
Deals 1,400 damage with his active skill.Due to his skill set, he synergy pretty well with most of legendary commanders in Rise of Kingdoms. He is a specialized cavalry commander who excels at dishing out serious amounts of damage and a very powerful attacker when it comes to fighting against neutral units like barbarians. He was the first person in Chinese literature to write a literary review (Dian Lun), and his poem Yan Ge Xing was the first seven-character poem recorded in Chinese history.Cao Cao is one of the best legendary cavalry commanders for China in Rise of Kingdoms. However, he was also a famous poet and promoted literature that would continue to flourish in the centuries after his death.

He died in AD 226 at the young age of 39.Ĭao Pi was mostly remembered as an Emperor, the successor of Cao Cao, a winner of political campaigns against his brothers. He died two years later at the young age of thirty-nine. Cao Pi’s campaign was a failure and again the Wei Emperor was no closer to fulfilling his goal. Cao Pi got away, however, Zhang Liao was hit by an arrow in his loins. As they retreated further up the river Huai, they were again ambushed, this time by Ding Feng. He was rescued by Zhang Liao and Xu Huang. He was saved by his officers, but not long after they turned around, their army was ambushed by Sun Shao and his force. Cao Pi ordered his fleet to turn around, but the winds were so powerful that his boat was brought down. Cao Pi lead the fleet to cross the Great River at night, but they were scared of by a fake wall made by Xu Sheng of Wu. Their troops number to more than 300,000. His fleet was lead by Cao Zhen as Commander Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Wen Ping, and Xu Huang were Chief Commanders Xu Zhu and Lu Qian were guards of the Center Army and Cao Xiu commanded the rear guard the strategists were Liu Ye and Jiang Ji. He then made his beloved concubine Empress, and she took care of her step-son Cao Rui.In the autumn of the fifth year of Yellow Dawn (AD 224), Cao Pi assembled a great fleet to attack the Kingdom of Wu.

In the year 221, Cao Pi forced his wife Lady Zhen to commit suicide through a ruse of Lady Guo. In the year AD 221, Cao Pi conferred the title of King of Wu to Sun Quan. Cao Zhang made an attempt to secure the Imperial Court before his brother could, but he was too late, so he ordered his troops to go back and he went on to pay homage to his brother. Cao Pi also put Yu Jin to shame for his loss against Guan Yu, which caused him to become ill and die.

He demoted his brother Cao Zhi to Lord of Anxing. Cao Pi continued his father’s wars against the Kingdoms of Shu and Wu but was mostly unsuccessful. The reign title was changed from Rebuilt Tranquility to Yellow Dawn. After his father’s death, Cao Pi forced Emperor Xian to abdicate the throne and proclaimed himself Wei Emperor. In AD 219, he fought his second battle as a commander, fighting at Hanshui against the Shu army under Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun. )Later on in the twenty-second year of Rebuilt Tranquility (AD 217), Zihuan took the post of Prime Minister and was titled Prince Wei. (Although Cao Zhi is a talented poet, he was not fit for a ruler. During the competition between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi made various mistakes that eventually lost trust to his father, while Cao Pi steadily built his own supportive group of officials and were believed to be the better candidate. He was considering both Cao Pi and Cao Zhi as his heir.

He then needed to appoint his heir for the throne. In the twenty-first year of Rebuilt Tranquility (AD 216), Cao Cao was crowned King of Wei. In AD 211, Cao Pi defeated Tian Yin and was appointed Imperial Corps Commander and Deputy Prime Minister. He also wed the widow of Yuan Xi, Lady Zhen. He took it over and won a victory there, destroying Yuan Shao's army. In AD 200, the same year as Guandu, he was placed in charge of an entire army to invade the region of Hebei, the Yuan Family's possession. He guarded the city of Xu Chang with half a million soldiers after the defeat of Yuan Shao at Guan Du. At the beginning of his career, Cao Pi was mostly in charge of defense with his brother Cao Zhi. Out of all these brothers, Cao Pi was the best candidate for Cao Cao, for he displayed talent in both literature and military. Cao Pi was the founder of the Kingdom of Wei.Ĭao Pi was the eldest son of Cao Cao and his wife Lady Bian, and brother to Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi.
