#this brick ham fucking COUNTER-COUNTER-STRATEGY'D the king of counter strategy. he had literally 20 men.

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#HI. it's me. im guy #romance of the three kingdoms #pour one out to zhang fei for doing the “tie branches to horse tails” + bluff move properly #this is literally so funny plot-wise. zhang fei is set up as this brick ham who solves every problem with his fists. #vs cao cao. chinese moriarty. warrior-poet who edited the Sun Tsu's Art of War. his name is synonymous with the devil. #this brick ham fucking COUNTER-COUNTER-STRATEGY'D the king of counter strategy. he had literally 20 men. #and he PSYCHED HIM OUT by making him believe there was an ambush. #a few years later zhuge liang would do the exact same thing with sima yi (same war btw) #BY OPENING THE CITY GATES AND PRETENDING THEY HAD AN AMBUSH #team shu han literally went: ok team cao wei is a bunch of neurotic overthinkers. we got the power of friendship and psychological warfare #they can't predict our strategy if we have no strategy! GO TEAM GO! PUT SCARECROWS IN THE BOATS AND A DEAD GUY IN COMMAND! #AND IT FUCKING WORKED