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-We`re back. -How is Joyoung?

Is it true that they`re not giving him a drop of water?

He is so thin that we couldn`t bear to look at him.

Bastards! They`re going to put him in a fighting match after putting him half to death?

-They`re calling it a fighting match, but it`s an execution. -We can`t lwt them do this.

We have to get Joyoung out before they put him through this!

How tight is security? Can we get them out?

-We don`t have the luxury to contemplate right now. -What`s there to think about?

We must get him out before it`s too late!

All right. We will do it tonight.

But know that all of us will die, if we fail

You will get in trouble standing here.

Go on. Go.

I`m a Goguryeoan.

The Tang Chinese say bad things about you, but to me you are a hero.

Drink, Joyoung! Drink!

Please win for us tomorrow.

There`re lots of Goguryeoans like me in Chang`an. You will win for us, won`t you?

I`m not confident that I can. But even if I lose,

I will show them how brave we Goguryeoans are.

I won`t disappoint the Goguryeoans of Chang`an.

Thank you, general.

What is your name?

My name is Gao Xianzhi.

Gao Xianzhi...

You!

You little twerp!

You have a death wish!

Who is your father?

This is my fault.

-Take your hand off of him! -Silence!

Take me to your father at once!

That`s enough!

Are you the boy`s father?

I am General Go Sagae of the Imperial City Guards.

Sir, we are not allowed to give these prisoners any food or water.

I heard you.

Please take your boy, sir.

Joyoung, it`s General Go Sagae! He`s become a Tang general!

-Get them down! -Aye!

What are you going to do to us?

General Li Wen is waiting for them. Get them down at once!

-Aye! -Hey, wait!

Move it! Move it!

It looks like you`re still holding up

Try what you will, but you won`t beat me.

Never,

I like your confidence.

Bastard, put him down! Put him down now!

I said put him down! I`ll fight you, you blasted bastard!

Put him down!

That`s enough. Put him down.

-Joyoung! -General!

You won`t be breathing when he`s done with you tomorrow?

It`s a fight to the death.

This will be your last night in this world, so sleep tight.

Take him away!

-Lock them up! -Aye!

Joyoung, think of something.

I`ll fight him instead of you.

I`m better off than you are.

I eat well normally, so a few days without food doesn`t faze me.

Don`t worry about me.

-I`m all right. -No, you`re not.

You`re so weak you can`t even stand.

I`m all right, really.

I can`t watch you die again.

I`d rather die instead.

I will not die.

I made a promise to that boy Gao Xianzhi.

I am going to win the fight tomorrow.

Joyoung...

You provide entertainment, to my otherwise dull day, General Li Wen.

It is my pleasure, Your Highness.

He`s a man of impressive stature.

He represents the Tang Empire. I would not choose anyone less.

Clear the way!

Is that Dae Joyoung?

Yes, Your Highness.

Let the match begin.

Begin!

I`m not dead yet.

Let`s fight.

Blasted bastard!

Get up, son.

You can`t go down like this.

You are the son of Goguryeo! You are fighting for Goguryeo!

Joyoung, don`t give up.

Open your eyes and fight!

You can`t.....

You can`t let him beat you, Joyoung....!

What are you waiting for? Kill him!

Stop!

-The winner is not to be killed. -But your Highness!

You fought for your life and won.

What do you want as your prize?

It is only fair that I award the winner. What do you want?

Dae Joyoung,

the Empress has ask you a question.

Give me food.

I`ve gone without food for six days. Give me and my brothers....food....

-Joyoung! -General!

Is this true?

You starved him for six days before the fighting match?

He is truly an impressive man.

He defeated a giant beast after six days without food!

Feed them.

And you are not to execute them without my order.

But Your highness, Dae Joyoung is my prisoner.

The Imperial court will decide what to do with the criminal of high treason.

Your Highness....

The rumors are quite true.

Dae Joyoung is indeed an impressive man.

General!

General, have you fared well?

Welcome, General Dae Jungsang!

It`s wonderful to see you all. I heard what you`ve been through.

Say hello.

My name is Gao Xianzhi.

You are a smart looking child.

We have a lot to talk about. Let us go inside.

Your grace,

How did you get in here?

We bought off the gate guard.

Auhong, it`s you!

Your Majesty,

Master Mimosa is trying to get you out.

Mimosa?

Yes,

Go on. How is he going to get us out?

Listen to me carefully.

Tomorrow morning a physician will come in to see you.

Guards are here to take you to the palace.

The Imperial court of Tang will be dealing with you from now on.

What will happen to my niece?

Please let me stay with the king. I must take care of him.

I`m afraid we can`t. Take him!

Yes, sir.

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

-Your Majesty! -Sukyoung....

what is it, general? Does this wench please you?

It`s Auhong from Tsui Sing Lau!

-Seize her at once! -Yes, sir!

Sire!

-They have Auhong? -Yes.

Not only that, they have taken His Majesty into the palace.

It`s becoming more difficult to rescue the king.

How much longer must we stay here?

If we can`t save the king, we have no reason to stay with the Goguryeoans.

But we can`t give up now!

If only General Dae were with us.....

It`s from the Empress.

You`re lucky bastards.

Let`s go.

Joyoung, let`s eat.

Mapa, let`s eat.

What`s wrong? Is there something in the food?

It`s a tooth.

I guess it broke off.

It`s all right. Let`s eat.

What`s wrong?

I`m awful.

You were nearly killed out there, and here I am all excited about food.

Sudol...

Forgive me, Joyoung.

I did nothing to help you, and I have the gall to shove food in my mouth....

Go on and eat.

No, I can`t.

Go on and eat.

How could I eat the food you got for risking you life?

You have to eat.

We have to eat anything we can get our hands on if we`re going to get out of here alive.

Joyoung....

We must survive

so we can avenge our brothers and our prople. Our lives are not our own.

We cannot die. We have to survive. So eat the food.

I`m sorry.

I upset you again. I`m sorry...

I never dreamed Dae Joyoung would beat Wugol.

I would have neve set up this match if I had known.

Dae Joyoung is not our problem right now. Our problem is TheEmpress motive for keeping Dae Joyoung alive.

He motive? Are you inplying the she has other plans?

The Empress is an ambitious woman.

The only reason why she pushed Xue Rengui aside and helped you this time was to steer the political situation to her advantage.

And?

And now she wants to handle the prisoner herself. It`s a sign that she`s having different thoughts.

King Bojang`s been taken into custody of the palace guards. We cannot lose Dae Joyoung.

A subtle rivalry developing here between us and the Empress.

Yes, you`re right.

I can`t kill Dae Joyoung now, but I can`t lose him either.

Do you have a plan?

-Yes, an infalliable plan. -What is it?

Whar is your plan?

You`ll find out soon enough.

And you don`t have to worry about losing Dae Joyoung

-Li Kaigu and Chulin just went into the palace. -What for?

-I`m told the Empress summoned them. -What ? They`re meeting the Empress?

I knew it.

The Empress is having second thoughts.

I care little about a man`s origin or status.

If the country is to thrive, I must give respect where respect is due.

I will not forget how you fought along side our troops for this empire.

When will we be granted Yingzhou prefecture?

My man, we`re here to give greetings to the Empress.

Save that for later.

I don`t know when I will see the aexalted Empress again.

Please give us an answer.

You must be Li Kaigu.

Yes.

I`ve heard about you.

You did great work in both conquest of Goguryeo and in cleaning up the Dongmyounchun League.

What is this?

It is a hand written letter from you agreeing to give us Yingzhou.

You state clearly in this imperial letter that Yingzhou prefecture will be turned over to the Khitans once Goguryeo is conquered.

An imperial letter?

I was merely the Emperor`s woman when I wrote this.

But now I am governing the empire on behalf of the Emperor.

I`m compelled to make decisions base solely on the interest of the empire. That is why I can`t give you Yingzhou.

If this promise is broken, Tang will forever become an enemy to us!

General Li, watch your tongue!

That may be just a piece of paper to you, but that ;etter was the hope and future of the Khitan tribe.

How can there be good will when you`ve trampled our future?

Please stop.

You can`t put a head back on a neck when it comes off, and you can`t put words back in your mouth once it`s been said.

I will not think one thing and say another to the Empress even if my head comes off right now!

My man!

Your Highness,

-please forgive this man for his insolence. -No, General Xue.

No one has ever been so straight and honest to me before. Most hide their displeasure and smile at me in fear of my power.

But here is a man that dares to glower at me and express his rage.

I am delighted beyond words to have met such a man.

Your Highness!

I`m not saying that I`m never going to give you Yingzhou. I`m simply saying now is not the right time.

How is that answer? Does it alleviate your rage?

I just hope you`re being truthful.

Of course I am.

General Li Kaigu,

Yes, Your Highness.

I need good men around me.

How do you feel about staying here insted of going back to Yingzhou?

I need someone strong, straight and honest like you. Someone who is not afraid to tell me the thruth, like a good friend.

How about it? Will you stay?

Lady Chulin is master.

I will need her permission to stay.

My man!

She`s the Khitan Khan`s daughter, so of course she is your master. Would you give me Li Kaigu?

Would you allow him to be my servant?

Need I answer that question? It would be a lasting honor to the Khitans.

I like your decisiveness.

Li Kaigu and Chulin....

The Khitans have a bright future.

You single handedly achieved what thousand of Khitan soldiers have failed to achieve.

We didn`t come here just to transport the prisoners.

If you can be near the Empress, this is a god-given opportunity.

This is a huge blessing for you and the tribe.

Nothing is set in stone. Don`t celebrate yet.

No, general.

Power is for the taking.

The man closest to the scepter will acqirue the most.

General Xue is taking longer than I thought.

He must have a lot to discuss with the Empress. I will look into it.

I`m sorry.

But if I had failed to ein the Empress`s heart, your life may have been put in danger as well.

Thank you, Kaigu.

I`m also going to do everything I can for us and our tribe.

You and our son Geom is all that matters to me.

You don`t know how much this means to me, Chulin.

Did you call, sir?

-Prepare the troops for a long trip immediately. -A long trip now at this time of the night, sir?

I have to put Dae Joyoung out of sight before the Empress takes him.

-Put him out of sight, sir? -I can`t kill him myself,

so I`m going to make him sie on his own. There is no time. Prepare to depart now.

Yes, General. Let`s go!

-Get them out! -What`s going on?

Where are you taking us?

Let`s go!

-Joyoung was taken? -Yes, sir.

-Lord Mu Yeom is following them right now. -Where are they taking him at this time of the night?

-What do you think? -I don`t know.

Perhaps they`re taking him to the palace jail.

-General, I`m back. -Where did they take Joyoung?

-They took them out of the city. -Out of the city?

-Not to the palace but out of the city? -I couldn`t follow them out

because they closed the city gate right behind.

Which city gate did they leave from?

-It was a small gate between the north and the east gate. -Are you certain about this?

Yes, sir.

They can`t be... They can`t be!

What`s ourside that small gate, sir?

There`s a chance they are taking him to Mt.Guifu.

Mt.Guifu?

There`s a slave camp at the base of the mountain. And those that are taken there never come back alive!

Let`s go to Mt. Guifu.

We have to get those boys out, Jungsang!

General Dolbal,

didn`t you hear what I said?

Once you go in there, you never leave alive. A hasty attempt will get all of you killed as well!

-Still no sign of Mimosa? -No, sir.

Palbo and Geumlan are gone as well. I`m afraid they may have left us.

They are Beakje people.

-They probably felt they no longer had a reason to help us. -We swore unity for the cause if they betrayed us,

we must find them and kill them.

What are we to do? How do we rescue Joyoung without Mimosa?

What are you up to?

-Put that sword away! -Silence!

You betrayed us and you were running away.

We were on our way to see General Dae Jungsang.

I found a way to rescue General Dae. There`s no time for this!

What do you mean exploit the political situation to save Joyoung?

As long as he is in Mt. Guifu, swords and soldiers will prove futile in getting him out.

Only politics can save him.

Politics?

I am completely lost.

Empress Wu Zetian is rising to power in this empire. But she has many forces around her keeping her in check.

Yes, mainly the descendents of the founding fathers. It`s expected since Empress Wu come from a lowly concubine background.

So the Empress has begun, to place competent men around her to fight these forces.

Most of them are lower-class from the border region.

Are you saying Empress Wu may come to Joyoung`s rescue?

Joyoung lef the mercenaries that killed countless Tang officials.

No one can save him from getting the death penalty.

The Empress can.

And the only one that can convince the Empress is Xue Rengui.

Xue Rengui?

You`re not making any sence.

The sky will fall before Xue Rengui helps us.

We have to win him over.

That`s the only way to save General Dae.

-There is no way to win him over! -That`s why we must exploit the current political situation.

Explain to us.

How can we exploit the political situation to save Joyoung?

The year was AD 681.

King Bojang was taken back to Tang for his attempt to revive Goguryeo,

and Tang China was in a state of political confusion.

As Gaozong`s illness worsened, Empress Wu Zetain began to seize power.

Empress Wu Zerain...

She entered the imperial house as Li Shimin`s concubine and won his son Gaozong`s heart becoming his empress,

then arose to become the first and only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor.

Empress Wu killed her own daughter to get where she is today.

Now that she`s begun to reveal her ambition for power, opposition will be fierce.

Then if we exploit this situation...

Empress Wu is desperately looking for a new force that will help her rise.

I think I understand.

You`re talking about using the Empress to get Joyoung out.

Yes, sir.

I know it`s a long shot, but the only shot we have.

Let us drink, khan.

Wanrong, it`s good to see you.

I heard about the problems you are having.

That Li Wen...

Li Wem can try whatever he wants.

He will never outdo Li Kaigu and Chulin, so have no fear.

Where`s Li Kaigu and Chulin anyway?

They are busy carrying out Empress Wu`s direct order.

What do you mean?

Empress`s direct order?

I don`t know the particulars, but Her Highness has become very fond of them.

Shin Hong said Li Kaigu and Chulin will acquire Yingzhou prefecture while Li Wen is preoccupied with Dae Joyoung.

I was told Dae Joyoung was taken to Mt. Guifu prison camp.

Li Wen took him there himself.

Then Dae Joyoung is as good as dead.

Yeah....

They put their prisoners through labor worse than death at that camp.

Li Wen won`t let Dae Joyoung die that easily,

But keeping Dae Joyoung alive could be....

Dae Joyoung has escape death many times but he won`t live through this.

He`s in Mt. Guifu.

No on makes it out of there alive.

-Joyoung! -We have a long way to go!

Get up and move!

Blasted bastards! Stop!

How touching.

So much brotherly love....

We`ll see if you brotherly love survives when we get to where we`re going.

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