The Romance of Cao Cao

This is real history...

In the final years of the Eastern Han, warlords rose up across the land. How did Cao Cao, born into a family of eunuchs, suddenly rise to prominence after the age of thirty-five and become the great villain of a troubled age? When he crossed the Yangtze, were the two Qiao sisters really locked away in the Bronze Sparrow Tower? One cannon blast harmed three worthy men. Just how powerful was that blast?...