3 Kingdoms 058: Defections and Deceptions
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast
John Zhu
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šļø 24 November 2015
ā±ļø 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This is episode 58. |
| 0:15.0 | Last time, with his army in a stare-down against Dong Wu's forces on opposite sides of the Yangtze River, |
| 0:22.5 | Cao Cao sent two low-level officers to pretend to defect to Dongwu so as to act as his spies. |
| 0:30.1 | Dong Wu's commander, Zhou Yu, was not fooled, but played along. |
| 0:34.7 | He and the old general Huang Gai then planned to have Huang Gai pretend to defect |
| 0:39.3 | in order to carry out an attack by fire against Cao Cao. To make this happen though, they had to |
| 0:46.4 | convince Cao Cao that Huang Gai was defecting for real, so Zhou Yu found some convenient excuse to give |
| 0:53.2 | Huang Gai a vicious public beating. After that beating, Zhou Yu found some convenient excuse to give Huang Gai a vicious public beating. |
| 0:56.2 | After that beating, Zhou Yu's confidant Lu Su went to see Zhuge Liang and asked why he did not intercede on Huang Gai's behalf when Zhou Yu was doling out his punishment. |
| 1:08.1 | Zhuge Liang, however, saw through the charade and explained to Lu Su that he did not |
| 1:12.9 | want to get in the way of Zhou Yu's scheme. He also asked Lu Su to not tell Zhou Yu that he has |
| 1:19.6 | seen through the scheme, since the last time that happened, Zhou Yu tried to find an excuse to kill |
| 1:25.5 | him. After taking his leave of Zhuge Liang, |
| 1:29.3 | Lu Su went to see Zhou Yu in his tent and asked, |
| 1:33.2 | Why did you come down so hard on General Huang today? |
| 1:37.3 | Are the other officers grumbling about me? |
| 1:40.2 | Zhou Yu asked. |
| 1:41.7 | They are mostly unsettled, Lu Su answered. |
| 1:45.3 | What about Zhuge Liang? |
| 1:47.5 | He also complained about how uncompassionate you were, Lu Su said, |
| 1:52.2 | keeping his promise to Zhuge Liang this time. |
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