Siege of Beijing

Depiction of the siege of Beijing in Jami 'at-tawarich

date	1215
place	Beijing , China
output	Mongol victory

Parties to the conflict
Mongol Empire	Jin Dynasty
Commander
Genghis Khan	Xuānzōng
Troop strength
unknown	unknown
losses
unknown	unknown

The siege of Beijing of 1215 was a battle between the Mongols under Genghis Khan and the Jin Dynasty and ended with the capture of the city by the Mongols.

history

The year 1211 marked the beginning of the war between the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty, which controlled northern China . The Jin Dynasty managed to keep the Mongol cavalry army out of their territory for two years. In 1213, however, Genghis Khan divided his army into three parts, which managed to overcome the Great Wall with the help of siege weapons . His brother Kasar conquered what is now Manchuria , his eldest son Dschötschi the province of Shanxi , he himself attacked the strategically important Beijing (then called Zhōngdū 中都 or Jīnzhōngdū 金中都) in order to be able to conquer the province of Shandong .

The relatively long siege of the city ended on June 1, 1215. The king of the Jin Empire, Xuānzōng (宣宗), was able to leave Kaifeng in time , but a large part of the population was massacred. With the fall of the city it was possible for the Mongols to conquer further areas in the area of the Yellow River .

literature

Lazar Israelowitsch Albaum, Burchard Brentjes: Lords of the steppe. On the history and culture of Central Asian peoples in Islamic times. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1978, p. 68.