This flame became more and more intense, filling the entire screen more and more, and with a bang, someone waved it around.
"Prime Minister!"
A voice-over was suddenly inserted, reminding the audience that another line had been cut.
The camera moves away from the torch with the torch in the center, allowing the audience to see the Shu army planning an attack.
"Prime Minister, the front has been explored. The troops in Ji County are empty. The prefect fled in panic. The only ones left are Jiang Wei and a few of his soldiers. Jiang Wei, I don't know what luck he had. He guessed our army before.
The intention of the Northern Expedition almost ruined the Northern Expedition... Fortunately, the Wei army was incompetent and was defeated too quickly, so that the crops outside the city had no time to harvest. Good crops, good season... I heard from people who came over to say that the person in charge of farm affairs was exactly
Then Jiang Wei."
"Hmph... Now I have wasted a year in vain, and I can just give it to me."
"Prime Minister, please let me be the vanguard to attack the city, capture that guy alive, and tie him before the Prime Minister so that he can avenge his shame!"
Under the general's call, the Shu army formed an array and gradually became orderly. The high platform left for Zhuge Kongming was still empty, waiting for him to come and sit.
However, the leading cavalrymen in front of the Shu army also retreated faintly, leaving a gap for one person to pass through. They seemed to be waiting for someone.
Zhuge Kongming was stunned when he saw that, and after a long time he said, "Don't kill indiscriminately in this battle. After capturing the enemy general..."
He paused for a moment, looked ahead, and said in a slightly serious tone, "I have other plans. Don't be rude."
Zhuge Kongming's eyes stayed on the brown-red horse, and a gust of wind blew by, lifting the mane of the war horse.
"Da da da!"
Horse hooves flying.
The voice-over said, "General!"
It turns out that we have reached the story line of Jiang Wei again. He led his soldiers to the prefect overnight and asked for military support.
However, the prefect Ma Zun stayed behind closed doors and asked someone to shout at the city gate:
"Jiang Zhonglang, please come back! There are no soldiers left in the city."
Jiang Wei was so angry that he knocked on the door, "Jixian County is about to be lost, and the people are going to be bullied. Are we just going to watch what happens?"
The Wei army in the city did not answer him, but instead led archers to stand on the wall with their bowstrings fully drawn.
Jiang Wei and others had to turn around and return.
On the way back, Jiang Wei vaguely saw the messy crops in the fields, and asked his subordinates: "The Shu army has already attacked Tianshui City?"
The subordinate said, "If Ji County is not broken, how can there be Shu troops in Tianshui?"
Jiang Wei didn't say anything, got off his horse, lit a torch, and went to the field to look carefully at the fallen crops.
Obviously, the Wei army was too hasty to flee for their lives and could not maintain their formation, so they had to go back to the city together.
Moreover, they had already abandoned the outside of the city, fearing that the Shu army would get the food, and this might even be intentional.
"But what about the common people?"
Jiang Wei said to himself.
His subordinates replied, "When the false emperor of Shu was still alive, he would always be forced to retreat. He would take all the people in the city who were willing to follow him to flee, protect them, and distribute the few grains he had. The people would wear out their shoes."
We must also follow him... Now that the crops have been trampled to pieces, according to the enemy's habit, they must use their own army rations to feed the people, otherwise they will massacre the city and reduce the number of people eating..."
"If you take out military rations, you will reduce supplies and be unable to attack deeply; if you massacre the city, it will ruin the reputation of the Northern Expedition; but no matter what it is, it will put the Shu army in a dilemma. It is really... a clever plan."
Jiang Wei said, "Using the common people as chess pieces, can this be considered a clever plan? It's just a poisonous plan."
The subordinate said in shock, "General..."
"Everyone obeys the order!"
Everyone, "Yes!"
Jiang Wei held up the torch and let the light illuminate his entire body, "We surrender to Kaicheng."
This torch, burning brightly, was originally held by Jiang Wei. The camera was pushed up to capture only the dancing fire, and it was close-up for a few seconds. Then it was pushed down again, and the hand turned into a fixed candlestick.
Voice-over:
"Prime Minister, this is Jiang Wei."
As for Jiang Wei, he was also half-kneeling, as if he was bowing before him. Zhuge Kongming helped him up and said, "Bo Yue, please get up."
The camera cuts to the shadows of Zhuge Liang and Jiang Boyue. Under the oil lamp, one is standing and the other is kneeling on one knee. They are reflected on the white marching tent, shaking slightly.
Back to the beginning.
And the difference from the beginning is that as Jiang Wei stood up, his and Zhuge Kongming's shadows almost overlapped.
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This was the whole plot after Jiang Wei appeared that night. Instead of waiting until the next day, at night, topics such as "New Three Kingdoms", Jiang Wei, Kong Ming and Jiang Wei were constantly fermenting in forums and blogs.
Many former trolls showed mercy, "This is the Three Kingdoms I want to see! The heroes I want to see!"
"Director Takagi suddenly changed his ways... reminds me that he also made good films before."
"For Jiang Wei's sake, I can give "New Three Kingdoms" 0.5 points."
There was also discussion about the actor's acting skills.
"Doesn't anyone think that Lu Yi's performance in this episode is amazing? It's not on the same level as before!"
"That's right!"
As usual, Fang Yi's big licker Yunfei Yang wrote a long article of several thousand words to analyze the mystery of these fragments:
"Jiang Wei's plot is completely different from the superficial style of painting before "New Three Kingdoms". If "New Three Kingdoms" is like a TV series that cost a lot of money, even though there is no big scene in the part where Jiang Wei appears, everything looks like
There are a lot of symbolic things in the movie."
"For example, the fire hinted at the Kingdom of Shu. The amount of light it illuminated was the progress. Finally, Jiang Wei raised the torch and he was completely illuminated, and he was completely conquered by Kong Ming... I personally think that this is better than using Jiang Wei to
His mother forced him to surrender, which seems more in line with Kong Ming's character. After all, Kong Ming was the one who lamented the loss of Yangshou after burning Teng Jia; since he wanted to find a trustworthy successor for Shu, he must find one.
Someone who has the same goals as him, not just a surrendered general."
A blogger asked Yun Feiyang, "But this is how the original work of the Three Kingdoms was written. Zhuge Liang used Jiang Wei's mother to force him to surrender."
Yunfei Yang then explained, "You have also misunderstood. It was not his mother who forced Jiang Wei to surrender, but Jiang Wei's mother who persuaded Jiang Wei to surrender. Based on the values of the Han Dynasty, his widowed mother asked Jiang Wei to go to the Kingdom of Wu.
, he will go there obediently; but since it will be broadcast today, in order to make the motivation reasonable, I think Takagi made an adaptation that is in line with current values. For the world, for the people."
Some people claim that since the fire represents Ji Han, no matter how bright the fire is in the dark night, it will eventually burn out, which also implies the inevitable decline of the Shu Kingdom.
Wouldn’t this be over-interpretation?
There are also those who discuss the New Three Kingdoms Mirror Movement and think that it is completely inconsistent with Takagi's previous style. He seems to have made a very bold attempt.
Of course, the above topics are all very niche. For the public watching on TV, they don’t feel any different than before. Maybe they just feel that the acting is better... But that’s not important. What’s important is.
