Jiashen Incident
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Jiashen Incident | |||||||
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Part of the Ming–Qing transition | |||||||
![]() 20th-century illustration showing Li Zicheng's army burning and looting Beijing | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ming dynasty | Shun dynasty | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Chongzhen Emperor † | Li Zicheng | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
250,000 (excluding 100,000 reinforcements) | 1,300,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
40,000 killed (included 25,000 Jinyiwei agents) |
The Jiashen Incident (simplified Chinese:
Li Zicheng led his rebel army to attack the Ming capital Beijing from two directions (north and south). The eunuch official Du Zhizhi (
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Xu, Shuofang; Sun, Qiuke (2021). A History of Literature in the Ming Dynasty. Springer Nature. p. 340. ISBN 978-981-16-2490-2.