Tao Qian

History
Tao Qian's hometown is Danyang. During his youth, Tao Qian was a strong man and helped to quell Beigong Boyu and the Han Sui Rebellion. He also fought at the crusade against Dong Zhuo. After quelling the Yellow Turban, Old Tao quickly took root in Xu Province and assigned his Danyang soldiers to guard Xu Province. 30,000 troops were assigned to guarantee Xu Province's safety and finally Cao Cao hit Xu Province after Cao Song's death. At that time, if both sides did an all-out battle, they would have perished together and Old Cao would spurt out blood due to the damage done. However, Tao Qian was unable to achieve that, because at his side there was very incompetent senior general called Cao Bao and also Tao Qian's two incompetent sons. Although Old Tao urged Liu Bei in order to protect his inheritance in Xu Province, he had been hit by Cao Cao twice and neither those assaults manage to take him down. His begging to Old Cao in Pengcheng county, was because again his descendants were all useless people and unable to receive his inheritance.

Afterwards, when he was sealed as the Governor of Xu Province, Xu Province was still engulfed in war by the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Tao Qian quickly took 3,000 troops from his Danyang. They had not yet undergone training for battle, but we're able to quell the Yellow Turbans by themselves alone.

Old Tao died of old age while Cao Cao kept advancing for his conquest. After Tao Qian died, the Tao clan would definitely be exterminated by Cao Cao as tribute to Cao Song. So, Old Tao, in order to create an insurance so that his Tao clan can be preserved, asked Liu Bei to take ownership of Xu Province and made these three tigers, Liu Bei, Lu Bu and Cao Cao fight together to the death. During that chaos, the Tao clan quickly withdrew from Xu Province and disappeared from history's footnote and Cao Cao also had forgotten the Tao clan as if his father was never murdered in Xu Province.