三 国 演 义 Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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Story Cao Cao was appointed as chancellor and led his forces south to attack Liu Bei after unifying central and northern China. He was defeated twice at Xinye by Liu Bei, but Liu eventually had to flee due to the great size of Cao Cao's army. Liu Bei led his followers and the civilians on an exodus further south until they arrive at Jiangxia. Liu Bei sent Zhuge Liang to meet Sun Quan and discuss the formation of a Sun–Liu alliance to counter Cao Cao. Sun Quan agreed and placed Zhou Yu in command of his army in preparation for an upcoming war with Cao Cao. Zhuge Liang remained temporarily in Wu to assist Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu felt that Zhuge Liang would become a threat to Wu in the future and attempts to kill him on a few occasions but ultimately fails and ends up having no choice but to cooperate with Zhuge Liang for the time being. Meanwhile, the Sun–Liu forces scores a decisive victory over Cao
Cao at the Battle of Red Cliffs. Sun Quan and Liu Bei starts vying for control of southern Jing Province after their victory at Red Cliffs, but Liu won and takes over the territories from Cao Cao's general Cao Ren. Sun Quan remained unhappy and sent messengers to ask Liu Bei to "return" the province to him, but Liu dismissed the messengers each time with a different excuse. Sun Quan was unwilling to give up, so he follows Zhou Yu's plan into tricking Liu Bei to come to Wu and marry his sister Lady Sun and then hold Liu hostage in exchange for Jing Province. However, the plan fails and the newlywed couple returned to Jing Province safely. Zhou Yu later dies in frustration after Zhuge Liang repeatedly foiled his plans to take Jing Province.
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