His ally, Li Lisan, took over propaganda work.

* Watt () the Li ' l Sparky, with the ability to light up rooms ( also, the only ally in the game with the ability to penetrate an enemy's defenses ).

Without the fort at Cypress Valley, there was nothing to keep Li Shimin from marching on Luoyang after his defeat of Wang's ally Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao, forcing Wang Shichong to surrender.

From the mid-1920s to 1949, Bai and his close ally Li Zongren ruled Guangxi province as regional warlords with their own troops and considerable political autonomy.

( Shi Min's later ally Li Nong ( 李農 ) was one of the other generals, while Shi Hu's son Shi Jian the Prince of Yiyang was another.

His other sons and his ally Li Nong were made princes, Li Nong sons were given titles of dukes.

Another reason why Zhang did not ally with Wang was that Wang boasted that it was under his order that five senior CPC leaders ( Yu Xiusong, Huang Chao, Li Te and two others — all opponents of Wang ) had been arrested, and now worked for warlord Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang under the direction of the CPC.

Following the AD 705 coup that removed the Empress Wu Zetian from power, her ally Li Jiongxiu was also briefly demoted to superintendence of this province.

On 22nd April 2012, an article in The Daily Mail quoting an interview with Chinese journalist Jiang Weiping in The Sunday Express, claimed that the destruction of Flight 6136 was ordered by Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai in order to silence Li Yanfeng, wife of Han Xiaoguang, a wealthy hotelier and ally of Bo's political opponents.

( Upon the recapturing of Chang ' an, Li Mi resigned and became a hermit, depriving Li Chu of an ally.

This was said to be the start of some 40 years of struggles between Li Deyu and his associates ( known as the Li Faction ) and Li Zongmin and his associates ( known as the Niu Faction, named after Li Zongmin's ally Niu Sengru ).

( Zhu Quanzhong had initiated the siege after the powerful eunuchs, led by Han Quanhui, an ally of Li Maozhen's, forcibly seized then-reigning Emperor Zhaozong and took him from the imperial capital Chang ' an to Fengxiang after they became apprehensive that Emperor Zhaozong and the chancellor Cui Yin were about to slaughter the eunuchs.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

For the following 80 years Goryeo survived as a tributary ally of the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty in China.

They advised Yuan Shao to start a campaign against Cao Cao when the latter was still building up his forces, but Yuan Shao ignored their advice as Cao Cao was still superficially his ally.

Cao Cao's forces pursued them and defeated the Wuhuan tribe, the Yuan brothers ' ally, in the Battle of White Wolf Mountain.

From such a perspective, Yuan Shao, faced with the ever-growing threat of his former ally Cao Cao, concentrated his force in a direct approach to Cao Cao's headquarters in hope that such a strike would overwhelm his enemy.

He Jin's chief ally Yuan Shao retaliated by setting the palace on fire and slaughtering the eunuchs.

In 194, Yuan Shao's ally, Cao Cao, launched a campaign against Tao Qian in Xu Province.

Liu Bei then consulted Kong Rong and Chen Deng, who advised him to switch ally and seek confirmation from the leading warlord, Yuan Shao.

To eliminate Yuan Shao's last southern ally, Cao sent his subordinates, Liu Dai and Wang Zhong against Liu Bei, but they were defeated.

Liu Bei returned to the north and urged Yuan Shao to ally with Liu Biao, governor of Jing Province ( present-day Hubei and Hunan ).

In 191, when Han Fu faced military threats from rival warlord Gongsun Zan, who was based in You Province ( present-day northern Hebei ), he decided to turn over Ji Province to his ally, Yuan Shao.

* Wujiang Long ( 毋將隆 ), the governor of the Nan Commandery ( roughly modern Hubei ), who had rejected Wang Mang's advances to serve as a political ally, was falsely accused of having falsely accused the innocent Princess Dowager Feng Yuan of Zhongshan of witchcraft in 6 BC, and he, along with the real coconspirators against Princess Dowager Feng, were exiled.

After the victory, Xiahou Yuan began to prepare for an offensive against Ma Chao's ally, Han Sui.

On the other hand, the China-based Yuan Dynasty was an ally of the Ikhanate and also held nominal suzerainty over the latter for many decades.

* Chieh Yuan as " Hai Tien's ally "

After Lu's demise, Cao focused on preparation to the upcoming war with Yuan Shao ( who was still Cao's ally ), and Yue Jin was assigned to the border.

When the warlord of Bing Province, Zhang Yang, vacillated on the predicament upon choosing Cao or Yuan as ally, his subordinate, Yang Chou murdered him and took his head to Cao ; but another general, Sui Gu ( 眭固 ), vindicated his lord when Yang was on his way to Xuchang.

Yuan, Saito, and Zhenling, an Ariste who Gabriel had considered an ally and even taken as a lover, then begin a brainwashing program on Gabriel, eventually breaking his will and convincing him to help them with minor duties on their project.

After suffering initial defeats, Yuan Tan retreated to Pingyuan and sent out an emissary seeking to ally with Cao Cao.

It was said that, while Yuan had no resentment toward Pei personally, he wanted to be chancellor and was fearful that if Pei were victorious, Pei would be recalled and would again dominate the court, and therefore Yuan, as well as his ally Wei Hongjian, were interfering with requests that Pei was making of Emperor Muzong during the campaign.

In 191, Yuan Shu urged Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao of Jing Province, and Sun Jian was killed by Liu Biao's ally Huang Zu at the Battle of Xiangyang.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

There was the further complication that the administration had very early concluded that Laos was ill suited to be an ally, unlike its more determined neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam.

Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

Agrippina was born as the second daughter and fourth child to Roman statesman and Augustus ’ ally Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.

Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.

Alexander was then forced to restore the conquered towns to the Thessalians, confine himself to Pherae, join the Boeotian League, and become a dependent ally of Thebes.

By secretly giving inside information to the Komnenoi, Maria was an invaluable ally.

Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.

Although Amalric still had a peace treaty with Shawar, Shawar was accused of attempting to ally with Nur ad-Din, and Amalric invaded.

Euboea and Megara both revolted, and while the former was restored to its status as a tributary ally, the latter was a permanent loss.

Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

Philip was himself able to take undisputed control of most French territories of John of England, Otto's maternal uncle and ally.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

The Americans feared the Soviet expansion of Communism, but for a Latin American country to ally openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, given the Soviet-American enmity since the end of World War II in 1945.

Chiang was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen.

A meeting at Eamont Bridge on 927 was sealed by an agreement that Constantine, Owen of Strathclyde, Hywel Dda, and Ealdred would " renounce all idolatry ": that is, they would not ally with the Viking kings.

The town was finally reconstructed by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah ( 1756 – 1790 ), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and ally of George Washington with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium.

When Cyril ’ s bishop Maximus died Cyril was appointed bishop by Acasius of Caesaria, who was himself an Arian and viewed Cyril as a theological ally.