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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 37, War Lords, White Wolf, and Winter Wins.

Last time, we set the first part of the first act of the opening salvo that marked our official foray into the Three Kingdoms era.

The titanic clash between the forces of Yuan Shao and his once ally but now bitter enemy

Taqao in 200 CE. At the Duchy of Fort at Guangdu, just south of the Yellow River,

Salz outweaged defensive attitional warfare to perfection,

resulting in the collapse and utter defeat of Jans' attacking army.

With Jainshaus fall from power in the north, nothing would be left to stop

Sausal from claiming its entirety for himself, what would ultimately become the state of

Tsaw Wei?

Today, the reverberations of Towtow's northern consolidation will echo across China

and the other regional powers will be forced to react.

Some will fight. some will flee, some will pledge

fealty, and some will be destroyed utterly. But as before, our primary focus here, again

in the interest of maintaining your interest, is going to be

on the other two prime movers and shakers of the era, those who would ultimately form the basis

of the other two of the three kingdoms of the third century.

We'll start with the coastal southeast of China, since that had actually begun to coalesce even before the Battle of Guangdu.

As mentioned last episode, back in 197, when Cao-Tao and Yuan Shao were still

frenemies, Yuan's half-brother, Yuan Shou, got the bright idea to declare himself emperor

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