Han Forces Scenario – * Difficulty
Target 1 – Lower drawbridge in 5 minutes
Target 2 – Defeat Zhang Liang and Zhang Man Cheng and stop the dust within 15 minutes
Target 3 – Win within 20 minutes and have Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun in the Turban Main Camp.
Strategy – You’re likely to start off on the right side, near a gate and the illustrious Guan Hai. Quickly defeat him and there will be a base to take. As you check out Target 1 you’ll see that from the east base you just took over, you can jump down and be just north of the drawbridge. Deng Mao is by there, but defeat him and attack the drawbridge to lower it. Target 1 completed.
Once you drop the drawbridge, your forces will run through the center. Unfortunately the enemy is concentrated heavily in the center as well so expect Gao Sheng and Huang Shao to come by to attack you quickly. Liu Pi and Bo Zhang are north of here in the center enemy base and stay stationary. Chances are by this time Cheng Yuanzhi and that west base should be taken over by Cao Cao and friends.
You can take the northeast or northwest route at this point, but I tend to go northeast for Sun Zhong and Zhang Yan. This route, you’ll face Yu Fuluo and Zhang Man Cheng, who sets off a fire trap. He’s a difficult one and if you get too close to the machines you’ll get burned.
This will stop the machines but you still have Zhang Liang to get rid of on the other side. More officers (Ma Yuanyi and Yan Zheng, then Zhang Bao and Liao Hua) to get rid of and then look for a pot south of Zhang Bao’s spot. Destroy it, and then go to Zhang Liang’s side to kill him and destroy that pot too. The dust should subside.
Zhang Jiao is in the far north, but wait for Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun before defeating him.
Overall, this is one of my favorite early levels for leveling up Free Mode characters as there is much less risk than if you were to do Hu Lao with Lu Bu.