Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast.

This is episode 70.

Last time, Zhou Yu, in another bid to take back Jing province, had told Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang that he would

lead the forces of Dongwu to go take the riverlands to the west and trade that for Jing province.

All he asked from them was to come welcome his troops and give them some provisions when they

passed through Jing province on their way.

His real intent, though, was to use that opportunity to kill Liu Bei and take Jing province.

But when Zhou Yu and his men arrived at the foot of the city,

they discovered that Zhuge Liang was not fooled for a second.

The gates of the city were shut, and four detachments of Liu Bei's troops were closing in,

shouting that they were out to capture Zhou Yu alive.

This turn of events re-aggraveded Zhou Yu's old arrow wound,

and he let out a loud cry and fell off his horse. His men quickly

scooped him up and hustled him back to their ships and high-tailed it out of there. Just then,

to add insult to injury, word came through the ranks that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were

sitting atop a hill up ahead, having a drink, and enjoying themselves

immensely. This made Zhou Yu gnash his teeth. You think I can't take the riverlands? I swear, I will do

just that! Just as he was seething, his man told him that Sun Quan's younger brother, Sun Yu, had arrived.

Zhou Yu welcomed him in and told him what had transpired.

Sun Yu told him that he was there on Sun Quan's orders to lend a hand,

so they ordered their troops to press on the head.

But they had not gone far when word came that two

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