The cause of the Battle of Yi Ling is that Guan Yu was killed by Sun Quan, Liu Bei to avenge the death of Guan Yu, the reason for the conquest of the Eastern Wu. Sun Quan first asked Liu Bei for peace, but Liu Bei flatly refused, so Sun Quan asked Cao Wei for peace to avoid Cao Wei taking advantage of the fire, and on the other hand, he sent Lu Xun to fight. This Lu Xun, who seems to have no record of fighting before this, is largely the idea of Lu Meng, who believes that Lu Xun is a far-thinking man who is good enough to carry a heavy load, but it is best to "hide" him from the outside world, and wait for the right opportunity to make a success of the fight.
Lv Meng's suggestion, quite a bit of "do not call it a surprise" meaning, so that Lu Xun to the outside world low-profile, to hide the real strength, and indeed to the battle of Yiling, Sun Quan sent Lu Xun, Lu Xun gave him an extremely beautiful battle, but also to make Liu Bei depressed, seriously ill and died. Lu Xun in the battle of Yiling have "burning camp" performance, how did he do it?
Lu Xun carefully analyzed the conditions of the two sides of the battle, that Liu Bei is very powerful, eager to win, if the Wu army head on hard, will certainly lose, so patiently persuade the other generals want to fight the heart of the battle, avoid the front for the time being, the strategic retreat, has been retreated to the Yidao, intimidation of the first line, and then into the defense, to prevent the Shu army's continued progress, and concentrate their troops, waiting for the opportunity to move. In this way, the Wu army seems to be retreating, in fact, the troops are difficult to spread out the mountains were occupied by the Shu army, from the point of view of the terrain, the Wu army is more favorable.
Liu Bei repeatedly wanted to lure the Wu army out of the battle, but no matter what kind of approach, Lu Xun is not out, from the first month to June, the temperature rises, the heat is unbearable, Liu Bei had to set up the camp in the deep mountains and dense forests, hundreds of miles of camps, ready to repair some of them, after the fall attack. However, Lu Xun knew that the opportunity had come. He knew the best way to deal with the Shu army through a small-scale attack, fire attack. The geographic location of the Shu army camping, Shu army camping used are all wood, fire is the best way to attack.
Therefore, Lu Xun ordered his soldiers to bring a handful of thatched grass, sneak attack at night, cut off the retreat of the Shu army, and launch an attack on the Shu army. All the soldiers and horses rose up in groups, Shu Han was routed, and eventually suffered heavy losses, and had to retreat to Yong'an City, also known as Baidi City, where he died of illness not long afterward.
Since then, Lu Xun is more than a number of war heroes, but in Sun Quan to establish the crown prince of the matter above, repeatedly advised Sun Quan the distinction between the first and the concubine, so that Sun Quan perceived their own secret message was leaked out, annoyed Sun Quan. He had several officials imprisoned for questioning, but Lu Xun, as an important official, was accused of prying into palace secrets even though he was not imprisoned. Under such circumstances, Lu Xun died of indignation.