The famous generals of Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng, can be said to be talented, and these governors have successively followed, and the former one has taken the initiative to recommend the latter. When Lü Meng was critically ill, Sun Quan asked him: "Dear General Lü Meng, you can't get out of bed to command now, now who in our family can take your place?" Lu Meng replied, "Zhu Ran, this young man can, let him take over my reassurance."
Zhu Ran and Sun Quan were friends in the same window at that time
Zhu Ran, literally Feng, whose original surname was Shi, was Zhu Zhi's nephew, at first Zhu Zhi did not have children, Zhu Ran was 13 years old at the time, sun Ce took Zhu Ran as the master to pass Zhu Ran on to Zhu Zhi as a son. Zhu Ran and Sun Quan were the same age, and the two of them had the same window at that time, so the relationship was very good. When Sun Quan took power in the fifth year of Jian'an (200), he arranged for Zhu Ran to be the county magistrate of Yuyao County, when Zhu Ran was only 19 years old, and later gave him the Shanyin County Order, and also made him a lieutenant of the Folding Chong Colonel, and the governance of the upper and lower levels was not good, Sun Quan saw this situation, and simply gave Zhu Ran the management of five counties in a row. Later, Zhu Ran's governance was good, and Sun Quan separated Danyang County from the new Linchuan County, let Zhu Ran be the Taishou, and allocated him 2,000 soldiers and horses. Zhu Ran was still able to manage the local public security, and he also attacked the mountain thieves, and then recruited the mountain thieves, and fought against the Wei army in the Battle of Wushu, and became a partial general after obtaining great merit.
At the end of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), attacking Jingzhou, Zhu Ran and the fierce general Pan Zhang joined forces to attack Guan Yu's troops, and later captured Guan Yu alive at Linfeng (present-day northwest of Yuan'an, Hubei). Sun Quan was overjoyed, and Zhu Ran was made a general of Zhaowu and a marquis of Xi'an. The Huwei general Lü Meng became seriously ill and bedridden after the Battle of Jingzhou, and recommended Zhu Ran to Sun Quan to take his place. Then Zhu Ran became the governor of Dadu, and he took his soldiers to Jiangling.
Later, when the Battle of Yiling broke out, Zhu Ran and Lu Xun joined forces to fight against Liu Bei, who had big ears. At that time, Zhu Ran only had five or six thousand people, but Zhu Ran was well guided, and the soldiers were also very powerful in combat, breaking Liu Bei's vanguard troops in one fell swoop. Later, Lu Xun burned Liu Bei clean with a big fire, and when the battle was over, Zhu Ran was made a general of the Northern Expedition (because he was fighting north?). Plus Yong'an Hou.
Not afraid of danger, prestige is far and wide
In the first year of Huang Wu's reign (222), Emperor Wen of Wei, Cao Pi, stationed a large army at Wancheng and arranged for Cao Zhen to attack Jiangling with Xiahou Shang and Zhang Shao. Sun Quan grasped the arrangements and sent the general Sun Sheng to oversee the army of 10,000 people, as Zhu Ran's foreign aid, and jointly defend Jiangling. Zhang Gao attacked Sun Sheng, and sun Sheng could not do it, so this foreign aid was gone, or Zhu Ran was alone to defend the city, Sun Quan saw that Sun Sheng was not fierce, and sent a fierce Li, Pan Zhang! But in the face of Zhang Gao, where can there be good fruit to eat, after all, Zhang Gao is a person who can give Advice to Sima Yi. So Gangneung is in danger!
After a long siege, the soldiers who were established had no food, drank water to fill their hunger, and one by one they were puffy and could not do anything, and there were only four or five thousand people who could fight on the city wall. Cao Zhen fought very vigorously, your building defense is not strong, arrange soldiers to fall three shifts, a team of soldiers to dig tunnels, another team of special piles of dirt, the city wall for you also have to shoot you on the mountain, a small hill is higher than the city wall, and then Cao Zhen also ordered the soldiers to bring that kind of wooden building with drum wheels, there are arrows, shoot for me, this shot of arrows is the same as rain, the soldiers in the city are scared, afraid of being killed, at this time there is a surrender.
His name was Yao Tai, when he saw that he had no food and no soldiers, he was fighting across the battlefield, and it was important to escape, thinking of taking Cao Zhen in, and he could also make up for it, at this time Zhu Ran knew about this matter, "You come to Zhu Ran and tell you something." "Snap! It's a knife. Later, Cao Zhen didn't fight for a long time, but there were a lot of arrows sent, and he went back in ashes? Then Zhu Ran became famous, and everyone in Wei Guo knew that Zhu Ran was not a good guy to fight. Zhu Ran made meritorious contributions and was promoted to the rank of Marquis of Dangyang.
In the first year of the Huanglong Dynasty (229), Wu Guo gave the generals the title of Knight, and Zhu Ran became a che riding general and a right guard. In the year of Chi Wu, the Wei army returned to harass the Wu border, and zhu Ran came forward to settle the peace, fighting more vicious battles, and more meritorious deeds, and constantly accumulating into the Great Sima and the Right Army Division.
Zhu Ran was less than seven feet tall, but his temperament was extraordinary. He was simple and fearless in the face of danger. He was in the military, and even if he did not fight, he acted strictly with his subordinates in the army manner. Zhuge Rong, the son of the famous Eastern Wu general Zhuge Jin, and Bu Xie, the son of Bu Qi, although these rich sons were all inherited from their father's positions, Sun Quan still made Zhu Ran the governor of the capital. That is to say, at that time, there was still a Lu Xun and Zhu Ran who could still be compared, and later after Lu Xun's death, Zhu Ran had a feeling of standing out from the various generals.
From the beginning Zhu Ran and Sun Quan as classmates, to later Zhu Ran constantly fought for Sun Quan, a long time, know the roots, decades of old friendship, from 19 to follow Sun Quan to fight for more than 50 years, and then also older, lying on the bed, the condition deteriorated day by day, Sun Quan is also an age, it is not easy to have a confidant, so Sun Quan can't sleep well every day, can't eat. Every day, he stared at the envoy to send food and medicine to Zhu Ran. After sending these emissaries, they immediately returned to Sun Quan's mansion to report, and Sun Quan was anxious to circle the light. After listening to people's reports, they will give rewards, gold and silver, cloth, wine and food, and treat those who run errands well.
From the beginning of the founding of Eastern Wu, Zhu Ran became a hero, but like Lü Meng and Ling Tong, he had been fighting for many years and was branded with an illness, but he also received a special love from Sun Quan. In the twelfth year of Chiwu (249), Zhu Ran died at the age of 68. Sun Quan is also 68 years old, dressed in plain clothes, personally mourning for Zhu Ran, and feeling nostalgic.