Translate a history story for you!——“Zhangfei prevent Caocao'army from chasing him”
This story is from "The Romance Of The Three Kingdom".This book recorded the history covers the whole three kingdom era of ancient China.And this book is regarded as"A book consists of three tenths of false stories and seven tenths of true history".So this story is just a legend.
Three kingdom era,as its name,was an era filled with endless wars.There were three major kingdoms——Shu(short for Shuhan),Wei(short for Caowei) and Wu(short for Sunwu).Liubei was the king of Shu and Caocao was the king of Wei.But this story's major character is Zhangfei,a general of Shu.
In beginning,Liubei was a subordinate of Caocao.But he betrayed Caocao and surrendered to Liubiao,who was a leud and a relative of Liubei.But no longer after Liubei surrendered,Liubiao died and Caocao brought his army,hoping to kill Liubei.With no other method to avoid being killed by Caocao,Liubei fled to the southern land of the Long River.However,Caocao never gave up and sitll followed Liubei.The distance their army was shorter and shorter.
As Liubei hurried to a bridge named Dangyang,he can even heard the noise of Caocao's army.To fight for more time to flee,Liubei ordered Zhangfei to defend the bridge so he could get enough time to flee.Zhangfei asked his solder tied some brances to their horses' tail and let their horses to run around in a forest nearby.
Caocao came to the bridge.To his surprised,he found Zhangfei defending the bridge alone.Seeing there forest was full of smog,he thought there must be a lot of solders hiding in the forest.He was not brave enough to attack.
Seeing Caocao is hesitating,Zhangfei hung his weapon——a weapon named snake spear and shouted:"I am Zhangfei,the people from Yan area(this area is in Hebei province now,near Peiking).Who is brave enough to fight with me for eight hundred rounds!!!"
No one responsed.
Zhangfei yelled twice.This time no one answered,too.
Seeing this scene,Zhangfei shouted third time"Not fighting with me or withdrawing,what are you want to do?"
Hearing this,A general of wei is too afraid.He fell off his horse and died.Caocao was afraid.Saying nothing,he withdrawed with his army as fast as he could.
Waiting until Caocao had withdrawed yet,Zhangfei destroyed Dangyang bridge to prevent Caocao chasing him again.Then he seeked Liubei and Zhugeliang,who was not only a outstanding adviser of Shu,but also a household wise man of China today.
This is the first I translate a Chinese history.There must be many errors!I'm sorry TAT....
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Seems that there are a mistake in title.....“Caocao'”should be "Caocao's"
I feel ashamed for this.....
Forgive me please TAT...
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