Major conflict1267 – 1273 · 6 years
Battle of Xiangyang
Xiangyang and Fancheng · Hubei · Han River
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Protracted Mongol siege (1267–1273) of the twin Song fortress cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng, broken in 1273 with the aid of counterweight trebuchets, opening the Yangtze to the Yuan conquest of the Southern Song.
Belligerents2
- Yuan dynasty (Mongols)
- Southern Song dynasty
ON THE MAPSouthern Song Dynasty
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Xiangyang
- De Re Militari: The Mongol Siege of Xiangyang and Fan-ch'eng
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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