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The great walls of the history of China grow strong,

but they're nothing without the soldiers who defend it.

Atop those high walls on their lonely vigils against barbarian and

incursion. It is only your support that keeps those soldiers at their posts.

Whether it's through financial support through PayPal or Patreon to improve those defensive borders or through iTunes reviews

to embolden the defender's morale and fighting spirit, you can do your part to ensure that

the history of China will remain in tranquility and harmony for a

thousand years or more. Only you can help us stave off the savagery beyond our outer

borders, so please do what you can, and thank you.

Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 39, a farewell to Hans.

Last episode, the tide of war shifted dramatically between the warlords Leo Bay,

Sun Quan, and Taqao, when the Chancellor of the North dramatically miscalculated in his march on the south.

On the muddy waters of the Yangseer River along the red cliffs of Tchebei, Taubi

Taubi was decimated by the combined forces of Leo and Sun, but even more so by command in aptitude,

battlefield unfamiliarity, and the ravages of fatigue and disease.

By the end of 2009, Tau Tau Tau Tau Tau Tau had gone from being poised to reunify all of China under his grasp to having lost hundreds of kilometers of territory north of the Yangtze and reduced to being but one of three roughly equal power blocks. Today, life after red cliffs. How the

de facto post-battled zones of control would solidify into more or less

de jure borders between the emergent states of Taw Wei, Shuhan, and Sun Wuhu.

Moreover, after more than four centuries in power, never mind that 16-year hiccup in the middle, the Han Dynasty will breathe its last with the

overthrow of the now thoroughly powerless Emperor Sheen in 220.

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