Category: Episodes (page 13)

When Zhuge Liang finds himself in the same room as the Southlands’ foremost academics, the gloves come off and jabs fly. Verbal jabs, of course.

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• No map or key characters graph this week since everything happens in basically one building in Chaisang and we aren’t introduced to anyone significant.

Zhang Fei’s cunning is the only things standing between Liu Bei and Cao Cao’s army. Well, that and his really loud, really deadly voice.

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All hell breaks loose as Cao Cao’s troops catch up to Liu Bei. Out of this hell rides his general Zhao Yun, with a precious package strapped to his chest.

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Zhao Yun’s Fight Scenes

Which is your favorite?

1994 TV Series

The two guys at 1:21:42: You weren’t stabbed off your horses. You jumped! And those two foot soldiers flying through the air at 1:24:31, oh man!

2010 TV Series

A much more impressive fight sequence, though the scene at 33:45 is a little too over the top for me.

“Red Cliff” Movie

“No, how can a general be without his horse?!” As he slaughters a whole detachment of baddies on foot while cradling a baby in one arm.

Zhuge Liang burns another detachment of Cao Cao’s troops, but there are plenty more where that came from.

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Zhuge Liang blazes to victory in his first battle, but Cao Cao turns up the heat on Jing Province.

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While Sun Quan prepares for a retaliatory strike from Liu Biao, Liu Biao and Liu Bei brace for an invasion by Cao Cao.

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We leave Liu Bei with his new sage and check in on what the Sun clan has been up to.

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