Sun Quan

孫權
Courtesy name: Zhongmou (仲謀)
Sun Quan
Source: Koei Wiki (Fandom)
Born
182
Died
252
Ancestral home
Fuchun, Wu (Fuyang, Zhejiang)
Book mentions
567
Roles:
emperor
Factions:
Eastern Wu (primary)
Relationships:
Wu Guotai Aunt
Sun Ce Brother
Sun Yi Brother
Sun Jiao Cousin
Sun Jian Father
Lady Wu Mother
Sun Ren Sister
Sun Jing Uncle
Appears in 56 chapters:
  • Chapter 7 — Yuan Shao Fights Gongsun Zan At The River Pan; Sun Jian Attacks Liu Biao Across The Great River.
    Sun Quan; named among Sun Jian's children at the start of the campaign.
  • Chapter 15 — Taishi Ci Fights With The Young Overlord; Sun Ce Cuts Short The White Tiger King.
    Sun Quan; sixteen years old; rides with his brother on the southern conquest and survives the bandit attack thanks to Zhou Tai. Foreshadowed as Sun Ce's eventual successor.
  • Chapter 29 — The Little Chief Of The South Slays Yu Ji; The Green Eyed Boy Lays Hold On The South Land.
    Sun Quan; eighteen years old; succeeds Sun Ce as the lord of the South Land. Receives the deathbed mandate; weeps over his brother; immediately begins forming his own counsel circle with Zhou Yu's help.
  • Chapter 31 — Cao Cao Overcomes Yuan Shao In Cangting; Liu Bei Seeks Shelter With Liu Biao In Jingzhou.
    Sun Quan; named in passing in the southern strategic roll.
  • Chapter 34 — Behind The Screen, Lady Cai Overhears A Secret; Across The Tan Torrent, The Dilu Horse Carries Its Master.
    Sun Quan; named in passing in the strategic roll.
  • Chapter 37 — Sima Hui Recommends A Scholar To Liu Bei; Liu Bei Pays Three Visits To The Sleeping Dragon Ridge.
    Sun Quan; named in passing in the regional roll.
  • Chapter 38 — Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges.
    Refuses Cao Cao's demand for a hostage son on Zhou Yu's counsel, avenges his brother Sun Yi by ennobling Lady Xu's two dagger-generals, mourns his mother through her deathbed charge - serve Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao as teachers, honor her sister as a second mother, find his sister a husband - then breaks the mourning to strike Huang Zu, welcoming the pirate Gan Ning with a full pardon: 'with his help I could destroy Huang Zu.'
  • Chapter 39 — At Jingzhou, The Son Of Liu Biao Thrice Begs Advice; At Bowang Slope, The Directing Instructor Plans His First Battle.
    Sends his father's murderer's head home in a box for the shrine, then learns mercy's price: he pardons Su Fei against Gan Ning's pledged life, breaks up the banquet blood-feud between Ling Tong and Gan Ning, and separates them with postings. Following Zhang Zhao's counsel he gives up distant Jiangxia, sets his brother Sun Kuang over Wujun, and camps at Chaisang while Zhou Yu drills the fleet on Poyang Lake.
  • Chapter 40 — Lady Cai Renounces Jingzhou; Zhuge Liang Burns Xinye.
    Sun Quan; named in passing - about to enter the Red Cliffs arc.
  • Chapter 42 — Screaming Zhang Fei Triumphs At Long Slope Bridge; Defeated Liu Bei Marches To Hanjin.
    Sun Quan; sends Lu Su north as an overture - the southern alliance setup.
  • Chapter 43 — Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
    Reads Cao Cao's hunting-party letter to a chamber of surrender counsel, walks out silent, and hears Lu Su's arithmetic of submission - a servant keeps his office; a lord loses everything. Provoked by Zhuge Liang into rage, then into resolve ('I will never allow the land of Wu to be dictated to by another'), he wobbles again under Zhang Zhao's second assault - until his aunt recalls his mother's dying words: in Zhou Yu's counsels lies safety.
  • Chapter 44 — Zhuge Liang Stirs Zhou Yu To Actions; Sun Quan Decides To Attack Cao Cao.
    Hands Zhou Yu the contemptuous letter, hears the four points against Cao Cao, and rises with his oath - one of the two of them must go. The sword stroke that takes the corner off his writing table makes the policy irreversible: 'let any other person mention surrender, and he shall be served as I have served this table.' Yet that same night he confesses the one doubt left - the numbers - and sleeps only after Zhou Yu dissolves the million into sick men and doubtful loyalists.
  • Chapter 45 — At The Three Gorges, Cao Cao Loses Soldiers; In The Gathering Of Heroes, Jiang Gan Is Trapped.
    Sun Quan; at Chaisang sending reinforcements.
  • Chapter 47 — Kan Ze Presents A Treacherous Letter; Pang Tong Suggests Chaining The Ships.
    Sun Quan; off-stage at Chaisang.
  • Chapter 49 — On Seven-Star Altar, Zhuge Liang Sacrifices To The Winds; At Three Gorges, Zhou Yu Liberates The Fire.
    Anchors thirty miles off awaiting the word, backs Lu Xun's van toward Qichun, and holds the red-flag reinforcement signal Taishi Ci watches for.
  • Chapter 50 — Zhuge Liang Foresees The Huarong Valley Episode; Guan Yu Lifts His Saber To Release Cao Cao.
    Bars the Hefei road in person: seeing the fires that mean victory, he signals Lu Xun and closes the trap's northern jaw.
  • Chapter 51 — Cao Ren Withstands The South Land; Zhuge Liang Angers Zhou Yu.
    Invoked once: the disheartened officers propose retiring to the South Land to seek his opinion while their commander lies wounded.
  • Chapter 52 — Zhuge Liang Negotiates With Lu Su; Zhao Zilong Captures Guiyang.
    Bogged down before Hefei - several battles without a victory - he recalls Zhou Yu's army from Jingzhou to reinforce the siege.
  • Chapter 53 — Guan Yu Releases Huang Zhong; Sun Quan Fights With Zhang Liao.
    Dismounts to greet Lu Su by the roadside - 'was that manifestation enough for you?' - and is told no: only the imperial throne will do. Stung by Zhang Liao's letter he fights in gold helmet at the front, loses Song Qian to an arrow, takes Zhang Hong's rebuke ('it is not for you to exhibit prowess on the battlefield'), sanctions the night raid that kills Taishi Ci - and buries his second great leader on Beigu Hill.
  • Chapter 54 — The Dowager Marchioness Sees Her Son-In-Law; The Imperial Uncle Takes A Worthy Consort.
    Sends Lu Fan with the poisoned proposal - and is flayed by his mother when the whole town knows before she does. Forced to make the trap real, he posts assassins anyway, watches them scattered by the Dowager's wrath, and answers Liu Bei's boulder-omen with his own secret prayer over the same stone: Jingzhou recovered. Both halves split - 'thus fate then declared for the dynasties two.' The horse-race on the slope ends the day as brothers-in-law.
  • Chapter 55 — Liu Bei Rouses The Spirit Of Lady Sun; Zhuge Liang A Second Time Angers Zhou Yu.
    Builds the gilded cage - the redecorated Eastern Palace, the damsels, the gold - and sleeps drunk through the escape. Waking, he shatters his jade inkstone on the floor, sends Chen Wu and Pan Zhang, and then - warned that no officer dare face his sister - hands Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai his own sword: bring back the heads of my sister and Liu Bei both, or lose your own.
  • Chapter 56 — Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
    Takes Gu Yong's counsel over his own rage - the memorial that makes his rival Imperial Protector - then turns on his guarantor: 'you are the guarantor in the loan... I will not wait till old age has come to us all!' He is petitioned into backing Zhou Yu's borrowed-road march at the chapter's end.
  • Chapter 57 — Sleeping Dragon Mourns In Chaisang; Young Phoenix Intervenes At Leiyang.
    Weeps aloud over the memorial ('whom have I to lean upon?'), honors the coffin at Wuhu, and provides for Zhou Yu's children - then throws away the successor Zhou Yu's equal: repelled by the bushy brows and turned-up nose, stung by 'mine is far greater', he dismisses Pang Tong with a vow never to employ him.
  • Chapter 58 — Ma Chao Launches An Expedition For Revenge; Cao Cao Flees The Field In Disguise.
    Target of the aborted expedition: Zhang Zhao's counsel routes the crisis through Lu Su's friendship to Liu Bei - and Zhuge Liang's letter makes the whole threat evaporate.
  • Chapter 60 — Zhang Song Turns The Table On Yang Xiu; Pang Tong Proposes The Occupation Of Shu.
    Sun Quan; named in passing.
  • Chapter 61 — In The River, Zhao Zilong Recovers Liu Shan; With One Letter, Sun Quan Repulses Cao Cao.
    Sun Quan; engineers Lady Sun's recall; Zhang Zhao designs the trick.
  • Chapter 62 — The Taking Of River Fu Pass, Yang Huai and Gao Pei Perish; The Siege Of Luocheng, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan Rival.
    Sun Quan; off-stage.
  • Chapter 63 — Zhuge Liang Mourns For Pang Tong; Zhang Fei Releases Yan Yan.
    Sun Quan; off-stage.
  • Chapter 65 — Ma Chao Battles At Jiameng Pass; Liu Bei Takes Over Yizhou.
    Sun Quan; sends Lu Su to demand Jingzhou's return at chapter's end - the setup for chapter 66.
  • Chapter 66 — Armed With Sword, Guan Yu Goes To A Feast Alone; For The State, Empress Fu Offers Her Life.
    Sun Quan; orchestrates the banquet plan with Lu Su.
  • Chapter 67 — Cao Cao Conquers Hanzhong; Zhang Liao Terrorizes Xiaoyao.
    Sun Quan; nearly killed at Xiaoyao Ford by Zhang Liao's charge; pulled to safety only by Ling Tong, Gu Li, and a bridge that breaks under his horse before being heaved across by his own steed's leap.
  • Chapter 68 — Gan Ning's Hundred Horsemen Raid The Northern Camp; Zuo Ci's Flung-Down Cup Fools Cao Cao.
    Sun Quan; rewards Gan Ning lavishly after the raid; 'with such a man, I do not fear Cao Cao'. Then sets up the parallel Hefei front.
  • Chapter 73 — Liu Bei Becomes The Prince Of Hanzhong; Guan Yu Marches To Attack Xiangyang.
    Sun Quan; receives Cao Cao's envoy proposing alliance against Liu Bei; begins to take the bait.
  • Chapter 75 — Guan Yu Has A Scraped-Bone Surgery; Lu Meng Crosses The River In White Robe.
    Sun Quan; gives Lu Meng the secret command to take Jingzhou; ratifies the Lu Xun feint.
  • Chapter 76 — Xu Huang Fights At The River Mian; Guan Yu Retreats To Maicheng.
    Sun Quan; coordinates Lu Meng's takeover; ready to receive the prisoner.
  • Chapter 77 — Cao Cao Is Possessed At Luoyang; Guan Yu Manifests At The Jade Spring Mount.
    Sun Quan; interrogates Guan Yu after capture; tries to win him over; on Zuo Xian's advice has him executed. Then haunted by Guan Yu's ghost at the victory banquet - Lu Meng possessed and dying screaming at his table; horrified Sun Quan ships Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao.
  • Chapter 78 — Treating A Headache, A Famous Physician Dies; Giving The Last Words, The Crafty Hero Departs.
    Sun Quan; off-stage; the Wei transition reaches Wu by despatch.
  • Chapter 79 — Brother Oppressing Brother: Cao Zhi Composes Poems; Nephew Harming Uncle: Liu Feng Receives Punishment.
    Sun Quan; off-stage; receives news of the Wei transition.
  • Chapter 80 — Cao Pi Deposes The Emperor, Taking Away The Fortunes of Han; Liu Bei Assumes The Throne, Continuing The Heritage.
    Sun Quan; off-stage in Wu; receives news of both accessions.
  • Chapter 81 — Eager For Vengeance, Zhang Fei Is Assassinated; Athirst Of Retribution, The First Ruler Goes To War.
    Sun Quan; receives Fan Jiang and Zhang Da bringing Zhang Fei's head; horrified at the consequences.
  • Chapter 82 — Sun Quan Submits To Wei, Receiving The Nine Dignities; The First Ruler Attacks Wu, Rewarding Six Armies.
    Sun Quan; on the defensive - sends Zhao Zi to Cao Pi to seek vassalage; receives the title King of Wu in exchange for nominal submission. Cao Pi's gift includes nine grades of ceremonial regalia. The diplomatic move that frees Sun Quan to focus on Liu Bei.
  • Chapter 83 — Fighting At Xiaoting, The First Ruler Captures An Enemy; Defending The Three Gorges, A Student Takes Supreme Command.
    Sun Quan; appoints Lu Xun supreme commander with full authority - the sword of office, the ceremony of free command.
  • Chapter 85 — The First Ruler Confides His Son To A Guardian; The Prime Minister Calmly Settles Five Attacks.
    Sun Quan; supposedly part of the five-army plan from Donghu Pass - Deng Zhi is sent as Shu envoy and talks him back into the Shu-Wu alliance.
  • Chapter 86 — Using Words, Qin Mi Overcomes Zhang Wen; Setting Fire, Xu Sheng Defeats Cao Pi.
    Sun Quan; receives Deng Zhi; reconciled with Shu; ends his Wei vassalage; takes the field again.
  • Chapter 87 — Conquering The South Mang, The Prime Minister Marches The Army; Opposing Heaven Troops, The King Of The Mangs Is Captured.
    Sun Quan; off-stage in Wu.
  • Chapter 88 — Crossing River Lu: The Mang King Is Bound The Second Time; Recognizing A Pretend Surrender: Meng Huo Is Captured The Third Time.
    Sun Quan; off-stage.
  • Chapter 96 — Shedding Tears, Zhuge Liang Puts Ma Su To Death; Cutting Hair, Zhou Fang Beguiles Cao Xiu.
    Sun Quan; ratifies Zhou Fang's scheme; Shiting's victory consolidates Wu's central authority.
  • Chapter 98 — Pursuing The Shu Army, Wang Shuang Meets His Death; Raiding Chencang, Zhuge Liang Scores A Victory.
    Sun Quan; declares himself Emperor of Wu; era Huanglong year 1. The last of the three kings to take the imperial title; the Three-Kingdoms triad is now formal. Names Sun Deng as heir apparent.
  • Chapter 102 — Sima Yi Occupies The Banks Of River Wei; Zhuge Liang Constructs Mechanical Bullocks And Horses.
    Sun Quan; mobilises for the eastern campaign in concert with Shu.
  • Chapter 103 — In Gourd Valley, Sima Yi Is Trapped; In Wuzhang Hills, Zhuge Liang Invokes The Stars.
    Sun Quan; the joint Wu campaign falters at Hefei - Wu's eastern army withdraws.
  • Chapter 105 — The Lord of Wuxiang Leaves A Plan In The Silken Bag; The Ruler of Wei Removes The Bronze Statue With The Dew Bowl.
    Sun Quan; in the Wu court.
  • Chapter 106 — Suffering Defeat, Gongsun Yuan Meets His Death; Pretending Illness, Sima Yi Deceives Cao Shuang.
    Sun Quan; in Wu; receives news of the Wei coup.
  • Chapter 108 — In The Snow, Ding Feng Wins A Victory; At A Banquet, Sun Jun Executes A Secret Plan.
    Sun Quan dies. Aged 71. The last of the founding Three Kingdoms monarchs gone. Sun Liang succeeds as the new emperor of Wu; Zhuge Ke is named regent. The era closes.
  • Chapter 110 — Riding Alone, Wen Yang Repulses A Brave Force; Following The River, Jiang Wei Defeats The Enemy.
    Sun Quan; named in passing - dead.
  • Chapter 113 — Ding Feng Makes A Plan To Slay Sun Chen; Jiang Wei Arrays A Battle To Defeat Deng Ai.
    Sun Quan; named in passing - long dead.
  • Chapter 120 — Recommending Du Yu, An Old General Offers New Plans; Capturing Of Sun Hao, Three Kingdoms Becomes One.
    Sun Quan; named in passing in the closing elegies.