This person was one of Sun Ce's favorite warriors, and later followed Sun Quan to continue to go to the Tang Dynasty for the great cause of Jiangdong. Not only is the martial arts superior, but also the foresight is far-sighted. The position in Jiangdong is not inferior to that of the four major governors. In the case of the withering of talents in the middle of Eastern Wu, when he was nearly sixty years old, he and Lu Xun provoked the military pillars of Jiangdong together. He was a famous general of the Jiangdong generation during the Three Kingdoms period. Lü Fan!
Lü Fan, zi heng. A native of Xiaoyang County, Runan. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, the State of Wu in Jiangdong was a major subject. Lü Fan was a county official in Runan, but after the war, wolf smoke broke out and went to Shouchun to take refuge.
At this time, Sun Ce was under Yuan Shu's account. During this time, he became acquainted with Sun Ce. After that, he followed Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong. After Sun Ce's death, he assisted Sun Quan in his conquest of the four sides, making outstanding contributions to the consolidation of Sun's rule in Jiangdong, and Sun Quan compared him to Wu Han, the founding father of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, this famous general is always little known to future generations. The reason lies in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As we all know, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is typical of liu bei and cao cao, while for Sun Quan's Eastern Wu, there is not much ink, so most of the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms who are familiar with it are both Shu Han and Cao Wei, such as the Five Tiger Generals, the Five Sons and Liang Generals, and so on.
On the other hand, Eastern Wu seems to be the most well-known of the four governors of Zhou Yu Lusu and Lü Meng Luxun and Tai Shi Ci, and the rest of them who have a deeper understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms also know the Twelve Tiger Ministers of Jiangdong, but their fame is generally not as good as that of the Five Tiger Generals and the Five Sons.
Because of the above reasons, Jiangdong Zhu will be ignored and underestimated and not have a lot of reputation, such as He Qi, Zhu Ran, Lü Fan, Zhong Limu and so on. And Lü Fan is one of them. Lü Fan this person. It can be called the pillar of the founding beam of Eastern Wu. In the early years, he followed Sun Ce to attack Lujiang County, crossed the Yangtze River with the army, and marched to the Jiangdong region.
Lü Fan led an army to defeat the Yangzhou assassin Liu Sui's generals Zhang Ying and Yu Yi (虞麋) around Hengjiang and Dangli. In the Battle of Hengjiang, he led hundreds of warriors to attack Zhang Ying, beheading three of his generals in a row, and for a while the enemy army was in chaos. Then Chen Yu attacked, and Lü Fan's army defeated the enemy army and beheaded Chen Yu's general Chen Mu. Later, Yu Sun Ce defeated Tai Shi Ci together.
After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan regarded Lü Fan as a talent like Zhou Yu. Whenever a major war went out, Lü Fan would inevitably guard Jiangdong, which showed the importance that Sun Quan attached to it. Not only that, Lü Fan also had foresight. At the time of Sun Liu's marriage, Liu Bei personally came to Jianye and married Sun Shi, and Lü Fan and Zhou Yu together proposed that Liu Bei be placed under house arrest, but his plan was not implemented in the end.
When Sun Quan was about to betray Liu Bei's general Guan Yu stationed in Jingzhou, he went to Lü Fan's home and told him: "If you had followed your advice, you would not have had to work hard today." Now I will attack Guan Yu against the current, and you will help me guard Jianye. ”
It can be seen that Sun Quan was already very dependent on Lü Fan at this time, and by the middle of the period, the talent in Jiangdong was withering away, and there would be a shortage of handsome people. Lü Fan even provoked the military pillars of Jiangdong with Lu Xun, and Lu Xun was responsible for the northeast Lü Fan was in charge of the northwest. It is also a pillar of the Jiangdong State.
Later, Cao Wei's famous generals Cao Xiu, Zhang Liao, and Zang Ba led an army to attack Eastern Wu, and at this time, Lu Xun was in the northeast to guard against tens of thousands of water troops assembled on the Shu-Han border. whereas
At this time, Jiangdong Jiangdong had few generals, and Lü Fan, who was nearly sixty years old, led Xu Sheng, Quan Chun, Sun Shao and other generals to resist the enemy with a water army in the area of Dongkou County. However, at that time, the front line encountered strong winds, and Lü Fan and other sailors drifted to the north bank of the Yangtze River that night, and were attacked by Zhang Liao, Wang Ling and others. Lü Fan's ships capsized one after another, and soldiers were killed in battle, drowned in the water, and thousands of people died. Lü Fan had no choice but to retreat. The battle ended with the defeat of Eastern Wu, but after returning to the division, Lü Fan was still appointed Yangzhou Mu. It can be seen that Jiangdong relies heavily on it.