Cheng Yu offered a plan to Cao Cao, led Guan Yu out of the city, besieged in the heaped-up mountains, and seized Xiapi. Zhang Liao advised Guan Yu to surrender and listed three counts. Guan Yu made three appointments, and Cao Cao promised Guan Yu to surrender. Cao Cao loved him deeply, but Guan Yu was unmoved by beautiful women and jewels and often thought about Liu Bei's whereabouts.
Yuan Shao insisted on attacking Cao Cao and sent Yan Liang as the pioneer. Yan Lianglian beheaded two generals of Cao Cao and lost one. Cheng Yuju and Guan Yu killed Yan Liang and saved Cao Cao.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms uses simple classical Chinese, which is vivid and fluent, appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Brush strokes are full of changes, contrasts, redundancies, twists and turns, and swaying. The structure is magnificent, and the events of about a hundred years and many characters with complicated clues are organized completely and closely, and the narrative is orderly, echoing, interrelated, interlocking and advancing layer by layer.
The artistic achievement of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms is more important in military and political description and characterization. Novels are best at describing wars and can write the characteristics of each war. Pay attention to describing the application of different strategies and tactics under specific conditions, and guide the subjective initiative of combat, instead of spending the main pen and ink on the simple strength and martial arts contest.
For example, the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Battle of Red Cliffs and the Battle of Yiling. The writing of each war also changes with the characteristics of the war. While writing about the war, other activities are also written as the prelude, aftermath or auxiliary means of the war, which makes the exciting and thrilling war seem relaxed and slow.
Such as the cooperation between Battle of Red Cliffs's former grandson and Liu, the contradiction between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, the temptation of Cao Cao, and the in-depth preparation of Sun Liu's allied forces to lure the enemy. In the aspect of characterization, the novel pays special attention to putting the characters in the sharp contradiction of real struggle and expressing their ideological character through their words and deeds or the surrounding environment.
Such as Cao Cao's treachery, every move seems to hide intrigue; Zhang Fei has nothing but innocence and recklessness. Zhuge Liang has a well-thought-out plan, and he is always comfortable and leisurely in the face of things.
Famous articles such as Guan Yu's "Killing Hua Xiong with Warm Wine", "Killing Six Generals after Passing Five Customs", Zhang Fei's "The Great Bridge in Changban", Zhao Yun's "Riding Alone to Save the Young Master", Zhuge Liang's "Rescuing Meng Huo Seven times" and "Scaring Sima Yi with an Empty City Plan" are widely circulated.
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