The Campaign against Dong Zhuo was a punitive expedition initiated Process_start by a coalition of regional officials and warlords against the warlord Dong Zhuo in 190 in the late Eastern Han dynasty .

Amidst the solidification of the line between insurgent and government-controlled territory during the ceasefire , warlords took Creating control Control of swaths of land on the insurgent side , leading to Causation further destabilisation .

In the years leading to the battle , he negotiated Communication for the support of local warlords , which ensured Coming_to_believe a ready-made army by the time of the attack , and built Building a castle on the edge of the enemy 's territory to serve as a staging point for the attack .

It was fought Hostile_encounter in the winter of AD 208/9 between the allied forces of the southern warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei and the numerically superior forces of the northern warlord Cao Cao .

The Chetnik movement in eastern Bosnia , at best a confederacy of local warlords , was strengthened Cause_change_of_strength by mass defections Escaping from the Partisans .

On the dawn of May 29 , 1935 , Lin Biao 's troops reached Arriving the bridge , only to discover Know that local warlords allied Collaboration with the ruling Kuomintang had removed Removing most of the planks on the bridge .

The eastern parts of the country had been destabilized Destroying due to the Rwandan genocide and other regional conflicts , and in many areas state authority had already collapsed Destroying , with infighting militias , warlords , and rebel groups ( some allies , other enemies of Mobutu ) in power .

The conflict Violence began Process_start in mid-February 2006 , when Somali warlords formed Coming_to_be the ARPCT to challenge the ICU 's emerging influence .

the northern expedition was a military campaign Military_operation launched by the national revolutionary army ( nra ) of the kuomintang ( kmt ) , also known as the `` chinese nationalist party '' , against the beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926 .

With the assistance Assistance of allied warlords including Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang , nationalist forces secured Getting a series of decisive victories against the Beiyang Army .