Battle of Jiangxia

Battle of Jiangxia
Battle of Jiangxia
Traditional Chinese	江夏之戰
Simplified Chinese	江夏之战
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiāngxià Zhī Zhàn

Battle of Jiangxia
	Part of the wars at the end of the Han dynasty
Date	Spring of 208 CE
Location	Jiangxia Commandery
Result	Sun Quan victory
Belligerents
Sun Quan	Liu Biao
Commanders and leaders
Zhou Yu; Lü Meng; Ling Tong; Dong Xi	Huang Zu ; Chen Jiu †; Zhang Shuo †
Strength
25,000	30,000+
Casualties and losses
	30,000

The Battle of Jiangxia was fought between the warlords Sun Quan and Liu Biao in 208 in the late Eastern Han dynasty. The battle was the last part of a series of military engagements between Sun Quan and Liu Biao's general Huang Zu in Jiangxia Commandery (present-day eastern Hubei). The battle ended in a decisive victory for Sun Quan and his forces.

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