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Battle of Xicheng

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Battle of Xicheng
Part of the Ming-Qing transition
DateSeptember 1619
Location
Xicheng, China (modern Lishu County, Jilin province)
Result Later Jin victory
Belligerents
Later Jin Yehe Jurchens
Ming dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Nurhaci Gintaisi
Strength
unknown unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown unknown

The Battle of Xicheng was a military conflict between the Yehe Jurchens, their Ming allies, and the Later Jin. In the fall of 1619 Nurhaci invaded Xicheng, the home of the Yehe Jurchens. Nurhaci personally led the vanguard and took the east wall. After capturing the city the Yehe inhabitants were spared, but their Ming allies who had fought beside them were executed.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Swope 2014, p. 24.

Bibliography

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  • Swope, Kenneth (2014), The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, Routledge
  • Wakeman, Frederic (1985), The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, vol. 1, University of California Press