Battle of Jiangxia

Battle of Jiangxia
Part of the wars at the end of the Han dynasty
DateSpring of 208 CE[1]
Location
Result Sun Quan victory; Huang Zu beheaded
Belligerents
Sun Quan Liu Biao
Commanders and leaders
Zhou Yu
Lü Meng
Ling Tong
Dong Xi
Huang Zu Executed
Chen Jiu  
Zhang Shuo  
Strength
25,000 30,000+[2]
Casualties and losses
30,000
Battle of Jiangxia
Traditional Chinese江夏之戰
Simplified Chinese江夏之战
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāngxià Zhī Zhàn

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.

  1. ^ 1st to 3rd month of the 13th year of the Jian'an era, which corresponds to 4 Feb to 2 May 208 in the Julian calendar
  2. ^ There were several tens of thousands of captives after the war, but the exact size of Huang Zu's army remains unknown.