Lu Bu was portrayed as the personal combat power of the "Three Kingdoms Ceiling" in the script, but in fact, his combat power was not "invincible". However, he is indeed an expert archer, a fierce general with extraordinary strength and good fighting.
In the turbulent times of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Lü Bu stood out among the heroes with his courage and courage, however, he suffered a defeat because of his "courage and lack of strategy". His glory days were short and intense, and then they fell into trouble.
In the end, he ended up in a tragic end. It all started when Dong Zhuo tricked Lu Bu into killing Ding Yuan.
Lü Bu's life was full of drama, he was born into an ordinary family, and even his year of birth cannot be determined. However, his talent makes him stand out.
At a young age, he learned to ride horses and play halberds, and even led dozens of men on a rampage. His bravery and talent led him to be selected by Ding Yuanxiang and placed as the master bookkeeper, which was not an ordinary position at the time.
However, why would Ding Yuan let a brave and warlike person take up a civilian position? This may be because he thinks very highly of Lu Bu. However, the relationship between Lü Bu and Ding Yuan was not harmonious.
We don't know what grievances there were between them, but it can be speculated that it may have been because Lu Bu felt that his appointment to the civil service was condescending, or that Ding Yuan was calling him around.
In any case, Dong Zhuo took advantage of the gap between them to lure Lu Bu to kill Ding Yuan. This was Lu Bu's first rebellion against his fate, but whether he was "ungrateful" out of "talent" or "ungrateful" by fame and fortune, he killed his own leader, which is a shameful act throughout the ages.
Whether Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan have crossed paths before, we don't know. However, when Emperor Ling of Han died, He Jin summoned Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo to help in order to get rid of the eunuchs.
However, before Dong Zhuo arrived in Luoyang, He Jin was killed by the eunuchs. Dong Zhuo took the opportunity to take the young emperor and Chen Liuwang into Luoyang City. Ding Yuan was appointed as the "ruling Jinwu", responsible for the security of the capital, and he also had a lot of soldiers and horses.
Dong Zhuo was worried that his troops were weak and it would be difficult to convince everyone, so he ordered people to sneak out of the city every four or five days at night, and then return the next morning with great fanfare, creating the false impression that Liangzhou had sent reinforcements again.
This trick did work, but Dong Zhuo knew that this was just an expedient measure, and it would be revealed sooner or later after a long time, so he set his sights on Ding Yuan's soldiers and horses, and provoked Lu Bu to kill Ding Yuan and annex his troops.
Lu Bu cut off Ding Yuan's head and dedicated it to Dong Zhuo, in exchange for the official position of a cavalry captain. However, Dong Zhuo didn't realize that his next victim was himself.
Wang Yun persuaded Lü Bu to kill Dong Zhuo, who was eventually killed by his own cronies, ending his short and tyrannical rule.
Dong Zhuo treated Lu Bu very well and very poorly. He once accepted Lu Bu as his righteous son and accompanied him in and out, but because of a trivial matter, he pulled out a halberd and smashed it at Lu Bu. It is said that the truth of this trivial matter was not recorded in the official history, but it only made Lu Bu have a grudge against Dong Zhuo in his heart.
However, Dong Zhuo didn't notice this, but liked Lu Bu even more, and let him stay outside his bedroom. However, Lu Bu hooked up with Dong Zhuo's personal maid, which made him know Dong Zhuo's ruthlessness and desire for power, so he asked Situ Wang Yun for help.
Wang Yun is a talented man who has long seen Dong Zhuo's greed and ambition, but he did not directly conflict with him, but secretly planned how to get rid of Dong Zhuo.
In the end, Wang Yun took advantage of Lu Bu's resentment towards Dong Zhuo and successfully persuaded him to participate in the assassination of Dong Zhuo. At a meeting in the Weiyang Palace of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Li Su first slashed Dong Zhuo, but Lü Bu then killed Dong Zhuo with an "edict".
Although this was a very happy action, the world did not buy Lu Bu's account, so he fell into the infamy of injustice, and finally fled Chang'an and defected to Yuan Shu.
After Dong Zhuo's death, Wang Yun and Lu Bu respectively seized the ** political power and military power. However, Wang Yun's complacency and capriciousness led to a conflict with Lü Bu, and Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu's subordinates Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji eventually rebelled and occupied Chang'an because they were unable to obtain an amnesty.
Although Lü Bu had contributed to the eradication of Dong Zhuo, he was defeated in the battle with Li Dao and was forced to flee Chang'an. In order to show favor to Yuan Shu, he cut off Dong Zhuo's head as a gift.
In the end, Wang Yun became a prisoner of Li Dao because he refused to flee, his family was killed, and Emperor Xian of Han also fell into the hands of Li Dao.
Lu Bu was warmly received by Yuan Shu in Nanyang, but he was too carried away and did not restrain his subordinates, causing Nanyang chickens to fly and dogs to jump. Yuan Shu was very angry about this, and Lu Bu realized the seriousness of the problem, so he took people to leave Yuan Shu and go to his fellow countryman Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang is also an old acquaintance of Lu Bu, and he used to be Ding Yuan's subordinate. Lu Bu's defection made him very welcome, however, Zhang Yang's subordinates were suspicious of Lu Bu, because they were all people who followed Ding Yuan at the beginning, and they were angry about Lu Bu's killing of Ding Yuan, and wanted to take the opportunity to kill Lu Bu.
Lu Bu was not stupid, he noticed this kind of sign, so he tried to show his thoughts. However, Zhang Yang made a joke, saying that he would capture him alive and go to Chang'an to receive the bounty.
Lu Buxin thought it was true, so he said goodbye without saying goodbye and ran to Ye County to join Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao has a lot of talents under him, but he only needs a fierce general with high martial arts like Lu Bu. So he took in Lu Bu and asked him to go on a crusade against the Black Mountain thief Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan annoyed Yuan Shao because of his alliance with Gongsun Zhan, and Lu Bu's arrival became a thorn in his side.
Zhang Yan's army faced the onslaught of Lu Bu and could only flee crying and crying. This battle fully demonstrated Lu Bu's personal combat ability, and he was known as the "No. 1 Fierce General of the Three Kingdoms".
However, Lu Bu's subordinates began to cause trouble again, which made Yuan Shao cold to him. In order to protect himself, Lu Bu took the initiative to ask to return to Luoyang. Although Yuan Shao agreed to his request, in the name of the "alliance leader", on behalf of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, he appointed Lü Bu as the "commander of the school", and secretly sent people to murder him on the way.
Lü Bu shrewdly sensed that something was wrong, escaped Yuan Shao's pursuit, and finally succeeded in occupying Cao Cao's Yanzhou.
Lu Bu, the poor figure, has been looking for refuge. He has changed several leaders, and either he killed them or was hunted down by them. In desperation, he remembered Zhang Yang and went to Hanoi.
When passing by Chen Liu on the way, he unexpectedly met Chen Liu's Taishou Zhang Miao, who admired Lu Bu's martial arts very much and gave him warm hospitality. At the time of separation, they "swore an oath" and became friends.
Zhang Miao was one of the first to join the "Dong Alliance", but he had a grudge against Yuan Shao for publicly reproaching Yuan Shao for not moving. At that time, Cao Cao had just become the pastor of Yanzhou, and he was still nominally dependent on Yuan Shao's alliance leader.
When he learned of Zhang Miao's friendship with Lü Bu, Yuan Shao instructed Cao Cao to kill Zhang Miao, but Cao Cao did not do so. However, during Cao Cao's crusade against Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong launched a rebellion and ran to Hanoi to meet Lü Bu and support Lü Bu as the new Yanzhou Mu.
Probably because Cao Cao killed indiscriminately in Xuzhou, which made them feel cold. Also in the rebellion was Zhang Miao's younger brother, Zhang Chao, the Taishou of Guangling County, Xuzhou. The three of them quickly prepared Lü Bu's soldiers, horses, grains and grass, and Lü Bu, with the enthusiastic support of these three men, soon occupied a large area of Yanzhou.
With the help of Cheng Yu, Cao Cao temporarily settled in Fan County. However, Cao Cao did not feel depressed, but laughed and said: "Lu Bu got the territory of a state at once, but he couldn't occupy Dongping, cut off the main roads of Kangfu and Taishan, and used the dangerous terrain to fight against me, but returned to Puyang, I know that he didn't do much." ”
From this sentence, it can be seen that although Lu Bu is strong in martial arts, he does not know anything about the art of war. The war between Cao Cao and Lü Bu lasted more than 100 days, during which Cao Cao was captured by Lü Bu's subordinates.
Coincidentally, no one recognized Cao Cao, and stupidly asked Cao Cao if he was in **. As a result, Cao Cao randomly pointed to a man who fled on a yellow horse, and Lu Bu's subordinates believed it to be true, let go of Cao Cao and chased after him.
Cao Cao was able to escape, and it can be said that he almost died at the hands of Lu Bu. However, during the stalemate between the two sides, a locust plague occurred, and both sides ran out of food, so they had to withdraw their troops.
Cao Cao adjusted his strategy in time and decided not to mess around with Lu Bu in Shanyang County, but to take advantage of this gap to recapture a number of counties. In the second year of Xingping, Cao Cao felt that it was time to fight Lü Bu, so he led his army to surround Xue Lan and Li Feng, who were stationed in Lü Bu's local area.
Lü Bu led his troops to the rescue, but unexpectedly fell into Cao Cao's ambush and retreated. Lü Bu was not reconciled, and soon gathered another group of soldiers and made a comeback, only to be defeated again because he was ambushed by Cao Cao.
At this time, Lu Bu could be said to be depressed, and he also lost his confidence in occupying Yanzhou, so he went to Xuzhou in embarrassment and defected to Liu Bei. Lü Bu attacked Liu Bei's Xuzhou.
When Lu Bu first arrived in Xuzhou, Liu Bei warmly received him and asked him to station in Xiaopei. However, in the battle between Liu Bei and Yuan Shu, Lü Bu secretly accepted Yuan Shu's bribe, occupied Xiapi and plundered Liu Bei's wife's room.
Liu Bei couldn't defeat Lu Bu, and was defeated by Yuan Shu, so he surrendered to Lu Bu in desperation. Lu Bu took Liu Bei in and assigned Xiao Pei to be stationed there, and the whole situation seemed to have swapped roles with Liu Bei.
Subsequently, Cao Cao took Emperor Xian of Han to Xu County, and Yuan Shu took the opportunity to proclaim himself emperor, and formed an alliance with Lü Bu, and also married his daughter to Yuan Shu's son. However, this marriage was eventually ruined by Lu Bu, and he recovered his married daughter, and all this was because of the persuasion of Pei Xiang Chen Qi.
Cao Cao appointed Lü Bu as the general of Zuo in the name of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and Lü Bu was very happy and asked Chen Qi's son to go to Xu County to thank him. However, Lü Bu's position was not firm, and he asked Chen Gong to go to Xu County in order to ask Cao Cao to give Xuzhou the position of Assassin, but Cao Cao did not agree.
Yuan Shu learned that Lü Bu had broken the contract, hated him very much, and sent generals Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui and others to attack Xiapi in seven ways, but they returned with a disastrous defeat. During this period, Liu Bei recruited the old troops in Xiaopei and regrouped 10,000 people, but Lu Bu was not at ease and led his troops to attack Xiaopei, forcing Liu Bei to defect to Cao Cao.
Lu Bu's ultimate fate was not rosy. He used to be a powerful military general, but in the political struggle, his position wavered, which ultimately led to his defeat.
Cao Cao personally led an army to attack Lü Bu, and the city of Xiapi was besieged. Cao Cao once sent people to persuade Lü Bu to surrender, but Chen Gong resolutely opposed it, suggesting that Lü Bu hold on to the city and exhaust Cao Cao's grain and grass before counterattacking.
Although Chen Gong and Lu Bu had different identities, Lu Bu easily accepted Chen Gong's suggestion and did not weigh the pros and cons. Cao Cao's siege was unsuccessful for three months, but he shook Lü Bu's military spirit by besieging the city, several of his subordinates rebelled, Chen Gong was tied up, the city gates were opened, and Cao Cao's army poured in.
Lu Bu and his family were forced to the city gate tower, and they could only be captured. Originally, Cao Cao wanted to spare Lü Bu, but due to Liu Bei's suggestion, Lü Bu was eventually executed.
Lu Bu's last words in the world were a scolding of Liu Bei, saying that Liu Bei was an untrustworthy big-eared kid.
Lu Bu's life trajectory is like a headless fly, constantly spinning around. His quest for fame and fortune has always revolved, making him easy to be exploited and even his enemies can easily buy him.
In the end, he ended so tragically that he was entirely to blame. Lu Bu was pushed into the crowd by current events, but in fact he did not have the qualifications of a "hero".
His opponents are all experienced figures such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shao, and although Lu Bu is strong in martial arts, there is still a big gap between him and these "** lakes", so he can't fight them.
In the end, Yanzhou and Xuzhou that he occupied could not be defended, and he could not become a prince of the separatist side. Therefore, he is not suitable to be involved in the ranks of these people, and his end is destined to be tragic.
Chen Shou commented that he was "very brave, but he has no heroic strategy, is cunning and repetitive, and is mercenary", and there has never been a person like him in history who can escape the fate of annihilation.