Lu Meng

Also known as Zi Ziming

Lu Meng, courtesy name Ziming, came from Fubei in Runan and crossed the Yangtze as a boy to live with his brother-in-law Deng Dang, an officer of Sun Ce, whom he secretly followed into battle at fifteen, later taking over his troops. He fought against Huang Zu and at Wulin. The Jiangbiao zhuan quoted by Pei Songzhi tells how Sun Quan urged him to read, and how Lu Su, talking with him later, exclaimed that he was no longer the simple Ameng of Wu, to which he replied that a scholar parted for three days must be seen with new eyes. In 215 he took Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang, and in 217 succeeded Lu Su at Lukou. In 219, while Guan Yu besieged Fancheng, he feigned illness, then hid troops in boats rowed by men dressed as merchants and seized Gong'an and Jiangling; Guan Yu was captured. Made Marquis of Chanling, he fell ill and died in Sun Quan's palace at forty-two.