ORDER OF BATTLE // August 1, 1211
Battle of Yehuling
Estimated force strength by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Forces engaged
2 sides catalogued · combined 665,000 estimated
Mongol Empire
65,000
Medium-confidence figure
Jin dynasty
600,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
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.
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