Three Kingdoms 2012 Episode 14

Caocao is gaining in the war…. Then Xu Shu the person who recommended Lau Bei to find Z, came to see him. Caocao has forced him to serve as his advisor. Though he’s physically there, he never did assist caocao at all. Now he has come to advice Lau Bei to run because the ‘traitor Hon’ is revealing all their secrets to caocao. But everyone refuse to leave!

Shun reminded everyone that if they run, they still have  a chance to fight another day! Wise! Everyone looks at Z, he needs a day to think…omg……  Later he confess to his wife that he regretted letting Hon go…. she assure him that with Caocao’s strong army, with or without Hon, they’ll still attack Xinye- again very wise! Then in the middle of the night he finally decided that they should leave to Jiangxia. Apparently she has been thinking of the same thing! Again do we even need this Zhuge Liang character in this story? Yuet Ying seems to be enough!!!!

Meanwhile  Cao Cao is very happy that  Lau Bei  is leaving Xinye. Hon suggest for them to pursue & kill  him  and Man Yeuk agrees.  There’s 2 roads to Jiangxia.  Z & Yuet Ying were  discussing which way to go & as usual, whatever he thought of, she thought of it also. Still I don’t see the need to showcase her brilliance, it does nothing but takes away the fun of watching how smart Z is. Now we are left with the feeling that Z is nothing special….. such a pity! A total waste of casting Raymond for this lousy role!

As for Lau Bei he had decided that if he leaves, he’ll take the whole village along! And all of the villagers were more than willing to go along- to stay behind means being killed by Caocao’s men. Hmmm….. Cao Cao was frustrated that they cant find Lau Bei & his gang because of the terrain. He told Hon off- Man Yek came to the rescue- they could use smaller groups & track them in every direction. Caocao is pleased

 First that got into trouble were the 2 wives of Lau Bei. In the end,  2^nd wife sacrifice for the baby E-Duo as  Chiu Chi Lung was out numbered. It’s a good scene, self-less & almost brought a tear to my eye!

Lau Bei & gang were crossing a bridge with Caocao’s men close behind. The bridge is on the brim of cracking, Z cautioned everyone to  alternate the steps so that the vibrations & sounds of their footsteps would not further damage the bridge. Very soon , Caocao men arrived & Cheung Fei and Guan Yu both  holding them back as the rest of the villagers cross…. Again the next brilliant idea comes from not Z BUT Shun – now that caocao’s men are here, they needed  the bridge to collapse so everyone were told to walk in co-ordination. Finally everyone crossed then Shun saw the name of the bridge & remember a famous saying “Cheung Fei collapses Changban Bridge by shouting!”- this must be it!!! He told Cheung Fei to shout as loud as possible, which he did & sure enough the great vibrations shook everything & collapse the bridge!!!! Everyone was very happy & Caocao’s men retreat.

Though  Lau Bei succeeded in leading everyone away, many  did die. Song Yau finally arrived very weak & sick & we finally witness Shun  starting to  care. I somehow feel that’s a bit too late in coming, it’s almost an anti –climax.

Thoughts: The war part of the story is good, the collapse of the bridge, the sacrifice of wife 2. How both sides react to each other, it’s all good & interesting. Again the main problem is, the focus is not on Zhuge Liang so that diminishes the entertainment value substantially  for me.