[Chen Gong has a tendency to make people confused and uncomfortable. It's basically a strategist's job description, after all.]

Then we joined him for the same reason. [Not, because Lu Bu is the strongest man of their times and the only one capable of spreading his name with ease across the country. Never again will he fight for glory amongst the other strategists choking up Cao Cao's army. It was always Guo Jia who won, anyway.]

If you know that, then why are you still troubled? Seeing the brutality of battle may be unsettling, but the bigger picture should help quell most feelings. [...] Surely, it means you have some smidgen of doubt.

[Right? He has to. ...Right?]