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~ Moonrise by Lu Hu & Huang Yali ~
♫ The moonlight shines brightly on the strings of the zither that night ♫
♫ You and I are teetering on the edge of loneliness ♫
♫ Softly reciting the bygone days we cannot return to ♫
♫ Also floating in the air is a kite with a string that has snapped ♫
♫ The yearning stirs my heartstrings that night ♫
♫ Love and hate whimper quietly and unrestrainedly ♫
♫ To meet or not to meet, both are similarly on the edge of pain ♫
♫ That umbrella that shielded me from the rain was badly damaged ♫
♫ At moonrise, I meet with you ♫
♫ At moonset, I could not see you anymore ♫
♫ At moonrise, I endlessly yearn for you ♫
♫ At moonset... at moonset... ♫
♫ A millennium passes by rapidly... ♫
The Legend of Hao Lan
Episode 35
General Lian Po was shot with many arrows. Zhao State is an arrow at the end of its flight. (A spent force.)
Why couldn't we finish the take over yet?
General, please don't be angry. The Zhao people are cunning. They are resorting to the use of Royal Descendant as a shield.
He is our Qin State's heir apparent. How could our soldiers dare to shoot more arrows when they attack the city?
Wouldn't that be an offense to one's superior ?
Quickly, report this matter to the Crown Prince.
I want to ask him how we should proceed with this battle.
Yes.
[ Protect Peace Palace ]
What to do?
Now we are finished. What shall we do?
What situation are we in already? How could you just sit still?
You should relax.
Now that the great battle is about to start, Royal Descendant becomes Prince Yu's last life saving talisman.
He will not kill him unless there is no other option.
Still... We need to quickly find another way.
In case Qin Army really breaks into Handan. We're all going to be finished.
General Gongsun, move your ear closer (come nearer) to me.
All right.
Lu Buwei.
General Gongsun...!
- You... - Move away...!
Lu Buwei that b*stard. How dare he let the Qin hostage escape.
That almost caused me a dismissal by His Majesty!
Let me teach him a lesson. All right?
But General Gongsun, this is not per regulation.
Scram from me.
I am regulation.
Who do you think you are? Dares to chide me.
General Gongsun, this way please.
Come.
You caused me great harm.
Look at how I will teach you.
Scram.
Treasurer Lu, are you all right?
Madame Royal Descendant is anxious, wants to ask you for a strategy.
Fortunately the Qin General is Wang Lin. If switched to Bai Qi.
Royal Descendant will lose his life.
How is that so?
The Man Slaughterer, Bai Qi doesn't care if he is heir or Crown Prince.
Whoever blocks his army's advance, will be stamped into minced meat.
Now that Wang Ling is unable to take us for so long, I am concern that Lord Anguo will switch to using Bai Qi.
Then what should we do?
Go to Treasures Shop and look for the shopkeeper.
Ask him to send a message to Sitou Que and say...
The great Qin physician?
Yes.
All right, I understand.
I tired today, will come back another day to work out my muscles.
[ General Bai Qi's Residence ]
Your highness the prince.
Greetings to your highness the Crown Prince.
Didn't know Crown Prince was coming. Please forgive my lack of a big welcome.
Let me ask you.
Back then, when the army was struggling, grain stores were empty.
But you still wanted to attack Handan.
Now the army is well rested.
Our moral is high, provisions are fortified.
But you don't want to attach Zhao now. What exactly is the reason?
Crown Prince, Qin army was greatly successful at Changping battle.
Should've continue the attack while the opposition's moral is in shock.
Unstable situation, with one big blow and takes down Handan.
But Crown Prince chose to retreat the army.
I've heard that Zhao King trains his soldiers every day.
Also sends envoys with generous offerings to Wei and Chu seeking alliance.
The citizens of Zhao State are also in unison.
Sharing a bitter hatred of the enemy. To attack now.
How can we succeed?
I think it's not about losing an opportunity for battle.
It's you. Pretending to be sick and afraid of fighting.
Such a great Bai Qi. I am being generous.
Considerate of your illness. I got you a palace physician.
- Do you know when he said? - What he said?
He said Lord Wu'an has an illness of the heart. No one in the world can cure that.
Crown Prince, my father is really sick. Definitely not pretending to be sick.
Did the physician lie then?
Physicians are also human, they can make mistakes too.
I am willing to go to the front lines for my father. Please give your permission.
Relying on you ?
For many years, I've accompanied my father to many locations for battle. Have never failed.
Right now I have a strategy that will guarantee a win.
- If still can't take down Handan, you can charge my father then. - Zhong'er!
Please give your royal permission.
At least you have our Qin men's mannerism.
I will let Wang He replaced Wang Lin as the leading General.
I will add another ten thousand soldiers. Surround the Handan.
You may follow the army. As for your father...
If you can not win, I will not forgive him.
I have to be bold and ask, what if this time Zhao State uses prince as hostage again?
You...
For the win, will not spare any price.
I accept the command.
Bastard, you dare to be so wanton.
Father, couldn't you see?
Someone deliberately bought the physician and attempt to kill you.
How would I not know?
Crown Prince already became suspicious of me.
This strategy of splitting us is right on target.
But no one can win this battle.
Father shouldn't worry.
I have a plan that guarantees a win.
Kill.
[ Handan City ]
Red Sun Palace.
Qin army started attacking the city again.
Qin army added another ten thousand soldiers. From morning to night,
takes turns to attack Handan City.
Today is the sixth time.
Your majesty, you haven't take your medicine yet.
No need.
Qin will immediately rush into Handan City.
What is the use of me taking medicine now?
But your majesty's health...
I said no need.
You shouldn't prepare medicine for me now.
Instead should be a coffin.
Your majesty.
Whose coffin?
Mistress.
Didn't your majesty said we will fight all the way?
But look at the situation now. What does Mistress want me to use to fight against Qin?
I will take your majesty to a location.
-To where? - Follow me.
Go...where?
Don't move.
Save me.
Who can help me?
Hoalan.
Be careful.
Why are you here?
Slowly.
- Mom. - Child.
- Our home is gone. Everything is gone. - Slowly.
Mom, wake up.
Everything is gone.
Mom, wake up.
Sit down.
Mom.
- But you are.. - Palace is in chaos.
Yiren is at the top of the town gate. I originally came to look for him.
Didn't expect that the entire Handan is in confusion.
Drink some more.
Come, drink some water.
Open the city gate.
Your majesty prohibits people leaving the city.
Tens of thousands of Qin army are attacking us.
You expect us to be destroyed along with Handan city?
Let us go.
Open the city gate.
Everyone please calm down.
The Qin army have not yet take us down. We still have an opportunity.
If you escape now, what happens when you meet up with Qin soldiers?
If we meet them, then we will surrender to Qin.
Only if we surrender, then we can still live.
You don't know anything. You are delaying our escape.
Smash her to death.
Smash her.
You should all stop.
She didn't sleep for day and night, saved so many people. Did you not see ?
I recognize her, she is the palace physician. She saved a lot of people.
So what? Open the city gate.
Quickly open it up.
Open the city gate.
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Whoever shakes our army's moral is Qin spy.
Execute without fail.
Outside the city are ferocious Qin army.
They killed your closest blood kin. Have enormous enmity with you.
Inside the city is our last shelter.
Once Handan is gone, you will all become people of doomed country.
Without home, without country.
You will be kicked at wherever you go.
Not even as good as an ant. Therefor you can not retreat.
Even if Gods are standing outside, you should not retreat.
If army is not strong enough, the palace guards, servants.
Old people and kids in the city should all go up the city walls.
My husband and son.
All died at Changping. I will not leave.
We need to avenge them, we need go into battle.
We are not leaving.
We need to make avenge.
We want to go into battle.
Your majesty.
I am here.
Please go up the city wall and supervise the battle. Boost army morale.
I need go to up as well?
All the women in Handan are going to battle.
You can not sit and wait.
Even if you need to spill last drop of blood.
Can not let Qin step into Handan even half a step.
All right. I will go up.
[ Handan City ]
Greetings, Prince.
Prince, we've already switched out the women and children so that they can rest.
I know now.
Warriors!
Our Zhao State's elderly, children, and women
have all gone onto the battlefield now.
This is our last chance.
Royal Descendant of Qin, don't be happy too soon.
The moment when they invade the city is when you'll be beheaded.
What are you smiling about?
My father has 20 sons.
Even if you killed me,
he wouldn't let one tear fall.
Prince, look! Hurry up and look!
What's that?
[ Handan City ]
- What are they doing?
Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows!
Prince, they seem to be impenetrable.
Ghost soldiers! It's ghost soldiers!
They are ghost soldiers from hell. They came specifically to exterminate the State of Zhao.
Let's not be afraid! Kill them!
Run! Everyone hurry up and run!
Everyone don't move!
Everyone don't move! Whoever takes one step back will be killed!
Shoot the arrows! Get up there!
Get up there! Shoot the arrows!
I can't believe you thought of that.
You didn't see
the soldiers of Zhao escape like the wind.
Even swords couldn't stop them. Now, all of Handan City
must be in chaos.
Isn't Handan city being guarded by women?
I just want them to see
that this is the men's world.
Women are unworthy of being on the battlefield.
What should we do now?
I want the ghost soldiers cause ruckus every night. No one dares to guard Handan at night anymore.
In three days, it will be the perfect time to take action.
Three days later?
At that time needs to disguise all those dead bodies.
Also put vine armor on our soldiers.
Disguise as the ghost soldiers and carry a full on attack.
There are ghosts.
Ghosts.
Ghost is here.
Careful.
Ghost is here.
Ghost is here. Don't kill me.
Don't be afraid. It's all right.
Haolan, help me hold this down.
Physician.
Physician, save this person.
Physician, quickly save this person.
Xiaochun, those ghost soldier's armor are invincible to knifes.
Is there really such a thing in this world?
Invincible?
I've heard from Yi that Qin state has wild vine.
After soaked in tung oil, it becomes indestructible.
Will not sink in water. When hunters wears this vine coat.
Can go hunting without fear of wild animals.
Could those ghost soldiers be wearing this vine armor?
Then how do the dead bodies move?
It's dark.
How do you know there's no one behind it?
But it still doesn't make sense. They spend so much effort to bring over all these dead bodies.
Only to cause disturbance every night?
Scare the people?
It's mostly women on the top of the walls.
Women are naturally afraid of ghosts.
No one ones to participate in the battle anymore.
Maybe waiting for an opportunity.
What opportunity?
The right time to attack the city with massive troops after they used the strategy to fool us.
Tung oil.
Prince.
Lord, they finally retreated.
I see that.
These people are such cowards
to use these tricks to scare us.
I heard the ghost soldiers scared half of our soldiers away, not to mention the women.
Now there are less than half of the original soldiers guarding the city wall.
How do we protect the city?
It's all your fault.
Attacking the morale works better than attacking the city.
While you have time to vent your frustration on me,
why don't you think about how to defeat the enemy?
Qin doesn't care about you anymore.
Your usefulness ends right here.
Release.
Wait!
What are you doing here? Leave!
I have away to defeat the Qin army. Please let the Royal Descendant go.
What is it?
I may have found out the secret why the Qin soldiers are invincible against arrows.
- Speak. - But I have a condition.
Haolan, don't.
You are in no position to bargain with me.
Speak.
Then Prince can kill us husband and wife.
The Qin army will enter the city soon.
Let's see how mighty you'll be then.
Li Haolan!
The Queen is here.
If you can defeat the Qin army,
I guarantee the safety of Royal Descendant and Lü Buwei.
Your Highness, what if she fails, what about Handan?
Your Highness, what do you think?
Life is a big gamble.
If we win, we'll all be happy.
If we lose, the whole city will die.
So what's to fear?
Qin soldiers dug up the graves outside the city.
They also dug up Zhao soldiers' corpses from Changping City.
To attack us,
they will even harass the dead.
How cruel and despicable they are!
Are we going to let the Qin army
attack our city with these immoral acts?
Don't let them! Don't let them!
Don't believe in the ghost soldiers.
Our soldiers died to protect our nation and our homes.
Even if my husband and son are ghosts,
they will never help Qin.
Don't let them fool us. Go back to the top of city wall.
We will let Changping's deceased spirits return home.
Kick the Qin army out of Zhao!
Let Changping's deceased return home. Kick the Qin Army out of Zhao!
Go back to the top of city wall!
Let Changping's deceased return home. Kick the Qin Army out of Zhao!
Go back to the top of city wall! Fight the Qin army!
I don't understand. The battle at Changping took place over a year ago.
How are those corpses dug up from Changping preserved so well?
Besides, how did the Qin army have time to dig up graves?
Those ghost soldiers are just pretended by Qin soldiers.
If you say that, how can you energize their anger?
You should hurry up to prepare.
Yes!
[ Handan City ]
Prince, we only left the women guarding the top of the wall.
All the soldiers are conceal on the bottom awaiting command.
Here, ghost soldiers are here.
Ghost soldiers!
Haolan.
Release the arrows.
Quick, upstairs, release the arrows.
It hurts!
So painful
It's really painful.
Prince.
Something is wrong with Haolan. Get the physician.
The battle is upon, there is no physician. Hold it in.
Prince, Haolan.
She is about to give birth.
Elder Sister, please help hold this.
If anything happens to Haolan, even if the Qin army didn't enter Handan.
I also have a way to let you accompany her burial.
You...
Get the physician for her. Quick.
Yes.
Yin Xiaochun, get Yin Xiaochun.
Haolan.
Quickly.
Hurry.
Run quickly.
Hurry, Haolan is about to give birth.
There is still another two months. How can she be this early?
There's nothing here.
You must help her.
Yin Xiaochun, only you can save her.
How can I not save her.
Immediately prepare white cloth, scissor and boiling water.
I'll go. You hurry on.
All right.
- Kill.
Look at that. Those ghost soldiers are not from underworld.
They are real Qin soldiers.
Qin soldiers are desecrating deceased spirits. That is unforgivable wrongdoing.
Kill.
Hoalan.
Hoalan, use more strength.
Harder.
Haolan, exert yourself.
Push.
Haolan.
What are you doing here? Go outside.
Don't go. Don't leave me behind.
I am here. I won't leave you behind. I am no going anywhere.
It's taking too long.
If the baby doesn't come out, it could die inside the womb.
You must focus, hold your breathe and push hard.
Haolan, did you hear that?
For our baby, you need to hold on.
I can't.
Hoalan, you must live.
Did you hear me? You must live well.
If you die, leaving me behind.
I will not forgive you.
I definitely will not forgive you.
Haolan, I see it's head. Push harder.
Haolan.
Push harder.
Haolan.
Release.
Haolan, push harder.
It's done.
Why don't you blame me?
Why do I need to blame you?
I am the one who told them Qin soldier's secret.
That tens of thousands of Qin soldiers, came to level Handan.
You are the only person who risks your life to save me.
Haolan, I am genuinely grateful to you.
We won!
Good! Good!
We lost over half of our army in yesterday's battle.
Start the big attack at 11 am today.
What did you say?
The enemy will only reveal their weakness after they win.
We have this one chance to return defeat to victory.
Handan City is near its end.
Even women and children are guarding the city wall.
If we had kept up with the attack before,
we would have crushed Handan quickly.
If you didn't come up with that stupid idea,
we wouldn't be in this situation now.
Did we take down Handan after all the attacks in the past?
All the Zhao people are now united in one will.
They would rather die in battles than surrender.
But our army just arrived after a long march. If it weren't for insufficient supplies and fatigued soldiers,
I wouldn't have come up with that idea.
Besides, this bad idea
was approved wholeheartedly by you.
No matter what we can't keep on fighting.
The price of defeat is more than dead soldiers.
How will you take responsibility when you return to Xianyang?
You... - Reporting!
Zhan's prime minister is leading allies' troops with 100,000 from Chu
and 180,000 from Wei. They will soon break our front line to reach Handan.
Reporting! The allied army attacked our left wing. Handan sent soldiers out to join.
Our army can't hold off the joint attacks from the front and the back.
- Send my order. Get ready to— - Wait!
- Send my order. Immediately return to Fen city. - General Wang.
This is our last chance. Miss it, and we'll never win.
Don't you forget, I am the commanding general here.
If you can trust me, I will break up their alliance with Wei and Chu.
I will never trust you again.
Listen, send my order to retreat immediately.
- Kill anyone who disobeys! - Obeyed!
[ Handan City ]
- Come, take a look!
[ Protect Peace Palace ]
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What's the matter?
Nothing, I'm just worried about the war at the front line.
Wang He retreated to Fen city with his remaining troops.
Zheng An Ping's army surrendered to Zhao.
Handan is free from attacks.
On that day of the attack, all the ministers were present
except for Imperial Censor Li.
Are you worried about him?
Haolan, he is your father.
I don't have such a father.
Yiren.
I'm going to see the king.
Your Highness, His Majesty has given approval to let the wife of Royal Descendant to visit her father outside the city.
Then, you know what to do.
Understood.
[ Forever Fortune ]
Elder Miss.
Where is my father?
Master has been sick for a long time.
Father.
Haolan.
There is a saying, "Parents are the same around the world."
But you, as a daughter,
repeatedly accused me of being unfit as your father.
In that case, why have you returned?
I hate you.
But you are my father after all.
You once loved me, pampered me.
It's still impossible for me to ignore you when you're ill.
Not necessary.
I have plenty of servants. Anyone of them is nicer than you.
It's better for you to appease your Qin Royal Descendant
and become the future Crown Princess.
- Father. - Leave, right now!
We are a noble family of Zhao
cannot afford the wife of a Qin man.
Go, go, go.
I came to take a look.
Since you are fine, I'll leave now.
Hurry up and leave.
You take good care.
- Master, something is wrong. - What is the matter?
Master, a group of people are outside yelling and screaming.
They demand to see elder miss.
You figure out a way to block them.
Yes, yes.
Haolan, follow me.
[ Imperial Censor Manor ]
- Move aside! - You're too unruly!
What are you doing?
Don't...go that way.
You married your daughter to the Qin's royal grandson, then you are our Zhao State enemy.
Beat him.
Hit him.
What are you doing? Stop this.
You are too daring.
What happened?
Many people rushed inside.
[ Imperial Censor Manor ]
Someone was killed...
- Who was killed? - Imperial Censor Li... Imperial Censor Li is inside.
Haolan.
Imperial Censor Li, where is Haolan?
Inside the well.
Haolan.
Father.
Haolan.
Father.
Do you still blame me?
Don't blame anymore.
You were right.
I don't blame you.
I am not a good father.
I let down your mother and you.
I also let down them.
I didnt manage.. this family well.
Father.
Don't scare me.
Don't scare your daughter.
That day I hit you.
I've always regretted it.
Going forward, father will not be able to take care of you.
Father.
Haolan, live...
well.
Don't leave daughter behind.
Father, don't leave me behind.
Father.
[ Protect Peace Palace ]
Haolan.
What is it?
If you don't fell well inside, don't keep it in.
Today's dishes are slightly too salty.
The palace cooks are doing more shoddy work and skimping.
I am going to check on Zheng'er.
How is the investigation going?
Capture the culprits and question the others.
They all insist they were merely angry at Madam Royal Descendant.
and killed by accident.
Its already three days.
She refused to speak about this subject.
What does she mean by that?
No matter what I say, she shows no feelings.
As if she doesn't care
about official Li's death.
You didn't see how she look then.
That's not uncaring then.
Exactly what is she thinking about?
Bite, bite, don't run away!
Attack, attack, over here.
Right, right, bite, bite.
Bite you to death.
Attack, attack.
I won again.
You won again.
Congratulations, Your Majesty.
Crickets are fun.
Yu'er's tributary offer of this Brave Royal General is ingenious.
Where is Yu'er? Hurry, tell him to come.
Wait.
- Your Majesty, Prince Yu is probably at the Rising Sun Palace now. - That's a Great General.
Should I send someone to tell him to come here?
Where is he?
Rising Sun Palace.
General.
[ White Tiger Gate ]
Your Majesty.
I am fine.
Your Majesty, please be careful.
We all rely on you for national affairs.
I have just come out of an illness.
I'm still weak.
Yi.
Come here.
Pay respect to the Heaven for me.
Your Majesty, the Heavenly ceremony is only for the sovereign to perform.
We can't let just anyone to do it.
It's not appropriate even if it's performed by Prince Yi.
The burden of Zhao's future
will sooner or later become Yi's.
It's thanks to the Heaven's blessing that Handan was saved.
It's nothing wrong to let Prince Yi to pay respects for me.
May the Gods accept the tribute from Zhao Dan.
May Heaven blesses Zhao!
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~ Immortalization by Gao Yu'er ~
♫ Where have the surging clouds and the rising winds gone? ♫
♫ Do not grieve over the separation because of being forced to move and wander ♫
♫ In this lifetime, we will keep on seeking because of love ♫
♫ It’s difficult to reminisce about the splendid times that slipped away ♫
♫ In retrospection with a faint smile, that beautiful countenance caused the city's downfall ♫
♫ And a sweeping upheaval all across the vast nation ♫
♫ In a dimming dream of an illusionary bright moon ♫
♫ We have given our promises to each other in this lifetime ♫
♫ In the complete decline of prosperity, watching the passing of thousands of sails ♫
♫ With affection, perhaps we could wait to be connected again ♫
♫ Like the zither and the harp that play in perfect harmony, let’s grasp each other's hand to stay together
♫ Wishing for you and me to be immortalized with the wind... ♫
♫ In retrospection with a faint smile, that beautiful countenance caused the city's downfall ♫
♫ And a sweeping upheaval all across the vast nation ♫
♫ In a dimming dream of an illusionary bright moon ♫
♫ We have given our promises to each other in this lifetime ♫
♫ In the complete decline of prosperity, watching the passing of thousands of sails ♫
♫ With affection, perhaps we could wait to be connected again ♫
♫ Like the zither and the harp that play in perfect harmony, let’s grasp each other's hand to stay together ♫
♫ Wishing for you and me to be immortalized with the wind... ♫