In the battle of Yizhou, Zhang Fei captured the famous Yan Yan. He clearly wanted him to surrender, but he deliberately put on a vicious look first, shouting, beating and killing. Yan Yan thought she was dead, so she simply broke the jar and shouted out the rhetoric of "but there were beheaded generals, but there were no surrendered generals". But when people shouted slogans and prepared to die generously, Zhang Fei turned his face faster than turning pages and praised loudly: "Brave!" Then relax and surrender quietly. People were very moved (in fact, they were glad to know that they could not die, and their reputation was good). In a blink of an eye, the "decapitated general" became a healthy general, and Zhang Fei won a great victory in this contest between spirit and intelligence.
make three calls at the thatched cottage/repeatedly request sb to take up a post
Liu Bei admired Zhuge Liang's talent and wanted to ask him to help unify the country. After the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei. Liu Bei had to take refuge in Liu Biao. In order to get Liu Bei's counselor Xu Shu, Cao Cao lied that Xu Shu's mother was ill and asked Xu Shu to go to Xudu immediately. When Xu Shu left, he told Liu Bei that there was a wizard named Zhuge Liang in Longzhong. If he could get his help, he would get the world.
The next day, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took gifts to visit Zhuge Liang in Longzhong. Who knows that Zhuge Liang has just gone out on a trip, and extremely knowledgeable people can't tell when he will come back. Liu Bei had to go back.
A few days later, Liu Bei and Guan Yu. Zhang Fei braved the heavy snow and came to Zhuge Liang's home again. Seeing a young man reading, Liu Bei hurried over to salute. But that young man is Zhuge Liang's brother. He told Liu Bei that his brother had been invited away by a friend. Liu Bei was so disappointed that he had to leave a letter saying that he longed for Zhuge Liang's help to pacify the world.
After the New Year, Liu Bei chose a good day and came to Longzhong once. At this time, Zhuge Liang happened to be sleeping. Liu Bei asked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to wait outside the door and stood quietly under the steps. After a long time, Zhuge Liang woke up. Liu Bei asked him for advice on how to pacify the world and cried because Zhuge Liang refused. Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Bei cared about the shanzhai and was sincere, so he agreed to do something big with Liu Bei. Zhuge Liang was only 27 years old that year.