If you want to talk about Lu Xun, first you have to talk about Lü Meng.
Guan Yu, the famous general of the Three Kingdoms period, was pitted by Lü Meng, Lu Xun, and Sun Quan of Wu State.
The Battle of Jiangling planned by Lü Meng is one of the most famous ambush battles in the history of the Three Kingdoms.
At the time, Guan Yu was very famous. He was defending Jingzhou, while at the same time cooperating with Shu’s Army to attack Cao Cao’s Wei State. He successively won several battles, his momentum unstoppable. Cao Cao was beaten so helplessly he went to Wu State for aid, persuading them to attack Guan Yu to take back Jingzhou. In the Three Kingdoms period it was normal that today two countries would join hands, and tomorrow they would be completely hostile. After all, nobody wants one party to swallow the other two.
Wu State certainly wants to retake Jingzhou, however Lü Meng, knowing they were unable to beat the other side’s Guan Yu, advised Sun Quan, “We must not fight openly, but act weak and let Guan Yu relax his vigilance. I’ll act sick first, and then you look for someone inconspicuous with little fame to take over military affairs in my place.” Lü Meng’s recommended “someone inconspicuous” was Lu Xun.
Sun Quan accepted Lü Meng’s recommendation. As a result, Lü Meng feigned illness, letting Lu Xun take his place as the chief military commander. Guan Yu hadn’t heard of the modest Lu Xun, and thought with Lü Meng ill, Wu State wouldn’t dare to attack Jingzhou. Naturally he no longer guarded against Eastern Wu, and transferred the majority of the troops guarding Jingzhou to attack Cao Cao. Lü Meng accordingly grabbed the opportunity, sending soldiers disguised as merchants to cheat Jingzhou’s defenders, marching in unchallenged and capturing Jingzhou without bloodshed.
This is the history behind the phrase “Guan Yu losing Jingzhou due to carelessness”
Guan Yu knew he had been fooled, and wanted to turn around and strike back, but unfortunately his soldiers had lost the will to fight and he was forced to run away from Maicheng in defeat, finally dying at Maicheng.
This campaign greatly diminished Shu State’s strength. Liu Bei was of course very angry, and vowed to help his second brother take revenge. As a result, in spite of his subordinates’ dissuasion, he personally led the army to prepare to take back Jingzhou.
Against all advice to the contrary, Sun Quan sent Lu Xun, inconspicuous for the last time, to command the campaign.
Lu Xun initially stuck to his position, not sending his troops out to fight and adopting a delaying tactic, with both sides deadlocked for a very long time. The Shu army, very far from home, of course found resupply of military rations to be very difficult. In addition, the summer climate was sizzling hot and the soldiers were exposed to the hot sun day after day, and the whole army’s morale kept falling more and more. Liu Bei, in order to make the soldiers a little more comfortable, let everyone camp in a shady part of the mountain forests. As a result, the camp was too crowded together. Lu Xun saw the time was right, and sent a group of soldiers to take dried grass to set fire to.
It was another conflagration!
After Zhou Yu burned hundreds of thousands of Cao Cao’s troops at the Battle of Chibi, Lu Xun burned more than 800 li of the Shu Army’s camp at the Battle of Yiling.
Wu State generally really likes this “fire attack” maneuver, but also tried and tested strategies.
The fire burned the military camp and allowed Lu Xun to become famous in a single battle. From that point on, Sun Quan had considerable trust in Lu Xun. Lu Xun went from an unknown scholar to later Wu State’s most important military leader, helping Sun Quan to defend Jiangdong and leading the Eastern Wu military for over 20 years.
He was also the governor of Wu State. Compared to Zhou Yu’s heroic bearing, Lu Xun’s temperament was more mild and elegant.
At first, he was overlooked, looked down upon by the people around him for his “scholarly” identity. When Sun Quan sent him to fight Liu Bei, his subordinates were not convinced. He gave the order “hold fast” and the other generals were all unhappy, thinking Lu Xun had no skill. If they didn’t dare to fight, they could only withdraw and flee from battle.
Until that battle, when Liu Bei was almost completely defeated by that fire, all of Eastern Wu’s generals were finally thoroughly convinced.
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Xie Mingzhe gradually sketched Lu Xun’s image in his mind.
A man with clear and handsome looks, wearing a dark green Confucian scholar's robes, with a simple yet elegant hairpin worn at the top of his head and long jet black hair falling from the back of his head and draping casually over his shoulders. He held a book of rolled up bamboo slats in his hand, resembling a gentle and unpretentious scholar. This is Lu Xun’s image in his head.
A gentle seeming person who was in fact good at strategy, had far reaching vision, and ultimately had the ability to become Sun Quan’s trusted official.
As for Yu Xun’s fire system group attack skill, it is called Burning Down the Military Encampment. The skill mechanism can’t duplicate Zhou Yu’s fire spread, so why not increase damage based on damage spread?
Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe immediately used his mental strength to connect to the card making system.
With the injection of spiritual power, a gentle and refined young general appeared on the card face. He lightly held the bamboo slat book in his slender hand, his eyes mild and mouth turned up at the corners, and seemed as if no matter how others questioned him or scolded him, he would not take offense.
Lu Xun (fire system)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Rating: ★
Number of Uses: 1/1
Basic Attributes: Health 1000, Attack 500, Defense 150, Agility 10, Critical chance 30%
Additional Skill: Burning Down the Military Encampment (Cause 150% group fire damage to all enemies within 23 meters to the front. If the target has fire spread damage, it is sure to trigger a critical hit and the critical hit effect will increase by 200%. Cooldown time 30 seconds.)
Additional Skill: Gentle and Humble (Lu Xun ignores the enemy’s forced taunting skills, not subject to any taunt effect)
Xie Mingzhe looked at the card he’d made, unable to express his excitement!
The first skill was completely created to coordinate with Zhou Yu. When affected by the chains of Zhou Yu’s Setting Fire at Chibi, all the targets are in a linked state and affected by fire spread damage. Lu Xun uses Burning Down the Military Encampment, causing a great amount of damage and, at the same time, adding oil to Zhou Yu’s huge fire and causing a 200% damage critical hit.
Zhou Yu and Lu Xun joined hands to set a fire, it was simply a fire that destroyed the land and the sky.
These two can form a team called “Jiangdong Arson Group”, they burned Cao Cao and burned Liu Bei, there was no battle their fire couldn’t win.
Xie Mingzhe designed the second skill in accordance with Lu Xun’s personal characteristics. Lu Xun was originally a gentle and humble person. Others scolded him and he was not worried, they mocked him and he even more so refused to acknowledge it. As a result, he disregarded their ridicule.
He didn’t expect it would really pass the review!
When the opposite side releases a taunt card in order to protect the other members of the team when they had low defense and low health, Lu Xun can ignore the taunt, release a group attack, and reap a good harvest. This skill guarantees that Lu Xun’s attack can hit the opponent’s whole card group, a godly skill in the arena!
Eastern Wu has added a new general, but still needs to make persistent efforts!
Xie Mingzhe thought excitedly – it would be better to also make Lü Meng also.
Who called Lü Meng Lu Xun’s Bo Le? If he didn’t have Lü Meng’s recommendation, Lu Xun couldn’t successfully counterattack.
The Battle of Jiangling was so famous, Lü Meng effortlessly captured Jingzhou with a surprise attack!
Lü Meng’s settings can be used to make a support card.
Xie Mingzhe carefully planned out Lü Meng’s image in his head.
During the battle of Jiangling, Lü Meng took advantage of Guan Yu’s careless underestimation of his enemies. Disguising himself as a merchant, he took a boat along the Yangtze and concealed his passage from the defenders of Jingzhou with the utmost secrecy. This kind of Lü Meng should be dressed head to toe in white, wearing a conical bamboo hat on his head. His whole appearance is hidden beneath the large bamboo hat, full of mystery.
The skills he designed, one was called “Crossing the River in White Clothes”, and the other was called “Bloodless Victory”, both coming from the story of the Battle of Jiangling.
Lü Meng (fire system)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Rating: ★
Number of Uses: 1/1
Basic Attributes: Health 1000, Attack 100, Defense 1000, Agility 20, Critical Chance 0%
Additional Skill: Crossing the River in White Clothes (Enemy targets within 23 meters to the front are blinded for 3 seconds, cooldown 30 seconds).
Additional Skill: Bloodless Victory (Enemy targets within 23 meters to the front will have their defensive strength reduced by 50% for 3 seconds, cooldown 30 seconds).
The design theory behind Crossing the River in White Clothes is Lü Meng dressing as a merchant to cross the Yangtze, hidden from Guan Yu’s Jingzhou garrison troops the whole way. As a card, this makes enemy targets lose their sight, becoming completely blind for 3 seconds, while the allies set up a sneak attack.
Bloodless Victory is because he did not kill but instead gently appeased the defending local Shu army, winning the hearts of the people. Without the state of intense battle, he effortlessly captured Jingzhou without losing a single soldier. In the card, the enemy’s defensive strength automatically declined, allowing the allies to win effortlessly.
The completion of Lu Xun and Lü Meng’s two cards made Xie Mingzhe extremely excited. He immediately took the cards to show his master, asking him excitedly, “Master, can you take a look at this design?”
A trace of surprise flashed through Chen Qianlin’s eyes, and he praised, “This skill design is pretty good!”
To be able to make arena cards so quickly, this little apprentice’s talent absolutely doesn’t lose to the big apprentice Tang Muzhou.
However, Xie Mingzhe still only knew a little about data. He didn’t know how he should assign data values for different types of cards. Chen Qianlin personally came to his private space to offer guidance, but also wanted to help him check the card data.
Chen Qianlin picked up the five existing cards and said seriously, “Lü Meng has two types of adjustment plans. First is 100 agility, playing from the hand extremely quickly, opening with Lü Meng’s control skill to make the opponent blind, then immediately picking up the group attack damage, sending a wave of destruction towards the enemy. The second method is controlling his agility to be lower than Sun Ce, but greater than Zhou Yu’s middle value, opening first with Sun Ce, letting Sun Ce’s group taunt hinder a wave of damage. When the opposite side’s key skills have been turned over, you then open Lü Meng’s blindness control field on the back hand, connect the damage dealing…do you understand what I mean?”
Xie Mingzhe listened carefully, then quickly responded, “I understand! It the difference between a quick first hand and a slow back hand, right?”
Chen Qianlin nodded, “Right. In addition, control Zhou Yu’s agility at around 70, and Lu Xun’s at around 68. It’s slower compared to Zhou Yu, but the gap can’t exceed 2, otherwise in high end competition, the skills can’t be chained, and will be forcibly interrupted by rivals.”
Two points of agility, converted into reading time, is only about .2 seconds. That this can be interrupted by the opponent shows how demanding adjusting the data is in high end competition.
In the field of adjusting data, Chen Qianlin is an expert, and Xie Mingzhe is only just entering the door.
He can rely on his brain hole to put out all kinds of bizarre cards, but that doesn’t mean cards with well-designed skills will be powerful, and cards with bad data can’t effectively be used at all.
In the card group, the crucial point is still the cooperation between cards, which requires the data to be meticulously adjusted.
This is very profound knowledge, and Xie Mingzhe will earnestly follow his master to learn. However, he can’t master it in a day or two. Knowledge needs to be slowly accumulated, and Xie Mingzhe is not at all in a hurry.
For now, he had better first finish the card group, and then he can go to the arena to accumulate actual combat experience.
He still needs the last two cards, and then his Eastern Wu Arson Group can go campaign in the arena!
What abilities should he give the last two cards?
Xie Mingzhe thought about it carefully, and quickly fixed on an idea: why not make Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao! Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have both gone into battle, so how can these two good sisters possibly stay at home?
The author has something to say:
Pipizhe wants to write card encyclopedias and make card museums, so each card design’s inspiration will be clearly written. Lu Xun and Lü Meng are both Wu State’s famous generals. If you don’t read the text of the Three Kingdoms, you can roughly understand the stories of these heroes 🙂
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omg first. Thank you for translating.
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
thanks for the update
I wish when I was going to school that my history class was as interesting as these stories where.
Same I’d probably be interested in listening to history then