During the Three Kingdoms period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, various princes attacked and annexed each other, and countless warlords, generals, and courtiers rose and fell. Among them, there was once a brave and invincible fighter, the army led by invincible, known as the general of the Jiangdong Tiger, was the founder of the later Eastern Wu regime, Sun Jian.
Sun Jian, Zi Wentai, Wu County, Fuchun people. It is said to be a descendant of the military master Sun Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period. The Sun family has been a local official in Eastern Wu for generations, and although it is not a local magnate, it has also accumulated a certain network of people. When he was seventeen years old, he went to Qiantang with his father, and on the way, he met pirates who had robbed him and shared the booty on the shore. The merchants did not dare to come closer, but Sun Jian said to his father, "I can catch these thieves." His father refused, but Sun Jian took a knife ashore and pretended to be a commander to round up the pirates, and the pirates scattered and fled, and Sun Jian pursued and killed a pirate before returning. As a result, Sun Jian's reputation was greatly enhanced locally. However, it was his courageous and life-and-death character that laid the groundwork for his future tragedies.
Sun Jian became a county official at a young age, and later became an acting county lieutenant. At that time, Xu Chang, a member of the Guild, rebelled in Jurchen and proclaimed himself Emperor Yangming. Sun Jian recruited more than a thousand men to fight as a county sima and defeated this force. In the same year, Sun Jian was promoted to Yandu County, and later changed to Xuyi County and Xiapi County. He served as a county magistrate in three counties, during which time he won widely the hearts and minds of the people, and the officials and the people were very obedient to him.
In the first year of Zhongping (184), the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. Emperor Fusong and Zhu Juan were ordered to conquer the Yellow Turban Army near Luoyang. Zhu Yan asked Sun Jian to serve as sima of the Zuo Army. Subsequently, Sun Jian settled down with his family and recruited soldiers in Huaishui and Surabaya, plus his compatriots when he was serving in Xia Pi, and obtained a total of 1,000 elite soldiers and accompanied Zhu Juan in the conquest.
Sun Jian has always been known for his bravery and fierceness in fighting, regardless of life and death, and often single-handedly took advantage of the victory to pursue, and was repeatedly in danger. When he attacked Ru Ying's Yellow Turban Army, he took the lead in climbing the wall of Wancheng City, and his men were encouraged to attack Wancheng in one fell swoop. Zhu Juan reported Sun Jian's deeds to the imperial court, and Sun Jian was appointed sima of the other departments. There was a disturbance on the border of Houliangzhou. Dong Zhuoping was ineffective, and the imperial court sent Zhang Wen and Sun Jian to go. Sun Jian counted Dong Zhuo's crimes and persuaded Zhang Wen to kill Dong Zhuo, but Zhang Wen refused. After Zhang Wen lost his troops, Dong Zhuo refused to fight and preserve his strength, and Zhang Wen regretted not listening to Sun Jian's advice. The imperial court worshipped Sun Jian as a negotiator.
In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), the imperial court appointed Sun Jian as the Taishou of Changsha to suppress the rebels of the Changsha people. Sun Jian defeated Ou Xing in just one month. In the sixth year of Zhongping (189), Emperor Ling died of illness, and a coup d'état occurred in the capital Luoyang, Dong Zhuo took the opportunity to enter the capital to rebel, and the counties of the world rose up to fight dong. Sun Jian was also involved. He advanced to Jingzhou, killed Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou who had a personal vendetta, and then entered Nanyang to kill Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi, who was not paid. After Sun Jian arrived in Luyang, there were already tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. He joined forces with Yuan Shu, who made him a general of the Thieves and a history of the Yuzhou Assassins. In the first year of Chuping (190), Sun Jian was suddenly attacked by Dong Zhuobu's general Hu Yun, who was not in danger, and Hu Yun did not dare to act rashly, so he had to retreat. In the second year of Chuping (191), Sun Jian led an army to attack Luoyang, but was unexpectedly surrounded by Xu Rong, Sun Jian only and a dozen horsemen out of the siege, almost killed, and then collected the remnants, ready to avenge the snow hate. Dong Zhuo heard that Sun Jian had entered the Zhanyang people and ordered Hu Yun and Lü Bu to attack, but was defeated by Sun Jian. Sun Jian's reputation grew, but he was jealous of Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu did not give Sun Jian food to the army, and Sun Jian rode for more than a hundred miles, and came to see Yuan Shu overnight, asking Yuan Shu to give food to the army. Yuan Shu had to agree.
Dong Zhuo once said: "All the roads and horses in the Kwantung Are afraid of me, only Sun Jian is very good at employing people, so that everyone can guard against Sun Jian." Later, Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an. Sun Jian took the lead in attacking Luoyang. In April of the third year of Chuping (192), Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao in Jingzhou. Sun Jian won several battles, and later When Sun Jian took advantage of the victory to pursue Huang Zu, he chased him to the mountain and was killed by an arrow, only thirty-seven years old.
Throughout Sun Jian's life, he has served as a county clerk, won people's hearts, has considerable political ability, and is also extremely politically minded, and can be keenly aware of Dong Zhuo's hidden danger as soon as possible, which should be eliminated as soon as possible. In addition, he was good at governing the army, and gradually developed a team of a thousand people into a strong force of tens of thousands of people. Sun Jian's military talent was outstanding, and the army he led was the only army that had confronted Dong Zhuo several times. However, Sun Jian's reckless and risk-taking character weakness buried his life. And his reckless, risk-taking personality is largely due to his lack of long-term strategic planning, only indulging in the victory or defeat of the current battle.