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The Best Episodes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms Season 1

Every episode of Romance of the Three Kingdoms Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms Season 1!

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 2009 animated television series joint produced by the Beijing Huihuang Animation Company of China and Future Planet of Japan. It was broadcast in Japan starting April 2010.

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#1 - The Peach Garden
S1:E18/1/2009
Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, three benevolent men and women, in order to work together to achieve the goal of a great cause, their intentions are the same, words and deeds depend on each other, selected in a peach blossom season, selected in a peach blossom gorgeous garden, to raise wine to form a righteous alliance, to heaven, suffering together, in difficulty together, together to enjoy the blessings, together to achieve their good ideals in life.
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#2 - Dong Zhuo Enters the Capital
S1:E28/2/2009
Relatives and eunuchs fight for power and kill each other. Dong Zhuo, the Assassin of Xiliang, enters the capital with his troops and kills them extensively. He abolishes the young Emperor of Han and establishes the Emperor Xian of Han.
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#3 - Three Heroes Battle Lu Bu
S1:E38/3/2009
Liu Bei has the ambition to ambition in the world, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei two people each have their own skills, has not been shown, before only Guan Yu killed Hua Xiong first show their skills, after that, Liu and other three people have been famous all over the world, this time, although Lu Bu first to collect troops, but Lu Bu before the three have killed the generals, and one against three, although on the surface is Lu Bu defeat, in fact, for Lu Bu win.
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#4 - Chain of Schemes
S1:E48/4/2009
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, the emperor, was so powerful that the court and the public dared not speak out. The righteous ministers all want to get rid of him, but they have no good plan to do so. He suddenly heard someone sighing at the Peony Pavilion and went over to see that it was the beautiful 16-year-old singer Miao Cicada.
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#5 - Feng Yi Pavilion
S1:E58/5/2009
Lü Bu takes advantage of Dong Zhuo's visit to the court to spy on Miao Cicada, and invites her to meet him at Feng Yi Pavilion. It so happened that Dong Zhuo returned to his house and saw this situation, and grabbed his halberd to execute Lu Bu, who fled. The two of them were suspicious of each other from then on. Wang Yun said that Dong Zhuo should not have taken over Miao Cicada, and Lu Bu and Wang Yun planned to get rid of Dong Zhuo together, and on the day when Dong Zhuo was ready to usurp the throne, Lu suddenly turned against him and killed him.
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#6 - Making Xuzhou
S1:E68/6/2009
When Cao Cao laid siege to Xuzhou, Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, invited Liu, Guan and Zhang to relieve the siege, deploring Cao Cao's evil deeds of holding the son of heaven hostage to his vassals and treating him as a guest of honor, sincerely inviting Liu Bei to preside over the government of Xuzhou to show his heartfelt loyalty to the Han Dynasty. Liu Bei expressed his gratitude, but he could never accept this request and stayed in Xiaopei for a while. Liu Bei reluctantly agreed to the request. Subsequently, Tao Qian died of illness and his son was young, and Liu Bei took charge of Xuzhou.
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#7 - Moving to Xudu
S1:E78/7/2009
After Li Jue and Guo Si took control of Emperor Xian due to disagreement, Yang Feng and Dong Cheng escaped from Chang'an and arrived at Luoyang. Yang Biao, the lieutenant, advised Cao Cao that he had a strong army and could be summoned to the court to assist the royal family, so he sent an envoy to summon Cao Cao to the court. When Cao Cao heard that Emperor Xian had arrived in Luoyang, he was preparing to go to protect the Emperor to gain the public's expectation, when the messenger of the Son of Heaven arrived, Cao Cao was very happy and led his army to the court. When Cao Cao followed the Emperor, Li Jue Guo Si came after him and killed him.
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#8 - Regulus Shooting
S1:E88/8/2009
Yuan Shu leads an army to attack Xuzhou. Yuan Shu writes to Lu Bu promising to send 200,000 drachms of rice to induce him to attack Xiapi, and Yuan Shu thus defeats Liu Bei and captures Xuzhou, including Guangling. In order to seize Xuzhou, Yuan Shu incited Hao Meng, a general of Lu Bu's army, to mutiny, but in time, Gao Shun, a general of Lu Bu, put down Hao Meng's rebellion. For this reason, Yuan Shu, fearing that Lu Bu would endanger himself, asked Lu Bu's daughter for his son's hand in marriage, which Lu Bu agreed to, and after relieving his worries, Yuan Shu once again pointed his sword at Liu Bei.
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#9 - Battle of Wancheng
S1:E98/9/2009
Cao Cao conquers Wancheng, Zhang Xiu is defeated and surrenders; Cao Cao mistakenly listens to his nephew An Min's encouragement and takes Zhang's aunt Zou's mother captive. Zhang Xiu is furious, but fearing the courage of Deng Wei, he uses Jia's plan and sends Hu Che to steal Deng's two halberds and attack Cao's camp at night. Zhang Xiu stabbed Zou's mother to death.
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#10 - White Gate Tower
S1:E108/10/2009
Lu Bu, trapped in Xiapi City, resisted Cao's attack on the White Gate Tower from morning until noon, exhausted, when the enemy army retreated a little, Bu rested on a chair in front of the enemy building and passed out without realizing it. The two generals under him, Song Xian and Wei Xu, took advantage of his drowsiness to drive away his guards and captured Lu Bu alive.
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#11 - A discussion of Heroes over Wine
S1:E118/11/2009
Cao Cao is a powerful man who is holding the emperor's son hostage, but Liu Bei is a weak man who has to plant vegetables in the back garden of his house to prevent Cao Cao from plotting against him. Guan Yunzhang and Zhang Fei are in the dark, saying that Liu Bei does not pay attention to the world's major events, but learns from the villain.
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#12 - Guan Yu about Three things
S1:E128/12/2009
The situation was that Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Liu Bei's army was defeated, and Liu Bei didn't care about his wife and fled. Cao Cao's general Zhang Liao, who was a good friend of Guan Yu, went to persuade him to surrender, and Guan Yu agreed to do these three things with Cao Cao. Cao Cao promised that Guan Yu would surrender; otherwise, he would rather die than surrender.
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#13 - A Thousand Miles to Ride
S1:E138/13/2009
Guan Yu and Liu Bei are separated in Xiapi, and Guan Yu is trapped in Cao's camp. Liu Bei goes to Yuan Shao, Guan Yu learns of Liu Bei's whereabouts, and single-handedly protects his sister-in-law for a thousand miles to find his brother. In the five levels, he was stopped by Kong Xiu, Han Fu, Meng Tan, Bian Xi, Wang Zhi and Qin Qi; Guan Yu was forced to go through five levels and cut down six generals. Finally, in the ancient city, the brothers, the ruler and the couple met.
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#14 - Ancient City Meeting
S1:E148/14/2009
Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao in Xuzhou, and was separated from Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, so he joined Yuan Shao. At the same time, Guan Yu and Cao Cao about three things, what to protect Liu Bei's family, what to surrender Han not Cao, mainly the last one, know Liu Bei to go, immediately after the flash. You do not say, Cao Cao really agreed.
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#15 - The Battle of Guandu
S1:E158/15/2009
Yuan Shao, with hundreds of thousands of troops, occupied the states and counties north of the Yellow River, such as You, Ji, Qing, and He, and was in a favorable position to attack and retreat to defend. Cao Cao occupied the states and counties south of the Yellow River, such as Gun, Yu and Xu, and received Emperor Xian of Han in Xuchang to "hold the Son of Heaven and make the vassals". However, Cao Cao only had tens of thousands of troops and was located in a geographic location that was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and his rear was not consolidated, as Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Sun Ce in Jiangdong and Zhang Xiu in Nanyang were still enemies of Cao Cao. Therefore, the overall combat situation was favorable to Yuan but not to Cao.
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#16 - Battle of Guandu
S1:E168/16/2009
When the reinforced Yuan cavalry approached Wu Chao, the left and right reported to Cao Cao to divide their troops to resist, Cao Cao was furious and said, "Tell me again only when the enemy soldiers have reached my back!" So the soldiers all fought to the death and defeated the defenders of Wu Chao and captured Yuan general Chun Yu Qiong. The two generals, Zhang He Semi and Gao Lan, who were attacking Cao's camp, heard that Chun Yu Qiong had been defeated and that Yuan Shao was suspicious of them, so they surrendered to Cao Cao at the front of the battle. Yuan Shao and his son Yuan Tan fled to the north of the river with only 800 horses.
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#17 - The Three Guesthouses
S1:E178/17/2009
Liu Bei heard that Zhuge Liang is very talented, with gifts to Longzhong Wolong Gang to ask him to assist. This day it happens that Zhuge Liang is not in, can only be disappointed and return. Soon after, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei went to ask Zhuge Liang for the second time in a heavy snowstorm. But Zhuge Liang was out for a leisurely trip again. After some time, Liu Bei ate vegetarian for three days and was ready to ask Zhuge Liang again. Guan Yu said that Zhuge Liang might have a false name and might not have the real talent, so he did not need to go. But Zhang Fei advocated that he should go alone to call, and if he did not come, he should be tied with a rope. Liu Bei reprimanded Zhang Fei and visited Zhuge Liang for the third time with both of them.
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#18 - Confucius Ming Goes to the Mountain
S1:E188/18/2009
Liu Bei did not dare to disturb him and stood until Zhuge Liang himself woke up before sitting down to talk with each other. When Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Bei had the will to work for his country and sincerely asked for his help, he came out to fully help Liu Bei establish the Shu Han Dynasty.
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#19 - Single Rider Saves Ah Dou
S1:E198/19/2009
In the battle of Chang Ban Po, Zhao Yun is responsible for protecting Gan, Mi and A Dou, but due to the chaos of war, Zhao Yun gets separated from them, so he leads 30-40 followers to go back and look for them, but after looking around, he fails to find them but kills Chun Yu and saves Mi Zhu and Gan. Zhao Yun sent them to Chang Ban Bridge and was almost misunderstood by Zhang Fei as betraying Liu Bei, thanks to the explanation of Jane Yong to clarify the fact. Zhao Yun then entrusted Mrs. Gan to Zhang Fei and turned back to look for Ah Dou, but at that time he was alone, without an attendant.
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#20 - Chang Ban Po
S1:E208/20/2009
Liu Bei is defeated by Cao Cao and escapes with the people. In this battle, Liu Bei loses his heavily supplied army, his two daughters are captured by Cao Chun, Liu Bei gains time to escape due to Zhang Fei breaking the bridge by water, while Lady Gan and Liu Chan are spared under the protection of Zhao Yun. After the battle, Liu Bei gave up his plan to transfer to Jiangling and went to Jiangxia to join Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao.
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#21 - The Battle of Words
S1:E218/21/2009
Cao Cao is the only one who knows that it will be difficult to annex these two forces at once. So, Cao Cao sent someone with his letter to East Wu, wanting to join hands with Sun Quan to destroy Liu Bei.
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#22 - Episode 22: The Meeting of the Elite
S1:E228/22/2009
Upon receiving Cao Cao's challenge letter, Zhou Yu, the governor of Eastern Wu, destroys the book and beheads the envoy to show his determination to resist. This triggers some fighting between Cao Cao and Eastern Wu at the mouth of the Three Rivers. Zhou Yu has won the battle, but he still manages to be cautious, conducts research and spies on Cao's camp overnight.
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#23 - Episode 23 The Arrow Borrowing
S1:E238/23/2009
Zhou Yu deliberately proposes to make 100,000 arrows in ten days. The wise Zhuge Liang recognizes at once that it is a harmful scheme, but calmly says "it only takes three days". Later, with the help of a foggy day, Zhuge Liang takes advantage of Cao Cao's suspicious nature and transfers several straw boats to lure the enemy, finally borrowing 100,000 arrows and achieving a miraculous success.
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#24 - The Bitter Ploy
S1:E248/24/2009
Sun and Liu joined forces to resist Cao, in order to succeed, Huang Gai accepted Zhou Yu's bitter plan, deliberately said in front of Zhou Yu to surrender Cao, Zhou Yu then beat Huang Gai a hundred big boards, did not expect to beat 50 boards, Huang Gai because of his old age, immediately fainted, at that time and some people such as Lu Su pleaded for mercy, so they helped him down.
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#25 - Borrowing the East Wind
S1:E258/25/2009
In the Battle of Red Cliff, Sun Quan and Liu Bei are fighting against Cao Cao's 800,000-strong army, and there is a huge difference between the two armies. Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang decide to use a fire plan against Cao Cao. After Huang Gai's bitter meat plan and Pang Tong's chain of plans, they prepared to implement a fire attack to defeat Cao Cao's army, but it was the middle of winter and there was no southeast wind, so the fire plan could not be implemented. Zhuge Liang said that he could borrow the east wind to help the fire plan succeed. So on the night of the general attack, Zhuge Liang succeeded in borrowing the east wind at the altar and the fire attack was effective, defeating Cao's army.
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Peach Garden" is the best rated episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/1/2009. This episode is rated 6.5 points higher than the second-best, "Dong Zhuo Enters the Capital".