Episode 10
Gou Zi don't let go!
Hold tight! Don't let go!
Bro, help me.
Gou Zi!
Bro...
Guo Zi!
My big bro.
Gou Zi
Isn't Yue Fei lacking in self-knowledge?
With only a hundred people to conquer our mountain,
he's like an egg striking a rock.
Let's just bring him in.
Just wait.
They must have made some preparations to get in here.
But they're already a sitting duck.
They cannot get away.
Sir!
Sir, there's no sound in the confusing scheme,
and all the people who came to mountain have disappeared!
What?
Disappeared?
Are you sure?
Yes, sir! I'm pretty sure!
It's true that they are nowhere.
Surely it doesn't mean that Yue can become invisible the way Monkey King did.
Keep on guarding! Keep watching with your life on it!
If anything goes wrong you'll be responsible for it!
Yes, sir!
It can't be right.
It was after passing this valley. I even marked it.
How can it be wrong?
Give up on your map.
That trash caused Gou Zi death.
Gou Zi, brother Zhang Yong didn't mean for you to die.
Big Brother, I'm so sorry.
I was really hoping to take all the brothers to the Centipede Mountain.
Bros. I, Zhang Yong apologize to you all.
It seems like our plan of taking down the Centipede Mountain has been leaked.
Big Bro, what should we do?
We can't go back now. The only way to go is up.
Go up and lure them out!
Big Bro! I will be the bait.
You stay here, don't move.
What are you doing?
Don't you know how many people are there on that mountain?
Eighty thousand people!
How many are we now?
Shut your mouth as well.
Big Bro, just say something.
We can't stay here forever.
Wait.
Wait?
What do you mean, big bro?
Wait for what?
Come on, come on, just drink.
Drink more.
Drink.
Little beauty.
As long as we win this battle, eternal wealth and power
and good days are waiting.
Come on, let's drink. Cheer for the good days!
Come, somebody come. People are dying.
People are dying!
Why all the noise?
What are you shouting about in the middle of the night?
Sir, my Bro has a stomachache.
He's dying. Please check him.
Change the clothes.
Bros, change the clothes now.
Hey bro, I'm hungry.
Bros.
Wake up, it's time to get up.
Big bro, you're...
Do you want to win this battle alive?
Big Bro.
Big bro, there are eight of them.
Eight people?
Do it now?
Big bro, what do we do now?
This is exactly what we've been waiting for. Bros, let's get to work.
It's an ambush!
Let's go.
Please forgive us, sir.
Please don't come for us, sir.
It's none of our business. We're just trying to make a living.
Yes, he's right.
It's really none of our business. Please forgive us, Sir.
big bro, these two bastards are fucking caterans! let's just kill them
Hold on, Niu Ba'er. I used to be a cateran myself.
You wouldn't kill me as well, would you?
I was not talking about you. I was talking about them.
It's Zhang Yong! My big bro, help us.
Tell them to let us go.
Big bro, they used to be my buddies.
Let them go.
Right, forgive us, General Yue. Please forgive us.
You want to survive?
YES, YES.
Show me your castellans.
Don't shoot! We are one of yours.
Who's there?
Tell your castellans.
Just say it's Yue Fei coming.
If they're man enough,
come out and fight a duel.
What the hell are you
to ask for a fight with our castellans.
I'm a nobody.
Just better than the two of your
idiot coward castellans!
If they stay in there,
I'll send somebody to dig their family grave.
That's too much.
You just wait there.
Castellan!
Son of bitch.
Do you want to starve me to death?
You are Yue Fei?
Aren't you dead already. You still have the gall to come here?
if you are really tough enough, let's fight a duel.
Then I can tell my soldiers to go home after we're finished.
what fucking good it is wasting time here?
Big bro, just ignore him.
This man is the strongest soldier in Xiangzhou.
You guys, go!
March!! (Let's kill).
What are you doing?
Listen, all you people in there, just give up.
You're surrounded.
Listen, all you people in there.
You're surrounded.
Listen, all you people there... (Repeated).
It never occured to me it would be them. Jie Qian and Ji Yong, those two idiots.
It's not safe here.
We can't stay here any longer.
We must go now.
It seems the battle has already begun.
It seems harsh.
I wonder who will be the winner.
What should we do now?
Yue Fei is very good at fighting. Our castellan won't be his opponent.
What are you afraid of?
Our men here are so many.
Castellans will catch him for sure.
Right.
No, no.
What if Yue gets caught by castellans? He will never let us go.
Right...
There's no better way. Let's run away.
Go get him! Don't let him run away.
Get him. Hurry up. Get him.
Stop him. Get him. Hurry up.
Go. Get him. Oh, stop.
Hurry up!
Stop! Stop running.
Yue Fei, where are you thinking of running away to?
Yue Fei, there's nowhere for you run.
Stop looking, you two.
I just don't want to lose so many of my men.
What about this?
I will give you two a chance to have a fair duel with me.
You two versus me alone.
If you two win,
then all of us are in your hand.
If you two lose,
bring your men and horses.
Come back to my camp with me.
Big bro.
Big bro, let me kill these two caterans.
Revenge for Gou Zi.
Hold on.
What they promised hasn't been fulfilled.
Bring them back first.
Big bro.
Move.
Big bro, we found tracks of Tuobayewu over there.
The King bastard, where can you run now?
Tuobayewu.
This never occurred to you, did it?
If you hadn't sent the assassin,
General Liu Ge wouldn't have been hurt by the poisoned arrow.
Today, you are in my control.
Consider it a part of God's will.
One life for another.
Take the jump yourself.
Yue Fei, I've seen how well you fight.
If you lead your men and surrender to me,
you will enjoy endless wealth and power for the rest of your life.
Tobayewu, if we don't kill you here
there will be more evil in the future.
Don't make us waste our strength. Kill yourself.
Just jump.
Yue Fei, I beg you to release our general.
I will atone for him.
Brother!
What a King's Fighter!
You have done so much evil, but he atoned for it all with his life.
Even for his loyalty,
you should jump to give him company.
Yue Fei, if you are man enough, just let me go.
We can see each other on the battle field later and fight a real fight.
Using a large force to confront a small group is hardly heroic!
Bullshit!
We came with only a hundred to fight against your eighty thousand.
How dare you shamelessly say that.
Exactly! Son of a bitch.
Big bro, let me cut his head off,
in mourning of General Liu.
Kill him!
You don't need to provoke me.
I can spare you today.
Big bro.
This...
But go back and deliver a message for me.
Tell your people,
we Song from today are no longer a weak nation who will allow ourselves to be trampled on.
How could we be invaded by you?
Big bro, we can't let him go.
If we let him go today,
it'll be hard to catch him next time.
He's right, big bro.
Big bro, we can't let the beast off.
We can't set free him.
Withdraw!
Big bro.
- Let's go. - Why?
People coming back.
Look!
Bros, we are home!
- Let's go! - Home!
We are home!
Report! Sir Zong!
Yue Fei went to catch Jiqianjiyong by the order. He succeeded and has returned.
Good job! You can go now.
Yes, sir.
With only a hundred soldiers,
he succeeded in surrounding the enemy and caught them, and destroyed the Jiqian Jiyong's bandits' lair.
General Zong has a keen eye.
Yue Fei is indeed a young hero!
General Zong! Yue Fei is back with thousands of captives!
Nice! Let's go and welcome them.
Sure.
General Zong.
Jiqian Jiyong, the leaders of the bandits, have been captured by us alive.
Those following him, more than eighty thousand bandits,
are already determined to flee from the darkness into the light, hoping to join the government army.
They are waiting for the decision from General.
Yue Fei, you fulfilled the mission,
defeated the bandits, and made a huge contribution to the government.
So called "Despite the number of the enemy
we can disable them, and vanquish the enemy without a war."
Yue Fei, well done!
Without these hundred elite soldiers from the General,
without their united force and disregard for their own life,
we wouldn't have taken over Wugong Mountain.
The credit is not mine.
It belongs to everyone.
When I first assigned you the mission to wipe out the Brothers Ji,
no one believed
you could come back alive with a hundred soldiers.
Needless to say,
you won and returned with honor.
Yue Fei, listen.
Here.
Today I give you these hundred people.
You will train them as fearless capable soldiers!
I believe that one day
they will become the elite army of Song.
Yes, sir.
We appreciate it, General.
Everybody, listen.
Tonight
everyone needs to drink.
I tell you guys,
if you are not drunk,
you won't be allowed to go to bed.
If you are not drunk,
no one is allowed to go to bed.
Yeah!!
Cheers! One shot.
One shot!
Let's.
If you drink a whole jar, I will drink a bowl.
Big bro, look. Wushima is dancing.
Fuddle him.
You have to drink.
Drink it up.
Let's drink.
Bros.
What about me?
Back off.
Wushu, what's the name of this chariot?
I haven't figure out a good name for it.
My second son,
don't you like writing and such?
What do you say?
The Buddha said: "A Pagoda is Buddha."
Mother Buddha sits on the high lotus throne
with a nine-floor pagoda in her hand, with much solemnity and...
Second Bro, what are you mumbling?
A pagoda is a great work, gathering charitable and pious deeds.
I see the chariot coming with great fierceness.
It's doomed to kill a great number of people.
What a sin.
A pagoda, iron arms.
I say we call it iron pagoda.
Emperor, how do you like it?
Fine, let's call it that.
This iron pagoda, after a strict training process,
will definitely be triumphant, and defeat everything on the battlefield.
Good! Wushu, hurry with the training process.
When we go defeat the south, we will use the iron pagoda widely.
Show them our great Jin's dignity.
Emperor, with the cavalry unit we have now,
we will win the victory.
Those southern barbarians
are nothing but worthless people, too weak to stand a competition.
Zhanhan, a commander must never underestimate his enemy.
Wushu, how long do you need?
Please give me half a year.
I will master it, become ever-victorious, all-conquering.
Fine, I will wait in patience.
Today, let's see the power of this iron pagoda first.
As you wish, Emperor.
The east unit of our army will depart from Yanjing.
The west, from Taiyuan.
The two units will join together on the south side of the Huanghe River.
Act swiftly.
Succeed in all attacks.
Good.
Tuobayewu.
Here.
Tuoba, in battles,
the communication between us and the enemy is extremely important.
What is your plan to conquer the Xiangzhou and Cizhou states?
Those two are tough to defeat.
Speak your plan so we can know it.
Yes, sir.
I'm indebted for having the General's trust,
that I have been granted the power to communicate with the enemy.
Allow me to have some views on the picture of Xiangzhou and Cizhou states.
Good.
Speak it out.
Yes, sir.
To attack Xiangzhou and Cizhou states,
we can send our force in three ways.
First, the east unit from the Damingfu headquarter.
Second, the west unit from the Taiyuan headquarter.
Third, the east and west units.
Join in together and pass Xinxiang
and Tangyin. Then attack Xiangzhou and Cizhou states directly.
If all three headquarters don't want to mobilize too many troops,
what else do you have in mind?
The best way
is to mobilize Jiqian Jiyong brothers of the Wugong Mountain.
Convince them to come down from the mountain and attack the two states.
Do you have everything prepared?
I've got everything ready.
Good.
Emperor, what do you say?
Wushu, how do you feel about it?
Emperor, I'd like to have some words
with Tuobayewu.
Zhanhan, do you agree?
Of course.
If Tuoba has done anything wrong,
beat and punish him fairly.
Fine.
Tuobayewu.
The Ji Brothers have troops of over eighty thousand.
Why would they help us?
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Indeed, as smart Fourth Prince said,
the Jing brothers have already asked for a price.
A clear price makes things easier.
What do they ask for?
The Zizhou State is in the charge of Wang Boyan.
Ji Qian predicted that he could take it down in five days.
He asked for fifty thousand silver.
Xiang Province is ruled by Zong Zen.
Ji Qian for sure is having a tough battle.
He asked for fifteen thousand silver.
For the two battles, the total is twenty thousand.
I'm waiting for twenty thousand to take care of this.
Are you asking me for silver?
As soon as possible.
Fine.
Thank you, Fourth Prince.
Number Four!
Is this soon enough?
Prince,
You want to teach my man a lesson, give me an explanation.
Then, you'll have my explanation.
Such daring lackey.
The fortress up at the Centipedes was burnt down.
Ji Qian and Ji Yong are locked up in prison.
You dared to ask for twenty thousand from me?
Even asked in one swift payment.
Who am I paying? You, Tou Bai Ye Wu?
Prince, please forgive me.
Everyone, look at him.
What's going on?
A high military officer of Jin like you,
you were actually caught by a mere military watchman of Song.
You have the face to come back?
Prince. Prince, forgive me.
I have no intention of ruining the Emperor's mood today.
Otherwise, I would cut you into two pieces.
Prince. Prince, spare me.
Prince, spare me.
Spare me, Prince.
Your Majesty, please spare me.
Marshal, please save me.
Marshal, save me.
Marshal.
Get out.
Thank you, Marshal.
Wu Ru.
Thank you, your Majesty.
Enemies are in front of us.
We can't mess up our own pace.
Tou Ba Ye Wu, garbage!
He actually tried to swindle silver from us.
He can't be forgiven.
But, the strategy he mentioned.
I took a few words to heart.
What do you all think?
Your Majesty, the Song military can be weakened by one strong blow.
If we can also have the assistance of Number Four's Tie Fu Tu,
our great cause will soon be achieved.
I think, we should strike while the iron is still hot.
We should take this opportunity when our East and West army are merged together.
We are at our strongest.
We will give them a surprise attack.
And make our grand entrance to Bianjin (capital of Song).
Let's give that Song's puppy emperor
a taste of Jin's power and might.
Good.
Bianliang City is much deeper
than what we had imagined.
If we want to take it down, it won't take a day or two.
Even if we can take it down,
Han's people will not give their allegiance to us.
What will be left for us is a tarnished reputation for pillaging and destruction.
One day, they will counter-attack.
We would become the losers.
Looks like you have learned
your lessons in these years.
It's easy to take down a city, but not easy to win the people hearts.
You finally understand this principle.
I'm very happy for you.
Good.
Thank you, your Majesty.
I don't understand about all this fighting, killing and attacking.
I only know that to really defeat an enemy,
we must start from the inside.
We will not even need to use one soldier
to subdue them.
Number Two, don't try to be mysterious.
What's on your mind?
Your Majesty,
I have a letter from someone named Qin Hui.
We can try to draw him to our side.
If he can be an insider,
our chance of seizing Song's land will be greater.
Qin Hui.
Right.
He is the mastermind in the Song's imperial court.
Looking at all the imperial officials,
he is the only one we can use.
This shameful lowlife.
If he can betray his master today,
he can stab us in the heart tomorrow.
Why are we taking the long route?
All we need to do is slaughter our way in for three days and three nights.
That is a sin. A sin.
If we invade the central region of Song now,
our front troop is uncertain, our back troop is unstable.
The rescuing royal troop will be on their way to save the emperor.
They can cut off our escape route.
Based on my judgement, we should quit while we're ahead.
Let's take our money and go.
Number two, if you're scared,
you can go back first.
No matter what, I will fight my way into the capital.
Wu Zhu, what do you think?
Your Majesty, we still need to fight.
But, we need to talk peace as well.
There is a good saying by the Song people.
An escape route in a siege.
It means when an army is laying a siege,
they must leave an escape route
to entice the enemy to flee.
So, when we're in battle,
they won't risk their lives fighting us.
The letter from Qin Hui,
it shows that they're now in a panic state.
We can talk peace with them.
Whether we will reach an agreement or not,
it's in our hand.
Good. We'll do as you say.
The compensation includes five million of gold units,
fifty million of silver units,
ten thousand cattle,
ten thousand bolts of silk and satin,
cession of three towns, Tai Yuan, He Jian and Zhong Shan.
The peace negotiator must be the prime minister of Song,
and a royal prince.
Your Majesty, please do not agree.
Jin's ambition is like wolves.
Rather than building up Jin's appetite,
why don't we give them our best fight? The outcome is still unknown.
Your Majesty, we have no room to retreat anymore.
Forty thousand of Jin's troop is heading down south.
It will be like entering a no man's land.