen Qingzhi three thousand troops and asked him to go to Maoshan to resist the Wei army. Shen Qingzhi, however, refused to go on the ground that he "captured all the strong and would be captured when he went.". The Wei army soon attacked Xiaocheng (now Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province), only dozens of miles away from Pengcheng. Liu Yigong plans to abandon the city and flee to the South because there are more soldiers and less food in Pengcheng. Shen Qingzhi thought that Licheng had less soldiers and more grain, so he suggested that Licheng should be moved. However, Liu Yigong, under the advice of Zhang Chang, the prefect of Peijun, finally decided to stick to Pengcheng to avoid the wavering of military morale. Shen Qingzhi stayed with Liu Yigong until the end of the northern expedition in February 451, and was ordered to move thousands of Pengcheng refugees to Guabu (now Liuhe, Jiangsu Province) for resettlement.

Pacify civil strife

In the 29th year of Yuanjia (452), Liu Yilong ignored Shen Qingzhi's admonition and made another northern expedition. He did not let Shen Qingzhi take part in the war with the idea of "making a difference". Soon after, a barbarian rebellion broke out in the area of Wushui in Xiyang (now Huanggang in Hubei Province), which suffered greatly from huaishui, Rushui, Yangtze River and mianshui. Liu Yilong ordered Shen Qingzhi to be the chief General and supervise the army to attack wushuiman. Yuzhou, Jingzhou and Yongzhou were all ordered to join the war, and Shen Qingzhi controlled them. In 453, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty ordered Liu junbing to enter Wuzhou (in the southwest of Xishui, Hubei Province today) to lead the army and attack the people along the river. Shen Qingzhi also arrived at Wuzhou from bashui (now Qichun in Hubei Province) to meet with Liu Jun to discuss military intelligence strategy. At this time, the crown prince Liu Shao conspired to launch a coup, killing Liu Yilong and usurping the throne. At that time, Dong Yuansi was returning from Jiankang to Wuzhou front line, informing Liu Jun of Liu Shao's treason. Liu Jun plans to fight against Liu Shao. After Liu Shao usurped the throne, he was afraid of Liu Jun because he had a heavy army. He plotted to write a letter to Shen Qingzhi, asking Shen Qingzhi to kill Liu Jun and seize his military power. But Shen Qingzhi has no intention of helping Liu Shao. He asked to see Liu Jun and presented Liu Shao's secret letter. Liu Jun mistakenly thinks that Shen Qingzhi is trying to kill himself. He cries and asks to say goodbye to his mother before he dies. Shen Qingzhi expressed his heart to Liu Jun, saying that he wanted to "assist Shun and fight against adversity". Liu Junlian said that "the safety of the family and the country depends on the general", and asked Shen Qingzhi to call up the army for military deployment. When master Yan Jun learns that Liu Jun wants to fight against the enemy, he thinks it's not a good opportunity to start fighting at this time. He suggests that he unite with the four sides first. As a result, he is harshly scolded by Shen Qingzhi. Liu Jun quickly rebukes Yan Jun and orders Shen Qingzhi to continue to arrange the incident. In less than ten days after Shen Qingzhi's preparation of the army, he arranged all the things that had happened. At that time, people thought that there were miraculous soldiers to help him. Soon after, Liu Jun led his troops back to Jiangzhou and headed east to Jiankang. Shen Qingzhi was appointed general of Zhenglu, internal history of Wuchang, Sima of nanzhonglang, and also went to the East with the army. Liu Jun drove all the way and soon approached Jiankang. He accepted the advice of Shen Qingzhi, Liu Yuanjing and other generals. He became emperor in Xinting and was known as emperor Xiaowu of Song Dynasty in history. He was a meritorious official, with Shen Qingzhi as the leading general and a regular official. Soon, Liu Jun broke through Jiankang, captured and killed Liu Shao, and pacified Liu Shao's rebellion. Shen Qingzhi changed his post because of his meritorious service. He made Chijie, governor of the four prefectures of South Yanzhou, general of the town army, and governor of South Yanzhou. He went out of Xuyi and became a magistrate of Nanchang County. He ate 3000 households in the city. Later, he moved to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province). the first year of Xiaojian (454), Jing

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