The Three Kindgoms: Book Two (completed)

Now, time to talk about book two of The Three Kingdoms saga. To be truthful, the novel is split into four seperate books due to the fact that the story is about 2500 pages. That's a really long story. Anyhoo, onward with book two!!

So, during book one, Liu Bei and his sworn brothers joined the army and used his cunning tactics to defeat the Yellow Scarves and successfully killed Zhang Jiao and his sworn brothers (apparently, swearing brotherhood with other warriors was a popular trend back in the day). However, with all of the corruption still existing in the Chinese government, Liu Bei had some trouble before he was finally acknowledged as a significant role in the victory of the royal army. While Liu Bei has his troubles, the royal court is in complete chaos. There are a numerous amount of uprisings and bitter rivarlies that come into play but to make a extremely long story short, a general by the name of Dong Zhou manages to capture the throne for himself after he eliminates the young princes that were supposed to inherit the throne from their father. When Dong Zhou is founded to be the mastermind behind the chaos of the court, the roal army general Cao Cao issues an imperial order to all the warlords and governers to rally their armies and stand together against the threat of Dong Zhou. However, due to poor leadership skills, the armies only manage to pester Dong Zhou, at best, and fail to do any significant damage to him. However, he is later killed by his son Lu Bu in a fight for the beautiful maiden Diao Chan. (Apparently, that was also a popular thing to do) After the death of Zhou, Cao Cao frees the princes from their prison cell guarded by Zhou's followers and sets up a new government. Lui Bei, who participated during the war against Dong Zhou, refuses to serve Cao and takes Xi Provinence for himself, which sparks another civil war in the country. After saying all of this, I only got through a eighth of the storyline in this epic struggle in China for power. In addition to those who like historical fiction, I also recommend the book to people interested in the old ways of war and strategies.