Lv Meng can be said to have outstanding achievements in the Jiangdong Group, whether it is facing Cao Wei or Guan Yu in Jingzhou, Lv Meng has excellent performance.

【Excellence】

In history, after the battles of Chibi and Jiangling, Sun Quan and Cao Cao fought in the Jianghuai area, and Lü Meng participated in many battles as a general under Sun Quan, and made a lot of meritorious contributions.

Earlier, Cao Cao sent Xie Qi, a native of Lujiang, as the captain of Qichun Diannong, and reclaimed land in Anhui County, and repeatedly violated the Jiangdong border. Lü Meng sent people to lure him to surrender, but he didn't agree, so Lü Meng looked for an opportunity to attack, Xie Qi was forced to retreat, and his subordinates Sun Zicai, Song Hao, etc., all helped the old and the young, and came to surrender to Lü Meng.

In the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213), Cao Cao led the army south to crusade against Jiangdong, Lü Meng followed Sun Quan to fight against Cao Cao in Weixu, and offered many clever plans, and persuaded Sun Quan to build forts on both sides of Weixukou, and the fortifications were very fine, Cao Cao could not capture them, so he had to retreat. After Cao Cao sent Zhu Guang to Lujiang Taishou, garrison Anhui County, and vigorously reclaim rice fields, which was not good for Jiangdong, so Lü Meng advised Sun Quan to send troops, Lü Meng recommended Gan Ning as the governor of Shengcheng, and led the siege of the city in the front line, and led the elite soldiers to follow, and finally broke the Anhui City before Zhang Liao came.

After Lü Meng returned to Xunyang, less than a year later, the thieves in Luling were making trouble again, and the generals could not be captured, Sun Quan said: "There are hundreds of birds, not as good as one Peng." He also ordered Lü Meng to go to the conquest. When Lü Meng arrived in Luling, he killed the leader of the thieves, released all the others, and restored them to civilian status.

In the twentieth year of Jian'an (215), Lü Meng followed Sun Quan to conquer Hefei again, and when he withdrew his army, he was attacked by Zhang Liao and others, and Lü Meng and Ling Tong defended Sun Quan to the death. Later, Cao Cao's army attacked Misu, and Sun Quan used Lü Meng as the governor of Weisu, guarded the fort built before, and set up 10,000 strong crossbows on the fort to resist the attack of Cao's army. Cao Cao's vanguard troops were not stable, Lü Meng immediately attacked and defeated them, and Hou Sun Quan sued for peace and surrendered, and Cao Cao led the army to retreat. After the war, Sun Quan awarded Lü Meng the title of Left Protector and General Huwei, and Lü Meng was also known as Lü Huwei in later generations.

【Capture the Three Counties】

After Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, he refused to return it, but ordered Guan Yu to guard all the land in Jingzhou he occupied, and Sun Quan then ordered Lü Mengxi to seize the three counties of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang. Lü Meng sent a letter to the two counties of Changsha and Guiyang, and the two county guards looked at the wind and returned to the Eastern Wu, and only Lingling Taishou Hao Pu stuck to the city and did not surrender.

At that time, Liu Bei personally rushed from Shu to the public security and sent Guan Yu to fight for the territory of these three counties. Sun Quan was living in Lukou at the time, and sent Lu Su to lead 10,000 horses to garrison Yiyang to resist Guan Yu, and sent someone to quickly pass a message to Lu Meng, asking him to abandon Lingling and return to aid Lu Su quickly.

At the beginning, Lü Meng pacified Changsha, and when he was passing through Yu County on his way to Lingling, he found Deng Xuanzhi, an old friend of Hao Pu, the commander of Lingling, and took him in the army, wanting him to lure Hao Pu down. After Lü Meng received the letter, he did not announce it, but recruited generals overnight, laid out a strategy, and said that he would attack the city at dawn.

After arranging, he said to Deng Xuanzhi: "Hao Zitai (that is, Hao Pu) knows that there is loyalty in the world, and he also wants to do loyal things, but he doesn't understand the situation. Liu Bei, the general of Zuo, was in Hanzhong and was besieged by Xiahou Yuan. Guan Yu is in Nanjun, and now our lord has personally arrived in Nanjun. Recently, Guan Yu broke through the base camp of Fancheng Guan Yu and rescued Yu County, Guan Yu has been defeated by Sun Gui. These are recent events, and you have seen them all. They are now everywhere and everywhere, and it is too late to save themselves, how can they have the spare strength to rescue Lingling again! Now our soldiers are elite, everyone wants to contribute to the country, and the Lord is dispatching a large army to march on the road one after another. At present, Zitai's life is difficult to protect, but she is waiting for hopeless rescue, just like the fish in the water in the pit of the cow's footprints, and hopes to use the water of Jiang and Han to survive, and it is also very clear that she has nothing to rely on. If Zitai can unite his soldiers and stick to the lonely city, he can still survive for a few days, so as to wait for some refuge later, which is also feasible. Now I have carefully planned and arranged the troops to attack the city, and in less than a day, the city will be breached, and after the city is broken, he himself will die to no avail, and let the hundred-year-old mother, full of gray hair, be killed, isn't it painful? I suspect that he didn't get information from the outside world, and thought that he had foreign aid to rely on, which is why he is stubborn to this point. You may go to him and tell him what is at stake. ”

Deng Xuan then went to see Hao Pu and relayed Lu Meng's meaning in detail, and Hao Pu obeyed in fear after hearing this. Deng Xuanzhi went out of the city first to report to Lu Meng, saying that Hao Pu would come later. Lü Meng ordered four generals in advance to select a hundred men each, and as soon as Hao Pu left the city, they immediately went in to guard the city gates. After a while, Hao Pu went out of the city, and Lu Meng greeted him, shook his hand, and disembarked with him. After greeting him, he took out the letter written by Sun Quan to him for Hao Pu to read, so he clapped his hands and laughed. Hao Pu read the letter, only to know that Liu Bei was stationed in the public security, and Guan Yu was close to Yiyang, so he was ashamed and remorseful, and he wanted to go underground.

Lü Meng left Sun Jiao and entrusted him with the aftermath, and he led his troops to Yiyang on the same day. However, later due to Cao Cao's pressure, Liu Bei asked for a new alliance with Sun Quan and reconciled, so Sun Quan returned Hao Pu and others, drew Xiangshui as the boundary, and returned Lingling County to Liu Bei. and Xunyang and Yangxin as Lu Meng's Fengyi.

【Instead of Lu Su】

After the death of Lu Su, Lü Meng was stationed in Lukou in the west, and more than 10,000 people in Lu Su's army and horses were all under the control of Lü Meng, and then Lü Meng was appointed as the Taishou of Hanchang, and the food yi included Xia Jun, Liu Yang, Hanchang, and Zhou Ling. Lü Meng became the third commander of the eastern and western lines of the Yangtze River after Zhou Yu and Lu Su.

Lu Meng and Guan Yu ruled Jingzhou separately, the border was connected, he knew that Guan Yu was strong and had the heart to annex Eastern Wu, and Guan Yu lived in the upper reaches of Eastern Wu, and the situation of dividing the land and ruling was difficult to last. At first, Lu Su and others considered that Cao Cao was still alive and posed a threat to both sides, so they should cooperate with Sun and Liu, share the same hatred and hatred, and cannot turn their backs on each other.

However, Lü Meng's opinion was not the same as that of Lu Su, and he secretly offered advice to Sun Quan: "Let the conquest general Sun Jiao be stationed in Nanjun, Pan Zhang be stationed in Baidi City, and Jiang Qin will lead 10,000 guerrilla troops to move up and down the Yangtze River to deal with the enemy at any time. Besides, Guan Yu's ministers are deceptive and capricious, so they should not be treated as bosom friends. The reason why Guan Yu is not leading his troops to the east now is because your Shengming, Lu Meng and others are still there. If we don't take advantage of our strong age to seek them now, once we die of old age, can we still do it if we want to make another contribution? (Note 1)

Sun Quan deeply appreciated his strategy, and by the way casually discussed with him the issue of capturing Xuzhou, Lü Meng replied: "Now Cao Cao is far north of the Yellow River, has just defeated the forces of the Yuan family, and is pacifying the social order of Youzhou and Jizhou, and has no strength to take care of the east. The defenders of Xuzhou are not very strong, and they can win if they go to capture it. However, that place is only connected by land, and it is a place where brave cavalry gallops, and if you get Xuzhou today, then Cao Cao will come to fight for it in ten days, although he will defend it with 70,000 or 80,000 troops, he still inevitably worries about being frightened. It is better to capture Guan Yu's territory and occupy the entire Yangtze River basin, and the situation will be even more spectacular. ”

Sun Quan felt that these words were particularly reasonable. When Lü Meng took over Lu Su and first arrived in Lukou, although he planned to seize Jingzhou in his heart, on the surface, he doubled his alliance with Guan Yu, and the gift was more generous.

Note 1: Lü Meng's words are not very convincing when analyzed carefully, because Guan Yu's age was not young at that time, nearly twenty years older than Lü Meng, and Guan Yu only owned three counties, and the primary enemy was also Cao Cao, and the threat posed by Sun Quan was not big, but Lü Meng himself may have had physical problems at that time, so he was anxious to make some achievements, after all, it was easier to fight Guan Yu than against Cao Cao.

PS: Reading history can be wise, when I saw this, I already knew in my heart that Guan Yu's end was doomed, because sometimes god-like teammates are the most terrifying enemies.