Battle of Ningyuan

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Battle of Ningyuan
Part of Ming-Manchurian war
Date 1626 Location Ningyuan Result Decisive Chinese victory
Combatants
Manchurian Army	Ming army
Commanders
Nurhaci	Yuan Chonghuan
Strength
130,000- 200,000	3000-10,000
Casualties
Immense, along with the Manchurian Emperor, Nurhaci	Few

Battle of Ningyuan was a battle between Ming Dynasty and Later Jin in 1626. Ming won this battle.

After Sun Chengzong (孫承宗) was replaced by a new commander, the new commander was a coward and ordered all Ming Forces outside the great wall to retreat inside and abandon all lands out side Shanhai Pass. Yuan Chonghuan objected stronglly and was thus left to command a lone army guarding Ningyuan.

In 1626 Kundulun Khan Nurhaci seeing all Ming forces leaving decides to advance towards Ningyuan, personally leading a force 130,000 (some say 200,000).

Yuan Chonghuan had only 10,000 men under his command. He burnt everything outside Ningyuan city and wrote an edict of defience against Jin in his own blood and sent orders to guards at the Great wall to execute any deserters from Ningyuan thus greatly boosting City's morale.

20 days later Jin army arrives and immediately attacks the City. However after two days of intense fighting the citizens and soldiers of Ningyuan inflicted heavy losses on the Jin forces and Nurhaci himself was wounded by Cannon fire and decides to retreat.

While retreating Yuan chong huan chases them and inflicts even more losses on the Jin army. Nurhaci retreats back to Mukden and dies from his wounds in anger. His eighth son or the forth Beilei (lord) Hung Taiji assumes the Khanate (Khan of later Jin).