Significant23 CE

Battle of Kunyang

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Kunyang · modern Yexian · Henan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

In 23 AD the future Emperor Guangwu, with a small Lulin rebel force, routed the vastly larger Xin army of Wang Mang at Kunyang, precipitating the collapse of the Xin dynasty and the restoration of the Han.

Belligerents2

Lulin (Han restorationists)
Xin dynasty

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Kunyang
Hou Hanshu / Book of the Later Han
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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