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 died in the same year due to illness, leaving behind a will demanding a burial in plain clothes.

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, 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.

However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President's answer.

However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

However, it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside, even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose.

However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

However, his term was marked by economic depression that had grown out of the Panic of 1873, which Mackenzie's government was unable to alleviate.

However, much of southeastern Europe and central Europe, including many of the Goths and Vandals respectively, had embraced Arianism ( the Visigoths converted to Arian Christianity in 376 ), which led to Arianism being a religious factor in various wars in the Roman Empire.

However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

However, Ealdred did not receive the other two dioceses that Lyfing had held, Crediton and Cornwall ; King Edward the Confessor ( reigned 1043 – 1066 ) granted these to Leofric, who combined the two sees at Crediton in 1050.

However, Leofgar lost the battle and his life, and Edward had to sue for peace.

However, Peter had wished his son and heir to dedicate himself to the service of new Russia, and demanded from him unceasing labour in order to maintain Russia's new wealth and power.

However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.

However, near the French border, General Mola had him arrested and expelled from the country.