Cao Cao’s defeated troops arrive at the Gourd Valley. The soldiers start cooking. When Cao Cao is about to eat, he laughs loudly for the second time, and claims that Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang only can get nine out of ten points in terms of intelligence. “If they now should appear from an ambush, not only would they capture my soldiers, they would also get my meal,” he says. Just as he finishes his sentence, Zhang Fei shouts out, and his troops rush out in attack. Cao Cao suffers a crushing defeat and flees. When he arrives at the small road to Huarong, Cao Cao laughs for the third time and says that if there are soldiers lying in ambush at this place, his life would be finished. As soon as he has said this, Guan Yu’s soldiers appear from their hiding and attack Cao Cao’s men.
曹操兵敗至葫蘆穀，小軍造飯，曹操將要吃飯，第二聲大笑，說周瑜、諸葛亮學問才有九分數，如在此間有一隊伏兵，不但能收我的兵，還能得我一頓現成的中飯。話音才落，張飛大喊一聲，領兵殺出，曹操大敗而走。行至華容小道，曹操第三聲大笑，如在此間有一隊伏兵，自己性命休矣。話音才了，關公伏兵殺出。