Sun Chen

Takes over Wu on his brother's death and spends his first paragraph killing people: 'Sun Chen was a man of cruel and violent temper and had put many officers to death on his way to power---among them were Grand Commander Teng Yin, General Lu Ju, and Minister Wang Chun.' Then receives Wu Gang and Zhuge Jing and commits seventy thousand men in three directions - Quan Yi and Quan Duan as Commanders, Yu Quan as Rear Guard, Tang Zi and Zhu Yi as Leaders of the Van, Wen Qin as Military Guide.

Loses the whole intervention and blames everyone but himself. Orders Zhu Yi to win or die, executes him when he loses, and turns on Quan Wei with 'If you do not drive off this army of Wei, let me never again see your face, nor that of your father' - which is a large part of why Quan Wei surrenders instead. Then goes home to Jianye and leaves the army to its fate. His cruelty is also why Tang Zi will not go back to Wu at the end of the chapter.

Dies in this chapter, and it is half named for it: 'Ding Feng Makes A Plan To Slay Sun Chen'. He puts the families of the Shouchun defectors to death, has his four brothers holding every command in the capital, pre-empts Quan Ji's plot the same night he is warned of it, cuts down Huan Yi in open court for objecting, and deposes Sun Liang to Prince of Kuaiji. Then he over-reaches: his birthday presents are refused, he gets drunk at Zhang Bu's and says the unsayable — 'When I deposed the present Prince of Kuaiji, many people urged me to take the throne myself… Now I suffer the mortification of seeing my presents rejected. You will see what will come of this slight' — and moves troops to Wuchang armed out of the state arsenals. The last morning is all omens: a storm that tears up trees, a fall flat on his face as he rises. He goes to the banquet anyway. Zhang Bu comes up the hall with thirty men, and he ends on the floor begging to be exiled to Jiaozhou to do plough work, and is answered 'Did you exile any of your victims---Teng Yin, Lu Ju, Wang Chun, and others?' Executed, with his four brothers and several hundred of his family; 'No single person of his servants raised a hand to help him.'