42 Facts About Sun Ce

Sun Ce , courtesy name Bofu, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.

Sun Ce was the eldest child of Sun Jian, who was killed during the Battle of Xiangyang when Sun Ce was only 16.

Sun Ce then broke away from his father's overlord, Yuan Shu, and headed to the Jiangdong region in southern China to establish his own power base there.

In 200, when the warlord Cao Cao was at war with his rival Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, Sun Ce was rumoured to be planning an attack on Xuchang, Cao Cao's base.

Sun Ce was posthumously honoured as "Prince Huan of Changsha" by his younger brother Sun Quan when the latter became the founding emperor of Eastern Wu.

Sun Ce was a generous and receptive man who employed people according to their abilities.

Sun Ce is depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu by Jin Guliang.

Sun Ce brought his father's body to Qu'e for burial and settled his mother down before heading for Danyang, where his maternal uncle Wu Jing was the governor.

Sun Ce returned Sun Jian's former division of troops to Sun Ce.

When Sun Ce did Yuan Shu again went back on his words and appointed someone else instead.

Sun Ce then forced Wu Jing back west across the Yangtze River to Liyang.

Sun Ce then launched an offensive across the Yangtze River and successfully occupied the strategic position of Niuzhu in 195.

Sun Ce chose to first attack one of them, Ze Rong, who made camp south of Moling.

Sun Ce then began a second offensive against Ze Rong.

Sun Ce led the enemies into an ambush and annihilated them.

When Ze Rong heard that Sun Ce was still alive, he further reinforced his defences.

Sun Ce then pushed his force deeper into Yang Province and conquered Kuaiji along the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay, whose governor Wang Lang surrendered.

Sun Ce made Kuaiji his base city and struck out at the wandering bandit army led by Yan Baihu.

Sun Ce then appointed his relatives and a trusted subject to govern Danyang and Yuzhang, from which he divided a new commandery named Luling.

Sun Ce then defeated and received the services of Zu Lang, the Chief of Danyang, and Taishi Ci, the leader of the remnants of Liu Yao's forces; he then urged the surrender of Hua Xin, another one of the remnants of Liu Yao's forces.

Sun Ce Qi became a highly successful general later; truly, his appointment by Sun Ce was the first important step to Wu's eventual subjugation of the Shanyue.

Sun Ce was en route to attack Huang Zu in Xiakou when he received the news.

Sun Ce then turned back and captured the poorly-defended Wan County, taking over all of Yuan Shu's 30,000 former troops.

Sun Ce pressed forward and defeated Liu Xun, who escaped north to Cao Cao.

Sun Ce annexed more than 2,000 former troops and 1,000 ships of his enemy and came upon Huang Zu.

Sun Ce in turn agreed to marry Sun Ben's daughter to Cao Cao's son Cao Zhang.

However, the letter was intercepted by an official loyal to Sun Ce, who attacked and then had Xu Gong executed.

Sun Ce is said to have then plotted to attack Xuchang under the banner of rescuing Emperor Xian, who was a figurehead under Cao Cao's control.

Preparations were underway for the military excursion when Sun Ce ran into three former servants of Xu Gong during a solo hunting trip.

Sun Ce was succeeded by a posthumous son, Sun Shao, as well as at least two daughters, married to Gu Shao and later Zhu Ji, and Lu Xun respectively.

Sun Sheng in his Exposition on Disparities and Similarities discounted the theory that Sun Ce made plans to attack Xuchang.

Sun Ce believed that although Sun Ce was a rising power, he was threatened in the west by Huang Zu, who was defeated but not eliminated, in the north by Chen Deng, governor of Guangling Commandery, and in the south by indigenous tribes yet to be assimilated.

Sun Ce further argued that Sun Ce died on the fifth day in the fourth month of 200, before the Battle of Guandu even took place.

Pei Songzhi, who annotated the Records of the Three Kingdoms, rebutted Sun Ce Sheng, arguing that Huang Zu was newly broken and had yet to recollect his forces while the indigenous tribes were scattered and not much of a threat.

Pei Songzhi believed that the first objective of Sun Ce's planned northward excursion was to attack Chen Deng, which would provide a platform for capturing Xuchang.

In Peking opera, Sun Ce's role is usually that of a hero or tragic hero, while his brother, Sun Quan is usually portrayed as a villain at worst or self-seeking at best.

Several operas even toy with the idea that Sun Quan had Sun Ce assassinated so that he could take control of the warlord state, though there is no historical evidence to support this view.

Sun Ce appears in Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms strategy game series.

Sun Ce is featured as a playable character in Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series, as well as Warriors Orochi, a crossover between Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors.

Sun Ce appears as a recruitable ally in Team Ninja's Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, published by Koei.

Sun Ce is a legendary character in Creative Assembly's Total War: Three Kingdoms, the 12th mainline instalment in the Total War video games series.

Sun Ce is a playable character in the fighting game Sango Fighter 2.