Three Kingdoms 365
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 113] The West Gate at Xiangyang — Liu Bei’s escape from Xiangyang’s west gate after a tense banquet
On the third morning after leaving Xinye (新野), Liu Bei's (劉備) party reached the west gate of Xiangyang (襄陽). The road before the gate was narrow — a breadth in which two horses could hardly stand side by side. Liu Bei dismounted, hel…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 112] A Man Come from Xiangyang — Liu Bei and Guan Yu weigh an invitation from Xiangyang.
From Xiangyang (襄陽) to Xinye (新野) was half a day by horse. Late that afternoon, a man who had ridden that half-day without rest reached the east gate of Xinye. The man who dismounted was a civil officer in his mid-forties. The hem of h…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 111] The Scroll at the Southern Window — Cao Cao studies Xinye on the Jingzhou map, where Liu Bei waits
On the evening after Ma Teng's (馬騰) name had been set upon the scroll, Cao Cao (曹操) sat at the southern window. The candles on the western side of the Chancellor's residence had already gone out. Only the southern window stood open, an…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 110] Hoofbeats from Xiliang — Cao Cao lists Ma Teng and Ma Chao in his scroll, notes ‘wait for the time’
On the morning after his arrival at Xudu (許都), a dispatch came up from the west. The sun had not yet fully risen above the eastern window. Two or three sparrows in the courtyard of the Chancellor's residence took turns pecking at a singl…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 109] On the Road to Xudu — Cao Cao returns to Xudu with Guo Jia’s coffin
From Yijing (易京) to Xudu (許都) was a thousand li. The procession that bore Guo Jia's (郭嘉) coffin at its head came down south a beat slower than an ordinary march. Xun You (荀攸) bent his knee twice every morning — before the march, an…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 108] The Last Single Beat — Guo Jia dies; Cao Cao mourns him at dawn
Guo Jia (郭嘉) passed from this world around the third watch of that night. Cao Cao (曹操) watched at his side to the last, as Guo Jia's hand grew cold. From the end of that cooling hand, a final thin breath slipped away. Cao Cao's eyes re…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 107] Fengxiao — Guo Jia leaves his final counsel to Cao Cao on governing the realm
The next evening, the lamp inside Guo Jia's tent flickered, large and final. Before that flicker, Guo Jia sat leaning against the wall. Sitting. Not lying down. Yet not sitting by his own strength either. Xun You (荀攸) supported his shoul…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 106] Two Heads from Liaodong — Cao Cao receives the heads of the two Yuan brothers
For five days the wind had blown through the main camp at Yijing (易京). It was a northern wind carrying sand. Whenever it brushed past Guo Jia's (郭嘉) tent, the canvas corner gave out a low moan. Guo Jia had lain bedridden for five days.…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 105] The Escort from Xinye (Session D1 — Liu Bei leads 5,000 Xinye households south after Cao Cao’s advance.
A year after the fire of Boyang Slope (博望坡) had scattered the hundred thousand of Xiahou Dun (夏侯惇), Cao Cao (曹操) personally led five hundred thousand great army southward toward Jingzhou (荊州). Liu Biao (劉表) passed away that aut…
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[Three Kingdoms 365 · Day 104] The First Fire at Boyang Slope — Zhuge Liang defeats Xiahou Dun’s 100,000 troops at Bowang with fire
A few days after Zhuge Liang (諸葛亮) entered the gate of Xinye (新野) on his step down from the mountain (出山), Xiahou Dun (夏侯惇), a general under Cao Cao (曹操) at Xudu (許都), moved one hundred thousand soldiers toward Boyang Slope (…
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