In 215 B.C., Sun Quan told Lü Meng: You go and help me fight a few places!
Lü Meng took 20,000 officers and soldiers to capture Guiyang, Changsha and Lingling, a total of three places.
Only Lingling's Taishou resolutely resisted, and the other two places surrendered when they saw the movement.
When Liu Bei learned the news, he was very angry, and immediately ordered his second brother Guan Yu to fight back with Jiangdong, and then marched to the east with more soldiers and horses.
Originally, this war might have gotten bigger and bigger, but because of Lu Su's words, in the end, no one wanted to continue fighting.
In addition, Liu Bei is about to start a big war with Hanzhong, which is also the main reason why he focuses there and no longer targets Jiangdong.
Then in 217 BC, Lü Meng replaced Lu Su in the place of Lukou, and when he saw Guan Yu, he did not pose particularly tall and mighty, in fact, he deliberately pretended to confuse Guan Yu.
Two years later, Guan Yu intended to further consolidate Liu Bei's victory in Hanzhong, so he led his army north to attack Cao Ren.
It happened that at this critical moment, Lü Meng seized the opportunity and led the army to quickly occupy Jingzhou, which led to the defeat and death of Guan Yu's soldiers, but Lü Meng's own life could not be longed.
How did Lu Meng die?
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms depicts Lü Meng being possessed by Guan Yu's soul and dying
At the celebration banquet for the capture of Guan Yu, Lu Meng wanted to drink wine, and suddenly put his cup on the ground. grabbed Sun Quan with one hand, scolded loudly, and then strode forward, sitting on Sun Quan's seat, his eyebrows upside down, and his tiger eyes widened. It was as if Guan Yunchang was alive, and the second master was angry, and after teaching Sun Quan and his Jiangdong civil and military forces a good lesson, he fell to the ground and bled to death!
To be honest, this kind of thing like being haunted by evil spirits must not be encountered in ordinary life.
But these things seem to be commonplace in our novels, for example, Lu Meng is a super-famous figure of the Three Kingdoms, and if it weren't for him, the direction of history might have to be rewritten.
Although he didn't do anything sinful himself, because he killed Guan Yu, everyone felt that he was really wronged.
Therefore, in order to show their sympathy for Guan Yu, some screenwriters or writers made Guan Yu become a demon and came back to seek revenge on Lu Meng.
In this way, the plot of the story can be more engaging and more exciting to read.
However, we must know that the real Lu Meng in history was not killed by Guan Yu's soul.
But if you look at him with celebrities such as Zhou Yu and Lu Su, it will inevitably make people feel that the cause of his death is a little vague. Therefore, this question is still left to historians to study.
Historical sources say that Lü Meng died of illness.
When Chen Shou wrote the article, he also spent a lot of space to describe the scene when Lu Meng was sick.
According to Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Lu Meng":
If the knighthood is not lowered, it will be sick, and the power is in the public security, and the inner temple is welcomed, so the protectors are in all directions, and there are those who can heal the disease in the envelope, and they will be given a thousand gold. From time to time, there are needles, the right is miserable, I want to count the color, and I am afraid of labor, I often wear the wall to see it, I am happy to see the small can eat, I look at the left and right, otherwise I am aggressive, and I can't sleep at night. Sick and sick, in order to issue an amnesty order, the ministers congratulated. Later, he increased his power, and ordered the Taoist priest to ask for his life under the stars. At the age of forty-two, he died in the inner sanctum.
At that time, Sun Quan was very uncomfortable and tried his best to save Lu Meng, but as a result, Lu Meng still did not come back to life, and Sun Quan felt very sad about this.
However, Chen Shou is a person from Shu after all, he can't control so many things in Dongwu, how can he see what is happening in the palace of Dongwu at that time, he just heard it from other mouths.
Moreover, it was not only Lü Meng who died that year, but also Jiang Qin and Sun Jiao, who also died tragically in the same year, so some people suspect that the plague may have spread in Jingzhou that year, and Lü Meng may have died so young.
Although Lu Meng played really well this time, but we can't praise him for anything, according to the situation at the time, Cao Wei was the real boss-level country, but Sun Quan and Lu Meng only saw Jingzhou in front of them, and they did not do less to betray their allies.
As a result, the relationship between Sun and Liu was deteriorated, and Cao Wei was given time to breathe.
For Liu Bei, Sun Quan's approach is tantamount to asking for hardship, so he expressed this idea through practical actions. And Lu Meng's purpose in snatching Jingzhou was actually just to make meritorious contributions for himself, which was nothing compared to a major event like reviving the Han family.
There is also a theory that Sun Quan killed him
Many people think that Lu Menggong is high, but although it seems to be right to think so, starting from Zhou Yu, the leaders of Soochow, their lives are basically not good, including Lu Xun did not end well in the end.
Sun Quan will definitely make such a big sacrifice for his status, but whether it is true or not, the real reason is still not clear, so we can only record it first.