In the course of China's five-thousand-year history, the Central Plains have experienced many dynastic changes, but each change of dynasties has to experience a war, and the war chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty is one of the most familiar to us, because there are not only many historical records, the Ming and Qing dynasties also have a novel of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that takes the war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty as the historical background.
Whether it is directly reading the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or watching the adapted TV series, we can understand many historical stories of that period, such as: Zhuge Liang's grass boat borrowing arrows, Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou, Guan Yu riding alone for thousands of miles, etc., as well as historical figures with distinct personalities, influenced by Luo Guanzhong's novel Yang Shu Thought, what we know best is the general of the Shu Kingdom.
Whether in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or in the adapted TV series, although Wu Guo also has many generals, Wu Guo seems to play a role in playing soy sauce. In fact, the power of the State of Wu should not be underestimated, we all know that the State of Wei has five good generals, and the State of Shu has five Tiger Generals, but the State of Wu does not have such generals.
But if we look at the governor of the State of Wu, we will know that the State of Wu is actually no worse than the State of Wei and the State of Shu, and the first of the four Governors of the State of Wu is the famous Zhou Yu, followed by Lu Su, and after Lu Su's death, Lü Meng took over the position of Governor of Lu Su, and the last of this position was Lu Xun.
Today we are going to talk about one of the metropolitan governors, Lu Meng.
Lü Meng is still relatively familiar with this person, because there are many allusions to him, but what is puzzling is why Lü Meng crossed the river in white clothes and almost took back Jingzhou without bloodshed, and even designed to kill Guan Yu, but there was no name left in the history of Qingqing?
At that time, Jingzhou was in Liu Bei's hands, even if he borrowed it, but Liu Bei had been occupying Jingzhou after borrowing Jingzhou, and there was no intention of returning it, and the people of Eastern Wu repeatedly asked for it and did not want to return, which also caused dissatisfaction among the people of Eastern Wu, so they began to design the capture of Jingzhou at that time.
At that time, Guan Yu was defending Jingzhou, and Eastern Wu was trying his best to expand his territory, after Lü Meng captured Xiangyang, Sun Quan wanted to attack Xuzhou, which would be equivalent to directly fighting against Cao Cao and Liu Bei, but Lü Meng proposed that it was better to attack Xuzhou than to capture Jingzhou, because after capturing Jingzhou, Eastern Wu's sphere of influence could be connected, but Sun Quan could not make up his mind, because Sun Liu was still in a state of alliance at that time, he did not want to break this balance, and he could not resist the persuasion of Lü Meng and others, so he made up his mind.
When Guan Yu launched the Battle of Xiangfan, there were a lot of people and horses left in Jingzhou, just to prevent the backyard from catching fire, Lü Meng took advantage of his lack of preparation to attack Jingzhou, and Lü Meng also realized Guan Yu's thoughts, so he began to abdicate from the throne and let Lu Xun serve as the governor of Eastern Wu.
As soon as Lu Xun took office, he began to preach to Guan Yu, at this time Guan Yu saw that the new governor of Eastern Wu was actually a white-clothed scholar, so he did not pay attention to it, and at the same time constantly pulled the army of Jingzhou to the battlefield of Xiangfan, for the soldiers who fought, filling their stomachs was a very important thing, so grain and grass were crucial for an army, but when Guan Yu was fighting the Battle of Xiangfan, the grain and grass in the rear could not be helped.
Therefore, Guan Yu began to use troops against the granaries of Eastern Wu, and Sun Quan felt that the time had come, and began to order Lü Meng to attack Jingzhou. After receiving the order, Lü Meng did not directly lead the army to attack, but pretended to be a merchant and attacked Jiangling at night, and after success, he asked the guards of Jiangling to persuade the defenders of other parts of Jingzhou to surrender, so that Jingzhou would all return to the sphere of influence of Eastern Wu.
Why did Lü Meng, who had made great contributions, not have a name left in the history of Qingqing? Because Lü Meng's capture of Jingzhou this time was a node in the collapse of the Three Kingdoms, since then the Three Kingdoms have begun to move towards a unified situation. Another important reason is that Guan Yu has always been the image of loyalty and righteousness in our hearts, in fact, as early as the Song Dynasty, Guan Yu's image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and by the time the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" appeared, Guan Yu became the "martial saint" in people's minds. I believe that many people cannot accept the murder of such a heroic figure, so Lü Meng, who killed Guan Yu, naturally has no celebrities for thousands of years.