第十八章挑灯战马超

第十八章挑灯战马超
Chapter 18: Raising Torches to Battle Ma Chao

诸葛亮等人到达雒城后，和刘备一起攻占了雒城。刘璋赶紧向汉中的张鲁求救。此时，西凉名将马超正在张鲁军中，便自告奋勇，要求前去攻打刘备。
After ZhuGe Liang and the others reached LuoCheng, he and Liu Bei attacked LuoCheng together. Liu Zhang frantically went to Zhang Lu of HanZhong for help. At this moment, XiLiang's famous general Ma Chao was amongst the soldiers, and volunteered to take charge,and requested to start attacking Liu Bei.

诸葛亮想激张飞迎敌。当张飞请战时，诸葛亮只当没听见，故意转头对刘备说:“只有调来关羽，才能打败马超。”
ZhuGe Liang wanted to anger Zhang Fei into attacking the enemy. When Zhang Fei asked to battle them, ZhuGe Liang pretended not to hear, and purposely told Liu Bei, "We have to wait for Guan Yu, in order to defeat Ma Chao."

张飞叫道:“军师小看我，我若不能活捉马超，任凭处罚。”当即立下军令状。
"You are underestimating me!" Zhang Fei shouted, "If I can't capture Ma Chao alive, then I am willing to be punished." He then immediately signed a contract.

于是，诸葛亮让张飞领兵火速前往西川重地葭萌关御敌，还让刘备和魏延接应。
So, ZhuGe Liang had to let Zhang Fei lead the army ASAP to defend XiChuan's JiaMeng Pass, and even told Liu Bei and Wei Yan to act as reinforcements.

到葭萌关的第二天，马超领兵前来挑战。刘备见马超气宇不凡，威风凛凛，不由得非常喜欢，一心想收服他。
The second day after arriving at JiaMeng Pass, Ma Chao led his troops over to battle. Liu Bei saw that Ma Chao was calm and cool, and very imposing, and couldn't help but like him a lot, and decided to get him to his side.

张飞出阵迎战，二人大战百余回合，不分胜负。刘备怕他们有闪失，便鸣金收兵。
Zhang Fei came out to fight, and the two of them traded many blows,and neither won. Liu Bei was afraid that there would be accidents, and started calling Zhang Fei back.

张飞回营埋怨刘备道:“我就快活捉马超了。请哥哥让人点起火把，安排夜战。”
After coming back to the encampment Zhang Fei yelled, "I was about to capture Ma Chao!
Please Brother, tell the soldiers to bring torches, so we can arrange a night attack."

这边马超回到阵前，叫张飞迎战。张飞跑出阵，刘备只好下令点起千支火把。
Ma Chao returned to the front ranks, and demanded for Zhang Fei to battle him. Zhang Fei ran out, and Liu Bei could only order for them to light thousands of torches.

火把将战场照得如同白昼。战过数十回合，马超突然虚晃一枪，回马就走。
The blazing flames lit the whole battlefield up, just like a bright sunny day. Blows were exchanged, when Ma Chao suddenly waved his spear, and galloped away on his horse.

张飞纵马追赶。马超悄悄拿出流星锤，转身向张飞打去。张飞侧身躲了过去。
Zhang Fei urged his horse on, chasing the man. Ma Chao stealthily got out his trusty meteor hammer, whirled around and swung it at Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei dodged it just in time.

马超上前再战，张飞见他走近，便取出箭，突然向他射了过去。马超也闪身躲了过去。刘备怕他俩有闪失，又命收兵。
Ma Chao came up front to fight, and Zhang Fei saw him move closer, then he got out his bow and arrows, and swiftly shot it. Ma Chao dodged it as well. Liu Bei was afraid the two would have accidents, so he ordered to withdraw the troops.

第二天，张飞又要战马超。这时诸葛亮到了，对刘备说自己可施计让马超归降。
The next day, Zhang Fei wanted to fight Ma Chao again. ZhuGe Liang arrived at this moment, and he told Liu Bei that he had a plan to have Ma Chao surrender.

诸葛亮知道张鲁的谋士杨松爱财，便派人收买他，让他造谣说马超要占西川。
ZhuGe Liang knew that Zhang Lu's advisor Yang Song loved money, and ordered people to go bribe him, and tell him to spread rumors that Ma Chao wanted to conquer XiChuan.

张鲁本来就对马超有所猜疑，因此信以为真，不让马超回兵。马超进退两难。
Zhang Lu originally was suspicious of Ma Chao, and he believed the rumors, and wouldn't let Ma Chao go back to the army. Ma Chao was in a difficult situation.

时机成熟，诸葛亮派马超的朋友李恢去劝降。马超也想弃暗投明，就降了刘备。
The situation was in their favor, so ZhuGe Liang dispatched Ma Chao's friend Li Hui to go persuade him to surrender. Ma Chao also wanted to ditch the bad side and go to the good side, so he surrendered.

刘备乘胜追击，没几天就来到成都城下。刘璋见大势已去，只好开门投降。就这样，刘备顺利地占领了西川。
Liu Bei used this time as an advantage, and reached ChengDu in a matter of days. Liu Zhang saw that this huge amount of power was lost, so he had to surrender as well. So it was like this, that Liu Bei easily conquered XiChuan.

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I've been flying all over, both international and domestic. I just got some time today to update this blog. Indigo was taking some breaks while I was gone :-)

第十七章张飞擒严颜

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第十七章张飞擒严颜
Chapter 17: Zhang Fei Captures Yan Yan

诸葛亮认为，荆州东有孙权，北有曹操，并不好守，因此极力劝说刘备夺取土地肥沃的益州。刘备考虑再三，接受了诸葛亮的建议。
ZhuGe Liang thought,that east of JingZhou had Sun Quan,the north had Cao Cao,it was hard to guard,so he tried his best to convince Liu Bei to conquer the fertile lands of YiZhou.Liu Bei mulled this over,and decided to follow ZhuGe Liang's suggestion.

刘备让诸葛亮率关羽、张飞、赵云镇守荆州，自己则同黄忠、魏延、关平等将领率领五万大军进入西川。
Liu Bei told ZhuGe Liang to lead Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun to protect JingZhou,and he himself would go with Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Guan Ping as well as other generals to lead 50,000 troops into XiChuan.

西川的益州牧刘璋担心曹操进攻，想借刘备的力量抵御他，因此刘备顺利入川。
XiChuan's governor, Liu Zhang, worried that Cao Cao would attack,and wanted to borrow Liu Bei's soldiers to fend him off,so Liu Bei easily entered the province.

不久，曹操宣称要出兵南征。刘备想和孙权一起打败曹操，便写信向刘璋辞行。
Shortly after,Cao Cao announced that he would send troops on an expedition to the south.Liu Bei wanted to battle Cao Cao together with Sun Quan,so he wrote a letter to Liu Zhang to bid farewell.

不料，刘璋察觉出刘备想取西川的意图，下令不许放走刘备的一兵一卒。诸葛亮得知后，让关羽守住荆州;又命张飞领兵一万，从大路杀到西川的雒城。
Surprisingly,Liu Zhang figured out that Liu Bei wanted to conquer XiChuan,so he ordered not to free Liu Bei's soldiers.After ZhuGe Liang knew of this,he told Guan Yu to defend JingZhou;and ordered Zhang Fei to lead an army of 10,000 soldiers,and attack XiChuan's city LuoCheng from the land.

诸葛亮和赵云则从水路赶往西川。临行前，诸葛亮嘱咐张飞要爱护百姓和士卒。
ZhuGe Lang and Zhao Yun headed speedily toward XiChuan from the water ways. Before leaving,ZhuGe Liang told Zhang Fei to care for the citizens and soldiers.

张飞遵照教导，很快来到了巴郡。巴郡太守严颜得报后，打定主意坚守不出。
Zhang Fei obeyed,and they arrived at BaJun in no time at all.After Yan Yan, BaJun's governor heard of this,he decided to not engage in battle.

张飞叫了几天阵，可严颜就是死守不出。于是张飞率兵沿城叫骂，却仍然不管用。
Zhang Fei yelled and screamed for several days,but Yan Yan would not budge.So Zhang Fei led his troops around the citywalls to curse and scream at them,but it was useless.

一天，张飞侦察地形，发现这座城周围都是乱山，就命令军士去山上寻找小路。
Zhang Fei was scouting the area,when he discovered that all around the walls were scattered knolls,so he ordered his soldiers to hike up the mountains to look for little passages.

军士找到小路后急忙回禀，张飞故意高声说:“今晚三更出城，走小路过关。”
After finding some little roads the soldiers hurriedly went back to announce their discoveries,and Zhang Fei purposely shouted, "Tonight at three o' clock we're going around the city,and using the little routes to get past the city."

严颜探知消息，晚上领兵埋伏在小路上。不久张飞出现了，严颜立即冲杀出来。这时，背后一声锣响，又见张飞杀了过来。原来先前一个是假的，严颜才知中计。
Yan Yan heard the Intelligence,so at night he led some troops and set up an ambush on the small routes.It wasn't long until Zhang Fei appeared,Yan Yan immediately rushed out.At this moment,there was a bell sound from behind them,and then Zhang Fei streaked over again.It turns out that the first one was fake,and Yan Yan knew he fell into a trap.

张飞活捉严颜，又占领了巴郡。他将严颜押上来，命令他投降，严颜坚决不从。
Zhang Fei captured Yan Yan alive,and then took over BaJun.He brought Yan Yan up,and ordered him to surrender,Yan Yan was adamant and would not comply.

张飞大怒，下令将严颜推出去斩首。严颜面不改色，大步走下堂去。
Zhang Fei was furious,so he ordered his soldiers to chop Yan Yan's head off.Yan Yan remained as cool as a cucumber,and swaggered over to the platform.

张飞钦佩严颜的为人，便向他叩头赔罪。严颜非常感动，答应归降。
Zhang Fei admired Yan Yan's will,and promptly kowtowed to him in apology.Yan Yan was very touched,and agreed to surrender.

于是张飞命严颜为前部，直奔雒城。一路上，严颜将把守各关的旧部纷纷招降。
So Zhang Fei appointed Yan Yan as a vanguard,and headed directly towards LuoCheng.Along the way,Yan Yan got all his old subordinates at every pass to surrender.

就这样，张飞不打一仗，不丢一卒，竟然赶在诸葛亮和赵云的前面，顺利地到达西川的咽喉城市---雒城。
So it was just like this,that Zhang Fei didn't fight any battles,he didn't lose a single soldier,and was actually ahead of ZhuGe Liang and Zhao Yun,and easily made it to the strategic city...LuoCheng.