This man has a falling out with his mentor Yuan Shao after trying to curb the power of the Ten Attendants.
This man's two spies confirm that another character's "self-torture" flogging ruse was actually legitimate, leading this man to be misled during a major engagement. This man dies after developing rheumatism in the skull and refusing a physician's offer to split his skull open with an axe to extract fluid. He built the Bronze Bird Pavilion and has his son compose a rhapsody to demonstrate his intent to capture a pair of sisters. This man has a conversation in which he says that there were only two heroes in the realm: himself and the man with whom he is having tea. This man has a falling out with his mentor Yuan Shao after trying to curb the power of the Ten Attendants. He escapes from Luoyang after failing to use the Seven Star Sword to assassinate Dong Zhuo. His linked ships are destroyed by a fireship strategy devised by Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang. For 10 points, name this founder of the Northern Wei state, who lost at the Battle of the Red Cliffs, an antagonist of most of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
This man's two spies confirm that another character's "self-torture" flogging ruse was actually legitimate, leading this man to be misled during a major engagement.
Cao Cao [or Cao Mengde; or Cao Ahman; or T'sao Ts'ao; prompt on "Cao" or "T'sao"]