As the Wu chief commander, Lu Meng conquered Shu-held Jingzhou in 219 by disguising soldiers as merchants on boats filled with hiding troops.Life
Lü Meng was born in Fupo (富坡) of Runan (Present-day Fuyang , Anhui) in 178. Lü Meng's family migrated south of the Yangtze River when Lü Meng was young, and he lived with his brother-in-law Deng Dang (鄧當) , who served under Sun Ce. When Lü Meng was 15 or 16 , he would often follow Deng Dang in his expeditions against the Shanyue secretly against Deng Dang's wishes. When Deng told Lü Meng's mother about this, she was furious, but Lü Meng said : "It is difficult to survive in poverty ; if we can prove ourselves through hard work , then wealth would come eventually. How can we get the tiger's cub if we don't enter the tiger's den?" Lü Meng's mother was so touched at his words that she forgave him and did not punish him.
At the time, an official despised Lü Meng for his age , and often insulted him with words like : "What can he do? His behaviour would only feed himself to the tigers. " Eventually , Lü Meng could not hold his anger and slew the official. Lü Meng soon turned himself in to Yuan Xiong (袁雄) , who pleaded with Sun Ce to spare his life. Sun Ce granted Lü Meng an audience with him , and he was very impressed with Lü Meng , so he acquitted Lü Meng of his crimes and made him an officer.
A few years later, Deng Dang died , and Zhang Zhao recommended Lü Meng to take his place. When Sun Quan succeeded Sun Ce, he planned to merge smaller troops into larger garrisons. When Lü Meng heard of this, he collected funds to decorate his troops with brilliant armour. When Sun Quan came to review his troops, he was very impressed by Lü Meng's troops and added more soldiers under Lü Meng's command, thus saving Lü Meng's men from being merged into another officer's command.
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