Stirring for 400 years: Lady Xian helped Feng to sit firmly in Lingnan and supported Chen Baxian to go north to fight for Jiangzhou

This article is the 609th in a long series of articles, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

In that year, the last emperor of Northern Yan, Feng Hong, defected to Goryeo and sent his clan member Feng Ye to cross the sea with 300 people to join Liu Song and settle in Xinhui (present-day Xinhui, Guangdong). At that time, Xinhui belonged to the border area, the economy was backward, the system was incomplete, from Feng Ye to his grandson Feng Rong, who served as the assassin of Luozhou for generations.

However, although Feng Rong was the head of the party, because he was not an indigenous, he could not give orders. In order to maintain the authority of the Feng clan, he took Xian (yin tongxian) as his wife for his son Gao Liang Taishou Feng Bao (pinyin Tongxian) clan, and was known as Lady Xian in history.

Xian has been the chief of the Gaoliang Slang (Yin Tongli) clan for generations, owning more than 100,000 tribes, and has always promoted the system of female leaders, and Lady Xian has inherited the chief at an early age.

Although Lady Sin was a female stream, she knew how to strategize and strategize, and was good at using soldiers, and had a lot of prestige among the barbarian tribes, especially to stop the behavior of the eldest brother Xian Ting's bullying and plundering of neighboring states and counties, changing the custom of the Yue tribes to attack each other, and organizing them into a powerful ethnic group.

After marrying Feng Bao, Lady Xian continued to strictly restrain the sect, indoctrinate the etiquette, and often participated in the judgment with Feng Bao, and if the barbarian leader broke the law, even her own relatives would not forgive. From then on, Feng's decree was implemented.

Under the leadership of Lady Sin, the slang people, the largest native ethnic group that has been dominant in South Vietnam since the Eastern Han Dynasty, gradually integrated into the Chinese nation, promoting the development process of Lingnan civilization and even Chinese civilization.

Taking advantage of the fragmentation of Southern Liang, Gaozhou's assassin Li Qianshi occupied Dagaokou and sent emissaries to summon Feng Bao, intending to annex his people and create a career in this chaotic world.

Feng Bao wanted to go to the call, but Lady Xian stopped him: "Thorn Shi should not summon Taishou for no reason, this summons must be to deceive you into plotting rebellion together." ”

Feng Bao was curious, "How do you know?" Xian Fu said, "Thorn Shi was ordered to support the imperial court, but he claimed that he was sick and would not go, and at the same time forged weapons, gathered a team, and then summoned you again." This must be an attempt to use you as a hostage to force your army to rebel together, and you should observe the situation before making a decision. ”

A few days later, Li Qianshi rebelled and sent the commander Du Pingyu to lead troops to attack the Ba (pronounced Tonggan) stone and force Nankang at Yuliang Xiucheng. Nankang was the territory that Chen Baxian had seized from Cai Luyang, and was approved by Xiao Xuan, the king of Xiangdong, who could not give in, so he sent Zhou Wenyu to the crusade.

Lady Xian said to Feng Bao: "Du Pingyu was brave and good at fighting, and he entered the fortress to confront the officers and soldiers, and for a while and a half he could not go back." He can't go back, Li Qianshi will do nothing in Gaozhou, you can take the opportunity to plot against him. But if you bring your troops forward, there will inevitably be a fierce battle, so it is better to send an emissary to him with a humble and generous salute: 'I myself dare not show my face, and I want to send my wife to participate in the righteous deeds.' When he heard this, he was overjoyed and unguarded. At that time, I took more than a thousand people, carried all kinds of goods on foot, claimed to pay money to compensate for my sins, took the opportunity to enter the barracks, launched a surprise attack, and I would certainly be able to break the enemy. ”

Feng Bao obeyed her plan, Li Qianshi was indeed unguarded, Lady Xian attacked with her troops, and Li Qianshi fled to Ningdu to protect himself. At the same time, Zhou Wenyu also repelled Du Pingyu and occupied his castle.

Lady Xian also took the initiative to go to Bashi to meet Chen Baxian, and when she returned, she said to Feng Bao: "Chen Dudu is also very human, he is deeply popular with the people, he will definitely be able to pacify the thieves, you can give him more military resources, and make friends with him." Feng Bao did so one by one, and from then on he formed an alliance with Chen Baxian and became his rear.

In June of the first year of Dabao (550 AD), Xiao Xuan appointed Chen Baxian as the Assassin of Yuzhou and also took charge of the History of Yuzhang, and Chen Baxian gradually went from the southern frontier to the heart of Southern Liang.

As mentioned earlier, Xiao Qi, the king of Yueyang, was forced to ask Western Wei for help under the pressure of Xiao Xuan, and Yuwen Tai also wanted to take advantage of the chaos to share a piece of the pie and instigate Xiao Qi to become emperor, but Xiao Qi did not dare for the time being. Yuwen Tai also sent Rong Quan as an emissary and crowned Xiao Qi as the King of Liang, and Xiao Qin began to establish Tai Province, set up hundreds of officials, and established a separate imperial court.

On July 14, Xiao Qin went to Chang'an to meet Yuan Baoju and became a vassal of Western Wei.

Western Wei wanted to support the puppet regime, and Eastern Wei was not idle, and with the same purpose, Gao Yang sent Yi and Mu Yunluo and others to greet Xiao Si, the prince of Poyang, and let him guard the city of Anhui.

However, before Xiao Si could set off, Hou Jing's general Ren Yue led an army to arrive, mu Yunluo and the others withdrew, Xiao Si was isolated and helpless, and he faced the battle with a hard scalp, and the soldiers were defeated and killed.

Ren Yue took advantage of the victory to expand his territory to Xiangcheng, and Xiao Daxin, the king of Xunyang, sent Sima Weiqian to fight, but also returned with a great defeat, and only more than a thousand soldiers were left under his command, and everyone persuaded Xiao Daxin to withdraw from Jianzhou, and Xiao Daxin had no fighting spirit, and surrendered to Ren Yue on July 21.

Previously, Xiao Daxin asked the crown prince to wash ma Wei Zang zhen shou Jianchang, with 5,000 jiashi. Hearing that Xunyang had fallen, Wei Zang wanted to lead his troops to Jiangling, but before he could set out, he was killed by his subordinates.

As a result, another general under Hou Jing's command, Qing, expanded his territory to the area around Yuzhang, and Hou Yan was forced to surrender to Yu Qing, who sent him to Jiankang.

Remembering that Hou Yao had the same surname as himself, Hou Jing treated him very kindly, kept his wife, son, and brother as hostages, and sent him to follow Yu Qing to capture the counties south of Pengli Lake and make him the Assassin of Xiangzhou.

The successive surrenders of Xiao Daxin and Hou Zhen meant that Jiangzhou fell into the hands of Hou Jing. Chen Baxian, who had just been appointed as the history of Yuzhang Neishi, was well aware of the great strategic significance of Jiangzhou, so he sent Zhou Wenyu to lead an army to attack Yuqing.

At this moment, a man named Huang Fayu (pronounced Tongqu) led the army to join Zhou Wenyu, and Chen Baxian added a general under his command.

Huang Fayu, a native of Bashan, was born into a famous and prestigious family, was witty and brave since childhood, and was familiar with the art of war as an adult. When Hou Jing had just rebelled, Huang Fayu had gathered the townspeople to form an armed defense.

When Du Pingyu and Zhou Wenyu confronted each other in ganjiang, Huang Fayu, who was stationed in Xingan, sent troops to support Zhou Wenyu, and the two sides had formed a good cooperative relationship. This time, he directly joined Chen Baxian's camp.

Zhou Wenyu was afraid of Yu Qing's strong army and did not dare to attack, and after Huang Fayu joined forces with him, he joined forces to conquer Shengtun and took many prisoners, turning the tide of the war.

In February of the second year of Dabao (551 AD), taking advantage of Chen Baxian's division of troops against Yu Qing, Li Qianshi collected his subordinates, reorganized his army, and returned to Nankang. Chen Baxian sent his troops to meet Du Shengming and others, captured Li Qianshi alive, and then beheaded him, completely stabilizing the rear.

Subsequently, Xiao Xuan sent Chen Ba's advanced troops to attack Jiangzhou, and also used him as the assassin of Jiangzhou. Being appointed as the Assassin of Jiangzhou was a turning point in Chen Baxian's struggle for hegemony, and through years of hard work, he finally became the most important military presence of Southern Liang in Jiangnan, and Xiao Xuan paid more and more attention to him.