The Romance of Three Kingdoms is a story of hero’s and foes whose role’s affected each other’s fate. Their relationships caused either success or failure by death for each other. The positions each held varied from advisors to rulers, their conflicts would the fate of the country.
The relationship between the Kongming and Zhou Yu began when both kingdoms of Shu and Wu make an alliance to fight against Cao Cao’s strong army. Although both at first worked with each other to produce strategies against Wei, Zhou Yu realizes that the Shu prime minister would be a great threat to the Wu kingdom in the future and decides that it would be safer to be rid of this great enemy before it is too late. Although the young advisor of Wu was a very smart strategists, hi
Throughout the tale, Kongming’s role has proven to be the most powerful because of his strategic abilities and many attributes to Liu Bei’s success. There seemed to be no contender that was comparable to him in knowledge and strategic skills except Sima Yi, the Wei advisor. Sima Yi’s abilities was not equal to that of the Sleeping Dragon, although he knew of Kongming’s traps, he fell victim to many. Both strategists knew that their kingdom will not expand if the other lived. Although the expeditions consisted of killing and fighting, Sima Yi and Kongming were battling with their intellects and predictions. Many of times, Sima Yi was near death but fate would have it otherwise. In the end Kongming is defeated not by Sima Yi, but by the will of heaven.
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