Significant204 BCE
Battle of Jingxing
Jingxing Pass, Zhao territory (modern Hebei, China)
Estimated casualties
0single estimate · no range published
Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate.
SOURCEunrecorded
The Han general Han Xin defeated the much larger Zhao army by deploying his troops with their backs to a river, leaving them no retreat, the famous 'fighting with one's back to the river' stratagem. The victory was a key step in Liu Bang's conquest of northern China during the Chu-Han Contention.
Belligerents2
- Han (Liu Bang) forces under Han Xin
- Kingdom of Zhao
Conflict graph
PART OFChu-Han Contention
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Jingxing
- Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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