Among Lü Bu's "Eight Jian Generals", there were two people who accompanied Lü Bu to the end, one was Zhang Liao, and the other was Cheng Lian; one was missing, that is, Cao Sex; there were four people who surrendered to Cao Cao, they were Zang Ba, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng; and there was another Hao Meng, who did not belong to either of them, and what was the end of him? Today, let's take a look at Hao Meng's life trajectory.
Lü Bu's eight strong generals
Hao Meng, a native of Hanoi, from Lü Bu's life, Hao Meng is not Lü Bu's concubine. Lü Bu was a native of Jiuyuan County, the seat of Wuyuan County, while Hao Meng was a native of Hanoi, jiuyuan county belonged to hezhou, and in the far north of hezhou, near the Xiongnu, and Hanoi county belonged to the lieutenant department of the si li (that is, the area around Luoyang Gyeonggi), which was far from each other. As shown in the figure:
Year map of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Therefore, Hao Meng was not the team that Lü Bu started in the early days -- and the state flew, but Zhang Liao was.
Because Lü Bu's life experience was very complicated, basically traveling throughout the northern region, the composition of Lü Bu's army was not simple. Roughly speaking, there are four parts: the old department of Hezhou (mainly the Flying Horse of Hezhou), the Hebei Army (after Lü Bu's defeat of Chang'an, the bandits and small units absorbed during his defection to Yuan Shao), the Hanoi Army (the Hanoi armed forces absorbed during Lü Bu's defection to Zhang Yang), and the Danyang Soldiers (the Danyang soldiers absorbed during Lü Bu's occupation of Xuzhou, Danyang's people were fierce and fierce, and without war, it was a good place to replenish the source of troops, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Liu Bei, etc., all recruited here successively). What should also be said here is that Lü Bu once had an army, the Si Li Army (Lü Bu absorbed a part of the Imperial Court Janissaries during lü Bu's brief reign in Chang'an after Dong Zhuo), but under the blows of the Western Liang Army, this part of the army was scattered, and when Lü Bu fled Chang'an, he only took part of the flying horses of the prefecture headquarters.
Lü Bujun
From the above, we can clearly see that Hao Meng was most likely to join Lü Bu's army during Lü Bu's surrender to Zhang Yang. Except for the old department of The State, Lü Bu's other troops were unstable for him, which also laid the foundation for the rebellion of Lü Bu's subordinates later.
Hao Meng
There was also an unstable element in Lü Bu's army, that is, Chen Gong, a Yanzhou man. Chen Gong was originally Cao Cao's aide, but he abandoned Cao Cao and took advantage of Cao Cao's eastern expedition to Tao Qian to welcome Lü Bu, and the two sides launched a fierce battle for Yanzhou. After Lü Bu's defeat at Cao Cao, Chen Gong followed Lü Bu to Xuzhou. Chen Gong and Cao Cao were mortal enemies, and Ying Lü Bu used Lü Bu to fight against Cao Cao, and later Chen Gong found that Lü Bu was useless, so he prepared to unite with the great warlord Yuan Shu of Huainan.
Xuzhou situation map
After arriving in Xuzhou, Chen Gong found that Liu Bei was beating according to Yuan Shu, and Chen Gong instigated Lü Bu to sneak into Liu Bei's lair Xia Pi, and Lü Bu became the boss of Xuzhou. As a result, Chen Gong found that Lü Bu was not as obedient as he thought: he united with Yuan Shu and attacked Liu Bei and Cao Cao. Instead, Lü Bu took in Liu Bei in an attempt to divide Xuzhou and establish himself. Chen Gong was angry, originally wanted to use Lü Bu, but he did not expect to be used by the big old man Lü Bu.
So Chen Gong found Lü Bu's most unstable element, Hao Meng, and discussed launching a mutiny to get rid of Lü Bu, and then Hao Meng would be the boss of Xuzhou (the latter sentence is the author's imagination).
Hao Meng himself was the one who followed Lü Bu in the Middle Way, and there was not much friendship or deep fighting friendship between them at all. Tempted by interests, Hao Meng obeyed Chen Gong's words and launched a rebellion.
After the rebellion, Lü Bu, with the courage of the Flying Horse of Hezhou, saved his life and fled to Gao Shun's camp. At this time, Lü Bu did not even know the fire gate clearly, and he did not know anything about the rebellion. When Gao Shun asked him what was wrong, he didn't even know who the enemy was.
Gao Shun
Fortunately, Lü Bu had Gao Shun, who guessed the identity of the rebels from the rebels' Hanoi accent, and Gao Shun led the trapped camp to counterattack Hao Meng's Hanoi army. Although Hao Meng was brave, he was always stronger than the famous elite troops of the Three Kingdoms and even ancient China, trapped in the camp, and Hao Meng was defeated and fled. Hao Meng's general Cao Sex saw that the Hanoi army was gone, so he fell to Lü Bu's army and rose up with Hao Meng. In the end, Cao Sex was stabbed by Hao Meng, hao Meng was cut off by Cao Sex and an arm was cut off, and Gao Shun took advantage of the situation to lead the trapped camp to kill Hao Meng.
In this way, Hao Meng, one of Lü Bu's eight jian generals, left, but for Lü Bu, he walked disgracefully, he was a shameful traitor! And the other traitor, Chen Gong, where will his fate go?
Chen Palace
(Continues tomorrow)
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