Liu Bei

Appearance
Liu Bei has a decent appearance, kind brows, and pleasant eyes, from head to toes.

History
Liu Bei grew up in a poor family, having lost his father when he was still a child. To support themselves, Liu Bei and his mother sold shoes and straw-woven mats, a very difficult livelihood. On the southeast corner of Liu Bei’s house, there was a mulberry tree of fifty foot tall. From afar, the tree looked like a canopy of a chariot. All the passersby felt that this tree was not something from the earthly world and believed that there will certainly be a nobleman originating from this house. In his childhood, Liu Bei played underneath the tree with other kids and pointed at the mulberry tree and said “In the future, I will certainly ride a feathered canopy chariot like this one!”

Sure enough, although Liu Bei did not show any ambitions from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he had been constantly calling himself a Han royal clansman and was even finally recognized as one by Emperor Xian of Han.

Story
Liu Bei was expelled from Xu Province for the second time after he was expelled by Lu Bu quite some time ago.

This time due under pressure of his grain and provisions depleting, Cao Cao did not pull any punches fighting Liu Bei. He sent out all of his elites, including the newly-reformed Ferocious Cavalry. Liu Bei could not defend nor counter-attack due to severe lack of personnel who were willing to fight for him. Although he had several tens of thousands soldiers under him, all of them were remnants of the Yellow Turban Rebellion that were reformed and then renamed the Qing Province soldiers which were forcefully taken from Cao Cao. They did not have sense of belonging toward Liu Bei, so naturally they were fighting half-heartedly and that was the cause of Liu Bei's defeat.

Liu Bei who was expelled out of Xu Province, quickly asked the commoners of Pengcheng County and Xiapi to leave Cao Cao. In their eyes, Liu Bei was a benevolent ruler, so they quickly followed him to escape like at Changban. At the surface it was showing his benevolence toward the world, but the truth is those commoners became his meat shield in order to slow down the enemy advance, further demonizing Cao Cao. When Liu Bei saw Cao Cao withdraw his offense, he quickly ordered those commoners to disperse and return to their own home. Meanwhile, Liu Bei also seized this opportunity to bring several thousand elites with the Qing Province soldiers to look shelter in Yu Province's capital Runan, taking shelter under Liu Pi.

Relationships

 * Zhang Fei: Sworn brother.
 * Guan Yu: Sworn brother.