凌操 / Ling Cao (late Han)

Overview

凌操 / Ling Cao enters the bounded wiki as 凌统’s father, whose death by 甘宁 creates a blood feud that 孙权 must contain inside the Eastern Wu command structure.

Current Profile

Hanji 1086 says Gan Ning kills Ling Cao with an arrow while saving 黄祖. The episode does not develop Ling Cao’s wider career, but his death remains operationally important because Ling Tong later serves in the same regime as Gan Ning and seeks revenge until Sun Quan intervenes.

Key Characteristics

• Father of Ling Tong.
• Killed by Gan Ning while Gan Ning serves Huang Zu’s side.
• His death creates a durable private grievance inside Sun Quan’s later officer corps.

Evidence

• Death and cause: Hanji 1086 attributes Ling Cao’s death to Gan Ning’s arrow during Huang Zu’s rescue.
• Organizational afterlife: Hanji 1086 presents Ling Tong’s continuing revenge intent as a risk Sun Quan addresses through prohibition and separation.

Qualifications

The page rests on one short retrospective passage and does not establish Ling Cao’s full offices, campaigns, death setting, or independent character.

What Changed

• Created the page to ground the cause of Ling Tong and Gan Ning’s feud.

Relationships

• 凌统 - son whose revenge motive preserves the consequence of Ling Cao’s death.
• 甘宁 - opposing fighter credited with killing him.
• 黄祖 - commander whom Gan Ning is said to protect in the fatal encounter.
• 孙权 - later ruler who contains the feud inside his officer corps.