Shu Han

Shu (in Chinese: 蜀), also known as Shu Han (in Chinese: 蜀漢), are the heroic faction in the 14th-century Chinese classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by the late Luo Guanzhong, and its multiple adaptations. They are one of the three influential kingdoms in China. In the Dynasty Warriors game series, the kingdom is symbolized by the color green and a Chinese dragon as a reference to Qinglong. Shu is sometimes symbolized by peach blossoms, a reference to the Peach Garden Oath.

Biography
Shu Han is founded by Liu Bei after conquering the Yi province, however, he become the emperor of China. After many years of wars with his neighbors, especially Wei, who suffered 5 invasions by Zhuge Liang and 11 expeditions by his successor Jiang Wei, making a total of 16 invasions without much success. During this last period Shu was marked by growing corruption at the hands of Huang Hao leaving the kingdom in poverty.

While Jiang Wei's expeditions depleted the limited resources, material and human, and the kingdom. Sima Zhao] was fed up with the invasions of Jiang Wei and wanted to send a murderer to kill him, however a counselor told him that the best thing would be to conquer Shu and sent an army of 160,000 to conquer the kingdom. Deng Ai and Zhong Hui commanded the army. Together they are took Hanzhong and marched to conquer what was left of Shu. The conquest came to a standstill when Jiang Wei and Liao Hua settled in Jian'ge and stopped the 130,000 army of Zhong Hui with only 50,000. The campaign would have failed had it not been because Deng Ai crossed a hilly road and reached the capital after defeating the army led by Zhuge Zhan in Mianzhu. After this he surrounded Chengdu and Liu Shan is also surrendered.

Zhong Hui is manipulated by Jiang Wei, declared his independence from Wei and rebelled against the reign of Sima Zhao and declared his independence in Shu. However, this was discovered and Jiang Wei and Zhong Hui both died at the hands of their own soldiers. Deng Ai was later reached and killed as well.

Trivia

 * Shu is the faction that has the most playable characters.