Battle of Dongkou

Battle of Dongkou
	Part of the wars of the Three Kingdoms period
Date	October 222 – January 223
Location	Dongkou (洞口; along the Yangtze near present-day Liyang, Jiangsu)
Result	Wu victory; overall stalemate; Wei army retreats
Belligerents
Cao Wei	Kingdom of Wu
Commanders and leaders
Cao Xiu	Lü Fan

The Battle of Dongkou was a naval battle fought between October 222 and January 223 between forces of the state of Cao Wei and the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. The battle concluded in a Wu victory.

^ (秋九月，魏乃命曹休、張遼、臧霸出洞口，曹仁出濡須，曹真、夏侯尚、張郃、徐晃圍南郡。 ... 冬十一月，大風。呂範等兵溺死者數千，余軍還江南。曹休使臧霸以輕船五百、敢死萬人襲攻徐陵，燒攻城車，殺略數千人。) Sanguozhi vol. 47.

[1] (秋九月，魏乃命曹休、張遼、臧霸出洞口，曹仁出濡須，曹真、夏侯尚、張郃、徐晃圍南郡。 ... 冬十一月，大風。呂範等兵溺死者數千，余軍還江南。曹休使臧霸以輕船五百、敢死萬人襲攻徐陵，燒攻城車，殺略數千人。) Sanguozhi vol. 47.

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