阎柔 / Yan Rou

阎柔 / Yan Rou enters the wiki through Hanji 998 as a frontier actor with enough prestige to be selected as Wuhuan sima. The episode says he gathers several tens of thousands of Hu and Han people after 刘虞 is killed.

Yan Rou’s concrete battlefield role is defeating 周丹, the Yuyang taishou sent by 公孙瓒. The victory helps open the larger anti-Gongsun coalition with 鲜于辅, 乌桓, 鲜卑, 刘和, and 袁绍.

Connections

• 乌桓 - group that selects him as sima in the source.
• 鲜于辅 - Liu Yu loyalist operating in the same coalition.
• 周丹 - Gongsun Zan appointee whom Yan Rou defeats.
• 公孙瓒 - opponent whose Youzhou control is weakened by Yan Rou’s victory.
• 幽州 and 民心型政治安全 - regional and interpretive setting.