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Young lord!

What are you doing?!

Don't you understand? You have to get out of here!

If this keeps up... the Yu Feng will perish!

A perfect pincer attack in both quantity and quality.

Your keen intuition should tell you, Wang Ben:

You have no hope of survival.

No, not one single hope.

What's wrong, Lord Ben?

Lord Ben!

Do you ever get the feeling lately like, "Wow, I made it"?

What?

That feeling. You get it from time to time, yeah?

When you just happen to see something truly astounding.

What are you talking about?

You know:

When you're seeing what a great general sees.

Han Chang. Get Fan Yang.

We're going to rally.

R-Rally?!

What are you talking about? We have to get you out of here!

Lord Ben! You're all right!

Lieutenant Fan!

Are you okay? Your wounds--

Never mind me.

What's happened to Lord Ben?

I don't know. He's been like this for a while.

What?

Look, Han Chang, just get Fan Yang already!

But, Lord Ben, I'm already here.

Divide the squad at once!

We'll miss our chance!

YU

A GREAT GENERAL'S VIEW

The Yu Feng's on the move--to the deep right!

YUE YING ARMY

YA GUANG ARMY

ZHAO ELONG ARMY

YU FENG FORCE

They've begun their escape away from us and Yue Ying's army.

Well, that was one of the two choices we'd anticipated.

You mean they didn't decide to charge us and hide among Ya Guang's reinforcements?

No way Wang Ben's that stupid.

YU

Either way, there's no getting out alive.

Now that they've tried to run,

Xu Xiao and Xu Lin's spears will run them through from behind.

Wh-What's with those two riders?

Dammit!

If you have the time to turn around, use it to go faster!

We need to get out of here!

Find out if Wang Ben's among them.

Sir!

Let's go!

Urgent! Wang Ben on the left!

Wang Ben leading a small squad on the left!

They're doing the opposite of the main unit:

slipping between us and Yue Ying's army to escape to the left!

They're grinding us down...

There just aren't enough of us!

It's all about speed. Just outrun these bastards!

He's not using himself as a decoy to save the rest, is he?

No, their ultimate goal is to get Wang Ben out.

YUE YING ARMY

YA GUANG ARMY

ZHAO ELONG ARMY

YU FENG FORCE

Once they escape our pincers, they'll take refuge among the reinforcements.

We'll make a wall to keep them from circling left. Quickly!

We're through!

They're fast!

It's too late for a wall, sir!

Not a problem. Once they pivot toward us, we'll strike from the side.

There's 600 of them at most.

What?! They're just riding straight ahead!

General, does this mean...

Ridiculous. Have you lost your mind, Wang Ben?

MǍ NANCI ARMY

YA GUANG ARMY

You'll just be left high and dry out there--and soon caught.

Their cavalry just won't give up.

Never mind that. We'll pull ahead.

A raid! Kill them!

The troops further in are coming for us!

'Course they are--we're in the heart of enemy territory.

To the left.

Circle left!

Circle left! To the left!

I didn't think we'd be leaving the frying pan only to leap into the fire.

Now we really have no way out...

We don't need one. We're going on the offensive.

Arrows!

Arrows incoming!

Young lord!

Where in heaven's name are we going?!

The weak point in their rank formation.

Its weak point?

What Wang Ben was after

Ya Guang Army

Mǎ Nanci Army

was the weakest part of Mǎ Nanci's troop lineup,

diagonal from their initial position:

its left edge.

It can't be... He's been racing toward that, way in the distance?

It might be their weak point, but what can a mere handful of troops do to it?

Wang Ben doesn't intend for them to strike it alone.

If Ya Guang's any good, he'll act in response to Wang Ben's moves.

All left-hand units! Leave your posts and form a pincer with the young lord!

Devour Mǎ Nanci's army from the left!

I'll stay here and stop their main forces! Now go!

Tch.

Damn him. Our carefully constructed strategy, blown to bits.

Still...

Ya Guang's responded! Let's go!

...if this goes well, we could give Mǎ Nanci's army a day-two drubbing

from which it can't recover!

Fighting a pincer with a pincer...

Unbelievable. You're telling me that in the face of certain death, he came up with this?

See, Wang Ben,

great generals, like the Six Greats?

Fight them off!

Kill them!

I think that no matter the battle situation,

Dragon's Den!

they see it through the lens of their own ego,

with them in the starring role.

They naturally assume they're at the center of the stage,

making the rest of the world spin like a top.

Why? Why now?

LIN

Why am I reminded of him?

Are you sure about this?

It goes completely against the strategy we formed last night.

It'll mean trouble for the other armies.

Oh, well! I only just now came up with a good plan.

To win with friend and foe alike in the palm of your hand:

That's what it means to be a great general!

We'll attribute that one to Lian Po, shall we?

You're so problematic, sir.

Bah. It's no problem for me!

THREE GREATS

ZHAO

Sir! There's an angry messenger from Jie Zifang next door!

Who cares? Send him away!

Wang Ben.

You may well be...

These are our hunting grounds! Trample them!

Start at the edges! Smash your way in and kill 'em all!

It's Ya Huajin!

The powder-keg of Ya Guang's army! This guy'll be a real help!

I hate that man.

Mǎ Nanci, sir, the rear army!

Guess we'll disengage from this melee and go lend a hand.

YA

QIN

YA

QIN

Mǎ Nanci, sir,

the enemy is starting to swarm us!

You've changed your fighting style so we can't leave this free-for-all,

eh, Qin commander?

Keep up the attacks, and don't give them a single inch!

How amusing!

Then then we'll just go right ahead and take your head!

Troops, rout the enemy before you!

Why do you look worried, Lord Ben?

The tables have clearly turned in our favor.

We have to watch that man's behavior closely.

"That man"?

Yes:

E

The man who could turn the tables right back around on us.

Their third commander.

General! All units are awaiting orders!

Yue Ying's army beside us has sent word asking after their target!

General!

Sir!

Be quiet!

Leverage the power differential to pick them off one by one.

Yue Ying's army is to pursue the main Yu Feng forces.

Yes, sir!

We'll kill the eight thousand in Ya Guang's approaching reinforcements.

Sir!

However!

Send out a thousand of my cavalry as a detached force

and have them storm Wang Ben's hunting grounds.

Wang Ben will hate that.

Lord Ben!

Here comes a cavalry from that third army!

About 500 to a thousand of them!

A th-thousand?!

Letting a thousand cavalry enter this fray from the side

will put our necks on the chopping block.

We have to stop them before they get here...

but if we leave this position,

we'll lose our pincer formation.

What should I do? Split up these 700 troops even further? But...

Ya Huajin!

Three hundred... No, just two hundred.

And he's gonna stop a thousand with that?!