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 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, 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.

However, he occasionally appeared in a compound image, depicting the elements, in which he, representing water, was shown as one of four heads of a man, with the others being, Geb representing earth, Shu representing the air, and Osiris representing death.

However, it was Zu Chongzhi who successfully re-invented it in 478 AD, as described in the texts of the Song Shu ( c. 500 AD ) and the Nan Chi Shu, with a passage from the latter below:

He then forced Wu Jing back west across the Yangtze River to Liyang ( 歷陽 ; present-day He County, Anhui ) However, Yuan Shu claimed to be the rightful governor and sent Wu Jing and Sun Ce's elder cousin Sun Ben to attack Liu Yao.

However, Liu Bei of Shu Han immediately contested Cao Pi's claim to the Han throne, and Sun Quan of Eastern Wu followed suit in 222.

However, after Cao Pi of Cao Wei and Liu Bei of Shu Han each declared themselves emperor, Sun Quan decided to follow suit in 229, claiming to have founded the Wu Dynasty.

However, in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader murdered the Federation's rulers, Gunray and Haako, along with all the other members of the Separatist Council ( like Shu Mai and Wat Tambor ) in cold blood under orders from Sidious, who also ordered the remaining droid armies to stand down.

However, E Zhesai ( 蛾遮塞 ) of Qiang, and Zhi Wudai ( 治无戴 ) of Hu still insisted on fighting, so the war was fragmented into battles that dragged on to 248, wherein Jiang Wei again led Shu forces to the aid of the rebels.

However, there is a young Zhong Hui, who will be a threat to both kingdoms of Wu and Shu.

However, a tactical blunder by Ma Su at the Battle of Jieting resulted in Shu being dealt a huge defeat by Zhang He, a general of the rival state of Wei.

However, he was soon captured by Shu forces.

However, these new administrators were considerably different that other governors at the time in that they only act representatives of Shu Han, and the local populace were generally reigned by their chieftains who pay tribute to Shu Han.

However, as Later Tang power was waning, a Later Shu state formed in 934, one year prior to the fall of the Later Tang.

However, much of Southern China was ruled by two rival Kingdoms, Shu Han and Wu.

However, she realizes that she cares for Shu.

However, the later written Song Shu ( Book of Song ) ( 6th century CE ) recorded the south-pointing chariot's design and use in further detail, as well as created background legend of the device's ( supposed ) use long before Ma's time, in the Western Zhou Dynasty ( 1050 – 771 BCE ).

However, other disciples of Hōnen branched off into a number of other sects and interpretations of Jodo Shu thought, particularly after they were exiled in 1207:

However, it's not known whether Liu Shan listened to Zhuge's suggestion, because Jiang dared not return to Chengdu when he knew his failure had drawn him much resent from the people of Shu.

However, when he attacked Kui first, he was defeated by the Former Shu prefect of Kui, Wang Chengxian ( 王成先 ), and withdrew with heavy losses.

However, on the fourth attempt, the Wei found the weakness of Shu which forces fei yu to set out for war once again.