Battle of Xicheng

Battle of Xicheng
	Part of the Qing conquest of the Ming
Date	September 1619
Location	Xicheng, China
Result	Decisive Later Jin victory
Belligerents
Later Jin	Yihe Jurchens; Ming dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Nurhaci	unknown
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	unknown

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

References

↑ 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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[FOOTNOTESwope201424-1] Swope 2014, p. 24.

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