However, Liu Bei became a powerful warlord as he was joined by Lei Xu ( 雷绪 ) and his troops numbering to tens of thousands, and soon conquered southern Jing Province without much resistance.

However, reinforcements led by Xu Huang managed to force Guan Yu's troops to retreat.

However, the letter was intercepted by an official loyal to Sun Ce, who attacked and then had Xu Gong executed.

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

However, when Jiang stepped down on 19 September 2004, Xu Caihou, and not Zeng, became Vice-chairman.

However, Xu Shu replied, " You must visit this man in person.

However, Xu was a righteous man and refused to kill his former superior.

However, an advisor named Jia Xu suggested they should take this opportunity to launch a strike at Chang ' an since the Liang faction was actually unscathed.

However, the men under Xu were elite archers and they caused Huang a casualty of a thousand.

However, it is not stated whether general He kept the loot himself or he returned it to Xu Sheng.

However, Xu Sheng's self-ego did not always lead to positive actions, though.

However, the truth is that Jiang always spoke in favour of Xu and never abused his power to harm the latter.

However, Cao Ren, learning of Xu Huang's march, led his troops out of Fancheng to join him in an assault against Guan Yu.

However, Xu promised Liu Bei not to help Cao Cao.

However the fine distinctions made by the Qieyun were found overly restrictive by poets, and Xu Jingzong and others suggested more relaxed rhyming rules.

However, this theory does in fact fit nicely with the story told of Xu You, where the sage, upon hearing Emperor Yao's invitation to become the overseeing governor of 9 provinces, promptly washed his ears in the Ying River ( the largest tributary of the Huai River with its origin in Henan ) to show that the emperor's promise of fame and fortune had sullied his ears.

However, the sighting was brief, and Xu was in desperate straits during the descent, and while he clearly remembered seeing the body, he was unclear about where it was.

However, the road was poorly built and as result, Zhong Hui had Xu Yi beheaded.

However, Xu Chu declined, saying, " The king will soon be out ".

However Gongsun Zan eventually lost this and committed suicide killing also his wife and son Gongsun Xu.

However, Xu had discovered the remainder of the specimen from which the tail had been taken and published a description of it later that year, giving it the name Microraptor zhaoianus.

However, Li Jue's chief advisor Jia Xu suggested that they should take this opportunity to launch a strike at Chang ' an since the regime was not stabilized after the coup.

However, on the journey eastwards, there were internal disputes, and Yang Feng took this opportunity to rescue the Emperor, with the assistance of Dong Cheng and Xu Huang.

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However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

However, when he died, his will was ignored — the kingdom was annexed as if conquered, Boudica was flogged, her daughters were raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans.

However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.

However, other sources state that Herennius died with his father.

However, the indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree, as most of these died from diseases such as smallpox and mistreatment by the Spaniards.

However, he was not deemed eligible as his wife, Casimir's daughter Cunigunde, had died already in 1357, without children.

However, when Henry died of suspected typhoid ( or possibly porphyria ) at the age of 18 in 1612, two weeks before Charles's 12th birthday, Charles became heir apparent.

However, when his father died, and a rival to the Borgia family entered the Papal seat, Cesare was overthrown in a matter of months.

However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

" However, the legend of Galois pouring his mathematical thoughts onto paper the night before he died seems to have been exaggerated.

However, Æthelred returned as king after Sweyn died in 1014.

However, in the companion book, it is revealed that at the time of printing, Arnold's father had not died.

However, this disciple died unexpectedly, necessitating that a revised gospel be written.

However, Æthelred's son Edmund II Ironside died shortly afterwards, allowing Canute, Sweyn's son, to become king of England.

However, the queen died of puerperal sepsis ten days later.

However, all these activities have died out during the 1980s, when the phone network switched to digitally controlled switchboards, causing network hacking to shift to dialing remote computers with modems, when pre-assembled inexpensive home computers were available, and when academic institutions started to give individual mass-produced workstation computers to scientists instead of using a central timesharing system.

However, the Saxons continued to increase in numbers, and after Hengist died his son Ochta succeeded him.

However, urban people — especially small children — died due to diseases spreading through the cramped living conditions.

However, Marcellus died of food poisoning in 23 BC.

However, Sardar Patel died in 1950, leaving Nehru as the sole remaining iconic national leader, and soon the situation became such that Nehru was able to implement many of his basic policies without hindrance.

However, Constantius died before the two could face each other in battle, naming Julian as his rightful successor.

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