General Huang Lin Bao

Introduction
Huang Lin Bao is a Chinese general specialized in Incendiary Weapons in Command & Conquer: Generals: Contra. His super unit is the Zhu Rong.

Biography
He was born in an isolated village near the Datong volcano site. His family was part of an ancient local cult devoted to Zhu Rong, the God of Fire, many of his ancestors were even the cult leaders. For thousands of years the cult used to sacrifice human beings by throwing them into the volcano to "appease" their god and "get his favors", although it was believed that the Datong volcanoes were officially inactive for 100 000 years. In spite of the cult's questionable ethics the village's isolation from the rest of China kept it safe from the imperial authorities who didn't bother to interfere. The cult lasted until the end of the Chinese Civil War in the 1950s when Mao Zedong took over, resulting in a political cleansing of the Chinese territory. The cult was then abandoned under the threat of a penalty of death. Bao's great grandfather was the last cult leader and was sentenced to death for having opposed the government's demands, along with seven other members, thus definitely putting an end to the cult. Still, some traces of the cult remained deeply in the village inhabitants' spirit, especially in Bao's. He discovered his twisted passion for fire during early childhood when he burned ants with matches or by making the sun a lethal weapon with the use of a magnifying glass at the age of 5. As he grew up he was an utterly unruly student, dangerously experimenting with fire in chemistry classes, playing games in which his schoolmates were literally risking their skin or doing pranks involving fire to his teachers. Everyone at school was so scared of him that the headmaster expelled him when he was 16. Bao's parents couldn't take his behaviour anymore and sent him to the army in hopes that he would get more discipline. And so started his military career. After two years in the army - where he earned more self-discipline (although it hasn't been easy for him at the beginning and even harder for the drill sergeants) - He attended the PLA's National Defence University at Beijing. General Leang was also part of his promotion, it was even rumored that the were secretly dating, there was no proof to these rumors however. There he studied the art of war and the effectiveness of incendiary weapons, his favorite subject. Three years later he elaborated interesting theories about incendiary weapons and how to make them more powerful and effective - his religious knowledge from the ancestral Cult of Zhu Rong also contributing to his work - and even started giving conferences about his theories. That attracted the attention of the Chinese military leaders who immediatly offered him a good place in the army in exchange of his contribution to the improvement of the Chinese military power. He became a Triple A general at the age of 21. He grew into a little more mentally stable man and met a woman whom he married six months later. Although he had the reputation of being like a volcano (calm on the outside and boiling with rage on the inside) he lived a happy life with his beloved and beloving wife, until the First GLA War started in 2013. During a military parade in Beijing GLA terrorists began their attack with suicide explosives, killing hundreds of civilians and soldiers and injuring many more. Bao was attending the parade and his wife was among the civilians. When the first GLA waves stroke Bao desperately looked for his wife in the confusion. He eventually succeeded in finding her and tried to take her to safety but a truck exploded near them. The explosion instantly killed Bao's wife and burned his left hand to the third degree. The loss of his wife was more painful to him than his injury, at the point where he went berserk, got in the first unoccupied Dragon Tank he could find and burned down every GLA fighter on his way, it took hours to his superiors to finally calm him down. Since then he swore to never find rest until the GLA is completely eradicated from the surface of the Earth. Eventually the GLA was defeated by the US Army and the world knew a decade of peace. In this period of peace Bao was entrusted the responsibility of a newly-founded Flame division thanks to his contribution to the Chinese incendiary weaponry and moved his base in the Datong's largest volcano, the "only place where he feels at home", where he secretly experimented new weapons. In 2023 the GLA resurfaced and declared war to the USA and China once again. But this time Bao was prepared to obliterate them with his newest creations: the Zhu Rong, an artillery tank that can shoot magma, and the Atmospheric Lens, a gigantic magnifying glass sent into space to turn the sunlight into a lethal weapon.

Trivia
Bao's portrait is based upon the Chinese commander featured in one of the Command & Conquer: Generals promotional posters