Three kingdoms. WU Shu. Biography of Lu Meng

Lü Mengziming is a native of Fupi County, Runan. When he was a teenager, he crossed the Yangtze River south and attached himself to his brother-in-law Deng Dang. Deng Dang was Sun Ce's general and repeatedly conquered Shanyue. When Lü Meng was fifteen or sixteen years old, he secretly followed Deng Dang's team to attack the Shanyue rebels, and Deng Dang looked back and saw Lü Meng, was shocked, and shouted to stop him, but he did not listen.

After returning, Deng Dang told Lü Meng's mother about this matter, and his mother was very angry and wanted to punish him, and Lü Meng said: This poor and lowly life is difficult to live, maybe if you get credit, you can get rich. Besides, if you don't go into the tiger's den, you can get the tiger? His mother took pity and forgave him. At that time, The officials under Deng Dang thought that Lü Meng was young and despised him, saying: What can the boy do, is not to send meat to feed the tiger? Some days later, when he met Lu Meng, he laughed and insulted him. Lü Meng was very angry, and immediately drew his knife to kill the young official, then pulled out his leg and fled, fleeing to the home of his fellow villager Zheng Chang.

Later, he came out on his own and turned himself in through lieutenant Yuan Xiong, yuan Xiong took the opportunity to intercede for him, so Sun Ce summoned him, felt that he was extraordinary, and stayed by his side. A few years later, Deng Dang died, and Zhang Zhao recommended Lü Meng to succeed Deng Dang as the leader of the army, and was appointed sima of the capital.

After Sun Quan took charge of state affairs, he planned to merge these troops in consideration of the small number of soldiers and insufficient costs of those minor generals. Lü Meng secretly borrowed money and made big red clothes and leggings for the soldiers, and on the day of the review, his troops were in a mighty formation, and all the soldiers could perform, sun Quan was very happy to see him, so he added more soldiers. He followed Sun Quan into Danyang, and made meritorious achievements in every battle, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant of Pingbei and concurrently served as the governor of Guangde County.

Lü Meng followed Sun Quan in his conquest of Huang Zu, and Huang Zu ordered the governor Chen to lead a water army against Sun Quan. Lü Meng led the vanguard troops and personally cut off Chen Yu's head, and the generals of the whole army took advantage of the victory to attack the city. When Huang Zu heard that Chen had been killed, he abandoned the city and fled, while Eastern Wu soldiers pursued and captured him alive. Sun Quan said: The success of this war was due to the defeat of Chen Yu first.

So he appointed Lü Meng as the general of Yokono Nakaro and gave him tens of millions of dollars. In the same year, Lü Meng, together with Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu, defeated Cao Cao in the west toward Wulin and besieged Cao Ren at Nan Commandery.

　　The Yizhou general Xi Su led the army to surrender, and Zhou Yu suggested that the troops of The Raider be handed over to Lü Meng, who praised Raid Su for his courage and ability, and his ability to admire the indoctrination of remote attachment, and morally speaking, he should be increased in his troops rather than captured. Sun Quan thought that this was very reasonable, so he returned the troops to Xisu.

Zhou Yu sent Gan Ning to occupy Yiling, and Cao Ren sent part of his army to attack Gan Ning, and Gan Ning was besieged in a critical situation, so he sent people to ask for help. All the generals thought that the troops were insufficient and could no longer be divided, and Lü Meng said to Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu: Leave Ling Gongjie, I will work with you to rescue the emergency and relieve the siege, according to the situation, it will not take too much time, and I guarantee that Ling Gonggong will be able to hold on for ten days.

He also suggested that Zhou Yu send three hundred men to block the dangerous intersection with firewood, so that the enemy could get their horses when they fled. Zhou Yu obeyed his plan. The troops rushed to Yiling and engaged the Cao army on the same day, killing and wounding more than half of the enemy troops. The enemy fled through the night, and when they reached the wood-blocked mountain road, the cavalry abandoned their horses and fled on foot. The Wu army chased after them, captured three hundred warhorses, and carried them back to Eastern Wu with a combined ship.

Therefore, the morale of the Generals of the Wu Army doubled, and they crossed the river to establish a stronghold and attack the enemy. Cao Ren retreated and fled, so he occupied Nan Commandery again and pacified Jingzhou. After Lü Meng returned to Beijing, he was promoted to the rank of general and concurrently served as the county commander of Xunyang County.

After replacing Zhou Yu, Lu Su went to Lukou and passed by the Lü Meng military camp. Lu Su was a little contemptuous of Lü Meng, and someone said to Lu Su: General Lü's meritorious name is becoming more and more prominent, and you should not look at him with old eyes, you should visit him.

So Lu Su visited Lü Meng. While drinking heavily, Lü Meng asked Lu Su: You are shouldering heavy responsibilities and are close to Guan Yu, what strategy do you plan to use to prevent unexpected changes? Lu Su replied very casually: The specific situation depends on the time.

Lü Meng said: Although Wu and Shu are now in alliance, Guan Yu is actually a general of the Bear and tiger, so why not plan and strategize in advance? So he planned five coping plans for Lu Su. Lu Su then left the table and walked over to Lü Meng, patted him on the back, and said: "Lu Ziming, I really didn't expect that your talent and strategy could reach such a level."

So he went to see Lü Meng's mother and made friends with Lü Meng and said goodbye. At that time, Lü Meng's military camps with Cheng Dang, Song Ding, and Xu Gu were all connected to each other, and after the death of these three generals, their sons were very small. Sun Quan wanted to merge all of their army with Lü Meng, but Lü Meng resolutely resigned, saying that Xu Gu and others were working hard to handle state affairs, and although their sons were young, they could not abolish their military power. After writing three times in a row, Sun Quan agreed to his request.

Lü Meng then selected teachers for the children of these three families and asked the teachers to tutor these children. He was so dedicated to such things. The State of Wei sent Xie Qi, a native of Lujiang, as a lieutenant of the Puchun Diannong, to repeatedly invade the borders of Eastern Wu in Tunken, Anhui County. Lü Meng sent people to induce him to surrender, but he did not agree, so Lü Meng sought an opportunity to attack, Xie Qi was forced to retreat back, and his subordinates Sun Cai, Song Hao, etc., all helped the old and the young to surrender to Lü Meng.

Later, Lü Meng followed Sun Quan to fight against Cao Cao at Fusu, and repeatedly offered clever tricks, and persuaded Sun Quan to build forts on both sides of the Wushu Pass, and the fortifications were very fine, and Cao Cao could not capture it, so he had to retreat. Cao Cao sent Zhu Guang as the Taishou of Lujiang, garrisoning Anhui County and vigorously reclaiming rice paddies. He also ordered the spies to lure the leaders of the Poyang thieves and make them respond internally.

Lü Meng said: The fields in Anhui County are fertile, and if there is a bumper grain harvest, their soldiers will increase, so that after several years, Cao Cao's attitude will be revealed, and they should be eliminated as soon as possible. So he gave Sun Quan a detailed account of the situation. Sun Quan personally consulted Anhui County, summoned the generals, and asked what the plan was. Lü Meng recommended Gan Ning as the governor of Shengcheng, and led the siege of the city at the front, followed by Lü Meng himself with elite troops.

Attacking in the early morning, Lü Meng personally beat the drum, and the soldiers enthusiastically ascended the city, and attacked the city of Anhui at breakfast. When Zhang Liao led his army to Jiashi, he heard that the city of Anhui had been breached by the Wu army, so he had to lead the troops back. Sun Quan rewarded Lü Meng for his merits, and immediately promoted Lü Meng to the position of Lujiang Taishou, and all the captured soldiers and horses were distributed to him, and 600 people and 30 subordinate officials were rewarded. Lü Meng returned to Xunyang, less than a year later, luling's thieves were making trouble again, and the generals could not capture it, Sun Quan said: There are hundreds of starlings, it is better than one peng. He also ordered Lü Meng to go to the conquest. After Lü Meng arrived at Luling, he killed the leader of the thieves, released all the others, and restored their civilian status.

At this time, Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to guard all the lands in Jingzhou that he occupied, and Sun Quan ordered Lü Mengxi to seize the three counties of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang. Lü Meng sent a letter to the two counties of Changsha and Guiyang, and the two counties of the two counties looked at the wind and submitted to Eastern Wu, and only the Lingling Taishou Hao Pu firmly held the city and did not surrender. Liu Bei personally rushed from Shu to The Police and sent Guan Yu to fight for the territory of these three counties.

Sun Quan was living in Lukou at the time, and sent Lu Su to lead 10,000 horses to garrison Yiyang to resist Guan Yu, and sent someone to quickly send a letter to Lü Meng, asking him to abandon Lingling and quickly return to aid Lu Su. At the beginning, Lü Meng pacified Changsha and was on his way to Lingling. When he was in the county, Deng Xuanzhi, a native of Nanyang, was in the same car with him, and Deng Xuanzhi was an old friend of Hao Pu, and Lü Meng wanted him to induce Hao Pu to surrender. After receiving a letter from Sun Quan summoning him to return, Lü Meng kept it secret, and that night gathered all the generals and gave him a siege plan, scheduling a siege in the early morning of the next day.

After the meeting, he said to Deng Xuanzhi: Hao Zitai knew that there was loyalty in the world, and he also wanted to do loyal and righteous things, but he did not understand the situation. The left general Liu Bei was in Hanzhong and besieged by Xiahou Yuan. Guan Yu was in Nan County, and now our Lord himself arrived in Nan County. Recently, he broke through Fancheng Guan Yu's base camp and rescued him. In the county, Guan Yu had been defeated by Sun Gui. These are all recent events that you have seen with your own eyes. They are now on all sides of the party, it is too late to save themselves, and they have the strength to rescue Lingling again! Now our soldiers are elite, everyone wants to do meritorious service for the country, and the Lord is dispatching a large army to march on the road one after another.

At present, Zi Tai's life is insecure, but he is waiting for hopeless rescue, just like the fish in the water in the cow's footprint pit, and he hopes to use the river and Hande water to survive, and it is also very clear that he has nothing to rely on. If Zi Tai could unite his soldiers and stick to the isolated city, and still be able to survive for some days, in order to wait for some later surrender, this would also be feasible. Now I have carefully planned and arranged the troops to attack the city, and in a day, the city will be breached, and after the city is destroyed, he himself will die to no avail, and let the hundred-year-old mother, full of white hair, be killed by others, is not it painful? I guess he didn't get the information from the outside world, and thought that he had foreign aid to rely on, so he was stubborn to this point. You can go and see him and present this interest to him.

Deng Xuan went to see Hao Pu before and relayed in detail Lü Meng's meaning, and Hao Pu was afraid and obeyed after hearing it. Deng Xuanzhi first went out of the city to report to Lü Meng, saying that Hao Pu would come later. Lü Meng ordered four generals in advance to choose a hundred men each, and as soon as Haopu left the city, they immediately went in to guard the city gate. A moment later, When Haopu left the city, Lü Meng greeted him and shook his hand in greeting and disembarked with him. After the greeting, he took out the letter written by Sun Quan to him and showed it to Hao Pu, so he clapped his hands and laughed. Hao Pu read the letter, and Fang knew that Liu Bei was stationed in the public security, while Guan Yu was near Yiyang, ashamed and remorseful, and eager to go underground.

Lü Meng left Sun Jiao behind, entrusted him with the aftermath, and led his troops to Yiyang on the same day. Liu Bei requested an alliance with Sun Quan, and Sun Quan returned Hao Pu and the others, demarcated the Xiangshui River, and returned Lingling County to Liu Bei. He also used Xunyang and Yangxin as Lü Meng's fengyi.

Lü Meng's division returned, so he went to conquest Hefei, and when he withdrew, he was attacked by Zhang Liao and others, and Lü Meng and Ling Tong defended Sun Quan with death. Later, Cao Cao attacked The Emperor with a large army, and Sun Quan used Lü Meng as the Governor of the ShuShu, and according to the fort docks that had been built before, set up 10,000 crossbows on the fort to resist the attack of the Cao army. Cao Cao's vanguard troops were unstable, Lü Meng attacked to defeat them, and Cao Cao led his army to retreat. Sun Quan granted Lü Meng the title of Left Protector and General of Huwei. Lu Su died, Lü Mengxi was stationed at Lukou, and more than 10,000 people of Lu Su's army were all under The control of Lü Meng. He was also appointed as the Taishou of Hanchang, and his food included Xiajun, Liuyang, Hanchang, and Zhouling.

Lü Meng and Guan Yu ruled by dividing Jingzhou and bordering each other, and he knew that Guan Yu Xiaoxiong had the heart to annex Eastern Wu, and moreover, Guan Yu lived in the upper reaches of Eastern Wu, and the situation of dividing the territory and ruling was difficult to last.

At first, Lu Su and others considered that Cao Cao was still alive and posed a threat to both sides, and they should cooperate with Sun and Liu to share the same hatred and hatred, and could not turn their backs on each other. Lü Meng then secretly offered a plan to Sun Quan: Let the general Sun Jiao garrison Nan Commandery, Pan Zhang garrison the White Emperor City, Jiang Qin lead a guerrilla force of 10,000 people, move up and down the Yangtze River, and deal with the enemy at any time, Lü Meng and I will go to occupy Xiangyang for the sake of the country, so what cao cao is afraid of, what guan yu to rely on?

Moreover, Guan Yu Junchen, who plays deceptive means and is capricious, should not be regarded as a close friend. The reason why Guan Yu did not lead the troops to the east now is because your Saint Ming, Lü Meng and others are still there. If we don't take advantage of the fact that we are getting stronger now, once we die of old age and want to make a contribution to Chen Bing, can we still do it? Sun Quan deeply understood his plan, and casually talked with him about the issue of capturing Xuzhou, and Lü Meng replied: Now Cao Cao is far north of the Yellow River, has just defeated the forces of the Yuan family, and is pacifying the social order of Youzhou and Jizhou, and has no strength to take care of the east. The defenders of Xuzhou, hearing that they were not very strong, went to capture and could win. However, that place is only connected by land, it is the place where Xiao Yong's cavalry gallops long, you get Xuzhou today, then Cao Cao will come to fight for it in the next ten days, although he will guard it with 70,000 or 80,000 troops, he is still often worried about being frightened. It is better to capture Guan Yu's territory and occupy the entire Yangtze River Basin, and the situation will be even more spectacular. Sun Quan felt that these words were particularly reasonable in their analysis. When Lü Meng took over Lu Su and first arrived at Lukou, he ostensibly reconciled with Guan Yu and made a thicker gift.

Later, Guan Yu conquered Fancheng, leaving part of his troops to garrison Gong'an and Nan Commandery. Lü Mengshang pointed out: Guan Yu's troops who conquer Fancheng and stay more defensive must be worried that I will seek his rear. I am often sick, please send a part of the troops back to Jianye, in the name of my treatment. When Guan Yu heard this news, he was bound to withdraw the troops who remained in the rear and drive to Xiangyang as many as possible. At that time, our large army went up the river day and night from the waterway to attack the empty place of the Shu army, then Nan County could be obtained, and Guan Yu could be captured.

So pretending to be seriously ill, Sun Quan publicly issued a document to summon Lü Meng back to Jianye and secretly discussed plans with him. Guan Yu believed it to be true, and gradually withdrew the remaining troops of Nan County and headed for Fancheng. The State of Wei dispatched to the forbidden rescue of Fancheng, and Guan Yu captured all the prisoners in the forbidden area, seized tens of thousands of men and horses, and took the rice that the State of Wu transported to Xiangguan at the junction of Wu and Shu without authorization. When Sun Quan heard this, he immediately began to act, sending Lü Meng to the front of the army.

Lü Meng's army went to Xunyang and ambushed all the elite troops in the middle of the big boat, let people wear ordinary clothes and shake the shape of the people, and the people sitting in the boats all dressed up as merchants, day and night, came to Guan Yu's outpost on the riverside, and took all the sentries prisoner, so Guan Yu did not hear the news of the Eastern Wu march at all.

The Wu army arrived at Nan Commandery, and both Shiren and Mi Fang surrendered to Lü Meng. Lü Meng entered the city and tried his best to get guan Yu and the families of other generals to appease and persuade them, agreeing that the Wu army would not interfere with the people and could not ask for anything. There was a soldier under Lü Meng's tent, and he took a bucket from the people's house to cover the armor, although the armor was a public item, but Lü Meng still thought that he had violated the military order and could not abolish the law on the basis of his fellow country relations, so he killed the soldier with tears. So the whole army was shocked and did not leave the road behind.

Lü Mengri sent close soldiers to comfort the elderly and ask them what they lacked, and the sick sent him medicine, and the hungry sent him food and clothing. The goods hidden in Guan Yu's mansion were sealed and waited for Sun Quan to come and dispose of them. On the way back to Jiangling, Guan Yu sent people to inquire about Lü Meng's exchange of information many times, and Lü Meng treated the people sent by Guan Yu kindly, letting them travel around the city and greet each family, or let their families personally write letters to the generals in the army to explain the situation. After Guan Yu's emissaries returned to Guan Yu's army, the generals privately inquired about each other, knowing that the family was safe and sound, and the treatment was better than in the past, so Guan Yu's entire army lost their fighting spirit.

Just as Sun Quan's army immediately came to Jiangling, Guan Yu knew that he was alone and poor, so he fled to Maicheng and traveled west to Zhangxiang, where the soldiers left Guan Yu and surrendered to Sun Quan. Sun Quan sent Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang to block Guan Yu's inevitable path and capture both father and son. So Lü Meng pacified Jingzhou. Sun Quan appointed Lü Meng as the Taishou of Nan Commandery (南郡太守), the Marquis of Guoling (孱陵侯), and gave him 100 million yuan in money and 500 catties of gold.

　 Lü Meng resolutely refused to accept gold and money, and Sun Quan did not agree. The knighthood order had not yet been issued, and when Lü Meng was ill, Sun Quan was in the public security, took Lü Meng to his inner temple, used thousands of medicines to treat him, and rewarded those in the country who could cure Lü Meng's diseases, and gave him thousands of gold.

Sometimes the doctor stabbed Lü Meng with a needle, Sun Quan was sad for Lü Meng's pain, wanted to visit him often, and was afraid that he was too tired for himself, often chiseled a hole in the wall to watch Lü Meng, and was happy to see that Lü Meng could eat a little, and laughed at the people around him, otherwise he would sigh and sleep at night. Lü Meng's condition improved, so he ordered a general amnesty, and all the courtiers came forward to celebrate. Later, Lü Meng's illness worsened, and Sun Quan personally visited the sickbed and ordered the Taoist priest to pray for Lü Meng's life extension under the stars. Lü Meng died in the Inner Temple of Sun Quan at the age of forty-two.

At that time, Sun Quan was very sad, so he reduced various recreational activities and reduced the amount of food. Before Lü Meng died, he handed over all the gold, silver, jewelry and other gifts that Sun Quan had given him to the government treasury for storage, and instructed the supervisors to hand them all in after his death, and the funeral affairs would be simple. When Sun Quan heard this, he was more and more sad and moved.

Lü Meng did not study classic books when he was young, and every time he stated a major event, he often dictated it and let others record it as a song book, and he was impeached by Jiangxia Taishou Cai for his own pro-soldier affairs, but there was no resentment. When YuZhang Taishou Gu Shao died, Sun Quan asked Lü Meng who would be better to replace him, so Lü Meng recommended Cai Yi to take on this position as a good official, Sun Quan smiled and said: Do you want to be Qi Xihe? So cai wei was appointed.

Gan Ning was brutal and easy to kill, often dissatisfied with Lü Meng, and from time to time disobeyed Sun Quan's orders, Sun Quan was very annoyed, Lü Meng repeatedly interceded for Gan Ning, saying: The world has not yet been pacified, and the fierce general is as rare as Gan Ning, and we should be tolerant and patient with him. Sun Quan then treated Gan Ning kindly, and later used it to the fullest.

Lü Meng's son Lü Ba inherited Lü Meng's title and was rewarded with 300 people who guarded the tomb, and 50 acres of tax-free land. After Lü Ba's death, his brother Lü Chun succeeded him as Marquis. After Lü Chun's death, his younger brother Lü Mu continued to inherit his title.

　　When Sun Quan and Lu Xun commented on Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng, they said: Gong Jin was mighty and strong, and he was bold and brave, so he defeated Cao Cao and opened up Jingzhou, and it was indeed rare to succeed him, and now you have your replacement.

Gong Jin used to ask Zi Jing to come to Jiangdong and recommend him to me, and when I drank and talked with him, he proposed a strategy to unify the world and establish an imperial inheritance, which was the first gratifying thing.

Later, Cao Cao, because of the strength of Liu Chun's troops, threatened to lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers to enter Eastern Wu by land and water. I summoned all the generals to ask how to deal with it, and no one took the lead in proposing an appropriate plan, as for Zibu and Wenbiao, they all said that they should send someone to send a surrender letter to meet Cao Cao, and Zijing immediately retorted that it was impossible, and persuaded me to quickly recall Gongjin and entrust the army with a heavy responsibility to meet Cao Cao, which was the second pleasant thing.

Moreover, his plan far exceeded the plan of Zhang Yi and Su Qin. Later, although he persuaded me to borrow Liu Bei' land, it was a big mistake, but it was not enough to damage his two major strengths. The Duke of Zhou did not seek complete blame for people, so the lonely man forgot his short and respected his strengths, often comparing him to Deng Yu. When he was young next year, I only thought that he was not afraid of hard work, and acted boldly and boldly.

After he grew up, his learning enhanced his thinking and his strange strategies, which can be said to be second only to Gongjin, but his ability to talk and discuss was not as heroic as Gongjin. In terms of plotting to defeat Guan Yu, he was better than Zi Jing.

Zi Jing said in his reply to me: The rise of the emperor has enemies to be expelled, and Guan Yu is not enough to make people worry. This is something that Zi Jing actually can't do, on the surface it's just a big talk, and I forgive him and don't blame him at will. However, he commanded the army, did not lose any camps, could order prohibitions, there were no officials in his subordinate areas, there were no roads to be found, and his governance measures were quite perfect.