The Sixty Seven Generals of the Three Kingdoms
Every General in the game, with the epithet and the line of history it gives them. Twenty serve Wei, twenty Shu, twenty Wu, and seven answer to no one.
Wei
Strategist
Cao Cao
the Hero of Chaos, 5 star
Xu Shao called him a capable minister in peace and a treacherous hero in chaos; he laughed and took the second.
His history
Strategist
Sima Yi
the Wolf Who Looks Back, 5 star
He outwaited Cao Cao, outlasted Zhuge Liang, and left his grandsons an empire that had not been his.
His history
Warrior
Zhang Liao
the Terror of Hefei, 5 star
At Xiaoyao Ford his eight hundred broke Sun Quan's host, and in Wu his name was used to quiet crying children.
His history
Warrior
Xu Chu
the Tiger Fool, 4 star
Cao Cao's bodyguard, who once dragged an ox backward by its tail for a hundred paces.
His history
Warrior
Zhang He
the Master of Maneuver, 4 star
He left Yuan Shao at Guandu and served Wei for thirty years, until the crossbows at Mumen Road.
Warrior
Deng Ai
the Conqueror of Shu, 4 star
A stammering farm official who took Chengdu by marching where no army could.
Warrior
Xiahou Dun
the One-Eyed General, 4 star
Struck in the eye by an arrow, he pulled it out and ate the eye, saying he would not waste a gift from his parents.
His history
Warrior
Xiahou Yuan
the Swift Raider, 4 star
His men marched five hundred li in three days, which served him well until Dingjun Mountain.
Warrior
Dian Wei
the Guard at Wancheng, 4 star
He held the camp gate at Wancheng with a halberd in each hand so that his lord could reach the river.
His history
Strategist
Guo Jia
the Demon Talent, 4 star
Cao Cao's favorite strategist, whose counsel won the north and whose death, Cao Cao said, lost Red Cliffs.
His history
Warrior
Cao Ren
the Wall of Fan Castle, 3 star
He held Fan Castle through flood and siege until the relief came, and regarded the matter as routine.
Warrior
Cao Hong
the Loyal Cousin, 3 star
At Xingyang he gave Cao Cao his horse, saying the realm could do without Hong but not without him.
Warrior
Xu Huang
the Axe of Wei, 3 star
He broke Guan Yu's siege lines at Fan, and Cao Cao walked seven li out of camp to greet him.
Warrior
Yu Jin
the Stern Marshal, 3 star
Thirty years of strict command, undone in one afternoon when the Han River rose at Fan.
Warrior
Yue Jin
the First Up the Wall, 3 star
A short man who was first up every wall Cao Cao ever besieged, or near enough.
Strategist
Xun Yu
the King's Aide, 3 star
He counseled Cao Cao to hold at Guandu, later opposed his ducal title, and did not survive the disagreement.
Strategist
Jia Xu
the Venomous Counsel, 3 star
He advised five masters in turn, outlived the ruin of most of them, and died in his bed at seventy-six.
Warrior
Pang De
the Coffin Bearer, 3 star
He marched to Fan with a coffin at the head of his column, and it was used.
Strategist
Cao Pi
the Literary Emperor, 3 star
He ended four centuries of Han with a ceremony, and wrote an essay on literature in his spare time.
Strategist
Zhong Hui
the Ambitious Prodigy, 3 star
He conquered Shu alongside Deng Ai, had him arrested, rebelled, and was dead within the month.
Shu
Warrior
Guan Yu
the Saint of War, 5 star
He cut down Yan Liang amid ten thousand men at Baima, and later ages raised temples to him as a god of war.
His history
Strategist
Zhuge Liang
the Sleeping Dragon, 5 star
Liu Bei called at his cottage three times, and was given the Longzhong Plan and the next twenty-seven years.
His history
Warrior
Zhao Yun
the Dragon of Changshan, 5 star
At Changban he carried Liu Bei's infant son through Cao Cao's whole army and out the other side.
His history
Strategist
Liu Bei
the Imperial Uncle, 4 star
A sandal seller of royal descent who lost nearly every battle he fought and still founded an empire.
His history
Warrior
Zhang Fei
the Thunder of Changban, 4 star
He held the bridge at Changban with twenty riders and a shout, and Cao Cao's army did not cross.
His history
Warrior
Huang Zhong
the Veteran of Dingjun, 4 star
Past sixty when he cut down Xiahou Yuan at Dingjun Mountain, he took it as proof that he was not yet old.
His history
Warrior
Jiang Wei
the Young Qilin, 4 star
Zhuge Liang's chosen heir, he marched north eleven times and never reached Changan.
Warrior
Ma Chao
the Splendid, 4 star
At Tong Pass he chased Cao Cao so hard that the chancellor cut off his own beard to pass unrecognized.
His history
Strategist
Pang Tong
the Fledgling Phoenix, 4 star
Liu Bei's other great strategist, killed by an arrow at a place already named Fallen Phoenix Slope.
Warrior
Wei Yan
the Guardian of Hanzhong, 4 star
He held Hanzhong for fifteen years, and Zhuge Liang never trusted the shape of his skull.
Warrior
Zhou Cang
the Blade Bearer, 3 star
A reformed mountain bandit who carried Guan Yu's blade and, at Maicheng, followed him in death.
Warrior
Liao Hua
the Last Vanguard, 3 star
When Shu had no great generals left, went the saying, Liao Hua led the vanguard.
Strategist
Jian Yong
the Old Companion, 3 star
Liu Bei's boyhood friend from Zhuo, who lounged in the presence of lords and was always forgiven for it.
Strategist
Mi Zhu
the Merchant Patron, 3 star
A Xu Province magnate who gave Liu Bei two thousand servants, a fortune in gold, and his own sister.
Strategist
Xu Shu
the Silent Counsel, 3 star
He left Liu Bei to save his mother, recommended Zhuge Liang on the way out, and never advised Cao Cao at all.
Warrior
Guan Ping
the Loyal Son, 3 star
Guan Yu's son, who fought at his side from the siege of Fan to the end at Maicheng.
Warrior
Guan Xing
the Heir of the Blade, 3 star
Guan Yu's son, who in the tales cut down Pan Zhang at Yiling and took back his father's blade.
Warrior
Zhang Bao
the Heir of the Spear, 3 star
Zhang Fei's son, who in the tales carried his father's serpent spear against Wu.
Warrior
Ma Dai
the Hidden Blade, 3 star
When Wei Yan shouted to ask who dared kill him, Ma Dai answered from behind and settled the question.
Warrior
Wang Ping
the Unlettered General, 3 star
He could write barely ten characters, yet his warning at Jieting was the only sound advice given there.
Wu
Strategist
Zhou Yu
the Handsome Commander, 5 star
He was thirty-three when he burned Cao Cao's fleet at Red Cliffs, and could hear a wrong note across a banquet hall.
His history
Warrior
Sun Ce
the Little Conqueror, 5 star
He crossed the Yangtze with a few thousand men, took Jiangdong in five years, and died at twenty-five.
His history
Strategist
Lu Xun
the Scholar General, 5 star
Dismissed by the veterans as a bookish youth, he burned Liu Bei's forty camps at Yiling in a single night.
His history
Warrior
Taishi Ci
the Archer of Donglai, 4 star
He fought Sun Ce to a draw at Shenting, lost the war, and was given command of the men he had fought.
Warrior
Huang Gai
the Veteran of the Fire Ships, 4 star
He took a flogging to make a false surrender believable, then set the river on fire.
Strategist
Sun Quan
the Green-Eyed Lord, 4 star
He inherited Jiangdong at eighteen and held it for fifty-two years against every rival who tried.
His history
Warrior
Sun Jian
the Tiger of Jiangdong, 4 star
First over the walls of Wan and first into burned Luoyang, he died at Xiangyang to archers in the woods.
Warrior
Gan Ning
the Belled Raider, 4 star
A river pirate whose men wore bells, he raided Cao Cao's camp at Ruxu with a hundred riders and lost none.
His history
Strategist
Lu Meng
the Soldier Turned Scholar, 4 star
A soldier who took up books at Sun Quan's urging, and later took Jingzhou from Guan Yu in white robes.
Strategist
Lu Su
the Architect of the Alliance, 4 star
He foresaw three kingdoms before anyone, and held the alliance with Liu Bei together past all reason.
Warrior
Sun Shangxiang
the Lady of the Bow, 4 star
Sun Quan's sister, whose hundred armed maids made her husband Liu Bei nervous in his own chambers.
Her history
Warrior
Cheng Pu
the Elder of Wu, 3 star
He served three generations of the Sun family and was called Duke Cheng by all, being the eldest of them.
Warrior
Han Dang
the Rider of Liaoxi, 3 star
A northern horseman who rode with Sun Jian against Dong Zhuo and stayed with the Sun family for good.
Warrior
Zhou Tai
the Scarred Guardian, 3 star
He took twelve wounds shielding young Sun Quan at Xuancheng, and Sun Quan later counted the scars aloud.
Warrior
Jiang Qin
the Frugal Admiral, 3 star
He crossed the river with Sun Ce and lived so plainly that Sun Quan replaced his mother's curtains himself.
Warrior
Ling Tong
the Vengeful Son, 3 star
He swore to kill Gan Ning for his father's death, then owed Gan Ning his life at Ruxu and let it go.
Warrior
Ding Feng
the Blade in the Snow, 3 star
At Dongxing he had his men drop their armor and charge up the snowy bank with short blades, and won.
Warrior
Xu Sheng
the Maker of False Walls, 3 star
He raised walls of reed and cloth along the river at Guangling, and Cao Pi took one look and turned back.
Warrior
Zhu Ran
the Defender of Jiangling, 3 star
He held Jiangling for six months against Wei with half his garrison sick, and never opened the gate.
Strategist
Zhang Zhao
the Stern Elder, 3 star
Sun Ce left him the government, and he spent thirty years telling Sun Quan things he did not want to hear.
Neutral
Warrior
Lu Bu
the Flying General, 5 star
He served Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, killed them both, and was surprised when no one else would trust him.
His history
Strategist
Diaochan
the Beauty Who Shamed the Moon, 5 star
A singer in Wang Yun's house who set Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu against each other, and so ended a tyranny.
Her history
Mystic
Zuo Ci
the Wandering Immortal, 5 star
At Cao Cao's banquet he fished perch from a basin, then walked out of every cell built to hold him.
Warrior
Dong Zhuo
the Tyrant of Luoyang, 4 star
He entered the capital to restore order, deposed an emperor, burned the city, and stored grain for thirty years.
His history
Warrior
Gongsun Yuan
the King of Yan, 4 star
He took a title from Wei and gold from Wu, beheaded the envoys, and crowned himself beyond the Liao.
Mystic
Zhang Jiao
the General of Heaven, 3 star
A healer with a book of the Great Peace, whose followers rose in yellow turbans across eight provinces at once.
His history
Warrior
Gongsun Zan
the White Horse General, 3 star
He led a cavalry of white horses that the northern tribes learned to flee on sight.
The groupings history remembers
The Five Tiger Generals of Shu
The novel's name for the five whose biographies Chen Shou set in one chapter of the Records.
- Guan Yu, the Saint of War
- Zhang Fei, the Thunder of Changban
- Zhao Yun, the Dragon of Changshan
- Ma Chao, the Splendid
- Huang Zhong, the Veteran of Dingjun
The Five Elite Generals of Wei
Cao Cao's best field commanders, grouped the same way in the Records.
- Zhang Liao, the Terror of Hefei
- Yue Jin, the First Up the Wall
- Yu Jin, the Stern Marshal
- Zhang He, the Master of Maneuver
- Xu Huang, the Axe of Wei
The four Grand Commanders of Wu
Each in turn held the Yangtze line for Sun Quan, from Red Cliffs to Yiling.