| Battle of Lake Poyang | |||||||||
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| Part of Red Turban Rebellion | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Chen Han | Western Wu | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Chen Youliang † | Zhu Yuanzhang | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 200,000 men | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Chen Youliang and most of his army |
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The Battle of Lake Poyang (Chinese: 鄱陽湖之戰; pinyin: Póyáng Hú Zhīzhàn) was a naval battle which took place (30 August – 4 October 1363)[note 1] between the rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang during the Red Turban Rebellion which led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty. Chen Youliang besieged Nanchang with a large fleet on Lake Poyang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes, and Zhu Yuanzhang met his force with a smaller fleet. After an inconclusive engagement exchanging fire, Zhu employed fire ships to burn the enemy tower ships and destroyed their fleet. This was the last major battle of the rebellion before the rise of the Ming dynasty.
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