Good day, Milady.
The crop is getting ripe soon.
The men ought to come home this year.
Otherwise, if it rains like last year, the wheat will...
Every year, all the farming and harvesting
are done by the women in the city.
With the men away at war,
women have to suffer at home.
After the Qin people
have been chased out of the land of Zhao,
the men will naturally come home.
We say that every year
but the world is constantly at war.
It simply never ends.
You're right, Granny.
But if the men of Zhao had not gone to war,
we would have been enslaved by other states.
Granny.
I share your view.
Please go back to work.
Day of Gold
Today is a festive day for the city of Luyi.
After drinking this wine,
you will be husband and wife.
My Lord, please untie the silk string on Milady's hair.
My Lord.
We just received a letter from the King of Zhao.
Qin has invaded the city of Shangdang in Wei.
Zhao is in dire straits.
The king has ordered all Zhao troops
to assemble along Changping
in a fight to the death against the Qin.
This has been my, your husband's,
life ambition.
Every man over the age of twelve
shall follow me to the campaign.
This is the last chance for Zhao to defeat Qin.
Anyone who violates this order
shall be put to death!
Ill-boding...
Correct?
Day of Wood
It's time to go home for harvest.
What? What are you talking about?
Harvest.
Time to go home for harvest.
You want to run away?
Deserters will be beheaded,
with their entire clan and lineage annihilated.
You stay here as an elite warrior.
You... you are a deserter?
You are a deserter.
You are indeed a deserter!
Freeze!
The King of Qin has ordered that
all absentees without leave
shall be decapitated on the spot!
This damn corpse
is pressing against the wheat.
It's you who are the deserter!
For harvest.
I need to harvest.
Stop bawling here.
Or the executioner will come
to chop off your head
and tie it around his waist
before annihilating all your kith and kin!
You bastard!
Come out.
Don't press against the wheat.
Why do you keep following me?
I'm just walking my own way.
Mind your damn business.
Bastard, you are following me.
Why do you deny it?
I'm following you?
I'm following my own feet!
Damn you!
Scram!
You bastard!
I'm going home for harvest.
Why're you following me?
No matter which war I'm fighting,
no matter which side is winning,
when the crop is ripe,
I shall go home.
After the harvest,
I'll go back to the battlefield.
The number of people I've killed
far exceeds the number of farts you've ever made.
Who am I?
An elite warrior!
There are only 500 elite warriors in a Qin army of 100,000 soldiers.
And you dared to draw your sword to my face?
You are a deserter.
Phew!
Such a low-life son of a bitch!
Hangu Pass, Qin Border
The King of Qin has ordered that
all absentees without leave
shall be decapitated on the spot,
with their entire clan and lineage annihilated.
Go further ahead.
Go further ahead and they'll catch you.
They'll whip you 200 times first
before they chop your head off.
You. Stop right there! Come here!
Why are you following me?
Who's following you?
I was hiding all right.
It's you who drew them here.
There's no way we can go back to Qin!
Nobody can sneak past that.
They already killed more than a dozen people.
I'm done for!
You low-life son of a bitch,
why don't you go back to war?
You might even be promoted if you kill some enemies.
I go back? Why don't you go back?
So many people were killed overnight.
There are ghosts everywhere.
I can see ghosts every time I close my eyes.
I'll die if I go back to war.
Even if I don't, I'll be eaten by the ghosts.
But I want to live!
As long as I can live, I can go anywhere!
I'm done for!
Don't leave me behind.
You're on your own now!
I cannot die.
Day of Water
Are these two people from Zhao?
I don't know.
Perhaps the war with the Qin is over?
Did you see my man?
He has a big mole on his nose.
He also has an arrow wound.
Say something. Will he live?
Send them to the Shaman's house immediately for treatment.
We'll ask them when they wake up.
You don't think they can be Qin men?
If the Qin can reach as far as here,
then all your men must have been dead already.
If they are really Qin men,
I'll cook and eat them.
I won't even put any salt.
As for me, I'll castratre them
and gouge their eyes out.
Then I'll keep them at home to do my chores.
You never know, maybe they're better than that cow.
I'll tie them to the tree by the river,
so the mosquitoes will suck their blood dry.
Wild cats will scratch them when the night falls,
and they will scream non-stop in pain.
I love to hear a man scream in pain.
Awake?
This is a Qin arrow.
He's injured by the Qin?
So they are Zhao people?
If they were wounded by the Qin,
then they can only be Zhao people.
You two
are Zhao men?
I'm asking you.
My man has taken my son
to fight against the Qin.
Do you know
if the Zhao has won?
Huh?
Where?
Changping.
The Zhao has won!
Changping.
The Zhao has won in Changping!
The Zhao has defeated the Qin in Changping!
Where?
Changping.
What happened?
The Zhao has won the battle.
Perhaps our men will come home in a couple of days!
The Zhao has won!
Those two men said so.
Those two men told me in person!
The men are coming home!
The Zhao has defeated the Qin!
The Zhao has won!
Yan'er!
I'm here.
Yan'er!
Did you hear that?
Yan'er!
Did you hear that?
I did.
We the Zhao have defeated the Qin.
Did you hear that?
I did.
Who was yelling in the street just now?
Looks like Shaman's cook.
Go ask the Honorable Shaman to come here. Hurry up!
Yes, ask the cook to come too.
Forget it.
Let me go myself.
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
We are in Zhao!
You don't want to live!
They have mistaken us for Zhao people.
They want to cook and eat us.
They said they wouldn't even add salt!
From this moment on,
We are Zhao men!
Before we can escape from here,
don't ever tell anyone
we are Qin men.
We are Qin men.
Zhao men!
We are Zhao men!
We are Qin men.
No! We are Zhao men.
Your facial features
do not look like Zhao men.
Frankly speaking,
both of us
are from Wusui
in Zhao.
Yes, Wusui.
You are from Wusui?
Wusui should be on the south of Luyi.
Yes.
No.
Wusui is a small city on the northernmost part of Zhao,
on the north shore of Shuihe.
It's only a few miles away from the state of Yen.
That's exactly correct.
Risking your lives fighting in the battlefield till today
wasn't all that easy.
I've prepared some simple food and drinks
in my residence for your enjoyment.
Wusui.
What's the matter? What Wusui?
Those two men are from Wusui.
Wusui? Where is it?
No idea.
Anyhow, a Zhao city.
After the Zhao has won the battle,
the two men were heading home for harvest
when they encountered some routed Qin soldiers.
They killed more than a dozen of them.
Eventually, the man called Zhe was injured.
The other man, Xia, dragged Zhe into the river together.
They were then carried downstream from the mountain to here.
Our Zhao masters have won the battle,
but how come our men are still not home?
When are the men coming back?
How do the two masters look like?
On hearing the news of the victory,
the King of Zhao invited Lord Ju Cong
and other masters in Luyi
to a celebration banquet in Handan.
Yes.
That sounds like what I heard.
How did our masters beat the Qin?
Tell us
She isn't done talking yet. Let her finish.
I'm done.
They didn't talk about the battle.
Lady Li has invited them to her residence for drinks.
Haven't I come out?
I'd better rush back to listen to them.
Wait.
This way.
If the two warriors are not tired yet,
please tell us
how our Zhao army defeated the Qin.
You tell her
how the Qin won the battle.
I meant the Zhao.
It's such a big victory.
The King of Zhao hasn't made a proclamation yet?
Correct.
The King must have been so happy he forgot.
He's forgotten.
A Qin general called Wang Jian
with an army of 400,000 men
had seized 17 cities in the state of Wei.
After invading Shangdang,
he planned to encroach into Zhao.
The King of Zhao sent General Lian Po
to personally lead an army of 300,000 elite soldiers.
He arrived just in time
and lined his troops horizontally right in front of the Qin.
The Qin tried several times to break
the battle formations of the Zhao,
but they were as strong as gold.
Here I come!
How was it?
Hurry up and tell us.
The Qin had sent someone called Wang
to lead an army of a million
which seized half of Wei.
The Qin
failed to invade the Zhao camps.
The Zhao
failed to break up the battle formations of the Qin.
This stalemate
lasted more than a year.
Anxious.
Qin.
The King of Qin was anxious.
He found General Wang impotent
and dispatched a bigger general, Bai Qi,to command the troops.
He's also a Sir something.
Sir Wu An.
That's it.
He's called Sir Wu An.
He's the most capable general in Qin.
The King of Zhao was wiser.
He sent General Zhao Kuo with a reinforcement of 600,000
and besieged the Qin.
General Zhao said,
besiege but do not annihilate.
Starve them to death.
Thirst them to death.
The people they mentioned
sound like those Lord Ju Cong told us before.
We heard that before.
One day,
I
saw carcasses
being discarded
outside the Qin camp.
When I looked at them carefully,
I discovered that
the flesh on the hips and legs of the carcasses
was gone.
Each and every single bone was exposed.
I immediately reported that to General Zhao.
Me too.
We went together, remember?
True.
You too.
On hearing that, General Zhao
broke into laughters.
The Qin had run out of food.
They started eating human flesh.
General Zhao
commanded
everyone in the army to be on the alert.
The Qin
would try to break the siege.
They were eating human flesh.
The Qin would be breaking the siege.
The Qin
was starting to
break the siege.
That General Bai Qi
led 5,000 elite soldiers
and rushed out of the Qin camps.
Wang led another army and dashed out from the opposite side.
The two armies killed indistinguishably.
The sword I was wielding
was broken into three pieces.
The elite forces of the Qin were formidable.
You could not succumb them with your swords.
Even with their heads chopped off,
they would still hold on to you relentlessly.
All the way,
I kept killing and slaughtering,
until I got to the forefront.
I looked ahead
and found General Zhao standing in front of Bai with his sword.
Bai was flabbergasted.
I raised my bow and grabbed my arrow,
only to realize there's no more arrows left.
I dashed forward,
raised my bow and grabbed my arrow.
I shot an arrow.
Bai Qi
fell down from his horse.
Behind him,
the Qin became leaderless.
The 400,000 Qin soldiers
could only but surrender.
And then?
What and then?
Tell us.
And then,
General Zhao commanded that
all the Qin prisoners of war
were to be locked up in ten camps.
Long live the King of Qin!
When night fell,
every Zhao soldier tied his head with a white cloth.
Long live the King of Qin!
We were given the command
to kill all the Qin soldiers
overnight.
All of them were to be killed.
Buried alive.
Their heads were chopped off
and their bodies dragged to the river.
The whole river was tainted red with blood.
The heads were piled up into a high platform.
All young soldiers under the age of 15
should not be killed.
Soldiers under the age of 15 should not be buried alive.
They should be sent home alive.
Anyone who disobey this shall be put to death!
They shall watch
until every Qin men
is killed.
General Zhao said,
Send them back to Qin.
Watch.
Cry out loud!
Long live the King of Qin!
Long Live!
Let everyone in Qin remember
that the Zhao
is formidable,
the most formidable.
Right.
Because of this war,
we Zhao people
have waited too long.
Lift them.
Let's go.
The men are coming home!
Long live the Zhao!
Long live Lord Ju Cong!
Long live the Zhao!
Long live Lord Ju Cong!
I like the smell of alcohol on their bodies!
Mine... Mine...
Our Qin men
killed 400,000 Zhao men overnight.
My sword was bad.
After chopping off barely a few heads,
it turned blunt.
I couldn't pull it out
Wrong!
It's the Zhao men who killed 400,000 Qin men overnight.
Right.
Buried alive, with heads chopped off.
Right, with heads chopped off.
The bodies were dragged to the river,
tainting the whole river red with blood.
The whole river was tainted red with blood.
The heads were piled up into a high platform.
Into a high platform.
More than 200 Qin soldiers were spared their lives.
Spared their lives.
They were made to watch
till every Qin man was killed.
Everyone was killed.
General Zhao said,
send them back to Qin
and ask them to tell everything they've seen
to the King and the masses of Qin,
so that they will never dare to go to war with the Zhao anymore.
Right.
So that the future generations of the Qin will remember
Zhao is formidable,
the most formidable.
Day of Fire
In the past, whenever we had a victory,
Lord Ju Cung would send someone to deliver the good news.
The King of Zhao would also proclaim it to the world.
How comes this time...?
I find it odd too.
But the story told by the two Wusui men
appear to be faultless.
Perhaps...
Look at your people.
They're as ecstatic as if the Lord had returned triumphant.
Don't kill me.
Who are you?
It's me...
What's going on?
Where's this place?
Where are we?
I don't know.
This is frigging Zhao!
Huh?
I drank a lot, right?
And said a lot too?
What did I say?
What on earth did I say?
Soldiers under the age of 15 shall not be killed.
Why are there only women in the street?
We've killed all the men.
What should we do?
Flee.
How do we flee? And where to?
Let's first get out of the city.
No.
We should seize the city.
Then we will be knighted.
With one head chopped off,
we get one level higher in knighthood.
What if we seize one whole city?
But how do we seize it?
Have all these women
killed.
No.
We can't kill them all.
Just have all the ugly old hags
killed.
We'll keep the youngest and the prettiest
as my women,
as... our women.
We'll live like nobility.
What do you think?
Say it again.
I didn't hear it too well.
Living like nobility.
Lower your voice.
Just think.
Even if we manage to flee,
we probably will be killed
before we're halfway through.
Even if we can return to Qin,
so what?
Farming,
labor,
banishment.
We are both deserters.
If worse comes to worse,
we'll get our whole clan and lineage annihilated
and all our neighbors exterminated.
I really under-estimated you.
Even scoundrels
as gutless as you
actually dream of living like nobility?
Gutless.
What's wrong with being gutless?
Gutless people
rely on their brains to survive.
They can think of areas you cannot think of.
How many elite warriors like you
can survive?
They all die in the battlefields.
Right?
All right.
I'll go back to notify the authorities.
You kill whoever you want to kill.
All right.
Let's settle on that.
No.
I'll go back.
You're an elite warrior from Qin.
You kill more dexterously than I do.
It's frigging you who want to live like nobility.
Right?
Right.
It's for your own good.
I want to go home for harvest.
Don't go.
Cut me some slack.
You're like the mud on my soles.
Once it's stuck there, it's hard to get rid of it.
Since I was thirteen,
I've been killing for Qin.
I've killed enough.
I don't want to kill anymore.
It's your turn.
I've never killed before.
Look.
My arm is so small
Look how small it is.
I can't even lift a sword.
let alone kill anyone.
Let's have a bet.
Whoever loses shall do the killing.
How about that?
A bet?
What kind of bet?
How do we bet?
Betting on what?
Guess in which hand it's hidden.
Whoever gets it right
wins.
All right.
I'll do it. You guess.
You'd better admit defeat.
How about that old hag?
Too many people in the street.
If I'm in a less busy place, I'll definitely do it.
Then go.
The men are home!
They are bandits!
All girls.
Let's run!
The bandits are here!
Warriors.
Come to my place for lunch.
I'll make stewed hen for you.
The bandits are here!
Tell Lady Li immediately!
Milady, the bandits have entered the city!
They are here!
Milady.
Milady, hide yourself.
The bandits have entered the city.
Take me to them. I need to see.
Milady, you should not get out.
Yan'er, step aside.
You should not go out.
Yan'er, listen up.
Lord ju Cung is not here,
so I am the mistress of the city.
Milady.
All Zhao men are dead.
They were killed by the Qin.
All of the them are dead.
From now on,
Lord Chong
will be your man
and the master of your city.
If the bandits kill all the women.
it'll save us from doing it oursleves.
We can kill the bandits afterwards.
What about if we
are killed by the bandits?
You are an elite warrior from Qin.
How can you be scared of a few bandits?
Impossible.
Don't cry.
Don't come in.
Don't kill me.
I beg you.
Get out of here.
Kneel before Lord Chong.
Anyone who kneel
before Lord Chong right now
will be spared.
Those who are unwilling,
what should we do, brothers?
Kill them.
Chop them up.
Kill them all.
Right.
Be good, Baby.
Don't cry. Be good.
When this pool of piss is dry,
we will start killing.
I am the wife of the master of the city, Lord ju Cong.
Give me the kid.
All right.
just kneel down before me,
and I'll give you the kid.
All my life,
I only kneel before the King of Zhao
and my man.
Only kneel before the King of Zhao and your man?
Good.
But the King of Zhao and all the men from Zhao
were killed by the Qin in Changping.
Zhao was defeated.
On the contrary,
it's our Zhao men who buried alive 400,000 Qin soldiers overnight.
The Zhao will never be defeated.
Go and have a look in Changping.
Thousands of wolves are feeding on the carcasses of the Zhao.
They are making the wolves fat and strong.
The master of the city is not here,
so I am the mistress of the city.
You are a man
but you kill women wantonly.
I cannot stand for this.
but
just this one person.
Put the kid down
and leave right away.
You and I,
we'll be even.
Leave?
But I don't want to leave.
I want you to
wash my feet
and sleep with me every night.
And then
you can bear me some babies.
How about that?
Come forward, the women of Luyi.
Even the men are not here,
we have nothing to be afraid of.
Good.
That's good. On your knees.
On your knees.
Kneel before me.
Don't think I don't dare to kill you.
I stand by my words.
Or my brothers would think I'm weakened by lust.
I don't have the heart
to really kill you,
but there's no alternative.
She should have been our woman.
Looks like I did say it wrong.
The men here are not all dead?
We are from Wusui of Zhao.
How can you say that Zhao has perished?
Kill him.
You're an elite warrior from Qin.
How remarkable!
Don't even bother.
I'll end myself.
Kill him.
Chop his head off.
My Lord.
Go.
Kill them.
Milady, give it to me.
My eyes are blurred.
My soul has drifted out of my body.
I cannot see light,
nor can I smell odor.
In the presence of our ancestors,
may God bestow me guidance.
With the strength you lend me,
I shall disperse the mist of obscurity
to once again distinguish between timeless days and nights;
earthly cold and warmth;
unchanging love and hate.
Pray grant me wisdom.
Should we trust the words of the two warriors
or those of the bandits?
If the two warriors have told the truth.
how come up to this moment,
we still have not received any news?
If the bandits had told the truth.
then the two warriors...
Why did they do these for us?
The crops are ripe.
Rain is about to fall.
Let's reap before too late.
Go to work.
Do not stop.
Let's reap before too late!
We will have food to eat! Harvest!
Did I let you stop?
Remember.
In the presence of the Zhao,
say the Zhao have defeated the Qin.
I got it.
Look. It's about to rain.
The bandits have fled.
What are you watching?
All the bandits have fled.
The bandits have fled?
The bandits have fled.
If you dare to come back again,
I will chop your pricks off,
so you will become heirless.
I have to go home.
You can stay here and live like nobility.
Before you reach home, you will be decapitated.
This time I won't be following you.
Good. Let's go to work.
Let's go to work right away.
Don't leave me behind.
Seize him. Don't run.
He is here
Got him.
I would advise the two warriors
not to return to Wusui.
Find a woman and start a family in Luyi.
Even a widow will do.
A war is waged every two or three years.
Even though the Zhao has won,
not many men will be able to come home.
In this city,
half of the residents are widows.
Perhaps
I am one too.
It's just that up to this moment
I still don't know.
We all have seen what...
the two warriors have done for us.
But I say if those bandits did not have evidence,
how could they have dared to raid Luyi?
How could they have dared to try and become our lords?
If we had defeated Qin.
then Zhao would have been a strong state.
The bandits would have wreaked havoc elsewhere.
They would not have dared to come here.
What are you talking about, you blind hag?
You can't see a thing.
And your ears can't hear half of what we say.
How can you judge right from wrong?
Qin and Zhao are at war.
Why should these Wusui men tell us lies?
You senile old fool.
It's fine if they are really from Wusui.
But if they are not from Wusui
but are Qin men...
You're saying the two warriors are Qin men?
If Qin was defeated.
why would they have dared to come to Zhao?
So two Qin men helped us kill the bandits
and harvest our crops?
Our Honorable Shaman, you can ask Heaven.
We will trust whatever God tells us.
God says
Zhao was defeated.
Do you believe it?
What are you shouting about?
Let me tell
you broads.
I have cachet.
In Wusui.
I'm a nobleman.
Upon my return,
they will speak to me on their knees.
You saved me
so I won't stand on ceremonies with you.
All those noblemen
carry gold or silver with them.
You don't even have a piece of stone.
Look.
Isn't he kneeling in front of me?
Take my jade pendant out and show it to them.
Take it out.
Me?
Yes, you!
Why do I have it?
How can a farmer like me dare to wear a jade pendant?
He is drunk. He's pulling your legs.
Frisk him.
He's hidden it in his crotch for me.
Don't be afraid.
Take it out and let them see it.
Don't put it back.
Let them see it.
Search.
Don't let him run away.
Stop scratching.
Did you find it?
The jade pendant.
Something's wrong with the Honorable.
Go back immediately.
What are you saying?
Something's wrong with the Shaman?
Her eyes are slanted and her mouth wry.
White foam keeps coming out of her mouth.
She keeps on babbling,
unable to form full sentences.
No idea what disease she's come down with.
Don't go.
Granny, are you all right?
Why is it here?
Where does it come from?
It's mine.
Take a look and then give it back to me.
How can the pendant be here?
Tell me!
Lady Li gave this pendant to Lord ju Cong.
How can it be here?
What's the matter?
What has happened?
What's the matter?
What ju? ju Cong?
Who is he?
I don't know him.
Give the pendant back to me!
She can't be possessed, right?
My Lord!
It protects my Lord
and delivers you home safely.
From now on,
you are the mistress of Luyi.
I've asked the Shaman to stay behind to help you.
She will hear my news from Heaven.
The jade pendant around your neck is very pretty.
What's it called?
Li.
I want to marry you. Do you want to?
My wife is equivalent to Lady ju Cong,
who is also the mistress of Luyi.
The mistress.
She shall shoulder the same responsiblities as mine.
My Lord
is back.
My Lord
is back.
My Lord!
Where are you?
My Lord!
Come out!
My Lord, come out!
I know you're back.
Come out. Where are you?
Where are you?
I know you're back.
Come out!
Come out. I know you're back.
I feel that you're back.
Where are you?
Come out!
Come out! Come out!
Come out. Where are you?
Come out!
My Lord!
I know you're back.
Yan'er.
Yan'er... yes... Yan'er.
My lord has come home. You know what?
Yan'er.
The Lord has come home, Yan'er!
You know, the Lord has come home!
Have you seen him, Yan'er?
Day of Earth
Hang him!
Kill him.
Tell us, who are you two?
Spit it out!
I am your man.
Phew! Beat him to death!
You can bear me babies.
I am your man!
Beat him to death! Kill him!
I don't want to play.
I'm tired.
I want to go to sleep.
Don't tell me you want to kill me!
I don't want to die.
Kill him.
Chop their heads off
and pile them up into a mountain.
Throw the corpses
into the river
and taint the water red.
Chop their heads off
and pile them up into a mountain.
Throw the corpses
into the river
Open the gate.
Open the gate immediately.
The Qin are here
Open the gate.
Before she passes away, the Shaman
said my son was coming home.
My son is coming home.
Milady.
Please put down the sword.
Put it down right away!
Wusui man.
The Qin army is coming into the city soon.
I can escort Milady to the state of Yen, Qi or Wei.
Wherever you want to go.
All the men in Luyi
were killed by the Qin.
What's the point of leaving the women behind?
Please put down the sword.
I shall let the Qin find my corpse.
I shall let the Qin know
the Zhao are not afraid to die.
I asked every woman
in Luyi
to kill herself her own way.
I shall leave the Qin
an empty city.
I shall become a vicious ghost
and haunt the Qin men.
I'll eat their flesh bite by bite
and drink their blood
drop by drop.
I am a frigging Qin man.
I've known that for quite a while.
Chop my head off.
I never killed a man.
But I can.
Good.
I'll send you
home!
I am Xia, an elite warrior under Sir Wu An.
Step aside.
Listen.
It's the children of our Luyi.
I can recognize their sounds.
They are the children of Luyi
Milady.
Lord ju Cong
must have died a brave man.
Go home and harvest.
Edited: Cgha