Lu Meng
Lu Meng
Lu Meng (178 ~ 220), Zi Ming, was born in Fupi County, Runan County (now lvjiagang, Wanghua Town, Funan County, Anhui Province). He was a famous general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In his early years, he attached himself to his brother-in-law Deng Dang and fought with sun CE. He was famous for his courage. After Deng Dang's death, Lu Meng led his subordinates and paid homage to other subordinates. After sun Quantong, Lu Meng gradually became more and more important. He became the first general of Hengye after he broke huangzu. From the destruction of Cao Ren in Nanjun, from the destruction of Zhu Guang in Wancheng, I have paid tribute to the governor of Lujiang River. He occupied three counties in the south of Jingzhou and planned to capture haupu. Sun Quan escaped in the battle of Xiaoyaojin. In ruxu, we must resist the Wei army. Official worship left guard, general Huwei. After Lu Su's death, Lu Meng defended Lukou on his behalf, attacked the three counties in the west of Jingzhou, defeated Guan Yu, the famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty, worshipped the prefect of Nanjun, and was awarded the title of Prince of Fuling.
At the end of the year 219 (the beginning of 220), he died of illness at the age of 42.
Lu Meng was the first advocator of the attack on Guan Yu in the eastern Wu Dynasty. Lu Meng captured three prefectures in 215 and three more in 219, which made the territory of Soochow increase greatly and realized the long cherished wish of "taking full control of the Yangtze River". In ancient China, he became the representative of the diligent and diligent, and the related allusions such as "farewell three days", "treat each other with new eyes", "Wu Xia a Meng" and so on.
Life figures
Early years
Lu Meng was born in the first year of Guanghe (178th year of the Gregorian calendar). When he was young, he went south to the Yangtze River (Runan Fupi is located in today's lujiagang, Funan, Anhui Province, to the north of the Huaihe River, where "going south" may also mean going south to the Huaihe River) and attached to his brother-in-law Deng Dang.
Deng Dang was Sun CE's Ministry, and had several expeditions to Shanyue. LV Meng, about 15 or 16 years old, had secretly gone out to fight with his brother-in-law Deng Dang. Later, Deng Dang found him, very surprised, and sternly scolded him, but LV Meng still secretly followed. After the battle, Deng Dang told Lu Mu about it. Lu's mother was very angry and wanted to punish him. Lu Meng said, "it's really hard to live in such a poor life. If you go out to fight, you may get credit and wealth. What's more, if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger's son? (ban Chao used to say this when he wanted to attack the Hu people), "Lu's mother pitied and forgiven him.
At that time, one of Deng Dang's officials, seeing that LV Meng was young, despised him and said, "what's the ability of that boy, LV Meng? It's just trying to feed the tiger with meat. " Later, he laughed and humiliated LV Meng face to face. Lu Meng was so angry that he killed him with a knife and fled to the hometown of elder Zheng. After that, Yuan Xiong, the captain of the school, turned himself in. He interceded with Lu Meng and recommended him to sun CE. Sun CE saw that Lu Meng was really outstanding, so he arranged for him to do things around him. A few years later, Deng Dang died. Zhang Zhao recommended LV Meng to take over Deng Dang's post and serve as the Sima of other departments.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), sun CE was assassinated and died at the age of 26. Sun Quan took over the power of Jiangdong. He wanted to select the young generals who had less unified troops and could not play much role, and adjust and merge their subordinates. After hearing about it, Lu Meng knew that after the army was merged, it would be more difficult for him to make a difference. So, he tried to get goods on credit, made purple clothes and leggings for his subordinates, and stepped up training. During Sun Quan's inspection, LV Meng's troops and horses were "displayed in awe and practiced by soldiers". Sun Quan was pleased to see that he had a good command of the army. Instead of reducing his troops, he increased his troops.
Repeatedly building up war achievements
In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Sun Quan crusaded against huangzu and defeated huangzu's water army. He learned of the Shanyue incident in Danyang, Yuzhang and Luling counties. Sun Quan led the army back, and LV Meng followed the army to fight. In Yuzhang county (today's Nanchang, Jiangxi), Sun Quan ordered general Lu Fanping to fight against Poyang (today's northeast of Poyang, Jiangxi), general Cheng Pu to attack Le'an (today's northeast of Dexing, Jiangxi), and Taishi Cifu to rule haihun (today's east of Yongxiu, Jiangxi). At the same time, he ordered LV Meng, Ma huanggai, Han Dang, and Zhou Tai to lead troops to guard dangerous areas and serve as county magistrate or governor in the most active areas of Shanyue county magistrate. In accordance with Sun Quan's plan, LV Meng and the generals pacified the Shanyue people by force. LV Meng was appointed as the commander of Pingbei and the commander of Guangde.
In the 13th year of Jian'an (208), Sun Quan adopted general Gan Ning's suggestion and sent troops to attack Xiakou (now in Wuhan, Hubei). LV Meng went out with the army. Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia County, ordered that Mengchong warships be used to block miankou (the entrance of the Han River to the Yangtze River), and a large palm rope was used to tie a huge stone as a cone to fix the ship's position. More than a thousand people on board were firing with bows and crossbows to block the river. The Wu army's attack was blocked. Sun Quan ordered partial generals Dong Hai and Sima Lingtong to lead a hundred men's death squads, wearing heavy armor, to rush to Mengchong's side in a big boat. Dong Hai cut off the palm rope with a knife, and the warships floated along the water. Sun Quan's army then marched back. When Huang Zu saw Sun Quan's soldiers coming, he sent Chen, the commander of the water army, to fight back. LV Meng led the vanguard troops and killed Chen Jiu himself. Sun Jun took advantage of the victory and advanced by land and water to encircle Xiakou city. Governor Sun Quan stormed the city and slaughtered it. Huang Zu fled alone and was chased and killed by the knight Feng Ze. In this battle, Sun Quan won a complete victory, annihilated Huang Zu, an old enemy, and occupied Jiangxia area. After the war, Sun Quan said: "the success of this war was due to the defeat of Chen Jiu first." LV Meng was appointed general of yokono nakaro and was given tens of millions of yuan.
Judge by the evidence
In October of the 13th year of Jian'an (208), LV Meng followed Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and others to defeat Cao Cao in Chibi. Cao Cao led the army back to the north and left Cao Ren and others stationed in Jiangling (now Jingzhou, Hubei). Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu to unite tens of thousands of troops and hold a stalemate with Cao Ren across the river. At that time, Yizhou general attacked Su and led his army to surrender. Zhou Yu asked Sun Quan to assign the headquarters of attacked Su to LV Meng. Lu Meng has different opinions. Considering the overall situation, he thought that Zhou Yu's opinions were not right. He strongly claimed that Yang had courage and talent, and said that Yang should only increase his troops, not deprive him of military power. Sun Quan felt that LV Meng was right, so he returned the troops attacking Su according to his will.
Before long, Zhou Yu wanted to capture Jiangling, and first sent Ganning to attack Yiling city (now Yichang, Hubei Province), which was on the upper reaches of the river. So Cao Ren besieged Ganning and wanted to take back Yiling. When Gan Ning asked Zhou Yu for help, the generals worried about the shortage of soldiers. If he rescued Yiling, it would lead to the emptiness of Jiangling. Lu Meng said to Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu, "leave Ling Gongji. I'll go with you to rescue him. It won't take too much time according to the situation. I promise Ling Gongji will stick to it for ten days." Then he advised Zhou Yu to send 300 people to cut off the steep mountain road with firewood. When the enemy fled, we could get their horses. Zhou Yu took his advice and led the main force to rescue Yiling. He defeated Cao's army and killed more than half of them. Cao Jun fled by night, passing through the dangerous road blocked by firewood, but the riders abandoned their horses in vain. Zhou Yu and LV Meng pursued and intercepted the troops and gained 300 horses, which greatly boosted their military power. Then he returned to cross the river, marched on the north bank, built a barracks, and launched an attack on Jiangling. At this time, in response to Zhou Yu's offensive, Sun Quan sent troops to encircle Hefei (now Hefei, Anhui). Cao Ren was forced to give up Jiangling city and retreat to Jingzhou (now Xiangfan, Hubei Province) because he was alone and had no help. After occupying Jiangling, Zhou Yu was appointed as the prefect of Nanjun by Sun Quan and controlled the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. LV Meng was appointed as a partial general because of his merit, and also served as the order of Xunyang.
Once, Sun Quan said to LV Meng, "you are now in an important position, and you can't stop learning." LV Meng had no time to shirk his military affairs. Sun Quan said: "do I want you to study Confucian classics and become a learned scholar! Just a cursory reading of the past. You say you are busy, who can handle more affairs than me? I read a lot and I feel like I'm making a lot of money. " Lu Meng began to learn. Over time, he read more books than the old scholars.
In 210, Zhou Yu died and Lu Su took over. Lu Su arrived at Lukou and passed by the residence of Lu Meng. Lu Su was a generation of Confucian generals. He thought that LV Meng was born as a martial arts man, and some despised him. Lu Su was told: "general Lu is becoming more and more famous. You can't look at him with old eyes. You should visit him." So Lu Su visited Lu Meng. When the wine was in full swing, Lu Meng asked Lu Su, "you are under the heavy responsibility of being close to Guan Yu. What kind of strategy will you take to prevent unexpected things from happening?" Lu Su hastily replied, "it depends on the situation." Lu Meng said: "although sun and Liu are one family now, Guan Yu is really a general like Xiong Hu. Why don't he plan?" Therefore, Lu Meng made a detailed analysis of the interests at that time. After hearing this, Lu Su was surprised. He jumped over the table, approached LV Meng, patted him kindly on the back, and exclaimed, "Lv Ziming, I didn't expect that your talent and strategy had reached such a high level." He also said: "with your present talent and strategy, you are no longer Wu xiaamung!" Lu Meng said: "it's too late for my elder brother to know this matter." They became close friends.
At that time, the barracks of Lu Meng, Cheng Dang, song Ding and Xu Gu were very close to each other. The latter three died, and their children were too young to serve. Sun Quan wanted to merge their troops with LV Meng. LV Meng resolutely refused. He wrote to Sun Quan, pointing out that Xu Gu and other three were diligent in their work and loyal to the country. Although their children were young, they could not be deposed. He wrote three times in a row before Sun Quan followed his advice. Lu Meng also invited teachers for the children of the three generals to give them careful guidance.
gain mastery by striking only after the enemy has struck
Cao Cao sent Xie Qi, a native of Lujiang, to be a Diannong in Qichun. He stationed in Tianxiang of Anhui city and repeatedly invaded the border. LV Meng sent people to induce him to surrender, but Xie Qi didn't follow. LV Meng searched for his flaws and launched an attack. Xie Qi retreated, and his subordinates supported the old and the young and surrendered one after another.
In the first month of the 18th year of Jian'an (213), Cao
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