Battle of Tieling

The Battle of Tieling was a military conflict between the Later Jin and Ming dynasty. In the summer of 1619 Nurhaci invaded the town of Tieling, the ancestral home of the Li clan. Ming had fortified the town with cannons, but many of their soldiers defected to the Jin, and they were unable to reload their cannons before the walls were taken. Li Ruzhen, one of the last scions of the Tieling Li, fled the battle.[2]

Battle of Tieling
Part of the Qing conquest of the Ming
DateSeptember 3 1619[1]
Location
Tieling, China
Result [Later Jin (1616-1636)
Belligerents
Later Jin Ming dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Nurhaci Li Ruzhen
Strength
unknown unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown unknown

References
  1. Wakeman 1985, p. 63.
  2. Swope 2014, p. 24.

Bibliography
  • 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, 1, University of California Press
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