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.
Sun Ce starts seeing his favorite Daoist priest here, there, and everywhere.