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[Red Cliffs: A Ghostly Stratagem] On a winter night in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao’s head is splitting with pain when memories from his previous life come flooding back: his crushing defeat at Red Cliffs, the division of the realm into three kingdoms, and Sima Yi usurping Wei... Reborn before the Battle of Red Cliffs, he grips the blood-soaked proclamation: “I will see to it that this realm is never divided into three again!”
The flames have yet to ignite the chained ships, and Zhou Yu’s favorable east wind has yet to rise. Guo Jia, the poison-tongued strategist, has already foiled Zhuge Liang’s plan to borrow arrows with straw boats by faking his own death.
Xun Yu’s hand trembles as he lifts a dose of Five-Stone Powder. On the bamboo slips before him, the rudiments of the Nine Ranks System are plainly written.
As Guan Yu’s Green Dragon Crescent Blade swings down at Huarong Road, the Cao camp suddenly reveals a tiger tally for Jingzhou’s navy. It turns out the straw boats sent to borrow arrows were already loaded with explosives.
“I can see the fates of everyone,” Cao Cao says. He cuts open Red Hare’s belly and pulls out a secret letter from Sun Quan to Liu Bei. Then he raises a torch toward the Yangtze. “But I’ll be the one to burn this so-called fate to ashes!”
