Liu Bei’s strategy for finding Zhuge Liang: Go up to anyone in Nanyang who can rub two words together and ask, “Are you Sleeping Dragon?”
Liu Bei gets really broken up about Xu Shu’s departure, until he learns there’s someone much smarter.
Approach Liu Bei on the street, sing a song, get invited to his office, advise him to give his horse to an enemy, get C-suite job.
Liu Bei gets invited to a feast, but Lady Cai and her brother ruin the fun when they try to kill him.
The surviving Yuan brothers get a cold reception from their host up north, and Liu Bei commits a dinner-table faux pas down south.
Riding a wave of inevitability, Cao Cao sweeps the Yuan brothers out of their territories.
The eldest and youngest sons of Yuan Shao take on their most hated foe — each other.
Yuan Shao finally has enough of Cao Cao, and now it’s his sons’ turn to get stomped.
Cao Cao puts a couple more smackdowns on Yuan Shao, but then gets distracted by a pesky old foe.
Night raids, catapults, tunnels, fires. All these and more in a CG-packed episode and one of the most important clashes in the novel.