 the battle of sishui pass is a fictional battle described in luo guanzhong's historical novel romance of the three kingdoms. the battle was fought between the forces of dong zhuo and a coalition of regional warlords and officials (known as the guandong coalition) as part of the campaign against dong zhuo in 190 during the prelude to the three kingdoms period. ==background==  in 190, dong zhuo entered luoyang, the capital of the eastern han dynasty, and took control of the imperial court. dong zhuo monopolised state power and governed with cruelty and brutality. later that year, several warlords and regional officials formed a new coalition against dong zhuo, with yuan shao as their leader. yuan shao ordered his cousin yuan shu to manage the supplies for the coalition, and appointed sun jian as the vanguard to take sishui pass, one of the mountain passes leading to luoyang. dong zhuo was deeply alarmed by this news, but his foster son lÃ¼ bu reassured him and said that he would personally go to battle and slay the enemies. hearing that, hua xiong, one of dong zhuo's generals, stepped out and volunteered to go and fight the coalition forces. dong zhuo was pleased and he appointed hua xiong as a colonel of resolute cavalry (é©é¨æ ¡å°) and sent him with 50,000 troops to guard sishui pass, with li su, hu zhen, and zhao cen serving as his deputies. ==the battle== ===first blood=== bao xin, one of the coalition leaders, wanting to get merit before sun jian did, secretly sent his brother bao zhong with 3,000 men through a shortcut towards sishui pass. hua xiong charged out of the pass and slew bao zhong. he then sent bao zhong's head back to dong zhuo as a token of his victory, and dong promoted him. sun jian arrived at the pass with his generals cheng pu, huang gai, han dang, and zu mao. hu zhen led 5,000 men to engage sun jian, but cheng pu stabbed him in the throat with his spear soon after they clashed. sun jian then continued to the pass, where he was repelled by the archers. he retreated to liangdong (æ¢æ±) and reported his victory to yuan shao, while pressing yuan shu for provisions. ===sun jian defeated=== yuan shu refused to send the supplies because he did not want sun jian to gain the top credit. chaos broke out in sun jian's army due to the lack of supplies, and spies in his camp reported the situation to hua xiong. li su suggested to hua xiong to seize the opportunity to attack sun jian. at midnight, hua xiong led an army to attack the front of sun jian's camp, so sun came out and fought with him. a separate force led by li su sneaked into sun jian's camp from the rear and set fire. by then, sun jian had been surrounded, and he attempted to break out of the encirclement together with z
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