In 222, at the Battle of Xiaoting, Sun Quan's general Lu Xun dealt Liu Bei a major defeat, stopping the Shu offensive.

For example, he correctly trusted the faithful Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin, so much so that he made a duplicate imperial seal and left it with Lu Xun ; whenever he would correspond with Shu's emperor Liu Shan or regent Zhuge Liang, he would deliver the letter to Lu Xun first ( as Lu's post was near the Shu border ), and then if, in Lu's opinion, changes were needed, he would revise the letter and then restamp it with Sun's imperial seal.

Bringing along Yuan Shu's coffin and his former troops, he headed to Huancheng ( 皖城 ; present-day Qianshan County, Anhui ) to seek refuge under Liu Xun ( 劉勳 ).

Hearing that his base city had been taken, Liu Xun headed west and sought help from Huang Zu, who sent a 5, 000-strong naval force to assist him.

Sun Ce pressed forward and defeated Liu Xun, who escaped north to Cao Cao.

After Sun's forces, under the command of Lu Xun, defeated Liu Bei's forces in 222, Sun began to distance himself from Cao Wei.

Meanwhile, the main Shu force led by Liu Bei reached Xiaoting and was unable to push any further as Wu forces led by Lu Xun held on firmly to their positions.

However, Lu Xun saw through Liu Bei's ruse and ordered his troops to ignore taunts from the enemy.

Lu Xun personally led an attack on Shu forces together with Xu Sheng and Han Dang, and succeeded in preventing Liu Bei from making his last stand.

There, rival generals Liu Xun, Zhang Ren, and Ling Bao played a staunch defense, and Pang Tong was killed in action.

Wang Yi and Wang Xun, annoyed, led 10, 000 men to attack Liu Xiu and ordered the rest of their troops not to move from their siege locations.

Once they engaged in battle, however, after minor losses, the other units were hesitant to assist them, and Liu Xiu killed Wang Xun in battle.

Some time after that, Zhou Tai followed Sun Ce to attack Liu Xun at Wan and Huang Zu of Jiangxia, and upon his return he passed by Yuzhang commandery and there he was granted the title of Chief of Yichun Prefecture as well.

Very soon afterwards, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu pacified most of Yang Province on the south of the Yangtze River and extended their power into the Wu region and north into the Huai River region, defeating Liu Xun and the remnant forces of Yuan Shu in the north as well as Huang Zu and the forces of Liu Biao to the west.

Lu Xun established several forts and reinforced the existing citadels instead of directly contesting Liu Bei's advance.

Lu Xun denied them, stating that he discerned that Liu Bei had planned for that, and open battle would be too risky.

Liu Bei then sent some forces forward to lure the Wu army into an ambush ; the generals wanted to fight, but Lu Xun, predicting an ambush, once again ordered them to stay put.

Once the Shu troops had begun to show signs of fatigue, Lu Xun, after several months of inactivity, suddenly struck, first tricking the Shu commanders with a mock attack on one of their camps, then ordering his troops to move forward with torches and set fire to all the other camps of Liu Bei's army.

** Liu Xian ( 劉顯 ), one-time Marquess of Guangqi, son of Liu Xun ( 劉勳 ) the first Marquess of Guangqi, son of Liu Xiao ( 劉囂 ) the Prince of Chu, son of Emperor Xuan of Han

Liu Zhen and Liu Taotu were Zhang's only historian allies at court, and after their deaths Zhang had no further opportunities for promotion to the prestigious post of court historian.

He collaborated with Liu Bei on this effort, but Cao Cao soon found out about the plot and had Dong Cheng and his conspirators executed, with only Liu Bei surviving and fleeing to join Yuan Shao in the north.

Two former rebel leaders, Xiang Yu ( d. 202 BCE ) of Chu and Liu Bang ( d. 195 BCE ) of Han, engaged in a war to decide who would become hegemon of China, which had fissured into 18 kingdoms, each claiming allegiance to either Xiang Yu or Liu Bang.

By 157 BCE, the Han court had replaced all of these kings with royal Liu family members, since the loyalty of non-relatives to the throne was questioned.

Zhang Rang had previously fled with Emperor Shao ( r. 189 CE ) and his brother Liu Xie — the future Emperor Xian of Han ( r. 189 – 220 CE ).

As well, several female actors had major roles in action films, such as Michelle Yeoh, Lucy Liu and ex-model Milla Jovovich.

By 1962, while Zhou, Liu and Deng managed affairs of state and the economy, Mao had effectively withdrawn from economic decision-making, and focused much of his time on further contemplating his contributions to Marxist-Leninist social theory, including the idea of " continuous revolution ".

After being confirmed as Mao's successor, Lin's supporters focused on the restoration of the position of State Chairman, which had been abolished by Mao after the purge of Liu Shaoqi.

To ensure smooth travel of grain shipments, Transport Commissioner Liu Yan ( in office from 763 – 779 ) had special river barge ships designed and constructed to fit the depths of each section of the entire canal.

The removal of this group from power is sometimes considered to have marked the end of the Cultural Revolution, which had been launched by Mao in 1966 as part of his power struggle with leaders such as Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen.

Liu Shaoqi had meanwhile died in prison in 1969.

A similar proposal from the Song engineer Li Chun concerning flooding the lower reaches of the river to protect the central plains from the Khitai was overruled in 1020: the Treaty of Shanyuan between the two states had expressly forbidden the Song from establishing new moats or changing river courses .< ref name =" Sedtime "> Elvin, Mark & Liu Cuirong it returned to the north amid the floods that provoked the Nien Rebellion.

Liu had refused to battle the Communists to conserve his army.

Finally, in October 1935, Mao's army reached Shaanxi province and joined with local Communist forces there, led by Liu Zhidan, Gao Gang, and Xu Haidong, who had already established a Soviet base in northern Shaanxi.

Liu had refused to do battle against the Red Army, to save his own military from destruction.

For the next several years, Sun Quan was largely interested in first defending his realm against potential enemies, but he gradually sought to harass and weaken Liu Biao's key subordinate, Huang Zu ( who controlled the northeastern region of Liu Biao's domain ) -- particularly because Huang Zu had killed his father in battle.

After Liu Biao's death, a succession struggle for his domain came into being, between his sons Liu Qi and younger son Liu Cong, whom Liu Biao's second wife Lady Cai favored ( because he had married her niece ).

Regarded as one of the best generals of the Northern and Southern dynasties, Liu Yu started off by reclaiming much of the territory the Chinese had lost during the Sixteen Kingdoms era.

He then yielded northern Jing Province to Liu Bei as well, agreeing with Liu that the south was insufficient to supply his troops.

One happened in 35 BC, when Emperor Yuan's youngest brother Prince Liu Jing of Zhongshan ( 中山王劉竟 ) died, Emperor Yuan became angry when he felt that the teenage Crown Prince Ao was insufficiently grieving — particularly because Princes Ao and Jing were of similar age and grew up together as playmates — and showing insufficient respect to Prince Jing.

One happened in 35 BC, when Emperor Yuan's youngest brother Prince Liu Jing of Zhongshan ( 中山王劉竟 ) died, Emperor Yuan became angry when he felt that the teenage Crown Prince Ao was insufficiently grieving -- particularly because Princes Ao and Jing were of similar age and grew up together as playmates -- and showing insufficient respect to Prince Jing.

Those original notions seem to be false, as cooked sweet corn retains its antioxidant activity, despite the loss of vitamin C ," says Rui Hai Liu assistant professor of food science at Cornell University.

Lü Zhi summoned Liu You to Chang ' an and had him imprisoned and deprived of food.

Without a tenable base, Liu Bei went out of food and finally surrendered to Lü Bu, who attempted to mollify the former by ceding Xiaopei to him.

Liu Bang persisted in his idling ways and depended on his brother's family for food and lodging.

Soon after she gave birth to Liu Xie, the jealous Empress He poisoned her by putting poison in her food.

In 407, Liu Yu commissioned his friend Liu Jingxuan ( 劉敬宣, Liu Laozhi's son ) to launch a major attack on Qiao Zong's Western Shu, but in 408, LIu Jingxuan's forces became stalled against the Western Shu general Qiao Daofu ( 譙道福 ) and was forced to retreat when food supplies ran out.

In late 408, Liu Jingxuan advanced to Huanghu ( 黃虎, in modern Suining, Sichuan ), and Qiao Zong sought aid from Later Qin ; Yao Xing sent an army to assist him, but at the same time, Qiao Daofu was able to resist Liu Jingxuan's advance, and after the armies stalemated for 60 days, Liu Jingxuan's army ran out of food supplies and grew ill, and was forced to retreat.

Liu Bang was not impressed with Han Xin and put him in charge of food supplies.

Meanwhile, however, when Li Yuan arrived near Hedong, his army was bogged down by the weather, and with food running out, there were rumors that Eastern Tujue and Liu Wuzhou would attack Taiyuan.

Around this time, the official Liu Yan headed a project to reopen Bian River ( 汴河 ), a canal that connected the Yellow River and the Huai River, which had been crucial for shipping food supplies from the Yangtze River-Huai River region to Chang ' an and Luoyang prior to the Anshi Rebellion but which had become silted during the wars.

When Army commander Zhu De, Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen, his fellow Sichuanese, sent him money and a letter, asking for safe passage through his territory, including the Luding Bridge, he happily obliged ... ' Chiang gives my army no ammunition or food, how can we fight tough battles?

Under Liu Zhi's advice ( as Liu Zhi believed that a direct attack would not be successful due to the strength of Lu Yanchang's army ), he put Shao under siege to try to wear out Lu Yanchang's defense, but the strategy backfired when, due to high water levels on the river, the Qinghai army's food supplies were disrupted.