Chapter 35 5. The brave general knows the book

After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou from Sun Quan. Later, Liu Bei captured Yizhou and had his own territory. Sun Quan naturally asked Liu Bei to return Jingzhou.Jingzhou is a battleground for military strategists, and Cao Cao, Sun Quan and Liu Bei all want to take it for themselves.Liu Bei refused to return it, and Sun Quan would never give up, so he led the "White Clothes Crossing the River" Battle of Jiangling and recaptured the three counties in southern Jingzhou borrowed by Liu Bei. The commander of the Battle of Jiangling was Lu Meng, the new generation military leader of the Sun Quan Group who succeeded Lu Su. What kind of person is Lu Meng?Actually took Jingzhou back from Guan Yu's hands?

Lu Meng (178-220), courtesy name Ziming, was born in Fubei, Runan, which is today Funan, Anhui.He liked to practice martial arts since he was a child, and he was very good at boxing and kicking.After his father died, he followed his mother to seek refuge with his brother-in-law Deng Dang.Deng Dang was one of Sun Ce's generals, and it was fitting that Lu Meng followed him.However, Deng Dang was worried that his 16-year-old brother might make mistakes, and he never let him play in wars. But Lu Meng didn't give up, he clearly refused to let him go, so he sneaked into the team secretly.When attacking Shanyue once, Lu Meng rushed to the front to kill the enemy bravely.When Deng Dang found out, he yelled at him.After returning home, Deng Dang told his mother-in-law about the matter. Lu Meng's mother was such a precious son, so naturally she couldn't bear him to go to the battlefield at a young age and was so angry that she wanted to punish him.Lu Meng defended himself and said: "I don't want to be so poor and humble all my life. Only by making great contributions on the battlefield can I stand out." Seeing that he was determined, his mother let him go. From then on, Lu Meng officially became a member of Deng Dang's army. member.

One of Deng Dang's generals looked down on this child soldier very much, and often laughed at him, saying, what can that little guy do?He came to join the army, just to feed the tiger with meat.Once, this general humiliated Lu Meng face to face.Little did they know that although Lv Meng was small, he could not be bullied. In a rage, Lv Meng drew out his knife and stabbed deeply into the military officer's chest. The military officer who was chattering just now shut his mouth forever. After a catastrophe happened, Lu Meng naturally couldn't stay in the army, so under Deng Dang's arrangement, he fled to the home of Zheng Chang, a fellow villager.Soon, Lu Meng surrendered, and Yuan Xiong interceded for him in front of Sun Ce.Sun Ce was very curious about this tough young man, so he summoned Lu Meng.After seeing him, Sun Ce immediately fell in love with this heroic young man, so he made him his own soldier.

Lu Meng has been with Sun Ce for several years, not only Sun Ce is satisfied, but even Zhang Zhao praises him very much.After Deng Dang died, Zhang Zhao recommended Lu Meng to replace him.Therefore, Lu Meng was worshiped as the Sima of the other tribe and became the general who led the army in battle. After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan came to power, intending to merge those few troops together, and Lu Meng's troops were also planning to merge.Lu Meng knew that once the troops merged, it would be even more difficult for him to make a difference, so he borrowed some money to make crimson uniforms for his soldiers, and stepped up the drill.When Sun Quan came to inspect, he was very happy to see that Lü Meng's troops were full of vigor and neatly moving. Not only did he not merge with Lü Meng's troops, but instead he increased his troops.

Since then, Lu Meng has repeatedly made military exploits in battles, and the battle against Huangzu laid the foundation for Lu Meng's rise.In 208 A.D., Sun Quan conquered Huang Zu, and Lu Meng, as the vanguard, led an army to attack Huang Zu's naval commander, Chen Jiu.As soon as the two sides clashed, Lu Meng rushed out of the team himself, swung his knife and went straight to Chen Jiu, who couldn't dodge in time and was killed on the spot.The governor was killed, the Huang army was in chaos, and was invincible. Huang Zu was also captured when he fled.After the war, Sun Quan concluded that the victory of this war depended on Lu Meng's first victory and killing Chen Jiu, so he appointed Lu Meng as the general of Hengye Zhonglang and gave him tens of millions of money.Lu Meng thus entered the ranks of Jiangdong's important generals.

In the same year, the Battle of Chibi broke out, and Lu Meng, Gan Ning, Han Dang, Sun Ben, Lu Xun and others formed the main force on the front line of Soochow.After the Battle of Chibi, Gan Ning of Yiling was besieged by Cao Ren's army, and Gan Ning asked Zhou Yu for help.At that time, the Battle of Chibi had just ended, and there were still uncertainties along the Yangtze River. All the generals believed that it was not appropriate to disperse their forces, and they did not advocate Zhou Yu's rescue of Gan Ning.Only Lu Meng told Zhou Yu, leave Ling Tong to garrison, and the general and I will go to the rescue. It will not take long to break the siege of Yiling, but with Ling Tong's ability, it is no problem to stick to it for ten days.In addition, Lu Meng also suggested that Zhou Yu send three hundred soldiers to carry firewood near Yiling to block the road, so that when the enemy flees, they will inevitably abandon their horses and flee.Zhou Yu accepted Lu Meng's suggestion, and immediately went to Yiling with Lu Meng and others, and soon forced Cao Ren to leave.When Cao Ren's troops were retreating, firewood blocked the way and had to abandon their horses and flee.Zhou Yu not only won a complete victory, but also captured 300 enemy horses.Lu Meng's outstanding judgment was gradually appreciated by Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and others, and Lu Meng was promoted to partial general.

Although Lv Meng was courageous and resourceful, he was illiterate. He had to be ghostwritten even to write a letter to Sun Quan, so he was still looked down upon by others, at least Lu Su didn't think much of him.Sun Quan realized Lu Meng's potential, so he cultivated it deliberately.Once, Sun Quan called Lu Meng and another general named Jiang Qin, and said to them, you are all officers now, and you have a lot of people, and the responsibility is very heavy. I'm afraid not, you need to read some books.Lu Meng said, "Oh, I'm so busy marching and fighting, I don't have time to study."Sun Quan asked back, "I only want you to study, is it because you are asked to study and become a doctor?"Just to let you know some past history.Are you busy, are you busier than Gu?Is it busier than Emperor Guangwu and Cao Mengde?I think that when Emperor Guangwu fought in the South and the North, he would not release the scroll; Cao Mengde is now fighting in the north and south, and he never leaves the book!Why can't you do it?

After finishing speaking, Sun Quan gave them a list of books, including "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Six Secret Teachings", "Zuo Zhuan", "Mandarin Language", "Historical Records", "Han Shu", "East View of Han Ji", etc. Book. After listening to Sun Quan's teaching, Lu Meng started to study after returning home.Reading does not depend on how much you read, but how much you comprehend. The Poor Shou Hao Jing may not be effective, and only by applying what you have learned can you really play the role of a book.Lu Meng was originally a person with good talent and high comprehension. After reading it like this, he mastered it and suddenly became enlightened, and he reached a state of reading.

In the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Zhou Yu died of illness, and Lu Su took over.When Lu Su went to Lukou to take office, he passed by Lu Meng's defense line.The people around Lu Su told him that the general passed by General Lu's line of defense, and he should go and see him. General Lu is not the same now as before.Lu Su didn't know about Lu Meng's changes, and he still didn't think highly of him. Out of face, he had to go and see him.After going there, Lv Meng entertained him warmly. After drinking for three rounds, Lv Meng asked Lu Su, the general is now taking over the important task, and he is neighbor to Guan Yu, how to deal with Guan Yu, does the general have any ideas?Lu Su thought to himself, what do you know?Just perfunctory him and said, alas, let's adapt to the situation when the time comes.Unexpectedly, Lu Meng said, "I'm afraid this won't work. On the surface, we and Liu Bei are allies. In fact, Guan Yu is a fierce man, and he is difficult to deal with. How can we not make preparations in advance?"Now Lv Meng was willing to offer advice to the general, so Lv Meng offered four strategies to Lu Su in one breath.

There is no record in the history books about Lv Mengxian's strategies, but what is certain is that these strategies must reflect Lv Meng's progress after studying.Because Lu Su was very surprised when he heard it. He was sitting on the floor with Lu Meng, with a distance between them. As he listened, Lu Su moved over, stroked Lu Meng's back and said, "Zi Ming!" , I didn't expect that you are so knowledgeable now.Lü Meng was not modest either, and replied, "After three days away, you should look at him with admiration."This is the origin of the idiom "Farewell to scholars for three days, you should look at each other with admiration".

As a result, Lu Su was promoted to worship his mother, entered the inner room of Lu Meng's house, met Lu Meng's mother, and became brothers with Lu Meng.However, although Lu Su admired Lu Meng, he did not use his strategy, because Lu Su and Lu Meng had different political views on Liu Bei.Lu Su always defended the alliance between Sun and Liu, but Lu Meng advocated recapturing Jingzhou.However, despite his different political views, in view of Lu Meng's talent, Lu Su recommended Lu Meng to Sun Quan when he was dying. In the twenty-second year of Jian'an, Lu Su died, and Lu Meng succeeded him.Lu Meng suggested to Sun Quan that we don't have to rely on Guan Yu to fight against Cao Cao. Besides, Guan Yu's monarch and ministers are capricious and capricious. Lu Meng's opinion just matched Sun Quan's mind, so Sun Quan asked Lu Meng to find an opportunity to get rid of Guan Yu and regain Jingzhou.Talk about an opportunity, and the opportunity will come.In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei won Yizhou and claimed to be the "King of Hanzhong". Guan Yu attacked Xiangyang and Fancheng in the same month.After the fight, when the troops were weak, Guan Yu hesitated whether to send reinforcements. Once the reinforcements were made, the rear would be empty, so would Lu Meng take the opportunity to draw salary from the bottom of the pot?Lu Meng was sensitively aware of Guan Yu's situation, so he went to fool Guan Yu.First of all, he pretended to be friendly. Since Lu Su had always pursued a friendly policy when he was there, Guan Yu did not suspect that Lu Meng had changed. Then he appointed the little-known Lu Xun to replace him. As soon as Lu Xun took office, he wrote letters praising Guan Yu.Guan Yu saw that Lu Meng's successor was nothing more than an incompetent person, so he was completely relieved of the rear and sent his troops to the front. Once you spy on the emptiness behind Guan Yu, those who pretended to be sick on Soochow's side were no longer sick, and those who pretended to be incompetent were no longer incompetent. They set off in two directions to end Guan Yu's lair.On Lu Meng's side, he made his soldiers wear white clothes and dressed up as businessmen, and marched along the Yangtze River to Jiangling. When they met Guan Yu's guard post along the way, he pretended to be doing business, approached with a smile, and killed the guard post calmly. Unknowingly all the way to Nanjun.When the defenders of Jiangling and Public Security saw soldiers from the Eastern Wu Dynasty falling from the sky, they surrendered without fighting. Lu Meng took Nanjun without bloodshed, and Lu Xun also held the mouth of the Yangtze River to guard against Liu Bei's reinforcements.After Lu Meng entered the city, he treated the family members of Guan Yu's generals more preferentially, and ordered the army not to harass the people. He also visited the elders in the morning and evening, caring about their lives. Food and clothing.Guan Yu heard that Jiangling had fallen, and hurried back to help.On the way back to the army, the soldiers lost their fighting spirit and most of them fled when they heard that their family members were not only safe but also received special care.Guan Yu fought alone, lost in advance and retreat, so he walked west to Maicheng, and was finally captured and killed. The battle of Jiangling was won, and Lu Meng also became a prophecy, and he really fell ill.Sun Quan was in Gong'an at that time, so he took Lv Meng and placed him in the inner hall, and tried every means to find someone to treat his illness.Sun Quan wanted to see Lu Meng more, but was afraid of disturbing his rest, so he ordered someone to cut a hole in the wall to watch secretly.Seeing Lv Meng eating something, Sun Quan would be happy and talking and laughing; seeing Lv Meng not eating, Sun Quan would sigh and could not sleep at night.When Lu Meng's condition improved slightly, Sun Quan ordered all the officials to come to celebrate. Later, when Lu Meng's condition worsened, Sun Quan ordered Taoist priests to pray for him. However, Sun Quan's infatuation failed to move the god of death, and Lu Meng eventually died at the age of 43.Sun Quan was deeply saddened and reduced his food and sleep to express his condolences. During his lifetime, Lu Meng handed over all the gold, silver, treasures and various rewards to the treasury for collection. He ordered the supervisors to return them to the court after his death.He also left a last word, seeking frugality in funeral affairs, not extravagance. Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", commented on Lv Meng and said: "Lv Meng is brave and decisive, and knows military tactics... Although he killed recklessly at the beginning, he finally restrained himself and has the amount of a national soldier. He is just a general!" Mao Zedong once said : "If Lu Meng is not serious about studying, is good at using soldiers, and can attack the mind, how can he be the commander-in-chief of Soochow?" If you don't study blindly, you can't get things done; if you just study hard, you can't get things done.Applying book knowledge to practical life, using the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors for one's own use, this kind of life is a life that has been broadened, and it will also be a life that is free from mediocrity.