Qualla: Battle of Yangcheng https://qualla.com/battle-of-yangcheng en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Yangcheng https://qualla.com/battle-of-yangcheng Battle of Yangcheng: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-yangcheng/ The alliance was supposed to save the empire. In 191 AD, the coalition that had united against the tyrant Dong Zhuo fractured along lines of personal jealousy and ambition, and the first blow fell here at Yangcheng -- a garrison town in Yingchuan Commandery, southeast of present-day Dengfeng in Henan. What happened at Yangcheng was not a clash of massive armies but something more corrosive: a betrayal between supposed allies that announced the end of any pretense of unity among the warlords of the Eastern Han dynasty.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/k/battle-of-yangcheng-wp/ww0k-battle-of-yangcheng-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Yangcheng: A Coalition Devours Itself https://qualla.com/battle-of-yangcheng/ The coalition against Dong Zhuo had been a fragile thing from the start, bound together less by shared purpose than by shared loathing of a common enemy. When the warlord Sun Jian, nominally serving under Yuan Shu, marched north and captured the abandoned capital of Luoyang in a ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/0/k/battle-of-yangcheng-wp/ww0k-battle-of-yangcheng-the-strike-at-yangcheng.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Yangcheng: Where Alliances Go to Die https://qualla.com/battle-of-yangcheng/ When Sun Jian learned of the attack, his reaction was a sigh of weary resignation rather than outrage -- the sigh of a man who understood that the age of cooperation had ended. The fall of Yangcheng rippled outward. It drew in Gongsun Zan, another powerful warlord, and led direct...

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