Zhou Yu
Chinese military general and strategist (175-210)
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Lived 175–210, aged 35China
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Updated 2026-06-09
A general who stopped an empire from swallowing the south whole. Zhou Yu commanded the outnumbered fleet that shattered Cao Cao's invasion at Red Cliffs in 208, carving out the territory that would become Eastern Wu — though he died at 35, years before it took that name.
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Zhou Yu served under Sun Ce, then Sun Quan, two warlords holding the Yangtze region as the Han dynasty collapsed. In late 208, Cao Cao marched south with a vast army, threatening to unify China under northern rule. Zhou Yu led the allied defense at the Battle of Red Cliffs and won decisively, then beat Cao Cao again at Jiangling in 209. Those victories locked in Sun Quan's foothold. In 210, while preparing to push west into Yi Province, Zhou Yu died at 35. Twelve years later Sun Quan declared the state of Eastern Wu, built on the ground Zhou Yu had held. The 14th-century novel Romance of the T…
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