Sun Ce and Establishment of Eastern Wu - Three Kingdoms DOCUMENTARY

[Music] in our previous video on the Three Kingdoms period we covered the conflict on the northern frontier of ancient China between the great warlord sau sau and you and Shou culminating in the decisive battle at guandu in the year 200 today we shall move the spotlight from the northern lands and cast it upon the coastal southeast of China where another fascinating warlord son sir would instigate the rise of another of the three kingdoms of the third century this video is brought to you by total war three kingdoms a brand new strategy game that combines a gripping turn-based campaign of empire building statecraft and conquest with stunning real-time battles choose from a cast of legendary warlords and conquer the realm unite China under your rule forge the next great dynasty and build a legacy that will last through the ages recruit heroic characters to aid your cause and dominate your enemies on military technological political and economic fronts will you build powerful friendships 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inseparable friends with the threat of dong tuo now out of the way you and Xiao and human shoes forces began to jostle for influence and position in this time soon Jan was sent by his patron to challenge an ally of you and Xiao Niao in a battle on the mountain slopes near the city of Xiang yang in 191 soon Jan was killed by an arrow sincer who was just 16 years old was now forced to take his father's place at this point un shoes fortunes seemed to have begun a steep decline he was forced to abandon his attempts to conquer territory in Leo's heartland in Jing province in 193 UN shoes holdings were invaded from the north by South Island his armors in a series of battles yuan Shu was defeated multiple times and was consequently driven southeast while most of his domain in the Fertile Yellow River region had been annexed despite this he still controlled the largest army in the southeast of China and his losses compelled him to regroup in the Huai Valley with a new base at showtune the arrival of yuan shu and his command in show chin had brought an immediate change to soon sirs situation having likely leveraged his reputation as a promising youth and as the eldest son of sun jian soon saw had begun to collect a small following of his own this included a man named Liu fan a refugee from rounin who had brought a hundred retainers to serve since sir and another man named Sinha one of sin Jan's former personal bodyguards and confidants with this small entourage soon sir appeared before his father's former patron in show gern in early 194 after outlining his father's dedication to yuan Shu he offered his services to this Lord yuan Shu was said to have been impressed and allocated the former followers of Sun Jian to Sun sir despite his misfortunes in the previous years yuan Shu had begun to annex neighbouring commanderies as soon as he arrived in show Chen as he brought Danyang under his control he sent whooping and soon been relatives of son sir to the province as leading administrators you and Shu then encouraged the rising young man to join his relatives in that region probably as a means of getting the ambitious youth out of his way for several months soon sir stayed in danyoung gradually increasing his number of followers and gaining crucial military experience in petty warfare against local enemies barbarians and bandits after suffering a defeat at the hands of a local chieftain named zhulong soon sir travelled to see yuan Shu again who transferred a further 1000 troops to serve under him in addition he was granted the flowery title of colonel who cherishes righteousness after conquering the treacherous commander II of a personal enemy Liu Kang in you on shoes name soon so expected to be appointed to the post of grand administrator in that region as he was promised however you and shoe broke that vow and instead awarded the position to another subordinate Lucian it is likely that at this point sensor became disillusioned with his nominal patron nevertheless in 195 the burgeoning commander was sent to fight against luau a warlord in the south who had been encroaching onto you and shoes territory he quickly crossed the Yangtze with five thousand men and defeated a general named Jiang yang at dangley before moving on a massive storage Depot at new Zhu where he plundered the supplies before proceeding to establish a camp after a few subsequent indecisive skirmishes with Liao scamander's soon sir cleverly outmaneuvered them and instead marched first on mo Ling to the north modern Nanjing and then on to Chu are to the east seizing both in a lightning campaign in early 196 and making the latter his new headquarters in a politically savvy move soon sir proclaimed that no reprisals would be taken against the soldiers who had fought for Lu Yao moreover any deserter who wished to fight in his victorious army would be welcomed heartily within a few weeks he had gained a stunning twenty thousand footmen and over one thousand cavalry in recognition of this success yuan Shu granted censored the title of acting general who destroys criminals despite the defeat of Lu Yao many small factions in the hills and the countryside had used the fighting as an opportunity to reestablish themselves among them a local tribal leader known as white tiger yan and a former officer of liao Taisha sir in the second half of 196 soon sir attacked and defeated both of them consolidating his roof over the region back to the north un Shu made a fatal mistake in the summer of one ninety seven he proclaimed himself emperor of a newly founded Jang dynasty almost all combatants in this long civil war claimed to be fighting for the restoration of the Han Dynasty so such a declaration was tantamount to becoming an outlaw and it gave censor a justification to break all allegiance with him to great war lords in the north south sow aunt Lu boo now attacked you and shoes territory and drove the warlord south of the Hawaii River diminishing his holdings and his power greatly at this point an imperial decree signed by Emperor Shan who was under Stiles influence ordered censor to join the alliance against yuan Shu meanwhile another Imperial edict suspiciously appointed Chen Yu an associate of south south to administer the wu commander II instead of cooperating with soon sir Chen Yu began to plot with the white tiger yan and other various rebel groups in sensors territory to act as agents against him when censor found out he marsh south and took a bloody toll on the white tiger yan at the same time he sent an army under general Lu fan to annihilate the forces of Chen Yu which he promptly did quickly realizing he was better off assisting the young man sow sow had the Emperor bestow upon censor the title of Marquis of Wu rather than weakening and restraining censor sow sow scheming had only confirmed him in all of his territorial acquisitions the commanderies of Wu Wei Zhi and eastern half of Danyang further seeking to expand his holdings soon sir pushed west of the yang sir and defeated and captured Xue Liang and new Yuans old general taisiya sir at this point it would have been understandable for the skilled and threatening figures to be executed but soon search showed his political acumen and instead gave them respect and mercy in the future they would become some of censors most capable officers this proves to be a useful act when Lu Yao passed away in late 198 as Taisha sir was his former subordinate soon sir ordered him to venture west perform reconnaissance on the late Warlord's territories and to persuade his former allies to come over too soon sirs side he went off with a small party and returned a few weeks later reporting that only anarchy neglect and division were present in the current governance of the area consequently since sir decided that he would conquer Yu Jiang the following year as since his army prepares to again move west up the Yangtze River in early 199 the young leader discovered that yuan Shu had finally passed away lúcia the man to whom yuan Shu had granted censors promised commander II had inherited many of his troops and his court eager to gain revenge against this old rival soon sir resorted to a clever trick of diplomacy he pretended to be friendly with Lucien and urged the new administrator to attack the wealthy city of Shanghai au which was outside of his province fooled by sensors friendliness he did so and an army under soon Ben and Sun Phu subsequently cut Lucian's lines of communications supply and retreat back to his own region meanwhile sincer himself commanded a force which advanced besieged and seized Huang city capital of the Liu Jian commander II when the naïvely own learning as a stir his foolishness had brought to him he fled to a man named Huang zu to ask for assistance the man who had killed son gen so many years before at Shang Yang Guang zu son brought five thousand extra troops and a fleet of ships down the Yangtze to support Lucian which the Allies were defeated anyway two thousand men were captured by soon sirs army and many ships along with them after this second humiliating defeat Lucian fled north to the court of sow sow while since sir assaulted Huang zu zone headquarters at shashin proclaiming that he would gain justice for his father's death soon sir proceeded to win a great victory in the last month of 199 when knowledge of this reached South salvar a letter sent by son Sir himself he was reported to have said that wolf cub it will be difficult to deal with him though he gained victory over all of these enemies in the West soon sir could not go any further up the yang sir he then retreated back to the area of pungi lake in order to ease these stresses of supply and communication pivoting south soon sir now prepared to invade Yu Jiang and Lu Ling not much detail of these campaigns survived however Yu Jiang was annexed as he departed home in the late spring of 200 AD soon sir had risen from obscurity to command the most powerful army in southern China and perhaps one of the most powerful in the Empire these developments were also a relief to soon sir as the white tiger yawn once again rebelled in his home province of Wu encouraged by the Xu Gong the former governor of Wu commander II who had escaped to the white tiger Yan Xiu Gong was quickly captured and strangled to death while his followers were scattered to the countryside as sent sir was a good horseman and hunter he often out spared many of his entourage when he was searching for his scattered foes during one of these expeditions soon sir became separated from his friends unfortunately it was at this moment that he encountered three of Shu gongs former soldiers who loosed three arrows at him two of them missed their mark but the last struck him in the jaw soon sir was brought back to camp with this serious wound and was incredibly upset about it despite the doctors promised that he would be fine if he rested and stayed quiet as the wound was on his mouth that night the 5th of may 200 ad soon sirs wounds broke open and he passed away he was 25 years old and his conquests had laid the foundation for the second of the three kingdoms Eastern wound our series on the conflicts of the three kingdoms will continue so make sure you are subscribed to our channel and have pressed the bell button we would like to express our gratitude to our patreon supporters and channel members who make the creation of our videos possible now you can also support us by buying our merchandise via the link in the description this is the kings and Generals channel and we will catch you on the next one

Channel: Kings and Generals

Views: 445,708

Rating: 4.9290266 out of 5

Keywords: three kingdoms, sun quan, cao cao, sun jian, sun ce, zhuge liang, han dynasty, liu bei, chinese history, dynasty warriors, red cliff, zhou yu, kings and generals, history channel, historia civilis, history lesson, full documentary, animated documentary, documentary film, decisive battles, roman empire, military history, world history, ancient history, ancient rome, total war three kingdoms, guandu, historical documentary, animated historical documentary

Id: IsjKqvpZH2E

Length: 15min 9sec (909 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 31 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Sennius]

Love these guys

[u/zirroxas]

Great episode! It gets the essence of Sun Ce's conquests down pat and shows why they were so impressive. Kinda sad they never brought up his "Little Conqueror" moniker, but that's mostly just me liking Xiang Yu references.

There are a lot of mistakes in the surrounding geography.

[u/HelloDarkestFriend]

I can see why they call him "The Young Conqueror" - that's a pretty darn impressive list of conquests for someone who started at age sixteen and only lived to be 25.

[u/Bruce_Louis]

Kings and Generals documentaries are top of the flight and some of the best on not only YouTube, but all of documentary production history.

[u/Hue_Long]

The narrator has a channel as well, I remember him making a video about 3 kingdoms. The channel's called officiallydevin

[u/Jas_S_M]

Probably my favourite “hero” of the time period, one part they didn’t mention is that when Sun Ce went to Yuan Shun for troops, Yuan Shu didn’t want to let him go, Yuan Shu called Sun Ce the son he never had.

Sun Ce traded the imperial seal (the one Sun Jian found in the ruined old capital, and also the one that got him killed on the way home) for his freedom, some troops and some of his fathers old officers.

[u/highsis]

Like the last video when they failed to mention Guan Yu, they didn't mention Guo Jia's accurate prediction in the video. Could have made an interesting trivia.