Battle of Yehuling

Significance

The Yehuling Campaign of 1211 — encompassing the Battle of Huihe River, the battles at Wild Fox Ridge, and the Battle of Badger Mouth — was a major engagement in the first stage of the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty. Fought in the northwest of what is now Wanquan District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, it pitted a Mongol force of 65,000 under Genghis Khan against a Jin army reported at 600,000. The campaign concluded with a Mongol victory and is recorded as hastening the decline of the Jin dynasty, marking it as one of the consequential early engagements of a conquest that would ultimately end Jin rule by 1234.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (11)