Battle of Song-Jin

Battle of Song-Jin
Part of the Ming-Qing transition
Date1641–1642
Location
Result Qing victory
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Ming dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Hong Taiji
Jirgalang
Dorgon
Dodo
Ajige
Oboi
Kong Youde
Geng Zhongming
Shang Kexi
Ebilun
Hooge
Hong Chengchou (POW)
Zu Dashou Surrendered
Wu Sangui
Cao Bianjiao Executed
Yang Guozhu 
Wang Tingchen Executed
Bai Guang'en
Xia Chengde Surrendered
Zu Dale (POW)
Strength
120,000 (Hong Taiji) 20,000+ (Dorgon) 100,000+ (Hong Chengchou in Songshan) 25,000+ (Zu Dashou in Jinzhou)
Casualties and losses
unknown approx. 60,000[1]

The Battle of Song-Jin (Chinese: 松錦之戰) was fought in 1641 and 1642 at Songshan and Jinzhou, hence the name "Song-Jin". Hong Chengchou's 100,000 elite troops, sent to break the siege of Jinzhou, were crushed by the Eight banner armies of the Qing Dynasty at Songshan. Hong Chengchou and a small number of the remaining troops were besieged at Songshan and defeated a few months later. The Jinzhou garrison and the general Zu Dashou surrendered to the Qing army shortly after the defeat of Ming armies at Songshan.

  1. ^ Frederic Wakeman, Jr., The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 213 (the Manchus counted 53,783 enemy corpses after the first engagement outside Songshan), 214 (Hong Chengchou tries to break the siege, but his troops are soundly defeated), 214–15 (a force of 6000 men is entirely lost, "either through death in battle or desertion"), and 216 ("more than one hundred officers and three thousand soldiers" are executed after the Qing seized Songshan).