In the 182th year of Xiping reign of Emperor Ling of Han (AD ), Sun Quan was born in Fuchun County, Wujun.

After his father Sun Jian died in battle, his elder brother Sun Ce, with the support of Zhu Zhi and others, attached himself to Yuan Shu and continued to lead the soldiers left by Sun Jian during his lifetime.

Sun Quan followed his brother and mother, Madam Wu, and moved to Qu'a (now Danyang City, Jiangsu Province) to seek refuge with his uncle Wu Jing.

Because Sun Ce fought everywhere, Sun Quan and his mother moved from Qu'a to Liyang (now Hexian County, Anhui Province), and then moved to Fuling (now Baizi Village, Chenqian Township, Quanjiao County, Anhui Province).

The following year, Sun Ce led his troops across the Yangtze River and defeated Liu Yao (yóu), and Sun Quan and his family were brought back to Qu'a.

In the first year of Jian'an (196 AD), the fifteen-year-old Sun Quan followed his elder brother Sun Ce to pacify the counties in Jiangdong and was appointed as the magistrate of Yangxian County (now Yixing City, Jiangsu Province).

The governor of Wu County, Zhu Zhi, recommended him as a filial and incorrupt official, and the governor of Yangzhou, Yan Xiang, recommended him as a talented person. Later, he was appointed acting lieutenant of Fengyi.

In the fourth year of Jian'an (199 AD), Sun Quan followed his brother Sun Ce to attack Liu Xun, the governor of Lujiang. After Liu Xun was defeated and fled, Sun Quan marched to Shaxian County (now Jinkou, Jiangxia District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province) to attack Huang Zu[g] and captured Lujiang and Yuzhang counties.

In the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were in a stalemate at Guandu (now Zhongmou County, Henan Province). Sun Ce prepared to secretly attack Xuchang County (now Xuchang City, Henan Province).
In order to welcome Emperor Xian of Han, Sun Ce secretly reorganized the army and deployed generals. But before the attack began, Sun Ce met a retainer of Xu Gong, the former governor of Wujun, when he was out alone.
He was stabbed by his retainers and his injuries were serious. So Sun Ce invited Zhang Zhao and others to come and tell them that the Central Plains was in chaos.
As long as they rely on the soldiers and people of Wu and Yue, as well as the strategic location of the Three Rivers, they will be able to see the outcome of the fight. He also requested Zhang Zhao and others to assist Sun Quan wholeheartedly in the future.

Then, Sun Ce called his 19-year-old second brother Sun Quan to his presence and handed him the seals and ribbons of the prefect of Kuaiji, the general who suppressed the rebellion, and the Marquis of Wu. At night, Sun Ce died at the age of 26.

After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan cried bitterly. Under Zhang Zhao's persuasion, Sun Quan immediately changed out of mourning clothes and rode out to inspect the military camp.

At this time, Sun Quan only occupied Kuaiji, Wujun, Danyang, Yuzhang and Luling, and the remote and dangerous areas of these five counties had not yet been completely annexed.

Zhang Zhao, Zhou Yu and others realized that they could accomplish great things together with Sun Quan, so they were willing to serve him. Sun Quan treated Zhang Zhao as a Grand Tutor.

He appointed Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Lu Fan and others as generals to lead the troops. In addition, he also recruited talents and famous people, such as Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, as his staff.

He dispatched various generals to suppress and comfort the Shanyue tribe and to punish those who disobeyed him. Cao Cao submitted a petition to appoint Sun Quan as the General of Suppressing the Enemy and concurrently the Governor of Kuaiji, stationed in Wujun.

Because Sun Quan's father Sun Jian and uncle Xu Kun were both killed in the battle against Huang Zu, in the eighth year of Jian'an (203 AD), Sun Quan decided to lead his army westward to attack Huang Zu.
Afterwards, Huang Zu's navy was defeated, leaving only the city unconquered, and at this time the Shanyue tribe began to rebel again. Sun Quan withdrew his troops and passed through Yuzhang.
Lu Fan was sent to pacify Poyang, Cheng Pu to attack Le'an, Taishi Ci to lead Haihun, and Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Lu Meng and others were appointed as county magistrates or county heads of counties that were difficult to govern.

In the 207th year of Jian'an ( AD), Sun Quan once again went west to attack Huang Zu, plundering his people and returning. The following year, Sun Quan continued to attack Huang Zu.

Huang Zu ordered the commander Chen Jiu to lead the navy to fight back. Commander Lü Meng defeated Huang Zu's vanguard and personally cut off Chen Jiu's head.

Dong Xi and his men led their best troops to attack the city. When Huang Zu heard that Chen Ju had been killed, he abandoned the city and fled. The knight Feng Ze chased him and cut off his head, and captured tens of thousands of Huang Zu's men and women.

In the spring of the 208th year of Jian'an ( AD), Sun Quan conquered Jiangxia. In September of the same year, Cao Cao invaded Jingzhou, and Liu Cong led his people to surrender.
Cao Cao then recruited Liu Cong's navy, and the navy and infantry forces grew to hundreds of thousands. When Sun Quan's advisers heard the news,
Everyone felt uneasy and worried, and many people advised Sun Quan to surrender to Cao Cao. At this time, only Zhou Yu and Lu Su insisted on resisting Cao Cao.

In order to persuade Sun Quan, Zhou Yu described Cao Cao as a traitor of the Han Dynasty. Sun Quan was a man of great talent and had thousands of miles of land in Jiangdong left by his father and brother.

With strong soldiers and sufficient food and grass, it is time to eliminate the evil and disasters for the Han Dynasty.

He strongly agreed with the idea of ​​meeting the enemy, so he sent Zhou Yu to lead 30,000 elite troops to station in Xiakou, and together with Cheng Pu and others, he joined forces with Liu Bei's army to meet Cao Cao. The two armies fought at Chibi.

At that time, many soldiers in Cao Cao's army were infected with diseases. As soon as the battle started, Cao's army was defeated and retreated to Wulin area on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Zhou Yu and his men were stationed on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Huang Gai, one of Zhou Yu's generals, said that it was difficult to fight a protracted war with Cao's army because the enemy was outnumbered.
But Cao's warships were all connected end to end, so they could be defeated by burning them. So Zhou Yu deployed dozens of large warships, filled them with firewood,
They poured ointment all over the firewood, covered it with a curtain, and put a flag on it. They first had Huang Gai write a letter to Cao Cao, deceiving him that he was coming to surrender.
Some light and fast boats were also prepared and tied behind the big ship, and then the fleet sailed forward one by one.

Cao Cao's soldiers all thought that Huang Gai had come to surrender, so Huang Gai ordered the boats to be untied and the large ships to be set on fire.
The fire spread to the north of the river and burned to the Cao army camp on the shore. In a moment, smoke and fire shot up into the sky, and countless Cao soldiers were burned to death or drowned.
Cao's army was defeated and retreated to defend Nanjun. Liu Bei and Zhou Yu continued to lead their troops to pursue them, and Cao Cao left Cao Ren to lead his troops to guard Jiangling City.

Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu led their troops to advance to Nanjun, confronting Cao Ren across the Yangtze River. Cao Ren had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

In the 209th year of Jian'an ( AD), Zhou Yu and Cao Ren fought against each other for more than a year, killing many soldiers. Finally, Cao Ren abandoned the city and fled.

Sun Quan appointed Zhou Yu as the governor of Nanjun. Liu Bei submitted a memorial to the emperor, appointing Sun Quan as acting general of chariots and cavalry and concurrently governor of Xuzhou. Liu Bei concurrently served as governor of Jingzhou and was stationed in Gong'an.

In the 210th year of Jian'an ( AD), Sun Quan separated Yuzhang Prefecture and established Poyang Prefecture, separated Changsha Prefecture and established Hanchang Prefecture, and appointed Lu Su as the governor of Hanchang.

In the 211th year of Jian'an ( AD), Sun Quan moved the capital to Moling. The following year, he built the Stone City and changed Moling to Jianye. When the Eastern Wu heard that Cao Cao was going to invade the south, they built Ruxu Fort.

In the first month of the 213th year of Jian'an ( AD), Cao Cao led his army to attack Ruxuwu. At the same time, he was worried that the counties on the north bank of the Yangtze River would be seized by Sun Quan.

He ordered the people to move inland. When the people learned about this, they panicked and fled east across the Yangtze River from Lujiang, Jiujiang, Qichun, and Guangling.
They surrendered to Sun Quan. Only Wancheng City remained south of Hefei. Sun Quan led his army to meet the enemy and held out against Cao Cao's army for more than a month.
Cao Cao saw that Sun Quan's army was well-organized and felt that attacking was hopeless, so he led his army to retreat. In May of the following year, Sun Quan attacked Wancheng.

After conquering Wancheng, they captured Zhu Guang, the governor of Lujiang, Dong He, a military officer, and tens of thousands of men and women in the city.

In the same year, Liu Bei pacified Shu, and Sun Quan sent Zhuge Jin to ask Liu Bei to return the counties of Jingzhou. Not only did Liu Bei not return them, but his subordinate Guan Yu also drove away all the people from Dongwu.

When Sun Quan learned about this, he was furious and sent Lü Meng to lead Xian Yu Dan, Xu Zhong, Sun Gui and others to lead 20,000 troops to capture Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang counties.
Lu Su was sent to lead 10,000 troops to garrison Baqiu to defend against Guan Yu. Sun Quan lived in Lukou to command and dispatch the troops. When Lu Meng's army arrived, Changsha and Guiyang counties all surrendered, except Lingling governor Hao Pu. Liu Bei happened to come to Gong'an.
Guan Yu was sent to lead 30,000 troops to advance to Yiyang, and Sun Quan recalled Lü Meng and others to support Lu Su. Lü Meng sent people to lure Hao Pu to surrender, and Hao Pu surrendered to the Eastern Wu.

After obtaining the generals and prefects of the three counties, Lu Meng led his troops back east and joined forces with Sun Jiao and Pan Zhang to advance together with Lu Su's army to fight against Guan Yu in Yiyang.

Before the two sides engaged in battle, Cao Cao marched into Hanzhong. Liu Bei was afraid of losing Yizhou, so he sent envoys to Sun Quan to ask for peace.

Sun Quan sent Zhuge Jin to pay a return visit, and the two countries re-established an alliance, and Jingzhou was divided equally, with Changsha, Jiangxia, and the area east of Guiyang belonging to Sun Quan.
Nanjun, Lingling, and the area west of Wuling belonged to Liu Bei. When Liu Bei returned to Yizhou, Cao Cao had already withdrawn his troops. After Sun Quan returned from Lukou, he attacked Hefei.

However, they failed to capture Hefei, so they withdrew their troops to the east. After all the soldiers were on their way, Sun Quan, Ling Tong, Gan Ning and others were attacked by the Wei general Zhang Liao to the north of Xiaoyaojin.

Ling Tong and others fought desperately to protect Sun Quan, who escaped by riding his horse across the Jin Bridge.

In the winter of the 216st year of Jian'an ( AD), Cao Cao entered Juchao and attacked Ruxuwu again.

Sun Quan ordered his captain Xu Xiang to visit Cao Cao and ask for surrender. Cao Cao sent an envoy to reply to Sun Quan, agreeing to make peace and vowing to become relatives again.

In the 219th year of Jian'an ( AD), Guan Yu, a general under Liu Bei, besieged Cao Ren, a general under Cao Cao, in Xiangyang. Cao Cao sent his left general Yu Jin to rescue him.

The Han River was flooded, and Guan Yu used his navy to capture all of Yu Jin's 30,000-plus infantry and cavalry, and escorted them to Jiangling.

Only Xiangyang City remained unconquered. Sun Quan was afraid of Guan Yu, but also wanted to attack Guan Yu to show his merit to Cao Cao, so he wrote a letter to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was planning to pit Guan Yu against Sun Quan, so he asked the post station to deliver Sun Quan's letter to Cao Ren.
Cao Ren was ordered to shoot the letter out of the city to Guan Yu with an arrow. After reading the letter, Guan Yu hesitated but did not withdraw the siege. In the intercalary October of the same year, Sun Quan attacked Guan Yu.
First, he sent Lü Meng to lead the army to attack Gong'an and captured Shi Ren, the defender of Gong'an. Lü Meng led his army to Nanjun, where Mi Fang, the governor of Taining, surrendered.

Lü Meng occupied Jiangling, provided relief to the old and weak soldiers and civilians there, and released the imprisoned Yu Jin. Sun Quan ordered Lu Xun to lead another army to capture Yidu County.
After taking Zigui, Zhijiang and Yidao, the troops retreated to garrison Yiling and defended the gorge to resist the attack of the Shu army.

Guan Yu returned to Dangyang and retreated westward to Maicheng. Sun Quan sent people to lure him to surrender. Guan Yu pretended to surrender and raised a flag on the city wall.

He placed straw men to confuse Sun Quan, and took the opportunity to escape. The soldiers all scattered, and only a dozen cavalrymen followed him. Sun Quan first sent Zhu Ran,

Pan Zhang intercepted Guan Yu on the road he had to take. In December, Pan Zhang's Sima Ma Zhong captured Guan Yu, his son Guan Ping, and the governor Zhao Lei in Zhangxiang, and Sun Quan pacified Jingzhou.

In the 220th year of Jian'an (221 AD), Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor and was honored as Emperor Wen of Wei, changing the reign title to Huangchu. In April of the second year of Huangchu ( AD),

Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor in Yizhou, and the reign title was Zhangwu. In the seventh month of the autumn of the same year, Liu Bei personally led his army to attack the Eastern Wu in order to recapture Jingzhou and avenge Guan Yu.

Sun Quan sent an envoy to ask for peace, but Liu Bei was furious and refused to agree. Sun Quan appointed Lu Xun as the Grand Commander, with the title of Grand Marshal, to lead Zhu Ran,

Pan Zhang, Song Qian, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Xian Yu Dan, Sun Huan and others led 50,000 troops to resist Liu Bei, and at the same time sent the commander Zhao Zi to the Wei State as an envoy.

Wu generals Lu Yi, Li Yi, Liu A and others stationed their troops in Wu County and Zigui, but were defeated by Shu generals Wu Ban, Feng Xi and others in Wu County.
He also sent messengers to induce the minority tribes in Wuling to surrender, granted them seals, and promised to reward them. As a result, the Yi people in various counties and the Wuxi area rebelled against Wu and surrendered to Shu.

In the first month of spring in the first year of the Huangwu reign (222 AD), Liu Bei led his army back to Zigui, and generals Wu Ban and Chen Shi led the navy to station in Yiling.
They set up camp along the east and west banks of the Yangtze River. Lu Xun's general Song Qian and others attacked the five barracks of the Shu army, successfully broke through them and killed the Shu army's garrison commander.

In February, Liu Bei led his generals from Zigui to Wuxi. General Huang Quan, the General who guards the north of the Yangtze River, led the troops to fight against the Wu army in Yiling Road.

The Shu army occupied strategic locations separately and set up more than fifty barracks in front and behind. Lu Xun sent corresponding soldiers and generals to resist according to the importance of each barracks.

In the sixth month of summer, a yellow cloud appeared more than ten miles away from Zigui, which was several dozen feet wide. At this time, Wu General Lu Xun ordered all the soldiers to hold a handful of straw.
The Shu army camp was broken by fire attack. In an instant, a raging fire was formed. Lu Xun led the troops to attack at the same time and killed the Shu general Zhang Nan,

Feng Xi and Hu Wang Shamo Ke and others attacked more than 40 camps of the Shu army. Liu Bei's generals Du Lu and Liu Ning were left with nowhere to go and were forced to surrender.
Liu Bei had no choice but to retreat from Xiaoting to Zigui, and withdraw to Yufu County by land, and changed Yufu County to Yong'an County. Sun Quan sent generals Li Yi and

Liu Bei fled in the dark, and only the people in the post station took the initiative to carry the armor and cymbals thrown down by the soldiers.

Liu Bei was able to escape to Baidi City by burning the pass to block the pursuit.

All of them were lost at once, and the bodies of the soldiers floated down the river, blocking the surface of the river. When Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei was stationed in Baidi City,

Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Song Qian and others competed to petition for another attack to capture Liu Bei. Sun Quan discussed with Lu Xun, Zhu Ran and others and decided to withdraw the troops.

Liu Bei agreed to the peace proposal and sent Zong Wei, the Grand Master of the Imperial Court, to negotiate for peace. The Battle of Yiling ended.

From the second year of Huangwu (223 AD) to the seventh year of Huangwu (228 AD), Sun Quan devoted himself to eliminating external threats and stabilizing internal affairs.

After Xikou garrison commander Jin Zong killed General Wang Zhi, he led his men to flee and surrender to the State of Wei. The State of Wei then appointed Jin Zong as governor of Qichun.

He repeatedly invaded the border of Wu, so Sun Quan ordered General He Qi to lead Mi Fang, Liu Shao and others to attack Qichun. (End of this chapter)

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