Battle of Xiapi

Battle of Xiapi
Battle of Xiapi
Traditional Chinese	下邳之戰
Simplified Chinese	下邳之战
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xiàpī Zhī Zhàn

Battle of Xiapi
	Part of the wars at the end of the Han dynasty
Date	Winter of 198 to 7 February 199
Location	Xiapi, Xu Province (present-day Pizhou, Jiangsu, China)34°20′32″N 118°0′35″E / 34.34222°N 118.00972°E
Result	Decisive Cao Cao and Liu Bei victory, Lü Bu executed
Belligerents
Cao Cao; Liu Bei	Lü Bu
Commanders and leaders
Cao Cao; Liu Bei; Xiahou Dun; Yu Jin; Xu Huang; Yue Jin; Guo Jia; Xun You; Zhang Fei	Lü Bu ; Gao Shun ; Zhang Liao ; Cheng Lian (POW); Chen Gong ; Hou Cheng ; Zang Ba
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Jiangsu Battle of Xiapi (China)

The Battle of Xiapi was fought between the forces of Lü Bu against the allied armies of Cao Cao and Liu Bei from the winter of 198 to 7 February 199^[a] towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty in China. The battle concluded with victory for Cao Cao and Liu Bei, with Lü Bu being subsequently executed.

^ ([侯]成忿懼，十二月，癸酉，成與諸將宋憲、魏續等共執陳宮、高順，率其衆降。[呂]布與麾下登白門樓。兵圍之急，布令左右取其首詣[曹]操，左右不忍，乃下降。 ... 宮請就刑，遂出，不顧，操為之泣涕，幷布、順皆縊殺之，傳首許市。操召陳宮之母，養之終其身，嫁宮女，撫視其家，皆厚於初。) Zizhi Tongjian vol. 62.

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[1] ([侯]成忿懼，十二月，癸酉，成與諸將宋憲、魏續等共執陳宮、高順，率其衆降。[呂]布與麾下登白門樓。兵圍之急，布令左右取其首詣[曹]操，左右不忍，乃下降。 ... 宮請就刑，遂出，不顧，操為之泣涕，幷布、順皆縊殺之，傳首許市。操召陳宮之母，養之終其身，嫁宮女，撫視其家，皆厚於初。) Zizhi Tongjian vol. 62.

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