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Cao Cao

Xiahou Jie

Prime Minister, this man has killed over 50 of our generals

Who's that man

Let me find it out

General, could you leave your name?

Zhao Yun of Changsan

Zhao Yun of Changsan

What a valiant general

Catch him alive

The Prime minister orders to capture him alive

Don't shoot arrows

The Prime minister orders to capture him alive

Don't shoot arrows

Though you have not sworn brother

It is believed the gathering is prearranged

While brave, loyal to the Han Dynasty you remain

Deep feeling grown out of the Peach Garden still retain

Breaking through the enemy besiegements, singlehanded

The opponents are frightened to death at your crushing spirit

Blood stained is the military gown

At Dangyang Bridge your loyalty is shown

Oh, General Zhao Yun is peerless and powerful

Together with the other four generals, are famed all

Though you have not sworn brother

It is believed the gathering is prearranged

While brave, loyal to the Han Dynasty you remain

Deep feeling grown out of the Peach Garden still retain

Breaking through the enemy besiegements, singlehanded

The opponents are fightened to death at your crushing spirit

Blood stained is the military gown

At Dangyang Bridge your loyalty is shown

Oh, General Zhao Yun is peerless and powerful

Together with the other four generals, are famed all

Oh, General Zhao Yun is peerless and powerful

Together with the other four generals, are famed all

Bridge of Dang Yang

Zhang Fei, help me

Hurry up! I'll stop the pursuers!

Madam Gan

Zhao Yun

Lord

Liu Bei

Zhao Yun

Lord

Zhao Yun

My guilty can't be forgiven even Put me to death

Lady Mi was severely wounded but she refused to mount my horse

She threw herself into a well

I buried Lady Mi in the well by pushing down the wall

I've threw my way out with the young lord in my bosom

Stand up, please

We fortunately succeeded in escaping thank to the lord's grand luck

The young lord cried a good deal For some time

But now he has not stirred ar made a sound

I fear he might be dead

Lord. My dear child

He is all right

To preserve that sucking I very neraly lost a senior general

Lord, if I were ground to powder I couldn't prove my gratitude

Wen Pin

Cao Ren

Are they ambushed soldiers? Is it a trick of Zhuge Liangs

Report to the Prime Minister immediately

I'm Zhang Fei of Yuan

Who dare fight with me?

GuanYu once said that

Zhang Fei was the sort of man to go through an army of a million men

And take the head of its commander easily

Now here is that man in front us We must be careful

I'm Zhang Fei! Who dare fight with me

I'm afraid there are ambushes on the other side of bridge

What do you mean, cowards You'll neither light nor run away

Retreat

In the 13th year of Jian'an period 208 A. D

Under the menace of Cao's powerful

Liu Cong surrendered to Cao Cao

So Liu Bei had to flee from Fancheng

and cross the Yangtze Rive with his people to Hanjin

He turned to Liu Qi for refuge in Jiangxia

Now Cao Cao, with his victorious 800, 000 troops

Gathered at the north bank of the Yangtze River

And cast greedy eyes on the six prefectures in the south of River

It'd be better to go over the EastWu and ask help from Sun Quan

And we can support each other

Then the north and south will stand facing each other

And we can get some advantage between them

Sun Quan has plenty of intelligent people

He must have ambitions of his own Could he accept us

Lord

Report! Sun Quan has sent Lu Su to pay a condolence call here

And his ship has pulled in to shore

When Sun Ce died, did Xiangyang send any condolences

Between them and us there was the death of my father to avenge

How could I do that?

Then it's certain that Lu Shu is not

Coming to present condolences but to find out the real situation here

Cao Cao with his one million troops

Holds the districts of the Han River And south of the Yangtze River

To protect his domain

Sun Quan will certainly send someone to find out our position

And ask an alliance against Cao Cao

It's good Lu Su had come

I'll borrow a little boat and make a trip over the river

Trust my little tongue

To set north and south to attack each other

If the south wins, we will assist in destroying Cao Cao to get Jingzhou

If the north wins, we'll profit by a victory to get south of the River

A very good idea

We're approaching Chaisang

For the good of our common cause I've a request to make

When you meet my lord

You'll never tell the truth about the magnitude of Cao Cao's army

I don't promise to do what you ask but I'll know how to reply

Please, Please...

Lord

Report

Lord, LuSu came back from Jiangxia and is waiting for an interview

Let him in immediately

Yes. Mr. Lu Su is wanted

My respects

You're back at the right time

Cao Cao has sent us a letter today

And we're gathering here to discuss how to reply it

Sit down, please

When I received the imperial command to punish a fault

My banners went south and Liu Cong became my prisoner

His people flocked to my side

With an army of million men and many able generals undr my command

I hope we go to a great hunting to Jiangxin and together attack Liu Bei

We'll share his land between us and swear perpetual amity

Don't try to be a mere onlooker

I need your quick reply

What have you decided upon, my lord

I've not yet decided We're now discussing

Lord

It would be imprudent to resist Cao Cao's hundred and thousands of troop

Backed by the imperial authority

If we are not to resist

Our most important defence is no more them the yangtze River

But since Cao Cao has taken Jingzhou

The River is this ally against us

We can't withstand him

The only way to tranquility, in my opinion is submission

His words accord with the wishes of heaven

Don't hesitate, my lord

Submission to Cao Cao means

Tranquility and safety for the people and land of East Wu

Oh, what a chilly autumn night that makes people shiver

Submission is selfprotection

Cao Cao has a million troops

What do you say

What they have all been saying will cause you a life long regret

A common man might submit

But you can't

Why

If people like us submit we might keep our official position as before

If you submit, you will be made a Marquis perhaps

You'll have one carriage one saddle horse

A few attendants and no more

Will you be able to sit facing the south and to be a king?

All are thinking for themself and are selfish. Don't listen to them

But make you own decision quickly and determine to play a bold game

What they said disappointed me

Now you've just spoken of a bold game your view is the same as mine

Surely Heaven has sent you to me

Still Cao Cao is now the stronger by all Yuan Shao's army

And he has possession of Jingzhou

I fear he is too powerful to be withstood

I've brought here Zhuge Liang brother of Zhuge Jin from Jiangxia

You could ask him and find out the actual situation of Cao Cao's army

He's really here

Yes, he's in the guest house now

It's too late to see him today

Tomorrow I'll assemble my officials and officers here

You will introduce him to all my best

After that we will debate the matter

The lord

Allow me to take leave

When you see my master

Say nothing of the magnitude of Cao Cao's army

You reminded me many times in the boat yesterday

Please

Well, he's coming

You'd never frighten my master by careless talk

Don't worry. I'll do as I see fit and make no mistakes

This is Master Zhuge Liang

Great pleasure to meet you

This's General

Zhang Zhao

With pleasure

Gu Yong

Yu Fan

Bu Zhi

Xue Zong

Lu Gong Ji

Yan Jun

Cheng Bing

With pleasure

Please

Master Zhuge

Master Zhang Zhao

Anything I can do

I'm the most insignificant of our officials

People say you compare yourself with those two famous men of talent

In history, Guan Zhong and Yue Yi. Is it true?

To a trifling extent I have compared myself with them

I heard that LiuBei visited you trice when you live in your cottage

You agreed to serve him, he said he was as lucky as fish in water

He desired to take the districts of Jingzhou and Xiangyang

Yet today all these districts beling to Cao Cao

I'd like to hear your account of all that

What's your account of all that

I think the taking of the districts is easy like turning over one's hand

But my master is both righteous and humane and would not bear to take

Over the possessions of his brother He refused the offer of succession

But LiuCong, a stupied lad, misled by specious words submitted to CaoCao

So Cao Cao prevailed

My master is now in camp at Jiangxia

But what his future plan is can't be told at present

If it is so, your words and your deed are not keeping with each other

You say you're the equal of the two famous persons

Well, Guan Zhong put his master at the very head of the feudal nobles

Under the able statesman ship of Yue Yan the feeble country

Of Yan conquered Qi with a land nearly eighty cities

These two were men of most commanding and conspicuous talent

But Liu Bei before he got your help was an outcast

And a vagabond, yet stole a city here and there where he could

But with you to help him, why then Did his army hare to throw aside

Their arms and armor and flee like rats in the facing of Cao Cao's army

You abandoned Xinye, fled to Fancheng you were defeated at Dangyang

And turn to Xiakou with nearly no place to rest in

Thus, after you had joined Liu he was worse off than before

Was it thus...

With Guan Zhong and Yue Yi

I hope you don't mind my blunt speech

How can the common birds understand the long flight of the roc?

While in retirement in Longzhong of Nanyang

Whenever I met someone who was seriously ill

The physician would tell his family to first give the sick liquid food

Then soot drugs until he gained his strength

Then the sick may be given meats to strengthen his energy and strong drugs

To correct the disorder, the disease would be expelled and the man restored

If the physician didn't wait till he humors and pulse were in harmony

But threw in his strong drugs so Early, the patient won't be restored

My master suffered defeat at Runan and went to Liu Biao

He had then a few hundreds of soldiers and only three generals

That was indeed a time of extreme weakness

Xinye was small and secluded town with a few inhabitants and scanty supplies

Yet with insufficient force in a weekly defended city

With untrained men and inadequate supplies

He burned Caocao's camps at Bowangpo And drowned his army on the BaiRiver

Caocao's generals XiahouDun and CaoRen were frightened into running away

I wonder whether your two ancient heroes would have done any better

As to the defeat at Dangyang, it must be remembered that my master was

Hampered with many voluntary people following him with aged and children

He was too humance to abandon them and never thought of taking Jiangling

But willingly suffered together with his people

This is a striking instance of his magnanimity

Small forces are no match for large armies

Winning or losing a battle is a common occurrence

The founder of the Han Dynasty suffered many defeats

But he finally had a decisive victory at Gaixia

Was not it due to the strategy of Han Xin

Indeed, the great cause of a country the restoration of stable government

Depend on real statesmen with their master plans

That can neither depend on those ignorant and senseless quibbler

Nor specious and deceitful talkers

Those who pretend to be superior to the rest of mankind

But fall to throw up a single capable man

When it comes to deeds and decisions at the critical moment

Truly such people are only the laughing stock of all the world

Caocao is stationing million troops Is casting a greedy eye on Jiangxia

Would you please tell us

What would be your plan to face this dangerous prospect

Caocao acquired the swarm of Yuan Shoa and stolen the crowds of Liu Biao

Yet I don't care for all his troops

You were defeated at Dangyang and in desperation fled to Jiangxia

You could hardly find a place to rest in

Now you've come here to ask for help

Even then you said you didn't care

But do you think big talk really takes people in

Isn't it Yu Fan

It's too early for you to laugh

Just think, how could Liu Bei with only 1000 of scrupulous soldiers

Be able to oppose a million fierce brutes

Yet Liu's army was united as one and determined to resist

They fought bloody battles in spite of suffering many defeats

While the soldiers of East Wu are good with ample supplies

And the Yangtze River is a strong natural barrier

Yet someone is advising his master to bend the knee before renegade

Regardless of laughers of the world

Compared with that Liu Bei isn't the sort of man to fear a rebel Caocao

When you served the governor of Kuaiji

You advised your master to surrender to Sun Ce

And now while serving Sun Quan you advise him to surrender to Cao Cao

It appears that's a recurrence of an old illness

Zhuge

You've gone too far in bullying others

Oh, Brother Bu, I'm sorry

Are you coming to talk of a land of EastWu with a tongue like the tongue

of Su Qin and Zhang Yi in the past?

Do you regard those two as mere speculative talkers

You don't recognize them also as real heroes

Suqin born the prime minister's seals of six states

ZhangYi was twice prime minister of Qin

Both were men of ability who brought up the reformation of the government

They're not to be compared with those who fear the strong

And bully the weak, and those who fear the dagger and run away for safety

You've listened to Cao Cao's threatening words

And that has frightened you into advising submission

Dare you ridicule Su Qin and Zhang Y i?

May I ask what you think of Cao Cao

He's one of the rebels against the Dynasty. Why ask about him

You're mistaken

The Heaven have outlasted their allotted time and the end is near

Cao Cao has twothirds of the empire and people are turning to him

Your master has not recognized the fateful moment and contend with a

Man so strong as if you're smashing with eggs. Failure is certain

Why do you speak so undutifully. As if you know neither father nor lord

Loyalty and filial duty are the essentials of a man

For a minister of Han Cao Cao's forefathers enjoyed bounty of Han

But instead of showing gratitude He has the intention of rebellion

Isn't he a national rebel?

The whole world is incensed against him

And yet you would claim for him the indication of destiny

Truly you're a man who knows neither father nor lord

You're a man unworthy of any words I decline to argue with you further

Although Cao Cao orders the nobles about in the name of the emperor

Yet he's the descendant of a minister

Your master has no proof though he says he's an offspring of a prince

In the eyes of the world he's just a weaver of mats, seller of strawshoes

Who's he to contend with Cao Cao

Are you not that Lu Ji who pocketed

The orange when you were sitting among Yuan Shao's guests

Listen to me. I've a word for you

In as much as Cao Cao is a descendant of a minister

He's by heredity a servant of the Hans

He's monopolized all state authority and knows only his own arbitrary will

Not only he forget his lord but also ignores his ancestors

Not only is he a rebel of the Hans but also the renegade of his family

Liu Bei is a descendant of imperial family

The emperor has contented upon rank to him as is recorded in the annals

How can you say there is no proof

The founder of the dynasty was of low origin and yet he became emperor

Where is the shame in weaving mats and selling straw shoes

Your mean and immature views

Are unfit to be mentioned in the presence of scholars of standing

Your words are overbearing and you distort reason

It's not proper argument

But I'd like to ask you what classical canon you studied

The bookworms are used to selecting passages and choosing phrases

But do they initiate a policy or manage an affair

I'd never follow their steps

Statesmen of transcendent ability of ages didn't follow classical canon

Great names in history like Yin Yi who was a farmer

Jiang Zhiya who was a fisherman

ZhangLiang and Chenping of a dynasty they were all men of great talent

I've never heard of what classical canon they studied

Unfortunately the present day scholars know only classical canon

Spend their days on literary articles

I think they are just wasting both time and ink

Your big words. But they don't give any proof your scholarship after all

I'm afraid a real scholar would just laugh at you

There's different kinds of scholars

The noble scholar, and the mean type

There's the noble scholar, loyal and patriotic

His concern is to act in full sympathy with his day

And leave to future ages a fine reputation

There's the scholar of the mean type a pedant and nothing more

He labors constantly with his pen composing odes

Thousands of words flow from his pen

But there's not a solid idea in his heart

Let's look at Yang xiong. He glorified the age with his writing

And yet stoopsed to serve a tyrant When Wang Mang usurped the throne

Finally he had to throw himself out of a window

That's the way of the mean scholar Though he composes hundreds odes

What's the use of him?

I know you're a noted scholar of Runan

I did read some of your writings

I wish you would be the noble scholar

Not the mean one like Yang Xiong

Leaving to future ages a bad reputation

Zhuge Liang

Shear nonsense

Stop all that

Zhuge Liang is a man of brilliant talent of the day

This is not paying proper respect to an invited guest

You sit there trying to entangle him in speech while our enemy is nearing

Instead of discussing how to oppose the enemy

You're all wrangling and disputing

Master, zhuge Liang

General Huang

Though it may be gained by talk there's more to be got by silence

Why not give my lord the advantage of your valuable advice

In stead of wasting time in discussion with the crowds

The pressing issue is how we two could be united to resist Caocao

Perfectly true

Just now I had to speak when pressed by these scholars

Please follow me to see my lord

Well, excuse me

Zhuge Liang is too arrogant and despises us all

He's invited to meet our lord now

That'll spoil our plans and destroy our country