However, many Chinese historians extend the starting point of this period back to various years during the collapse of the Han dynasty, such as to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 ; the year after the beginning of the rebellion, 185 ; Dong Zhuo deposing and murdering Emperor Shao of Han and establishing Emperor Xian of Han in 189 ; Dong Zhuo sacking Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang ' an in 190 ; or Cao Cao placing the emperor under his control in Xuchang in 196.

However, Cao Cao received word that Lü Bu had seized Yan Province in his absence, and accordingly he retreated, putting a halt to hostilities with Tao Qian for the time being.

However, some Han Chinese bannermen like Zhao Erfeng, Zhao Erxun and Cao Xueqin did not use Manchu names.

However, this therefore does not render the historical existence of the " Royal Uncle Cao " impossible as in pre-modern China, the address " uncle " also meant " brother-in-law ".

However, Cao Cao knew that no one could stop Guan Yu and he gave orders for the officials along the way to give passage to Guan.

However, his status as heir was not immediately made legal, and for years there were lingering doubts on whom Cao Cao intended to make heir.

However, the situation shifted after Cao Cao received advice from his strategist Jia Xu, who concluded that changing the general rules of succession ( primogeniture ) would be disruptive — using Yuan Shao and Liu Biao as counterexamples.

However, before Yu's departure, he was instructed to travel to Ye to pay his respects at Cao Cao's tomb.

However, he was afraid to move when Cao Cao's bodyguard, Xu Chu, glared at him.

However, by the ninth day, Cao Hong was unable to bear the insults and taunts from Ma Chao and his men, and led a contingent out of the pass to attack Ma Chao without seeking permission first.

However, Cao Zhi was an impetuous man with little self-discipline.

However, Cao Zhi was so drunk that he could not come forth to take the order.

However, Cao Rui probably still considered him a threat to the throne and declined all the offers.

However, Cao Pi's Chief Secretary ( 相国 ) Hua Xin then convinced him to put Cao Zhi's literary talent to a test.

However, Cao Pi was not satisfied.

However, Liu Bei quickly held on to Cao Cao's arm and Guan Yu dropped onto his knees.

However, some characters such as the three founders may continue to participate in battles that occurred after their deaths ( e. g.: Cao Cao appearing in Battle of Wuzhang Plains ).

However, alternative forms of computing technology are anticipated which may have superior processing power than classical computers.

However, a hardware bug with this chip prevented the initial design from working as anticipated, and the ROM code was hastily rewritten to handle the entire operation in software.

However, the AGCRs have an anticipated life of a further 10 to 20 years.

However, according to the chronicler Thietmar, she was not the virgo desiderata, the anticipated imperial princess.

However, the proposal is anticipated to receive favourable consideration.

However, the residents of the southern portion of the county voted overwhelmingly against the bond issue in an 1871 election: they were displeased at having been bypassed by an earlier railroad line, anticipated no benefits from the new line, and were angry with Seward, which had won the county seat away from the southern town of Milford.

However, there was considerable media interest ; Kid A was described as " the most highly anticipated rock record since Nirvana's In Utero ".

However, in order to manufacture a sufficient supply of the electric recordings to satisfy anticipated demand and to allow dealers to liquidate their stock of acoustic recordings, Victor and its rival, Columbia, agreed to keep secret from the public, until the end of 1925, the fact that the recordings using this new process offered a vast improvement over the older acoustical recordings.

However, 8th Army was not ready to make an offensive and so Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie, the army commander, anticipated fighting a battle on his prepared position, meeting an Axis attack and destroying his enemy's armoured forces in the process.

However, few had anticipated Hoddle's sudden resignation mere moments before England's World Cup quarter-final clash with Portugal.

However, there have been exceptions such as in Ulster, where in 2004 and 2005 the Ulster Football Finals were played in Croke Park, due to the fact that the anticipated attendance was likely to far exceed the capacity of the traditional venue of St Tiernach's Park, Clones.

However, it is anticipated that his hit game Ingenious, already published in over 20 languages, will soon take top spot.

However, the project failed to generate the investment anticipated.

However, upon breaching a dike on Dec. 5, 2007, the water receded quicker than anticipated.

However, Class I expenses will be reduced to $ 3, 782, 000 due to lower anticipated variable payments, Class II expenses will rise slightly to $ 4, 537, 100, Class III expenses will increase by $ 610, 100 to $ 2, 678, 400 to cover the cost of a presidential swearing-in ceremony, and Class IV expenses will fall to $ 607, 500.

However, Napoleon did not want to make a permanent decision that would tie his hands before his anticipated peace settlement with Russia.

However, the plan was severely flawed, as the American and Filipino POWs were starving, weak with malaria, and numbered not 25, 000 but 76, 000 men: far more than any Japanese plan had anticipated.

However, all load test plans attempt to simulate system performance across a range of anticipated peak workflows and volumes.

However, Meinertzhagen had his own reason for blaming the riots on his colleagues as only four days before them he had written to the Foreign Office that all was quiet and that no trouble was anticipated.

However, the pilots of the SDF-1, who utilize veritech fighters ( derived from technology taken from the SDF-1 ), prove to be far more skilled than anticipated.

However, as widely anticipated by the press, Hutton was appointed to captain England in the first Test of a four-match series against the 1952 Indian tourists.

However, on July 16, 2005, Ma defeated Wang in the first competitive election for KMT chairmanship by a 72 % to 28 % margin, a margin larger than anticipated by either camp or news sources, despite Wang's receiving a last-minute endorsement by People First Party ( PFP ) chairman James Soong, who had retained significant following within the KMT.

However, since 80 percent of the vehicles arrived in North Vietnam at least six weeks before the launching of the Nguyen Hue Offensive ( known to the U. S. as the Easter Offensive, they probably reflected anticipated losses.

However, from a pragmatic perspective, allocating a / 32 is equivalent in global address space cost to allocating a single IPv4 address, and this may be acceptable if, as seems to be likely for the foreseeable future, the number of multihomed sites can be numbered only in the millions, as opposed to the many billions of non-multihomed endpoints which are anticipated to comprise the vast majority of IPv6 endpoints.