

Seeing this, the pirates were deceived and fled.

Sun Jian jumped on shore with a sabre in hand and pointed in different directions as if commanding a detachment of soldiers to surround the pirates. When he was 16, Sun Jian travelled with his father to Qiantang, where they encountered a band of pirates dividing up their spoils on land. Sun Jian was a civil official in his home county during his youth. Even his father's name is unrecorded, although a folk tradition gives it as Sun Zhong ( 孫鍾). No more immediate records survive, indicating his family probably played a very small part during the Han dynasty. He was allegedly a descendant of Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War. Sun Jian was born in Fuchun County ( 富春縣), Wu Commandery, around present day Fuyang, Zhejiang. ( May 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Sun Jian was also the father of Sun Quan, one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms era who eventually established the Eastern Wu state and declared himself its first emperor in 229, whereupon Sun Jian was given the posthumous title Emperor Wulie ( 武烈皇帝). In 191, Sun Jian was killed in battle during an offensive campaign against Liu Biao. After the coalition disbanded in the next year, China fell into civil war. Although he controlled neither many troops nor much land, Sun Jian's personal bravery and resourcefulness were feared by Dong Zhuo, who placed him among Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao as the most influential men at that time. He allied himself with Yuan Shu in 190 when warlords from eastern China formed a coalition to oust Dong Zhuo, a tyrannical warlord who held the puppet Emperor Xian in his power. info)) (155–191? ), courtesy name Wentai, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.Sun Jian ( Chinese: 孫堅 pinyin: Sūn Jiān) ( pronunciation ( help
