Thanks for the reviews! Yeah, people didn't think the last chapter was confusing! And, this chapter may not be as good as others, I don't know. I say that all the time, but it's probably true this time. Didn't have much time to read over it either. Okay, I know that in the game it's called Bo Wan Po, but the novel says Bo Wang Po and I'm going with that.

Disclaimer: I do not own Koei or their characters. Or Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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CHAPTER 3 START

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"Everyone! Follow Zhuge Liang's orders for this battle!" called Liu Bei as he stood in front of his army. Cao Cao's army, being lead by Xiahou Dun, was attacking Liu Bei at Bo Wang Po. Liu Bei had been in the Jing province on the invitation of Liu Biao. He had started to recruit more troops and train them in Xinye. Seeing him as a threat, Cao Cao decided to wipe out Liu Bei and sent Xiahou Dun with one hundred thousand troops to take care him. Liu Bei's army numbered only about ten thousand, so he turned to Zhuge Liang to come up with a plan to defeat the advancing Wei army.

Liu Bei had no doubts that his warlord could do this, but his other officers were a bit skeptical, especially his sworn brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They had often complained about Zhuge Liang, saying he was too young and that he was being treated so well when they had not yet seen his abilities. Nonetheless, they decided to see how the warlord would fare in this battle, and how his strategies went. If it looked as though they were not working, matters would be taken into their own hands.

Earlier, in the war council, Zhuge Liang gave his orders to those present, and now was the time to carry out those orders. Each general took his troops and went to their positions to await the enemy. Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and their troops were left in the main camp. Yue Ying and her ten guards were also there. She was a sub-general under Liang and had to lure the enemies into the traps. She also had to make sure the others followed their orders, though there wasn't much she could do if they didn't except report back to Bei and Liang.

Messengers from each general arrived back at the main camp once they had gotten into place. Zhuge Liang marked off the generals on a sheet of paper that he carried. After he checked off the last general, he turned to Yue Ying.

"All the generals are in position. Go now, Yue Ying. You know what it is you have to do," he said. Ying nodded and she and her guards mounted their horses. As they turned to leave, Liang silently wished for her to be careful.

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The first task Yue Ying had was to lure an enemy unit into the fire attack, where they would then be greeted by Liu Feng's ambush. She and her guards rode down the path past Zhao Yun, who saluted as they went by, and stopped at the edge of the river to await the enemy.

After waiting for awhile, the dust thrown up by the horses and foot soldiers of the enemy became visible. Ying turned her horse sideways to look at her guards.

"Prepare yourselves! They will be here soon!" she ordered and the captain nodded.

"Yes, my lady," he said. He and the other guards pulled their swords from their scabbards as Ying readied her scythe. Another few moments and Xiahou Dun and his troops came into view.

'A woman and ten guards? This should be easy! Perhaps Liu Bei isn't that much of a threat after all...' thought Dun, and then called to Yue Ying,

"You have the honor of being my first victim!" and urged his horse to run faster.

"Umm... Maybe we should run now?" nervously asked one of Yue Ying's guards as he watched the attackers growing nearer by the second. Ying nodded.

"Retreat!" she yelled and the group turned tail and rode back towards Zhao Yun. Xiahou Dun laughed,

"Hah! Fleeing like a coward! Have you no shame?" and he and his unit pursued them down the path.

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Once Yue Ying and her guards reached the area where Liu Feng was waiting to ambush the enemy, she gave the signal to be ready and continued down the path. She got to Zhao Yun and said,

"Xiahou Dun is approaching the ambush site." Zhao Yun nodded and waved to his troops to get ready to march to the site once the flames start.

A moment later, smoke and flames started to rise up from the trees and the sound of Liu Feng and Xiahou Dun's men yelling was heard. Zhao Yun looked at Ying.

"That's the signal, right?"

"Right," answered Ying and Zhao Yun, followed by his unit, raced off in the direction of the flames. First task completed, now for the second.

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Back in the main camp, Zhuge Liang was waiting, looking towards the area that the fire should start at. Once he saw the smoke rising in the air, he smiled faintly. It appeared everything was going as planned so far. Once the enemy unit caught in the attack either retreated or was defeated, a messenger would arrive to say so. And so forth for the other ambushes he had planned.

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Yue Ying and her guards were going down a path further north of the last ambush. She passed the area where Guan Ping was in wait and continued further down until she reached the river. There she stopped to wait for the next enemy unit to appear.

The group waited for awhile and soon the enemy was spotted. As the unit came nearer, Ying could see that it was Han Hao. When Han Hao saw the group, his thoughts were much like Xiahou Dun's.

"Your head is mine!" he yelled and pursued them as Yue Ying retreated. Like before, once she got to Guan Ping's hiding place, she gave a signal for them to be prepared and continued further up the path before stopping momentarily to make sure the ambush was a success. Once she knew it was, she pulled out a scroll to check that she knew what the next task was. She was to divert the enemy to the designated location so that the enemy wouldn't be alerted of Guan Yu's assault. Ying put the scroll away and led her guards to another position further north of where Guan Ping was.

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Upon reaching the area where Guan Yu was hiding, Ying once again followed the path to the river to await the enemy. The second they arrived there, they had to turn back and run again, for the enemy was closer than she had expected.

"How unfortunate that you must face me in battle!" yelled Yu Jin from behind her. Ying tried to increase the speed of the retreat to give Guan Yu more time to prepare, but the enemy was right on their tails. She reached the area where Guan Yu was, and was surprised to find that he had already prepared his troops.

"Lurking in the shadows is more difficult than I expected... Now I shall show you my true power!" yelled Guan Yu as his troops burst out from the forest and attacked Yu Jin's unit. Seeing as she had no more tasks to complete besides to meet the rest of Liu Bei's army near the Wei supply base, Ying and her guards helped Guan Yu fight. With the two of them, the enemy unit was easily beaten, though Yu Jin and his remaining soldiers managed to escape somehow.

"So you prepared your troops when you first saw me go by to lure the enemy into the attack. I was afraid that you would not have been ready and the ambush would have been a failure." Ying said to Guan Yu, who laughed.

"You really think the God of War would be so foolish as to not have prepared his soldiers before the signal? Perhaps my son, Guan Ping, or my brother's son, Liu Feng, but not I! I have to much experience in battle to do so! Come, we need to continue onward to meet the others. It appears Zhang Fei has not yet done his part. He must have got caught up drinking again..." Ying looked towards the supply base, and indeed Zhang Fei had not done his part. He was supposed to have opened the gates and set the depot on fire when he saw the first sign of smoke coming from Liu Feng's ambush.

"Oh, I almost forgot. You there!" said Guan Yu as he pointed to one of his soldiers. "Go to the main camp and tell Zhuge Liang that the ambush was a success. Yu Jin's unit was defeated." The soldier bowed and ran off towards the main camp as the others went in the opposite direction towards the supply base.

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After reaching the area before they had to cross the river, Guan Yu and Yue Ying found Zhao Yun, Liu Feng, and Guan Ping.

"Good. You two made it. Now we just have to wait for father and Zhuge Liang," said Liu Feng as the two rode up.

"Do any of you know why Zhang Fei hasn't done his part yet?" Guan Yu asked and the other generals shook their heads. Guan Yu sighed, "I suppose he's just late like he always is, then..."

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After waiting for awhile, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and their units came riding up.

"Good! Everyone is here!" said Liu Bei as he looked around at his officers. Zhuge Liang rode up to the edge of the river and looked towards the supply depot.

"Zhang Fei has not done his part... Where is he at?"

"You will have to forgive my brother, you do not know him very well yet. He is always late and is drunk half of the time you see him," Guan Yu explained. Zhuge Liang shook his head in annoyance.

"In that case, we will need someone to go find him and tell him to go do what he was supposed to do. We need to have the enemy in disarray before we attack them. Our forces are about equal. Many of the enemy troops retreated back to the base, though the only general there is Xiahou Dun as far as we know. Who is going?" asked Zhuge Liang as he turned to look at the officers. Ying was about to step forward, but before she could do so, Guan Yu did.

"Allow me to go and get my brother. I doubt anyone else could get him up and going." Liang nodded.

"In that case, take some of your horsemen with you. It would be hard to get an entire unit over there without the enemy noticing." And so off went Guan Yu, followed by about fifteen of his men to find Zhang Fei.

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Apparently Guan Yu succeeded in finding Zhang Fei because smoke started to rise from the stronghold. The rest of the army, seeing this, crossed the river and headed to the supply base where the gates had been opened. Zhang Fei, his unit, Guan Yu, and his horsemen had already begun to fight the enemy and so did the others once they got there. With so many generals in one place, it didn't take long to clear out the enemy soldiers, not to mention the fact that a lot of them began to retreat because of the fire.

"What? I thought Xiahou Dun was supposed to be in here!" said Zhang Fei as he looked around. All of the enemy soldiers had either been killed or had retreated and no Xiahou Dun was to be seen. Zhuge Liang looked around and noticed a horse. It was no different from the others, except that it had the armor on it that a general's horse would wear.

"He must have escaped, pretending to be a mere foot solider," he said and motioned towards the horse the enemy general had left behind.

"How could he pretend to look like a foot solider? His clothes are completely different!" argued Zhang Fei.

"It is easy to not notice someone in the chaos of battle," answered Liang.

"No matter! We won, did we not?" Liu Bei asked and Zhang Fei laughed.

"Indeed, brother! Let's go celebrate with some wine!" Liu Bei's soldiers gathered up the supplies that hadn't been burned and the entire army began to march back to their own camp to celebrate. As they were leaving, Guan Yu rode up beside Zhuge Liang.

"I must admit, I underestimated you. You are quite a skilled, Master Liang."

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CHAPTER 3 END

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End of the chapter. There ya have it.