Volume 1: Introduction -- Translator's note -- 1: Feast in the garden of peaches: brotherhood sworn: slaughter of rebels: the brothers heroes -- 2: Official is thrashed; Uncle Ho plots to kill the Eunuchs -- 3: Tung Cho silences Ting Yuan: Li Su bribes Lu Pu -- 4: Deposition of the emperor: prince of Ch'en-liu becomes emperor: schemes against Tung Cho: Meng-te presents a sword -- 5: Sending out the call: many respond: destroying an army: the three brothers fight against Lu Pu -- 6: Burning the capital, Tung Cho commits an atrocity: hiding the seal, Sun Chien breaks faith -- 7: Yuan Shao fights with Kungsun Tsan at P'anho: Sun Chien attacks Liu Piao -- 8: Governor Wang prepares the "chain" scheme: Tung Cho's rages at the Fengi pavilion -- 9: Lu Pu helps to suppress disorder: Chia Hsu counsels at attack on the capital -- 10: Ma T'eng serves his country well: Ts'ao Ts'ao avenges his father's murder -- 11: Liu, the emperor's uncle, rescues K'ung Jung: Lu, Marquis of Wen, defeats Ts'ao Ts'ao -- 12: Prefect T'ao thrice offers his charge: Ts'ao Ts'ao fights a great battle -- 13: Great battle between Li Ts'ui and Kuo Ssu: the emperor rescued -- 14: Ts'ao Meng-te moves the court: Lu Feng-hsien raids Hsuchun -- 15: T'aishih Tzu fights for friendship's sake: Sun Pofu does battle with Yen, the white tiger -- 16: Feat of archery: a battle lost at Yushui river -- 17: Army of seven divisions marches out: three generals are brought together -- 18: Chia Hsu engineers at great victory: Hsiahou Tun loses an eye -- 19: Ts'ao Ts'ao fights at Hsiap'ei: Lu Pu perishes at the white gate tower -- 20: Ts'ao A-man organizes a hunting expedition: Tung, "state uncle," receives a command in the palace -- 21: Ts'ao Ts'ao discusses heores: Kuan Yu slays Ch'e Chou -- 22: Yuan and Ts'ao both take the field: the two brothers capture two captains -- 23: Mi Heng slips his garment and rails at traitors: cruel punishment of the physician Chi -- 24: Murder of a Kuei-fei: Liu Pei defeated: flight to Yuan Shao -- 25: From T'ushan camp Kuan Yu makes three conditions: the rescue at Paima releases Ts'ao Ts'ao -- 26: Yuan Shao is defeated and loses a leader: Kuan Yu abandons rank and wealth -- 27: Beautiful beard rides on a solitary journey: and slays six men at five passes -- 28: Ts'ai Yang put to death, the brothers' doubts disappear: meeting at Kuch'eng, lord and liege fortify each other -- 29: Little chief of the feudal lords slays Yu Chi: the "blue-eyed boy" lays hold on Chiangtung -- 30: Yuan Shao defeated at the ferry: Ts'ao Ts'ao burns the Wuch'ao granaries -- 31: Ts'ao Ts'ao overcomes Yuan Shao: Liu Pei seeks shelter with Liu Piao -- 32: Ch'ichou taken: Yuan Shang strives: the Chang river cut: Hsu Yu's scheme -- 33: Ts'ao P'ei finds a wife: a plan for settling Liaotung -- 34: Woman overhears a secret: a warrior leaps a stream -- 35: Yuan-te meets a recluse at Nanchang: Tan Fu meets a noble lord at Hsinyeh -- 36: Capture of Fanch'eng: Chuko Liang recommended -- 37: Another scholar introduced: the three visits to the recluse -- 38: Plan for three kingdoms: the Suns avenge themselves -- 39: At Chingchou the son of Liu Piao thrice begs advice: at Powang slope the master directs his first battle -- 40: Lady Ts'ai discusses the renunciation of Chingchou: Chuko Liang burns Hsinyeh -- 41: Liu Pei leads his people over the river: Chao Yun rescues his lord -- 42: Chang Fei's great fight at Ch'angpan slope: Liu Pei, defeated, goes to Hanchingk'ou -- 43: Chuko Liang disputes with the scholars: Lu Su denounces the majority opinion -- 44: K'ung-ming stirs Chou Yu to action: Sun Ch'uan decides to attack Ts'ao Ts'ao -- 45: Ts'ao Ts'ao loses soldiers: Chiang Kan victim of a ruse -- 46: K'ung-ming "borrows" some arrows: Huang Kai accepts a punishment -- 47: K'an Tse presents the treacherous letter: P'an T'ung suggests chaining the ships together -- 48: Banquet on the Yangtse; Ts'ao Ts'ao's song: the Northern men fight on the chained ships -- 49: On the seven stars altar Chuko sacrifices to the winds: at the three rivers Chou Yu liberates fire -- 50: Chuko Liang foresees the Huayung episode: Kuan Yun-ch'ang releases Ts'ao Ts'ao -- 51: Great battle between North and South K'ung-ming angers Chou Yu -- 52: Chuko Liang talks cunningly to Lu Su: Chao Yun, by a ruse, captures Kueiyang -- 53: Kuan Yu, from a sense of righteousness, releases Huang Chung: Sun Ch'uan fights a great battle with Chang Liao -- 54: Dowager marchioness sees her son-in-law at a temple: Liu, the imperial uncle, takes a worthy consort -- 55: Yuan-te rouses the spirit of his bride: K'ung-ming a second time angers his rival -- 56: Banquet in the Bronze bird pavilion: K'ung-ming provokes Chou Yu a third time -- 57: Sleeping dragon mourns at Ch'aisang: "Phoenix fledeling" intervenes at Leiyang -- 58: Expedition for revenge: expedients to conceal identity -- 59: Hsu Ch'u strips for a fight with Ma Ch'ao: Ts'ao Ts'ao writes a letter to sow dissension -- 60: Chang Sung turns the tables on Yang Hsiu: occupation of Shu discussed --
Volume 2: 61: Rescue of O'tou by Chao Yun: Ts'ao Ts'ao repulsed by a letter
62: Taking of Fou Pass: Yang and Kao slain: siege of Lo City: Huang and Wei rivals
63: Chuko Liang mourns for P'ang T'ung: Chang Fei releases Yen Yen
64: Plan for the capture of Chang Jen: borrowing soldiers to destroy Ma Ch'ao
65: Great battle at Chiaming Pass: Liu Pei takes the governorship of Ichou
66: Kuan Yu goes to feast alone, but armed: Fu Huang-hou dies for the state
67: Ts'ao Ts'ao conquers Hanchung: Chang Liao spreads terror at Chaoyao Ford
68: Kan Ning's hundred horsemen raid the enemy's camp: Tso Tz'u's flung-down cup fools Ts'ao Ts'ao
69: Kuan Lu takes the Sortes by the "book of changes": loyal subjects die for their country
70: Fierce Chang Fei takes a position by Guile: aged Huang Chung captures a Hilly by Stratagem
71: At the capture of Tui Hill Huang Chung scores a success: on the Han waters Chao Yun conquers a host
72: Chuko Liang's wit takes Hanchung: Ts'ao a-man's army retires up Hsiehku
73: Yuan-te becomes prince of Hanchung: Yun-ch'ang attacks and occupies Hsiangyang
74: P'ang Te takes his coffin on a campaign: Kuan Yu drowns his enemies
75: Surgery on a wounded arm: Lu Meng in a white robe crosses the river
76: Hsu fights on the Mein river: Kuan retreats to Maich'eng
77: Kuan Yu manifests his sacred character at the Jade Fount hill: Ts'ao Ts'ao is possessed at Loyang
78: Hua T'o, treating Ts'ao Ts'ao, himself dies: Ts'ao Ts'ao's last words and death
79: Cruel brother: a poem: an undutiful nephew: punishment
80: Deposition of the emperor: the prince of Han Chung claims to be the true successor
81: Chang Fei assassinated: the first ruler goes to war
82: Sun Ch'uan submits to Wei and is rewarded: the first ruler attacks Wu and rewards his army
83: Fighting at Hsiaot'ing: the first ruler captures certain enemies: defence of Chiangk'ou: a student accepts supreme command
84: Lu Hsun burns his enemy's camps: K'ung-ming plans the eight arrays
85: Liu, the first ruler, confides his son to K'ung-ming's care: Chuko Liang peacefully settles the five attacks
86: Philosophical encounter: fire used to destroy Ts'ao Pei's army
87: K'ung-ming's Southern expedition: the king of Mans
88: Crossing the River Lu: binding of the barbarian king: recognizing a pretended surrender capture of Menghuo
89: K'ung-ming's successful fourth ruse: the king of Mans captured for the fifth time
90: Wild beasts as warriors: K'ung-ming's sixth victory: burning of the Rattan army: seventh capture of the king
91: Sacrifice at Lu Shui: homeward march: attack on the capital: Chuko's memorial
92: Chao Yun slays five captains: K'ung-ming craftily takes three cities
93: Chiang Wei goes over to K'ung-ming: K'ung-ming reviles Wang Lang, who dies
94: Chuko Smites the barbarians in a snowstorm: Ssuma quickly captures Meng Ta
95: Ma Su's wrangling loses Chieht'ing: K'ung-ming's Lute repulses Ssuma
96: K'ung-Ming weeps, but puts Ma Su to death: Chou Fang cuts off his hair and beguiles Ts'ao Hsiu
97: K'ung-ming propose to renew the attack on Wei: Chiang Wei defeats an army by means of a forged letter
98: Death of Wang Shuang: K'ung-ming's victory at Ch'ents'ang
99: Chuko Liang wins a great victory: Ssuma I invades Shu
100: Han soldiers raid a camp and defeat Ts'ao Chen: Chuko, in front of the Array, shames Ssuma
101: Going out from Shensi, Chuko dresses as a god: dashing toward Chienko, Chang Ho falls into a snare
102: Ssuma occupies the river banks: Chuko constructs "bullocks" and "horses"
103: Ssuma surrounded in Shangfang Valley: Chuko invokes the stars in the Wuchang plain
104: Star falls as Chuko Liang ascends to heaven: a wooden image affrights Ssuma I
105: Plan of the silken bag: the bronze statue with the dew bowl
106: Defeat and death of Kungsun Yuan: pretended illness of Ssuma I
107: Ssuma I recovers political power: Chiang Wei is defeated at Niut'ou hills
108: Ting Feng's swordsmen win a victory in the snow: Sun Hsun executes a murderous plan at a banquet
109: Ssuma surrounded: a Han leader employs an unexpected ruse: the king dethroned: retribution for the Wei family
110: Wen Yang repulses the enemy: Chiang Wei defeats his opponent
111: Teng Ai outwits Chiang Wei: Chuko Tan thinks it is his duty to destroy Ssuma Chao
112: Yu Ch'uan dies nobly at Shouch'un: Chiang Wie fights fiercely at Ch'angch'eng
113: Ting Feng's plan to stay Sun Ch'en: Chiang Wei defeats Teng Ai
114: King Mao drives to his death: Chiang Wei abandons stores and conquers
115: King listens to slander and recalls his army: Chiang Wei takes command of the Cantonments and escapes death
116: Chung Hui divides his army: apparition of Wu Hou
117: Teng gets through Yinp'ing pass: Chuko dies at Mienchu
118: Filial prince dies: jealousy between leaders
119: False desertion: a subtle scheme: a second abdication resembles the first
120: Veteran offers new plans: Sun Hao surrenders and the three states re-unite.
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