People say Lü Bu, Zhang Fei, and Ma Chao are all brawn and no brains.
Yet based on their achievements in history, they could not have been that simple.
[?]: Is that Liu Bei’s world-renowned General Zhao Yun?
[?]: Are those the so-called top warriors of each of your clans?
[?]: Couldn’t even defeat an old man, what a joke!
chapter 594 The One To Break Rotten Wood
(Does anyone have official translation? Quoting Book of Han, chapter 13, “Table of nobles not related to the imperial clan 1”; the rest of the sentence, “It’s difficult to carve into metal and stone, but it’s easy to break rotten wood”)
[?]: If that’s your strength, you can forget about the city of Ji, let alone challenging Cao Cao!
[Eighth]: Fortunately, we still have a God of War in the Liang Province!
[Ma Chao]: Oh.
[Eighth]: General Ma Chao, please demonstrate the power that you are known for in Liang!
[Eighth]: Someone is trying to sway morale, go up there and stop him!
[?]: General Ma Chao, please prove to the skeptics that we men of Liang cannot be bullied!
[Zhao Ang]: Please make those who doubt your courage shut up!
(“…suspect you wouldn’t dare to accept challenge…”)
[Wang Yi]: That’s right, this Ma Chao is just a brute with a simple head on his shoulders.
[WY]: We must make sure he has no excuses to back down!
[ZA]: Okay.
[?]: Together now, shout, God of War!
[?]: The God of War of Liang will never retreat!
[?]: The God of War of Liang will never retreat!
[?]: The God of War of Liang will never retreat!
[?]: Madam Wang, there are people coming!
[WY]: Don’t stop, Brother Ang, we’ll defend you!
[?]: The rivers of West Liang flow and flow, for the God of War…
[?]: The God of War of Liang will never retreat!
You’re here.
Ang-er, you really came…
(-er suffix is an affectionate reference to someone)
For the sake of the people of Liang, perhaps this is the most meaningful thing the Zhao clan has done in years.
Don’t worry, your teacher will not disappoint.
I swear to take down this commander!
[MC]: Why use an oxcleaver to kill a rooster? Who made that decision on his own?
[Eighth]: Zhao Zhen is an extraordinary fighter, General, don’t be influenced by that instigator.
[MC]: Thanks for laying down the stepping stones for me.
[MC]: However, your sole duty here is to treat my headache.
[Zhao Zhen]: Arrogant and reckless, remember that no one can stop you from courting death.
[MC]: Or just say this guy is too dumb to live.
(according to a Chinese analysis, the reference can be for either MC or ZZ; the other potential meaning is quoting something by Confucius, saying that “playing dumb is not something everyone knows how to do,” implying MC is playing dumb)
[ZZ]: Precisely.
{wham~}
[ZZ]: Those who eat meat are base and unable to make long-term plans. You shall reap what you sow.
(quoting Zuo Commentary, chapter on Lord Zhuang, year ten)
[?]: Close combat without a weapon,
[?]: and against that powerful old man; has General Ma lost his mind?
[?]: Brawn.
[MC]: The ultimate martial skill depends on physical strength.
[ZZ]: We share the same view, but that’s mere bravado.
[?]: Don’t go, sir.
[?]: We came because we admired General Ma Teng’s fighting spirit against Cao Cao,
[?]: not for that brainless brute!
[?]: The He clan is right. We’ll only be following that guy to our deaths!
[?]: That man is unfilial for abandoning his father, Sir Guo. Now that we’ve seen how he is, I hope you do the right thing!
[WY]: We did it! The top three clans of Liang have been shaken.
[YW]: Their alliance is starting to crumble!
[ZZ]: Hit.
{slash~}
{wham~}
[ZZ]: Hit.
[ZZ]: Hit.
[?]: Why get even closer to that blade? Did he hit his head?
(“…this brain broken”)
[?]: Let’s go back him up, or this alliance will be done for if he falls!
[Eighth]: Go together! We can’t let anything happen to General Ma!
{grip~}
[MC]: I will go against the current in spite of Traitor Cao’s power!
[MC]: I won’t back down no matter how skilled my opponent is!
[MC]: You see this?
[MC]: This is my determination!
{wham~}
[MC]: Right return.
{stomp~}
[MC]: Left turn.
{crack~}
[Yang Qian Wan]: Liver shot! The strongest attack in close combat!
[YQW]: And it sounds like he broke a bone!
{stomp~}
[MC]: What I consider as brawn
[MC]: comes from the strength of unity.
[MC]: The strength to save the world.
{slam~}
You can break a stone,
(quoting Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals)
but not take away its firmness!
(quoting Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals)
[MC]: This is how I use my brain!
{slam~}
[MC]: Come the day for the sun to perish, let Heaven and Earth witness the one who will be left standing!
(Lü Bu swore the same line in chapter 262, but I have to change it to fit a different context; quoting “Oath of Tang”; a popularized curse during the Xia dynasty, against king Jie, who compared himself to the sun; here it’s indirectly referring to the powerful Cao Cao)
{slam~}
{slam~}
[WY]: Brother Ang, don’t stop!
{slam~}
[ZA]: Huff!
(he might be sobbing or gasping here, not sure what to put here?)
{slam~}
{slam~}
{slam~}
{slam~}
{slam~}
You can capture the commander of a large army, but not seize the will of even a common man.
On this day, various powers of the Liang Province united because of one man.
The Chosen One
(“heaven-selected person”)
has the power that is worthy of worship!
[MC]: General Zhao, my head is hurting again.
[MC]: Please treat me.
[?]: The rivers of West Liang flow and flow,
[?]: toward the central plains they flow!
FLOW~
The Alliance of Liang Province was formally established on that day.
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Who is the most powerful God of War? Volume 76 is in the making, to be announced soon.
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In addition to local warlords, this alliance also included major foreign clans.
It was rare to see everyone united in their cause.
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