Legend of the Female General Episode 5

15 flags or bust

Origami is not He Yan’s speciality.😂 They do at least slightly resemble a flower in ‘freeform’ style. Here again their lives mirror. Both were sent to same school, to the military quite young and little time at home with their families. She seems to be far more comfortable in social settings than Xiao Jue, but they both are scarred from betrayal and loss of family. His family loved him but their eldest son was favored outside of immediate family. He Yan was never the favorite in hers. She was the stand in for them to save face, and then discarded so this secret would never surface. And the most disgusting part is how vile and ungrateful the brother is about the whole thing. The father is contemptible, but the son may be even worse. The next competition was for flags. He Yan had a map drawn of the area and started with hardest flag. After two teams divided them she dueled for all flags to winner. This time her weapon of choice was a whip. She noted her opponent had unique moves she wasn’t familiar with, but it did not stop her from wrapping him up and securing him to tree til he conceded his flags. She even proudly presented a basket of her flags to Xiao Jue fully expecting she had invite to elite league all lined up. The officers are playing chess and each voting for a side. Xiao Jue has it figured out from the get go, but chooses Lei Hou as the winner. Whether this was to protect her gender status from others or because he thought Lei Hou truly better, I am not really sure yet. This may even be one he considers a spy to keep closer eye on him. I do, however, think it was rather cowardly to have his subordinate dole out the bad news while he doled out the candy. His attempt to sweeten the moment is probably going to go over like a lead balloon. The wine has hit the table and I’m sure she is going to drink her sorrows away now. The disciple and fake general are plotting. Supplies have been deliberately withheld and the disciple wants to throw it all at Xiao Jue like he is bullying the official for supplies. The fake general is countering to hurt someone and the disciple is countering to get the official’s job. These two schemers deserve each other. I hope they share a similar bad fate. I can’t feel sorry for the disciple being bullied when he now has become the bullyer at a much greater level than a single person. I still want to know who thought it was a good scheme to kill 30k troops? The machinations in this drama have been for spite and revenge and suppression of the truth. I am hoping the two swords get these miscreants handled to the degree they deserve.

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The Duel on Mount Baiyue

It's episode 5 and I'm still watching the full intro cause it's just so good, I really like the ost. I like the short clips at the beginning of the past, it's adorable. Floating lanterns for the dead, ah her Man looks so lonely, that she just went to him, and it's really liek she's yapper while he doesn't talk much. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh he smiled! Seeing her folding lanterns (weird shape) he smiled. I thought he was going to touch her cheek, alas not for now. Finally the Flag Competition is here, Red Flags are placed throughout Mount Baiyue, total 15, the team who gets the most will win. I remember this Flag Arc, she'll head to take the flag placed in the most difficult place, cause this mountain has dangerous cliffs. While Xiaojue has deliberately did it, because he knows new recruits can't take the flag from such difficult cliff, but Veterans can, that is why he arranged the patrolling first, so that the traitor will know the purpose of the patrol and will definitely prepare a map of the mountain, and he already knows He Yan is a Veteran soldier. She got the flag from the cliff, really trying everything to test her. Just with only one patrol she has learned Mount Baiyue by heart. Even though the other team led by Lei Hou has all skilled martial artist, but if they can't work like a team it won't work, besides General Feihong, He Yan is really good at deploying troops, so even if her team doesn't have the strongest members, she can make do with it, with her deployment strategies. To take the Flags Individual heroism isn't sufficient, a team needs to work together, therefore Deployment matters, a Leader has to be capable. He Yan's team members all have different strengths and if she can harness their talents through deployment, they should make quite a team. Her team set up ambushes and snatching flags from other teams, better than wasting their time by looking for other flags. Both teams hold 7 flags each, the one who gets the last one will win, the terrain is treacherous, Dueling with Lei Hou for the last flag, ahhhhhh I wanted to see her Whip for such a long time. I have been so excited to see her Whip skills, finally the fight with the Whip is here!! I loved that scene where she hit Lei Hou in the arm and when Lei Hou's teammate tried to sneak attack, all her teammates came forward threatening other team with their weapons "He Yan trusts us with his back, naturally we will eliminate all threats". He Yan noticed the anomaly, that Lei Hou's moves are odd, checkmate, binded too and if even a little more pressure his neck would've been sliced with his own sword. Atleast he knows now that He Yan can't be the spy, cause if she was then why would she eagerly attract his attention on herself. He can't figure out her intention to join the army. He Rufei is heartless, planning to ruin things. The actor is really playing well the charcter of He Rufei "thumbs up". Happy to see Chu Zhao, he'll be heading to Yezhou soon. He Yan was supposed to join the Nine Banner Battalion but Lei Hou was chosen instead, feeling devastated that she tried to get closer to her aim but someone else was chosen.

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