Romance of 3 kingdoms stories.

The urge of reading this stories came from after watching drama "Three Kingdoms RPG". After watching a bit, I thought might as well read the whole story. But reading novel is too long and bored because there are too many poems in it. So I thought of reading the manga.

http://mangapark.me/manga/sangokushi

This manga is 95% accurate to real story from the novel. The stories in this manga start with Liu Bei as a peasant and straw shoes maker, waiting for a trader ship to buy tea for his mother. 

The story continued and later on introduced the future ruler of Wei province which is known by many, Cao Cao. He is known as a genius in almost everything and expanded his influence in a very short period. The emperor at that time become his puppet and the imperial also listened to him in everything he said. By that time, only another province that can match up with his influence is Wu province lead by Sun Jian, who died in an ambush, then lead by his son Sun Ce, died of illness and then lead by Sun Quan.

As for Liu Bei, he is only ruling a small city but he had a lot of strong general and retainer that is loyal to him. The sworn brother Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are fearsome to many people. Both of them made their name famous and then Liu Bei found another loyal retainer Zhao Yun. All 3 of them are famous in their own way. 

Guan Yu is the single person who protected Liu Bei's wife and slayed 6 generals to go back to Liu Bei. 

Zhang Fei is the one who single handedly hold of Cao Cao's army in one bridge and then Cao Cao retreated because it seems like an ambush but it's not.

Zhao Yun is the one who marched alone into Cao Cao's army to save Liu Bei's wife and son (known as Adou and then as Liu Shan) and then come out safely.

With those loyal and brave warrior, Liu Bei just need a capable military commander who can read the enemy movement to win in war. First, he acquired Xu Shu and managed to win a war easily with Xu Shu help. 

However, knowing that Liu Bei had Xu Shu, Cao Cao ordered his men to invite Xu Shu's mother to the capital and asked her to write a letter to Xu Shu to ask him to work for Cao Cao. Xu Shu's mother declined but Cao Cao managed to get one of his underling to get close to Xu Shu's mother by giving her a lot of gifts. She started to write letter to Cao Cao's underling to thank him. 

In the end, Cao Cao's underling managed to imitate Xu Shu's mother's writing to send a fake letter to Xu Shu. Xu Shu believed the fake letter and resigned from his position. Before he left Liu Bei, he told him that Liu Bei should go to recruit Zhuge Liang as his advisor.

From there onward, the story gets even more interesting demonstrating Zhuge Liang's wits. They win numerous war without any big casualties. The borrow arrow strategy, the win at red cliff, the alliance with Sun Quan from Wu all made them become more and more well known. The number of loyal retainer and general working for Liu Bei increased day by day. 

Soon, Liu Bei expanded his influence to Shu territory, and hence, the real war between the 3 kingdoms begin. Liu Bei of Shu, Sun Quan of Wu and Cao Cao of Wei. If you are reading this and are a big fans of 3 kingdoms, I suggest you read the story on your own.

I will stop here. Maybe I will continue writing this again someday.